The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[corruptbiggins]

Well I've just received my first response from my university application and it's an unconditional offer from the University of Westminster. So as it stands I'll be going back to university in September.

I'm so happy and I've still to hear from my 4 other choices.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

Well I've just received my first response from my university application and it's an unconditional offer from the University of Westminster. So as it stands I'll be going back to university in September.

I'm so happy and I've still to hear from my 4 other choices.

I received my umpteenth response from Nottingham uni, telling me that I've got a place there. I applied in 2011 for a defferred entry. I've had the grades I needed since February 2012, but they like to keep reminding me. Oh well.

Anyway, congratulations on your offer! Where else did you apply to, and what to do? I applied to study Computer Science at Nottingham, Cardiff, Portsmouth and Aberystwyth. I looked at Westminister when I was studying my first lot of AS's back in 2008. It looked awesome, but I didn't think I could afford London.

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

My sister-in-law actually unfriended me for fact checking an out-there "quote" she posted on her wall (all I did was provide a link to the Snopes article). NOOO! The truth, it BURRRNSSS!

All right, provide the link.

I have fact checked how much alcohol actually remains in boiled sauces with wine or whiskey... I'll have me some unfriends when I go to town with that bomb.

[divisionten]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

All right, provide the link.

I have fact checked how much alcohol actually remains in boiled sauces... I'll have me some unfriends when I go to town with that bomb.

It doesn't right? I thought it actually gets more dense because you're just boilign off the water.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by divisionten

It doesn't right? I thought it actually gets more dense because you're just boilign off the water.

But surely, given alcohol has a lower boiling point, it should be the first to go?

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by divisionten

It doesn't right? I thought it actually gets more dense because you're just boilign off the water.

No, it actually does, but far slower than you'd assume. If you just boil your sauce a couple of minutes, 85% of the alcohol you pour in remains. After HALF AN HOUR of boiling, you're still at 35%.

I usually abstain from alcohol completely, those bits of wine are the only alcohol I in fact consume. So people kind of feel compelled in my presence to present the urban legend that alcohol just up and leaves as soon as the first bubbles emerge on the sauce's surface. Not true.

[divisionten]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

No, it actually does, but far slower than you'd assume. If you just boil your sauce a couple of minutes, 85% of the alcohol you pour in remains. After HALF AN HOUR of boiling, you're still at 35%.

I usually abstain from alcohol completely, those bits of wine are the only alcohol I in fact consume. So people kind of feel compelled in my presence to present the urban legend that alcohol just up and leaves as soon as the first bubbles emerge on the sauce's surface. Not true.

That's what I thought. The other argument is that you use so little alcohol to food ratio that the amount of alcohol consumed in one serving of the dish is minimal, hence the "boiling off" theory.

[Giant Tope]

Oh man. I knew a Mormon family who loved making wine based sauces, but literally would cook the stuff for a day straight or of paranoia. Heh.

[Friar]

Well, two of the three people I e-mailed responded very positively, which was very, very relieving. The third rarely checks his e-mails, so who knows when he'll answer. He should be fine. If not, I have footage of him in a maids outfit publicly available on youtube.

It's actually quite refreshing knowing they know for certain now. And that's all of my closest friends accounted for. My other friends should be fine if I decide to tell them in due course. With the possible exception of one, who recently said that she "didn't approve" of the lesbian engagement of two former classmates. But she'll hopefully warm to the idea. If not, I can blame her for dressing me up in a skirt!

[corruptbiggins]

Originally Posted by Friar

I received my umpteenth response from Nottingham uni, telling me that I've got a place there. I applied in 2011 for a defferred entry. I've had the grades I needed since February 2012, but they like to keep reminding me. Oh well.

Anyway, congratulations on your offer! Where else did you apply to, and what to do? I applied to study Computer Science at Nottingham, Cardiff, Portsmouth and Aberystwyth. I looked at Westminister when I was studying my first lot of AS's back in 2008. It looked awesome, but I didn't think I could afford London.

I've applied to Westminster, Metropolitan, City & Goldsmiths, all in London as well as Teesside as a local backup option. The cost of me living in London will be eased by the fact that I'll be living with my brother. I'm going for a degree in computer games programming, or the equivalent course, a course I first tried to complete from 2007 to 2010 but totally messed up the final year. I intend to rectify that over the next 3 to 4 years.

I'm glad that it looks like I'll be moving as it'll give me a fresh start at a new place.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

I've applied to Westminster, Metropolitan, City & Goldsmiths, all in London as well as Teesside as a local backup option. The cost of me living in London will be eased by the fact that I'll be living with my brother. I'm going for a degree in computer games programming, or the equivalent course, a course I first tried to complete from 2007 to 2010 but totally messed up the final year. I intend to rectify that over the next 3 to 4 years.

I'm glad that it looks like I'll be moving as it'll give me a fresh start at a new place.

