Things he can do that I couldn’t:
-cycle his commute on aberdeenshire backroads in the path of oil barons trying to get to work in a hurry 🙁
-spend days, months, years fixing yet another landrover
-an ‘ultramarathon’

Things I can do that he couldn’t:
-put my feet round the back of my head…

Was not informed on odds of dying when I had them done a few weeks ago. I do remember a dentist telling me about a patient of his who had a general anaesthetic and never came to again… so as long as you’re not going under I don’t imagine you’re at much risk.

After experiencing fairly traumatic extractions as a teenager, I opted for conscious sedation – was great, don’t really remember much about having my teeth removed. The initial injection was worse than any other part of the procedure – though I was too zonked out to remember to put the ice pack on my jaw and it swelled up quite a bit. (I would recommend following the advice on taking painkillers, as didn’t really experience much discomfort at all afterwards.)

I’m going! Never been, going with work and I’m quite excited (though not as much as I was now I’ve seen last year’s reviews on this thread) If you’re bored come say hello at our stand and pretend you’re interested in purchasing bike parking solutions or an IBikeLDN t-shirt…

It’s got trains and trains and more trains and a whole load of railway-related junk that nobody else seems to want – which, as I’m not a train-nerd I found quite fun.

There is a model railway bit behind the bullet train – the best bit is spotting all the animals and cars that clearly are not with the rest of the model scale. There’s also a bit near the back where you walk over a very untidy workshop. Not enough fun interactive things IMO but the kids running about the museum looked liked they were enjoying themselves immensely.

druidh, I applaud your skills for making the obvious joke (knew I should have been more pedantic with my syntax) somehow not obvious enough!

Dundee is not grim! It is however very small and doesn’t have the buzz of Glasgow or Edinburgh (I think as a student Glasgow is probably the most fun). I remember the Dundee Uni brochure made much of the fact that Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh are only an hour and a half away so Dundee is perfectly placed to escape to somewhere else!

I would say, as a woman, I have found some of the Glasgow locals by far the most intimidating, but I know people who have been attacked in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, (though none stabbed) so you just takes your chances

because it hurts my eyes a bit

done two at DirtSchool (and a Jedi session) – xc trail or whatever it is and the jumps school. On the trail day there were only three of us so it was quite good, but it was a lot of instruction to take in.

Personally think I got more out of the jumps school – we were of much more mixed ability but this obviously didn’t matter when sessioning jumps. Was great to have the whole day just to practice and get the confidence up. Obviously there’s nothing to stop you from just doing it without the tuition, but I probably wouldn’t have had the inclination or self-discipline to spend the day working on jumps myself.

Having not read any of the books I quite liked the first Swedish film (not seen the others). I thought it was quite clear that it was the lawyer who was questioning Lisbeth on her report at Milton Security – and it was him that directed Blomkvist when questioned about the hacking/report. (Did I imagine this scenario?)

Having said that, the plot presentation is clearly not for everyone – I re-watched it with a friend, who every 5 minutes was like, ‘oh, why did that happen?’, to which my answer was inevitably always ‘they explain it in a minute!’

Went on a skidpan day years ago. Was really good fun, but I’m not sure I really learnt very much from it apart from ‘boy am I glad my modern car has ABS’. As there was a group of us we didn’t use our own cars, so I learnt nothing about how my car handles. Think the only other thing I remember is that it’s much more fun to skid rear-wheel drive (and much more dangerous as I almost knocked myself out)

(I had only been driving for a year or so at this point so that might be partly why I didn’t get as much out of it)

Have good friends but I find social interaction beyond a few hours quite difficult and tiring. Chattiness is not in my genetic make-up so the best I can hope for is not-completely-unapproachable 🙂

(EDIT – also, I don’t hug people. Society seems to view me with surprise and suspicion because I’m a female who doesn’t hug others.. must not be friendly)

Some women happily do no-strings, for a while at least. My friend was in a no-strings relationship, and all going swimmingly until she starts getting mixed messages – he suggests they spend the day together, hold hands etc. but panics when his flatmate asks if she’s his girlfriend or not. Obviously she promptly dropped him, but recently saw him just passing on the street (he with a girl in tow) and he was visibly anxious and awkward about it. I’m sure they’re both very thankful that they don’t work together.

the times I’ve eaten there the chicken has been awful. Their chips are okay… South African friend thinks very highly of it (good chicken livers apparently) so maybe it’s amazing in SA and just not the rest of the world.

