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| Beta1 |
posted 09-20-99 02:17 PM ET 
I just saw a item on the local news about a trio of brothers who are starting university at 14,15 and 16. Anyone here think this is normal (for those non-UK people out there over here we normally start at 18-19) The're going to miss out on so much of the social side of life at uni - their not even old enough to get into the campus bars! Beta-1 Feels very sorry for them |
| Schoop |
posted 09-20-99 03:26 PM ET
Well, you know, not ALL campus social life revolves around drinking. But you do have a point. These kids (especially the younger two) would kind of be ostracized from most social activity due to their age. Even the oldest wouldn't be allowed into an R-rated movie, for god's sake. |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-20-99 04:02 PM ET
I just thought - because of the insurance issues involved they wouldn't be able to take part in any "contact" sports. So that rules out the sports clubs and the drinking (althought they tend to be the same thing) |
| sir_penguin |
posted 09-20-99 08:09 PM ET
Well, you know, not ALL campus life revolves around R-rated movies (for most people)  But I agree about the ostracization (sp?) SIRP |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-21-99 10:25 AM ET
your absolutely right fellow brit beta (1), such things must be banned, perpetrators rooted out, and any further under-aged higher-education punished by forced labour (or even death) for all parties involved. damn freaks. |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-21-99 10:26 AM ET
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| MangoBreeder |
posted 09-21-99 10:44 AM ET
What do u mean all campus life does not revolve around Drinking. I have just started a computer Science Degree at Essex University, and here is the time table for Freshers Week Mon: Get to know u Drink starts at 8.00 The opnly place trying to compete with this is the bible reading club. |
| MikeH II |
posted 09-21-99 10:59 AM ET
Some students opt out of the drinking culture and take up the underground drug/dance culture but they tend to be very pale, thin and only come out at night. There's no age limit on illegal drugs so they could join that group. |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-21-99 11:10 AM ET
i took loads of drugs when i was a small child and it hasnt done me any harm! urm il just lurk for awhile shall i. |
| MikeH II |
posted 09-21-99 11:39 AM ET
I wonder if they'll get any sex from curious students. |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-21-99 12:16 PM ET
MangoBreeder- If I was in your shoes I'd drink as much as possible, mainly to forget what a dump the university of Essex is! Dont you just love the concrete jungle and those lovely tower blocks. Ah well we were all undergrads once (excpet those who weren't or havn't been yet) Beta-1 Was a kentish man but is now UCL |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-21-99 07:27 PM ET
Perhaps I should follow that up with some Essex girl/man jokes - but as I've lived most of my life there I guess that would be a little self defeating. Beta-1 Comes from the nice bit of Essex |
| MangoBreeder |
posted 09-22-99 04:41 AM ET
I have taken up Drinking just to forget about my room it is a filthy hole there are no rat cos even they have standards. Yes unfortunatilly (SP) i live in one of the horrible disgusting tower blocks where the kitchen is shared by 14 people. i'm one of the lucky ones though i paid the extra 4 pounds a week for a en suite bathroom.
As for drugs my mother asked me to get some cannabis for my grandmother a few months ago it cured up her arthritus no end. now i have my younger brother taking the piss of of my and calling me scarface ever time i see him Thanx alot mum cya |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-22-99 05:27 AM ET
Mangobreeder - My family live in NW Essex (or just south of cambridge as it tends to be described) near Saffron Walden. |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-22-99 12:32 PM ET
ma naihm ish Doe-ni Mon-Dana maihn!, so im de bad guy, zay alloh do de bad guy maihn- u know wha'd a heuzzah ish Fwanki?, a heuzza iz shae peeg maihn! zay alloh do my li-lu fwen!!! BANG-BANG-BANG!!! |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-22-99 07:19 PM ET
? Well another previously sane member of these forums goes over the edge Beta-1 Is bordering on isanity (or is it inanity? |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-23-99 09:49 AM ET
IM NOT MAD!!!!!!!! ahem. I mean, Im not mad! |
| Beta1 |
posted 09-23-99 01:13 PM ET
OK quick bio Born: cambridge Beta-1 Also lived in Stoke-on-trent for a bit |
| ForcePacifist |
posted 09-27-99 01:23 PM ET
im an N7 class civilian unit. do i smell another excuse to go to the public alcohol dispensation facility? |
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