29-11-2002 19:50									#61
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And I live at least 3 hours from Manchester. So that's 5.5 hours minimum + the changover in Manchester and delays.

So for some reason I'd prefer to go to Bristol, Reading, London, even Manchester would be 100% better than Aber for me.

	29-11-2002 19:51									#62
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"And I live at least 3 hours from Manchester. So that's 5.5 hours minimum + the changover in Manchester and delays."

	29-11-2002 20:00									#63
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You said that Aber was 2.5 hours from Manchester.

Actually best way for me is to change at Wolverhampton. Journey time approx 5 hours.

	29-11-2002 20:07									#64
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The Stinger - www.statistics.gov.uk

Manchester is smaller by population.

	29-11-2002 20:17									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Rothy The Stinger - www.statistics.gov.uk Manchester is smaller by population.

Depends on what you class as manchester, its like saying London is just the city of London which it clearly isn't.

Manchester is the connurbation surrounded by the M60 and therefore should have a population of around 2 million.
People from Salford or tameside would say they are from manchester

	29-11-2002 20:19									#66
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That's comparing local authorities. Manchester's local authority doesn't cover the vast majority of the "Manchester" urban conurbation; there are ten local authorities within Greater Manchester.

	29-11-2002 21:37									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Boddington's Yeah but we still have annoying pacifists as well. I really can not understand them at all...got a left-wing girl in some of my economics class and she started arguing with the lecturer

Aye but let me guess, she wasn't properly left-wing, she just felt she was. Like those twits that say they're socialists but support 'affirmative action' in America ( at least in its present form which, good intention aside is just reverse-discrimination ). Too many people decide they are left wing because they just haven't thought about the issue properly.

About Aber though, I've already convinced myself to go. Frankly the drop-out rate is not a selling point. The only thing which has freaked me so far are the fairly low entry requirements - especially for Creative Writing.

Coventry... Warwick... Coventry - it's all the same. Some English town I've never been to, never heard much about in the context of modern life and know nobody that's ever lived there ( to my knowledge ). I mean Warwick's selling point it that 'it's cheap to live there'.

You haven't mentioned the library! Or the pubs. Admittedly the number of pubs IS overkill but still having a national library just down the road from the university is a good thing....

So are welsh accents....

	29-11-2002 21:59									#68
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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* That's comparing local authorities. Manchester's local authority doesn't cover the vast majority of the "Manchester" urban conurbation; there are ten local authorities within Greater Manchester.

That's true of all the big cities, it's too large and too ****ed up to be handled by a single local government body. Usually the inner-city gets the council and the suburbs are given off to whatever authority is running on that side.

	29-11-2002 22:00									#69
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Library? At university? Took me 18 months to find mine and it was the biggest building on campus directly opposite from my department.

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When I drove to Aberystwyth it took me 6˝hrs to get there, 7˝hrs to get back. Its over 450 km from where I live.

	29-11-2002 22:11									#71
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Is there an airport?

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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin When I drove to Aberystwyth it took me 6˝hrs to get there, 7˝hrs to get back. Its over 450 km from where I live.

But once you're there why would you need to leave.

RE Library: It's got a standard university library just live everywhere else but down in the town itself it also has the National Library of Wales. Which I'd wager is big.

Are there a lot of Welsh Nationalists? I don't want to wind up trading Scot-Lit nuts for Welsh-lit ones.

	29-11-2002 22:16									#73
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The fact that Birmingham had a big students uni was important to me.

	29-11-2002 22:20									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Faboba But once you're there why would you need to leave.

So that I can get home.

	29-11-2002 22:22									#75
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We can all just stay at Boddies' house.

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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin So that I can get home.

Hypothetically speaking, if you were a 'stooo-dent'.

	29-11-2002 22:27									#77
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I'm talking about the poly meet.

My brother is a student there.

	29-11-2002 23:12									#78
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quote: I mean Warwick's selling point it that 'it's cheap to live there'.

And the whole consistantly being among the top 5 unis in the country for practically everything. *shrug*

	30-11-2002 00:30									#79
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Wasn't consistently in the top five... Sunday Times University Guide contained a typo that meant it's jumped ahead of York to fifth for this year only...

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It's a long way from Hull to Aber, actually not much less than Hull-Bristol. Face it Stew, no one is going to Aber

So Bristol then?

Oh Iain, do remind me, where did my alma mata rank on that league table?

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Reading!

OK Bristol.

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About this weekend, posted from Counterglow...




As you know Sonic Undermind have their first home town gig in Reading on Sunday. We'll be playing with Joski and Riviera Gonzalez


Several of you are coming which rocks!

We should be onstage at 8pm, but get there earlier!

Anyway, some more details for you about how to get there etc.

The gig is at Bar Oz in Reading. It's opposite the station and mostly underground. It's directly opposite the main entrance to Reading station and looks a bit like a concrete bunker from outside. Obviously inside it's a totally accurate representation of an Australian pub. Er...

Bar Oz
Station Hill
Reading Berkshire
RG1 1NF

Map

There is a car park in the station and another one signposted off the roundabout outside the venue.

If anyone's coming down on Saturday or needs to stay at mine on Sunday can they let me know ASAP?

See you there!

Counterglow thread here:

http://www.counterglow.com/forum/sh...=&threadid=9277

	02-12-2002 18:24									#83
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Good luck Mike.

I would come, but I'm in Bath this weekend with the g/f.

	02-12-2002 18:29									#84
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It'll be a bit cramped surely.

	02-12-2002 18:51									#85
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ha ha ha

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Thanks FP!

I only broke 2 strings at our last practice...

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Yes, I presume your mobile number is the same as last time Mike? I will probably try and get to Reading by late afternoon, if all goes according to plan...

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quote: Originally posted by MikeH I only broke 2 strings at our last practice...

That's nothing. When the band I used to be in was about to do our first gig, our guitarist was just doing "one last quick practice" backstage and he somehow managed to break all 6 strings at once! Obviously we shat ourselves laughing, but the audience weren't happy 'cos we went on 20 minutes late.

EDIT: removed amusing typo, sorry.

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PH: Yep mobile number the same. I think that EiF is coming down on Saturday, not sure about Matt...

How can you break all 6 strings at once?

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quote: Originally posted by MikeH How can you break all 6 strings at once?

I don't know, never seen it happen before or since.
It's sod's law - the kind of thing that can only ever happen 5 minutes before you go on stage.