Dragon Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 Unless they're planning to demolish the university itself.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 24-hour Memorial Watch Oddie & La Humble are charging flasks as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
National Service 1952 Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 I can just imagine Bill Oddie's views on the subject having seen him a couple of years ago on Who Do You Think You Are? Cheers Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1052 Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 Sewage contributed by several persons, amount contributed by each not being sufficient to cause a nuisance. The correction of that infraction listed in Dickens's Dictionary of London in 1879 could be part of the job description of our moderators! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 Edinburgh has a 12 hour floral clock. Don't they have a noonday gun (to reprimand each inmate, who's in late)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 I bet hes the most famous person on A.R.S.E at the moment! A night out in Aldershot is right out! He'll have to shave that silly afro or grow a Beckham beard. He wont be able to walk around Sheffield with out armed security! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 Don't they have a noonday gun (to reprimand each inmate, who's in late)? Nope. They have a one o'clock gun to frighten the American tourists. Papalaka papalaka papalaka boo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted 17 October , 2009 Share Posted 17 October , 2009 And machine gunned the survivors in the water, inadequate punishment for having threatened to delay you I know but there you go - boiling oil is no longer available - human rights gone mad! Good Job he didn't water Centurians Roses then. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat Posted 18 October , 2009 Share Posted 18 October , 2009 ... I also agree that he will be of great value to the country studying as he is sports technology which we desperately require more of... Well Done Lad! I fully support your efforts Norman (On medication) Norman Your sarcasm will come back and bite you on the bum when this lad helps Team GB acheive glory in 2012...and to be fair as the discipline of sports technology will no doubt inlcude the collection of urine samples then he has already shown an apitude in this area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 19 October , 2009 Author Share Posted 19 October , 2009 Reply to my e-mail received 19th October 2009 from Nick Clegg MP Anticipating a positive result. Norman Dear Mr Many thanks for your email of 16th October, concerning Sheffield Hallam University student Philip Laing and his recent drunken antics. I have now been contacted by a number of constituents regarding Mr Laing's behavior and I would like to re-iterate that the way he conducted himself is clearly unacceptable. Moreover, I note that he is due to appear before the Magistrates in Sheffield later this month charged with outraging public decency. I have however written to Sheffield Hallam University, highlighting your concerns and your desire to see appropriate action taken against the individual. I will of course write back to you as soon as I receive a response. In the meantime, I would be grateful if you could provide me with you home address so that I may forward any reply on to you. Yours sincerely Nick Clegg MP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 19 October , 2009 Share Posted 19 October , 2009 And I wonder which bit of the fence Mr Clegg will choose not to sit on? Not exactly a rining endorsement of anything: "clearly unacceptable" indeed, but did Mr Clegg have an opinion on the real problem - the disgusting culture which creates problems like this; the company which appears to run these repulsive events; or even the photographers trawling for salacious stories (a young man urinating on a war memorial is much more photogenic than yet another drunken teenaged girl). Or maybe that wasn't the question: righteous indignation, indeed. What, might I ask, is a 'positive result'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 19 October , 2009 Share Posted 19 October , 2009 I would imagine that, even if the court and the university took no further action at all, the leaking eejit will have suffered enough indignity and will have learned a valuable lesson. I'm not sure what that nice Mr Clegg hopes to accomplish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 19 October , 2009 Share Posted 19 October , 2009 A vote keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salfordian Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 Quite a bit has been said about this topic. Some are furious (like I) with Phil. Some see it as Bad, but he was blind drunk. Just to add that on Facebook there has been a site set up to praise him. Now I assume these people are not drunk and thier views are of "Sane Students" These are some: One friend described his actions as: “The most amazing thing i have ever seen...Im very proud!! LEGEND!!”