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Contest: Oddest/coolest/most conspicious person in UCD?

  • 23-07-2008 9:51am
    #1
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭


    UCD has had some characters to be sure; people who you notice because they're just plain eccentric. Like the guy who dressed as a pirate on the last day of term, the dude who came in as Spiderman, the guy who LARPs every single day, that hippie who often doesn't ware shoes at all, those two guys in the library who were dressed for a serious BDSM party, etc.

    Anyone you like to mention?


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  • #2
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    I have a few in mind, but I don't want to post about them for fear they, too, post here.


  • #3
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Alot of people lurk on this forum without posting.

    I'm leaving this open for now, but I would advise posters to assume that the person that they are talking about will read this. If I get one complaint of bullying, then I'll probably lock this. It's not fair to make fun of weird people.


  • #4
    Seifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    The_Minister wrote:
    It's not fair to make fun of weird people.
    Why? They just act weird for the attention. If they get negative attention then that's their own fault.
    And before anyone asks I define weird as being not normal and normal and as not being weird.


  • #5
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Actually I meant this to be a good natured game of eye-spy! Eccentric is a good thing!


  • #6
    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    Seifer wrote: »
    Why? ...
    And before anyone asks I define weird as being not normal and normal and as not being weird.
    congratulations on answering the question within your own post.


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  • #7
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    theozster wrote: »
    UCD has had some characters to be sure; people who you notice because they're just plain eccentric. Like the guy who dressed as a pirate on the last day of term, the dude who came in as Spiderman, the guy who LARPs every single day, that hippie who often doesn't ware shoes at all, those two guys in the library who were dressed for a serious BDSM party, etc.

    Anyone you like to mention?
    There's a guy on campus who LARPs every single day?


  • #8
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Raphael wrote: »
    There's a guy on campus who LARPs every single day?
    At times UCD looks, to me, like one big MMORPG*, so how would I know the LARPer if I saw him? :pac:

    I'd caution folks here against calling someone weird based on looks or anything else external e.g. an unusual accent. True weirdness comes from within. For example: to the students who came straight from school, Mature Students are automatically weird. Well, it must be weird, sitting in a lecture theatre next to someone older than the lecturer...

    * MMORPG = Massive Multiplayer Orts Role-Playing Game

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #9
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    The homeless guy is the weirdest and coolest person in UCD at the same time.


  • #10
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Im am horribly dissapointed and disgruntled that I have no yet been referenced by any of the above posters in their examples of oddest/coolest/most conspicious person in UCD. I take this very seriously and have reported all the above posts as violation of my self image.

    Anyway I assume I cannot nominate Moi (Senior Fonzerelli) myself so id have to go with the bum aswell. Beware he has a ucd connect account and is a regular contributor to this forum


    G


  • #11
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    You're the UCD bum, aren't you Grimes?


    The jig is up.


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  • #12
    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    He is, and he's actually older than he looks. But he's a lovable rogue!


  • #13
    elmyra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭elmyra


    Raphael wrote: »
    There's a guy on campus who LARPs every single day?

    Perhaps it is dispicable that I don't know, but what is LARPing?

    I think you're cool, Grimey.


  • #14
    Économiste Monétaire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Économiste Monétaire


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game

    http://www.break.com/index/what_is_larping.html


  • #15
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    OI! The hippie with no shoes is my friend :(

    I'm tellin'!! :P


  • #16
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Or, more locally, What is LARP?


  • #17
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    There is indeed a guy who LARPs everyday! He's usually dressed as an Elf/Robinhood-type thingie and hangs in arts.




    And anyone who can't help but slander people because they don't conform you your narrow vision of normality, please refrain from showing us how ignorant you are, it hurts my sensibilities.


  • #18
    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    Well I've been told I'm weird because I never really missed lectures and I'm generally perky in the morning.

    I don't think I count in odd or cool though.

    *sobs uncontrollably*


  • #19
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Ah there is nothing wrong with having a bit of an aul Larp


  • #20
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Stepherunie wrote: »
    Well I've been told I'm weird because I never really missed lectures

    That is odd!


  • #21
    elmyra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭elmyra


    Raphael wrote: »
    Or, more locally, What is LARP?

    World of Darkness makes a lot more sense now....

    OT: LARPing every day sounds like an awful lot of effort. Fair play to him, tbh....


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