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| Chip Away Boy |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 08:53:39
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-08-16-party-school_x.htm
My school is listed number one. Yeaaaaaaah party on Wayne, party on Garth!!! |
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| see meant |
Posted - 08/29/2004 : 15:58:54
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get ratted,
Thank you for this. It's always fun to learn new ways of saying 'get drunk.' I just wish I had read it on Friday instead of Sunday. Now I'll have to wait at least two or three days to use my new phrase. |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/29/2004 : 04:35:21
Hey!
It has been said that drinking breeds antisocial behaviour, but the "antisocial" little fucks started drinking at 12 anyway so the legal limit has littl in the way of application. Going to Uni is as much about growing up and growing independant as it is about the course, I think that not beeing able to drink and being monitered at every stage is keeping you in a child like state.
I went to uni in Bangor, North Wales, there wasn't much to do if you didn't dig mountain climbing but get ratted, I had some great times, went to great gigs and had the best year of my life so far spent semi pissed. Hurrah for alcohol, an integral part of the university system
And making drinking legal for the final college year in the US? isn't that the most important year? In our first year here we et most of the alcoholism done and dusted and in theory settle down for the third year study
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/28/2004 : 19:13:24
Blah blah, I guess know one gives a fuck.
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/27/2004 : 18:08:11
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Originally posted by VoVat
"RA" stands for "Resident Assistant." They're basically the people who make sure everyone is following the rules, and you can also go to them when you need help with something.
I have mixed feelings on the drinking age, by the way.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo.
This isn't directed at you VoVat and I'm totally going off topic here, but here I go. I think if you can vote, then you should be able to drink. I dont think it's a matter of age, I think it's a matter of social and cultural attitudes and responsibilities towards the consumption and recreational use of alcohol. Ireland has a big problem with underage drinking, so putting the age limit up any higher wouldn't really do much good, even 12 yr olds seem to be able to get their hands on alcho-pops somehow!(tighting up avalibility would). In the last couple of years we've also had a problem with young people bing drinking and alcohol related suicides among young people. The social attitude in Ireland amongst young people is to drink as much as you can on a weekend , and by the looks of it, all week, show everyone you can drink more then them, if you don't like someones face or they look at your girlfriend, get in a fight to prove your a man, and these people are going on 30 yrs old!!.
My first post was supposed to be light hearted, living up to the Irish stereotype, but in the seven years that I've been freqeunting bars in Dublin, I've never seen a fight. But I think peoples attitude towards alcohol has changed for the worst over the last couple of years, you would not have seen the behaviour you see today ten or twenty years ago. I had my first drink when I was 14 . I wouldn't say I drink senseably, but I am responsible for my actions and behaviour, I treat people the way I would like to be treated, that means no verbal or physical abuse or behaviour that would detract from other people enjoying themselves. When that moral responsibility goes out the window, then alcohol is a dangerous substance. If your 18 and at college(even if your not), you have the ownus on youself of taking responsibilty for your (education), and life, and the same should go for your achohol consumption and your social behaviour. I think high alcohol consumption is a symtom of personal and or social problems(theres no stigma attached to being pissed out of your brains at 3 on a Friday night in Dublin). 21 would be a good age to start drinking at, but the government makes you a legal adult at age of 18 here, and most people have had a drink in Ireland by at least 16, as something of a coming of age process. There are lots of other issues here like advertising, opening hours and peer pressure that I won't go into. My point being, although age is a factor, it's only one of many which are more pressing in this issue. Is this a patronising rant? Anyways I found it weird that I would be only legally be able to drink in America the year before I finished college, which is some of the best times I've had in my life.
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| darwin |
Posted - 08/27/2004 : 13:14:40
RAs are usually Juniors or Seniors who get free housing by being the RA. They vary in whether they will bust you or party with you. |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/27/2004 : 13:09:02
Oh my god, like university police? we too used to drag the lecturers on the lash, there's nothing I may add, so horrid as seeing your lecturer sing the words to Laid by James to you sweating like billy-O and doing a monkey dance
*shudder*
sometimes I still have nightmares
 I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/27/2004 : 12:02:16
"RA" stands for "Resident Assistant." They're basically the people who make sure everyone is following the rules, and you can also go to them when you need help with something.
