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Mar. 5th, 2003 10:01 pmJust come back from Nottingham Uni. It was kinda blah. But that isn't what really wound me up. Basically, the Halls of Residence all have Common Rooms. Now most of them have a formal dinner about once a week. Which really put me off for 3 reasons.
1) The word formal, it means dressy. It means have to take time and effort to look good. Most days after hard studying, I don't feel like dressy. It also means skirts or dresses. Which is also a no a lot of the time.
2) The big thing about these formal dinners is that instead of going to all that effort of moving your own tray, you get served. What like the little darlings need more pampering. Sorry, have dinning issues and waitressing issues.
3) Apparently before the meal they have to say Grace in Latin. Okay other than obviously trying to do the Oxbridge thing which is soooo passe, do they not think of various people who don't say Grace, like atheists. And I'm presuming that various other religions would have a problem also.
My own personal problems are with it being in Latin. What English isn't good enough now?! Basic background. I'm a Protestant, not spectacularly hardline (I don't think the pretty pictures are breaking any of the Commandments) but a Proddy none the less. And one of the basic tennents of that is that worship is done in a language that you understand. Because saying things without meaning them is pointless. And I don't speak Latin, so I couldn't and wouldn't. I think I'd have problems going there.
1) The word formal, it means dressy. It means have to take time and effort to look good. Most days after hard studying, I don't feel like dressy. It also means skirts or dresses. Which is also a no a lot of the time.
2) The big thing about these formal dinners is that instead of going to all that effort of moving your own tray, you get served. What like the little darlings need more pampering. Sorry, have dinning issues and waitressing issues.
3) Apparently before the meal they have to say Grace in Latin. Okay other than obviously trying to do the Oxbridge thing which is soooo passe, do they not think of various people who don't say Grace, like atheists. And I'm presuming that various other religions would have a problem also.
My own personal problems are with it being in Latin. What English isn't good enough now?! Basic background. I'm a Protestant, not spectacularly hardline (I don't think the pretty pictures are breaking any of the Commandments) but a Proddy none the less. And one of the basic tennents of that is that worship is done in a language that you understand. Because saying things without meaning them is pointless. And I don't speak Latin, so I couldn't and wouldn't. I think I'd have problems going there.
