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I called up the service a good while back because I had horrible flu like symptoms and noticed I'd developed a rash that wouldn't shift under a glass. The nurse insisted that she would send a mini bus to come and get me and take me to some all night clinic, which they did. So there I am, totally freaking out that I might have meningitis at 4 in the morning due to everyone talking in very concerned voices and some obnoxious wee upstart doctor comes along and tells me that in fact I have four different minor things wrong with me that were combining to provide all the symptoms of meningitis. The rash was a side effect of another medicine I was taking and I was obviously a complete moron for not realising this right away (I looked after, and a skin rash was one of the side effects right down at the bottom, along with the crazy things like growing horns and changing gender) and all I needed was a sleep and hot drinks. He made me feel like I had called up and demanded an ambulance within the second for having the sniffles when in reality it was the very service that employed him that had insisted I go up in the first place. Nae impressed.

My boyfriend has started sleepwalking when pissed. Only three occasions so far, all memorable- 1. Found his way into my parents room. Turned on light thinking it was the bathroom. Parents woke up to find daughters boyfriend naked in room. 2. Got out of a double locked hotel room. Knocked on his dad's door looking for the bathroom again (his dad was 2 doors down and we did not know this, why he went 2 doors down and it happened to be his dad we'll never know). Naked once again. Entertained a group of guys coming back from the bar by stumbling about trying to find his way back in the buff. 3. Woke up locked out in the communal lobby of my flat while I was in a different country with the only other key. Had only a t shirt round his arse but had thought to take his backpack (?!) Gave the neighbour a cheap thrill by having to knock on her door and ask to use her phone. I'm getting him pyjamas for Christmas.

I have sent you a PM about this

My mate can't go anymore and seeing as Christmas is coming I'd rather have the money in my pocket than try and find someone else to come with me... looking for 50 for both (paid 58 to rubbish crappy Ticketmaster). Can deliver after 6pm, bargain

I'm going to be Leela from Futurama somewhere about town. There's currently an adapted dustmask with some pipe cleaner eyelashes sitting on my coffee table. I can't decide if I've made a decent effort or if I'm just going to look shit.

Now I hate BT as much as the next person, but when my phone line was buggered a couple of months back I went online to report it. The site told me that it was a fault with them right away by testing my line, they gave me a date a couple of days into the future that they would fix it on but then they fixed it 2 days early. I was pretty shocked at getting decent service out of them for once.

I graduated in July '06 and hadn't even bothered looking for a graduate position at the time as I wanted to take a year out. I stayed at my student job for a year, got into postgrad teaching in Sheffield and got offered a graduate position up here and decided to stay up here. My degree was in accountancy/finance and now I'm an trainee accountant. I think most people in my course found a job OK, but then it is very vocational and apparently the world always needs more accountants.

I've been with Orange broadband since about November and have nothing but good things to say about it so far. I was really sceptical because all of the online reviews I saw were terrible, but I was getting it free with my phone and I had been paying a extortionate 34 a month to Pipex beforehand. The setup and changeover were smooth and given that it's hardly ever turned off it hasn't dropped the connection once. I don't even think they pay attention to their fair use policy. If you are in need of a laptop it sounds like a pretty good deal, because the broadband you get would be up to par.

Hello, I got 2 tickets for the Eagles of Death Metal gig at the Liquid Rooms on the 28th August. Unfortunately, the day after we bought them I was told that I am required to have started my new job by then, so we can't go. Gutted. If anyone wants them, I'll take face value and either send them out recorded or meet you in town with them. I can't remember how much that is exactly (boyfriend bought them) but I reckon it is about 40 for the 2. Any takers?

If it is primary postgraduate you are thinking about, then be careful. Two of my friends have just finished their probationary year and there are 38 full time jobs in the area for well over 100 people apparently. However there are some subjects secondary-wise where they wont be able to get enough of you, like English, Maths, Home Ec and Modern Languages (I think).

Oh wow, Aberdeen-Music delivers! Thanks very much!

I've heard a catchy song while going about the daily grind recently, once in Asda and once somewhere else that I can't remember. It seemed to be about a girl (well that narrows it down!) and the lyrics were intended to be comical. One line in the chorus in particular was "just something about her". I reckon it was by a Northern band as well as it sounded quite a bit like the Arctic Monkeys. That one line has been in my head for AGES now and I can't bloody well find out what the song is. Googling the only line I can definitely recall was pointless as the phrase is commonly used in folks writing, and I have so little to go on. I've heard it often recently so I looked at the singles chart, but no luck. Can anyone tell me what song it is? It isn't even that great but this has been annoying me for days now and it's a matter of principal that I find out now. Sorry for making a crappy thread but I really want to know what it is!

I can't recommend a specific hotel, but www.laterooms.com has done me well on a few occasions. Also, expedia.

I doubt that it'll ever be residential. It would cost too much to put more windows in for a start (at least I'd hope they'd put some more windows in!) and it's also part of a leisure park owned by the London company of someone fairly well-known (I just can't remember who). They probably couldn't get the council to agree to a change of use. Although I remember the rumours that the old BigW was specifically for non-food businesses and look who's in there now... I hear that they are looking for a tenant but most viewers say it's too big for what they'd want it for.

