Shout Box archive

22 Aug 08:07

Brian Hermelijn

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Lol

22 Aug 08:07

Brian Hermelijn

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"After just 2 weeks of cycling to work my housemate now dresses as though he were competing in the Tour De France"

22 Aug 08:04

Richie

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Heres a reddit sub with very british sensibilities :P https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/

22 Aug 08:03

appleseed00

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like grants and stuff, though i dont think they apply for foreign students there might be one or two for you to

22 Aug 08:02

appleseed00

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its a good time to be in the UK for Creatives there are a lot of initiaves etc

22 Aug 08:02

appleseed00

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The creative industries accounted for 7% GVA in 2005 and grew at an average of 6% per annum between 1997 and 2005.
- From UK wikipedia page

22 Aug 08:01

appleseed00

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well yea :D

22 Aug 08:00

Brian Hermelijn

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*sighs* one can only wish a world without discrimination.

22 Aug 08:00

Brian Hermelijn

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Alright, shall check it out

22 Aug 07:57

appleseed00

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it should cover everything

22 Aug 07:56

appleseed00

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have you tried reading the wikipedia on the UK?

22 Aug 07:56

appleseed00

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there are like tonnes of castles and stuff and mines, and forests and mountains

22 Aug 07:56

appleseed00

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this is like the shire from LOTR

22 Aug 07:55

appleseed00

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there is amazing scenery

22 Aug 07:55

appleseed00

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Uh like what else, the houses are great really nice and comfortable, the food is pretty nice if a little like bland

22 Aug 07:55

appleseed00

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However there are nice people here too lol

22 Aug 07:54

appleseed00

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even each other, welsh scottish and english and irsh etc

22 Aug 07:54

appleseed00

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Like dont take it to personally, britain is a messed up culture. they hate EVERYBODY, even the polish

22 Aug 07:54

appleseed00

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Glass ceiling all this etc

22 Aug 07:53

appleseed00

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i think the worse part is really the covert racism, like expect to be overlooked for promotions, expect to be discriminated against by employees etc

22 Aug 07:53

appleseed00

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im surprised i thought it was worse, but ok you can handle this

22 Aug 07:52

Brian Hermelijn

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Well there certainly is a lot of violence but at a minimum compare to what's goes in Mexico/cuba/venezuela.

22 Aug 07:52

appleseed00

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you are from the carribean so are well acquainted with violence right?

22 Aug 07:51

appleseed00

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but you can get through it :D

22 Aug 07:51

appleseed00

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you are going to experience issues. Job applications, Talking to people, etc

22 Aug 07:51

appleseed00

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its bad.

22 Aug 07:50

Brian Hermelijn

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Heard of discrimination but I do not know how bad it's for both US/EU , dark brown, I assume that's what they call black people in US maybe?

22 Aug 07:50

appleseed00

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whats your skin color?

22 Aug 07:49

appleseed00

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welll.... thats hard to answer, in what way do you mean? let me presuppose a couple of things. The weather is mixed with a lot of rain, wind and cold, but also nice days.

22 Aug 07:48

Brian Hermelijn

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But how's UK appleseed? Since you live there.

22 Aug 07:46

Richie

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Yeh too true, Im sitting at home trying to learn, but so tough not having other art students with the same aim around

22 Aug 07:46

Brian Hermelijn

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And of course for someone like me, who doesn't know about the outside world, as in, never traveled before, this can be the best experience I can go through :D