Bloody Croquet scum!!!

ApeXaviour

Right. Since Im not goin for mod I'm free to express myself uninhibited (oooooh shirley! )

What's up with those people who play croquet outside the Museum Building? Who are you!!?? "I say old boy" why don't you just put on a monacle and raise the frickin Union Jack!

I brought some mates from home to the college (book of kells and off to the pav) and there these a*se-bandits were. To say I was embarrassed would be an understatement..

Chattin with the group in college; seems this feeling is shared by the posse, and with some vehemence. Fortunately we've come up with a cunning plan...

We get a T-shirt, on it we get printed "YOU ARE A KNOB". A chosen mate goes up to these west-brit pansies wearing said T-shirt. "Howyis lads, was d'story?". And just stand there in the way, y'know Trigger Happy TV -esque.

It'll be the stuff of legend...

Boston

Legend, I like it.

aodh_rua

That's a lot of bile over something that's a relatively small part of College life. If you weren't a Trinity student, and therefore highly enlightened, you could almost be accused of small-mindedness.

Give them a break - College is a big place with plenty of room for everyone and their interests.

Sleipnir

Still, it is pretty colonial. They'll be shooting catholics next.

Nietzschean

Sleipnir wrote:

Still, it is pretty colonial. They'll be shooting catholics next.

is it the top of the museum building or the old physics building u can do that from?

aodh_rua

Triceradon wrote:

is it the top of the museum building or the old physics building u can do that from?

It's out of one of the windows in Front Square facing College Green, and only with a crossbow. Apparently a Provost's son shot someone in such a fashion and so they changed the rules and retroactively applied them so he wouldn't be expelled.

As for the colonial point - it's only a problem if you identify yourself as some kind of crippled post-colonial state. I think that we can happily define ourselves in terms of the present and allow people who want to play croquet to do so without resorting to juvenile insults like west-brit pansies and a*se-bandits.

On the other hand this could be a troll - I'd imagine other Colleges are jealous of our croquet lawn and cricket pitch

Chick

Lol, what about if you give out those knob tshirts to all us freshers, and we all walk up en masse abnd stand beside the pitch/lawn watever it is lol make for a great photo

I didnt know that you guys played croquet... :eek:

Zulu

So lets see if I got this right: you go to Trinners and your annoyed people play croquet?

I tought thats what all you toffs played in there, croquet and polo, while slapping eash others arses and saying "spiffing".

article6

Croquet? I did croquet once. Funny game. Not as similar to hurling as certain people would have had me believe.

Chick

No i havent started yet (oct)

but isnt it a tad unfair to call them all toffs?

Hagar

Sleipnir wrote:

They'll be shooting catholics next.

It wasn't all that long ago that that would have been impossible.
Catholics weren't "encouraged" to attend Trinity.

tribble

Sleipnir wrote:

Still, it is pretty colonial. They'll be shooting catholics next.

Colonial?

Like tennis, rugby or soccer (thought that's only for the riff-raff)

tribble

aodh_rua

Hagar wrote:

It wasn't all that long ago that that would have been impossible.
Catholics weren't "encouraged" to attend Trinity.

That wasn't down to Trinity - the Church banned Catholics from attending and fraternising with loose-moralled Protestants.

As for croquet being for toffs - the Trinity club used to be run by one of Ireland's leading members of the Socialist Workers Party.

article6

aodh_rua wrote:

That wasn't down to Trinity - the Church banned Catholics from attending and fraternising with loose-moralled Protestants.

As for croquet being for toffs - the Trinity club used to be run by one of Ireland's leading members of the Socialist Workers Party.

Toffs in the Socialist Workers' Party? I can't see any conflict with reality there.

Zulu

aodh_rua wrote:

the Trinity club used to be run by one of Ireland's leading members of the Socialist Workers Party.

One of the best placed spies in modren history

aodh_rua

Zulu wrote:

One of the best placed spies in modren history

Or in his case Medieval history....

Hagar

I googled using - trinity college religion bar - this is what I found.

"It was founded by Elizabeth I in 1592 in an attempt to stop students going to the continent and getting revolutionary ideas or being influenced by the Pope in Rome. For centuries the college was the centre of Protestant religion and Catholics couldn't join unless they accepted the Protestant faith. Catholics also had to get special permission from the bishop to attend the college or else face the possibility of excommunication. These restrictions were not completely lifted until 1970 and the fact that 70% of the students today are Catholic shows the turn around that has occurred in the last 30 years."

Personally I don't give a shyte if they play croquet or not but facts are facts.

aodh_rua

Hagar wrote:

I googled using - trinity college religion bar - this is what I found.

"It was founded by Elizabeth I in 1592 in an attempt to stop students going to the continent and getting revolutionary ideas or being influenced by the Pope in Rome. For centuries the college was the centre of Protestant religion and Catholics couldn't join unless they accepted the Protestant faith. Catholics also had to get special permission from the bishop to attend the college or else face the possibility of excommunication. These restrictions were not completely lifted until 1970 and the fact that 70% of the students today are Catholic shows the turn around that has occurred in the last 30 years."

Personally I don't give a shyte if they play croquet or not but facts are facts.

'Facts' are one thing - however an alternative set of 'facts' would be that the College was founded as a result of petitioning by Dublin merchants, and was granted a royal charter by Elizabeth I a year after opening. The notion that it was focussed on preventing revolutionary ideas is just wrong as it was a hotbed of progressive thinking through its members in the pre-Act of Union parliament and also as the intellectual home of Burke and Wolfe Tone.

