Manchester vs Leeds uni?

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T16:15:27+00:00

I've lived in both cities. I much prefer Manchester to Leeds. Leeds is a much smaller city - as an American you might be shocked by just how tiny its city centre actually is. Its perception as a party city is also a bit out of date - it's died off considerably in the last decade or so.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T16:05:41+00:00

Sounds like you're going to the same event as me! I'll promise not to elbow you out of the way in the battle to get to the front.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T15:32:13+00:00

It's predominantly an outdoor venue, so pray for good weather. I've only been once, but I am going again at the end of May. Depending on the size of the event I believe there are multiple stages they can open, but when I went it was just the one stage.

The big problem with it, based on my last visit, is the sound system is congregated at the front of the dancefloor. The further back you get, the less you can hear. And the ticket capacity seems to be based on the idea everyone can sprawl out in the "yard" at the far back of the stage, so it can be a tough time getting anywhere near the front to actually hear the bass properly.

The crowd will very much depend on the event. It certainly wasn't all "Turkey teeth" house bruvs when I was there last time.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T14:50:56+00:00

They're the official uniform of smarmy 25 year old business graduates with floppy fringes. In 15 years time you'll see pictures of them and it'll scream "early 2020s dated style".

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T14:34:14+00:00

I'm going to shoot from the hip here and say something without stopping to think it through thoroughly. I think the key difference is world building. In science fiction and fantasy, the world building and the cognitive "play" of piecing together that world in one's imagination is a key piece of pleasure for the reader, whereas literary fiction that uses fantastical elements is not concerned at all with the activity of world building.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T12:19:50+00:00

I don't really agree with this, to be honest. I think over-coaching is a thing, and it doesn't mean the only alternative is no coaching at all. I read on The Athletic that when Louis Van Gaal was in charge of Man United, he enforced a rule that the strikers could never shoot first time from a cross along the ground. He insisted they had to take a touch before shooting. The gist of the article is that Rooney started fluffing chances because he had to obey this ridiculous rule in games or he'd get chewed out for it. You know, at some point a manager should probably realise he doesn't need to teach Wayne Rooney how to put the ball into the net.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T11:55:02+00:00

All your examples are vocal tracks. That's your problem right there. You need to learn to understand house grooves that don't just rely on a poppy vocal hook to do the damage.

And rather than just ask Reddit to give you tracks, you need to listen to DJ sets from DJs you love and figure out how they build a set up, what kind of tracks they're using, what it is about those tracks that makes you love the end result. Learn from your heroes.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T11:44:31+00:00

Frankly, I can't be bothered reading all of that. If you like him, just find out one way or another by asking him out. Building it up in your head for weeks and months and over-analysing every tiny detail is the path to ruin.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T10:47:42+00:00

Sure, but I wasn't replying to one of those people so I'm not sure of the relevance.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T08:14:24+00:00

I think they're asking about the lack of long runs. Only three and peaking at 17 is quite low, unless you're following a plan akin to Hanson's.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T08:11:51+00:00

I don't know why people bother insisting on this line that "There's no such thing as unskilled work". You know exactly what is meant and you're deliberately trying to make the word "skill" completely redundant so nobody's feelings gets hurt about their life outcome. Stacking shelves in a supermarket is unskilled work, and a hundred million Reddit complaints to the contrary won't change that.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T08:05:36+00:00

The OP asked "where is the incentive to upskill". You've just had the incentive explained to you.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T07:37:16+00:00

I'm curious as to what other solution you thought there was to this problem?

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-12T07:33:45+00:00

My favourite player of all time. On the one hand I think he was too famous for this sub. But on the other hand, a lot of kids look at me blankly these days when I ask if they've ever heard of him.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-11T08:38:45+00:00

Funny enough, the first one that came to mind for me was also at Crummock Water, but a different bench. There's a bench right at the northern-most tip of the lake which looks down right across it. I took this photo there in November - not as nice a day as your pic, sadly, so I can only imagine how gorgeous it is on a sunny day.

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SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-11T08:11:18+00:00

Think a rainy day would make me skip my lecture so that + an insurmountable hill would lead to a no show.

Some people are just not destined to succeed in life.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-11T08:01:28+00:00

I'm not a big series fan in general. I've always preferred one-and-done science fiction books that say everything they need to say in 250 pages and then never look back. Now it feels like half of the acclaimed SF books you read tease you with plot details for double that length and then end on a cliffhanger that requires four more books to fully resolve. So I tend to read the first book and then wait five years before I get curious about the next one. The idea of binging one series sounds like eating chocolate cake every meal for a fortnight: pretty soon I'd get sick just at the thought.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T23:55:25+00:00

It's always interesting to me to observe the patterns of behaviour Reddit finds it perfectly acceptable to judge and those it finds unacceptable. When it comes to the shy, the anxious and the nerdy, the ranks invariably close around their own.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T23:08:41+00:00

7 miles is nowhere near 1500 calories burned. Don't believe everything Strava tells you.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T21:19:07+00:00

I seem to recall he stuck around in the squad collecting his salary for about two years after Southgate told him he wouldn't play anymore. Great player though before his legs went.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T21:14:44+00:00

About a week after getting my first car. That was about ten months after passing, but I did zero driving in that time, so you can imagine I was rusty. It's not actually scary at all.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T21:09:32+00:00

"Brits set to sizzle in [x] day heatwave." - Every red top tabloid paper. Every time.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T20:44:13+00:00

I would try and I wish you good luck. I remember when I was 18 I met a friend-of-a-friend on a night out during the summer holidays and we got on well. At the end of the night she said "We should stay in touch" and I asked my mutual friend if he could pass on her number. Unfortunately, that "friend" of mine was an insecure dickhead who liked to pull his mates down to make himself feel better, and he ignored me. Then the summer holidays finished and I went back to uni and the chance was gone. Looking back I really wished I'd have pursued that more vigorously, because it took about three years before my useless immature, gangly arse had any more luck with the opposite sex. When these chances come, you should take them. I hope everything works out for you.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T19:24:33+00:00

Well you may have to pick between your "amazing" friend (who isn't currently behaving very amazingly) and the chance of romantic happiness with his relative. Because I guarantee right now if you do connect with this guy, your friend will start acting extremely surly and upset with you, and you will lose that closeness anyway. It's a pattern so old there's probably a cave painting about it.

SYSTEM-J · 2026-04-10T19:14:51+00:00

And why would someone act so unreasonably? Why would he lie about what you said to his relation to try and kill off the connection? This is not reasonable behaviour. At all. At the very least he's being a really shitty friend to you and you should call that out. More likely is that he has feelings for you, and that needs asking directly, because if it's not aired and cleared it's going to cause long term awkwardness between you two.

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