Quote: chipolata @ August 19 2009, 5:23 PM BSTI'm not stunned, they hand them out to anyone nowadays!
Tell me about it... used to be 3% were privilidged enough to go to Uni, now someone with two D's at A-level can get in... Some 45% or something like that!
Quote: chipolata @ August 19 2009, 5:23 PM BSTI'm not stunned, they hand them out to anyone nowadays!
To be fair, I can be very profession and hard working.
It's just the rest of the time I'm a space cadet and fall over a lot.
Plus I work in the arts. Nuff said...
Quote: EllieJP @ August 19 2009, 5:24 PM BSTTell me about it... used to be 3% were privilidged enough to go to Uni, now someone with two D's at A-level can get in... Some 45% or something like that!
I do like it when your ire's been pricked... 
I have no issue with people having the oppotunity of going to uni but two Ds? That's disgraceful!
Mind you I can't really talk. I got onto my college course because of experience, not grades. But I still put the bloody hard work in for years beforehand so YEAH! LET'S KICK BUM!!!
I got three C's and had to go through clearing. Although those three C's are worth 42 A's by today's standards. 
I was offered an unconditional at one place but turned it down because I knew the reason I was accepted was the wrong reason and I didn't like the way everyone behaved. I like to work hard, not bloody toff about.
Yes, I said that! 
My student bar saw too much of me, especially in fancy dress, in my first year.
Quote: chipolata @ August 19 2009, 5:33 PM BSTAlthough those three C's are worth 42 A's by today's standards.
That's my criticism.
I worked for my degree I swear 
!
Wait no I didn't..... 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ August 19 2009, 5:40 PM BSTI was offered an unconditional at one place but turned it down because I knew the reason I was accepted was the wrong reason
Do we want to know the reason...? 
Quote: Jack Massey @ August 17 2009, 2:53 PM BSTI've thought and I'm not going again until the turn of the New Year and that will get my cash up (I'll only be going in to watch United). This will get me on track financially and I will be able to fund a trip to Auschwitz where I'm going to in February.
I'm assuming that you didn't mean that in quite the way it came across.
Quote: Jack Massey @ August 17 2009, 4:57 PM BSTSort of. Me and a mate of mine studied History, so we are going on a tour of Berlin and Krakow where Auschwitz is situated. Coincidence I am writing this now because this is my 1939th post, 1939 being a big year for Hitler.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ August 17 2009, 5:50 PM BSTMy friend probably had the most scary experience. She was spiked in a club and passed out in the toilet and she said the worse thing about it was she had her eyes open and she was concious but she was paralysed and couldn't call out when she heard people looking for her so whoever spiked her wanted her to know what was happening but not be able to do anything about it.
I'm not sure that spikers have sufficient mental ability to know that that would be the case!
Quote: EllieJP @ August 19 2009, 5:16 PM BSTI've given up alcohol and fizzy drinks for the past 2 weeks and continuing forward... so probably a cranbury juice.
>_< cranberry*
Quote: chipolata @ August 19 2009, 5:23 PM BSTI'm not stunned, they hand them out to anyone nowadays!
Quote: zooo @ August 19 2009, 7:48 PM BSTDo we want to know the reason...?
She only knows of being spiked once...
That's what really pisses me off. The price of non-alcoholic drinks when you're "the designated driver".
Quote: zooo @ August 19 2009, 7:48 PM BSTDo we want to know the reason...?
It's nothing sordid I promise!
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ August 19 2009, 5:18 PM BSTPlymouth. Yes I know.
Everyone is always stunned that I have degree and I am in the process of getting a second combined one.
Did better than me, I managed a week then had to leave to earn a crust because of stuff.
But on the plus side I got to be the rich friend who visited my mates a lot
Although I don't drink anymore, I do enjoy alcohol-free lager, partly because I can only stomach so many sweet drinks. Outside London it is rarely sold in pubs however. Beck's alcohol-free is so far the best one I've tried, though Cobra is quite good.
My Dad drinks the Cobra alcohol free too.
