Your favourite posts from truelad.com

so many 'quotable notables' on this website

when i saw this bumped i was going to link to uniLAD. greatmindsthinkalikeLAD. also, christ.

You don’t have to be Steven Spielberg to produce a cracking video for the lads. Simply pre-set your computer to record before you head out and cover up any flashing lights with blue tac. A desk lamp appropriately pointed towards the bed will provide sufficient lighting for a film to be viewed the following evening. Whether you get lucky or stupidly drunk, the results will be entertaining. Popcorn is compulsory. Just make sure the video doesn’t end up on the internet or you will have an angry dad knocking your door down.

much like trueLAD at first it's all fun and lols, but then three minutes in you've absorbed enough to feel bad for the rest of the day.

unluckyLAD beat by angryDAD

UniLAD the latest target of twitter ire. In some ways I'm glad they're getting shit, in others... well, they're just puerile little fuckheads, I'm not sure if I can expend any energy on this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/31/unilad-magazine-forced-to-pull-surprise-rape-article-after-twitter-backlash_n_1244173.html

http://nomadicutopianism.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/unilad.jpg

thought I revived this thread a few weeks ago re uniLAD but it must've been another one

I tried to hip ILX to this thing like a year ago btw and no-one bit :(

― Scilk Mahouthy (DJ Mencap), Friday, January 7, 2011 4:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I really do pick the things to play firsties with huh

oh wait it's right above yes

oh god that facebook jpg. maybe if we rename 'freedom of speech' to 'freedom to act like an ignorant bigoted dipshit' people will be less keen to use it as a defence.

One 'good' post, one actual joke, 50% of the rest think they're funny, and the rest ... god!

Still, within the remit of the 'discussion', that 'joke' is inappropriate. Jerry Sad could use it in his act, because his persona is "a git".

Professionally a couple of us have been watching this unfold, as its run by students from our closest geographical rival. This kind of culture pretty much sickens me.

shouldn't those angry LADs be angry at uniLAD for capitulating to the feeble oestropressure of the joyless anti-rape wenches

It's only BANTER. Banter that seems to be exhorting young men to encourage violent sexual crime.

I hope someone takes these fuckheads to court.

Not defending this at all, but it's likely the FB jpg has been trimmed for impact.

well, yeah

Then again, most of them have "7 hours ago"

a facebook friend wrote to plymouth university (where apparently the writers are based) and received this reply:

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

We are appalled to learn of the offensive content of this website and we were further dismayed to learn of the involvement of one of our students. While this website has no affiliation to Plymouth University - any student activity, extracurricular or otherwise, which brings the University into disrepute is a disciplinary matter and we will be taking appropriate action.

We will be following formal university procedure of holding a disciplinary hearing where any necessary actions would be decided as a result of this due process.

If you wish to share our response on Twitter, then please use this version so that it will fit in terms of characters (140 exactly with spaces):

This website has no affiliation to Plymouth, however we are appalled to learn of the offensive content and will be taking appropriate action

the site is now closed

Um, dl, the facebook jpg is clearly made up of numerous screenshots, arranged in a way that facebook does not arrange comments. Nobody was trying to claim it's a single screenshot, because it patently isn't. If you're doubting the veracity of its contents, then you can still look at the post on facebook RIGHT NOW.

seriously hope this gets picked up by the press and the fucker that runs the site becomes a national villian

What's the guy who wrote Chavs called? he was banging on on Twitter yesterday about how this generation of young people are the most tolerant, least racist, least sexist, least homophobic ever. Nice idea; shame about the truth.

seriously tempted to start taking screenshots of the google cache

owen jones xp

Nice idea; shame about the truth.

I hate young people but the notion that they're somehow less tolerant than my dad's generation of egalitarian liberals and freethinkers is

is what?

I'm not syaing they're worse; just not any better.

small improvements in social relations are always generally offset by terrible reversals elsewhere maybe.

i think it's kind of amusing that the generation that more or less invented the cult of YOOT are now deep into horrified middle age

but perhaps it says something that these Unilad pricks have pricks to kick against - the transgression itself speaks to something more positive outside it?

like in 1972 if you pulled this shit u wd be hip young counterculturalist on the block perhaps

xxpost while this is horrific and depressing bullshit of the lowest order, this sort of example isn't a very reliable barometer of general social attitudes in the UK today.

see i beg to differ with that, too

the culture when i was at uni in the late 80s was unrecognisable to what exists today. there was a lot of over-earnest nobbing about and yr standard distaste for/patronage of the working class but home-made banners for Nicaragua Solidarity and Women's Week feel like a fucking utopia compared to the relentless mobile phone ads and bikini foam parties that seem to be standard operating procedure in the 2K12

Yeah I think there'll always be a certain creature whose juvenile ignorance will lend this kind of "banter" funny to them, but it's good that this is being pulled up on so quickly and treated with the seriousness it deserves. I'm sure a lot of stuff in '90s lads' mags weren't a million miles off this kind of thing. Hopefully it's a sign we're moving away fromt his crap.

this generation of young people are the most tolerant, least racist, least sexist, least homophobic ever. Nice idea; shame about the truth.

I think he is probably right tbh but set against the average human lifespan these things move towards [what we might consider] 'decency' v v slowly

also the playing field has changed a whole lot, ie 20 years ago these choads would have probably done this column in some sort of rag mag and caused a kerfuffle on campus but no-one outside of that would have ever heard about it most likely

I also beg to differ. I know of another incident similar to this, albeit less overtly nasty in tone, and dealt with much better, at another university recently. Keeping an eye on student press, this phenomenon of 'banter' has really come about over the last couple of years and is really, really unpleasant.

it's not all truelad.com at Uni though- cf. student protests against fees. Says something about political consciousness of teh yoot, even if you might disagree about the content of that protest.

the whole Lad thing largely exists because it's transgressive tho - the fact that this is the case is at least a little positive

"It's just banter"; it';s fucking hot, it's perpectuating a really unpleasant, disrespectufl culture. And yes, maybe it is a good thing that the culture external to this is 'good' enough that this is the kicking against it, but even so.

not, not hot.

i know, but even so what you're left with is "morons will be morons" which as somebody who doesn't believe in human nature even i think is probly a trueism

home-made banners for Nicaragua Solidarity and Women's Week feel like a fucking utopia compared to the relentless mobile phone ads and bikini foam parties that seem to be standard operating procedure in the 2K12

Both of these kinds of stuff exist. My experience with student life has mostly been the former. And although we may be completely doomed and nothing anyone can do will change that, the politicisation of the younger students is just awesome, really.

i'm far too outside of student life to know what's happening beyond what i see in bars i guess :)

i sincerely hope this politicisation amounts to something. i can only say that the 80s felt pretty politicised too but here we are again.

I'b be surprised if these dimwits could even spell Nicuagura tbh

I went to a university where serious-minded students who were either politically aware or focused on a career probably outnumbered the morons by about eight to one but the 'student culture' was largely dominated by the latter group. They make a hell of a lot more noise than everyone else put together - both in terms of defining the bar / club atmosphere and in throwing their weight around on the union board.

Yeah, I think that's the trouble in a lot of places.

The emptiest cans make the loudest noises.

unilad.com down w/apology now

yeah i didn't have much interaction with this shit at uni. i wasn't politically aware either really, just into music, studying and working. as i mentioned a bit upthread, my brother was heavily exposed to shit shit while he was at uni in cardiff. he now works in the city and it seems in some ways a continuation of the same culture. i am director of a start-up technology company but according to him i could be "smashing more bids if you stop working on your abacus in the back room and get out in the real world". naturally he's only being ironic, of course.

my undergraduate university was (and is) v union focused, the culture of it was pretty hard to avoid even if you tried to squirrel yourself away in yourself. and lately it's getting even worse in the uniLAD vein - every themed night is along the lines of golf pros vs tennis hoes, chavs vs nerds, slave auction, really covering all the bases when it comes to completely mindlessly reinforcing power relations. and while the uniLAD people may amazingly be smart enough to recognise that they're being oh so daringly transgressive, i think for most people the banter-culture has just ossified into The Way Things Are, in terms of student life at least. this particular incident may have been that one step too far, but implied in that is that all the more insidious lower-level stuff has just been completely internalised and normalised.

that's a good point i think.

just trying not to launch into an E4 culture wars "exterminate the brutes" rant tbh.