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Women's Suffrage - Just Say No!

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    #2
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Excellent! Although I'm wondering what trouble he got in for that little stunt.


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    The_Minister
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Harmless fun, I hope he didn't get in too much trouble.


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    That's well shot actually. I'd say it's very like a lot of similar stuff, where they remove most of the people who understood what he was actually asking.

    An intelligent prank though. Far from being punished by the school, they should have been awarded for their creativity and uniqueness. Oh wait, it's the U.S. isn't it?

    I think it actually proves two things:
    1. A lot of people don't know what "suffrage" is (I don't remember the word ever appearing in secondary school for me)
    2. If you put a petition in front of someone, there's a good chance they'll sign it, without actually asking you why.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    AH, not Pol - imo


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,421 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Yes! No more suffering for women!


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    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    seamus wrote:
    I think it actually proves two things:
    1. A lot of people don't know what "suffrage" is (I don't remember the word ever appearing in secondary school for me)
    It should have appeared in your history lessons.
    2. If you put a petition in front of someone, there's a good chance they'll sign it, without actually asking you why.
    Truth. Hmm....


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Karoma wrote:
    It should have appeared in your history lessons.
    "Should" being the operative word. Now, I'll be honest and say that I only did History up to Junior Cert level. All I remember from that though is a painfully anti-british recount of Irish independence and the U.S. revolution.


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    metrovelvet
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    seamus wrote:
    An intelligent prank though. Far from being punished by the school, they should have been awarded for their creativity and uniqueness. Oh wait, it's the U.S. isn't it?

    Oh wait - it was a Catholic school wasnt it?


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    Sand
    Registered Users Posts: 12,588 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    May have got into trouble for either taking the piss out of the school, and/or not displaying appropriate gender sensitivity. Does demonstrate the uselessness of polls and petitions though. People have no clue what theyre signing, but their name is highjacked for some cause. Though the same can be said for voting.

    EDIT - Actually all they got was a telling off by a nun and one days detention for misleading their teacher (distributed the video on the web, humiliating girls who were caught out).
    An intelligent prank though. Far from being punished by the school, they should have been awarded for their creativity and uniqueness. Oh wait, it's the U.S. isn't it?

    What sort of school system did you experience where creativity and uniqueness were rewarded over and beyond exam grinds to get points for 3rd level places? And oh yeah, it was a copy of an old stunt done on TV years before, so not all that creative or unique.


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