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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.

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

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hate this culture so fucking much

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

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

closingtheskillsgapLAD

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

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

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

they did To Kill A Mockingbird

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

To Gaol a Mockinglad

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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.

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

I'm a student at Cambridge University, still managed to put the word 'banter' five times into an essay on tension in Shakespeare's works. AnytimeanyplaceLAD

idk i guess at this point they should just close all the universities and quarantine them until boris johnson, time lovejoy and hard-fi have died of the pox

my ex-poly was a erm tepidbed of indifference

would have said the LAD phenomenon was more a bros in Bench t-shirts at decent provincial uni sort of thing

dg!

bros in Bench t-shirts at decent provincial uni sort of thing = this was the sportssciencebro thing we were riffing on a while back

that description makes me think LOUGHBOROUGH btw -- the only ppl i know who went there are all kind of athletic, sportsbro doing business studies types

definitely a lot of LADs in that contingent, but then some of those ppl are quite serious cuz they want to become brokers after all

the particular example i had in mind was a leeds fresher who boasted to me that "I'VE SPENT MY ENTIRE STUDENT LOAN ON COCAINE AND I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE A WEEK"

i gave him an apparently desperately needed cigarette but not the £20 he swore he'd give back to me next week etc

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@MrBlackMills great banta lad, lol #coming4unow http://yfrog.com/h2l5tmsj

The woman claimed she fell asleep following a drunken night out clubbing and saw photographs of the incident on Rodgers' mobile phone in the morning.

The players told the court there was nothing sexual in what went on and the woman was awake during most of the 'boy banter'.

Rodgers' father, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, sat in the public gallery among eight members of the players' families.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/clifford-chance-trainee-lawyer-faces-sack-after-describing-his-work-as-fing-people-over-for-money-8814754.html

find it amazing how assholish behaviour can be excused when it obtains a name and therefore some ritualistic validation

like, watching my tutee play minecraft i was tickled when he said he'd form an alliance and then 'scumbag' his teammate. i was all "that's dishonourable and nasty" but apparently scumbagging is now a craft, a skill of subterfuge

Hey look at that - I am the master of a trade!

xp https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152

bahaha slick dick, down w/ kids again

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Another #AtheistLAD · Expand Collapse ... Richard Dawkins is my new favourite person, everything he says is so intellectual and just so...right #atheistLAD.

when you've been called a LAD on twitter you may as well stop trying any harder, you've made it

Alexander Wilson ‏@lighthousealex 25 Jun

99% sure Serena Williams has balls not ovaries. #beast #wimbledon2013

hes postly pretty vanilla, ladness probably inhibited by going to UNI at sussex surrounded by laurie penny types

could be fun if he autogoogles i suppose

what is a laurie penny type?

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Of course, polyamory isn't always political. People do it for all sorts of reasons, from grand ethical statements to boredom – managing the drama of multiple relationships is a great way to kill time on a Sunday afternoon. Personally, I started practising non-monogamy in my early 20s as a statement against the tyranny of the heterosexual couple form and the patriarchal nuclear family – but then again, I did a lot of silly things for similar reasons in my early 20s. If you'd asked 21-year-old me why precisely I was hanging half-naked out of a fourth-floor window on Holloway Road, I'd probably also have answered "as a statement against the tyranny of the heterosexual couple form". Nowadays, from the wise and serious vantage point of my mid-20s, I practice non-monogamy because it works for me. It doesn't work for everyone, and I might not choose it forever.

^^^spruuuuuung

what do u think of laurie penny?

me? or lj?

she's written & spoken articulately, not many holes to pick

as a prominent spokesperson for the left she's definitely in the top quartile

attracts a lot of dunderheaded cant from cryptofascist shitheads as well

also you think she is hot

lol

you can tell shes not a true EBOUÉ WAS JOKES north londoner cuz she doesnt say the holloway road

absolutely no opinion on this matter. haven't met her for a start. seems kinda irrelevant to her writing. xps