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ladyoftheflowers [Edit] [Delete] 91 replies 21:19, 30 May '05

...tell me about it, please!

who does it? where? why do you do it? what makes your course andplace special? or why didn't you chose it?

please, I'm having a bit of trouble, some insider knowledge. no matter how little, would help!

oh, and your offer would help too please! thanks!

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Re: English at university

Two words for ya: Cliffs. Notes. Duh!

Course I could be wrong. I'd either get A's or F's. Though I don't need to tell you who gave me the F's do I? Yes. The goddamn Englishman who stole my girlfriend also gave me an F. I had to take the class over again! It was then I put a curse over the whole of Britain....which came true when Robbie Williams put out his first record. ;-)

oceanRain | 30 May '05, 21:56 | X
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  They'll probably make you translate chaucher too.
  
  Always english students to be found complaining about being made to translate shit that has more in common with old german (?) than modern english. Still pretty cool though.
  
  matt @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:01 | X
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    my chaucer book of the merchant's tale had been entirely translated in pencil for me by a nerd from the previous year.
    
    i love nerds.
    
    i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:05 | X
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      he was a total genius to be honest.
      
      EVERY LINE RHYMES!
      
      he's more of a 14th century Slick Rick, really.
      
      i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:09 | X
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        Haha.
        Yeah chaucer is cool.
        Dirty little bastard too.
        Can't say I've ever attempted reading it untranslated though!
        
        matt @i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 30 May '05, 22:10 | X
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        The Merchant's Tale features a charming line like "he liftd up her smok and in he throng" or something.
        
        :D
        
        i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:13 | X
        
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        I seriously would love a proper live action Canterbury Tales, done by Chris Morris or somebody similar.
        
        Chaucer is COMEDY GOLD!
        
        i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:21 | X
        
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        Do physics, read a load of books in your spare time, learn how a rainbow forms, how the sun works, how pressure functions, the workings of time and relativity, mechanics, etc, and get a job at the end of your degree too. ;)
        
        iShotTheDeputy @wishpig | 30 May '05, 22:21 | X
        
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        physics mate?? not bloody likely :)
        
        erm, so you do a fair bit of original/ye olde english stuff? well i guess that's ok, I am doing german at the mo.
        
        where you going wishpig?
        
        ladyoftheflowers @iShotTheDeputy | 30 May '05, 23:04 | X
        
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        oh GOD. beowulf. UGH. i did a year of english... good bits: the reading/theory/interpretation class [which was politics, world history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, mythology, theology, ethics and a whole bunch of other stuff, taken from an interpretative english perspective, so you analyse nietszche and the hesiod and socrates and mary shelley and roland barthes, and it's generally ace], shakespeare was alright, post-colonial literature was also good [ace seminars, lots of ranty discussion]. but all the old/middle english stuff was nightmarish. chaucer's alright, but don't get me started on FUCKING beowulf. fucking icelandic. the grammar... egad, the grammar. gaaaaaah.
        
        -gen- @wishpig | 30 May '05, 23:17 | X
        
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        a year before you dropped out?where did you go?
        
        ergh, I'm not ahuge fan of post-colonialism, or at least, what I know abut it having done The Tempest. but the rest sounds great!
        
        ladyoftheflowers @-gen- | 30 May '05, 23:20 | X
        
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        [hehe didn't technically drop out, they "misplaced" my work and temporarily failed me, and i decided not to go back when they apologised 3 months later. never trust uni admin.] i went to queen mary+westfield in east london.
        
        post colonialism's pretty varied - yeah, you do the tempest, but you also do salman rushdie. and arundhati roy, who i couldn't stand [and whose name i have no doubt misspelled] and a whole bunch of other, pretty interesting stuff. don't write it off just yet!
        
        -gen- @ladyoftheflowers | 30 May '05, 23:28 | X
        
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        post-colonialism is good, although i do it from a geographical perspective so i tend to focus more on the on the ground experience and the theoretical stuff rather than the literature.
        
        In terms of english courses my ex went to the uea in norwich, which apparently is only worth going to if you can get on the full creative writing option, otherwise avoid like the plague apparently...
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @-gen- | 31 May '05, 00:24 | X
        
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        Where are all you youngsters off to uni ;)
        
        anyone coming to wonderous shef?
        
        rapscalion-jones @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:08 | X
        
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        I'm not.
        
        Jared is there though.......i think.
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:11 | X
        
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        he's down at hallam. hallam smells of wee and has a silly building for the union.
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:13 | X
        
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        Wut is Hallam?
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:15 | X
        
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        Hallam is the local poly. It is not a real uni. Not like my Solid Bronze Sheffield University.
        
        Everyone at Hallam has killered a man... seriously
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:17 | X
        
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        Does it really smell of wee?
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:18 | X
        
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        bits near it do. like the dark bits near the train station, and the toilets.
        
        it has a really rubbish student union, that used to be the centre for music or something and is so crap it's part of my course on crap buildings.
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:21 | X
        
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        Are you at uni fullerov?
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:16 | X
        
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        Yes.
        
        fullerov @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:17 | X
        
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        what do you study?
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:21 | X
        
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        You first.
        
        fullerov @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:22 | X
        
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        Geography, your turn...
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:24 | X
        
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        Oh. I knew that already.
        
        Rapscalion has been following me around so has discovered my degree.
        
        fullerov @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:26 | X
        
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        I am indeed stalking you. Unfortunately i don't know where you live so i am officially the worlds most rubbish stalker
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:27 | X
        
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        Fullerov, why the secrecy?
        
        tom_from_sparks @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:27 | X
        
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        Secrecy?
        
        fullerov @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 02:29 | X
        
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        Sorry I didn't see the bottom post there, a law degree eh?
        
        tom_from_sparks @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:32 | X
        
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        What does Tom do?
        
        fullerov @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 02:37 | X
        
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        I don't stalk tom so i will guess...
        
        History?
        
        or maybe Geography?
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:40 | X
        
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        I know, its psychology...
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:41 | X
        
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        Yep he's right there, not a waste of time like some people say...
        
        tom_from_sparks @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:48 | X
        
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        *pokes tom in the chest*
        
        prove it
        
        rapscalion-jones @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 02:52 | X
        
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        *pushes over and stamps on card buildings*
        
        There you go, you will be feeling anger and general physical and mental stress now, I suggest some councelling so you can relieve your anger in more resourceful ways.
        
        tom_from_sparks @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:54 | X
        
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        i suggest using my stanley knife and uhu to rearrange your face.
        
        only joking,
        
        i did het stopped by security at the scottish parliament for trying to take a stanley knife and scalpel in. and a saw.
        
        hohum
        
        rapscalion-jones @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 02:58 | X
        
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        Fair enough, just wondered as you seem pretty well informed when you post on here.
        
        Im not stalking you, honest....
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:27 | X
        
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        I have still taken an injunction against Rapscalion.
        
        He shouldnt even think of me.
        
        fullerov @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:28 | X
        
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        You just entrapped me. Thus voiding your injunction*
        
        This is subject to not being technically true, as i don't do law. I do a real course...
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:32 | X
        
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        Hah!
        
        If you say something like Media Studies i am coming up to Yorkshire to killer you now.
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:34 | X
        
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        Architecture. Seven years of playschool with better solvents and sharper knives. Tis officially the coolest course there is, and i will killer anyone who says otherwise.
        
        And as my legal expert Fullerov, can i get an injunction against you for threatening to kill me if i say...
        
        Media Studies!
        
        Hah! I want police protection, and free biscuits...
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 02:39 | X
        
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        you have bearsuit for your picture and that makes you a good man
        
        rapscalion-jones @thedaythatthatcherdies | 31 May '05, 02:18 | X
        
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        law isn't it fullerov?
        
        rapscalion-jones @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 02:21 | X
        
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        wow these look like three really random and egocentric posts. bonza, i shall use them to inform the world that i am using my time at uni to rewatch the entire 186 episodes of turtles in sequential order. i am up to number four but can't find it on the interweb.
        
        rapscalion-jones @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 03:04 | X
        
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        That is a truley momentous task that you are undertaking sir, i envy you...
        
        Oh and yeah bearsuit are great!
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 03:06 | X
        
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        *virtually doffs cap at rapscallion-jones*
        
        Good luck, oh I shall second the motion that Bearsuit are great!
        
        tom_from_sparks @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 03:08 | X
        
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        Bearsuit are indeed the greatest living poets.
        
