Those people who cover campus in chalk

yoursaviour1989

Message for those idiots who spend their days covering campus in chalk, STOP!!!!!!!! It's so annoying for to be walking around campus and see 'Prom 23rd March' written on the ground. Do I care? No. Just because you can't sell the tickets by normal means doesn't mean you should go deface the campus. Same as those gobsh1tes who scrawled their name all over campus during the election campaigns (Lydia Farrell's mates I'm looking at ye). I made a point of not voting for those people. Someone did it the whole way up main street, why? Get a life. I vow that if I ever see anyone writing something stupid and pointless on the ground around campus I will kick them so hard up the asre they won't sit for a week.

Rant over. Apologies.

Duddy

Agreed. It'll more than likely be included in the poster policy next year. Or else bring it up in the Union Council thread and some reps might propose it:)

CnaG

I think, even as this thread was being written, union council was underway and yes, the chalk grafetti was brought up. Strong reprimands in order for societies involved methinks...

banquo

Missed Union Council. It infuriates me how we rely on word of mouth to get the time and date across. Totally would have gone. I think someone told me about it a week ago. Maybe.

CnaG

I think someone posted it on the union council thread a week ago

For future reference, it's usually the second Tuesday of the month, and it alternates between being at lunch time and being in the evening. But the next one will be April 20th Grace said today (at 6.30pm, presumably)

leopoldbloom

It was raised at UC today and Lydia is bringing it before the next Clubs + Socs Council.

Much Love

Ostrom

Nice one, awful annoying sh**e

PrivateEye

Check out the hax political graffiti outside the Student Union from yesterday. 'Fianna Fail are ****' - 'No, Fine Gael are ****' type stuff.

I don't mind it outside the S.U (Think thats been going on for yonks anyway) but it's pretty annoying around Arts/the JH/anywhere else.

It's like every eejit in the place just discovered chalk.

CnaG

banquo wrote: »

Missed Union Council. It infuriates me how we rely on word of mouth to get the time and date across. Totally would have gone. I think someone told me about it a week ago. Maybe.

Someone totally should have proposed to have the date and time of the next Union Council meeting chalked all over campus

yoursaviour1989

leopoldbloom wrote: »

It was raised at UC today and Lydia is bringing it before the next Clubs + Socs Council.

Much Love

I find it funny that she is bringing it before the council when it was her mates that were responsible for a lot of it. But fair dues all the same if she does. Seriously though, my housemate (who isn't a student) was walking around campus with me and said it's like we've just discovered the wonders of chalk

Madworld

There is a thousand and one things you could complain about in Maynooth and all of you are whinging about chalk. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Ostrom

Madworld wrote: »

There is a thousand and one things you could complain about in Maynooth and all of you are whinging about chalk. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

One thousand and two including your grammar.

See associated whinge-threads below.

Ms. Koi

I know that it was started by Lydia's campaign, but in her defense, I saw her out scrubbing the ground with a brush to get rid of anything she put down.

Effluo

PrivateEye wrote: »

'Fianna Fail are ****' - 'No, Fine Gael are ****'

No truer words lol

Also I really don't see the harm in writing on the ground in chalk, Gives me something to read on the daily commute lol

Seriously though, I don't see what harm it does to anyone

Toasty113

Effluo wrote: »

No truer words lol

Also I really don't see the harm in writing on the ground in chalk, Gives me something to read on the daily commute lol

Seriously though, I don't see what harm it does to anyone

I dont see the harm in it myself, though I do find it annoying for some reason I cant quite comprehend. At the end of the day, as long as they wash it off the pavement its fine. The flamers are a bit ridiculous though. Also last time I checked (which was a week or two ago), "mark for VP welfare" was still outside the common room in weathered chalk.

Ms. Koi

Toasty113 wrote: »

I dont see the harm in it myself, though I do find it annoying for some reason I cant quite comprehend. At the end of the day, as long as they wash it off the pavement its fine. The flamers are a bit ridiculous though. Also last time I checked (which was a week or two ago), "mark for VP welfare" was still outside the common room in weathered chalk.

What flamers? Is there not a fine for that because I thought there was a time limit to have everything taken down?

kisaragi

I don't know why so many people get upset about it... I thought it was a great idea when I first noticed it, we spend so much of our time walking along looking at the ground yet no one capitalized on it. I didn't have a clue about prom until I saw the scrawl on the ground so it's probably more effective than posers... infact I still haven't noticed a poster.

Also it's not like the pavement around the new campus is an exceptionally aesthetically pleasing at the best of times...

Effluo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA

Seriously though...
I'd say it's a lot of fun to do, Write stuff with chalk on the ground n' stuff


Trolololo

Squaw Crow

yoursaviour1989 wrote: »

Message for those idiots who spend their days covering campus in chalk, STOP!!!!!!!! It's so annoying for to be walking around campus and see 'Prom 23rd March' written on the ground. Do I care? No. Just because you can't sell the tickets by normal means doesn't mean you should go deface the campus. Same as those gobsh1tes who scrawled their name all over campus during the election campaigns (Lydia Farrell's mates I'm looking at ye). I made a point of not voting for those people. Someone did it the whole way up main street, why? Get a life. I vow that if I ever see anyone writing something stupid and pointless on the ground around campus I will kick them so hard up the asre they won't sit for a week.

Rant over. Apologies.

People were given permission by security to use chalk / graffati during the election but societies still don't have permission to do it. I'm not saying i agree or disagree with it, but i think there is a difference between the two.

Madworld

efla wrote: »

One thousand and two including your grammar.

See associated whinge-threads below.

Sorry the grammer police are out.:cool:

Duddy

It's all over the village now, was told by lovely pink writing along the canal walk that I'd "see a ghost at 4am"

I didn't.

And I feel cheated.

Its not the chalk that bothers me, its the lies.

Ms. Koi

Aww Duddy! Maybe the ghost was behind you! Maybe it was the ghost that wrote the message.

BarryDoodles

When the UCD president and various other USI members were around campus they commented how much of a buzz there was about the place and said they liked the student involved and the chalk. Personally thought it brightened up the campus and some of the messages down the village were funny, but then again i was one of those twits writing 'mark for your welfare' as colourful as possible during the elections

ScissorPaperRock

It's something pretty minor to be getting wound up about to be honest!

mickstupp

I thought it made the place look horrible.
And besides the look, seeing the same message seventy three times is very annoying.

barleybooley

Personally I hate it. I think it looks unsightly and also I hate when people copy an idea that someone has and run with it, at this stage it's completely unoriginal.

irish_goat

Irish_goat tip #23753 Walk around with your head held high and a beaming smile on your face like me and you'll not notice/care about chalky pavements. Life is sweet.

Tronomatic

To be honest I think it's cool and a change from the clogged up notice boards. So people may go a bit over the top but they certainly get their point across.

Hopefully this will spark some more imaginative advertising.

Aridstarling

Someone wrote "Vote Someone and be Happy" outside Logic which I thought was pretty funny but in general it annoys the hell out of me. Especially the prom people for some reason.

jppbesq

The political stuff outside the SU was a result of a heated game of inter-party human checkers during politics week. There was also a hopscotch set-up.

I believe it all began with the messages up the town and was then capitalised on as a form of vote-getting. An interesting new feature on the landscape. If used imaginatively, I'm in favour: prefer it when it's not advertising anything though. Someone has written "recognise" outside the Callan Building, for instance and it has set me thinking...

JBoyle4eva

You all should've voted for a person who didn't once use a piece of a chalk on campus :P

banquo

Ataxia

I actually quite like the chalk, with its pretty primary colours and uplifting messages. I wouldn't like to see it become the universal tactic for advertising everything on campus though.

ScissorPaperRock

Ataxia wrote: »

I actually quite like the chalk, with its pretty primary colours and uplifting messages. I wouldn't like to see it become the universal tactic for advertising everything on campus though.

Yeah, it's harmless!

Oh, and nice sig!