to want to electrocute the freshers slightly?

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Just that really, as I am rudely awoken at 330am by yet another hysterically funny game of trapdoor run I can't help but wonder what the response would be if I rigged up the door knocker with a short sharp shock; only a small one for educational purposes you understand, cause and effect is such an important lesson in life...

One of my neighbours has the joy of working at the university, his years of experience have taught him that "undergrads are all idiots, utterly clueless" (to be muttered wearily).

Anyone else love the start of the academic year and the ensuing pranks as much as I do?

I grew up in a non-university town and, in my experience, there are just as many antisocial 18 year olds there. Different flavour for sure - more street racing and fighting perhaps.

My DS was 21 when he went to University...he says his hallmates looked on in awe when he showed them how to use a washer. They also thought he was a super dooper cook as he did basic rice and mince or chicken sprinkled with a flavour.

He was very popular

YY, not denying that maid.

My Godson would never go into Aldi or Lidl with his mum -too embarrassing - poor shop innit? Then he got to Uni and was tellig his mum all about how shopping in Aldi saved him loads........Ha ha!

Haha I shopped at ALDI with parents before starting uni, went on the first shopping trip with very mc friend. After dragging me around Sainsburys and me being quietly shocked at how expensive it was, we went to ALDI to get my shopping.

Friend looked petrified when we went in and whispered loudly to me, 'but isn't this where poor people shop?'.

I saw loads this afternoon trekking back from Aldi and Lidl with too many carriers to carry. All of which clanked!

Third night in a row of ridiculous noise. Just shouted at them out of a window.

My DS is in his gcse year. Selfish wankers.

I work at a Uni and live next to it. We have a house of ten next door. Last year it was a nightmare. I'm waiting with baited breath to see who we get this week. If they're anything like last year I might cry!

I do like students though. The neighbourhood has been dead since may. They bring a buzz and vibrancy which I love and make the streets a really safe place to be at night as they are always busy until the early hours.

Linerunner it sound as though things are out of hand. You should phone the university. If you know the address of the students even vaguely they can look them up and try and do something. I would imagine that a little email from a scary sounding part of the uni might help. Most unis have some sort of community liaison officer to deal with this sort of thing.

chemenger, yes indeed, we went through it all last year - landlord, council, university... very draining.

Anyway they went quiet after I shouted, which is something. I need to try to catch them after work today and tell them how it's going to be.

Linerunner shouting at freshers is pretty effective in my experience. In fact so effective that I am careful never to do it! Although I quite like my reputation as a scary lecturer I do want them to be able to speak to me without looking terrified.

Oh I remember fresher times. I only moved out of home in 2nd year (1st year involved driving 10 miles to the nearest early bus for 7.30am, and getting the 9pm bus back to that town to be collected and driven home, with DM inSISTing we eat dinner when em got home. I ate in campus most nights, revolting cafeteria curry but cheap enough and food that let me sleep when I got home, not die of indigestion).

2nd year, I had my box packed under my bed all summer, big jars mayo, curry powder, herbs, tea bags, pasta, rice, tuna, tomatoes - bought as I saw deals. I existed a lot that year on pasta, cheese sauce, and bacon pieces (from bacon butcher, so only 10p a lb, all the bits from the rasher slicing machine, som days tiny bits, some days plenty of visible bone and rind that you'd not bother buying it, but lots of days decent bits of bacon and almost full rashers and even big chunks on great days!!), and veg from the cheap veg place in the market.

The only drawback was my sister raiding my stash as she wasn't as good at budgeting, purchasing or cooking, but had another room in the same flat as me in residences (different course and institution but we were between both).

Lots of eager young freshers on the bus this week, and yes, you can tell the ones from Trinity (yah, I have read so much and done som much, name drop Stphen hawking coming to debating society, ), Surgeons freshers are very very quiet (hit with work day 1). UCD are bit more fun halfway home, but the ral hooray harries are in the art college on my road.

Well two cars on our street were vandalised last night - can't say for sure it was students but incidents involving shaving foam and toilet roll only seem to happen this time of year.

Sorry to hear you had a rough night line, I agree yelling works sometimes.

2 universities in the city I live in.. happy days.. Our student neighbours arrived on Monday but they're lovely girls who we had as neighbours last year and always let us know of parties and generally keep noise down after 10pm. The house opposite has yet to have its students move in, we've been exceptionally lucky though with previous tenants who have been quiet and respectful. Luckily the main uni has a large campus and generally all first years stay in halls so we only get 2nd and 3rd years. Plus we're on the other side of town so tend to get the quieter ones.

I do love freshers moving down day though, lots of worried looking mums and dads and students desperately trying to get rid

I do think some posts on this thread are a bit patronising at best to be honest and I do kind of agree some previous posters sound a bit smug and nasty. Sorry if that makes me a killjoy, but with the obvious exception of those students who are inconsiderate neighbours or who actually behave unacceptably, they're just ordinary people going through a challenging time in their life and trying to build friendships and independence. If some of you are really going around with such a superior attitude towards young adults starting out in life, sneering at their shopping in supermarkets and such, then you're probably more of an arsehole than they are.

If some of you are really going around with such a superior attitude towards young adults starting out in life, sneering at their shopping in supermarkets and such

The first woman to be awarded the Military Cross was Private Michelle Norris of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment. She was 19 at the time, just the right age to make a fool of herself in a supermarket with the other freshers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Norris

In fairness Woolly I'm sure a lot of the freshers are also looking down on the residents and thinking how boring they are with their jobs and their mortgages etc etc.

As long as no one is saying anything hurtful to their faces I don't see the harm in having a bit of a laugh at some of their notions and pretentiousness. We know they'll have grown out of it in a few years and probably look back and laugh at themselves.

I have to do some work in Trinity College Dublin sometimes and there's always a few show offy posey students hanging around the campus trying to impress the American tourists and other 'plebs' walking through. They do make me smile to myself.

I've had a conversation with one of the freshers next door.

I'm giving them good life skills, I reckon.

I am a fresher this week but I'm 23 and have lived where I go to uni all my life. I have become the tour guide to the few freshers I have met. I must admit trying to make friends when you don't live in halls isreally hard so I have been making my self go out. Which means I am exhausted when I get up in mornings and exhausted and 9:30 when I normally go to bed.

The one thing I have found is that all freshers and genuinely lovely and friendly which is really nice.

An update on my freshers next door.

They have calmed down considerably now lectures have started and I have, as advised, rewarded them with cake.

Good news Linerunner, long may the peace continue!

Thank you. They even managed to put their bins out this week. I think I managed it once a year, back in the day.

I became less and less tolerant.
Moved to less studenty part a month ago.
It's amazing.....no clattering of heels up and down the close all night.....no abandoned kebabs outside front door.

Two spinster neighbours have already moaned to me about our noise.....I smiled indulgently at them.