Ban Rag Week

PopeBuckfastXVI

Some little sh*tlicking c*ntbag motherf*cker ripped the arial out of my car last night, took the f*cking threading with it, so I can't even put in a new one. Possibly several hundred euros worth of damage done, presumably by some d*ckhead student for a 'laugh'.

F*cking castration's too good for the little vermin.

Sherifu

Well that sucks.

Lockstep

Leave urine outside your door poured inside beer bottles.

That'll learn the little scamps.

Bass Cadet

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Leave urine outside your door poured inside beer bottles.

That'll learn the little scamps.

interesting idea....Might try this as a present for the little rat bastard who untightened the wheel nuts on my housemates van. He was almost killed yesterday as a result, but luckily was on a quiet, country road when the wheel almost ripped off. What gets into these b@stsrds heads??!

cornbb

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned way of celebrating Rag Week - drinking non-stop for a week and not going to classes, none of these sh1tty "pranks".

Oh right, they've gone back to doing it the old-old-fashioned way

Proxy

I've been saying this for about 3 years. Ban it. Its of no good to anybody anymore. Its semi-organised mayhem. It turns the town into Sin City for a week (and I don't mean in the holy-Joe way)...its only good for publicans, especially when cnuts like these ruin it for the ones who enjoy it casually.

Beerlao

RAG stands for Raising And Giving. Maybe he was giving your aerial to charity.

and kickoutthejams, it won't learn them, but it might teach them

TristanPeter

Wild beatins is what some of them need!

I find it amazing that every year they act the exact same. The drunken fool lads think they are all cock-of-the-walk and ultra cool and confident and the drunken fool women think they are God's gift to the male of the species because they get soooo much attention from little ratty, spotty, greasey 18-21 year old turnips. Aires and graces then because they are the elite of society because...they are in college!

Pope Buckfast, I'd wait up this eve. Keep an eye on your car and if you see anyone at it get those waste-of-space Gardai on the case.

JIZZLORD

to target every student would be unfair. i've gone to labs and a few lectures while still enjoying myself. it's the types that develop[ed a taste for mayhem in corrib village that should be castrated, town is full of bland fellas from down the country who like nothing better than a bottle of kinsey vodka and a fight/random robbing.

MattKid

I've got nothing planned after going to the gym if anyone wants to go driving around and getting vigilante on wrong doers:D

PopeBuckfastXVI

I'm game... we can borrow tristanpeters van and do it a-team style...

dibs on being Hannibal

TristanPeter

See Page 16 of today's Galway Advertiser

AckwelFoley

Hmm, pain in the ass alright.

Ban rag week? LOL.. some chance.

You have a better chance stopping priests molesting children.

galah

but why is it spiralling so out of control these days?

I remember Rag Week way back, and it was just a bit of booze, some concerts, a bit of socialising, and that was that. None of this destructive and aggressive stuff going on (I am actually surprised my wing mirrors are still on...)

Caliden

I thought it stood for Raise A Grand...

Mrs. D'arcy

Joe Duffy is talking about rag week in Galway today, got a complaint from someone who was taunted by drunk students.
A few people can really ruin it for everybody.

skelliser

Mrs. D'arcy wrote: »

Joe Duffy is talking about rag week in Galway today, got a complaint from someone who was taunted by drunk students.
A few people can really ruin it for everybody.

this should be quality!

danniemcq

taunted by drunk students?

thats a typical joe duffy caller anyway!

Robbo

Spectacular flights of oratory, reasoned and logical debating, some of the finest minds of society...no folks, it's not the Roman Senate, talk to Joe.

witnessmenow

Lost my wing mirror last week... I live near the cathedral, i think we should ban the novena!?

I'm a student, but i don't drink so I cant understand rag week at all! It'll never get banned. The SU know that if they cancel rag week the pubs and clubs in town will organise there own so absolutely no focus will be on charity, which is worse than the current barley any that is currently on it

TristanPeter

MattKid wrote: »

I've got nothing planned after going to the gym if anyone wants to go driving around and getting vigilante on wrong doers:D

Apologies for being so angry.Just annoys me so much people n Galway are so ignorant of....students.




Vigilante is such a cool word. That's what I'm changing my Boards nickname to. Tristanpeter is so hmmm, uncool.

On a more serious note; to me it doesn't seem like there is any focus of activity for Rag Week anymore. Prob since they banned drinking on Uni grounds. I wonder why they did that??? Is the River Inn even busy? That pub was traditionally associated with Rag Week and when I drove by the other day it didn't look like there was anything happening. My point being anyway; is there any organisation this year to Rag Week or is it just mayhem? It seems to be much more dispersed throughout the city.

JIZZLORD

the river inn changed ownership and they no longer do their rag week spectacle

Sarky

Who would ever think a publican might get annoyed at having to buy new furniture every March?

I haven't encountered any pathetic scenes like 18 year olds propping themselves up against a urinal while trying to finish their bottle of cheap-ass cider this year, which makes a nice change. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Then again, I'm avoiding town with the same disgust I usually reserve for St. Patrick's weekend, Shop street could have turned into a permanently grubby vomit-soaked warzone for all I know.

What was my point again? I think it was something along the lines of "Don't be a dick during Rag week, you're not the first person to think it was funny, and it was never funny to begin with. Stay at home and rip your liver out with a heated steak knife, it's cheaper."

galwayrush

Terrible behaviour, it seemed such a good fun time years back, now it's pathetic vandalism from immature kids who can't drink responsibly.

Toto Wolfcastle

I haven't been out for RAG week, but I know about the trouble because my mother texted me from Cork today telling me she hopes I wasn't involved in the 'drunken behaviour'. I wish that the focus was more on charity and on events on campus that don't involve alcohol.

I did my undergrad in UCC. UCC RAG week wasn't perfect, we still had people going out getting drunk, like any normal student night really. The difference was that they set up a couple of stages on campus and put on free gigs all day, so students came to college instead of going into town drinking from 12 onwards. I mean, you couldn't move in the college bars, but there were a lot more people just enjoying the atmosphere on campus. That's what I'd love to see in NUIG. (Although I won't be there for next year's!)

A lovely drunk young man offered me cock outside Block S the other day. Nice to see that our future is so bright!

philboy

i went back to college this year after finishing my degree 3 years ago. I went out last night and ended up in Kennedy's (pure shi*e) , i prob deserved a bad night. The amount of people being aggressive for no reason was unreal. Two guys at different times tried to start a fight for no reason whatsoever. I just told them to calm down and I walked away. Even after the club, there was a lot of people just acting the arseh*le out on the street and causing trouble. It definetly has gone downhill. I'm not tarring everyone with a bad brush, but it defo seems to have gone downhill. Whatever happened to just goin out and getting locked for the week like we used to do. The paddywagon was well stocked up leaving smacs at about 3am :):)

jezza

God, rag week is great.
But vandalising property is never funny. Or never acceptable.
Its assholes like that, that ruin it for the people like us (me) who just wanna go out and get trollied so bad.

RAG week sucks. There was nothing really organised for GMIT. Glasan got destroyed Monday night; a taxi driver got assaulted and so did a pizza delivery man, apparently.

leninbenjamin

janeybabe wrote: »

The difference was that they set up a couple of stages on campus and put on free gigs all day, so students came to college instead of going into town drinking from 12 onwards.

that's a good point. during my time here I've noticed that the attempts to get students off campus have increased, which largely seems to outsource the problems to the rest of the law abiding Galwegians. the college really has to increase it's efforts to curb the antisocial behaviour and they are going to have to take a completely different approach than the simply shove it under the carpet attitude that seems to be the administration norms.

then again this week was probably my most productive in that all the labs were empty, and lectures were less cramped and moved at a better pace. let's make it a ragmonth

DEmeant0r

If people can't behave in an acceptable way when drunk, then they shouldn't be drinking... :-/

JIZZLORD

lectures during rag week are odd. they run so efficiently, though early morning thermodynamics lectures and hangovers do not mix at all.

i made the best effort to have a balanced week. i gave money to charity, i went to most of my lectures and i was out most nights. i had a good time and i caused no harm. rag week isn't about listening to a dj belt out barbie girl in some skanky pub. the sooner the twats in college realise this, the better.