I have mixed feelings on the drinking age, by the way.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 20:00:10
What are RA's anyone? As soon as I hit college I started the booze, people used to go to the pub at lunch and not come back, we even used to go to the pub with our tutors and visiting lecturers! What a bummer to have to wait 3 years till you can legally drink even though you've started your third degree education! A classmate of mine and his flatmates used to drink so much that they made a city out of used beer cans for a shitty project we had(I went to NCAD), and named it Canses City of course.
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| SpudBoy |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 19:36:25
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Originally posted by VoVat
...I also think you'd have to be pretty dumb to drink IN YOUR DORM ROOM. Sheesh, is it THAT hard to go off campus?
I never lived in dorms, but that is where we would *go* to drink. Someone usually had smuggled in a case of booze somehow...I was walking past an RA with a friend who was carrying two bottles of vodka in his trenchcoat, toward the front. RA: "Whatcha got in the coat?" My friend: "My cock! Wanna see it?" RA: "Erm, uh..." My friend: "Too bad 'cause I'm shy."
We, and several other friends, proceeded to get stupid on liquor in the dorm. This was a typical evening. I guess every school I visited had a whole lot of stupid students. Or you were a nardo. :)
[edit] geek ~= nardo; geek == $compliment;
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 14:55:12
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You mean to tell me you've never heard of people drinking in dorms?
I've HEARD of it, but that doesn't make it a good idea. I always figured it was really rare, anyway.
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My sis is far from dumb, though, but anyhoo.
Well, maybe SHE'S not dumb, but I'd say that's a pretty dumb thing to do. Smart people can do dumb things, after all.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 14:41:59
I live not-too-far from William and Mary.
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Give me CNU anyday.
*Shka-pow! You're Dead! |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:40:32
weird....
Q: I had sex with my ex-girlfriend when she was 15 years old and I was 21. She turned 16 in June. I am still 21 years old. She initiated sex and I said yes so it's not rape. We broke up and haven't seen each other for half a year already. Since this happened already and nothing can be done about it, is there some time period where if she wanted to, file charges against me for statutory rape?
A: Charges can be brought against you for indecency with a child anytime up to 10 years after she turns 18.
He's going to be shitting it for a while! I hope it was a neat break up!
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:25:42
Yeah, legal hanky panky is 18 in many states. Can't remember where it's lower.
Wow, here's a state by state breakdown:
http://www.sexlaws.org/answers/index.html
Oh, and I went to Sunderland University, in '94. It was...uh, lovely...;)
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| Coldheartofstone |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:21:31
A FREE TIN OF BEANS!
"Don't think that sticking your boobs out and trying to look fuckable will help. Remember you're in a rock and roll band. It's not "fuck me," it's "fuck you!"-Chrissie Hynde |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:19:50
wow, where did you go? I got a free tin of beans (blurgh) and a lollypop! I did get a free pint in the fat cat whenever I bought a text book form the shop over the road. And it was £1 a pint in some pub every night. And there were the 50p double tequilla nights. 21, random, your legal hanky panky age is older too isn't it? weird.
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:16:37
Well, the legal drinking age is 21 here, thus...
When I went to school for a semester in England, they handed us pint cans of Guinness and student discount cards for the clubs in our Orientation kits. Amazing, and delicious.
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| n/a |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 13:13:30
hang on, you're not allowed to drink in your uni rooms? WTF?!?!?!?!?!
Thats madness, we could have kept the university in drink for a year the amount we got through in halls. For my Birhday they made me a paisley cake and soaked it in vodka.. mmmm vodka
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 12:49:25
You mean to tell me you've never heard of people drinking in dorms?
My sis is far from dumb, though, but anyhoo.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 12:43:46
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The Ivy League refers to a group of very prestigious, old, east coast colleges, all of them being the best in the nation.
That's a matter of opinion, isn't it?
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My sister goes to William and Mary, and she and her friends were "busted" with cans of beer in their dorm room. They were quietly watching a movie, and some RAs were spying on them outside their window.
While I don't approve of RAs spying on people, I also think you'd have to be pretty dumb to drink IN YOUR DORM ROOM. Sheesh, is it THAT hard to go off campus?
