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This is shit.

Feels just like 2008.

Any company that doesn't prioritise the applicants that have a First do not require highly intelligent and motivated staff. Intelligence is not required for about 80-90% of the jobs in the real world hence they would prefer to recruit 'less intelligent' people. This may suit you if you fall into th...

Head over to New York, mate. Go chill out a little at Times Square --- visit M&M World!

Student Loans = Good credit Credit Cards = Commercial credit (aka Bad Credit). You should be a mathmatician Thackary, with equations like that! I would take this opportunity to point out that no credit is "bad" until it goes unserviced. You enter into a credit agreement voluntarily; if yo...

Oh I dunno, cash savings should only account for a portion of your portfolio.

And as for credit cards, they are a revolving credit facility; it wouldn't exactly be reasonable to expect banks to charge something like +200bps to base on them.

And I thought I had it bad cause I was keeping the house at a constant 35 celsius...

Poor buggers.

Don't make any major plans unless you know exactly what it is you want to do out of instinct.

I still don't know, but I'm not doing badly --- and a year is a long, long time... Never mind 40.

Chill and enjoy it.

Okay, so I'm just back from my break... And I HAD NO IDEA that this thread would have kept going for so long.

And on hliday. And i fucking deserve it.

who else is runkd?

Actually, I switched to a decent set of gilts at the right time and have since split back up into quite a few promising funds including BlackRock Gold & , Mott's Psigma One, and Neptune's Russia & Greater Russia amongst others. I think the important thing for most people to keep in mind thou...

What crisis?

Since March, as of today, for some reason my holdings seem to be worth 18.5% more than they were seven months ago...

There's no crisis, if you know what you're doing.

Expect major changes at RBS after this morning's announcement by Badger-boy Darling. I've been in contact with senior staff at OBSR over the past couple of days and they can't understand what's going on any more than the rest of us... ...By the way, there are a lot of people who aren't being flippan...

I think the university should purchase two million hamsters and set them going in little electricity generating running wheels. Above all else, it'd make some smashing photos for the prospectus. [hr] So someone asked me "What is it you do?". I thought about it for a minute. Then I thought about it a...

Well, this is something that a few people had cynically suspected would happen. The US govt has bailed out AIG with an $85billion loan. There was speculation that they allowed Lehman to fail because it was Barclays - a British bank - looking to buy it out; BoA were likely in talks with Merrill Lynch...

The funds made available to the Student Loan Company do come from HM Treasury, as far as I'm aware. This in itself doesn't make a huge amount of difference though; the legislation provides that student loans only start being repaid after your gross taxable earnings exceed £15,000 in an individual ta...

Trust me... The financial sector has been far less concerned with Lehman Brothers today and FAR MORE concerned with AIG. ...I deserve the hot bath I'm about to plunge into. [hr] So someone asked me "What is it you do?". I thought about it for a minute. Then I thought about it a little more. All the ...

Well, I for one am not happy about £160 of my tax money being spent on hosting the Olympics after that piss poor display of what 'Britishness' is. I am, however, not fond of my tax money being spent at all. Look at it this way, if we make a complete balls up of the Olympics, THAT will be a true repr...

If it's not on paper, then it's a case of your word against their own. It might be worth raising this point with SSS; however, other than that, I guess you'll end up paying. Quoting careba2010 from 18:43, 14th Aug 2008 Verbally and it was reiterated by SSS and the Exams Office said they would contac...

That's certainly what Orientation was back in my day... But that's seven years ago now. I feel old. Who feels older? Quoting Al from 23:37, 11th Aug 2008 Quoting Lid from 21:00, 11th Aug 2008 Was Orientation not originally the programme for overseas students that used to last but a few days? I'm not...

Dunno... Anyone know when the presesh schedule will be posted, though? Quoting a from 01:06, 11th Aug 2008 When will this year's Freshers Week schedule be posted? [hr] So someone asked me "What is it you do?". I thought about it for a minute. Then I thought about it a little more. All the while I pr...