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Also, oh god. Prom. Tonight. Why. There is nothing less I wanted to do with my morning than get up and immediately have to try to sort out what I'm wearing (because I'm a fool and didn't do that weeks ago.) I think I'm gonna go in all-black attire to protest.

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Ariamella said
The singing is horrid.

Awh heeeelllllll no you did not just say that. Whatchutalkinaboutwillis?

What was the CIDA Expenditure in 2005-2006

Giygas said
Fair points

What was the CIDA Expenditure in 2005-2006

Giygas said
Ok seems fair

Your information was immediately available, meaning the only reason that you could not do it is sheer laziness. It also called for much more effort on our part in order to find, collate, and present the information. On the other hand, Nargle is looking for a single specific figure, that she's already searched for, and is significantly harder to find.

What was the CIDA Expenditure in 2005-2006

2,862,000,000 Canadian Dollars. Source is here. The info is taken from a bar chart at the top right of page 3. This PDF is no longer listed directly on their site (the site only goes back to 2007), but it is still indexed by Google if you use the right search term.

EDIT: I haven't read the report in full, merely skimmed for what seemed to be the appropriate information, so I suggest you double-check this is the correct figure. For example, I'm not sure if this figure is total expenditure, or whether it's simply the portion of the ODA spent by CIDA and not the total (say, if they receive funding from other sources and spent that) or whether they went over-budget, or what.

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NotExceedingTheNines said
Aah so that's why Edinburgh's your second choice... I got kind of confused by that. For those that don't know, Scotland treats english students like foreign students- we'd have to pay through the nose to go there.My prom was just about the most aggressively and hilariously shit thing I have ever witnessed. I guess that's what you get living in southampton, the only city in the UK to look it's best in the time period being bombed.

Yeah - although it wasn't just because of the financial aspects, it made the most sense academically and in other ways as well. My offer for Durham was very high and my fourth offer was St. Andrews, which I felt, as a city boy, would drive me crazy as I'd have to live in a quiet village, and which is ranked lower internationally than Edinburgh for my subject anyway. Then again, if I didn't live in Scotland I probably wouldn't have chosen Edinburgh and St. Andrews at all - probably would have gone for UCL and Bath or some such.

I can tell you were just full of school spirit ;P. I'm assuming you have now fled Southampton?

Ariamella said
So I have a question for Nines and Halo: So you know how girls in America love accents? When teeny bopper/early twenty-somethings visit the UK, are they pretty easy to spot? I mean, do they go nuts over every male who speaks or what?

Depends on the girl, no? I've been told by an American girl online that my voice beats out milk and honey for soothing, quote, and several others have expressed an, uhm, admiration - so yeah, sometimes! It's less our voices than theirs, though - not to be stereotypical, but Americans tend to be somewhat more boisterous and less reserved than Brits, so I usually hear their voices before they hear mine. Definitely agree with Nines, though, in that it's often less the accents and more the cultural differences that people get excited over. My first girlfriend was American and when she visited Liverpool, she absolutely fell in love with the place because of the different culture she found there.

corneredbliss said
@Halo: Jared Leto. Of course, Jared Leto. Come on now. And umm, that may be Jumper. But I know it's definitely not Push heh.

He's very young-looking for a 42 year old, but I mean. Ooft. And ahh, my mistake - what's Push about then?

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Oh goodness, so many posts while my WiFi was down. I will reply to all in a moment xD

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Ariamella said
It's okay, I wept bitterly into my dress after prom. I wasn't 18, so I couldn't go to the clubs and after-parties. Our prom is very fancy and formal as well, but the themes differ year to year. My sister had "Classic Old Hollywood" and "Masquerade."

Trust me, hilarity will ensue. Not only will there be rage, but remember that it makes Elli a cradle robber. #cougarstatus

Great, we can be bitter-post-prom buddies. :D I'll just eat lots of cake and come on RPG.
Themes are such a great idea; considering my Prom is on, of all dates, Friday the 13th, I can think of some preettyyy awesome themes they could have used :P

Dem claws, though. ;D though hey, Amis is 20 and she's 25, that's not really such a bad difference. Same age difference as me and my first major girlfriend. x)

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Ariamella said
My senior year, the theme was "Fire and Ice" and this year when I went (my boyfriend just graduated HS), the theme was "Great Gatsby." I know this sounds so cliche, but man, prom was BUMPIN'. Except for sweaty grinding people, but that's whatever. Other than that, it was magical ^-^ *happy Aria*

And oh yeah babe, you're next ;D

Ah, that actually sounds effing amazing. I'd kill for a Gatsby-themed Prom. Instead, we get a ceilidh, which is traditional group Scottish dancing. I'd almost prefer the grinding. It's all very formal - we rent out a super-fancy hotel place and go have a shmancy meal and everything. Then we get drunk with our teachers and afterwards everyone over 18 goes out clubbing while us poor technically-minors crawl back home to weep bitterly into our dresses/kilts. xD

Oh lord, Elli going all dark, mysterious and seductive on Amis... that could only end well (and hilariously), what with the rage they'll probably end up feeling for eachother, right? ;P

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corneredbliss said
Oh man, I miss it haha. I remember having the hugest crush on Oliver Sykes from Bring Me The Horizon back in the day. Lately I've been listening to a lot of 90s rock, like Stone Temple Pilots, Live, and Pearl Jam. Makes me a very happy Bliss.Can't wait to read how everyone reacts to getting drenched to the bone heheh. And happy Thursday! I'm kicking the morning off by watching Push the movie. Again, one of my favorites.

Whaaa-? Nah, I never found Oli attractive, personally. Jared Leto, on the other hand... :3 And I must admit that my knowledge of 90s rock is direly lacking, though I'll make sure to look up those bands.
I live in Scotland; I'm used to being drenched. And it's already Thursday? Christ, I'm losing track of time. My Prom's tomorrow, ew. Also, Push - is that the one where they can teleport through photographs? Or is that "Jumper"?

Ariamella said
It's cool guys, Elli will just go up to him and give him a hug <3Because huggles solve everything <3And then she'll blast his brains out with a gun, nbd, it's alllllll casual mayne.

Femme Fatale, much? D: