UCD Scarves

irlrobins

What is it with people wearing UCD scarves the last while?

Back when I started in UCD (many moons ago) no one wore the scarf. Now this year lots of people have them. Did they give them out free to first years this year or have they just become fashionable again?

thecheekofyou

Does everyone wear the same one or are they different? The tassles are tacky...

Dave!

I dunno, but they're pretty laaaaammmmeee

irlrobins

Not 100% sure. I know previously each faculty had a slightly different scarf but with the main UCD colours of navy, St Patricks blue and gold.

Maybe there is just one scarf now that the faculties no longer exist

thecheekofyou

They're the new dubes

Vainglory

They gave them out free to first years. Personally I think it's all part of Brady's plan to turn us into the Ameeeeeeeeerican University ; before we know it we'll all be walking around wearing college colours, discussing our GPA's and swooning over the guys on the track team..

Alkers

They were given to all first years who attended the lunch in O'Reilly Hall. I'll sell you mine?

BKtje

all 1st years got em free...and its cold now. Therefore free scarf + cold = slightly warmer.

irlrobins

No thanks, think I've gotten this far without one I can survive a few more months.

LovelyHurling

I dont get it either, thought it was gay week for ages. Nothing wrong with a bit of university unity all the same, for such a big university I suppose division and seperation amongst the facultiews is normal hmm think of this scarf as a common bond... as a tie that unites all of us as brothers and sisters* wherever in Belfield we may be.

*except for people you've scored, theyre not your brothers and sisters, no.

thecheekofyou

Do they all have those tassles? Cringe...

LovelyHurling

Simona1986 wrote:

They were given to all first years who attended the lunch in O'Reilly Hall

Go back a bit there... what??! I want luch in o'reilly hall i bet it beats resaurant's minging trash on an unwashed plate

LovelyHurling

Thecheeckofyou Im not feeling any love between you and the tassles

thecheekofyou

I would venture that a college scarf, almost by definition, should not have tassles. Take Trinity scarves as an example. Do the scarves for sale have tassles?

Ron DMC

thecheekofyou wrote:

I would venture that a college scarf, almost by definition, should not have tassles. Take Trinity scarves as an example. Do the scarves for sale have tassles?

No, our scarves in trinity have no tassles, but they're still only worn by ponces and gimps.

irlrobins

Vainglory wrote:

They gave them out free to first years.

Cheers Jane

LovelyHurling

Hmm yea but scarves in general are for ponces and gimps though I mean you wouldn't see Ronon O Gara or Keith Wood wearing a scarf it just wouldnt be cool well unless they were doing someything deadly like snowboarding or wrestling a bear. then it would be alright. Im with you on the tassles though

Hanginthere

My scarf cost €3 in dunnes and its about 6 foot long

BKtje

well i have no probs in (eventually) wearing it. My only other scarf is my manu one and thats busy blocking the view of orrible pipes in me room

Waltons

I've got a b*itch of a cold at the moment so I've no qualms about wearing it since I couldn't be bothered buying a different one. I've got more important things on which to spend my money rather than replace my (fully functioning) free scarf.

irlrobins

spoken like the true student.

Just to be clear, I've nothing against the ucd scarf, in fact it looks good on some girls. I was just wondering about the sudden rush of people wearing one.

Scraggs

feckin ragin...
i didnt go to the yolky-bob in o'reilly hall ....i wasnt informed there would be free scarves!!! all i heard was it was gonna be boring...
I wanna UCD scarf [not willing to spend 7yoyos on it tho]

rainbow kirby

I've got my toasty warm scarf... that was 50c in Penneys 3 years ago

Waltons

irlrobins wrote:

spoken like the true student.

Just to be clear, I've nothing against the ucd scarf, in fact it looks good on some girls. I was just wondering about the sudden rush of people wearing one.