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 11:41:54
William and Mary is known for being a boring-as-hell school, so that doesn't surprise me in the least |
| apl4eris |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 11:33:37
My sister goes to William and Mary, and she and her friends were "busted" with cans of beer in their dorm room. They were quietly watching a movie, and some RAs were spying on them outside their window. If she is "written up" again (2 times, you're out), she can be suspended/kicked out.
Not a very "party" atmosphere if you ask me. More like fascist.
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| darwin |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 11:04:01
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Originally posted by soundofataris
Not a Virginian myself. The place actually bugs me. In fact, that's why I only put in one year there before I had to get out and came back home to NYU.
The Ivy League refers to a group of very prestigious, old, east coast colleges, all of them being the best in the nation. They include Brown, Dartmoth, Princeton, Havard, Yale, and Columbia, and a couple others.
Kerry in a landslide!
Stanford and U of Chicago might dispute the Ivy League being the best in the nation (certainly they are among the best). And some public schools as well (U of Michigan, Cal - Berkeley |
| soundofataris |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 10:57:42
Not a Virginian myself. The place actually bugs me. In fact, that's why I only put in one year there before I had to get out and came back home to NYU.
The Ivy League refers to a group of very prestigious, old, east coast colleges, all of them being the best in the nation. They include Brown, Dartmoth, Princeton, Havard, Yale, and Columbia, and a couple others.
Kerry in a landslide! |
| vilainde |
Posted - 08/26/2004 : 02:24:56
Mmmhhh... define "Ivy league".
Denis
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| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 08/25/2004 : 12:15:41
You went to William and Mary? All these VA people, I can't take it...
Floops quesedillas zijn te vergelijken met het likken van fatsige Albert's aars nadat hij een fles laxeermiddel heeft leeggedronkenhehehahhahehehaha |
| soundofataris |
Posted - 08/25/2004 : 12:05:30
Rules of Attraction really showed the world of old Ivy league schools. Most aren't as base. The closest I came to the Ivy league myself was my freshman year at William and Mary. There were a few parties at that level. But not as much drugs.
Kerry in a landslide! |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 08/24/2004 : 07:33:46
Damn.
UGA is there. Feh.
*Shka-pow! You're Dead! |
| vilainde |
Posted - 08/24/2004 : 07:09:24
Hey, I had a question for you american students. I read The Rules Of Attraction a few years ago, and I watched the movie yesterday, and wondered if the campus parties you have there are anything like pictured in the book. Cause I went to university here in France and (unfortunately) we never ever had a Dressed To Get Screwed party. Can you tell me more about how you party?
Denis
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| TOTIPOTENT |
Posted - 08/20/2004 : 18:12:20
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Originally posted by darwin
Isn't it also the school most likely to lose a football game 77-0? 
I lived in Bryan for 8 years, until I escaped to college.
Yep, actually I am quite proud of that also, I hate those "I like this school cause of some sport/team" types. Fuck the sports! When did schools ever become important because of their sports? I thought it was about education not about cheering for some dudes on a playing field. Maybe I should play football so that I can be one of the "important" "students" of Texas A&M University...
 "I joined the Cult of Frank / then it disbanded in 2004"  |
| Chip Away Boy |
Posted - 08/20/2004 : 14:36:26
lucky you |
| darwin |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 21:02:43
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Originally posted by TOTIPOTENT
Cool, my school's students were found to be the most likely to vote Republican. I am so proud...
"I joined the Cult of Frank / then it disbanded in 2004"
Isn't it also the school most likely to lose a football game 77-0?
I lived in Bryan for 8 years, until I escaped to college. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 20:20:02
Conducting studies isn't really my thing.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| TOTIPOTENT |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 18:41:23
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Originally posted by VoVat
I think there's a definite correlation between being drunk and voting Republican. Maybe someone should study that.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo.
How about you do it?
"I joined the Cult of Frank / then it disbanded in 2004" |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 18:27:18
I think there's a definite correlation between being drunk and voting Republican. Maybe someone should study that.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| TOTIPOTENT |
Posted - 08/19/2004 : 18:20:02
Cool, my school's students were found to be the most likely to vote Republican. I am so proud...
"I joined the Cult of Frank / then it disbanded in 2004" |
