What do students think of NUIG/GMIT rag week on at the same time ??

richy316

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Toto Wolfcastle

When is RAG week on? Personally, the thought of 2 'rival' colleges out in drunken force in town makes me happy.

JIZZLORD

there's prob no joint rag week for a reason, town would implode

Tar.Aldarion

I am indifferent, I study during rag week.

richy316

the two are on this yr in february. town is going to be nuts.even with one college its hard to get into places

JIZZLORD

they're usually close, but are they together?

i'd be against a dual rag week, it would be impossible to get in anywhere, and less charity money for both sides, we all know the scumbag pubs that make their own rag week t shirts and sell them for their own profit.

Fionn MacCool

The whole Rag Week thing is new to me. Could someone explain?

JIZZLORD

a week of attempts to avoid projectile vomit and ass grabbing.
basically it's a week to collect for charity with events and such. but it's a week long pissup that has been steered that way by certain pubs who make a helluva lot of profit over the week

leninbenjamin

it's just a gigantic waste of time if you ask me... there's usually one or two good nights... maybe the monday or and sometimes tuesday when everyone is up for it but by the end of the week everyone is just in a kind of prolonged drunken haze, not able to handle their drink and it degenerates to crap...

then again i'm slightly bitter because i've always had the most sadistic lecturers who always put the heaviest weighted assignment due for that week... and tend only to be able to join in at then end by which time it's just not fun anymore... and seeing as it's mostly ickle first years who go out i'm like.... meh...

still, there needs to be more charity crap. if i've time i might get more involved in that side of things this year.... but that's a IF.

the NUIG/GMIT being on at the same time though wouldn't work at all... the town would be absolute chaos, well quintupled chaos...

Robbo

I recall the two rag weeks being concurrent when I was an undergrad. It was no better or worse than normal, in fact I barely saw a denizen of Bovine University around town at all.

kevmy

In fact they were on the same week about 4 years ago IIRC. And it was a disaster. They also put it on the same week as the Novena in the Cathedral. Cue auld grannies seeing their grandkids stumbling out of pubs and puking all over the church steps.

The Guards then "advised" the colleges not to have them on the same week again.

Anyway tis a sh1t idea. We don't want to be stopped from going into anywhere because it already full of GMITers.

Probably won't make much difference to me this year. Getting a bit old for Rag Week proper and if you can't do it right don't do it.

wet-paint

Doesn't bother me. Never went in for it, apart from the week of living in a box.

amazingdab987

sure everybody from both colleges go out both weeks anyways so it wouldn really be a bit of a difference, just more of the djs in clubs jivin on the rivalry!

still_raining

Wasn't there a huge gap between rag weeks last year? A month at least I think. Seems to make the most sense that way I'd reckon. The way it was the year before with one running the week after the other just got messy. But I suppose two weeks of constant drinking will do that to some people...

JIZZLORD

meh, poverty prevents me enjoying both.

Tar.Aldarion

You need to be like me, a rich student. I have eaten out three times a day for the last month, bye money!

JIZZLORD

pesky vegetarians. to cheap to buy meat!

Tar.Aldarion

Unless I buy fake meat!

JIZZLORD

you and your values suck!
when was the last time you had a good steak?

Tar.Aldarion

I stopped eating it 3/4 years ago.

leninbenjamin

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I stopped eating it 3/4 years ago.

that's just wrong... so very very wrong...

Tar.Aldarion

But I am smart... so very very smart... and that one time I thought I was wrong, I was actually right.

JIZZLORD

why?

leninbenjamin

JIZZLORD wrote: »

why?

apparently because he's so very smart.

I think he just has delusions.

Tar.Aldarion

Jizzlord knows I am his master, quiet underlings.

big_show

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

But I am smart... so very very smart... and that one time I thought I was wrong, I was actually right.

smart enough to think san diego Wasn't in california?

Tar.Aldarion

I can see the light bending around you.

UnitedIrishman

Rag week is the 18th of February. So I think thats the same week as Sligo rag week if memory serves me right. So me thinks I'll be spending that week in Sligo, at least we might have a remote chance of getting in somewhere and the craic will be far better.

JIZZLORD

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Jizzlord knows I am his master, quiet underlings.

pffft, you'll be standing and watching me master a 3/4 pounder from the kebab house on friday night.

the-island-man

imo i think its good to have more experienced alcoholics(gmit) to show us how to do it!!:D