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Reply 7760

Craghyrax

munro90

oxfam have an online second hand bookstall?! :eek:

it sells cheap pratchett? :awesome:

gonna have to get me some of this action :yep:

Here it is... Unfortunately I've not left many Pratchetts. I bought four :o:

I imagine that their stock is constantly changing, though, so I'm going to check regularly to seize any opportunities that arise :teeth:

I got:

Hogfather
Small Gods
Pyramids

Going Postal.

The first three were in a single omnibus edition, and together cost £4.99 like the last did :eek:

I actually bought Small Gods new over the summer and just reread it. So if anybody wants a once-read copy of Small Gods, I'm happy to bring it to the Curry Meet. If you give me £4 for it I'll send the money to Oxfam, as that was where I was going to send the book. (Or you can just directly donate to Oxfam, tell me, and I'll put the book in your pidge.) Feel free to negotiate on the price - I'm just going by how much they were selling theirs for...

Reply 7761

ukdragon37

Craghyrax

(Or you can just directly donate to Oxfam, tell me, and I'll put the book in your pidge.)

I've avoided Oxfam bookshops ever since I cheated the one in Glasgow out of some money :o:

Reply 7762

Tyrotoxism

It could be lupus

You should know the curve is a normal distribution :p:

top 20% get firsts in medicine

no. it can be approximated using a normal distibution

It could be lupus

I am out... sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday and maybe thursday, though thinking of doing a Christmas party instead of revs.

You have friends?! :eek:

some major partying. impressive. wednesday night is looks like it's shaping up to be the night of the term for me. i'll let you know where i am soon so we can work out if our whereabouts coincide at any point next week. if not, i could pay you a visit on thursday or friday?

Reply 7763

Tyrotoxism

ukdragon37

I've avoided Oxfam bookshops ever since I cheated the one in Glasgow out of some money :o:

you immigrants coming to our country, stealing our goods and services.

Reply 7764

Slumpy

brimstone

I'm coming to your formal tonight :ninja:

Selwyn has a good/fair way of selling Christmas formal tickets and we have three Christmas formals, on Monday, Tues & Weds of next week. My friends and I all managed to get tickets on the day we wanted! :smile:

You may well have been sat at the same table as me. Like it?

Reply 7765

Zhen Lin

Hmmm. I wonder what I have to do to get a (good!) credit history in this country... just got declined because I didn't pass credit checks.

Reply 7766

alex_hk90

Craghyrax

So did we

And once again I'm coming this close to emailing them asking them to stop writing about 'Peterhouse college!!!! :banghead:

What's wrong with that? :confused:

Reply 7767

Craghyrax

alex_hk90

What's wrong with that? :confused:

Argh! You've just demonstrated what's wrong with that...
Have you ever heard anybody say 'Trinity Hall College'? Hall, College and House are the same. You wouldn't say Peterhouse House, Trinity Hall Hall, Jesus College College...

If a person can't get rid of their fixation with 'college' they ought to say St Peter's College, instead of Peterhouse. The first was its original name, the second a more casual name later adopted.

As you can see, wikipedia does not put 'college' after Peterhouse, although the other college entries all have 'college' after the name, except Trinity Hall

Reply 7768

ukebert

Things are not going well. My supervision is in 2.25 hours and I have acheived virtually nothing.

Reply 7769

smilepea

Craghyrax

I told you Education were crap :closedeyes:

I was, but sleeping :o:

I'll come and collect it off of you. Just my luck that it would be the fat one; all the other books I found on the topic were really thin :rolleyes:

But then that's also why its such a key text, it has different chapters by different people and several of those were on the reading list...

Well they're not that bad...

It's ok it's in your pidge now. Now to start reading my books...

scarlet ibis

They don't want James. :bawling:

well aren't they smelly.

Reply 7770

Craghyrax

smilepea

Well they're not that bad...

I was teasing, sorry. Was irresistable in that instance. And I got the book! Thanks so much for taking the trouble!

Reply 7771

alex_hk90

Craghyrax

I see. In their defence, it is a bit harder to tell for Peterhouse though as it's not "Peter House" in the same way that it's "Trinity Hall" not "Trinityhall".

Reply 7772

smilepea

Craghyrax

I was teasing, sorry. Was irresistable in that instance. And I got the book! Thanks so much for taking the trouble!

No trouble at all :smile:

Reply 7773

Craghyrax

alex_hk90

I see. In their defence, it is a bit harder to tell for Peterhouse though as it's not "Peter House" in the same way that it's "Trinity Hall" not "Trinityhall".

Yeh, I know. I don't mind with ordinary students. I don't think that they should care. I do really mind with professional organisations. So I ended up not buying a May Ball photo in part because they printed 'Peterhouse College' on the mounting which instantly made it look so much less authentic! I mean usually the calligraphy and painted shield really make it look old-worldey, but this time it just looked sloppy and unprofessional. Likewise I expect the same of TCS which ought to represent us and know simple facts like this. They only had to look at Wikipedia! Also I got annoyed at KPMG and others announcing 'Peterhouse College' as their venue for recruitment events, and Giles and Co. printing 'Peterhouse College' hoodies.

I guess you're right about the way its worded, but its annoying how people manage to get it right with Trinity Hall but not us.

Reply 7774

ukdragon37

Zhen Lin

Hmmm. I wonder what I have to do to get a (good!) credit history in this country... just got declined because I didn't pass credit checks.

1) Have a fixed address - not really applicable for international students
2) Be on the electoral roll - still not really for international students
3) Have lots of savings
4) Took out loans before and paid them back on time

alex_hk90

...

Guess who I saw in MacDonald's today? :ninja:

Reply 7775

Craghyrax

ukdragon37

I've avoided Oxfam bookshops ever since I cheated the one in Glasgow out of some money :o:

You ought to pay them back. Any Oxfam branch; its not like there's variation in what the profit goes to.

Reply 7776

ukdragon37

Craghyrax

You ought to pay them back. Any Oxfam branch; its not like there's variation in what the profit goes to.

Well it was a legal and legitimate transaction. They sold me a signed copy of Harry Potter for £2.50 without realising it was signed... :o:

Reply 7777

The West Wing

ukdragon37

Well it was a legal and legitimate transaction. They sold me a signed copy of Harry Potter for £2.50 without realising it was signed... :o:

I think their book pricing in some stores is generally quite negligent.

I bought a few law books in Oxfam in Milton Keynes for around £2-3 which retail second hand for about £20-30. The Cambridge Oxfam people are very savvy though, and the law text books and such are as much as you'd expect to pay on Amazon market place or very close to the new price.

Reply 7778

It could be lupus

Tyrotoxism

no. it can be approximated using a normal distibution

some major partying. impressive. wednesday night is looks like it's shaping up to be the night of the term for me. i'll let you know where i am soon so we can work out if our whereabouts coincide at any point next week. if not, i could pay you a visit on thursday or friday?

It normally is based on a normal distribution.

Yeah. I can tell you in advance where I will be:
Sunday = Life/The Place
Monday = Fez
Tuesday & Wednesday = Cindies

Thursday is unknown but possibly Revs?

And Friday we are considering having a Christmas party, with mulled wine, mince pies etc, which you are more than welcome to

Reply 7779

Craghyrax

ukdragon37

Well it was a legal and legitimate transaction. They sold me a signed copy of Harry Potter for £2.50 without realising it was signed... :o:

Ok. That's not what you made it sound like. Still have a look at their online stuff and see if you can support them further. I found quite a few nice handcrafted stuff (new) which I'll be using for Christmas presents. My cousin will love this for instance. And I'll buy this for another friend's present.

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