I remember Paul Kennedy once commenting on the controversy caused by his Rise and Fall of the Great Powers that it seemed unusual to him that to say Great Powers tended to rise and fall should be seen as being in any way either controversial or particularly original. On a long enough time-frame cert...
Surely the real scandal was the government stooge Robert Peston breaking this story on his masters' behalf, cynically timed to distract attention from the billions upon billions of pounds of our money being extended to the Royal Bank to bail out its irresponsible debts, with no plan in sight for ge...
This is distinctly unfair. You go and graduate and all of a sudden St Andrews becomes a hot-bed of student protest. How come there were none of these exciting demonstrations during my time at St Andrews? The most we got to experience was the fierce 'protest' against the refusal of tutors to mark exa...
Having just got back from flat hunting in London, the best advice I could give would be to set aside a couple of days and go round on foot to look for a place. There's a real limit to how much you can do online, and while the internet can be very useful for getting some idea about the prices of diff...
Quoting librarygirl from 20:06, 19th Apr 2008 Fourth floor of the library on thursday afternoon. Striped jumper, longish brown hair, small beard, amazing eyes. Really brightened my day! Hmm I posted a reply to this but it never appeared. Serves me right for posting unreg I suppose. The description ...
The facilities available at the gym are frankly woeful, especially in comparison to many other universities. There isn't nearly enough space or equipment to meet the demand placed upon it. God help you if you want to work out between 5 and 7pm and have access to the machines or weights you actually ...
Quoting QuadrAlien from 14:32, 29th Nov 2007 Hmm... I think I have a counter-argument. Global economic depression (from acting on global warming without a cause) leads to opposition of current governments, allowing various extremist parties to take control in countries. Expansionist goals of said e...
71. Decide that, despite the 60mph cross wind, the ice covering the stones, and the jaggedness of the rocks below, it's still perfectly safe to walk back along the top of the pier. Then nearly die.
Quoting harmless loony from 13:23, 14th Aug 2007 I lived in New Hall for all 4 of my Undergraduate years and as sad as I am this summer I went back to stay in the hotel version of it. I enjoyed my time there (even if I did meet the frankly very weird Bizarre Atheist - but hey the bad comes with the...
It's pretty much one big building, yes. It seems rather huge when you get there (I managed to get lost on my first day, but that was mostly due to trying to navigate while balancing half my earthly possessions on one trolley at the same time), but that just means you have more space (unlike certain ...
Everything you ever wanted to know about what was missing from the epilogue but were afraid to ask: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/ Personally I quite liked the epilogue as it was. The last couple of chapters of the book built to such a crescendo that to fill the last dozen pages with an accou...
I'm half way through re-reading the book, and I have to say I absolutely loved it. JK Rowling had an impossible task trying to tie up the story in a way that'd satisfy the majority of people who've had years to mull over and obsess about it, but I think she did a tremendous job. It was a little disa...
Quoting falach from 17:01, 17th Jul 2007 Quoting Haunted from 16:03, 17th Jul 2007 Why the megaphone? Your 15 or so minions are only 20ft away, why must you subject the whole town to your terrible singing? [hr] Now with 100% more corn oh shut up, The point of the PA is to spread the word of God to ...
From the Times today http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2087306.ece What does anyone think: unfair invasion of privacy or serves the students right for putting their pictures on a publicly accessable place? I wonder how long it'll be before everyone starts incre...
I just got back from seeing the film and I absolutely loved it. The first twenty minutes or so were a bit rushed, and obviously if you're not a fan of the books you're not going to get nearly as much out of it as others who are, but overall I thought it was excellent. Daniel Radcliffe deserves a bit...