NotExceedingTheNines said
Aah so that's why Edinburgh's your second choice... I got kind of confused by that. For those that don't know, Scotland treats english students like foreign students- we'd have to pay through the nose to go there.My prom was just about the most aggressively and hilariously shit thing I have ever witnessed. I guess that's what you get living in southampton, the only city in the UK to look it's best in the time period being bombed.
Yeah - although it wasn't just because of the financial aspects, it made the most sense academically and in other ways as well. My offer for Durham was very high and my fourth offer was St. Andrews, which I felt, as a city boy, would drive me crazy as I'd have to live in a quiet village, and which is ranked lower internationally than Edinburgh for my subject anyway. Then again, if I didn't live in Scotland I probably wouldn't have chosen Edinburgh and St. Andrews at all - probably would have gone for UCL and Bath or some such.
I can tell you were just full of school spirit ;P. I'm assuming you have now fled Southampton?
Ariamella said
So I have a question for Nines and Halo: So you know how girls in America love accents? When teeny bopper/early twenty-somethings visit the UK, are they pretty easy to spot? I mean, do they go nuts over every male who speaks or what?
Depends on the girl, no? I've been told by an American girl online that my voice beats out milk and honey for soothing, quote, and several others have expressed an, uhm, admiration - so yeah, sometimes!
It's less our voices than theirs, though - not to be stereotypical, but Americans tend to be somewhat more boisterous and less reserved than Brits, so I usually hear their voices before they hear mine. Definitely agree with Nines, though, in that it's often less the accents and more the cultural differences that people get excited over. My first girlfriend was American and when she visited Liverpool, she absolutely fell in love with the place because of the different culture she found there.
corneredbliss said
@Halo: Jared Leto. Of course, Jared Leto. Come on now. And umm, that may be Jumper. But I know it's definitely not Push heh.
He's very young-looking for a 42 year old, but I mean. Ooft. And ahh, my mistake - what's Push about then?