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slemslempike ([personal profile] slemslempike) wrote2009-08-20 09:32 am
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A poll of questions

A poll for a morning, a Thursday morning, apparently, which means that I must remember to buy the Guardian to get the booklet about Freshers Week.

[Poll #1446248]

And I would have posted about this horrible review in the Independent before if I'd been here. I haven't seen The Girlfriend Experience, though it sounds interesting, and I've no idea if his other criticisms are valid, but this:

One of them, the elephantine Tessa (Debbie Chazen) giggles nervously about going to see a play that she's in.
There's no point in not saying that these huge and unappetising women come across as being incredibly sad and curiously stupid, with their whale-like lolloping around


is fairly vile no matter what.

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, I agree that they should enter at universities. Why is it they don't? I've never known.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I got this from the book about UC, that when the programme started there weren't enough universities to make a long enough series, so they were invited to enter as colleges. I've just been to check Wikipedia, which claims that they're limited to five per series each, which I didn't know about, and only makes it slightly better. I'd rather have more universities entering though, more interesting to watch. (Ooh, and the Wikipedia page has a small list of cheating Oxford teams! Cheating is a bit strong. But still.)