Yes, the freshers are here. Broomhill is crawling with new students holiding upside maps and rucksacks looking lost, and there were huge Q's for the chip shop and cash-points. Traffic was at a standstill around S10 where the halls of residence are as fleet loads of parents bringing in their offspring arrived from all over the UK.

Now....where shall I go tonight for a quiet drink......hmmmmm, think that rules out Broomhill....

Hi to anyone who joins this forum who is a fresher, but I guess you will be too busy unpacking and Q'ing at the cashpoint this weekend...

Bah and just when I thought how nice Sheffield was recently :P

Thanks for the warning - I'd not realised it was this time of year already...I'm in newcastle at the moment and I think we'll have to check even more carefully than normal bout where to go as I'm assuming its freshers week here to.

And to any freshers reading this and left home for the first time - 'beware' cos I think some locals (chavs in disguise?) might play the 'f*** a fresher week' game over the next few days....Not me by the way and most of the locals are great!

All these 'new' people - watch the muggings go through the roof as they get a 'real' Sheffield welcome. The real world starts here!

Originally posted by Internetowl
All these 'new' people - watch the muggings go through the roof as they get a 'real' Sheffield welcome. The real world starts here!

Must be why Sheffield has one of the highest rates of graduates who stick around and settle down here.

Originally posted by Internetowl
All these 'new' people - watch the muggings go through the roof as they get a 'real' Sheffield welcome. The real world starts here!

Oooh I missed my mugging when I moved here. Can I apply for one or is it too late?

I don't think anyone would mug you Jen. ;)

lolz

i aint back until the 1st

Originally posted by Internetowl
All these 'new' people - watch the muggings go through the roof as they get a 'real' Sheffield welcome. The real world starts here!

You really are a joyless character aren't you :rolleyes:

Originally posted by genesiscouch
Oooh I missed my mugging when I moved here. Can I apply for one or is it too late?

I'm available for Muggings, armed robberies and Ramraiding. £25 per hour. Taking bookings now on.....

Is that giving or receiving, Robbie?

the fresher's are just coming here, yet my course started last friday.

yay for teaching :(

Originally posted by timo
Is that giving or receiving, Robbie?

for £25 per hour either:cool:

Is that giving or receiving? Originally posted by robbie
for £25 per hour either:cool:

Out of context this could be taken the wrong way. Wheres Hal?:P lets ask him

Oh the students have arrived.. Thousands of em walking up through Broomhill etc, traffic was murder.. on a Sunday! :gag:

I hope the arrival of the latest batch of students is not related to the horrors that I woke to on Sunday morning.........

.....a white plastic garden chair on my car roof presumably to compensate me for the radio aerial they swiped and a rather large pink pavement pizza in my front garden!


:mad:

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Yes, the freshers are here. Broomhill is crawling with new students holiding upside maps and rucksacks looking lost, and there were huge Q's for the chip shop and cash-points.

Just a couple of questions:

1) The "freshers" - noticed these people have been mentioned in a different
thread. They basically the new first years at Sheff/Sheff. Hallam Uni?

2) Are Broomhill (S10?) and Crookes (S10?) the only Student-y areas?

Alex

Originally posted by amhudson119
Are Broomhill (S10?) and Crookes (S10?) the only Student-y areas?

No ;)
Sharrow, along Ecclesall Road.
Highfield, along Shoreham Street and Edmund Road and Charlotte Court (Halls of Residence).
Norfolk Park, near the College prefabs.
Millhouses, near the Wagon & Horses around the shops (mostly foreigners)

Prolly other places I don't know.

Originally posted by beckb
I hope the arrival of the latest batch of students is not related to the horrors that I woke to on Sunday morning.........
Unlikely Becks.. the students arrive on the Sunday daytime...

Are Broomhill (S10?) and Crookes (S10?) the only Student-y areas?


Most of south Sheffield is a Student area. Explains in part the astronomical house prices. First time buyers being out done by landlords everytime .
When I was a kid all my mates lived in a half mile radius ,round Ecccy road. Now they've all had to move away to get a foot on. Rotherham, Chesterfield, Eckington.

Sad really.

But this city isnt geared towards Sheffield folk.

No coincidence about the sudden increase of "mortars" being detonated on Saturday frightening animals and disturbing the locals.
These people should be put on bread and water for a week
OK...it's a minority but it doesn't take many ****ers to create a significant anti-social effect.
Doesn't bear thinking about if they get early morning drinks and music licenses at the new Student Village.

Still new to sheffield but where is Eccles road and how far from town centre?

Yes its great, once again I have to guide the kids through big piles of barf on the way to school..students why cant you barf in the gutter???or even better save it for your own streets and homes!! I really hate washing other peoples gastric juices from my kids shoes and my carpet, not that I am antistudent my partner graduated 2 years ago so I lived with one for the four years he studied (must admit he was drunkest in the first year )

freshers week, at hallam, starts on thurs.

uni is this week as well i think.

you can say that all freshers arrived sunday afternoon, as they could move in last weee.

i like looking at all the new girls when im in traffic. :-)

pubs are filling up with second and third years coming back as well....

BUT...despite the vomit......where would this fair city be without the little delightful creatures......semi derelict and in an economic decline for sure....the vast millions of revenue they bring into this City each year is beyond any doubt, even though most of it just goes to make bar and club owners a little bit wealthier and may not benefit the overall economy. But ehn they spend money on bus services, takeaways, restaurants, cinemas, clothing, etc, so it is a pretty widespread distribution of cash into Sheffield.

Its hard to imagine a Sheffield which for 12 months of the year would resemble the almost deserted Summer vacation period, empty bars and quiet clubs, and a general air of things not happening. If the 2 Universities suddenly closed and the student factor was gone, I think we would have a major problem.....

Its no secret that the economic growth of Sheffield is linked in some respects to the huge increase in student numbers in the City since 1985, when student numbers started to climb signficantly. I believe the student population has almost doubled here in the last 20 years? Thats more money coming in.....so more services needed to support such money influx.

don't get me wrong. I think its a lot safer to go out when the students are here. The nutcases tend to pick on students instead of other locals.....

Originally posted by robbie
don't get me wrong. I think its a lot safer to go out when the students are here. The nutcases tend to pick on students instead of other locals.....

I agree....although to be fair a significant proportion of male students can dress and behave just as badly as some of the local element. Give them 10 pints of cheap STella in the Union Bar and they will be singing, leering and barfing at people like the well established Sheffield pub crawl West Street regulars.

And also the, minority I hope, student female population is not as saintly, well behaved and academically inclined as one may think....I have seen groups of female students barfing, shouting and being abusive from time to time, and similarly behaved to groups of girls from Parson Cross on a hen night in Flares.......all it takes it just one too many alcopops...

Originally posted by goldenfleece
BUT...despite the vomit......where would this fair city be without the little delightful creatures......semi derelict and in an economic decline for sure....the vast millions of revenue they bring into this City each year is beyond any doubt, even though most of it just goes to make bar and club owners a little bit wealthier and may not benefit the overall economy. But ehn they spend money on bus services, takeaways, restaurants, cinemas, clothing, etc, so it is a pretty widespread distribution of cash into Sheffield.


I agree that they do bring a lot of economic benefits to the city and for the most part don't have a problem with the delightful little creatures! I am an ex student of this city's fine university myself and Sheffield without the students, particularly Crookes and Broomhill would not be the same at all.

I just don't understand why they have to behave like morons whilst they are here. Perhaps the extra knowledge they're having rammed into their brains at university is pushing out the stuff they should already know - like how to behave themselves and their Green Cross Code!

or what i cant remember today.

I sit here, MTV 2 on loud (cheap cable up here!) recovering from tuesdays abject brilliance and mondays drunkeness.

May i take this opportunity to both praise it here and express my regret that i am not at home. Student nights in sheffield are grand, freshers week especially is a time to faff about with your new mates and make new and interesting friends from across the country and all walks of life. Embrace this beautiful diversity, soak in the opinions and views of a myriad of people and possibly sleep with a couple of them you sexy people you!!

Anyway this is brill! I need food. Toasties are good at this time.

A warm welcome to all of them apart from the one who lobbed an egg on to my car from their flat in the block above the Devonshire Cat last night. Moron.

Life round here wouldn't be the same without 'em, and if any students who frequent the Hadfield would like to ingratiate themselves with the locals they're more than welcome to buy the big fella with they greying hair and beard a pint.

any one seen a banner near the forum thats says sheffield welcomes students or something like that then has www.forumsheffield.com in big letters hmm

I do wonder if students nowardays have ever used a bus before coming to uni...

don't be silly their mums n dad run them around everywhere

LOL Such is life

Originally posted by StudentCraig
make new and interesting friends from across the country and all walks of life. Embrace this beautiful diversity, soak in the opinions and views of a myriad of people and possibly sleep with a couple of them you sexy people you!!

.

I always find it interesting when students guff on about meeting such a range of people. The range of people most students meet are other 18-19 year old middle class kids with the same taste in clothes and music and desire to drink spouting ill informed views assuming they know everything at the age of 19. The really diverse element of international students is isolated and ignored by the vast majority...

page three of this post is for student bashing then!

nice!

'I always find it interesting when students guff on about meeting such a range of people. The range of people most students meet are other 18-19 year old middle class kids with the same taste in clothes and music and desire to drink spouting ill informed views assuming they know everything at the age of 19. The really diverse element of international students is isolated and ignored by the vast majority...'

hehe, very true. broomhill was heaving with yellow foldered scamps this week. i guess i wont be going for a drink there (though unfortunately i cant think of a good pub in broomhill anyway).

still, sheffield needs students, and i would never have discovered it if i wasnt one once.

