Friday, April 25, 2008
“poorly judged and tasteless”
A couple of days ago I was presented with a copy of the Gown by a fairly outraged student, and I have to say that I wasn’t all that impressed by their attitude to a Queen’s student, no matter what he did or did not do, being found dead. Chekov isn’t impressed either.
Michael Shilliday @ 11:35 AM
Rich, coming from the rag which represents the students who have turned the Holylands into a circus.
A large proportion of the students in the area bring terror and criminal damage, rubbish, late night parties and foul mouthed abuse on the few permanent residents left in the area.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 12:12 PMWhat do you expect from undergraduates at Northern Ireland’s premier university except ‘ill judged’ and ‘tasteless’....
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 12:32 PMCame across the article myself yesterday. Although I’m pretty sure the man concerned wasn’t a student.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 12:41 PMJust like an average day on Slugger.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 12:47 PMGod I miss Rugby Ave.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 01:00 PMThis kind of thing is done to offend - like the racist jokes in the Rag Mag and the regular invites to David Irving / Nick Griffin et al. Every year someone apologises for the worst of the poision in the Rag Mag and promises it will never happen again....
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 01:19 PMMaybe they want a job with the Sunday world
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 01:19 PMIs this actually a real story, or some kind of late, sick April Fools?
It seems too hard to believe.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 01:32 PMRGC
The late April Fools joke was the blog yesterday on the N.I. flag, or lack thereof.
Some people still haven’t got it.Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 01:39 PMSome scrote dies...people who had a bad experience of him not displeased...zzzzzz
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 02:55 PMRepublicanStones - “God I miss Rugby Ave.”
Ah, reminiscing about the good old days at Queen’s? The only question is, does Rugby Avenue miss you? :)Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 03:04 PMIt’s scarcely believable that RS has a university education. Where have we gone wrong as a society?
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 03:21 PMIt is also scarcely believable, Chekov, that, as you say in your own blog response to this story, that you are not “any longer a man in his twenties”. The strangulated, nervous pomposity of style with which you attempted to dress down rather than address the students had me convinced that you might indeed be a self-righteous but disappointed assistant manager of a small provincial bank from the 1920’s.
You write in the style with which that fussy, prim but nasty little man, Bill Craig used to speak.
I do not think it might work with the students, not that they are not callow but they are painfully conscious of style (or the distinct absence thereof).
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:08 PMYou don’t like the style I wrote the piece in - woe is me. Do you think the piece in the student newspaper is justified?
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:35 PMBill Craig wasn’t a little man. He was a fat man. Maybe still is
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:42 PMWhats not ‘scarcely believable’ Cheekov is your immature post.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:49 PMI don’t think it’s an immature post. I think it’s a serious point about falling standards.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:57 PMChekov - “It’s scarcely believable that RS has a university education. Where have we gone wrong as a society?”
It’s a very good question. Many assume he only went to the Sinn Fein PIRA University of Death ... I mean Life. As regards immature posts, well that is something RS does know about.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 05:01 PMStandards may have fallen alright Checkov, its just unfortunate that its within your P&J;’s own commutnity.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3566425.ece
Ouch !
Hows that for immature P&J;
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 05:23 PMThis thread is reaching hadopelagic depths.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 05:51 PMRS - they actually needed research to determine that? Christ there’s far too much money flowing about the public sector in this country.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 08:13 PMAh! the good old Depths of Hadopelagia, a site visited by blogger tourists almost as frequently as the beautiful and renowned Heights of Foolishness.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 08:17 PMFrom the tele article”
`So in that sense, while you can’t talk starkly about winners and losers in the last decade in Northern Ireland, what you can do is point to a community on the Catholic side which has more uniformly enjoyed the benefits of the changes than has been the case on the Protestant side of the divide.’’What a long winded roundabout way of writing a self-contradictory sentence.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 08:20 PM“Do you think the piece in the student newspaper is justified?”
I really don’t have an opinion, Chekov. Students have ever been idiots - I was one myself - there is not much point in getting exercised by them thus demonstrating that one shares their immaturity.
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 08:21 PMTo RS - The report states that “[Roman Catholics are] now more likely to have a degree than Protestants”.
First of all, you should be calling for an inquiry into why young Protestants are not accessing University education at the expected levels. There could be many reasons e.g. Sinn Fein PIRA cultural intimidation at places like Queen’s.
Secondly, an earlier post stated “It’s scarcely believable that RS has a university education”. The point being that if you are holding yourself up as an example of the university system, then is it worth having and what has gone wrong with that system?
Posted by on Apr 25, 2008 @ 08:36 PM