The ban was a Catholic Church initiative for as far back as I'm aware, and certainly for all of the 20th century mainly driven by figures like John Charles McQuaid.

The statistic of the current religious mix being 70% seems remarkable - indeed I'm amazed it's that high as most people I know opt not to declare a religious background. In fact if 70% is the declared amount of Catholics I wouldn't be surprised if that makes the College one of the most Catholic institutions in the country.

TCP/IP

It still amazes me every day of the stupidity of some of the comments on boards. If people want to do something in there spare time it is up to them. How would a lot of people on boards who are very interested in computers have a group of people go to the computer labs and start abusing them. Now i know you are only a imature teenager but get a life and let people be.

Croguet has been a big tradition on the lawns of trinity for a long time. Maybe if it still was a upper class college that it used to be idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it.

Hagar

I am old enough to remember being told not to bother applying to Trinity as my religion would preclude me. Times have changed, so has my religion.

I'm sorry but denying the past doesn't change the past.

ChipZilla

TCP/IP wrote:

It still amazes me every day of the stupidity of some of the comments on boards. If people want to do something in there spare time it is up to them. How would a lot of people on boards who are very interested in computers have a group of people go to the computer labs and start abusing them. Now i know you are only a imature teenager but get a life and let people be.

Croguet has been a big tradition on the lawns of trinity for a long time. Maybe if it still was a upper class college that it used to be idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it.

It still amazes me that people still come out with this 'class' bullsh1t.

Get a life yourself.

desertcircus

From a History of the College:

"The bicentenary of Trinity College was allowed to go uncelebrated, but a noble memorial of its date is to be found in the Act passed in 1793 admitting Roman Catholics to the degrees of the University of Dublin."

Catholics were barred by the Catholic Church of Ireland from attending Trinity College.

TCP/IP

all i am saying is that people should be able to do there own thing without stupid unenlightened people annoying them. You would think that by the time people go to college they would have some form of maturity. I mean come getting t-shirts printed up is simply stupid. Do these people playing abuse you -no

ChipZilla

Sorry to disappoint you TCP/IP, but the majority of kids of a college-starting age are not mature despite what they (or you) think.

I'd be far more worried about your ideas that "idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it".

BW, did you actually attend Trinity yourself? If you did, your grammar and spelling would say to me that you're not really part of the the "upper class" you seem to think you're part of...

All the toffs eye met culd reed and spel liek... :rolleyes:

FX Meister

apexaviour wrote:

It'll be the stuff of legend...

You Spa, why not do that to all the goons who play soccer or is that acceptable to you, and then go for the cricket players. Your a retard mate

Sleepy

Why we bother procreating in such a bigoted country is beyond me...

ApeXaviour

TCP/IP wrote:

It still amazes me every day of the stupidity of some of the comments on boards. If people want to do something in there spare time it is up to them. How would a lot of people on boards who are very interested in computers have a group of people go to the computer labs and start abusing them. Now i know you are only a imature teenager but get a life and let people be.

Ahah here! Get the boat will ya.. Dinna assume either laddie, I'm neither stupid nor a teenager. Also lighten-up..

TCP/IP wrote:

Croguet has been a big tradition on the lawns of trinity for a long time. Maybe if it still was a upper class college that it used to be idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it.

And you have the audacity to imply that I'm a bigot?! :rolleyes:

Nietzschean

aww god will ye stop the flame war, it was only ment as a light hearted joke.
god know's if we can't laugh at ourselves/our college its a bad state of affairs....

ApeXaviour

TCP/IP wrote:

You would think that by the time people go to college they would have some form of maturity. I mean come getting t-shirts printed up is simply stupid.

Not stupid, FUNNY. Have you even seen T.H. TV? It may seem immature to the uninitiated, but in actuality it's quite a sophisticated minimalistic form of humour. My favourite type!

ChipZilla wrote:

I'd be far more worried about your ideas that "idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it".

Ditto

FX Meister wrote:

You Spa, why not do that to all the goons who play soccer or is that acceptable to you, and then go for the cricket players. Your a retard mate

Ahhh... Lovely. I was hopin to fish one them out Now let me try to understand your mentality because at present it is beyond me. So you are honestly telling you cannot tell the difference betweem soccer et al and croquet!? Man.. does the phrase "let them eat cake" even bare the slightest bit of relevance to you?

Triceradon wrote:

aww god will ye stop the flame war, it was only ment as a light hearted joke.
god know's if we can't laugh at ourselves/our college its a bad state of affairs....

Very true, but tbh I'm enjoying this immensly

Chick

TCP/IP wrote:

Maybe if it still was a upper class college that it used to be, idiots with no respect for tradition or class would not be attending but would only be cleaning it.

isn't that just a touch harsh...?

Nietzschean

apexaviour wrote:

Ahhh... Lovely. I was hopin to fish one them out Now let me try to understand your mentality because at present it is beyond me. So you are honestly telling you cannot tell the difference betweem soccer et al and croquet!? Man.. does the phrase "let them eat cake" even bare the slightest bit of relevance to you?

At the time in question one was as bad as the other really, you can't just exclude soccer because since then its become popular world wide.[Note: not a soccer fan]