Waterfight

Plunky · 31-01-2005 7:46pm #1

Anyone know exactly what the story with the water fight tomorrow is?

Stargal · 31-01-2005 7:55pm

Yeah it starts at 2.30 - you go to Rubrics to register, walk up the path to the campanile where you'll be given your water balloons and then are allocated a place to stand in Front Square... think there's going to be a big grid drawn over the cobbles, so the number of people can be counted for the Guinness Book of Records

Up to a few weeks ago the record was at about 400, but some college in America broke it so now we're going to need over 900 people.

Afterwards Niall (the organiser of BESS Day who's planned everything) has got a platter of beer in the Phil... (for those innocents among us, a platter is over 20 crates, works out at over 1900 cans)

ApeXaviour · 31-01-2005 8:02pm

BESS day? Go home will ya, yer just labeling a rag-week day as yer own. Niall is the SU ents officer and a science student on sabbatical. Pity when one of us has to organise all your fun for you eh?

All the mad stuff in the college is done by hamilton end students..

Stargal · 31-01-2005 8:06pm

No, dude, it really is BESS Day. I was talking about Niall Hughes (last year's BESS Convenor + on the Ents Crew), he's the brains behind the whole thing, it's just that he got the support of Ents to do it

ApeXaviour · 31-01-2005 8:08pm

Meh..

(I hate being wrong)

Gordon · 31-01-2005 8:15pm

lol

So it actually is a Guinness book thing? Good luck with it, make sure you guys get pictures!

herobear · 31-01-2005 8:17pm

is it only for trinners ? i want free beer

Stargal · 31-01-2005 8:42pm

I'd say if you're in the area it'd be okay to join in, it's about getting as many people as possible after all

Crash · 31-01-2005 9:03pm

no no no no no,you have this all wrong. its not about getting the most out of it, its about the free beer. and the possibility of water fights flowing out into lectures.

chump · 31-01-2005 9:45pm

I don't think they'll get enough ppl!

I don't fancy getting wet myself and am far too lazy to bring a change of clothes... but the free beer, that's something

Nietzschean · 31-01-2005 10:05pm

crash_000 wrote:

no no no no no,you have this all wrong. its not about getting the most out of it, its about the free beer. and the possibility of water fights flowing out into lectures.

flowing into lectures from up there? i'd be impressed...sure nearest lecture theatre must be the arts block....tho there are exams on in the exam hall..that could be interesting..

31-01-2005 11:10pm

Exams finish at 12:30 that day sky, and tis only electronic & comp eng anyways. They'd get more of an attendence on the hour rather then the half hour anyways. Might take part, might not.

Nietzschean · 31-01-2005 11:19pm

hrmm i'd go, but it'd eat into potential sleeping time

Kevin_rc_ie · 01-02-2005 12:16am

yeah that niall guy is cool. actually they both are. me, in college early, wet, cold, for a few cans of p!ss. no thanks. but hey, it's for a good cause. or something.

xeduCat · 01-02-2005 12:23am

You could always water-bomb my office, it's only one floor up...

John · 01-02-2005 12:31am

It's not fun if you invite people to do it. Luke's office on the other hand...

xeduCat · 01-02-2005 12:36am

It is fun! There's a sort of fan/extractor thing that doesn't work, but if you hit it in exactly the right spot, you could probably soak all the files i keep on the windowsill.

Luke's (aka desertcircus) office faces onto College Green. Thus, more of a challenge.

Nietzschean · 01-02-2005 12:55am

EduCat wrote:

It is fun! There's a sort of fan/extractor thing that doesn't work, but if you hit it in exactly the right spot, you could probably soak all the files i keep on the windowsill.

Luke's (aka desertcircus) office faces onto College Green. Thus, more of a challenge.

how about we get a hose off the sprinkliers n just pipe that in the window?

xeduCat · 01-02-2005 1:07am

Worth a try, I suppose.

I could nominate some of the administrative offices in Front Square either, if anyone wants to start a witchhunt...

Pet · 01-02-2005 2:11am

You can start with the mean nasty woman who sassed me at reregistration today!

Agent Smith · 01-02-2005 7:59am

i'm aiming for tfm myself......

xeduCat · 01-02-2005 9:09am

The taps are being set up. Bloody cold day for it too...

desertcircus · 01-02-2005 10:09am

I'd really prefer if my office wasn't hit by water balloons - I've only just replaced my keyboard after an unfortunate Pepsi-spilling incident killed a number of keys! There are some ripe targets - there's always a few people in and around the GMB. Throw balloons at debaters trying to smoke outside!

Stargal · 01-02-2005 2:44pm

agent smith wrote:

i'm aiming for tfm myself......

The battle begins...

Yeah just looked out the window there, looks pretty mental all right.

ApeXaviour · 01-02-2005 3:14pm

Wasn't at it, forgot I had one of those do not miss lectures. Anyway.. just got a text from my mates.. apparently the record wasn't broken cos everyone just stormed the stockpile..

Time Magazine · 01-02-2005 5:19pm

Yeah I just missed the start but apparantly everyone just legged it for the balloons and bedlam erupted. Twas class after I legged it out of the GMB though!

Stargal · 01-02-2005 7:43pm

Read on another board that apparently it was pushed back from lunchtime to 2pm because the Senior Dean was worried that students would pelt their lecturers as they made their way to the Dining Hall...Maybe there's a point there but come on, we're not 14 ffs

Stargal · 01-02-2005 8:26pm

Argh I'm so bored! Why isn't anyone posting this evening?

Stargal · 01-02-2005 8:30pm

*bangs head against wall/computer screen/studio equipment*

01-02-2005 9:16pm

I'm studying (as per usual these days), Mr. Skylynx who usually lives on here may be studying (exam on thursday), can't say I can talk for everyone else. Just go onto After Hours and post random ****e there.

Kevin_rc_ie · 01-02-2005 9:57pm

damn i need to ask that crazy lynx a q. hopefully someone else might help,

i need to write a iso to a cd in the maths comps. some one tell me. please. i want to go home.

John · 01-02-2005 10:09pm

I got aqueously assaulted before it started by two dastards. It looked like I pissed myself, was not too impressed. I had no intention of taking part. ****.

Kevin_rc_ie · 01-02-2005 10:10pm

doesnt matter. i went and looked for him and he's doing it for me. yahoo!!!!1. and in the interests of fairness, google,altavitsa and lycos also.

Chick · 03-02-2005 5:41pm

Heard waterfight being talked about on the strawberry alarm clock the other morning, and how was it possible for us to fail. Some 1st yt music student rang in to speak. How did we fail anyways? :rolleyes:

David19 · 03-02-2005 5:47pm

Chick wrote:

Heard waterfight being talked about on the strawberry alarm clock the other morning, and how was it possible for us to fail. Some 1st yt music student rang in to speak. How did we fail anyways? :rolleyes:

Well we needed over 900 people willing to get soaked on a cold day. Its not hard to see why we did... If it was in the summer it might be different.

Kevin_rc_ie · 03-02-2005 5:50pm

i thought it failed because some people came with their own water baloons are started throwing them, and the ppl that were hit stormed the stock pile to get them back in retaliation. So it was impossible for everyone to line up in the grid for the gunniess book of records guys to count offically. it was chaos. bedlam. i wasn't there thou but that's what the boss man told me.

Stargal · 03-02-2005 6:13pm

Yeah I was looking out from the top of house 6 at about quarter past two and it looked like there was definitely enough people outside Rubrics to have broken the record. Niall had the whole thing organised but I think the temptation of thousands of water balloons just waiting to be used proved too great... plus all the people who brought their own...

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