{"id":142,"date":"2004-09-13T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2004\/09\/13\/rules\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:47:01","slug":"rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11208,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/St_Chad&#039;s_College%2C_Durham&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250918235616\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/St_Chad%27s_College,_Durham&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 19:48:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 19:48:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>You would have thought that going back to college for the new year would be a simple matter of shoving all your gear in the car and trundling off to wherever you went but oh no <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Chad's_College%2C_Durham\">St. Chad\u2019s<\/a> college have to make things difficult by enforcing a rule that you can only return mid-week unless your a fresher. This is causing unnecessary hassle for me as my parents can\u2019t get time off work to give me a lift so I\u2019m trying to formulate another plan. Do I:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><br \/>Go up the previous weekend, dump my stuff in my room (they\u2019ve \u2018kindly\u2019 conceded to let me do that) and then either forget to give the key back (hehe), squat in my friends loft for a few days or go home and then come back the following Tuesday.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><br \/>Go up by train on the Tuesday with whatever I can carry and then await my parent to bring the rest up the following weekend.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><br \/>Something else\u2026<br \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Answers on a postcard to \u201cWhat a waste of time, 10 Stupid Rules, Life\u2019s Too Short, NOP O1NT.\u201d or just comment below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would have thought that going back to college for the new year would be a simple matter of shoving all your gear in the car and trundling off to wherever you went but oh no St. Chad\u2019s college have to make things difficult by enforcing a rule that you can only return mid-week unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[627],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university","tag-housing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/coup-detat\/","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat","author":"David","date":"23rd September 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So last Tuesday (19th) I was chatting with a friend in Bangkok, around exactly the same time that Thai Army tanks rolled in and blocked off traffic to the government headquarters, thereby staging a coup, overthrowing the PM (who wasn't even in the country). 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