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RAG Week Thread

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  • #62
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    spiralism wrote: »
    Would you be pleased to have a huge bonfire with a crowd around it in your own back garden and need to call the fire brigade, as well as shelling out a small fortune to gort for the damages at the end of the year?
    Yes, sounds like a pretty funy and sociable thing to happen. And I'd be shelling out a small fortune to absolutely nobody. Not my fault if someone set fire to my garden.

    The only thing I'd disagree with is people throwing bottles at the firemen. That's f***ing outrageous and I'd be having a conversation of the physical kind if I saw any prat doing that.
    dmcg90 wrote: »
    My house is only a few doors down, the state people left Gort na Coiribe in is a joke. Glad to be leaving in May.
    Don't live in student accommodation if you've going to whinge about students in RAG Week behaving like... well, students in RAG Week.


  • #63
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

    Don't live in student accommodation if you've going to whinge about students in RAG Week behaving like... well, students in RAG Week.

    What? It's not ok for completely innocent, law-abiding students to complain about not-so-innocent, law-breaking students who are behaving criminally? Fúck that.


  • #64
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    WesternNight wrote: »
    What? It's not ok for completely innocent, law-abiding students to complain about not-so-innocent, law-breaking students who are behaving criminally? Fúck that.
    It's perfectly ok, but it still doesn't make sense. If I rented a private house and a load of students had a bonfire in my back garden I would rage, but if they did it outside my flat in a student village I wouldn't really give a crap. I chose to live in student accommodation, I do not expect Rag Week to pass as a civil and quiet affair. These places make a ton of money ripping off every student that stays with them, I'm sure they'll be able to relay a bit of turf.


  • #65
    don101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭don101


    i live in the house the fire was in the back garden of! me and a housemate had been in college,just home having dinner when we got a call from our other housemate who were in a house with a view of the fire to tell us, went out into the hall and the hall was bright orange even though the lights were off! went to tell security but they knew already, so we had a look around took some photos incase we need them in the future, watched the brigade put it out and then went and waited for the guards to arrive, they did, realised that we were sober and clearly had nothing to do with it. the next day some gort officials came around and took pictures of the damage, and told my housemates that theyre clamping down on drinking outside and basicly painted us as the victims! which was lovely so i dont think we'll be asked to pay for it!


  • #66
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    If the university (and Galway in general) did a bit more to accommodate Rag Week instead of trying to clamp down on absolutely everything about it, maybe everything could be a bit more controlled and less of a disturbance to the rest of the city.

    Why not have a huge marquee down in Dangan with some decent DJs. Charge everyone in, limit it to NUIG students if you really have to (maybe a +2), profits go to charity.

    Didn't everyone gather down there last year for something similar (but unofficial) and what happened? The Gardai were down in a flash to man-handle everyone they could get their claws into and send everyone packing... into town.

    What those in 'power' need to understand is they won't stop people going mental for Rag Week, and the more they make a scene of it and try to ban everything, the worse it will get. So just contain it in an area where the noise and litter are less of an issue.


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  • #67
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »
    So just contain it in an area where the noise and litter are less of an issue.
    Less of an issue? And you're proposing Dangan? One of the few nice green areas around the place?

    How about we set fire to one of the football pitches. Sure that'd be a laugh. And it's not like it'll cost that much to replace. Sure, aren't the students pumping billions into Galway's economy. They should be supplying us with the petrol, like. And it'll grow back.
    And who's going to notice it up here anyway?

    Actually - do you know what'd be a laugh - how about we set fire to this massive marquee with a few thousand students inside it? It'll be class.


  • #68
    Fisher Calhoun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Fisher Calhoun


    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »
    If the university (and Galway in general) did a bit more to accommodate Rag Week instead of trying to clamp down on absolutely everything about it, maybe everything could be a bit more controlled and less of a disturbance to the rest of the city.
    Ficheall is spot on here. I'm sorry, but I think you're being a tad naive about the problem with RAG week and student drunkenness generally. When I started in Galway many (many) moons ago, RAG week was in full swing. Clubs open in the day-time (from about 12pm iirc?), College Bar packed with people from opening time and generally people staggering around drunk from 10-11am all week long. This year has been timid by comparison. The times I've been down to the College Bar this week (for food, not drink) the place has been dead. From what I hear, the clubs have been dead too. The fact that people are still complaining about RAG week with the regulation so much better than before should tell you all you need to know about the dangers of "de-regulating" RAG week like you suggest. Seriously, bonfires and assaulting firefighters? WTF do you expect? A pat on the back and a bottle of bucky?


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