That's quite a way you're moving, if Teesside is local, about twice the distance I'll be moving. I'm from A small town in rural Wiltshire, whose only claim to fame is that there was once a bacon factory. And Oxygen was discovered here too, but for some reason people think the bacon is more important (seriously, the pigs got a statue and a place on the welcome sign. He has a graffiti'd plaque in a grotty stream in front of a supermarket.)

Being able to start a fresh was a big part in my choice of universities. Nottingham was about as far north as I could go without having to deal with comments of how I'm near my northern relatives and should visit. But they all hate eachother, so if I visit one, I'd have to visit them all to avoid causing upset, and they don't live near eachother (50 miles between each group, stretching from Blackpool all the way up to Ayrshire in Scotland, which would bankrupt any student!

The only daunting prospect is that I don't know anyone who's even been to Nottingham (other than myself or my mother for an Open Day or two), let alone anyone who lives there. Ah well, I assume plenty of people will be in the same boat.

[DAISHI]

So Ron Gilbert left Double Fine.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

So Ron Gilbert left Double Fine.

That's fine.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Friar

That's fine.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

It's not fine. It's double fine.


Also Peta seems to protest the image the Zerg have in the StarCraft series. Remember kids: Fictional aliens that are killing fictional humans have feelings too.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have asked video gamers to remember that pan-galactic alien death monsters "have feelings, too".

[Giant Tope]

Apparently people haven't been paying enough attention to them as of late.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by Giant Tope

Apparently people haven't been paying enough attention to them as of late.

Better not let them see your avatar. That's an example of animal abuse, depriving a rabbit of its pancakes. There is no sin more evil.

[corruptbiggins]

Originally Posted by Friar

That's quite a way you're moving, if Teesside is local, about twice the distance I'll be moving. I'm from A small town in rural Wiltshire, whose only claim to fame is that there was once a bacon factory. And Oxygen was discovered here too, but for some reason people think the bacon is more important (seriously, the pigs got a statue and a place on the welcome sign. He has a graffiti'd plaque in a grotty stream in front of a supermarket.)

Being able to start a fresh was a big part in my choice of universities. Nottingham was about as far north as I could go without having to deal with comments of how I'm near my northern relatives and should visit. But they all hate eachother, so if I visit one, I'd have to visit them all to avoid causing upset, and they don't live near eachother (50 miles between each group, stretching from Blackpool all the way up to Ayrshire in Scotland, which would bankrupt any student!

The only daunting prospect is that I don't know anyone who's even been to Nottingham (other than myself or my mother for an Open Day or two), let alone anyone who lives there. Ah well, I assume plenty of people will be in the same boat.

Aye it is, and that's part of the adventure. Hell I'm 31 and the furthest I've lived away from home (a small resort town in what used to be Cleveland and is now technically North Yorkshire) is under 20 miles (which makes moving 250 miles like a trip down the street). That was when I lived in Middlesbrough for 6 months and got depressed and lonely. Still I was only 19 at the time. I've been in a rut here for over 10 years, excepting the two years at Teesside University that I did well at.

I'm grateful that I've got someone to live with, though if I didn't I might have enquired into student accommodation, though reluctantly as I'm not sure how I'd be living with people I didn't know. Most of my family live in this area so the over 500 mile round trip does mean that I'd probably only see them during holiday periods but then again my parents lived in Cyprus for pretty much the whole of my twenties so it shouldn't really bother me too much once I get settled in.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

Aye it is, and that's part of the adventure. Hell I'm 31 and the furthest I've lived away from home (a small resort town in what used to be Cleveland and is now technically North Yorkshire) is under 20 miles (which makes moving 250 miles like a trip down the street). That was when I lived in Middlesbrough for 6 months and got depressed and lonely. Still I was only 19 at the time. I've been in a rut here for over 10 years, excepting the two years at Teesside University that I did well at.

I'm grateful that I've got someone to live with, though if I didn't I might have enquired into student accommodation, though reluctantly as I'm not sure how I'd be living with people I didn't know. Most of my family live in this area so the over 500 mile round trip does mean that I'd probably only see them during holiday periods but then again my parents lived in Cyprus for pretty much the whole of my twenties so it shouldn't really bother me too much once I get settled in.

Well, I'm only 21, and haven't lived away from home yet, but I'm sure I'll cope. I'm actually more worried about how on Earth my family will manage to solve their various computer related woes without me. And also fitting in with the other students in my accomodation, given that I don't exactly fit student culture (for one, I rarely drink, and you'll never find me in any nightclub!), but I'm sure I'll settle in.

I'll probably only see my family over the course of the holiday periods too, although with the money I've saved up over the past year, I could probably afford a trip or two down to see them (Two train trips and a bus trip, via London eachway, about £60 I think.). Or convince them to come up and stay in a holiday cottage or something nearby. Nottingham has lots of nice walks and things for the dog, and there's plenty of stuff to do in the area.

[coolsome]

Who would win?
Aunt May



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Thanos

[Secret Fawful]

I kinda want to play Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.