This is a project in the works. It is intended to be a satire of house 66, from what our conversations generate, and how they often degenerate... Please, in the mean time, visit the scratter page
Welcome to the unofficial and shameless page of House 66
First: some music
The following from our facebook groupo description...
I have been thinking about changing the group's category from Just for Fun/Totally Pointless to some more meaningful one... although I just can't decide.
Others in Just for Fun include Inside Jokes (which is generally true but hey, that's boring, why not "Sad factualities" for one!), "Too Much Information" which sounds like our dinner table conversations (quote from Laura over lollipop-dessert: "What exactly *is* circumcision?"; "Imagine having a crumbly muff" -Nigel)
In the Category "Common Interest" there are sevral that apply in the house...
* Dating and relationships - "Well actually, I don't hear Niall and Johanna shagging all that often" [someone said this quite matter-of-factly one evening, and debate ensued] "Twenty Pounds!!" [Tom who, not too jealous of his girlfriend will willingly make money off her if she goes adventuring...]
* Food & Drink - "The problem is that I have to make double quantites of pastry - one half for the baking, the other because Sarah-Louise EATS the raw pastry..." - Tom, the aspiring scratter. "We MUST protest against the hurrendous price of beer in this town!!" - James
* Languages - We can quite assuredly lay claim to sevral cultures and dialects, of which English (of course), Irish, Swedish, Spanish, German, French, American (with the cross-atlantic intricacies), Norwegian, and standardized Bullshittian. For some peculiar reason the only person who was actually Scottish last year was Tom.
* Philosophy - "Why do tomorrow what you can do the day after tommorow?" - Tom; "You must be endoctrined into the regime of drinking, otherwise you are not truly part of the sofa." - James
* Science - Beer in brewing, hot air balloons flying, computers dismantled, and some wierd gadget James found in Hamilton that's in the living room.
Student Groups
* Musical groups - We count amidst our ranks a Musfund co-founder/president, a Musfund Treasurer, and hoard 4 amps, 6 guitars, a darbouka, two penny whistles, two violins, a harpsichord, a vacuum cleaner tube warped digeridoo/fog-horn/fart-pipe, and a plethora of singers. The quality af the summed parts retains no guarantees.
* Student Government - we count a Music Officer to sit on Musfund, SSC, Mermaids and Ents; a Private Accomodation Officer, for SRC and SSC; a Charities Officer to sit on Charities Campaign and SRC; General Accommodation Officer, cumulated with Rector's Assessor; and a Musfund treasurer who allegedly takes bribes in beer... (note that they SIT IN ON meetings, but that some have been known to SIT ON housemates...)
And I think that should sum it up nicely... So, how are we categorized...? Then again, I could simply switch us from "Totally Pointless" to "Totally Random"...
EDIT: I can also quote James from when watching "Kingdom of Heaven", to qualify us into "Outlandish Statements": "The Christians went out killing loads of people. Well, when you think of it, if they didn't there'd be too many people around today." But that's just James.
EDIT 2: "I think more people should be gay, that way we wouldn't be having all these over-population problems." --James, again
A summary of the antics they reported back on...
now i dont know how i can possibly describe - weeks of travel with james and do it justice. suffice to say, we are currently in Tiznit, morocco, with a broken down motorbike. -- 2007-11-18
Hi everyone, we haven't made much progress, we are almost at the sahara but its raining and our tent isn't waterproof. we sold the motorbike and have now got 2 bicycles (wish us luck)! -- 2007-11-25
Thank you for all the birthday greetings, i spent it on a beach drinking vodka and pineapple... we are now in Tambacounda, somewhere in senegal near the Gambia. James made me cycle all the way, he is mean and definitely not lazy. he has even started making bread on the campfire and marmalade to go with it, quite the bonfire chef. photos take sooo long to upload, maybe more next time. -- 2008-01-17
hey guys! we are in ivory coast! we passed down through guinee after throwing the bikes away in lower senegal (Golombo by the gambia), had to bribe a few people on route, here is a half rainforested shit hole, NEVER come here anyone! we dont want to be here but waiting around abdjan for a visa for ghana, which is not easyly obtainable anywhere else. anyway am glad we didnt go to Mali as that is tourist cronk from what ive heard... public transport in africa, well is more like public toilet in aikmans.;;; DONT DO IT! ANYONE: : STAY A STUDENT, DRINK, JAM WITH YOUR M8S, or go somewhere else, AFRICA IS CHEAP BECAUSE IT SUCKS. love you all dudes, x -- 2008-03-04
uuummm... we left ghana as fast as possible because it was 10 times more expensive than expected (cheapest place to stay was about 20quid!) and not even hygienic. so we went home. as james mentioned, it wasn't really working out... -- 2008-03-20
as a minor explanation: we went to africa to see and experience other cultures (which we did); to find out if we could help (which we can't); to see traditional stuff like drumming and dancing (but there isn't any! "drumming closes our ears to Allah"); to see the countryside/rainforests and wildlife (well there's not much of that left); to learn french (i learned a lot but pretty sure a frenchman would not understand me) -- 2008-03-20
did we mention that james had malaria? luckily we met this guy who was working with Rio Tinto who let us stay in his air-conditioned lodge complete with an actual bathroom (first one for several months) and gave us emergency pills that made james trip out even more. -- 2008-03-20