SU elections beginning to piss anyone else off?

humbert

Yesterday and today any trip through the arts block has been plagued by SU candidates and their minions forcing me to endure their manifestos and today the science block is just as bad:mad: It has destroyed any slight chance there was of me voting and at this point I’m on the verge of attacking the next person that harasses me!!!

arbeitsscheuer

VOTE FOR ENDA!:D

/dies

humbert

Well as it happens I ran into panda(the only canvasser I haven't been sorry to run into!) and she insists I vote for Mr. Hayden, then I myself would be inclined to vote for Orla Ni somethingorother cuz after careful thought and deliberation I concluded she's the hottest, so with all this confusion and harassment I'll just remain unpartisan:)

Scraggs

I am absolutely livid!! I was having a total sh!t day and then while queueing to vote earlier I was continually harrased by two duffy canvassers they wouldnt leave me alone... I may have aggravated them slightly but for gods sake they should have realised that when i said no i'm voting for dan and you cant change my mind they would have just gone and left me but no. They just wouldnt stop barking at me and were getting kind of aggressive they were leaning over me at either side and i felt so intimadated. I was on the verge of tears coz i was already having a bad day. In the end some candidate that i cant remember name of and anto kelly got them away from me... and when i came out dan said sorry to me and i was like why... all i can say is i'm so glad its over and normality will return!!

arbeitsscheuer

*hugz for Scraggs

Don't fret darlin, sure all politicans and their lackies are a$$holes anyways...

Red Alert

*hugz* i feel your pain... the eng building because of the layout of the stairs has effectively turned into a gauntlet! what a pack of assholes. even the sex appeal of the purple t shirted girls doesn't make me vote for their candidate.

hint: use the lift in eng today!

rainbow kirby

I hate all this crap that goes on around the SU elections. It's all just so petty and unnecessary.

Scraggs

thanks Red & Seb:)

TheVan

Well you could just say:

1. Tell them you've already voted
2. Tell them to fcuk off

arbeitsscheuer

Red Alert wrote:

hint: use the lift in eng today!

OOOH, we should have a "How to avoid the Canvassers" thread!

my hint: enter the Arts block through the left door from the Department of Lung Cancer. Going thru the Right door will inevitably lead to your person being assaulted by multiple Hacks.

rainbow kirby

Avoiding the canvassers: Hide out in CS all day

humbert

My tip for science is carry a blood stained machete and ware a facial expression that tells them you won’t hesitate to use it:eek:

I'd suggest the library(where I am now) but they have it surrounded, I'm trapped:(

Scraggs

TheVan wrote:

Well you could just say:

1. Tell them you've already voted
2. Tell them to fcuk off

1] well i was queuing to vote
2] I did, the first 2 times politely and the third time super-angrily it made it worse though. and because of the way i was cornered i couldnt get past them...

orangerooster

The sooner this rubbish is over the better.

tintinr35

so when do we find out what whingers have been elected

TheVan

Sorry maybe i came off as narky there!

A platypus to the face might sort those canvassers out! (esp Duffy!)

scop

Night of the Living Dead comes to UCD.

Scraggs

ha sorry TheVan... I sound like a total bitch! Duffy's thugs put me in such a foul humour i didnt mean to take it out on ye!

blondie83

I was studying in Arts yesterday and spent the whole day walking around holding my DCU student card out in front of me...it literally cleared a path Btw if anyone needs an escort anywhere through the canvassers just give me a shout!

The_Minister

One girl wouldn't get out of my way until I listened to her. I just leaned down and said "get out of my way or I go through you":D
Funny the Duffy canvassers were polite to me and accepting of my decision to vote for Dan/Orla.

Thing is I know what i'm doin for president but not for Welfare or Education.

hullaballoo

It's TheVan. There's a reason for that.

Scraggs

sorry, post edited

The_Minister

hullaballoo wrote:

It's TheVan. There's a reason for that.

Ah, i would hate to be in the VANguard:rolleyes:

The_Minister

Has anyone else noticed that Duffy has 4 times as many botherers as the other candidates.

Pythia

I'm sick today so I didn't come in, so no voting for me.

Blush_01

Get a Voted sticker. They really do leave you alone. well, the odd twat will ask who you voted for, but that's none of their business anyway.

tintinr35

sniff sniff i bet ur devestated, i went over to vote there and had to tell some of those duffy crowd to get the fcuk out of my face!!

snickerpuss

I came in especially to vote today, hurrah.
Actually the duffy people were really nice and friendly, made me feel bad i didnt vote for him.
Ah well. There were millions of them though.