See I find the opposite problem. I'm not exactly tiny in that area but when shopping for clothes, I find that I can't buy a lot of things because they were made for girls with tits, to be blunt, and end up baggy round the collarbone/sleeves. Summer vest type things are the worst because if you don't have the breasts to fill them out, a lot of the necklines are no use at all. But yes, to reply to the topic, I wouldn't want any of them paid to model clothes. Even the girl they've got on their posters now is better, and there's something about her "deer in headlights" look that I find quite comical and off putting.

You wouldn't think so with the current attitude of Aberdeen University. I have been trying to get into that course for *months* now and every time I think about it my blood boils. Apparently they only have 5 places this year. 5 new Business Studies teachers for the whole of Scotland from pretty much the Central Belt up.

Both Woolies and the sweetie stall at that Christmas market are doing a line in chocolate covered pretzels just now if that interests you any...

Once to A&E when I cut my finger on a glass that shattered in my hand, no stitches required and I was made to return to work and spend my remaining 3 hours on the tills serving. Got lots of sympathy from the little old ladies of Peterhead though. I can remember visiting folks three times and I guess it's been more. Compared to all of the other posters on here it must seem like my life is spent bundled up in a big cotton wool outfit.

I don't like the word "irreverant". It seems to be the new word for something funny yet "edgy" and popular and I just don't like it. I also don't like the way that a lot of yes/no phrases can sound so similar. Example: "Hi, would you like a hand with your packing?" "I'll be fine." Now, if the person is mumbling, Aberdonian and already turning away from you, as they almost inevitably are, the difference between "that'd be fine/ I'll be fine", "OK/It's OK" isn't exactly obvious. Not so annoying as the people that just grunt at you though.

There are so many... People with no understanding of the concept of an indoor voice. These people are of course the ones that have nothing to say that you'd want to hear. You can usually find these people in the back of buses, in the quiet carriage of trains, or spread throughout a supermarket, yelling their locations to one another. Tying in from above really, society's plunge downhill, with it being cool and occasionally worthwhile to be thick (see: reality TV millionaires) and the fact that most people today would laugh/be confused at anyone who conducted themselves with the slightest bit of dignity or class. I mean, Heat magazine has a picture of Jordan on the loo with her knickers about her ankles on the front page this week. I have to stare at it 6 hours a day whilst at work. Britain has stooped very low. People at work who come with their husband, get all of their shopping onto the belt before I begin to serve them, yet still want to stand there and do bugger all while I pack their shopping. I am only slowing them down, and everyone else, and I will put your bleach on top of your morning rolls. People who smoke in bus shelters who think that by shuffling down the bench a few inches away from you they will miraculously change the direction of the wind and the smoke will not hit you square in the face. People who grab a good spot at gigs but then annoy everyone around them by chatting all the way through.

That is the worst font/logo ever. Looks like it should have been in business in the 80's. Also agreeing with the person who is wondering how it can be "exclusive" and aiming for the classy market but also specifically mentioning stag nights. I bet the owner is sitting somewhere thinking he'll end up with a sophisticated classy establishment like the ones in movies like Closer or the James Bond franchise. Fat chance of that in Aberdeen. Yes I am bitter that just as I got old enough to go to and appreciate Drakes it shut down, meh.

If you're interested in something that both unis do a course in, give a thought to placements as well. For example, I chose Aberdeen to do my degree because at RGU my third year would have been spent working at a firm. From what I hear if you do a placement you are normally offered a job at the end of your degree, but personally I thought that I already have the thought of 60 years of work and additional training lined up for me at the end of my degree, why spend a quarter of your student life working in an office? Also, a degree in something could mean you have an MA from Aberdeen but a BA in Robert Gordons (for example Accountancy). I have heard rumours that people down South think that if you have an MA you have a post-grad degree (given that an MA down there *is* post-grad) and are unaware that the old Scottish universities are special, but I don't know if I believe it or not. It doesn't really make a difference anyway, I suppose.

When I was in my 1st year of uni (2002... oh my god o_O ) I was often dragged there with my friends before Liquid opened and nothing was ever the same for them again. The place was always heaving, normally with the kind of folks you'll find in Liquid now (students of all sorts, office and offshore workers at the weekend) because it was new, advertised a lot, and was cheap above all else. I've never been in for more than 10 minutes since then. It seems to attract a different type of clientele altogether now. Still have happy memories though, because I met my boyfriend in the Priory when we spotted oneanother looking grumpy because neither of us wanted to be there. Aaah, how romantic.

Tie Rack in the Bon Accord does a nice selection in lambswool for 9.99. Well at least they did when I worked there a few years back. Chances are the prices have gone up...

The reason that they couldn't completely reshape the floor is that the frame in that screen is shaped out of concrete whereas the rest are shaped out of wood, so it was physically impossible to change the amount of rows etc. Apparently. Cineworld is falling to bits, but that's what you get when you inhabit a building in a shitty leisure park that was built in the 90's on what is essentially a beach.