Not really, though a certain special someone is buying me a breadmaker… so I can treat him to tasty bread at all times

I think most art&design grads would be happy with that salary – I graduate in May and I feel rather underprepared for the ‘real world’, so I think the opportunity and experience offered by such a job would be worth it and then some. If I wasn’t still finishing Uni I’d be applying straight away

Rather depressed by this thread now! (but at least I haven’t paid 9,000 a year for the privilege of earning peanuts)

Wiggle Order processed Dec 21st; arrived this lunchtime. Royal Mail.

but they could do much better at suggesting when delivery will be made

After calling citylink about the forks that I’d missed, they suggested to me that they’d be delivering again the next day, around lunchtime. Next day, nothing, so called up again and got a response along the lines of ‘oh sorry, we decided not to send the van out yesterday’ Cheers…

Kylie! I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky…

Hmm, I think it’s a much tougher decision because I presume your son doesn’t have A-levels yet? And these are what you require to get into the University (that you then pay lots of money for) Forgive my ignorance, but I live in Scotland..

I also went through route of Standard Grades, Higher, Advanced Highers (not everyone does this in Scotland but it was the norm in my school, and I was doing A-level art, which I wanted to get into art college). I had never considered any other option, as it was just taken as a given that you get all your grades and then go onto university.

I don’t want to speak on someone else’s behalf too much, but the boyfriend didn’t enjoy school – he managed to get the grades he needed for University in S5, and then deferred his entry by a year. During this year he worked at a local garage, and I get the impression it was immensely useful for him. He learned valuable work skills, how to speak to people etc. (sounds silly but school to uni students don’t have a lot of this experience)
Given that he wasn’t that interested in staying at school I would imagine it was a much better option for him and I personally think it shows in his attitude to work – (even though he wasn’t perhaps naturally gifted in academia and traditional subjects, he applied his intelligence and did well at uni)

Maybe it’s because I’m at art college, but I do think there are a lot of students who don’t really know why they’re there and what they want to do. Obviously there’s nothing wrong with that, but I don’t think University is always the best environment to challenge the ‘coasting’ mind-set that a lot of us seem to have. I personally found my first university experience overwhelming and had to take a few years out to understand myself better – I believe I’m a much more focused individual for it.

I don’t want any of that to sound too negative though! Lots of people go straight to Uni and it works really well for them, but I think it’s a really good idea to consider alternatives if there’s anything your son feels he wants to explore.

dating is meant to be FUN! And going outdoors is fun 🙂 Be yourself, which I’m sure is amiable, quirky and lovely, and who cares how it goes (as long as he’s not a pyscho – don’t bring a pyscho up a snowy mountain)

My dad is from Hong Kong and apparently there it is common to buy a car from new and then think about trading it in when it’s about 3 years old…

The last 5 cars he’s bought have been from new (some with part exchange). I’m not going to list them as I can assure you you’d all judge his complete lack of sense and taste 🙂

sorry, when I said ‘impractical’ I meant in the sense of ‘impractical for daylight use because it’s blindingly hideous and you’d be ashamed to take it out in public’

– being serious, I have nothing against the X6 apart from its looks, and though I’ve never driven one I’m sure it’s lots of fun overtaking people in a storm-trooper helmet 😀

aye, sorry, it’s the windows that I remember – the angles are just wrong. And surely, as long as the car works it can’t really be called pointless; at the very worst the x6 could be called impractical (and totally gopping)

glad to see others share my utter distaste for the Kia Soul, but whoever posted the picture up has done it wrong, because it needs to be shown from this angle too:

I kind of understand people getting cleaners to mop all the floors and do the dusting, because that well, takes a wee while. Cleaning the bathroom takes 5 minutes!