On some girls? I happen to believe I look rather fetching in mine!

tintinr35

the numbers of people wearing them is increasing rapidly last week i saw a few with them and all of a sudden this week its like they have multiplied, here is a theory
maybe they are alien's that have wrapped themselves around peoples necks and are gradually going to take over ucd.............or maybe its just so FCUKIN cold that people are whipping out the free scarves
im going to go with the aliens tho:eek:

BKtje

them is increasing rapidly last week

There is no theory. It just got cold this week ffs!

John_C

Different UCD scarves are 10 euro from the soccer club. I took great joy in distributing free UCD scarves which I had liberated from O'Reilly hall at their recent cup final.

Stick it to the man, I say.

ferdi

those scarves ar ghey

irlrobins

Waltons wrote:

On some girls? I happen to believe I look rather fetching in mine!

yes but i've i said that, well i'd be gay.

Blush_01

Are you sure that commenting on a scarf makes you gay? Because I'm pretty sure there's a little more than that involved.

irlrobins

true, but i'd still get some odd looks if I said to a guy "u look rather fetching in that scarf" me thinks.

boneless

The Judge won't let me have a scarf...

Damn Judges... ruining my fun....


mutter, mutter, mutter....

arbeitsscheuer

Look, it was funny the first time you attempted to strangle me with your scarf boneless, we all had a good laugh at your crazy antics, ha ha, giggle giggle...

...But after I blacked out, went into a coma, and woke up 3 months later with moderate brain-damage the Law wasn't laughin' any more!

Riamfada

moderate?

Scraggs

anybody want to give me their scarf? it'll be really useful as aweapon [see above] or to keep out the cold.... also to show some UCD pride!

Waltons

Piece of crap! Strike the fully functioning remark from my last pro-scarf post. It's started to unravel!

BKtje

lol yeah waltons. Same with mine.

Was working at the top of grafton street showing off the xbox360 on saturday and some folks from UCD started talkin to me as they saw me scarf. Was sorta funny (well it would have been if my knees hadnt died of pain after the long stand in the cold ).

Waltons

The scarf would be good, in theory, if it didn't unravel to crap after a while. I haven't had any random enounters because of it though

boneless

B-K-DzR wrote:

lol yeah waltons. Same with mine.

Was working at the top of grafton street showing off the xbox360 on saturday and some folks from UCD started talkin to me as they saw me scarf. Was sorta funny (well it would have been if my knees hadnt died of pain after the long stand in the cold ).

Should have wrapped it around your knees, then... trust me I'm (sort of) a doctor...

panda100

I still havent seen these scarves?i'm with this peachypants on this one-pennys scarves rock! I was reading the evening herald the other day (i know ,i know not exactly shapkspeare) but anyways they take pics of poeple and ask them what was their last purchase was they brought.The girl on friday was a third year b+l student in ucd and she had just brought a louis vuitton bag in brown Thomas cos as she said'i can keep my laptop for college in it and I have room for makeup' too!Did anyone else see this?Those louis vuitton bags cost squillions of euros?!

**elaine**

panda100 wrote:

I still havent seen these scarves?i'm with this peachypants on this one-pennys scarves rock! I was reading the evening herald the other day (i know ,i know not exactly shapkspeare) but anyways they take pics of poeple and ask them what was their last purchase was they brought.The girl on friday was a third year b+l student in ucd and she had just brought a louis vuitton bag in brown Thomas cos as she said'i can keep my laptop for college in it and I have room for makeup' too!Did anyone else see this?Those louis vuitton bags cost squillions of euros?!

Yeah I read it, was it not in the Sunday Independent?
Bit crazy if you ask me, if she is just going to use it for her laptop!
oohh and her makeup :rolleyes:

Sangre

Why the hell do you care how she spends her money?
Maybe its nothing to her.

BKtje

ah let them bitch. It makes folks feel better

panda100

Sangre wrote:

Why the hell do you care how she spends her money?
Maybe its nothing to her.

