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Maybe his flatmates heard you call him 'Sprogg' and thought he was a soft touch?


Anyway, he needs to put it down to experience and 'man the fuck up'. If he does find the culprit, he should give them a good kicking, make them pay for the missing groceries and the problem will be over...until the next stoned monkey gets a dose of the munchies.

RosieH Wrote:

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> Oh Narnia, you're wrong there. Munchie raids are

> very very common in halls - especially if you're

> in someone else's and you're not nicking from your

> neighbours.



Absolutlety - myself and a mate used to do food raids all the time as we had come home and there was nothing in an had the munchies. Its par for the course in Uni Halls - does not make it right of course.


Law of the jungle I'm afraid. He's old enough now to fight his own battles - And Id suggest he does not want his Dad getting involved? Let him find his own way.

Just because they are students doesn't make it all right. Sprogg has had to contend with much worse in ED where other kids have tried to mug him on 3 occasions but he managed to deal with it each time. As for his Dad getting involved, if I can help I will. He's learning plenty already and hasn't once asked for assistance.

I don't think its anything to worry about Declan.


Someone will get caught in the act and it will stop, its freshers week after all and they are just finding their feet. Its potentially the most exciting week of their lives.


In my time it was mostly milk that was stolen - noone had much else.


My mum used to bring me up a weeks supplies including fresh meat etc, I used to sell it to my housemate at half price and use the money for beer and kebabs. Food was not much of a priority. Toast was popular.

Someone has been caught Mick. It's the fact that this was spoiling what should have been a very exciting week for them that annoyed me. Sprogg doesn't have the benefit of Mum resupplying him every week. Whatever he had stolen was what he had bought with the hard earned cash he made by working in the Summer. As for toast.........for some strange reason they were told no toasters were allowed!

Thats the trouble with University Declan - it used to be free tuition and a grant for spending money too.


Now the kids have to pay for all of it and have a huge bill at the end of it not to mention a possible graduate tax - together with a degree that everyone else has too - what a mess.


Thank New Labour for the privelege of paying for your 3rd level education. Another well intentioned move that went wrong.

Lovely Narnia,


I wonder who "The Master" is. Has your son told you that someone is up in front of "The Master"? I don't ever remember any such title being used in halls at any uni I attended in London. In my experience The Deans or academics do not get involved with issues such as this and the caretaker has no clout at all. Food going missing from halls is sadly very common. The current state of play at every university in the UK means that people are far more concerned with keeping their jobs and generating research income than becoming involved in student politics in halls.

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Now the kids have to pay for all of it and have a

> huge bill at the end of it not to mention a

> possible graduate tax


Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the idea of a graduate tax to replace tuition fees not as well as them?


Anyway I keep on reading the title of this thread and thinking it must be about to a new course offered as part of a finance degree.

Brendan Wrote:

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> Mick Mac Wrote:

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> -----

>

> > Now the kids have to pay for all of it and have

> a

> > huge bill at the end of it not to mention a

> > possible graduate tax

>

> Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the idea of a

> graduate tax to replace tuition fees not as well

> as them?

>

> Anyway I keep on reading the title of this thread

> and thinking it must be about to a new course

> offered as part of a finance degree.



I meant that they already leave Uni with a big bill just for how much its costs to be there while not earning any money - and now they have to pay a graduate tax too - what chance repaying their normal "student debt" when they are also paying extra tax for tuition fees. Or is that not how it works?


It won't come as a surprise that I think Uni should be for a small percentage of the population. If you get in you get in and if you don't you don't. All this talk of pay for your own education makes it very unattractive (for the children and the parents).

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