jayseven

Well when you first apply to uni here they reply either with an offer or a flat-out rejection. Usually the offer will demand a certain set of results and/or otehr criteria (like having to get a pretty high grade in english in order to do english at uni, for instance). Those kind of offers are called conditional offers, but sometimes they can give you unconditional which means you're in regardless of your grades. Only the smartest people get that. The students are required to apply before mid-january, and can apply to (I think) six universities. Universities are expected to reply before the exams even start. Often the unis will then send prospectus..es? Prospecti? and details about fees and accomodation. The students then have to decide which university is the firm choice (where if tehy get the grades, they HAVE to go to that uni) and which is the secondary, insurance option. Yeah, results come in around mid-august, and the universities get them maybe the day before? So they accept those who got the grades for the conditional offers and the students find out online and/or at school when they go in to collect their results. Then there's either celebration, begging to unis or 'clearing'.

I'm awake and vaguely aware of it. Spent yesterday watching 12 episodes of Lost season 1 rather than do realism revision, which I'm coming round to the idea is going to be my worst result ever. Today is Grindhouse day! Here's hoping the skies clear a little so a bbq is possible. I will be meeting Daniel at about 1pm, and no doubt there will be much awkwardness and danger of hilarity in the 6 hours we have to kill before the film. Once the film is over everyone who is getting a train pretty much has like 15 mins to get to the station - really, really hoping that the taxis get us there on time.

Ah yes! Trespassing! Old abondoned warehouses with "KEEP OUT! Unstable foundations" and "Collapsing roof" signs all over them. Nursing homes, allotments and secret gardens/other people's gardens. And! Fenced-off parks to play on the new climbing frames at midnight before anyone else. 2005 was teh best year of my life, goddammit.

I also post on this zombie/horror movie forum, but it's way deader than it deserves to be, darnit.

You know, you ought to lead by example one of these days! Daring for me... Erm, dropped off a wall that must've been about 15ft high? got the scar to prove it. Like Daniel says about talking to girls -- I've done that at least three times this year.

Well Haver that was just harsh. I didn't see any of the hype, I didn't know anything about Iron Man except he looked kinda dull and stupid. Something that is entertaining does not need to have an emotional hook. Spiderman is entertaining besides any emotional hookup, because it's cool. I hate the emotional rubbish in the movie because it's lame, clichéd and used as a means to an end. Iron Man does away with that nonsense and gives us entertainment. All because you weren't entertained doesn't mean it's fair for you to dig at us for enjoying it. That just makes you seem jealous.

I suppose you're right But it's just as un-fun not knowing any, either. No biggie, really! This game reminds me of the Retail Alphabet Game. I was considering doing one from movie/game titles (because I haven't been able to track down the existing ones online yet), but I need some of that 'effort' stuff. EDIT: Well I found logogame.com but I can't seem to load the page.

Today is the second-to-last day I have to revise, and I kinda haven't done any at all for this last exam. I'm in that sort of blurry hangover phase, and there's Lost season 1 staring at me... so I'll probably waste at least 4 hours day watching that instead of reading about realismsissmim... gah. Tomorrow = GRINDHOUSE BABY! And of course, will be meeting with the (hopefully) lovely Daniel too! SOLUTION! Start drinking beer.

I'll vote: LazyBoy. He's been wording his posts in an odd way fairly frequently, and I think he might be one of the hooded folk.

... This game is no fun when not only can I not recognise them, but I've never even heard of the bands involved. Make it more user friendly guys!

So the only thing wrong was the movie was that it lacked a stronger stance on arms dealing?

You live with a german-japanese jamican! We have so much in common. In related news; Clark Kent is actually Superman, and David copperfield didn't make the statue of libery dissapear, he just rotated the camera and audience. Does anyone know what I mean when I say "Bo knows" ?

awesome idea I didn't have a clue for any of them, though.

no, you're unsure.edu.co.uk. Ok, bad joke. So do you find out if you're accepted into uni on friday too, then? yay for Hallam!

ah, sorry, I'm a fool. Well in that case, I haven't a clue Best of luck getting into hallam/manchester, i forget which one.

Ok, I will be booking this hostel on... er... Thursday! I know I said I'd do it already but I really, really want one last cry out to the Chucks and Carises out there; please can you let me know before thursday whether you are or are not going to this hostel? The rooms are max 6 people, and we have 7 at the moment which doesn't bode too well for one unlucky individual who will either a) be in another 6-bedroom with 5 strangers, or b) be forced to cough up for a single room, which is a lot more expensive. If we have an overhang of three or four people the hostel is more likely to stick us in two 6-bedrooms thus maintaining the cost, but with 7 there's little-to-no chance they'll consider splitting us into two 6-beds. That means price = up.

I think it's pretty normal to be freaking out about uni around this time. What'll happen is you'll calm down for a few months, then when August rolls around you'll start freaking out as results day approaches. On results day, if you fucked everything up, you still might get in. If there's no confirmation on UCAS then call the uni and start begging and explaining and excusing yourself, and they might let you in. If they still think you're a fuckup then... clearing!

And Shorty's coming! Plusotherpeopleprobablycooltoo... I thought you could drink ten pints an hour? :P I had three litres of Blackthorn cider before I even hit the pub yesterday! Bought two pints when I got there, and ended up having four more bought for me for various reasons. I was pretty drunk, so my blind side played up and I walked into a door as someone was closing it, and now I have a split eyebrow which should become a decent scar. Hooray for ridges!

All I'm trying to say is there is no such thing as no meaning in anything created. You 'just' haven't spotted it. You say the film had an 'opportunity to say something important or insightful', but these are utterly subjective sentinents. To what degree should it say something 'important' or 'insightful'? What if the movie was 'important' because it didn't try and use itself as a vehicle to propagate a whatever-life-message or worldly-observation or important-human-nature-thing? What if it was insightful because it introduced a lot of people to a comic book hero whom they'd never heard of? Or heard much about? Storytelling and meaning are inseparable because they're not in the same league. All art is about meaning, and storytelling is one aspect to delivering it. I think comic book movies are more about the charicatures that the characters are. They're not supposed to be hugely complex individuals. Iron Man to me wasn't about the cool fighting or the explosions, but the cohesive characters and their interactions. It was wholly predictable but enjoyable, which is what generic movies should be. I never claimed them to be 'just' anything, though. The only time I used th world 'just' was in describing my own post. Now excuse my poor arguing this post, I've just woken up and I've hit me head.

How many people got promoted? *mumbles something about the small guys always being overlooked*

You have a computer in your shower, or are you mixing your tenses?

Haver; you're such a fucking... spielberg, man. But besides that; "entertainment is having your emotions tickled", then you imply that we can't have our emotions stirred unless there's some sort of relation to Human Nature that we can sympathise with; a message. You admit that not everything has a message, but (what I read into what you say, anyway) good story-telling is enjoyable because we can derive our own individual interpretations from the commotion rather than some universal meaning. You've got empiricism and romanticism... but you seem to be missing the point of comic books -- of superheroes. They're in the same boat as mythology and legend - folk tales of superbeings, demigods. Fables aligned closer to the classics in the sense that good wins, bad loses, there ain't no go-between. Iron Man is about defining the epitome of what a comic-book-movie genre is. It is charicature, a poke at the art rather than at some human issue. I may just be using ridiculous art theory considering I still just think it's just a film, but you started it.

You may be eligable for a bursary grant = free money. Have you applied for the course fee loan, or are you paying that yourself? Do you know how much your accomodation is? Will you be working/earning your own income? They ask you about how much your parents give you so that they can give you a balanced loan that is more suited to you, which is good for you because you'll have less debt when you finish when compared to having a full loan. My loan covers my accomodation, bills and foods (and booze and going out and all those veblen goods). I'm not entirely sure when you have to reply - whether it's before or after you get your results. Check your UCAS site or talk to someone at college as they ought to know. Personally I can't remember if I've sorted out my finance for next year or not - but I can't get onto the SFD website, so... yah. Bad James.

Yeah man! Well exam is OVER and it went pretty well. I was writing continuously, and as soon as I put my pen down the examinator-helper-person (forgotten the name) called for time. Unfortunately I hear that everyone thought it went well, so we'll see.

I will be competing via Shorty's computer as my biased internet won't let me connect. He does not know of this yet. Good luck all!