Pete_the_Viscous

Something to remember is that when someone from the UK says "college", they probably mean a sixthform college. After year 11 (ages 15-16), education is no longer compulsory; not all schools offer a sixthform (the next two years, taken before university), and there are seperate colleges that people go to.

It's really quite stupid how they have things at college: they've got air conditioners, which they use to keep the air exactly as warm as it is everywhere in the building (not all rooms have air conditioning). They might as well just leave them turned off.

I think this is a bit unfair... it's not only Europeans who bash America: it's lots of people from lots of places in the world*. *I'd say most, but that just makes it sound offensive, which I didn't intend.

Why stop there? Admittedly, every year is getting shorter and one probably stops finding time for things; you may be getting short of breath, too. What's important though, is that you're one day closer to death, every day.

At college we're not meant to have mobiles turned on in lessons (though everyone does, and the teachers don't really mind). If one gets a call, one just apologizes and turns off (or pretends to turn off) the 'phone. This one time, in Maths, someone's 'phone rang, and everyone turned to look (as they do)... but instead of turning it off and saying sorry, he picked it up sheepishly and said "hello?". There was much laughter. He had a good reason, though: his girlfriend was in hospital for some reason and he was awaiting news. I'd have been a bit embarrassed to do that, anyway.

Merry bidet to you. I don't remember being 14. I probably never was 14. Good luck with that, anyway.

Exactly my thoughts -- on this, and most questionnaires. I often find myself having to work out what they're going to decide based on my answers, and put something that I don't actually think down.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05 I'm not sure how much I agree with this, though.

Ahh -- that's an interesting image. You'd have to do something special whenever that "wrrrooom" noise at the start of each chorus went off.

Oh, yeah -- in the first year of college I fell over when running to get the bus. I thought that was going to be really embarrassing, but, oddly, no one made anything of it. I hit my hand against a lamp-post in trying to stop myself falling over, however, and it's taken from then until now for it to completely get better. I'm still a little concerned that it will be weaker than the rest of my hand (though it's had no problems recently).

I quite liked Close to the Edge... but my faves are probably the ones Lateralus mentioned.

I can sort of cook. I can make simple things like soups and... well, simple things :). I can follow a recipe for something more complicated, but I'm not hugely adventurous. I can bake bread and cakes and whatnot. I used to make coconut ice, which was -if I may say so- very good. Not done that for a while. I don't really have a speciality.

I think maybe I say this every time there's an embarrassment thread. I think the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me was hitting someone too hard, when I meant to playfully tap them. I could just tell that it looked as if I was angry, and kept trying to explain that I wasn't, and all that sort of thing. I talked to people about it afterwards and explained properly, and they understood, but still.

Perhaps I missunderstand you, but it sounds like you're suggesting that you can only have one character on WoW per account, which is wrong: you can have a large number of characters per account. I've not found a limit myself, though there may be one. Anyone?

To me it's always a feeling of already having lived that moment, or the exact same thing having already happened. It's just a feeling, though, and when I notice it, I start thinking "oooh, dÃÆÃâÃâéjÃÆÃâÃâàvu" and "isn't this weird". I've never really had it about anything bad, that I recall, however.

When I dream of things that happen the next day it's because I make them happen. You know: "oh, that might be good -- /does it" sort of thing. I sometimes get dÃÆÃâÃâéjÃÆÃâÃâàvu a lot (that is, sometimes I get it quite frequently). That's sort of fun, but obviously nothing special or useful.

I completely agree: the way that everything was scaled to your level is terrible. Part of what made Morrowind fun for me was the chance that I might find something very powerful after doing something very dangerous. I don't know how they've worked all these Daedric-clad bandits into the storyline... perhaps they're having to tool up because of the Oblivion gates... all the same, there shouldn't be that much of it about! Another good thing, I thought, about Morrowind was the unrealistic way you could find items lying about, for instance in tree stumps*, if you looked hard enough. I suppose it was annoying that one remembered where they all were, but maybe they could have kept that aspect and randomized it somewhat. All in all, though, I found Morrowing just as frustrating, but in different ways. The way nothing seemed to physically affect the world (the lack of physics) annoyed me, for a start. Diablo 2 I like. I almost never manage to complete it, because I get bored in the Jungle place. Perhaps over this Summer I'll try again and manage to get through that bit. The item generation on that is fantastic. WoW is fun... but I get bored of MMORPGS too fast. I feel like playing WoW right now, but my account has run out, and I don't think it'd be worth it. Maybe when this expansion set comes out... Maybe. *not the one in the starting village -- elsewhere.

Perhaps that's sometimes the case. Not (for me) in the vast majoitry of cases, however.

Same here -- though only to an extent. I can't stand making plans for minor things like what I'm going to do over the Summer. Big goals in my life I dont mind -- something to work towards; it's needing to plan ahead for what I'm doing in the afternoon that annoys me. I almost invariably end up wanting to do something else when I've made plans.

I'm awaiting results to see if I get into university where I will (or won't, as the case may be) be doing Physics. After that, I don't know. I've not made any plans at all. As far as jobs are concerned, ultimately I want to do something that I consider makes a difference, so that I feel I'm doing something useful with my life. That's more of a criterion than a goal, however -- I feel a little guilty if I'm not doing something useful, and selfishly want to avoid that feeling. There are certain things which I want to do in life (which I'll not list, as they're not particularly important), some realistic, some less so. Hopefully I'll manage a good few of them.

This just happened right now. I know the words already, and it's normally completely obvious to me what's being sung in this line... but I just misheard as ...which struck me as rather odd. I was concentrating on something else at the time, and was thinking "I don't remember that part :shock: "

You know some people might abuse your minus one policy by posting multiple times for ones they don't like.

I'm pretty happy with how things are in England at the moment: distances measured in miles, weights (of people) measured in stone, heights (of people) measured in feet and inches... but some things done in metres (or kilometres) and kilogrammes. In *work, I'd rather use metric; in every day life I tend to use imperial. (I'm 18, if that's of any interest to people thinking what I use is based on my age). *school.

Oh, and if you've not got them, perhaps Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, also by Dream Theater. But they're split into different tracks (although the latter is certainly a story).

Not that a song's "epic" status is decided by length... but look here for a list of songs over 15 minutes long. The album "Be" by Pain of Salvation (if considered as a whole) is sort of similar. It depends whether or not it needs to be that genre of music, really. If not, then I'd reccomend Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick... and I can't actually think of anything else at the moment, sorry.