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I live in Canada and if I want to watch a show from ANY country, we here in Canada have a great resource available to us called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T. Its really quite revolutionary, I almost feel sorry for you all, not having access to this I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T must make your lives seem very pathetic. And thanks to our Canadian Government charging us a special hidden tax on any blank CD or DVD we buy its legal and hence guilt free to download whatever we want!
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You know, not everyone accesses the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T by means of a B-R-O-A-D-B-A-N-D C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N, so they may not be able to D-O-W-N-L-O-A-D a huge F-I-L-E like a T-V S-H-O-W with any S-O-R-T of R-E-A-S-O-N-A-B-L-E S-P-E-E-D.
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You lose 50,000 points for mixing up "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune". And you didn't phrase the response in the form of a question.
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No no, you're supposed to phrase it like "What is..." or "Who is..." and so forth.
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The rule is just that it has to be a question. Every once in a while, they'll have one where the correct response is, itself, a question, so those additions are unnecessary.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Waith: Your college won't let you have TVs? Wow. That's...wow. Why on earth not?
Not totally sure. I think it's partly due to the difficulty of making sure everyone in college accomodation has a liscence. And partly to make sure we work more (it doesn't) and aren't distracted. My college (Christ's, Cambridge) is traditionally one of the more academic. It's all a bit silly really, but there we go. At least the bar doesn't close at 8 any more.
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How old are the residence halls that you're living in? It could also be a simple matter of the wiring in the building not being able to handle the load.
The first dorm I lived in at school was built in 1950, and the maintenance men would freely tell you that the building should be gutted and rebuilt. The wiring in it was designed to handle radios, lamps, clocks, and that sort of small 1950s appliance. Tripped circuit breakers were common now that the wiring had to support mini-fridges, microwaves, computers, televisions, and the like. In my room, we had to shut off everything and unplug the fridge in order to use the microwave (and even that couldn't be used for longer than 5 minutes) without tripping the breaker.
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Christ's College has been in the same place since the mid 1400's I think. It might be more to do with the buildings being listed rather than unable to take to load. Or those Cambridge masters might just be fun squashing bastards.
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Chrit's is 500 years old this year, and does indeed have some lovely old buildings from that period. Unfortunately, I live in a giant concrete typewriter from the 1960s.
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Bad luck. Whats the deal then? Are they just old fashioned enough to think that people go to univeristy to lock themselves in their room with their books for 3+ years?
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I suppose they're assuming that you should move out after the first year, like real university students.
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Well, there is a tv room. With one tv. It's not like watching tv is the only thing to do anyway; there's the whole social life thing...
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