Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 1 2008, 7:37 PM BSTThere is not at all!
Lies!
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Not lies! Not at all!
I can't believe that. You're exactly the type of person Cambridge is looking for!
They could've fooled me! I don't have nearly enough faith in myself to go there; as has been shown.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 1 2008, 7:51 PM BSTThey could've fooled me! I don't have nearly enough faith in myself to go there; as has been shown.
That's the problem! They scare off potentially great students with all this rhetoric about how amazing they are. You really should be going Robyn.
Yeah, but she's not been doubting herself because of what they said. She does so anyway.
Quote: PhQnix @ July 1 2008, 7:56 PM BSTThat's the problem! They scare off potentially great students with all this rhetoric about how amazing they are. You really should be going Robyn.
Not at all if you don't think your great you'll never be great.
It's not like everyone who goes to Cambridge is a flat out genius anyway.
So whether or not you are amazing (some of us might think you are, you might think you're not), it has no bearing on if you should or shouldn't go, or if you will or won't get accepted.
If that makes any sense...
It does. It sounds wrong, but it does.
I had a wonderful day off work down in the sunshine on the coast, I now have my own house in Brighton woo!
When I say my own house, I rent it with three of my mates. Fingers crossed it doesn't end up like the house in The Young Ones.
Quote: NickTheDon @ July 1 2008, 11:39 PM BSTWhen I say my own house, I rent it with three of my mates. Fingers crossed it doesn't end up like the house in The Young Ones.
It will.
Where is everyone tonight? 
I had a situation today that has cropped up many times over the past few months and it is beginning to really irk me. Basically we have a process in our office whereby my department takes all the incoming calls in rotation as most would be sales calls but that is far from universally the case. As a guess about two thirds are relevant to us specifically - the rest are for other departments and staff.
The phone system works in a group log-in system so to be part of this loop of incoming calls you have to log-in to the group. The IT department in particular don't do this so any calls for them has to come through us first.
That doesn't bother me as such as we are hardly inundated but I get really fed up having to give people the brush off because they don't want to speak to a caller even when asked for by name. Why should I do their dirty work?
I would like a rule that if a person is asked for by name they should take the call even if it is to ask the salesman to not call again. The caller doesn't want to speak to me and it just makes sense that there is clarity between them and the department they want to speak to so they do not call again in future.
It can't give a very good impression to outsiders and I don't see why I get the earache from an unhappy caller when the call is nothing to do with me or my department.
In the example today I had a mild argument with a colleague because he didn't want to speak to someone because he didn't recognise the name given and assumed it was a sales call for IT equipment. He said he was busy and refused to take it. Excuse me? I'm busy too! Dealing with call for another person in another department!
Am I being unreasonable in expecting them to deal with their own calls?
What an idiotic system! And another reason for my hating the telephone. Such a rude, intrusive device.
Although that should probably have been in the Things that piss you off thread, but yeah, that must be f**king annoying!
I blame the French. Always a good call.
Tum tee tum.
Grrrrr. Site so slow! 
I had an argument with a friend t'other day. He was saying the French have the sexiest women in the world. Like the French are a race or something. So I'm collecting images of women from round the world and I'm going to get him to point out the Froggies just to debunk his ridiculous argument. I 'never' let it lie!