Aww, feminista.
A male-oriented society accused of celebrating 'Top Gear culture' has provoked a gender row at Manchester University.

Feminist students claim the Masculinity Exploration Networking and Support (MENS) group – promotes 'beard-growing contests', 'beer marathons' and macho culture.
Bless the little dears.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:28, 38 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Good for them.
Although I suspect it's an undercover group for guys still in the closet.
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Are you sure you wouldn't like to Explore the Support of my Networked Masculinity?

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:36, Reply)

You're probably right.
It's like the Iron John/mens' movement thing in the 90s. Sitting in sweat lodges and having empowerment groups. Shirters, the lot of them.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:36, Reply)

Fabulous term there, 'shirters'.
Expect to see it liberally used around here by me from now on. Thank you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:51, Reply)

I aim to please Monty.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Your aim is true,
unlike that of some of the shirters around here...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:29, Reply)

you're the shirter sunshine
when you're not around we all refer to you as "that dirt-road bandito monty"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:32, Reply)

You'll have to go offline Monty.
Then we'll talk about you.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:42, Reply)

Chicks will argue about anything.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:34, Reply)

What they need,
is a bloody good shagging. That'll cure them.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

No we won't

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Yes you will.
Milk, two sugars please.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

That's true, sorry dear.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:42, Reply)

They can be right gits,
when menstrual too.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Do students actually care about issues anymore?
the shit-spouting arseholes I see around town certainly don't.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

the ones in Exeter seem to care about how big their hair is
and how popped their collars are.

They don't seem to mind how dented their Ford Kas get though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I was going to mention wanky hair and popped collars
but I was worried that I would come across as some embittered weirdo, especially from students with wanky hair and popped collars.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I am an embittered weirdo
that doesn't detract from Exeter uni being full of oxbridge rejects with cars bought by mummy and daddy, who meticulously dress like they've just fallen out of bed after a sleep of Rip Van Winkle magnitude.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:47, Reply)

Uni has become daycare for rich kids
a holding pen between gap-years
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:02, Reply)

What's a popped collar?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:44, Reply)

The pinnacle of fucking stupid ideas
to have cropped up in undergraduates' desire to look like they're unable to dress themselves.

"Ooh, how can I look like more of a salivating retard today? I know, it'll look really deep if I turn my collar up. This is a great way for me to express the personality I don't have!"
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Just found pics on Google images.
What a horrible idea.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:48, Reply)

www.kublermdk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/4popped-collars.png
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:47, Reply)

Wha a knobhead.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:49, Reply)

There's something about his expression
which looks as though he's just got over the shock of someone pushing a shotgun barrel up his arse, and is starting to enjoy the sensation.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:53, Reply)

When I was at uni,
the SU building was called the Brucie Forsyth building. Sums it up really.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Yes
Yes it does
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:44, Reply)

God I hate students.
I hated them more when I was one.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:48, Reply)

Ha.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I temped in the branch of Natwest on the uni campus for a while
and when asking the obligatory "do you want a credit card?" I heard back "no thanks, I've got daddy's gold card" or words to that effect at least 3 times.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I didn't have a credit card,
till my mid 30s. No wonder they moan about debt.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:59, Reply)

I've got to teach the festering little bastards this afternoon
I do wonder how easy it would be to engineer a "little accident" with one of the carbon arc lamps in the lab...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:54, Reply)

They should be doing drugs, drinking
and eating cheap beans. Not driving round in a sodding hatchback.
And getting a PROPER job.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Reminds me of Student Grant in Viz
Coming back to Uni to find the Nelson Mandela Hall being renamed the Jim Bowen Hall.
( Peej, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Student Grant was excellent, wasn't he?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:30, Reply)

He was,
actually
( djtrialprice, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:50, Reply)

Lets stand in front of a cash machine, Tarquin,
and talk loudly about philosophy.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 28 Jan 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Actually...
I find that renaming quite funny.

*EDITED*

What a twat. I thought Philile Joe came back to find HIS SU had been renamed. I must remember to read things properly.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 12:32, Reply)