| These students in Manchester on the news 22:13 - Sep 26 with 7433 views | uefacup81 |
Christ.
Is this really the resilience of the brightest minds of the next generation?! |  |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 22:24 - Sep 26 with 3667 views | Plums |
They’re 18, away from home for the first time in many cases, frightened and confused. Condemning them won’t help. |  |
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| "frightened and confused" on 22:28 - Sep 26 with 3652 views | Dyland |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 22:24 - Sep 26 by Plums |
They’re 18, away from home for the first time in many cases, frightened and confused. Condemning them won’t help. |
Oh pleeeease :)
I agree with your last comment though. Absurd and unhelpful demonising from the media, as ever. |  |
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| (No subject) on 22:36 - Sep 26 with 3630 views | jeera |
| "frightened and confused" on 22:28 - Sep 26 by Dyland |
Oh pleeeease :)
I agree with your last comment though. Absurd and unhelpful demonising from the media, as ever. |
I must admit that first bit made me smile.
I remember being 18 and if there was ever an age you're too stupid to be fazed by much it's then.
*no offence to the poster, who is a good sort. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:37]
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| (No subject) on 22:39 - Sep 26 with 3615 views | uefacup81 |
| (No subject) on 22:36 - Sep 26 by jeera |
I must admit that first bit made me smile.
I remember being 18 and if there was ever an age you're too stupid to be fazed by much it's then.
*no offence to the poster, who is a good sort. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:37]
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That's the thing.
Clearly age/time influences the hindsight, but I'm not sure I'd have been leaning out of the window wailing about not having enough milk/bread to last past Sunday had I been locked down at UEA back in 2007.
I accept that it's not ideal, but surely it can't be unexpected in the slightest? | |
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| (No subject) on 22:43 - Sep 26 with 3603 views | jeera |
| (No subject) on 22:39 - Sep 26 by uefacup81 |
That's the thing.
Clearly age/time influences the hindsight, but I'm not sure I'd have been leaning out of the window wailing about not having enough milk/bread to last past Sunday had I been locked down at UEA back in 2007.
I accept that it's not ideal, but surely it can't be unexpected in the slightest? |
I do remember driving the length and breadth of the country trying to buy a bit of puff but that's the only time real panic might have set in. If there was nothing locally.
Bread, I guess it is useful to have and definitely milk for coffees. Biscuits in copious amounts definitely. It's a scientific fact that a teenager can live on biscuits for a considerable amount of time.
But to be honest, I was always pretty organised and would have plenty in stock, what with understanding the concept of a freezer from an early age. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:45]
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| (No subject) on 22:49 - Sep 26 with 3569 views | Dyland |
| (No subject) on 22:43 - Sep 26 by jeera |
I do remember driving the length and breadth of the country trying to buy a bit of puff but that's the only time real panic might have set in. If there was nothing locally.
Bread, I guess it is useful to have and definitely milk for coffees. Biscuits in copious amounts definitely. It's a scientific fact that a teenager can live on biscuits for a considerable amount of time.
But to be honest, I was always pretty organised and would have plenty in stock, what with understanding the concept of a freezer from an early age. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:45]
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Right. Honestly, the kids will be fine. And obvs 99% are adapting. That's not a news story though is it.
No sympathy for running out of gear either tbh. If you failed to stock up and don't have a sorcerer's arsenal of heinous chemicals, tough sh1t. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:50]
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| (No subject) on 22:51 - Sep 26 with 3553 views | jeera |
| (No subject) on 22:49 - Sep 26 by Dyland |
Right. Honestly, the kids will be fine. And obvs 99% are adapting. That's not a news story though is it.
No sympathy for running out of gear either tbh. If you failed to stock up and don't have a sorcerer's arsenal of heinous chemicals, tough sh1t. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:50]
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Thing is they have mobile phones so can order something in surely?
Hang the bin from the window on string if necessary. | |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 22:53 - Sep 26 with 3543 views | Rob88 |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 22:24 - Sep 26 by Plums |
They’re 18, away from home for the first time in many cases, frightened and confused. Condemning them won’t help. |
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| (No subject) on 23:10 - Sep 26 with 3500 views | vapour_trail |
| (No subject) on 22:43 - Sep 26 by jeera |
I do remember driving the length and breadth of the country trying to buy a bit of puff but that's the only time real panic might have set in. If there was nothing locally.
Bread, I guess it is useful to have and definitely milk for coffees. Biscuits in copious amounts definitely. It's a scientific fact that a teenager can live on biscuits for a considerable amount of time.
But to be honest, I was always pretty organised and would have plenty in stock, what with understanding the concept of a freezer from an early age. [Post edited 26 Sep 2020 22:45]
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This would have freaked the fck out of me back in the day, unless there was a 9 bar stashed away somewhere. |  |
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| (No subject) on 23:14 - Sep 26 with 3489 views | Dyland |
| (No subject) on 23:10 - Sep 26 by vapour_trail |
This would have freaked the fck out of me back in the day, unless there was a 9 bar stashed away somewhere. |
A 9 bar!
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| (No subject) on 23:16 - Sep 26 with 3481 views | jeera |
| (No subject) on 23:10 - Sep 26 by vapour_trail |
This would have freaked the fck out of me back in the day, unless there was a 9 bar stashed away somewhere. |
Incredible the lengths you'd go to wasn't it.
We drove to some right shady places in desperate hope anytime of day or night if things went south with our usual supply chain.
Bizarre really.
If things were dry and word got out you'd sourced some, your phone wouldn't stop ringing with the telecommunications equivalent of begging letters. | |
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| (No subject) on 23:21 - Sep 26 with 3466 views | The_Romford_Blue |
| (No subject) on 23:16 - Sep 26 by jeera |
Incredible the lengths you'd go to wasn't it.
We drove to some right shady places in desperate hope anytime of day or night if things went south with our usual supply chain.
Bizarre really.
If things were dry and word got out you'd sourced some, your phone wouldn't stop ringing with the telecommunications equivalent of begging letters. |
Was amusing at the start of lockdown. The dealers began advertising via text to everyone they’d previously sold to as, for a little while at the very least, there was an issue that they’d struggle selling. So for about a month in April, everybody was much much cheaper than the usual. Amusing when you think about it. It was like the opposite to the toilet roll situation. |  |
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| (No subject) on 23:39 - Sep 26 with 3406 views | jeera |
| (No subject) on 23:21 - Sep 26 by The_Romford_Blue |
Was amusing at the start of lockdown. The dealers began advertising via text to everyone they’d previously sold to as, for a little while at the very least, there was an issue that they’d struggle selling. So for about a month in April, everybody was much much cheaper than the usual. Amusing when you think about it. It was like the opposite to the toilet roll situation. |
When the opportunity arises, you gotta buy buy buy.
There's always a rainy day and all that. | |
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| innit on 23:41 - Sep 26 with 3400 views | Dyland |
| (No subject) on 23:39 - Sep 26 by jeera |
When the opportunity arises, you gotta buy buy buy.
There's always a rainy day and all that. |
Market forces, and the central tenet of capitalism. When sh1t is cheap, lump on. | |
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| innit on 23:52 - Sep 26 with 3380 views | jeera |
| innit on 23:41 - Sep 26 by Dyland |
Market forces, and the central tenet of capitalism. When sh1t is cheap, lump on. |
I know how sad it must sound, but some of the best times of my life have involved sitting about with half a dozen mates round someone's flat in Ipswich, with each of us taking it in turns to skin-up and chat, maybe over a game of Risk or something.
Some pizza, plenty of fluids [!] and several packs of biscuits. | |
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| innit! on 23:55 - Sep 26 with 3375 views | Dyland |
| innit on 23:52 - Sep 26 by jeera |
I know how sad it must sound, but some of the best times of my life have involved sitting about with half a dozen mates round someone's flat in Ipswich, with each of us taking it in turns to skin-up and chat, maybe over a game of Risk or something.
Some pizza, plenty of fluids [!] and several packs of biscuits. |
Syntax error though... unless you mean you also took it in turns to chat...?
:)
Risk breaks up marriages. | |
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| innit! on 00:02 - Sep 27 with 3364 views | jeera |
| innit! on 23:55 - Sep 26 by Dyland |
Syntax error though... unless you mean you also took it in turns to chat...?
:)
Risk breaks up marriages. |
I can't be bothered to edit it!
I don't know how well you know Bury but when I moved there later on, there was a group of us who would sometimes go down into the old monastery tunnels and play Risk all night. There was a way in off Horringer Road.
We'd take a ball of string - so not to get lost - and a pack of candles which would be placed along the way on the ledges that were cut out of the chalk walls.
Always a good night. | |
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| (No subject) on 00:24 - Sep 27 with 3334 views | vapour_trail |
| (No subject) on 23:14 - Sep 26 by Dyland |
A 9 bar!
