Residential Information Pack 2007: cutlery stealing

Thursday*

There's a special note about stealing cutlery, or rather about not stealing cutlery, in the info thingie this year. Isn't it gas?

Jack Lynch

Really? I still have my spoon. They can't take that away! First the Hub discos, then the Street, now this? It'll be CG01 soon, or making pyramids out of whatever, or mocking the Sportalians.

Acid_Violet

I didn't notice that, they should really have one about stealing kitchen appliances too, but I heard that we won't have toaaters or kettles this year.

Jack Lynch: aren't you a nevermore?

Thursday*

When was the last time the discos were in the Hub? In 05 they promised 06...

Jack Lynch

I am. That doesn't mean I can't feel moral outrage.

The discos were last in the Hub in 2003, I believe. The first disco of '04 might have been there, but I dont really remember. It was a very long time ago.

slasher_65

I believe they also added a section disallowing drum kits. (could have been there last year)

meeka

Jack Lynch wrote:

The discos were last in the Hub in 2003, I believe. The first disco of '04 might have been there, but I dont really remember. It was a very long time ago.

Aye, the last one in the Hub was the first disco of Session 2, 2004.. I think.

Surprised they haven't put in a specific rule about cutlery stealing before now.. although I guess it should go without saying...

It wasn't me!

slasher_65 wrote:

I believe they also added a section disallowing drum kits. (could have been there last year)

That's been there about three years.

slasher_65

Damn. Oh well. One question remains: Will people stop borrowing cutlery for indeffinate periods, or will they see that rules are made to be broken? Was never partial to the bent forks myself, as I was overly busy with Treacle Mine Road.

Piste

My sister couldn't stop laughing about the banned nunchucks, now she really wants to know what could have happened to lead them to banning nunchucks!

Don't you now get The Street on weekends now?

It wasn't me!

Too many nerds think they're martial artists, buy them and promptly injure themselves. The stereotypical thing of cracking yourself in the bollocks with them is just too funny.

Jack Lynch

It wasn't me! wrote:

Too many nerds think they're martial artists, buy them and promptly injure themselves. The stereotypical thing of cracking yourself in the bollocks with them is just too funny.

I don't want to know...

Steal the spoons! Break the rules! Do it for me and the other Nevermores!

Having said that, I already have a spoon.

slasher_65

There are a few strange things being banned i have always wanted to know the story behind.

It wasn't me!

Jack Lynch wrote:

I don't want to know...

Fairly self-explanatory...

I can think of a few that were explained to me. Most of them common sense will piece together though.

Undergod

I just wish a certain big guy had actually stolen one of the potted plants in the canteen, back in '05.

I'd love to see how they would have addressed _that_ in the information pack.

It wasn't me!

This the same man behind the "Lungbuster 2000 (tm)"?


"Anything growing anywhere on DCU campus property should not be tampered with or appropriated. Immediate dismissal and splinters will follow if this rule is not observed".

slasher_65

Remember the cup castle fiasco in session 2 (either 06 or 05. I can't remember) Im supprised that that is not taken care of.
Something along the lines of

'Students are permited to have one cup from the canteen at each meal-time. Those found to be hording thousands of them in the resedential area shall be submited to disciplinary actions'

Also, is it true that we won't get kettles and toasters this year? Toast parties could become 'Bring your own Toasters and Butter' parties. Fun.

It wasn't me!

Well, to be honest, someone was inevitably going to get hurt by one, and while I hate the whole mammy culture idea we have these days, someone would have jumped on the opportunity to sue the place, which wouldn't have been helpful.

slasher_65

It wasn't me! wrote:

Well, to be honest, someone was inevitably going to get hurt by one, and while I hate the whole mammy culture idea we have these days, someone would have jumped on the opportunity to sue the place, which wouldn't have been helpful.

A paper cup?
Remembering those cups, I doubt that they would cut ANYBODY as they were to thick for a paper-cut. They might.... I dunno... Blind somebody though. By sticking to their eyes somehow.

If you were talking about the forks, however, I can see how somebody might get hurt with one of those.

It wasn't me!

I was talking about toasters and kettles.

Scarinae

I think we still have some cutlery I took from the canteen (I finished in 2003) They started cutting down on what was in the kitchens fairly early in my CTYI career though, so much that I used to bring half my kitchen along with me, it was actually pretty hilarious how much stuff I used to bring for three weeks - one suitcase full of clothes, one suitcase full of 'stuff' (kitchen appliances, hairdryer, Twister mat, frisbees, inflatable hammers etc) and several bags full of food like cereal to keep me going - my roommates used to love me. And I'd always have an procession of people helping me get all my luggage up into my room!

