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Pooka
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Well isn't this fun?
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Boo
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stares at KaM in shocked disbelief
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20:21:06
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Pooka
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We're what - four weeks into our freshers year and you're already working that hard?
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Workaholic
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:) Hiya.
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20:21:23
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Workaholic
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Meh.. took me fortnight and I was in full swing
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20:21:35
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Workaholic
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Nose at the grindstone at the moment.
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20:22:12
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Pooka
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Hmmm. I just had to read stuff this weekend.
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20:22:24
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Workaholic
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Only 5 more sonnets and 8 elegies to work on tonight.. an essay for Friday, and I might want to think about learning some vocab for the latin test on Tuesday.
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Workaholic
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Oh, and the adjective grammar sheet we need to know inside out
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20:22:43
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Pooka
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You have to write sonnets or study them?
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20:24:01
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KaM
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Oh, study.. study.. Rossetti, GM Hopkins, Brooke, Shelley and Seamus Heaney
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20:24:20
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Pooka
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Have you got the Paterson 101 Sonnets book? That's what we're working from.]
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20:24:35
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KaM
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Elegies are Gray, Milton (ARGH!), Jonson, Shelley (again), Yeats, Auden and Geoffrey Hill
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20:25:12
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KaM
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No; the Norton Anthology of English Literature.. volume 7.. both parts.. both around 3000 pages
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20:25:29
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KaM
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It's just sonnets and elegies this week.. need to cover all poetry by Xmas
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20:25:56
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KaM
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Did Introductions on the first week; with beginnings, authenticity etc.
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20:26:08
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Pooka
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Ah - we had to write our own sonnet for ahomework last week, and comment upon it
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20:26:39
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KaM
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Second week has been a look at Pastoral and Politics & History within poetry.
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20:27:19
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Pooka
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More of a social commentary spin put on your course, then.
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20:27:27
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KaM
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Aww.. wish we could do that. Oh no.. lots of reading for seminars.. a nice essay for Friday, which the tutor expects to be really good, because our seminar group of 6, with the exception of moi, are very good at English
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20:27:44
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KaM
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Just.. very broad, sir.
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20:28:34
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KaM
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But yes.. expected to look at the historical analysis especially.. putting all into social, historical and political contexts
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20:28:55
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KaM
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Some of it is great stuff... some of it dense as anything. One or two of the elegies to come fall under the latter category
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20:29:50
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Pooka
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We have 2 modules.
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20:30:08
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Pooka
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"Introduction to Literary Studies I" is more of an analytical piece of work 1 book per week.
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20:30:09
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KaM
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This year or term?
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20:30:13
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Pooka
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All year.
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20:30:22
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KaM
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Nods. Same
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20:30:31
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Pooka
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So far we've looked at Beowulf, and Hamlet.
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20:31:04
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Pooka
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Then "Arguing About English" (my favourite) is the one we produce creative writing for, and... argue about it ^_^
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20:31:43
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KaM
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We all take 'Introductions to Poetry' - and I miss the part called 'critical issues' - which all single honours have to do. That is, I assume, looking at the real bugger of works.. Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen etc
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grins mischeivously. It's the one I look forward to, Arguing About English.
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20:32:38
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KaM
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Taking latin as well, we just do the core English, which covers all grounds anyway. Next semester is a good choice. Joint honours can avoid the standard 'Approaches to Shakespeare'
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20:32:44
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Pooka
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Paradise Lost and The Faerie Queene are classics though.
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20:33:13
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Pooka
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Avoid Shakespeare at all costs, unless they're doing any of his better works, eg, Macbeth, Comedy of Errors.
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20:33:37
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KaM
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GREAT! So.. 'contemporary writing' or 'Mediaeval english' hmm.. Hard choice - still ..not one needed to be made until New Year anyhow.
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20:34:08
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Pooka
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I say contemporary - not that it's my choice though, sir!
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20:34:42
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KaM
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Oh, yessir, I intend to. Not the keenest on old Bill, I'm afriad. King Lear is my favourite; Macbeth, I somewhat liked... but as for the others I've looked upon, not my fav. artist by any means.
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20:34:50
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Pooka
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I have no choice over my English modules u.u but I did have a choice over which subsidiary to take - settling on mediaeval history..
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20:35:24
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KaM
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I think it's right that all English degrees shouldn't have compulsory Shakespeare; I mean, the guy isn't the root of all literature.
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20:35:29
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Pooka
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Me likey Shakespear but only Macbeth and Comedy stood out for me. Romeo and Juliet was a bit too, uh, chick-flick. And Hamlet bored me to bits.,
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20:36:01
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KaM
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Hamlet, Richard II, As You Like It, Cymbeline.. Argh!! Meh
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20:36:02
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Pooka
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Yes, but in some cases he is, you don't put them on a desert island with 8 records, the Bible and the complete works of Joe Bloggs. ^_^
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20:36:35
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Pooka
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Most of his tragical histories are trite - in fact, nearly all the Kingsm, except Lear (and maybe John)
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20:37:53
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KaM
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Aye, maybe. Just think there's more to English than white beards.. What!?
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20:38:00
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Pooka
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What what?
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20:38:19
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*KaM
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whispers - you got it wrong, sir... sure it's Regan
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20:38:30
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Pooka
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It's Goneril... :p
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20:38:58
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Pooka
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http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/contexts.html
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20:39:01
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KaM
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Regan! That's why she's the sexy one.. all the men croon after the bard! (ahem.. beard)
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20:39:40
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Pooka
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It's still Goneril. Regan's the sexy one though, I don't find beards a turn-on, myself!
