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All you do at Durham is drink

undiscovered

Is that true? Doesn't sound like my cuppa tea :embarasse :cool:

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LOL

Don't laugh Samuel, this is serious.

Reply 3

Quiksilver

It's true - my old Maths teacher became addicted to alcohol while at Durham :frown:

Reply 4

Sam_B

Don't laugh Samuel, this is serious.

i know

, its just the pun u made was funny.

Reply 5

undiscovered

Quiksilver

It's true - my old Maths teacher became addicted to alcohol while at Durham :frown:

College?

Reply 6

Quiksilver

SiAnY

College?

absolutely no idea - sorry Siany :frown:

ps, you'll be fine - there is no need to drink all the time of you don't want to :smile:

Reply 7

undiscovered

Quiksilver

absolutely no idea - sorry Siany :frown:

ps, you'll be fine - there is no need to drink all the time of you don't want to :smile:

Well my teacher who was in le famous Castle is so mad and hyper I think the effects of the alcohol from Durham must've stayed in her system lol.

Reply 8

Fields

This is true for all universities. It's as much about the drinking as it is about the learning!

Reply 9

undiscovered

Just seems excessive at Durham from what I've read. Alcohol for alcohol's sake kinda thing...

Reply 10

Sam_B

drinking is pointless in england...few beers are nice there.

Reply 11

lekha85

It's true that you can find yourself drinking all the time if you're not careful but you just have to make the effort to find other things to do. It is possible....try and get involved in clubs and socs.
And anyway, you can have a perfectly good night out without drinking huge amounts....in fact you'll probably have a better night!
Have a listen to my radio show (Tues 12.10-altho not on this week) we always give details on loads of events that don't require alchohol...we even go and test them ourselves...
x

Reply 12

morals_officer

Worst thread ever.

On a better note, my homebrew brown ale finally matured this week. Expect to be reading my obituary some time soon.

floreat boozium.

and if you believe everything you "read" about durham, then you're probably a little bit silly. It's not like the university has a large, flashing neon sign reading "Booze, get it here".

And while belgian beers are nice, English ales are great for when you want a pint of something other than head.

Reply 13

Sam_B

belgian beers are the best. some people in england dont know anything about foreign beers. they think stella is the best beer in the world...in reality, its low grade rubbish over here :biggrin:

on the topic of ale etc...what does the real ale society do?

Reply 14

morals_officer

I was joshing. I went on holiday to belgium over the summer for the reason of beer and beer alone. It's great stuff, but sometimes a nice pint of ale just hits the spot. Although thinking about it, ale mis essentially "yeast juice". The real ale soc isn't really that great, they're quite poorly organised unfortunately and not a lot tends to get done.

Stella is awful, awful stuff. gives belgian beer a bad name, and is drunk solely by utter *****. Give me a kwak any day, if only for the wonderful glass.

Reply 15

Sam_B

cool,where abouts in belgium did u go?

which beers did u try? maes, duvel, jupiler, palm? my favourite is maes :biggrin:

Reply 16

morals_officer

Tried all those and many, many more. It's all about the variety for me, s many ace beer to try. We went to brussels, brugge and blankenberge. Unfortunately, blankenberge was almost devoid of all human life on the day we went. Brugge was awesome, though. So much nice beer, and good scenery.

Reply 17

cobra

There is a majority of people at all universities who drink a lot, but at all I've met plenty of people who drink little or nothing and rarley if ever get drunk, and yes its still quite easy to have fun becuse if you're that type of person chances are you'll make similar kinds of friends and do things which are fun and not drunken

Mmm... alcohol!

I really don't think Durham's any worse than any other university when it comes to drinking. It's also pretty good if you're teetotal like me - soft drinks are pretty cheap in college bars, especially Castle, and free during Alcohol Awareness Week :biggrin: