To mister Canteen Correspondent

Whiskeyjack

You pompous self satisfied little git.Reaffirming your own sense of self superiority by reducing everyone you see into one of a select few cliches that you yourself define.I can only take solice in the fact that seeing as you claim to not belong to any of these groups it means you (unsurprisingly) probably have no friends.I don't even care if you never read this.I just felt like venting my frustration on people like you.(Well seeing as I'm a "Melvin" the stench of my B.O. might have prevented me from saying this to you in person anyway).

ixus

What you talking about Willis?

ya-what-now?

I believe it may be a spoke article :rolleyes:

DingChavez

Kitty!!! Kitty!!!!!! Kittyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NotWormBoy

I have to say, I agree with the article that I suspect this is about in general. Will post more tomorrow with a working keyboard.

Whiskeyjack

NotWormBoy wrote:

I have to say, I agree with the article that I suspect this is about in general. Will post more tomorrow with a working keyboard.

I await your reply

k99_64

Who could cc be???

dory

Whats up with the latest Spoke? Usually I hate all the Spoke bashing, I like reading it. But on the front page there's question marks all over the place.

What;s the story?

ixion

yikes now that was entertaining... hmmm whats a melvin?

Marco Polo

I'm taking a wild guess and saying CC is Peter Kavanagh. And the latest article is fairly crap. Not funny enough to be humourous, not harsh enough to be offensive. It's ended up as some kind of sickly halfbreed that targets everybody but the sh1te alt-music loving, D4ised, nouveau-rugby fans.

It's seems "Melvin" is dated American slang for nerd and geek. Both words are perfectly good terms of abuse. Like, why do we need to start importing random out-of-date Americanisms, home dog? *Does random hip hand gesture*

FunkyChicken

I find his articles informative and witty.

Gone West

FunkyChicken wrote:

I find his articles informative and witty.

I had an excellent flame directed at the canteen correspondent typed out.
I was thinking "jeez, I wonder if I'll get banned for this"
Then I realised that I probably can't ban myself and that I should probably set some sort of high brow standard here.

So, eh don't flame the CC.

But if you see me around campus, ask to hear my canteen correspondent rant.:v:

The Mad Hatter

I suspect he's the same person as 'Aunt Gertrude', as they both used the word 'melvin' in that paper.

Meh. It was hardly intelligent enough to be offensive. Just a bunch of redundant stereotyping and cliche.

Gael

Whiskeyjack wrote:

You pompous self satisfied little git.Reaffirming your own sense of self superiority by reducing everyone you see into one of a select few cliches that you yourself define.I can only take solice in the fact that seeing as you claim to not belong to any of these groups it means you (unsurprisingly) probably have no friends.I don't even care if you never read this.I just felt like venting my frustration on people like you.(Well seeing as I'm a "Melvin" the stench of my B.O. might have prevented me from saying this to you in person anyway).

I thought it was a great article. Go have a wash Melvin. You might get a girlfriend then!:D

pisslips

Whiskeyjack wrote:

You pompous self satisfied little git.Reaffirming your own sense of self superiority by reducing everyone you see into one of a select few cliches that you yourself define.I can only take solice in the fact that seeing as you claim to not belong to any of these groups it means you (unsurprisingly) probably have no friends.I don't even care if you never read this.I just felt like venting my frustration on people like you.(Well seeing as I'm a "Melvin" the stench of my B.O. might have prevented me from saying this to you in person anyway).

Please, vent somewhere else, I'm trying to eat!

FunkyChicken

FuzzyLogic wrote:

I had an excellent flame directed at the canteen correspondent typed out.
I was thinking "jeez, I wonder if I'll get banned for this"
Then I realised that I probably can't ban myself and that I should probably set some sort of high brow standard here.

So, eh don't flame the CC.

But if you see me around campus, ask to hear my canteen correspondent rant.:v:

No way lets hear it now

Beau

The CC corespondent might be Peter Kavanagh? Well that explains alot.

pisslips

Surel he could tell us who the CC is then seen as he is the CC correspondant.
I should have more to do.

Whiskeyjack

Gael wrote:

I thought it was a great article. Go have a wash Melvin. You might get a girlfriend then!:D

my mom says I'm cool...

Gone West

my mom says I'm a catch...

NotWormBoy

Well, regardless of who wrote the article, and regardless of the quality of the writing, I personally can't stand what I like to call "elitist music students". Not that all the people I'd put into that group are music students, thats just what I've come to call them. The people who would actually stop listening to a band simply because a few more people heard about them, or because they were played on the radio or something like that. They do think they're cooler than everone else, and since they're cooler than you, you can't disagree with their opinions because, man, you're, like, not cool so you wouldn't understand. Man. With a touch of "roysh" thrown in as well. Its idiotic to not like a band simply because other people like them, because they're seen as 'mainstream'.

But also because he\she had a pop at the GAA heads as well. :-)

I don't really care how the writer thinks of himself or how he comes across in his article, but I agreed with what he said about the elitists. On another slightly off topic note, other people that I dislike: IRA heads, anti-globalisation auto-anti-america anti-most-stuff-that-can't-be-smoked-slept-with-or-eaten hippies, eh... I'm sure I could name more, but I won't.

LittleKitty

Whiskeyjack wrote:

my mom says I'm cool...

poor whiskey....alone, always alone.....

on the CC thing, are ther actualy D4 people in this college? infiarness, its not UCD and he is not ross O'Carroll Kelly, even though he is practicaly ripping it off.

FunkyChicken

I know there's at least on D4 girl and she's loud and obnoxious and ugly as hell. Really annoying voice too

trekkypj

Beau wrote:

The CC corespondent might be Peter Kavanagh? Well that explains alot.

Doubt it. Not the way he'd write methinks.

pisslips

FunkyChicken wrote:

I know there's at least on D4 girl and she's loud and obnoxious and ugly as hell. Really annoying voice too

My voice is not annoying thank you!

Not Worm Boy wrote:

anti-globalisation auto-anti-america anti-most-stuff-that-can't-be-smoked-slept-with-or-eaten hippies, eh... I'm sure I could name more, but I won't.

So are you pro-globalisation, anti-american,I'm asking a question here but if so I actually hate you, REALLY!Your ****.
I can understand excuses such as lazyness and greed and human nature but if your ideals stretch as far as globalisation, you don't deserve to exist IMO.
Richard

k99_64

trekkypj wrote:

Doubt it. Not the way he'd write methinks.

Sorry trekkypj but its him, <<<<abuse snipped >dont post this sort of thing

Gone West

k99_64 wrote:

Sorry trekkypj but its him, <<<<abuse snipped >dont post this sort of thing

banned for 2 weeks

shroomfox

Where is the love?

Back when I was (the original) Canteen Correspondent, I used it as a pedestal to extoll love, virtue, honour and fidelity.

People across Maynooth joined hands in glorious song and gleeful cheers, all in honour of the timeless lessons taught in that sacred column.

And nobody called it CC. Nobody.

TheKav

Oh please! It'd be all too easy if I were the Canteen Correspondent, wouldn't it?

I will, however, take credit for the word melvin. I did introduce it to Maynooth this year in the first year handbook and it seems to have caught on.

Mach

I thoght cliches were something they had in secodary schools not colleges,we all adults, well most .We are old enough to decide who we hang out with,BTW I a geek/neard and proud of it.:p at CC.

shroomfox

No, you're wrong there. In fact, cliches become exaggerated threefold (maybe even fourfold) once college begins. This is because instead of there being one:

a) Lord Jock
b) Lord Muso
c) Lord Nerd

there will now be at least one:

a) Emperor Jock
b) Emperor Muso, and
c) Starfleet Commander Nerd

These, of course, each have a retinue of feudal lords and serfs, each displaying minor or major characteristics of their social grouping.