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Hi!
Just came across your site and thought I'd say hello. How is life in Scotland these days? Gotten used to it? How does one study history, actually? It being such a broad field, don't you specialize early?

Hey there.
Scotland is cold at the moment, and uni is very exams-orientated right now.
History is as broad as can be the first 2 years - 1850ish to the present first year, and then the tudors and the reformation in the second. Then you specialise in the final two years.
Much fun, many dates, fairly thematic.

Dates? Oh, now I get it

And what do/will you study besides that? I guess it's like here: You can't get a degree studying just one thing?



PS: It's wet and cold here too and I have to work till 8 pm

Where is here?
A lot of places over here you can just study one thing, but up here I do 3 for the first 2 years. Currently Latin and Philosophy (but changing to do ancient history as well as modern)

Here is Denmark Latin? With your sense of humor you'll simply love this thread: http://www.h2g2.com/F28082?thread=31284 Have fun! I had

Cool - not quite sure how it got from Latin to Sushi though!
I did latin for 4 years in school and got to a decent standard - some of the milder Catullus...
But then I dropped it for my final 2 years, and took a year out so I am pretty much starting over, not the greatest idea.

I did a little latin in school - which included reading excerps (?) of Caesars writings on his punian wars. BORING! Untill one of my friends referred to one of his weekends being "the second punian drink-tour" (or whatever - you catch my drift, no?)

We had much fun translating all about Nero's attempts to kill his mother - poison, loose planks on ships in the dead of night - all very farcical. And a day trip to Bath - just for *research*

Nero did that? I thought he only burnt his fiddle...

Hm, made me think about Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant". Ever seen that?

I haven't - should I?

Traditionally Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Sure that was fun for him.
Yeah he bumped off his step brother - the previous emperor's son, someone's wife (either his or his step-brother's) and then his mother cos she didn't want him to marry the girl he was besotted with, and she didn't want to lose the power she held through her *little boy*

It's just that Arlo is arrested and locked up with what he believes are mother-rapers and father-killers.

Later he finds out that they are really mother-killers and father-...

Charming company, actually

Very.

Actually worse than the contents of Room 101

Que?

Room 101 - George Orwell's book '1984' has this torture chamber where the prisoners worst fears become reality.
The main character's is rats, but it could be anything.

Hi Swiv!
Funny to see this old conversation - especially as I've just returned from York where I saw a video of Stephen Fry in the tv-show "Room 101". Is that man eloquent or what?

He's a god!
I love Stephen Fry, and he and Hugh Laurie were the best ever Jeeves and Wooster

I never had a chance to see any other do Jeeves & Wooster, so that's alright then. I can't wait to get my fingers on Fry playing Oscar Wilde. I doubt my little town has that (film on) video though.

That's really good as well
Jude Law is excellent - though I won't let my mum watch it, I think it will offend her delicate sensibilities

Like mother like daughter? ROFL

Oh yes
I'm very easily offended me