Cutting edge case study!!!

TheThing!

What do you make of the key social elements of the following, true to life story. It is based on the zeigeist of Trinity college, and how this affects the general perceptions of the student body as a whole, rather than a group of individuals. I think you'll agree, the possibilities are endless.

Pissing rain outside, library packed. A 150 cm tall 130 kilo guy who is socially shy walks into the packed library soaked and evenyone looks up so he sits in the first seat he sees. He takes out his laptop and realises that it is out of battery. He cant change seats to get nearer a plug so what does he do, he needs the laptop to do the essay due tomorrow. Frantically looking around he notices a socket on the roof. He doesn't want to be as conspicious as he would be when he stands on the desk (he is 150 cm tall remember, there is no way he is reaching that mutha from the ground) but he decides that there is no other option. He begins to pull himself onto the desk, laptop mains in hand, and people begin to look around and see him. He feels self concious but assures himself that it will all be over soon. Finally after some struggle he pulls himself onto the top of the desk and he begins to reach for the socket, but! the desk starts creaking loudly(130 kilos now remember). He decides not to look around but he knows all eyes are on him now. The creaking gets rather more loud and violent. With a final push he gets the plug into the socket. There is a sudden and serious sounding creak just as he does this. The guy looks up, to see everyone in the whole library looking at him, some at desks, others standing in the middle of the aisles. There is a moment of silence as the guy surveys the entire room, and the entire room surveys him, his face red and glazed wet from the rain outside. And then, with a loud, almost angry sounding snap, the desk gives way and the 130 kilo guy disappears from site in an instant. For that millisecond of free fall he wished he would just keep falling, but he didn't, he hit the carpet of the library floor, and in the process let rip a whopper fart......

Moorsy

WTF strangest post ever! Nice story otherwise, very vivid.

paperclip

150 cm tall 130 kilos= 4.9 foot, 20 stones. (Cm? Kg? Are you english?)
Is this story based on your personal experience?

europerson

I'll have to think about this one.

Tomlowe

send the script to players

TheThing!

paperclip wrote: »

150 cm tall 130 kilos= 4.9 foot, 20 stones. (Cm? Kg? Are you english?)
Is this story based on your personal experience?

Am I English? Eh no

It is based on something that deserves to happen. Think about it, everyday some boring guy takes a boring bus into a boring town to do a boring job, but something like this might only happen...once a decade? It is an event which truely deserves to occur, wouldn't you agree?

EGaffney

Mods, move to Personal Issues.

Thats funny.. I remember a thread in UCD by Le Rack recently about people using roof sockets..

I don't think there are any in the TCD libs...

ApeXaviour

paperclip wrote: »

150 cm tall 130 kilos= 4.9 foot, 20 stones. (Cm? Kg? Are you english?)

Strange question. Irish people would be more inclined to use metric than English. We have our roadsigns in kilometres like. But it's most common on the continent.

And indeed that is one out of proportion fellow. I'm by no means a skinny person, but I'm nearly a foot taller than this fictional character yet he's almost double my weight.

I'm not so sure whether I agree it deserves to happen however.

TheThing!

ApeXaviour wrote: »

I'm not so sure whether I agree it deserves to happen however.

Let me convince you then

Imagine it actually occuring in front of your very own eyes. Then imagine the crescendo of mocking laughter, which you would be socially obliged to join in with, then think of that voice in the back of your head which would remind you that the guy you are laughing at, the guy who just had one of his worst nightmares come true, is probably the last person in the library who could take such ridicule, and then think of how much more you would laugh then

TheThing!

TheThing! wrote: »

Let me convince you then

Imagine it actually occuring in front of your very own eyes. Then imagine the crescendo of mocking laughter, which you would be socially obliged to join in with, then think of that voice in the back of your head which would remind you that the guy you are laughing at, the guy who just had one of his worst nightmares come true, is probably the last person in the library who could take such ridicule, and then think of how much more you would laugh then

Why?

What is the point of all this.

An abseiler landed on the desk of a student yesterday and scared the hell out of him, however no one. People mereley gave out that noise was being made.

But what is the point of all of this?

paperclip

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Strange question. Irish people would be more inclined to use metric than English. We have our roadsigns in kilometres like. But it's most common on the continent.

And indeed that is one out of proportion fellow. I'm by no means a skinny person, but I'm nearly a foot taller than this fictional character yet he's almost double my weight.

I'm not so sure whether I agree it deserves to happen however.

I hear people talking in stones and feet over here though and it was a random guess.

Although, to extend our wild fantasizing, a guy with a BMI of 57 like this probably wouldn't be able to even get on the desk in the first place.

TheThing!

paperclip wrote: »

I hear people talking in stones and feet over here though and it was a random guess.

Although, to extend our wild fantasizing, a guy with a BMI of 57 like this probably wouldn't be able to even get on the desk in the first place.

Please, he could, it would just take a monumental effort. In fact that is a very big part of why this deserves to occur. However that part of the event would be viewed by only those lucky individuals who are in the local when he decides to go for it.

TheThing!

For all of you who aren't in tune with this, I am here to help you. I didn't just throw this idea out there with the intention of turning my back on it.

To fully understand this most wonderful of fictional events, you must dig deep inside yourself, to your memories of the classroom. There was always somebody who people pitied, to easy a target for even the bullies. Whe bad things happend to that guy, people didn't laugh, they sometimes even helped him. But one day something so hilarious happens to him and the whole thing goes out the window, everyone laughs loud and heartily, and when those who realise who it is they are laughing after they start, theirs is the greatest hilarity, because they see the overturning of the social norm, and the sheer ridicule is almost tangible

I hope this clears things up a little

ApeXaviour

TheThing! wrote: »

Let me convince you then

Imagine it actually occuring in front of your very own eyes. Then imagine the crescendo of mocking laughter, which you would be socially obliged to join in with, then think of that voice in the back of your head which would remind you that the guy you are laughing at, the guy who just had one of his worst nightmares come true, is probably the last person in the library who could take such ridicule, and then think of how much more you would laugh then

I'm not sure it would be the initial reaction of most adults to laugh at someone in the circumstances you describe. At least when they come face to face with it, I imagine most would run to help.

I've tolerated this thread so far out of curiosity. Though I suspect you're just trolling.

For all of you who aren't in tune with this, I am here to help you.

Right... now it's pretty clear by the tone of your posts that you are trolling. If you genuinely had some sort of convoluted point, it's not evident to anybody, and I doubt it will become so.

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