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TOdaaaaaay! First day back at the ol' uni. Woke up hungover for drinking a half a bottle of gin, but made it in on time. Bizarrely people on my course kept talking to me - people I've never talked to. At one point I was sat on teh floor outside the lecture hall and like five people came and sat around me... It was a bit unpleasant to be honest, so I pulled my hood right over and went a little crazy. Went to the bookshop to buy Jane Eyre and accidentally bought wuthering heights, but was too embarassed to take it back so I've kept it. VERY UNINTERESTING DAY. PLEASE HELP.

JUST FOR YOU!!! A picture over a year old so I'm greyer, hairier, fatter and longer and more wrinkly now, I imagine... EDIT: ... and for a comparison, a picture of me taken last week! Apologies for lack-of-nakedness. So... any takers? :'(

... gah! GAH! THIRDY people playing. Yeah you heard me, THIRDY... and no info?! Vote: No lynch for now...

that's funny, I've never seen Lost advertised as a comedy I only had to start watching series 3 weekly about 6 episodes from the end, so series 4 will be intriguing to view this way. I am sure it will produce an excessive amount of discussion and theory compared to waht actually happens, but hell I'm glad someone else watches it as you're supposed to -- From your armchair, as a viewer. The show doesn't allow you to have any real knowledge of what's going on, so I say enjoy the ride!

Well hey, me and Shorty are at Sheffield Hallam (boo, you might say :P) and I could've sworn Cube lives locally... Well We'd be up for a swift pint or three someplace if/when you arrive I'm afraid I can't provide any funny hats or pie, but I assure you Shorty looks fairly damn hilarious with or without a hat on!

I believe it's the vanilla game, Coolness :P

Carnivale: Season 2 The first thing you can say about this show; it's a shame it was cancelled. The first series was brilliant, utterly sublime and totally overlooked, and unfortunately it's clear that HBO decided to can it half way through, if not earlier, the second season. The first four episodes are completely on par with the first series, perhaps a little less annoying in terms of Ben Hawkins' lack of sharing with others, but the middle 4 episodes are utterly, utterly brilliant. Episode 20 of heroes? last episode of the first series of Spooks? Four episodes in a row where the series just gets better and better and better, letting loose all sorts of things you never thought you'd see... But then the last four episodes. The characters are totally overlooked and it's all plot-driven, almost 2-dimensional and predicatable with the odd surprise (see: Sophie); but the whole carnival element (and, the carnivale element) is ignored in a rush to complete what was apparantly originially a 6-season idea in just as many episodes. Hell, even the cornfields come out of nowhere in the final two episodes, where any value which the characters and story holds have been cashed in, indeed so the show can end. The season still stands above a hell of a lot of other competition, and I highly encourage everyone to watch the 24 episodes that there are, but if it were me, I'd've ended the 2nd season on a complete cliffhanger, rather than try and wrap anything up at all just to please the producers. But despite these misgivings, the season still packs a punch (as I said, episode 8 = OMGWEOHWETON!H!I!HHFHHEWIEYRIOEW.T>F@!), even if the final half of the season is beneath the general quality of teh rest, it still holds something that is entertaining to the end, and ultimately you are left sorry that the show was not given the chance to prove itself beyond two seasons. The ending's poingnancy loses a shade or two because of the unavoidable forced nature it has, but it's still gripping throughout. Oh, and there's still a twist or two towards the end which, like any good book, keeps you thinking about the world depicted for long after the final curtain's drawn. Perhaps they left a few nuggets there for a "just in case"... 8.7/10. Because there are only two seasons, it it surely inexcusable to watch it all I can guarentee you will not be dissapointed. I do wonder what they originially intended for the season, and in fact the seasons after it. In fact, I feel pity that the UK is incapable of producing such quality telivision as this, for if this was a UK product, it would not have been canned so quickly.

it's never safe to presume anything, especially on the first night... No news here I'm afraid.