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I’m probably misremembering. A teenth? We had to buy every day. Quarantine would have fcked us. | |
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| (No subject) on 00:30 - Sep 27 with 3323 views | jeera |
| (No subject) on 00:24 - Sep 27 by vapour_trail |
I’m probably misremembering. A teenth? We had to buy every day. Quarantine would have fcked us. |
A 9 bar would be somewhere between £850 and £950 depending, say late 80s - early 90s.
As a group we would chip in together when it was possible because it worked out so much cheaper than buying an 8th at a time. An 8th would meet the usual individual's needs for much of the week, stretching to a quarter on a more 'social' week.
An 8th would range from anything between £10 and £15 depending. Usually somewhere around the £12.50 mark was normal at the time. | |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 01:23 - Sep 27 with 3276 views | NewcyBlue |
“ First-year Joe Byrne said: "We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will."”
What’s more shocking is your apparent lack of empathy for a bunch of kids who were told it was safe to go to uni and to then effectively become a prisoner. How very Christian of your, I’m sure the old boys at church will enjoy your opinion.
If that was one of my kids I would be driving there and taking them home. This has nothing to do with what you call resilience. |  |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 05:06 - Sep 27 with 3174 views | dickie |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 01:23 - Sep 27 by NewcyBlue |
“ First-year Joe Byrne said: "We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will."”
What’s more shocking is your apparent lack of empathy for a bunch of kids who were told it was safe to go to uni and to then effectively become a prisoner. How very Christian of your, I’m sure the old boys at church will enjoy your opinion.
If that was one of my kids I would be driving there and taking them home. This has nothing to do with what you call resilience. |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 08:47 - Sep 27 with 2988 views | brazil1981 |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 01:23 - Sep 27 by NewcyBlue |
“ First-year Joe Byrne said: "We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will."”
What’s more shocking is your apparent lack of empathy for a bunch of kids who were told it was safe to go to uni and to then effectively become a prisoner. How very Christian of your, I’m sure the old boys at church will enjoy your opinion.
If that was one of my kids I would be driving there and taking them home. This has nothing to do with what you call resilience. |
Give them a break...remember these will be fresher students who only started Uni last week. If settled for a few months I’m sure they’d cope with ease...most probably are! This age group have sacrificed more than most this year, their exams turned into a lottery, proms, fresher weeks etc cancelled and 6 months of socialising put on hold (which is a big deal to an 18 year old). Not going to kill them I know, but these are rites of passage which they won’t get back.
I accept older generations (including mine) are suffering seriously health and financially as a result of this crisis, but my kids and they’re mates in that age group have obeyed the rules with good grace and just got on with it! | | | |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 08:51 - Sep 27 with 2972 views | Mullet |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 01:23 - Sep 27 by NewcyBlue |
“ First-year Joe Byrne said: "We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will."”
What’s more shocking is your apparent lack of empathy for a bunch of kids who were told it was safe to go to uni and to then effectively become a prisoner. How very Christian of your, I’m sure the old boys at church will enjoy your opinion.
If that was one of my kids I would be driving there and taking them home. This has nothing to do with what you call resilience. |
It's very telling that as with "get back to work" there was a clear action by the government to get students in situ so that they would have to pay for accomodation. Who benefits from that? Landlords and institutions who will not then go cap in hand to the government.
The fact that young people who they have been saying before all of this were the irresponsible modern day plague rats have effectively been posted into major cities all over the country is scandalous.
Manchester has had massive problems and even more scrutiny than most and has two massive universities. On top of the exam fiasco and utter shambles the government made there, to allow this to happen is criminal.
The Uni has a duty of care and should be delivering food and support as a minimum. The fact that degrees are a rip off thanks to the Tories raising the fees before all of this is only compounded when you do this.
Schools were told that online learning was totally inadequate and unacceptable not so long ago, but £9k for a part time version whilst being locked in halls with people you've only just met is a horrible situation. |  |
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| These students in Manchester on the news on 09:02 - Sep 27 with 2933 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| These students in Manchester on the news on 08:47 - Sep 27 by brazil1981 |
Give them a break...remember these will be fresher students who only started Uni last week. If settled for a few months I’m sure they’d cope with ease...most probably are! This age group have sacrificed more than most this year, their exams turned into a lottery, proms, fresher weeks etc cancelled and 6 months of socialising put on hold (which is a big deal to an 18 year old). Not going to kill them I know, but these are rites of passage which they won’t get back.
I accept older generations (including mine) are suffering seriously health and financially as a result of this crisis, but my kids and they’re mates in that age group have obeyed the rules with good grace and just got on with it! |
Pretty much with you.....but proms!
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