Piranha Issue 1

shay_562 · 07-11-2007 12:10am #1

New Piranha out - it's OK, nothing special, but nothing likely to get them sued or banned. A few funny bits; loved some the TN piece - Joey seems like a really nice girl, but the part ripping the piss out of her was hilarious, and the classifieds were pretty funny. Most of the rest, though, was fairly average. It was hilarious in my first year when it was completely vicious, juvenile and vulgar and just ran with that - the last two versions have tried to walk the line between that kind of humour and more sophisticated satire, but most of what they write isn't clever enough to be good satire or juvenile enough to be funny, and so they kinda tread the middle ground.

Anyone else pick up a copy?

Thirdfox · 07-11-2007 12:13am

Is it online? I didn't see any copies around in the Arts Block today...

Pet · 07-11-2007 6:33pm

I thought it was pretty lame.

Most of the rest, though, was fairly average. It was hilarious in my first year when it was completely vicious, juvenile and vulgar and just ran with that

Mm, and in my first year it was even more vicious, actually.

And I agree; post-2006 Piranha has been crap.

Time Magazine · 07-11-2007 6:42pm

I thought it was very good. The introduction was brilliant to those who had read Analogue, I lolled at the U2 entry in the A-Z, the Trinity News skit was good etc.

Boston · 07-11-2007 6:44pm

You need someone like paddy cassidy (was that his last name) whose a total **** but with a rich daddy so he has no fear of the college authorities.

xebec · 07-11-2007 8:11pm

Thirdfox wrote: »

Is it online? I didn't see any copies around in the Arts Block today...

I picked up a copy in house 6 earlier today, have read half of it and not overly impressed.

shay_562 · 08-11-2007 12:43am

Ibid wrote:

The introduction was brilliant to those who had read Analogue,

Analogue has come out already? When? Was keeping an eye out for it 'cause I heard it was gonna be the college magazine to end all college magazines, but haven't seen any around...

Pet wrote:

Mm, and in my first year it was even more vicious, actually.

Sweet holy jesus, how bad must that have been? More vicious than "If John McGuirk doesn't have AIDS he probably deserves to"? More cruel than the Denise Keogh entry? More humiliating than "Ask Stephanie"? I'm not so much doubting your claim as I am marvelling at the twisted cruelty necessary to write such a magazine...I have so much higher to aspire to than I thought.

Thirdfox · 08-11-2007 12:57am

I've found them in the Arts block today - the dictionary was good for a chuckle. I can understand why they can't be so controversial anymore though.

Boston · 08-11-2007 8:45am

shay_562 wrote: »

Analogue has come out already? When? Was keeping an eye out for it 'cause I heard it was gonna be the college magazine to end all college magazines, but haven't seen any around...

Sweet holy jesus, how bad must that have been? More vicious than "If John McGuirk doesn't have AIDS he probably deserves to"? More cruel than the Denise Keogh entry? More humiliating than "Ask Stephanie"? I'm not so much doubting your claim as I am marvelling at the twisted cruelty necessary to write such a magazine...I have so much higher to aspire to than I thought.

Back when Pet was a first year I to was a first year, I remember it having some serious racist content which is always good for a chuckle.

europerson · 08-11-2007 11:24am

shay_562 wrote: »

Analogue has come out already? When? Was keeping an eye out for it 'cause I heard it was gonna be the college magazine to end all college magazines, but haven't seen any around...

It was out the first or second week of term, if I remember correctly.

08-11-2007 2:58pm

shay_562 wrote: »

More humiliating than "Ask Stephanie"?

Hee hee hee, water based lubricant indeed.

Agent Smith · 08-11-2007 3:34pm

Poor girl,
I remeber 2 people Blocked off her doorway one evening

the flananator · 08-11-2007 4:37pm

Who is/was "Stephanie"?

europerson · 08-11-2007 4:44pm

the flananator wrote: »

Who is/was "Stephanie"?

Last year's SU Welfare Officer. Last year's Piranha had a column "Ask Stephanie". Her solution to everything was "a good water-based lubricant".

Stargal · 08-11-2007 4:45pm

Year before last, to be pedantic. She was 2005-6.

Crash · 08-11-2007 4:52pm

water based lubricant, and getting gangbanged, and personal anecdotes about getting gang banged, if i remember clearly

Boston · 08-11-2007 6:25pm

I think its actually paddy cosgrave I'm thinking of. Correct me if i'm wrong.

Also blocked off her doorway? To what end?

europerson · 08-11-2007 8:26pm

Stargal wrote: »

Year before last, to be pedantic. She was 2005-6.

Yep, Stargal's right.

shay_562 · 08-11-2007 11:17pm

I'm pretty sure I still have a copy of that Piranha lying around my room somewhere. I'll take a look on Sunday and post a few choice bits up here if I find it...

InFront · 17-11-2007 9:01pm

Was never very funny really, certainly not the issues I've ever seemed to pick up. Trying to get a few laughs by being outrageous isn't exactly hard work: the simplest formula is to mock the disabled, foreigners, or any body else that will cause the provost or some vice president for students to wag their fingers at you (you little rogue) and feign upset at your 'breaking the rules'.

A lot of people generally find that sort of thing excruciatingly hilarious; the imagined prospect of getting expelled for their non-effort, and being remembered for it, tantalizing.

Piranha Issue 1

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