Maybe the thousand euro did mean nothing to her.But it sure would have meant a lot to the homeless people who will perish on our streets this christmas,or those kids in temple street hospital who wont have a christmas this year because there isnt enough money to buy a fourth dialysis machine.It's a disgrace someone her age spending that much money on a bag just to look good for college.If that sort of vanity and shellfishness can be instilled into a student that young then I hate to fear what she'l be like in thirty years time.
this girl was only 19 and we see this sort of extravagance around ucd everyday-girls wearing designer clothes and spending ridiculous amounts to look the best.I saw this in the fashion show when at least five models got hair extensions put in especially for the show-hair extensions cost about 500 euro!!It just shows how superficial our society escpecially in ucd has become,which is sad.Do these people not know that looks will fade but your sense of charity and willing to do good for others will not and will shine through when your old and grey.

Sangre

And how do you know she hadn't already given to charity? How do you know she doesn't do voluntary work?
Who the hell are you to judge her?

panda100

I'm not judging her specifically.I am talking about her 'type' generally.Come on,I'm not going to get into an argument about whether she in particular does charity work or not.It's pretty obvious that a 19 year old who spends a thousand euro on a bag doesnt cry herslf to sleep every night about the street children of calcuuta or other more important matters if she spends this ridiculous amount of money on a bag for looking good for college.

Sangre

Who the hell cries themselves to sleep?
Stop judging people panda100 its very unbecoming of you

panda100

I know ok i did judge a bit there-sorry to girl in paper.But sangre do you not see something wrong in her spending this amount on such a superficial and dispensible item such as a handbag.I just think its sad that someone feels the need to spend these large sums of money to look good.Surely it is better to feel good and i can't see how having the latest gucci bag will make you feel good.

I live on the street overlooking the leinster grounds and I see young girls going to old wesley every week.I see them showing off their latest mac makeup and armani skirts at the end of our road .Then i see them later throwing up all over their new skirts and the next day we are left with an abundace of torn skirts ,tights and the likes down our road.I can only think that this would be different if these people had better values of what feeling good is all about.This generation is the next one of the post celtic tiger affulent generation and we can already see them seeping into ucd.I think what they view as making them happy such as buying their gucci bags and hair extensions is a superficial outlook on life and will only bring unhappiness to that person in the end.And your lying sangre if you say you dont know any peple around ucd who puts a lot of money,time and effort into their apperance and trying to look the bast-surely you've been to bondi beach before and seen this?

It's sad so many of the teenagers in donneybrook where i live think a good day out is in the dundrum shopping centre,particularly when they have the beautiful river dodder right beside them but no they would prefer to see the artifical fountain in dundrum!

Sangre

panda100 wrote:

.And your lying sangre if you say you dont know any peple around ucd who puts a lot of money,time and effort into their apperance and trying to look the bast-surely you've been to bondi beach before and seen this?

I'd never say such a ridiculous thing. People should try to look and feel good about their appearance. But I would never presuppose that such a person who did this was somehow and bad person and that I was a better person then them because I 'cared' about 'real people', which is exactly what you were doing.

There is no point in saying how could you spent xxxx on a bag when there is always someone who could say the same thing about your bag.

Tbh panda, I'd rather live in a post Celtic Tiger world than the 80s where college was only a step towards emmigration.

LovelyHurling

Why the hell do you care how she spends her money?
Who the hell are you to judge her?
Who the hell cries themselves to sleep?

We get the general theme of your posts, chillax a bit would you she was making a valid point.

particularly when they have the beautiful river dodder right beside them

didnt look so beautiful last time I was puking into it! It stinks of a disease.

panda100

LovelyHurling wrote:

We get the general theme of your posts, chillax a bit would you she was making a valid point.



didnt look so beautiful last time I was puking into it! It stinks of a disease.

Ah the dodder has its day though-looks particularly good at night though when you cant see it.I dunno maybe i am being stereotypical and judgemetal but we can see from the D4 thread that these people exist.And considering 1 in 3 of us will suffer from depressiona at one stage and the biggest cause eo death in paople our age is suicide,its not hard to see why when you see what a superficial,money mad society we are growing up in.

p.s sorry really have gone of the point of the thread-ooops!Scarves rock!!