cheimon: yes! Guy Gavriel Kay! My fave is The Lions of Al-Rassan . (you wouldn't happen to be Liliana from the BW forums, would you?) Lots more: George Orwell, 1984 Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy Umberto Eco, In the Name of the Rose Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness Virgil, Aeneid Robert Holdsto...
Yeah, the staff at New Hall flatly refuse to do anything for us by way of mail redirection. They have proper paying customers to deal with over summer, after all ;-) [hr]"'Our Mrs Peel in Ladies Underwear'. I rattled up the stairs three at a time..." --Steed, The Avengers Soldier in the War on the B...
Yeah, the staff at New Hall flatly refuse to do anything for us by way of mail redirection. They have proper paying customers to deal with over summer, after all ;-) [hr]"'Our Mrs Peel in Ladies Underwear'. I rattled up the stairs three at a time..." --Steed, The Avengers Soldier in the War on the B...
To any Sinner denizens leaving New Hall this week, and wondering what will happen to their mail (since New Hall say they will return to sender anything that arrives after Saturday): in case you weren't already aware, Royal Mail will *not* set up a redirect for you. Apparently they do not redirect fr...
[s] Prophet Tenebrae wrote on 02:28, 27th May 2003: I recall a certain fence making its way all the way from outside the Union to the Melville mound... Always wondered who was responsible for adorning the Mound. My New Hall room overlooks it, and I've been repeatedly bemused/amused by the succession...
My academic daughter lived in DRH last year. Silverfish in her bathroom, too (I gather they got gradually bigger as the year went on... some new super-evolutionary process aided by mould, perhaps). I think her block has since been knocked down, but I remember her getting a letter halfway through the...
I'm not sure the question should be whether there's a surplus of accommodation in St Andrews, but whether said accommodation is affordable. I know far too many people who will paying upwards of £80/wk rent for private flats next year... [hr]"'Our Mrs Peel in Ladies Underwear'. I rattled up the stair...
I'm Gay Bear, apparently. *snort* My level of Hell is 7 - go me! Though I also got a "high" score for Limbo, the place of Virtuous Non-Believers. Well, that was a shiny fun five minutes of procrastination... what now? Nicola [hr]"'Our Mrs Peel in Ladies Underwear'. I rattled up the stairs three at a...
[s] Robbie Collin wrote on 11:57, 22nd Mar 2003: Ah, the delicious perfume of grace tempered with an embarrassingly out-of-date cultural reference. You can always rely on Sinner regulars for incisive political comment. Oh, do please get over yourself. If we're such poor company to be around (in a vi...
In keeping with The Princess Bride theme, I have to put in a vote for 'inconceivable'. ;-) 'Plinth' and 'debonair' are also fantastic. Others: - pusillanimous - castigate - visceral - fabulous - bibliomania (may be made up, but great anyway) - shatter - churn [hr]"'Our Mrs Peel in Ladies Underwear'....
Just spent a diverting half hour reading this thread from start to finish. Marked resemblance to a train wreck, I'm afraid... Darshybabe, if this is your version of electioneering, you might want to look up the meaning of the word "subtlety". Whatever your motives in running for a position, I'm amaz...
[s] Unregisted User Dawnelle wrote on 22:47, 14th Mar 2003: And hey, you can't say anything when he's making more than any of you will probably ever see in your lifetime. So worth is to be measured solely on the basis of material wealth. Glad we got that one cleared up. Isn't it funny how wrong all ...
I'm not saying that knowledge and belief are the same things, but that one tends to presuppose the other - at least where religion is concerned. (I think that's what I'm trying to say, anyway). Essentially: if you're a theist, you *believe* it is possible to *know* that god exists. If you're an athe...
I agree with Prophet Tenebrae, and everyone else who's expressed similar sentiments: Buffy should have stayed dead at the end of season 5. The show could have gone out on a wonderful high note, all heroic self-sacrifice and bittersweet pain (or something). Instead we got the virtually unwatchable di...
Not surely there's much point in me weighing in here, but what the hell... Greebo: Why can't someone say they do not believe in (any) god while also saying they acknowledge that it's impossible to know? They can. They're called agnostics. If you say that you can never know for certain, you don't *be...
Just an observation: it seems to me that what most of you are objecting to isn't religion itself, but the way religion gets used and abused. And the same can happen to any basically sound concept: would you tar all Darwinists with the same brush simply because it gave rise to ideas like eugenics, th...
[s] Amanda wrote on 13:36, 5th Mar 2003: so you're saying anyone over a size 12 isn't any good? Be fair. I suspect Pussycat is just expressing a personal preference, rather than some universal standard for how all girls should look. Stating what shape/size/feature you personally tend to find more at...