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14 THE COURIER Monday November 14 2011lifestylethecourieronline.co.uk/lifestylec2.lifestyle@ncl.ac.ukBespoke your bicycleLifestyle Editor Olivia Mason shows you how to style your faithful rideLight upBike lights are a mustbuy; why be dull whenmulti-coloured LED discobike lights are on themarket. See Nite Ize’sspokelight.BarsBuying coloured drop bars willmake a road bike look chic but bartape can be used on any bike andthere are thousands of colours andpatterns out there. It’s also veryeasy to apply.Keep your bum cosyInvest in a posh Brooks leather bikeseat (www.brooksengland.com) forretro glam or, if funds are tough,just buy a colourful cover foryour seat.Basket outHaving a basket on thefront of your bike adds aninstant bit of kitsch. Butwhy stop there? With someribbons, lowers and bellsyou could make a basket areally eye-catching part ofyour bike.Make a noiseWhy buy a boring bell whenthere are vintage hornsTop Websiteswww.bricklanebikes.co.ukwww.recyke-y-bike.comwww.ixedgeargallery.comwww.velodrama.co.ukIllustration: Jennifer DodsworthIllustration: Emma RawsthorneWheelsAsk Aunty AngelaColoured wheels will instantlytransform your bike.Getting a whole colouredrim set will set you back afair amount, but colouredtyres are a cheap and easyalternative.After a firey weekend everyone’s favourite Auntyis back to solve solutions to all your burning questionsMake it a ixieJoin the scenesters and convert yourbike into a ixed-gear or single-speed.This involves having the sprocket, orcog, threaded or bolted directly to aixed rear hub, so the bike has no freewheeland cannot coast. Any bike shopor Recyke-y-Bike in Byker should beable to do this for you.Top TipsColour-coordinate - never underestimate thepower of a good colour scheme. These days youcan get buy almost every part individually andin every colour. Think a pink frame, white tyres,and a green chain!Keep it clean - what’s the point in putting in allthat work just to ride about on a muddy frame?Use second-hand parts - you can pick up bargainsand have your bike with exactly the partsyou want without paying a fortune.I absolutely love my new latmatesthis year, but the problem here is thatone of them really stinks! He’s such alovely guy and is probably my favouriteperson I’ve met at university so far. DoI tell him that he smells? Or will thisdamage our friendship?I don’t think it will damage your friendship- if anything, done right, it will makeit stronger. I’m sure he’d prefer for someonehe knows and likes to tell him ratherthan someone he doesn’t know beingheartless about it. What you have to dois take him to one side and just say thatsometimes he needs to take a bit morecare with washing in the morning. Don’tmake a big deal of it and don’t do it as agroup. This will make him feel ganged upon and embarrassed.Me and my boyfriend always used tohave amazing nights out together andwith our friends. But recently he’sstarted drinking insane amounts ofalcohol. I’ve ended up in A&E with himtwice because he’s fallen and hurt himself.I’m really worried that it mightget worse or somebody else might gethurt. What do I do?I think your boyfriend is either developinga problem or is just hitting it a bittoo hard. Could there be a reason forthe sudden change? A family ight? Workincrease? Something that has stressedhim out and he’s trying to escape it bydrinking more than he used to? I thinkyou should talk to him because he couldend up hurting himself or someone else ifhe is not careful. Be sure to get the timingright though - you don’t want to end upighting about it. Or maybe ask if thereis something wrong and work it throughwith him. You may ind that if it is a problem,and you sort it together, the drinkingmay decrease on its own.In our lat we generally like to be quitequiet when we’re not going out. Butother people in our building don’tseem to have the same lifestyle and it’shard to get to sleep at 3am when someoneis playing “I’m Sexy and I Know It”at full blast and screaming their headoff. What can I do to make it stop?If you haveanyproblemsyou needhelp with,email AuntyAngela atc2.lifestyle@ncl.ac.ukHow many times do I need to expressmy love for ear plugs?! I’m serious! Theywork wonders! If that doesn’t work,you’ll have to talk to them about keepingit down at unsociable hours. You’re nottelling them to stop completely but justto have a bit more compassion for theirneighbours who don’t want to be dancingevery night at 3am. Don’t be mean or angryabout it because then they’ll do it justto spite you. But if they don’t stop thenyou have my permission to go upstairs,remove their speakers and hide themuntil they apologise.Aunty Angela, help! My boyfriend hasdecided to do Movember this year andalthough I am completely supportiveof his charitable intentions I just can’tstand the tash. I hate the way it looks,the way I can feel it when we kiss, andworst of all it looks more like fuzz thananything else.Back in my day moustaches werequite the thing for sophisticated younggentlemen. They were seen as a sign ofgood breeding! While I appreciate youdon’t feel the same way, maybe try andembrace it as a new fashionable quirk.Perhaps it could be the new spark in yourrelationship - get some role play involved!If you still can’t get on board, rememberit’s not for life and be happy you have a
