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I have an International Student Identity Card, which is affiliated (or something) to the NUS so you can get discounts even at all the arsy places which insist on the card being NUS - although the number of times I've had to point out the NUS logo on the back is comical. It costs £6 for a year (or Se...

I very much agree with what everyone else has said, but I suspect you need a bit more help. I can't help but think that none of the rest of us who've never had to contemplate actually being disowned can really imagine how hideous that prospect might be, particularly from a controlling family where i...

Sorry, posting yet again. Back to Mehmsy's points - I don't see why my choosing not to eat meat makes a blind bit of difference to starvation anywhere. People wasting food make me cross for that reason - to me, it's just not right, wasting it, when other people somewhere don't have enough! But if I ...

On the point of vegetarian nutrition, particularly thinking of beeny's post: firstly, I'm aware there are a small number of medical conditions that mean an individual person needs to eat meat to be healthy; secondly, if someone becomes a vegetarian and simply cuts out meat, they'll be a bit unhealth...

Mehmsy, I think you must've known a seriously raving veggie to feel so strongly about it. Do you feel frustrated when people make stupid choices in life like, say, getting massively drunk and throwing up? Smoking? Taking drugs? Wasting money? Being hugely fat and eating goodness knows how many chips...

Quoting Gealle from 22:06, 15th May 2007 Possibly because the manufacturers are comfortable with the fact that it is within man's instinct to eat meat, and not being guilt ridden or intimidated by the extremist elements of animal rights nutters out there. A fine day for industry, if you ask me. [hr...

Quoting fluffy from 22:02, 15th May 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2079615,00.html my life is over. no more mars, milky way, galaxy, bounty, twix, maltesers.. at least i will be thin and miserable though.. [hr] dev ksereis, alla eimai trella erotebmevei mazi sou.. No more Mars Bars! sni...

Cheesedaddy - so glad it's not just me! Bit of a culture shock, after years of waiting to put up your hand until no-one else knows the answer, then saying what you KNOW is right like you're not really sure, coming here and not getting a word in. Or feeling lke a prat because you say the most basic t...

Some comments on munchingfoo's beliefs about people's roles. I had a stay-at-home mother and I believe we'd all have been a hell of a lot better off if she'd had something else to do. Her life revolved around looking after us, and my own opinion is that, as an intelligent, highly capable woman, she ...

Some comments on munchingfoo's beliefs about people's roles. I had a stay-at-home mother and I believe we'd all have been a hell of a lot better off if she'd had something else to do. Her life revolved around looking after us, and my own opinion is that, as an intelligent, highly capable woman, she ...

I would be deeply offended if I was asked at interview whether I had children, or intended to have them soon, if the same question wasn't asked of all male applicants. I'm aware that women are still, more usually, the main care-givers, but increasingly, men are taking this role, or sharing it. At th...

harmless loony: I completely agree with you. I was hoping to find something concrete to respond to these daft folk with, to blow these frankly insulting theories about state school pupils being given unearned leg-ups out of the water. To me, it smacks too much of elements of the private sector think...

It was my friend's comments that started me thinking about this just now, but I've definitely heard similar sentiments from other people connected to private schools, including, I think, something that an independent school head was quoted as saying - wish I could remember where. As I said, I think ...

A private-school educated friend of mine was complaining that the majority of his (also private-school) friends had been rejected from Oxbridge. His complaint was that they had been rejected because Oxbridge now favour state-educated applicants, especially those from less educationally privileged ba...

I agree with pretty much everything that's been said already. There's a question that I think is really important: did your bloke routinely break dates with you to go off with his friends before you went away to uni? If yes, then I'd just repeat what other people have said, adding that I think perha...

In respect of "hitting the reset button", I'm not absolutely sure, but I think this could have major implications for your tuition fees being paid/getting a loan. I believe that one's entitlement to at least one of those used to change dramatically if you terminated the first degree you started afte...

I think I might understand your situation quite well, as I'm in a similar one myself. Your concern for your mother is admirable, and it's absolutely totally understandable that you want to support her and look after her so much. However, I think most people would say that it's vital that you look af...

I entirely agree with those people here who have said that far less people should go to university. To me, a university education is an academic and/or intellectual pursuit, and I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way that 40 or 50% of any population is suited to academia. That's not to say I'm aga...

I don't work in a school, but I've had a fair bit to do with teachers and educational issues. My own personal feeling is that someone's appearance generally is one of the less important things, but of course it's well known that everyone makes immediate judgements based on what you look like. I agre...

You want the Academic Support arm of Student Support Services, particularly Nicky Haxell. If, as it sounds, you have really good reason for your problems, she will do her absolute best for you, and, as far as I know, a lot (if not all, but I'm not an expert) of departments take what she says very se...