Don;t worry. Isn't the deadline for applications mid-to late jan, or even feb? A lot of unis won't reply to anyone until after this deadline. Also; Haver's said some very true and very useful things there! You are thrust into a world of a lot of responsiblity for your own path. I was scared at first that everyone on the course would be better than me... but they aren't :P You make of it whatever you please - and you'll probably learn fairly quick why they say you pay 3k+ for a library card... Use it when you can! And try not to get too far into your student overdraft like me >_< Oh, and be careful; everyone is eager to meet new people in teh start, and it's very rare that the people you make friends with in the fresher's weeks will still be friends after a month or so - but fear not, people are everywhere!

Don't you have to narrow your choices to two once all the uni's get back to you?

LazyBoy: That sounds like an epic couple of days. You get much jet lag? Aah, awesome! My mate was playing one with a waterpistol over summer but he's a recluse, so he never killed anyone nor got shot himself. Congrats on having friends willing to help out, too!

Vote: No Lynch I didn't even notice this was the actual game thread!

(I had four cans of coke all past 1am last night...)

Huddersfield is one of teh coldest places on earth. TRUFAX! ... Currently doing English studies and yes, I am fairly aware that the degree by tiself will be getting me nowhere, but I imagine I'll lock myself away in a cupboard for five years living on baked beans from tines, writing the novel of the century. I was required to get at least a B in english (which I did) and some sort of amount of points - 320, I think. I really can't remember.. Well I got the points too :P But yeah, if you don't get the points, they still might let you in. Even if they don't, like Kov found, they might well offer you a foundation course (so you'll be able to start the course you want to do after doing a year of 'prep' studies), or offer you a similar course which isn't full yet. And then there's... I've forgotten what it's called... that thing... clearing? Well chances are there'll be a course for you somewhere... just got to be willing to spread your wings a little Choosing my uni, I didn't bother going to any open days 'cept Hallam, as I was fairly sure I wanted to go there, and even that day I left half-way through the tour. Soooo.. .yah. If you want to go to uni, you shall! Just don't be like my mate who never even turned up to see what a2 grades he got just because he was sure he'd fair. Nutter.

Give me a pair of bowling shoes, and laminate the worllldd....

The day's going to end soon, no doubt. We're three votes from a majority which will give us info one way or the other.

That whole album is EVIL and should be BURNED and quite frankly no ex-girlfriends should have ever obsessed over it and played it all the time so that any mention of it in the future causes me to rupture someone's spleen or possibly break several fists with my windows.

Man, I've been lazy today. Been playing Rainbow Six Vegas, got down to two enemies left on that terrorist mode thingum... Also ordered myself a pizza for tea (the pizza place is literally down the road...) and because i had no cash, I had to use my card, and that meant I had to have a total of a tenner... so I bought two pizzas, one for tea with some spare slices for breakfast tomorrow, then another one for dinner tomorrow :P Did zip over the road for some tobacco and a bottle of wine - an Australian blend called "Hair of the Dog" -- how appropriate :P

You realise that once Chairdriver's game is over, there's two others in teh queue? I personally didn't think having two at once this time was altogether bad... but then I guess people did commit to one more than the other :P

I'm addicted now :P Got a village on four worlds... my village in world 4 is doing pretty well. I've basically made sure I've gotten rams and catapaults asap after what happened in world 13 the first time 'round.. and still not joined any tribes yet >_<

I'll be up for it, of course!

wooo yeah :P Also split the cost with shorty over Kameo and Rainbow Six: Vegas for the Xbox360.

I'm glad you noticed one of my non-pedantic occurances :P *hugs* You better dude, if you leave the humour up to me it'll get nowhere. as for the topic at hand; I like that they went back to Bond's roots and attempted to give him some actual basis for his character, and I guess it's a fool's wish to hope they continue shaping him over the next few films, considering Bond is more of a franchise these days... Hey, Bond films are all about girls, guns and gadgets, but the gadgets used to be cool, like something you'd see on a top-escret episode of Tomorrow's World that you'd hope is actually possible. I'm glad they're using something that Fleming actually wrote as a basis for teh film. But hey, I'll probably be seeing this at the cinema anyway.

awesome-cool stuff Ash, like your quotes -- and y'know, last year I started collecting jokers, you got a nice pair there. I haven't got anythign onmy walls, but this thread has made me decide to put up the random stuff I had up last year. I think I posted pics of it in an old thread... I'll probably stick the stuff up soon and take pics anyway :P Oh, and there's Chris' post-it, lollers :P