THE COURIER Monday November 14 2011 15Lifestyle Editors: Olivia Mason and Ben ParkinOnline Editor: Emma Baltersex&relationshipslifestyleBlind DateRory Davies, 3 rd year Sociology, meetsFelicity Mortimer, 2 nd year HistoryFirst Impressions?Not good because he didn’t text me irst! irst! irst! Jokes. He wasfriendly and talkative so it wasn’t too awkward. I also ranghim when I was wasted in Sinners the Wednesday before,but I don’t remember any of it so it doesn’t count!What did you talk about?We did the usual chat - where we go onnights out, where we lived in irst irst irst year,etc (disagreed about which of our hallswas better - Ricky Road beats all,obviously!), and I remember speakingabout camels for some reason.Any awkward moments?Seeing our mates in Mens Bar waspretty awkward, but I guess weexpected that. And when my matetook a photo (or four) of us, becausewe’re fussy and we didn’t like ourhair. When he went to checkhis hair he said his head wastoo big for the mirror so hecouldn’t sort it out.Anything in common?We like to make sure ourhair looks all right beforehaving a photo taken andboth had a few drinksbefore we met each other.Best thing aboutthem?He was really easy to talkto and friendly. Therewas no real awkwardnessbetween us at all.Did you go any-where afterwards?Yeah we went to CCTV,which he had never beento before (not cool). Wedon’t remember muchof the night thoughof course! I ended uptexting the lifestyle edi-tor ,thinking it was Rory,saying, ‘where are you?’,‘tell me where you are!’ Inow realise why I didn’t get areply...Would you meet again?Yeah, I think I would, because wegot along well. I could see us goingfor a drink or something.Marks out of ten?8 because the date was an overallsuccess apart from the fact that Ididn’t get to say goodbye on the nightbecause I bailed quite early, thanksto too many double vodkas and jagerbombs.Sorry Rory!First Impressions?Just that she was attractive, maybe a bit northern, butthere’s nothing wrong with that - I guess! She seemedtalkative straight away and it wasn’t weird meeting herfor the irst irst irst time or anything. I was pretty curious as tohow she was roped into going on a blind date, which isdeinitely deinitely deinitely what happened to me.What did you talk about?Camels and how they could hold loads of wateror milk or whatever it is. Which courses wewere doing, life in Jesmond, how awkwardit was going to be meeting each other’smates later, preferred nightlife desti-nations, Sinners, alcoholics, football(briely) (briely) (briely) and work. We also talkedabout halls; it became apparent thatFelicity was of the belief that Hender-son Hall isn’t as good as Ricky Road,which is obviously a load of rubbish.But we talked about pretty mucheverything really (nothing too indepth).Any awkward moments?Talking about alcoholics wasprobably not a good idea, thatwas maybe an awkward moment.Meeting her mates wasn’t too bad,but still deinitely deinitely deinitely falls under thecategory of “awkward”. They playeddrinking games that I just did notunderstand at all.Anything in common?We discussed how we both like Sin-ners, and both being stupidly drunkat CCTV later, and... hair colour? Ha.Best thing about them?The best thing about Felicity was she wasvery chatty and always had something totalk about, so conversation never reallyran dry. She was also just a bit of a joker,which is always a good thing.Did you go anywhere wards?We went to CCTV afterwards at the Union.I hadn’t been there before so didn’t re-ally know what to expect. It was prettygood, very busy; that camera booth isafter-ridiculous.Would you meet again?We already have met again to try andtake a photo for the paper! Reasonablyunsuccessfully, but yeah, I’d be coolwith meeting her again.Marks out of ten?I think 8 is a fair mark out of ten -she was nice, pretty and chilled,but up for a laugh, so yeah, 8.Tashin’ onin the ToonVictoria MoleFelicity on Rory Rory on FelicityFor the lucky among us, housemates doubleup as guardian angels - guardian angelsthat encourage us to down beveragesof questionable content and are ready todigitally capture the resulting display foreveryone to see the following afternoon.Fortunately when you’ve been ‘papped’in the act, your dignity can be saved by‘de-tagging’ (this will need to be donethe approximate amount of times you attemptedto profess that you were sober).Your housemates will also make your Facebookaudience aware that you can havea lot of fun with a cucumber and that it’syour undying wish to be a northerner.Several of us have witnessed a residentialboyfriend wearing too little clothing,usually along the lines of your housemate’sdressing gown, far too early in themorning pre-coffee. When they’re aroundfor a long time they become a much-lovedpart of a student house: like a house pet,both get fed, groomed and a cosy bed. It’snot only partners that might be caughtless than fully clothed; relationshipsbetween housemates may reach newlevels as a result of the dreaded toweldrop.One of my housemates is able tosee into our shared shower through hiswindow; ironically, he’s gay. As relievingas it is that he won’t be sneaking a peek,it’s almost a shame that, should he seeanything accidentally, he wouldn’t appreciatethe view.For the cheekier singletons out there,your housemates are the ones that stayfaithfully on ‘bum-watch’ to prevent anyunfortunate lashing, but will happilystep aside and let you engage in publicdisplays of affection with inappropriatepartners. There should be force ields toprevent us from partaking in PDA withcoursemates and bouncers.One of my lat mates in irst year had aradar for when one of us had someoneback, she could even tell whether theywere a regular visitor or a irst-timer inthe lat from their voices. Regular hookupsalso earned themselves a nickname- ‘Sweaty Mess’, and what we can onlyassume was his favourite t-shirt, will foreverhaunt a particular corridor. We couldalways expect the ‘I know’ look from herthe next day.Housemates will also be there for youwhen things are of a more serious nature.If you’re left heartbroken they’ll be DTS(down to spoon) with hot chocolate andthe DVD of your geekiest, favourite ilm,which they will deinitely know fromliving with you. If at university you everneed a friend for support when goingfor an embarrassing health check-up,perhaps after a liaison with a lapse injudgement, someone will be there togiggle with you in the waiting room at thelavours of the freebies on offer.Drama is far too frequent in relationships;half an episode of Jeremy Kyle ismore than enough to demonstrate this. Ifyou fall back into the arms of a mistakeyou’ve already made, it’s the duty ofhousemates to knock some sense into youwith a broom; and should someone forkand then forsake you, you can guaranteethey would be after them with a shovel.Men (literally) come and go, but housemates?You’re stuck with them.
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