        And the turtles cartoon is surprisingly good, anything with a ninja pizzeria and deliberately bad jokes was made for post exam student life
        
        rapscalion-jones @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 03:09 | X
        
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        ooh wishpig where are you going next year?
        
        ladyoftheflowers @wishpig | 31 May '05, 12:02 | X
        
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        Wales?
        
        Glasgow?
        
        America?
        
        fullerov @wishpig | 31 May '05, 12:27 | X
        
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        Uzbekistan?
        
        Moon?
        
        Glasgow?
        
        thewarn @fullerov | 31 May '05, 12:28 | X
        
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        hmm either glasgow or edinburgh i reckon...
        
        thedaythatthatcherdies @wishpig | 31 May '05, 12:27 | X
        
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        Glasgow is a long way away.
        
        They have Human Sacrifices there
        
        fullerov @wishpig | 31 May '05, 12:30 | X
        
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        Also in Glasgow they worship a sun god.
        
        They think he is angry with them.
        
        fullerov @wishpig | 31 May '05, 12:34 | X
        
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        He is!
        
        thewarn @fullerov | 31 May '05, 12:36 | X
        
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        you've now made the mistake of telling our resident media studies student where you're going to be. he'll killer you... seriously. Unless a superhero saves you of course...
        
        rapscalion-jones @wishpig | 31 May '05, 17:06 | X
        
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        Who is the MS student?
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 17:11 | X
        
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        You playing Jeopardy again?
        
        thewarn @fullerov | 31 May '05, 17:12 | X
        
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        wut is jeapardy?
        
        fullerov @thewarn | 31 May '05, 17:13 | X
        
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        ;)
        
        like you don't know ms boy
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 17:14 | X
        
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        My God. They have gone crazy.
        
        *Barricades his house*
        
        I'm scared.
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 17:18 | X
        
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        So you should be...
        
        rapscalion-jones @fullerov | 31 May '05, 17:20 | X
        
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        Rapscalion, if you are not extremely careful i will killer your character in Emo Boy Adventures.
        
        fullerov @rapscalion-jones | 31 May '05, 17:21 | X
        
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        I thought you stopped doing them?
        Can I be in the next one as the anti-Emo kid?
        
        tom_from_sparks @fullerov | 31 May '05, 17:26 | X
        
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        last i heard i was setting off with bamos, but i know nothing, fullerov wouldn't tell me the ending... :(
        
        and for that i seek revenge....
        
        rapscalion-jones @tom_from_sparks | 31 May '05, 17:29 | X
        
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        Check my weblog thingy later.
        
        fullerov @wishpig | 31 May '05, 17:59 | X
        
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        no offensive, but is sheffield hallam the proper sheffiled or the poly?
        and do you have to do a module or part of a module ina foreign language?or is that sheffield?
        
        ladyoftheflowers @katgem | 31 May '05, 18:27 | X
        
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        ooh thanks, but can I just check - you have to do creative writing? like, your own stuff that isn't academic? ooh, I dontthink I oucld do that, I'm not creative enough...
        
        ladyoftheflowers @katgem | 31 May '05, 18:37 | X
        
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        think modules are a proper uni thing.
        
        "corp-age" i like that...
        
        rapscalion-jones @katgem | 31 May '05, 18:42 | X
        
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        not done the monday yet, why bother when leadmills decent? wednesday and friday corp is great though, and you can't beat corp coloured stains on your shoes. it's truly a magic place
        
        rapscalion-jones @katgem | 31 May '05, 18:49 | X
        
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        no one knows, perhaps they are the congealed tears of joy from the bearded men with tattoos and no shirts who seem to frequent the happy place?
        
        rapscalion-jones @katgem | 31 May '05, 18:55 | X
        
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        ;)
        
        rapscalion-jones @katgem | 31 May '05, 19:18 | X
        
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        The first thing I ever had properly published on paper (i.e. not school magazine or DiS) was in Middle English. I adore English or all eras. But add me to the list of Beowulf-haters. Artless shite.
        
        lanky @Sujhaile | 3 Jun '05, 00:19 | X

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