Quote: EllieJP @ October 18 2009, 2:40 PM BSTMilton Keynes out skirts.
Isn't that still London?
Quote: Moonstone @ October 18 2009, 2:49 PM BSTI would never ever live in London. It's all right for a day out, but why the f**k you'd wanna actually live there....
Agreed.
Quote: Moonstone @ October 18 2009, 2:49 PM BSTIf we northies ever discovered how superior in every way the south west is you'd get swamped I'm sure.
True.
His name was Basil, we called him "The Spice" and he was very fidgety. It was as if he bought a book called, "How to Look and Act Like a Professor" and followed it word for word: tweed jackets with elbow patches, goatee, smug expression, and really bookish looking glasses.
we cut him some slack at first, but then he forced us to buy his book for class and the whole thing went downhill.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ October 18 2009, 2:48 PM BSTI resent having to read these sonnets to be honest. I'm fed up of indulging Shakespeare, though not of my own will, in his over confident assertion that the brat he wanted to run off with would be read about in years to come. Shakespeare's just so ridiculous to me in these sonnets, praising said youth and saying that his sonnets will do nothing for his own fame, only that of the boy. We don't even know the boy's fricking name, so shut up about him being preserved and not you, you conceited, paranoid idiot.
The sonnets are easy though. 
(I like them. 
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Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ October 18 2009, 2:48 PM BSTI resent having to read these sonnets to be honest. I'm fed up of indulging Shakespeare, though not of my own will, in his over confident assertion that the brat he wanted to run off with would be read about in years to come. He's (Shakespeare) just so ridiculous to me in these sonnets, praising said youth and saying that his sonnets will do nothing for his own fame, only that of the boy. We don't even know the boy's fricking name, so shut up about him being preserved and not you, you conceited, paranoid idiot.
The teacher sounds awesome though!
Well, to have a giggle at the expense of anyway.
One of the first things I said at uni was that I hated Shakespeare and everyone looked at as if I'd just yelled out that I liked wearing lingerie. He's not just over-analysed, he's been over-analysed for 400 years and now way too much is read into every word he wrote when I'm not sure there was meant to be any subtext there at all.
Besides, it was Bacon 
Still, if you study English Literature and don't cover Shakesepeare there's something wrong going on.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 18 2009, 2:56 PM BSTThe sonnets are easy though.
Dolly you need to make her "[Shakespeare]" without brackets or with round ones!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 18 2009, 2:58 PM BSTStill, if you study English Literature and don't cover Shakesepeare there's something wrong going on.
We didn't, I got away with that. You spend your entire school life pre-uni doing that anyway, so it's not as though you never get to read him.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 18 2009, 2:56 PM BSTThe sonnets are easy though.
I like a few of them. If I could just read one from every theme, I'd be dazzled, but 154 is just murder.
Quote: Moonstone @ October 18 2009, 3:00 PM BSTWe didn't, I got away with that. You spend your entire school life pre-uni doing that anyway, so it's not as though you never get to read him.
They don't do Shakespeare at most schools and colleges now. They do Harry Potter or something instead.
I've always studied Shakespeare, and have to this year too by the bucket. My brother's also now grappling with it.
I had 2 complete classes on the plays, 1 class on the sonnets, and then a class on Shakespeare's effects on life as we know it. The incredibly wanky title of the class was (get ready...):
How Has Shakespeare Changed Your Life?
Come on!!!!
For my program I had to take 4 Shakespeare classes and only 5 were offered. My only other option was a performance class that all the freshman acting students were required to take. 
They still study old shakey balls at school, I studied *yawn* romeo and juliet.
But it has been cut a lot more in the past few years.
Quote: EllieJP @ October 18 2009, 2:40 PM BSTMilton Keynes out skirts.
I've done London and everything I should love about London (nightlife, travel, jobs, lots of people) I hate.
I hate the commute to work, I hate how much it costs and basically hate how many people there are here and that I can't go anywhere without bumping into tourists.
Oh my God I thought you loved London?!
I'd love to live there mostly for the experience, I couldn't live there long term, I could see it getting boring / annoying quick.
Ellie played touch rugby for 20 minutes and has managed to sprain her back and has taken 20 minutes to walk a 3 minute walk because of the pain.
Quote: EllieJP @ October 18 2009, 4:33 PM BSTEllie played touch rugby for 20 minutes and has managed to sprain her back and has taken 20 minutes to walk a 3 minute walk because of the pain.
This game is breaking your body bit by bit, neck's a bit more serious than the leg though. I'd just take up table tennis or something.
Quote: Moonstone @ October 18 2009, 4:36 PM BST
This game is breaking your body bit by bit, neck's a bit more serious than the leg though. I'd just take up table tennis or something.
Like those wheelchair fellas. That or table football.
Quote: Paul W @ October 18 2009, 4:37 PM BSTLike those wheelchair fellas. That or table football.
Table touch rugby! That's the answer.