The rest of me is obviously perfect, but my fingers can bend about a bit and do this:

sadly they don’t bend all the way backwards or anything cool like that 🙁

Kathryn, though for the first ten years of my life I was known as Katy. My mum thought the latter was lovely for a little girl but maybe I’d prefer Kathryn when grown up. (Despite the username I never have my name shortened, probably because I look too stern to have a nickname)

Never had a problem with it, though of course people don’t always spell it correctly. Have had much more of an issue with my last name, which despite being only TWO letters, and despite me spelling it every single time someone asks me for it, some people still can’t get right!

No music, too personal a gift for someone who doesn’t really know her! Nice alcohol and maybe tiny, nicely presented box of chocolates would be enough. Or duo of luxurious bath stuff and moisturiser (if you know anything about organic/sensitive creams)?

Just to reassure GJP- as a young woman who has done plenty of cleaning jobs, if someone gave me some luxurious/unusual hand cream (not a value tube of vaseline 😉 ) I would absolutely love it. Cream is bloody expensive and always needed, so to me it’s a nice gesture.

not me but my dear mum is rather partial to a bit of Hong Kong-style french toast:

2 pieces of bread, with a heavy peanut butter filling, dipped in egg+milk, deep fried to perfection and topped off with condensed milk and a big serving of butter.

Sorry, no online access here either. We have a physical copy of the first article in the library at Ninewells; not sure if that’s really any use to you!

Ha, that reminds me of a time my already socially awkward brother tried to tip a takeaway delivery guy – the total had come to £19.80 and my brother, not sure what to do, gave him a twenty, blurted out ‘keep the change’ and closed the door.
His mates found this rather funny and must have embarrassed him enough that soon after he walked down to the takeaway, apologised, and handed the guy a whole tenner!

A girl came round our class and asked us all to pour the amount of we would normally eat for breakfast. People’s servings ranged from 85g to over 200. I also eat porridge, but still probably a bigger bowl than I’m meant to (just so ‘ludicrously tasty!!’)

Goldfinger
Superbad
The Mist

-good food
-sunshine
-good views
-smacking the bf’s bum
-fuzzy animals!

Brothers and I will put up the christmas tree a few hours before mum arrives on the 24th. Lazy feckless teenagers 😀

derekride’s questions make me laugh, clearly I haven’t cottoned on to the secret that relationships are excellent ways of getting free stuff – I’ve never been given flowers, perfume, a handbag, dress or shoes! did once get a pair of biking gloves ’cause they were too small for him 8)

Can’t tell whether you’re talking about relationship problem or depression/self-esteem issues.

How long has she been low? Is she angry with just you or with everyone? Always difficult to sort out Depression issues with others, especially if she doesn’t want help yet. Yes, she may be on antidepressants but (In my experience only) you have to wait until that point that you actually want to change yourself before anything comprehensive actually happens.

When that time comes I do think it’s good to have as much personal space as possible. I also think if you see a lot of each other when her own personal issues are still muddled and up in the air it is very difficult to stop sinking back into the cycle of talks you have described.

No idea how you tell when enough is enough. Coming from the side where I was the one with the negative issues to deal with, I would say that I don’t remember seeing the ‘OH’ as the bad-guy, far from it. I rebelled against him, I did horrible things to hurt him, but I knew that he only wanted to see me happy and healthy. However, I don’t know if he knew that I felt that way.

Took me 3 years to be happy with myself. He stuck with me ’cause he was (is) amazing; before deciding he had commitment issues 😆

Ideal –

somewhere remote,
wake up, lounge about for a bit, have something tasty,
go for a morning walk/get some landy cruisin’ done
come back, soup, bread and cheese
go boarding
come back, more tasty things, bit of alchomahol,
sit in front of proper fire, melt, have some excellent sex
fall asleep…..

go do family things the day after

His bikes are nicer than my one, because I don’t have any interest in bike parts, or maintaining them, whatsoever. Having said that my bike is good enough that he’d still steal it if he could fit it. This is why he has lots of shiny parts and I have lots of money 😐

how tight are we talking here? why do you want to advertise the fact that you have drainpipe legs?

(says someone too fat to fit into skinny jeans)