The 1838 Club

OFDM · 22-10-2004 11:51am #1

Could someone tell me what the hell the 1838 Club is supposed to be?

steveland? · 22-10-2004 12:07pm

Tis like the canteen, only for lecturers and the "very important"

Not plebs like you and me

Suaimhneach · 22-10-2004 1:22pm

Ahhhhhh, I wondered that meself. Glad I know now.

Zem · 22-10-2004 3:35pm

so is there like a door check on it or?

steveland? · 22-10-2004 3:43pm

No idea but as far as I know the food in there is pretty much the same as the food in the canteen

Suaimhneach · 23-10-2004 3:40pm

Yeah, I'd imagine it's just so that they don't have to eat with us low lifes.

OFDM · 23-10-2004 3:52pm

Jesjes wrote:

Yeah, I'd imagine it's just so that they don't have to eat with us low lifes.

Why don't they just call it "The Staff Canteen" then?
And what is the "1838" about? - Something to do with the year 1838 or maybe 6.38pm. Gives it a mysterious elitest masionic feel to it...

Zem · 23-10-2004 8:36pm

i don't know but i'm just thinking that maybe it's to give people the impression that dcu goes way back like other colleges or it's some religious cult thing you know the time when their messiah came and told them what to do before the end comes or alternatively it's just a name they came up with that they thought sounded cool in their heads..........just a thought

Raz · 24-10-2004 11:35am

I reckon it must be the year that Albert, (It's in the Albert College building), either was born or died. Probably born.
I believe DCU started with just the Albert College building and it was an agricultural college, part of UCD.

teejay · 26-10-2004 12:11pm

Albert College opened in 1838 as an Agricultural College.

Was in the 1838 Clucb a few times last year - pretty nice all round..
Food definitely seemed an awful lot nicer that the I remembered the canteen food being (though I hadn't been in the canteen for a long time) and its got rooms with nice big leather couches which are pretty comfy.

nachos · 26-10-2004 3:40pm

can't possibly be worse than the main canteen. got cod goujons today in there, E3.35 for 5 measly pieces of "fish". that's 67c each. I was slightly pissed off at them....

how can they justify such blatant money-grabbing? grr....

LegacyUser · 26-10-2004 4:47pm

theres really big bouncy leather couches in it

CuLT · 26-10-2004 5:11pm

They ARE nice couches...

Suaimhneach · 26-10-2004 5:44pm

And lecturers are loaded and can afford to be ripped off and not even notice!!

LegacyUser · 26-10-2004 5:50pm

Jesjes wrote:

And lecturers are loaded and can afford to be ripped off and not even notice!!

T is 10 cent cheaper in the staff canteen

OFDM · 26-10-2004 9:12pm

Can anyone go in there? If not can postgrads go in there?

Gavin · 27-10-2004 2:52pm

Real postgrads can. Taught ones can't.

Go to the new bar people ! 5 or 6 quid and you get a real meal. They fill the plate up with food, far superior to the canteen.

Gav

OFDM · 27-10-2004 2:58pm

Verb wrote:

Go to the new bar people ! 5 or 6 quid and you get a real meal. They fill the plate up with food, far superior to the canteen.

Was put off the first day i went in there was the swarm of dying wasps trying to escape out the unopenable windows. The food wasn't much better or much more than what ye get in the canteen either.

cravian · 01-11-2004 2:33pm

The food is indeed better in club 18-30, sorry 1838 club, but is much more expensive than the standard canteen. Possibly you're paying for the cleaners as the 1838 is usually quite clean compared with the canteen.

The 1838 Club

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