Rich Pearson

Anyone around the southampton area fancy putting me up for sunday evening? That NBR b*****d just bailed on me Rich

No worries, plan B I guess... Rich

You've got a really nice style going on there, was really impressed with that (and that tune took me back a while as well). However... camera frame rate = EPIC fail. Sort that and you're on to a winner Rich

Thought I'd bump this as the time's getting a bit closer. I think craig mentioned he'd be popping along aswell. Rich

Swapped my set of Fatty's with Dan last month for his Urbans. Wouldn't have dreamed of it if I knew how much people were willing to pay. I hated the damn things. Rich

I'll be there, observer tyrant in tow Rich

Not much is gonna beat the SM joint effort april fool on the whole forum last year. The number of people that fell for that (plus having all 8 mods talking on MSN deleting posts left right and centre to keep it going) was epic. Rich

Pretty light grind on an Echo 07 rim. Worked a treat Rich

I'm a sucker for reds. Those things were awesome, only pad I've used that was on par with Coust pads. Rich

As I said Halls on campus are £90 a week all in I think, and the rooms are pretty nice (usually about six rooms to a flat with a shared kitchen, on suit in each room, lots of space). A lot of my mates live on campus and its a sort of doubled edged sword: on the one hand, its great having that 'Animal House' feeling of being a proper student, living in halls, playing drinking games around the kitchen table every evening, etc, etc, but on the other hand theres a lot of restrictions. Porters patrol every night for security reasons but they do hand out fines for noise violations, etc, etc, which can get pretty ridiculous, whereas I live in a shared house in town which was built about 800 years ago out of granite, so can happily play Metallica at full volume until 4am and not distrub anyone, and you also feel a bit more independant and basically more like a grown up, which for some is ok but others just prefer to have a blast for three years (not that I'm not, but some people just don't give a f**k and are clearly at uni for the experience rather than to actually learn anything). The average in Penryn and Falmouth is around £300-£350 a month all in, and you can find listings for places here. Hope that helps. Rich

What you after specifically? Rich

Personally I love it, theres lots of very different quirky pubs and bars, Remedies and Shades are the only two real clubs (they're not exactly Oceana or Pacha but I'm not really fussed about massive places like that. Youtube vid of "Porn Night" in remedies should give you a vague ideaPorn Night). Me and everyone from my course have been doing full on nights out once a week since september and have never got bored, theres something for everyone really. You've got me on Facebook havn't you Dave? Have a browse through my pics, pretty much all of the pics of me on the piss or clearly on a night out are taken in Falmouth (should be a couple of me shoulder deep in bubbles at the remedies foam party last year). 'Tis a good old place, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world. Rich

Try and find some heavy duty garden pegs with a decent hooked head (like tent pegs but made of something a lot sturdier). We use them to anchor down the MAD rig obstacles and they work beautiful. Rich

I'm at Falmouth University Dave, although I study at the Tremough Campus and live in Penryn (google it, it does make sense, honest). My house cost's me about £70 a week (no bills inc), and as far as I know from mates, Halls are about £90 a week (all inclusive). Thinking of making a move? Rich

George Orwell, except the second one you've mentioned is called Nineteen Eighty-Four Rich

If you want to challenge yourself in your reading, have a go at either A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess or The Trial by Franz Kafka. Both are really engaging books but they don't do the reader any favours, you really have to think hard as you're reading them. For general fun, can't beat Terry Pratchet. His discworld series is simply phenominal (I think someone once said it was the single most prolific 'series' of books of all time) and so much fun to read. But please read it from the beginning (Colour of Magic or if you can find it, Strata). And possibly my favourite series of all time; Robin Hobb's Assassin Series. Consists of three trilogies (thats nine books if that was confusing) which documents the story of one man Fitz, from birth to death, and encountrers dragons, kings, assassins, wolves, invaders, talking ships, soulless townsfolk and everything in between. It is quite simply the most epic tale ever (kick's Lord of the Rings pansy ass...). First book in the series is Assassin's Apprentice. Other writers worth a mention would be Ben Elton, Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, J K Rowling, Liz Jensen, Phillip Pullman, Sgt Dan Mills, Howard Marks and Neil Gaiman. I read a lot. Rich

Fingers crossed and all things prevailing, I should make this one, along with the much anticipated return of everyones favourite observer. My mum... Rich

Being scared. I'm afraid of the most irrational things you could imagine. Rich

Welcome to England, have a validated account Rich

West Bay near Bridport, Portland Bill or Hayling Island. Dawlish Warren also has some pretty awesome stuff. Rich

Gotta love the Bale Big yes for Gran Torino Rich

Meh, good enough for me Have fun Rich

A bit far in advance, but oh well. Me and Andy Green are gonna be hitting Southampton on the Monday after the Hampshire comp. Anyone else up for it? Rich

That was a really nice vid, well impressed Rich