MiniMetro

I've always been of the opinion that the people who run for these elections are absolutely the last people that you would want to be given the job.

Self promotion anyone??

Red Alert

i'm armed with a voted sticker on my front and my ass

ferdi

i was Qing and one of the minions came over started to talk to me about his candidate, i found a simple - 'excuse me but i dont want to talk to you, goodbye' went down a treat.

Pythia, feel better.

arbeitsscheuer

Ah Duffy's lot are, by and large, pretty sound.

Although granted I'm biased cos I was campaigning for them today...:D

*Cue noticable shunning of theBum by other boardsies...

Jonny Arson

[rant]Well despite the fact I hadn't had any lectures today, I decided to come into UCD after work to voice my democracy and all that.

Well as I walk f**king wrecked the Orts blck pretty much turns into Grafton Street with annoying Concern/Barnardos mugger election types diving out infront of you and pretty much grabbing you by the balls in order to get you're attention! Grrr I'm angry.

Then I go to vote and I wriggle my way through Batman and the hacks and I go to vote... no f**king pen with me! They had no pen at the polling station at all so I had to be a right twat in asking everyone voting whether they had a lend.... grrrr! If you were an unfortunate victim of my ''do ya have a lend of pen'' mugging I'm sorry! Grrr even more angry! :mad:

Oh then while me with my headphones leaving some election mugger (Duffy member) asks whether I have a second to speak and I say ''I've voted'' and she says ''but just one second''!!! Annoying so and so! :mad:

and then the DARTs were f**ked so it took me ages to get home! :mad:

I'm angry..... and I'm never voting again after this! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad: :mad: :mad: [/rant]

Slash/ED

I just kept telling them I've already voted, they were all over the science building, irritating people. As it happens I didn't get round to voting, couldn't really care less tbh I've no idea who I was going to vote for. Most of the candidates just told us whats wrong with college rather than anything they were going to actually do about it in their pre lecture spiels anyway.

The_Minister

Many didn't believe that I had voted. I think Duffy's were polite because tey could see that most people have made up their mind on him.

Red Alert

A few of Dan Hayden's canvassers were hot i will admit.

rainbow kirby

I stayed well clear of canvassers... hiding out in the lab for most of the day

anonymous_joe

Forgot to go in and vote today. :cool:

panda100

I really think that the college has to change the way the elections are run.It's not fair for students to be harrassed like they were yesterday.No wonder there is always such a poor turnout for the su elections.
I think manifestos should just be layed out clearly in each faculty,so people can read for themselves about the candidate.I think each candidate should be limited to have just one person in each faculty canvassing for them.Enda duffy had people who arent even students canvassing for him and that most certainly shouldnt be allowed.

Saying that,it was good fun canvassing.Bumped into sooo many people was like a big old reunion.I recognised waltons too(he didnt have a duck on his shoulder i was quite dissapointed)

was funny bumping into you humbert,cept for the fact that niall dolan,one of enda duffys cronies,was really rude and interuppted us.I hate that sort of carry on.I only really stopped people that I knew and everytime I was talking to someone he would butt in and start going on about duffys non existent policies.some people just have no manners........

Samos

In 'real' elections it is not allowed to canvass within a certain radius of the polling station for good reason. Why can't this be applied here in UCD? It saddens me that an election can be won based on numbers and the ability to pester people, rather than on well-considered and feasible policies for improvement.

Lisapeep

There is a radius within which they cannot canvass! I think it's 5 metres or something!

Waltons

panda100 wrote:

I recognised waltons too(he didnt have a duck on his shoulder i was quite dissapointed)

I'll bring it to the beers

The_Minister

Waltons wrote:

I'll bring it to the beers

Do you happen to know a girl called Zoé? She also has a duck.

YeVaD

humbert wrote:

I myself would be inclined to vote for Orla Ni somethingorother cuz after careful thought and deliberation I concluded she's the hottest

Amen :v:
Though had I not been ill yesterday Dan would have got my vote. Luckily he doesn't need it.

arbeitsscheuer

Samos wrote:

In 'real' elections it is not allowed to canvass within a certain radius of the polling station for good reason.

I concur with this, altho I didn't say anything to Enda's campaign manager (can't remember his name) about it...

When I was canvassing, I stayed well away from the polling station - even went as far as the bus terminuses (terminii???) where I found it was much more productive to talk to ppl after they had just gotten off the bus, before they'd had to "run the gauntlet" and gotten severely p*ssed off.