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

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link

well, yeah

tumblring dice (crüt), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mark G, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:21 (twelve years ago) link

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

the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago) link

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.

emil.y, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link

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

the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link

seriously tempted to start taking screenshots of the google cache

the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link

owen jones xp

Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago) link

is what?

Mark G, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link

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

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:48 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:49 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link

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.

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link

see i beg to differ with that, too

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link

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.

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link

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

bs and 'Why Do You Listen To Frog?' (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link

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.

good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link

"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.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link

not, not hot.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link

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.

emil.y, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

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.

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link

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

Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link

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

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link

The emptiest cans make the loudest noises.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link

unilad.com down w/apology now

stet, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link

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.

the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link

that's a good point i think.

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

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been incarcerated in a brutal US prison, charged with attempted rape, and has had to resign from his job at the IMF. The Italian prime minister faces charges of having sex with an underage prostitute, and of corruption. He simply shrugs off these accusations, declaring 'I love women. I love life. Silvio BerLADsconi

nakhchivan, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/Gvpga.png

nakhchivan, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

hate this culture so fucking much

boxedjoy, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

At uni giving shit to one of our mates for being a faggot for doing english literature. After defending him self and being shot down for trying to convince us that shakespeare was a LAD cos he used his poetry to get with birds, said LAD has a little think then comes back with "well poetry isnt gay, mike bassett got a remarkably understrength england team to the world cup semi final by reciting kipling on national telly" galvanisinglyricsLAD

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

thanks to the last govt deciding 50% of the population must enjoy tertiary education huh

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link

closingtheskillsgapLAD

Vermicious Knid A (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link

the new universities seem to be the vanguard of the lad/bantuh movement

that student newspaper which got into trouble for its edgy rape fanfic content was from plymouth university

fuckheid who got gaoled for racially abusing ppl on twitter after muamba's collapse was from swansea university

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link

also i'm assuming Stoke has a university hence that picture of workplace bully and pro-violence activist Pulis getting an honorary degree

Vermicious Knid A (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link

xp one of my best friends taught that kid English in secondary school maybe five years ago

they did To Kill A Mockingbird

cissémanwhore (DJ Mencap), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link

haha yeah

if it has a law dept then they need to give an honorary doctorate to the stoke club solicitor who got pulis off a speeding ban and somehow kept jermaine pennant out of jail for DUI & with a suspended license

i mean i know the ex-polys traditionally got labelled by the telegraph etc as hotbeds of marxist insurgency etc so maybe i shouldn't be so deterministic, but really the idea that every (lower) middle class kid needs to be spend three years trying not to be a faggot is just

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

To Gaol a Mockinglad

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/3ioyi.png

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link

i see that unilad.com is back and the same as ever. except now it has content you pay for?!?!

when i was visiting my old university for a conference we went to the union for cheap food and saw that on the drinks menu was a cocktail called the 'sexual predator'. a quick bit of tweeting by a friend saw the union get a couple of dozen emails about it and it was soon dropped from the drinks list. VICTORY.

Merdeyeux, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

tbf to ex-polytechnics i'm at a hotbed of marxist, um, reading and writing stuff in an ex-polytechnic.

Merdeyeux, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link


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