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Reply 1580

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oriel historian

That estate agent lackies (that is the right mutation!) don't count in the vanity stakes. I should point out, I was thinking of male estate agents of a particular age in this regard.

Ahhhhhhh get you now :biggrin:

Yeah, the ones I know are older and wiser!

Reply 1581

oriel historian

2

Speaking of collossal mistakes. Has anyone heard the new James Bond theme? It's utter ******! A 2 year old could write better music than that.

Reply 1582

Jangrafess

19

I've taken a big step on my way to joining GOGsoc. I've nearly started ungraduatehood as I moved out this morning and I'm now halfway to Manchester sitting in a living room in Newcastle under Lyme (or something) near Stoke-on-Trent. I'll be a uni-goer by Monday. :colondollar:

Reply 1583

Kitty Pimms

17

Jangrafess

I've taken a big step on my way to joining GOGsoc. I've nearly started ungraduatehood as I moved out this morning and I'm now halfway to Manchester sitting in a living room in Newcastle under Lyme (or something) near Stoke-on-Trent. I'll be a uni-goer by Monday. :colondollar:

Well done Jang! Hope the rest of the journey is pleasant. Did you manage to get the wheelchair seat in the end?

(three more years of drudgery and unpleasantness and you're there :p:

)

Reply 1584

Jangrafess

19

IlexAquifolium

Well done Jang! Hope the rest of the journey is pleasant. Did you manage to get the wheelchair seat in the end?

(three more years of drudgery and unpleasantness and you're there :p:

)

Thanks.

I didn't, and the journey to Euston was absolute hell. I lugged all the bags I'll need across London very slowly for two hours, only being helped onto a train once. One of the bags I had wouldn't actually go round my neck without digging in really painfully, so I was pretty much carrying three suitcases. Wasn't pleasant, but it was worth it all the way. :yy:

I left all the bags in the area by the doors and sat nearby, talking to some sexist businessman and an Irish lawyer about various things till I got here. Then we got a cab to Zaki's house.

Reply 1585

oriel historian

2

Reply 1586

Milady de Winter

oriel historian

Are you lonesome, OH? :p:

Reply 1587

oriel historian

2

Milady de Winter

Are you lonesome, OH? :p:

I'm merely commenting on the sorry state of the GOGsoc recently. And yes, yes it's true, I have no life! :p:

Reply 1588

Athena

6

Suddenly, the Oxford forum is overflowing with demands for info on every post-grad course under the sun. So I've moved them all here...

Reply 1589

Athena

6

Oh, and I'm still vacillating over whether to apply for a PhD or not :frown:

Reply 1590

The Boosh

17

Are any other Gogers like me and leave EVERYTHING to the last minute, despite best intentions and efforts to get things done in advance?

I've just applied for a job in a different country and got my application in 5 minutes before the deadline It's now 8.02am and I've not actually been to bed yet (I've been up all night working on my application).

At my age I'm supposed to be beyond this immature stage.

Reply 1591

Athena

6

I think it's more a case of having had lots of practice at handing things in with minutes to spare that makes us feel that that's normal...

Reply 1592

Alasdair

14

Oh god... http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=679980

Reply 1593

The Boosh

17

true, athena, true.

oh, and alasdair, i've just clicked on "my friend" in that thread, because the guy is a pathetic ******.

Reply 1594

oriel historian

2

And in other news: Jack Sparrow fails to make Oxford by one UMS mark. The world has finally gone insane. That's what you get when you let a load of bankers run the place.

Good night.

Dooooomdododooooooooom dum dum d dum.

Reply 1595

oriel historian

2

Alasdair

Oh god... http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=679980

Can I just say how much I HATE Economists? *minimum wage* hmmm. :biggrin:

Reply 1596

Alasdair

14

oriel historian

Can I just say how much I HATE Economists? *minimum wage* hmmm. :biggrin:

I agree.

As for minimum wage - I have tried to point out the logical, rather than just 'economical' argument in favour of what I'm going to call 'our' plan, but hey...

Then again, watching all the bankers squirming on the news last night was fun.

And for general consumption: Do we think the potential recession will lead to a more revolutionary or at least pre-revolutionary situation?

Reply 1597

oriel historian

2

We're just too old school for these young'uns.

I'm enjoying the declarations of the death of neo-liberal capitalism at the moment. This plays into Labour's hands more and more. We just need to move left a bit more.

Reply 1598

Alasdair

14

oriel historian

We're just too old school for these young'uns.

I'm enjoying the declarations of the death of neo-liberal capitalism at the moment. This plays into Labour's hands more and more. We just need to move left a bit more.

I'm actually seriously tempted to knock up a couple of hundred leaflets on 'Why the HBOS merger is bad for you and why it's capitalisms fault' and stand outside my local Halifax with a red flag this Saturday and do a bit of raising of the political consciousness...

EDIT: I'm in the middle of 'Revolutionaries' by Hobsbawm, and am feeling particularly militant at the minute.

Reply 1599

oriel historian

2

Alasdair

I'm actually seriously tempted to knock up a couple of hundred leaflets on 'Why the HBOS merger is bad for you and why it's capitalisms fault' and stand outside my local Halifax with a red flag this Saturday and do a bit of raising of the political consciousness...

EDIT: I'm in the middle of 'Revolutionaries' by Hobsbawm, and am feeling particularly militant at the minute.

I'm always militant! But that's a feature of where I live more than anything and the fact I'm working on working-class history. Revolutionaries is quite a good book - but there's one that you'll enjoy:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phenomenology-Working-Class-Experience-Cambridge-Cultural/dp/0521659159

The author's as militant an academic as you can get and is fed up of what he calls the middle-class dominance and culture of academia.

On the red flag front - you might well get arrested!

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