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Quoting Ga from 16:06, 13th May 2005 This may be an "academic institution", but it does not excusse you from acting like an arsehole. Going after somebodys' spelling and grammar instead of answering their agument is acting like an arsehole. Indeed, it is usualy the last resort of an arsehole who ha...

Quoting Al from 14:55, 13th May 2005 "Association hackery, I suspect." would be perfectly correct. Actually, the use of either double or single inverted commas/quotation marks (there is no such thing as "speech marks") is - unless stipulated by editorial policy - simply a matter of personal prefere...

Criticising the English of others really is the lowest form of argument, and I find generally is the intellectual cripple's substitute for any real retort. Kindly desist. While it is generally considered poor form to criticise the English of those more intellectually challenged than oneself, this i...

Quoting Al from 12:53, 13th May 2005 I think it is the case that any student can opt not to be a member of the Students' Association. That is substantially easier than disaffiliating from the NUS. Oh and it's more than a little hypocritical to attack people's poor English when your own posts contai...

Quoting Paranoid from 12:46, 13th May 2005 Seems to me that this non-binding measure wasnt properly made aware of during the election and has thus mislead many people into expecting the result to count for something... Although I'd like my email address for at least an extra year (so as I can pinpo...

Quoting Steveo from 12:35, 13th May 2005 How about you get the facts before you go on a pointless rant anbout the Association and this 'referendum'? IT Services wanted to gague the level of interest in int student body as to how many wanted to keep the e-mail address , not the account, so all that ...

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 11:48, 13th May 2005 Did the Association actually discuss this with IT Services beforehand, or did they (as I suspect might be the case) turn up with their referendum result and get all stroppy with IT because of their "mandate"? Surprisingly, for The Sinner, some sense ha...

[s] RJ Covino wrote on 16:05, 25th Mar 2005: [s] Aelius Theon wrote on 15:06, 25th Mar 2005: [i] (that one's for you, Ralph) Much obliged. I think... Though slightly let down by the non-invite to a boozy lunch at Bridges that all the world and their sister seems to have been at. [/i] Au contraire, m...

[s] exnihilo wrote on 14:39, 25th Mar 2005: I'm not getting into the Poll Tax debate, but I will just say that I'd imagine she didn't so much "have the gall" to "preach" to the General Assembly as she was invited to speak at the General Assembly. She hardly gatecrashed and lectured them. Hello, Mr J...

[s] md25 wrote on 11:10, 25th Mar 2005: That was the first debate I've ever been to and I thought it was great fun. The SSP guy was the best speaker there, he really knew how to play the crowd. I too thought it was great fun. Shame the Convenor was for the most part inside a bottle of Tanqueray othe...

Anyone care to defend the following - Her removal of free milk from schools Happy to. Budgetary constraints at the DES meant something had to go, and the options were free school milk or the Open University (then still in its infancy). Which would you rather she had saved? The OU, obviously. Otherw...

Jamie potton wrote: What the hell are you talking about? 1. I have a sword. 2. You will be instantly recognisable, as either wearing academic dress, or a cravat. 3. I will hurt you Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh please, do pardon me while I insert my lungs back inside after laughing them out of my body. I am a...

exnihilo wrote: Indeed. However, occasionally, it is well to phrase one's comments to suit the layman. New as I am to this witless and moronic Sinful 'threading', I find that that is the approach to take in relation to this whole tawdry process: assume cretinousness, gross idiocy and sexual devianc...

maz wrote: and if someone was a turnip eating skirt-wearer - which i am guessing you mean scottish - then i would really doubt they have a GCSE in wood-work because GCSE's arent a part of the scottish education system, shows how much you know about the country you are studying in..... Having taught...

niall wrote:

no, scotchmen is like calling a frenchman a frog, a german a hun, etc.


YES. MY POINT EXACTLY. Well done.

exnihilo wrote: the later middle ages, and into the modern age Come come Barias, you should know better than to use woolly and wholly (get me) incomprehensible terms like 'the later middle ages' and 'the modern age'. I thought you said there were no such things? And anyway, you're an expert in the ...

mossop wrote: Scotchmen?? Whiskymen? Fucking idiot. 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a crate. Coincidence? I think not. Oh dear oh dear. Irony lost yet again on some pointless cretin who with their 1 GCSE in woodwork managed to scrape into St A by being a turnip-eating skirt-wearer. Speaks for itself...

Independence for Scotland. Reminds me of a line from Withnail & I (a film mercifully free of Scotchmen):

'You can stick it up your arse for nothing, and fuck off while you're doing it.'

Eliot Wilson wrote: I'd like to wear a cravat, really I would. I think they're very smart, and a useful alternative to a tie in a moderately casual situation. It's society's repressive norms that are holding me back. Damn society. Well then, it's about time we became unrepressed and let it all hang...

Eliot Wilson wrote: Cravats, while in some senses attractive, are usually best reserved for the older gentleman. Older even than you, Mr M. That I sometimes sported a cravat as a teenager, is more to do with my being a twat than anything else (paisley cravat, checked shirt, canary yellow sweater IN...