Feral Mutant

Someone already got hurt with a toaster. I think it was in '04 when some guy jammed a fork in it and got electrocuted. Good times.

Undergod

No he didn't. He got in trouble for putting a fork in a not plugged in toaster.

This may not be true. This is just the version of the story I heard.

Feral Mutant

As far as I know, another guy (who was doing electronics) was the one who unplugged a toatser before doing that.

Scarinae

I hate the way it always seems to be one person who ruins it for everyone... A few yeasrs ago some kid in session 1 saw that film Memento in class, which had a 15s certificate, and had nightmares... His mother complained and threatened legal action, so us lucker session 2ers could only watch films with 12s certificates and under. That was the year that the Sunday film was Crocodile Dundee in LA. WORST FILM EVER (I think it was 2002... But I'm not sure)

Jack Lynch

We're not all that tsmart.

I remember hearing that about the fork in the toaster. In my day, we were banned from using the cookers. Probably for the best.

Having said that, the stupidest thing that was ever done in a kitchen in my room was trying to make jelly in the sink. It didn't work.

Undergod

Jack Lynch wrote:

I remember hearing that about the fork in the toaster. In my day, we were banned from using the cookers.

Everyone was, but in never stopped us.

LiamD

Not to mention the geniuses that built a campfire in their sink...

Undergod

One of those geniuses is sitting beside me and says:

It was a good idea at the time!

carlowboy

Undergod wrote:

Everyone was, but in never stopped us.

Thoughts exactly. No one really cared.

Jack Lynch

Rebels to the core!

littlehedgehog

Fishie! I remember Croc Dundee. I think I cried with PAIN at how bad it was.
I don't think I ever turned on a cooker.. I think I was scared they'd find out..!

slasher_65

Never had much need to turn on the cooker. Just made cheese and ham tosties with the toaster. (you get these crazy little baggy things and place all your ingrediants in them, and WHAMMO! Cheese and ham tostie!)

doonothing

haha, i survived on them and capri suns back in the day... amazing

It wasn't me!

I cooked Koka noodles in my kettle. Now *there* was an accident waiting to happen!

PurpleFistMixer

I cooked Koka noodles on my cooker. : )

Piste

Hehe I cooked koka noodles with the kettle and used a comb to stir them as I had no fork

Raphael

Crazy, one time I used a fork to get my hair in order as I had no comb. That was in college rather than CTYI though...

slasher_65

Always wanted to try the Egg in a kettle approach. Could you boil potatoes in the kettle? How about boiled ham?

Jack Lynch

Steer clear of eggs in the microwave. Really.

PurpleFistMixer

I always make eggs in the microwave. o.O Well, if they're scrambled. Boiled is better done with boiling water.

slasher_65

No more microwaves to try that in.

TalkISCheap

Made coffee in a halved Coke bottle, it melted.... Oh, and I had a stirring hangar, for Pot noodles...

slasher_65

I must try some of these ideas out next year.

How about noodles in the kettle? Would that work?

Victor

You crazy kids ... giving away all your ideas on the interwebulator.

PurpleFistMixer

If you like limescaley noodles... kettles aren't exactly clean. Anyway, the students probably use them to make heroin during the year.

Piste

It IS DCU after all...

Undergod

Drugs Campus University.

I just made that up right there on the spot. Clever, aren't I?

slasher_65

Well, I will head down to Argus and get myself a €15 kettle. (I will of course raise the funds by doing peoples homework for them, as in the CTYI tradition)
Magicadee-Magicadoo, clean kettle!

slasher_65

We should make a CTYI cookbook. Things such as 'Corbalicious' Brownies', no bakc chocolate cake and Kettle noodles.

On a side note, if you made a sort of collender device and put it in the kettle, you could stop the noodles from touching the bottem.

Somebody collect the recipies, i will get the book printed.

Jack Lynch

CTYI Sink Jelly

Ingredients:

Sachets of instant jelly
Water
A sink
A plug (don't forget it. It's quite important)

Step 1: Go to Santry on the first weekend of CTYI
Step 2: Go up to the Chivers truck and collect as many sachets of instant jelly as you can
-Tip; For a nice pre-cinema snack, why not also collect some jelly pots.#

Step 3: Put the plug in the sink
Step 4: Fill the sink with water
Step 5: Empty the sachets into the sink
Step 6: Leave to stand for a few days
Step 7: After a few days have passed, marvel at how much your jelly looks like jellyfish/pink sperm, and how you may have put in too much water
Step 8: Attempt to clean the sink the day before CTYI ends, because the cleaners have refused to go into your kitchen since your 'cookery experiment' began.