why are students such a bunch of grippers?

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they do stuff like stealing shopping carts & burning furniture in their front yards & throwing beer bottles onto the street, they make this town look like a stinking garbage dump...yeah & *they're* supposed to be future pillars of society, *I'M* supposed to be the antisocial slime element. I hate them.
Today there was a big rugby game & the whole town was rotten lousy w/ the buggers, staggering out in front of my car with paint on their faces & acting like clowns. Where were the cops? If I was a cop I could've arrested hundreds of people today. They don't get arrested tho', because they're STUDENTS. Wankers!
Yes it is a question, WHY ARE THEY SUCH WANKERS.

― duane, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there WAS Kent State and Tienanman Square, so chalk up a few points against the students.

― dave q, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(obviously not all, or even that many, students, are like that. butthey're a pretty noticable minority tho'...all around the campus area is like a ghetto of beer swilling, garbage strewing, throwing- shopping-trolleys-in-the-river JERKOFFS. what's with this fucking shopping trolley thing, anyway? do students in other parts of the world have this magpie-like attraction to shopping trolleys, or is that unique to Dunedin?)

― duane, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

("gripper" = slang at my posh skool long ago for thief, never heard since i left lo these 23 yrs, but you duane did not go to my posh skool I think... )

― mark s, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gripper = nickname of Grange Hill bully of yore, major part of whose schtick was money w/menaces so I suspect slang more widespread than your school.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm pretty certain the shopping trolley thing is universal. Also traffic cones and signs. we had about 5 cones in one student house i lived in...

― carsmilesteve, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apropos of what exactly, I'm not sure, but when I used to live in Gosforth, north ov newcastle, the place went WAAAY downhill when the landlords started to let the properties to students. Many years ago, I played in a bhangra band, and the drummer owned a whole lot of property that he let out to students. He claimed that student nurses were the worst by a long way, so U can bear this in mind if you ever let property youself. What the fuck am I on about?

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― Norman Fay, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most college students are total shitheads. thats why its wise to isolate them form society like a penal colony with campuses way out in the boonies. I hate what BU and BostonCollege do to my neighboorhood. The streets flow with piss blood and vomit. Its liek living in a stomach

― Mike Hanley, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

our universities are smack in the middle of the centre of the cities. i love walking through the streets being showered with water. at least i hope that was water.

― nathalie, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

see people who live on campus are obviously way more wankish than students who can't afford to live there, and so go out into the suburbs and harass their neighbours.

― Geoff, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

("gripper" - at my skool it meant the same as "wanker")

― duane, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic "be cruel to students" moment. The rag procession (student charity event generally involving getting v pissed) drove past the house we used to live in. So when we knew it was coming up, we got some water balloons and launched them from our 1st floor bathroom window, they had no idea what was going on, teehee!

― carsmilesteve, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Students getting pissed, making arses of themselves = if not exactly 'classic', then understandable given the circumstances.

Students moaning abt their plight and the lot of the underclasses: see 'Student Grant' in Viz.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US College: we set repressed students free, allowing themselves to splurge on food/drink/sex/drugs. Those who survive become adults. The rest weren't gonna cut it anyway.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At my college, if yopur roommate or suitemate committed suicide, you got given A's for the year.

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was never quite good enough for that - my roommate used to just get mad at me and threaten to pitch my CDs out of the window. Explain the tricks of the trade Suzy, as I will need them when I start writing my Junior Paper.

― Dave M., Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, Suzy - we had that rule, too. Allegedly. I wonder if it was just campus folklore, tho. Was your library said to be sinking as well? Unfortunately, the dorm that had the most suicides was all singles (also said to have the highest suicide rate of any dorm in the country - who the hell keeps track of such nonsense?), so few people were able to take advantage of this benefit.

― Kerry, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The streets flow with piss blood and vomit. Its liek living in a stomach

Great metaphor, Mike. But that's exactly how I feel living near Wrigley Field. Of course, all Cubs fans are ex-frat boys anyway.

― Kerry, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bear in mind that I went to a small arts college with a highly-strung group of rich kids as the main component of the student body. Our library was not sinking but every time I had to go there to do shelving (my on-campus evil job) I got headrush. The set of ugly new dorms that I lived in for the first two years was actually designed by the same guy who did Lincoln Centre, and the legend states that he wept when he saw them. But he had nothing on the actual denizens of these barracks. Stairs were arranged so at the top of four flights we could see the target someone had helpfully daubed in for potential jumpers.

Nobody actually killed themselves while I was there; far more likely scenario was someone ODing in Lower East Side trust-funda flat following stripper cameo in Richard Kern film.

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy : Did you go to Bennigton by any chance ?

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always steal all my books from the school bookstore and sell them back the next day.

― JM, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony: close, but NO CIGAR. I went to the vastly superior Sarah Lawrence (hence ability of rich kids to live in off-campus NYC housing). My best friend from high school went to Bennington, wound up having a breakdown and picking up one of those artist boyfriends who expects Traditional Gender Divisions, eg, he makes the art, she makes the tea. Brrrrr.

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HARDCORE student larrikinism - at Lincoln (esp.) they have these events they call "drinking horns". Future politicians & businessmen do stuff like puking into each other's mouths ("the Pelican"), shaking up a bottle of beer & sticking it in someone's arse so they can spray beer out of their arse, raping farm animals, etc. Our friend David Hornblow has a good story from when he worked as a sound tech at one of Lincoln College's many gross-out social events..."They were having a competition for who could do the grossest things. 1st guy took a shit on a piece of bread & ate it. He came *2nd*..." (& so on)

― duane, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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