. Another wrote: “hahaha yes Phil You funny b****** quality mate”. Has society gone so bad that someone who p*sses on a war memorial becomes a "Legend". I appreciate that Phil Laing has apologised But in a year where many have died in Afghanistan and in the year when Henry and Harry died, I would have hoped that Poppies, memorials, and Vets would get more respect. Again, I respect that these are my views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 21 October , 2009 Author Share Posted 21 October , 2009 What, might I ask, is a 'positive result'? Of course you can ask Steven. A positive result for me would be the instant expelling of this waste of space from the Uni together with a long community service judgment from the magistrates. I note the latest post from Salfordian in which he gives details from Facebook, these comments beggar belief made as they are at a time when our countrymen and women are being brought home from Afghanistan having given their young lives for this nation. Regards Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 I would agree that anyone making those comments deserve - well, contempt, however young and foolish they may be. I always give Vets respect though: the blue scrub tops and stethoscopes warrant it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 21 October , 2009 Author Share Posted 21 October , 2009 II always give Vets respect though: the blue scrub tops and stethoscopes warrant it May I ask what this means?. Regards Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 I suspect Mr Broomfield is punning on the two different meanings of the word "vet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 Indeed I am. I work with vets (as in veterinary surgeons), and - a personal affectation - prefer the word "Veteran" for veteran, or "Vet" for veterinary surgeon. And I would (obviously) disagree with Norman about what punishment young mr laing should receive, but I would wholeheartedly agree that the utter numpties who post on Facebook making some form of hero out of him are just that - numpties. I'm happy to agree to disagree on the future career of the original miscreant, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 21 October , 2009 Author Share Posted 21 October , 2009 Thank you Steven. Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Soul Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 This young man's "bladder voiding" escapade seems to have attracted a lot of outraged hyperbole. What is puzzling me is why there hasn't been an outcry at the description of Sheffield Hallam as a university. I mean, for goodness' sake........... On the subject of young men "in the grip of the grape" I recently managed to get hold of some info on a local young officer who was cashiered, his humiliation being made complete by the publication of the Court Martial verdict in the London Gazette. Apparently he was under the influence of the demon drink in public once too often - on the last occasion at Caterham Railway Station - and his regiment decided to dispense with his services. No doubt under extreme pressure to atone for his sins and restore the good name of the family he went on to re-enlist as a private in the Cheshire Regiment, got sent to Mesopotamia, was captured, and died as a prisoner-of-war. I reckon he paid a harsh enough price for his errant ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo794 Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 This young man's "bladder voiding" escapade seems to have attracted a lot of outraged hyperbole. What is puzzling me is why there hasn't been an outcry at the description of Sheffield Hallam as a university. I mean, for goodness' sake........... ...................Isn't that the one that used to be a swimming pool? Everything is a university today........my old poly is a uni., the local technical college is a uni, or part of it. It is the same old stuff dressed up to sound good. A mate of mine came home from college a few years ago, when someone asked him where he was at, he said 'Cambridge' and with his accent and well to do background, everyone thought the great seat of learning. Not the local Tech. Coll. in Cambridge. I let it ride for the laugh value and the looks he got All the schools have had the same treatment, put a posh name on the sign in front of the local comp., throw a bit of cash at it, and WHALLAAH! A Language or Business College or whatever they want to call them. Laughable really. DW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 "This young man's "bladder voiding" escapade seems to have attracted a lot of outraged hyperbole. What is puzzling me is why there hasn't been an outcry at the description of Sheffield Hallam as a university. I mean, for goodness' sake........... " Now! Now! Kath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S. Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 You mean just like these guy's were made an example of? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-52...oreign-bar.html Looks like it didn't work. This behavior cannot ever be justified by whoever and wherever it is committed. If as a society we decide that yes well its always happened its just squaddies , louts, students etc having a good time then we are going down a dangerous road and one which we are part-way down already. In my opinion it is no excuse to throw your hands up and say well boys will be boys etc, no the authorities must act and be seen to be acting whether they be civil or military and they should and must take the appropriate action needed. I say again in this case expel the lout from UNI and make an example of him so that this standard of behavior is seen as not acceptable in decent society Regards Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 22 October , 2009 Share Posted 22 October , 2009 From Sheffield's more respected paper: http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/M...eets.5756190.jp 'In a joint statement, Sheffield and Hallam University students' unions said they "do not condone commercially-organised bar crawls due to negative impact on student welfare".' Kath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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