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20:39:56
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KaM
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Ack.. bows down to Pooka's knowledge.
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20:40:14
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KaM
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Although not remembering the text that well, I didn't think you were being wholly serious
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20:40:41
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KaM
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Goneril is the Icy one. The Anne Robinson of Shakespeare.
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20:40:49
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Pooka
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Hehe, not that I'm a boff or anything, it's just my family have a pecualiar fixation with that singular quote; it's the one thing of theirs I wanna carry on. ^_^
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20:41:11
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Pooka
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"Dad, you've gone insane, you are the weakest monarch, fgoodbye."
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20:41:44
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KaM
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Oh, thinking of Anne Robinson, we had the Rt Hon Anne Widdecombe MP and family at our formal hall meal on Friday eve. I didn't get to go, which is a shame.
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20:42:00
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Pooka
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Why? Would you have wanted to throw things?
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20:42:55
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KaM
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Hehe.. 'Lear - what do you do for a living? Hmm.. you're one throne shy of a kingship! You are the weakest kin'k', be banished!'
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20:43:20
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Pooka
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^_^
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20:43:25
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KaM
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No, not really. She was supposedly really great, so said all the lads from I block who spoke to her. Grand
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20:44:04
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KaM
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Besides, I'm a lib dem. I don't have political despisings for anyone.. or non-political for that matter. :)
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20:44:40
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Pooka
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I really don't like her. I'm a Socialist, so a Lib Dem supporter really.
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20:45:32
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KaM
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Well, I owe the conservatives for the assisted places scheme that got me here in the long and short of it.
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20:47:01
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Pooka
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What scheme?
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20:47:33
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KaM
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But I do believe the whole political stability is not good. I know it doesn't take a genius to see that; but the Lib Dems have a great chance of capitalising while Labour are under scrutiny and the Conservatives have done little to bolster their flagging popularity.
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20:47:50
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Pooka
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Lib Dems are the strongest, most united party.
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20:48:00
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KaM
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Assisted Places scheme.. scholarships to Grammar schools etc. etc.
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20:48:57
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Pooka
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Ah right. But we all owe Labour for the NHS, and we owe New Labour for the decline in the NHS in recent years!
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20:49:51
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LordFear
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Greetings
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20:50:04
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KaM
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We did owe labour for establishing the vital economic link between inflation and interest rates; which Gordon Brown had been doing extremely well. However, the house price inflation has been instrumental in ruining this completely.
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20:50:16
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KaM
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Heya mate. Bang right into politics. :)
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20:50:35
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LordFear
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Oh good, my favourite subject for discussion on a Sunday evening
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20:50:35
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Pooka
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New Labour just mess things up, really.
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20:51:17
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KaM
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Manufacturing sector putting pressure on the government to keep dropping interest rates, instead of finding other methods of becoming more competitive and internationally attractive.. like subsidising perhaps.
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20:51:30
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Pooka
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Indeed
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20:51:46
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LordFear
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I'm only in here for a passing visit anyway, David Blaine is removing himself from his box tonight, and I wish to watch
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20:52:23
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KaM
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They drop interest rates, and .. what do you know.. mortgages.. house prices... and then the North/South divide getting ever larger by this as well. Tis the problem with a 'V' - more extreme the ammounts, the further the gap becomes.
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20:53:07
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KaM
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40 mins. Hehe.. remember seeing him on Tower Bridge with Forester, Alex and Kieran. Took some photos and all, quite near the beginning.
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20:54:10
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LordFear
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I kept meaning to go and see it first hand, but never quite found the time
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20:54:49
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KaM
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So - Labour's strong economic policies to keep Britain under good monetary control are slipping, methinks, and need modifying. I can't see it happening, so might be a good thing for competetors to focus on.
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20:55:12
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KaM
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Must go and grab a bite.. then get on with this work o mine.
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20:55:39
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KaM
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Will leave the box open while I can. This laptop can't cope for too long without freezing if it gets too hot.
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20:56:09
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KaM
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So - may see you grand gentleman later.
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*Forester
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KaM Hopefully next week I'll be as invisible as you seem to want
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Pooka
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Byebye then!
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LordFear
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bye
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Aranel
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Hey!
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Pooka
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Yo!
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Aranel
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How's you?
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Pooka
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I... will be back soon
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Aranel
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M'kie
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Aranel
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ACTION shuffles feet
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Aranel
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Yo!
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*Namenthus
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slaps Cypher around a bit with a large trout
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*Namenthus
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slaps Cypher around a bit with a large trout
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23:16:30
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Namenthus
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god damn loch ness monster
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Namenthus
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what did he want?
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Namenthus
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around three fity
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Namenthus
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ok
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Namenthus
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so
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Namenthus
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o
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Namenthus
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Cypher
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Namenthus
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stop that!
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23:17:54
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Namenthus
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not in public
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Namenthus
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:O
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Namenthus
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well maybe a little
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*Namenthus
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Namenthus
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lol
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Billy1987-1994
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!
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Billy1987-1994
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...and you've all gone!
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Billy1987-1994
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Oh, well, apart from you, log reader.
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Billy1987-1994
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Well, I'm back in London
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00:41:55
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Billy1987-1994
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Righty-ho! No point me staying here, although I hope you'll be watching KM Series 5 on Challenge tomorrow. I certainly will! Tara!
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Billy1987-1994
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Hmm...that felt rather silly. Ahh, what the hey.
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