I am braving the odds and going for a few beers in studentville Broomhill tonight, but minus a yellow folder. However, I have a yellow card so will be able to take advantage of the rediculously un-cheap drink prices in the 2 SCream bars, whilst shoving my way through thriving hordes of panting female students scrabbling to get to the bar. After this glorious experience in the South Seas and York, I will attempt to penetrate the densely populated Fox and DUck, student enclave of S10, where I will will burrow my way through hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. Following this, I may visit the Brooomhill Tavern, and carve my way through the hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. I may also try the Place, another student enclave, and tunnel my way through hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. Following this enlightening experience, I will no doubt attempt to gain access to the Nottingham House, shovelling my way through hordes of panting female students trying to get to the bar....

Before this of course, I will have to join the Q at the Cash machines, and cram with all the others through the hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the cash machine so they can then join the other hordes struggling to get into the bars........


After my drinking, I will without any question be standing with hordes of panting female students trying to catch taxis to the Leadmill. I shall no doubt, report my experiences in the morning.

Experiences based on this time last year, hordes of panting female students outnumbered the males big time.

I like Students.

They will be running the country and paying my pension one day.

Originally posted by goldenfleece
I am braving the odds and going for a few beers in studentville Broomhill tonight, but minus a yellow folder. However, I have a yellow card so will be able to take advantage of the rediculously un-cheap drink prices in the 2 SCream bars, whilst shoving my way through thriving hordes of panting female students scrabbling to get to the bar. After this glorious experience in the South Seas and York, I will attempt to penetrate the densely populated Fox and DUck, student enclave of S10, where I will will burrow my way through hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. Following this, I may visit the Brooomhill Tavern, and carve my way through the hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. I may also try the Place, another student enclave, and tunnel my way through hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the bar. Following this enlightening experience, I will no doubt attempt to gain access to the Nottingham House, shovelling my way through hordes of panting female students trying to get to the bar....

Before this of course, I will have to join the Q at the Cash machines, and cram with all the others through the hordes of panting female students struggling to get to the cash machine so they can then join the other hordes struggling to get into the bars........


After my drinking, I will without any question be standing with hordes of panting female students trying to catch taxis to the Leadmill. I shall no doubt, report my experiences in the morning.

Experiences based on this time last year, hordes of panting female students outnumbered the males big time.

lol! Great post!

I was in the Broomhill Tavern, then the Place on Tuesday - it was dead

Very quiet night in Broomhill....the students must have spent all their grant cheques already.......

Grant cheques? They shold be so lucky!

I'm glad the students are back, Sheffield is a ghost town without them.

Ghost town ???? Heaven more like - commute home bliss without them trying desperately to jump in front of my car! Not to mention you can actually get round Sommerfields without having to wade through them. And why do they all seem to go there in a huge hunting pack?

When in 'hunting packs' in SOmerfield they are usually stocking up on a terms supply of pot noodles, cans of stella, and bags of brown rice...

yes why do they walk across the road without looking. I had one sprawled over my bonnet this morning....just wondered into the road without giving a toss about cars. lucky I had just started to pull away from the traffic lights and that they were not green and I sailed though at 25/30 MPH......one flat student would have been the result.

The ignorant little creature even dared to comment that I should look where I was going. Had a number 51 bus not been behind me and up my bumper I might have given the little insect a slap!
The little creature nearly dropped his bag of pot noodles, brown rice and cans of stella. What a shame.....Grrrrrrrrr

Perhaps they are so preoccupied with their studies that they do not think to look for traffic ?

Originally posted by nick2
Perhaps they are so preoccupied with their studies that they do not think to look for traffic ?

Studies? In intro week? The only thing students study in freshers week is other freshers!!

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Studies? In intro week? The only thing students study in freshers week is other freshers!!

tis true...

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Very quiet night in Broomhill....the students must have spent all their grant cheques already.......

Grant cheques! Welcome to 2004! Theres overdrafts that cause life destroying debt thay might be spending, but not grants.....

Welcome students of sheffield - thankyou for returning and being 10% of Sheffield. The place isnt the same without you.

BRING BACK PYJAMA JUMP!!!!!!

Welcome students of sheffield - thankyou for returning and being 10% of Sheffield. The place isnt the same without you.

BRING BACK PYJAMA JUMP!!!!!! [/B]

Are they really 10% of the population? That is a LOT of students...about 60,000.... (???) the City has a pop of 600K, but I think its higher than that is it now?

I have a friend who refers to call them rodents instead of students. Being an ex student myself I'd be a hypocrit if I agreed with him but they do bear a striking resemblance when you're driving past the Workstation next to Red Tape Studios at 8.30am. All that's missing is the Pied Piper!. :D

BTW: Goldenfleece, you crack me up. :lol: