My college is so awesome:
(http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/Stuff/notice.jpg)
...if you're gay.
......or into gangbangs.
Weird... Is there a reason? Or just "I am older than you, do what I say, full stop!"?
I am trying to figure out why this would be enacted ... what possible reason would the administration have for this?
Did something happen on campus (a rape or something) and the school was sued?
That just doesn't add up ... could it be somebody's idea of a joke perhaps?
Reason?!
They are the administration. Since when do they need a reason?
If anyone dared to ask, I guess they'd mention something about prevention of rampant babby making....which didn't really exist before, anyhow.
Apparently one of the college higher-ups literally stumbled across a couple late into the evening. They even got fined. I'd take a picture of the fine notice, but that was removed too fast. Maybe they realised it was too absurd. A fine for holding hands, fine for hugging, etc.
Now this is one of the most out-of-sight-of-normal-imagination things I have ever seen. Does it mean you cannot talk to a girl alone, even when you are in class?
Man, that is truly awesome.
Do they want you to wear coats in summer not to show your body almost naked, you know, short sleeves and stuff?
Congratulations! Your school wins the Dolores Umbridge award for Idiotic Governance!
Sorry to bringt this back (It's curiosity, mainly, not "arguing desires"), but... Babar, which percentage of guilt has the "religious" stuff have to see in decissions like this one your college took? I' ve seen the notice is in English... are you in an English College?
Man, this is actually something I could imagine getting picked up by the "funny but true" media stories.
Is there no movement to like.... protest. A big sex orgy etc? Thatll show em.
Heh...there would generally be more than 2 people in class at a time, so I don't think that is a problem. Although they are incredibly insane about such things as hair-length, correct-shadeness of grey pants, and facial hair.
Yea, nacho, I am in an English college, although I could probably give them a few pointers in their writing style...I mean, "..STRICTLY FORBIDDEN IN THE COLLEGE PREMISES AT ALL HOURS, INCLUDING CLASS ROOMS, LABS..."?
It'd be funny if religious stuff is the reasoning behind this, considering how much homosexuality is going on, and how this would add to that situation (I know it might be politically incorrect to say that, and I know that people say that it is not something that one 'chooses', but when someone doesn't have opportunity to do one thing, they do another).
Edit: heh...great idea, evenwolf. I shall show them! I shall go and individually talk to every girl in college in private! That'll show them! I'll even shake a few hands! ;D
I just can't imagine a college campus without MALE-FEMALE CONVERSATIONS IF NEED ARISES WOULD SHALL BE FORTHWITH ETC.
I mean... to some people that's all college is. What a disaster.
So, it's "This guys can' t see a kiss because they are posh teachers with a wood of sweeps in the asshole" more than "they can' t see a kiss because they are Islamics", no? Somehow I feel a stupid prejudicer now... ^_^
Anyways... It's silly.
Please, Babar, paint two nipples in both "OO" in "ROOMS"... Then the notice would really be AWESOME!
The thing I find most silly about this is that, just by human nature alone, when you tell somebody they cannot do a thing it only makes them want to do it that much more!
Make it taboo and watch people flock to it!
It's like smoking and drinking age limits here in the states ... high school kids think they are soooooo cool when they drink because they aren't supposed to be doing it and it's become some kind of "cool" badge to wear.
I can't speak for the nature of the students at your school ... but if they're anything like the students I've been exposed to this notice will only serve to backfire badly in the administration's face!
Quote from: Nacho on Tue 03/06/2008 18:10:16Please, Babar, paint two nipples in both "OO" in "ROOMS"... Then the notice would really be AWESOME!
Yes do that! Hilarious!
Oh come on, they are just trying to save your soul is all. You can't be trusted to save it on your own.
I've had similar run-ins to these types of rules at a church camp (in Wisconsin, USA) one summer in junior high. The rules were not that strict but individual counselors would try to split up boy/girl "couples" at times. When a friend and I were enjoying an ice cream while watching baseball from a distance, we were approached by a counselor and asked if we were related.
When we said we were just friends/longtime neighbours, she told us that "We would prefer that you would not talk to each other alone", because we might perhaps fornicate in the middle of a busy church camp with lots of activities going on. We were seriously isolated by like 20-30 yards or so, and that was a problem.
There were some other asinine rules and rationalisations that week, for instance when boys had time to swim in the lake for two hours, the girls could be anywhere on the grounds, but when it was time for girls the boys had to be organised into an activity that was on the other side of the camp. The explanation for this was that boys are attracted by sight, and girls are attracted ONLY by touch, so seeing someone in swimgear would mean nothing unless they were holding hands or something (exact example given btw).
Hah! Well, it has had one immediate reaction of having this couple now talking to each other across the field (via mobile) instead of face to face next to each other on a bench. That is another funny sight I wish I had photographed.
When I was in first course in my college, somebody had the risky idea of giving me the microphone during the party the veteran students organised for gathering money for the last course trip (Risky idea, basically because I was drunk).
I had the idea of organising an auction, auctioning a date with good looking teachers.
When nobody was offering a buck for the Legislation teacher, I said "Come on... I would pay a million for having a date with a lady with this nice pair of boobs!" Some teachers scandalized, but nothing serious happened to me, to be honest.
What would happen is you do something similar in your college Babar?
There's a local college that has banned sex on campus. The fine for possessing alcohol (even underage) is around $20. But, if you're caught having sex it's a fine of $200. A very strange cost difference.
At my university there have been a lot of attacks and rapes on college girls just outside of campus. They've advised everyone to travel in groups. This sort of situation would be the only situation where some sort of group study requirement would be legit, but people would still have a huge fit about it.
Very ridiculous.
I can understand banning sexual acts on campus grounds. I can just about understand discouraging sexual relations occurring within dorms.
But forbidding casual male/female interaction on a one-to-one basis? At all times?
Puritanical insanity.
But don't you realise, if you spend even one minute alone with a woman, it can't end in any other way than with a night of steamy passion.
Quote from: Pumaman on Tue 03/06/2008 20:45:37
But don't you realise, if you spend even one minute alone with a woman, it can't end in any other way than with a night of steamy passion.
I've obviously been hanging out with the wrong women. :'(
no, she just ends up slapping your face after 59 seconds exactly.
Quote from: Pumaman on Tue 03/06/2008 20:45:37
But don't you realise, if you spend even one minute alone with a woman, it can't end in any other way than with a night of steamy passion.
male: Hi, what's your name?
female: Hi! I'm Maria
m: Hi Maria, care to hang out together?
f: Yes why not? What is your name.
m: It's Joseph!
f: Nice name Joseph, do you study in this college?
m: Yes I'm studying biology and science as a double major. I also play the guitar a little.
f: Oh that's quite lovely! I play the flute, you know...
m: Would you like to go and ha...
f: Whoops! One minute's up! I'm pregnant!
It's interesting that the instrument you choose for the girl in this example is a flute. We all know what happens with girls which like to blow flutes.
Quote from: Nacho on Tue 03/06/2008 20:05:09
What would happen is you do something similar in your college Babar?
What would happen if I commented on the niceness of my teacher's boobs publicly at a function involving other teachers as well as the administration? I'd probably get expelled.
In other news, while I should have realised it earlier, the notice was behind a locked glass case. No possibility of drawing boobies in the O's. College rots your brains!
Quote from: Babar on Wed 04/06/2008 11:49:35
In other news, while I should have realised it earlier, the notice was behind a locked glass case. No possibility of drawing boobies in the O's. College rots your brains!
Two words: Permanent marker.
The school I go to refers to itself as a Catholic Christian school, is run by an order of freaking nuns and doesn't have any "laws" like this whatsoever. Yet again, the world makes a little less sense.
Also, remember that the administration's decisions are null and void if you step a single inch off campus grounds. There has to be some sort of office that faces a street or something that doesn't belong to your college. You know what to do.
Babar, this is your opportunity to dress like Kevin Bacon and dance around your college while totally cutting loose, footloose with the female students. Don't let your John Lithgow-esque administrator not let you cut loose.
Here are some music videos to pump you up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX38dNneIiU
YouTube also recommended Bruce Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark, so maybe it will pump you up too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg
Haha, this whole thing sounds like an episode from Sliders.
--Snake
Quote from: DGMacphee on Wed 04/06/2008 13:19:37Babar, this is your opportunity to dress like Kevin Bacon and dance around your college while totally cutting loose, footloose with the female students. Don't let your John Lithgow-esque administrator not let you cut loose.
That is awesome.
You know what else is awesome? DG posting again!! Are you still getting married?
QuoteBut don't you realise, if you spend even one minute alone with a woman, it can't end in any other way than with a night of steamy passion.
A whole minute with a woman? I don't see that happening.
-MillsJROSS
I wonder what Yahtzee would have to say about this...
Quote from: Ren on Thu 05/06/2008 14:01:49
I wonder what Yahtzee would have to say about this...
Why?
Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Wed 04/06/2008 15:19:14
Quote from: DGMacphee on Wed 04/06/2008 13:19:37Babar, this is your opportunity to dress like Kevin Bacon and dance around your college while totally cutting loose, footloose with the female students. Don't let your John Lithgow-esque administrator not let you cut loose.
That is awesome.
You know what else is awesome? DG posting again!! Are you still getting married?
Thanks for the awesome props! Yep, still getting hitched. We have our engagement party this weekend. Most of the major wedding preps all taken care of and now we're working on the little details.
P.S. Babar, did you take my advice and totally cut loose?
Pffff, not another spoof forum member. I bet it's really DGMacphee in disguise.
Sick bastards why not give them the whole freedom of speech speil
Or if a female lecturer starts telling you off dont speak or even acknowledge them and simply pull out a piece of paper saying get a sex change and maybe we can talk later
Quote from: LimpingFish on Tue 03/06/2008 20:58:53
Quote from: Pumaman on Tue 03/06/2008 20:45:37
But don't you realise, if you spend even one minute alone with a woman, it can't end in any other way than with a night of steamy passion.
I've obviously been hanging out with the wrong women. :'(
Actually I thinks it's a good chance you're haning out with the right women LimpingFish.
This whole thing is probably just to prevent the risk of cooties, did you know that 1 in every 5 unpopular kids catches cooties at some point in they're life, it's a serious issue and someone needs to work to prevent it. ;D
Quote from: SSH on Thu 05/06/2008 15:40:22
Pffff, not another spoof forum member. I bet it's really DGMacphee in disguise.
Whoops! Sorry, I've got to sound more like myself...
"Fuckity fuckity blah blah a pox on you blah blah here's a sixteen page response that doesn't go anywhere."
There! Now do you believe I'm the real me?
Now we're more sure than ever it's not you!
REVEAL THYSELF, IMPOSTOR! :=
I started and restarted writing this post several times and realized that I can't really convey how foreign the idea of a college banning chicks and dudes talking to each other alone is to me. The dorms in my university only have a couple of single-gender floors and no segregated-gender bathrooms inside the buildings. If there was a new policy requiring people to keep the noise levels down while having sex in their rooms, there would be a violent revolution.