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crana9

You can have a toaster in your room, but watch it like a HAWK. You DO NOT want to pay the fine for setting off the fire alarm.

Okay, thanks, will do. I have it on the lowest possible setting anyway at home, but I'll be extra careful @ Pem.
Edit: omg, £75?!

Reply 3741

crana9

You have to be very careful of the dial getting knocked, someone else using it and changing the dial time etc..

Yes, they can fine you up to £200 for fire alarms. It depends on the negligence involved. For example, being caught frying and setting off the alarm will earn you a bigger fine. You can be fined more for very gross negligence but I don't think that ever happens for just setting off an alarm.

Reply 3742

Helenia

I set the alarm off with relighting candles on my friend's birthday cake. Fortunately they didn't fine us for that act of stupidity :redface:

Reply 3743

crana9

Candles? Candles? They would rusticate your ass.

Reply 3744

platinumki

I once set off the fire alarm in St Andrew's Uni due to an excess of party poppers :p:

Reply 3745

xx_ambellina_xx

platinumki

I once set off the fire alarm in St Andrew's Uni due to an excess of party poppers :p:

This one time, at band camp...

Actually that's not an interesting story but, meh...

The fire alarm thought my deodorant was smoke, but due to a delayed reaction, the alarm didn't go off till 3 a.m...i had some explaining to do to the rest of the band...

The fire alarms there apparently recognise spray as smoke, eventually...

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Camford

White_redrose

Camford or crana9, are you allowed to keep (and use) a toaster in your own rooms at Pembroke, or can they only be used in the gyp room? Just wondering, as apparently (according to the electrical appliances thread anyway) colleges differ.

If you live in the hostels... like I do, then you can set off the fire alarms as many time as you like without getting fined... Alarm count so far for me is 1, for making toast in my room.

Reply 3747

crana9

I don;t think you can just leave them on for ages and hope they don't notice though

Reply 3748

Camford

crana9

I don;t think you can just leave them on for ages and hope they don't notice though

did I say anything about leaving them on for ages? NO! I only commented on the times you can set them off without being fined.

Reply 3749

visesh

Camford

did I say anything about leaving them on for ages? NO! I only commented on the times you can set them off without being fined.

Congratulations, I think your testicles just dropped :wink:

Reply 3750

xx_ambellina_xx

visesh

Congratulations, I think your testicles just dropped :wink:

Aww. Bless Camford...he growed up!

Reply 3751

Camford

visesh

Congratulations, I think your testicles just dropped :wink:

You are a dead veggie when you get here :mad:

Reply 3752

crana9

You know what they say... we always hurt the ones we love best most

Reply 3753

Camford

crana9

You know what they say... we always hurt the ones we love best most

Oh yeah... then I am definitely killing him to show my love for him. Dude, This is how much I love you! Then stabs him half a million times.

Reply 3754

Camford

xx_ambellina_xx

Aww. Bless Camford...he growed up!

I am going to treat "growed" up as a typo...

Reply 3755

visesh

Camford

You are a dead veggie when you get here :mad:

Meh, it was a compliment, as you just stood up to Rosie for the first time. I guess you like to be dominated then...

Reply 3756

Camford

visesh

Meh, it was a compliment, as you just stood up to Rosie for the first time. I guess you like to be dominated then...

I just can't be bothered to argue with her... can't be bothered and there's no point arguing about useless things.

Reply 3757

killermonkeys

I'm leavin on a jetplane... Virgin Atlantic! Cambs here I come! And thank god the fx rate is going down heheheh. Now what am I forgetting?

Reply 3758

Papa Egg

Sam, Philosophy Corpus Christi

Howdy do, I thought i would add my name to this long list of lovely people. I am coming to learn how to be philomesophical and am hugely looking forwards to it :smile:

Although i have no claim to flame with any pyromaniacal practices in hotels, i do have an embarrasing childhood tale...

When i was little i was a perculiar child, and i used to get really cold at night (I have bad circulation due to a heart disease). What i used to do was in the morning, leave my pyjamas in the sun, then at night they would be toasty hot...As my scientific prowess grew i moved from the sunlight to the radiator, and sure enough the pyjamas moved from a toasty warm, to a crackling heat. Then one day i had the brilliant idea to leave my nylon pyjamas on a lamp in my room, removing the shade to do so...about four minutes into my breakfast there was a massive CRACK! and i ran into my room to find the lightbulb burst, and my pyjamas quietly flaming... So ten years later I'm heading to Cambridge...WHOOO!

Reply 3759

French Pikachu

Hello and welcome to TSR :smile:

BTw everyone i found the link for lectures schedrule and it's nasty :eek:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2005-06/special/01/
I can't believe i have 9AMs every single day! I chose Land Economy not medicine or natsci! :eek: