manchester uni, hang your head in shame.

After yesterdays defeat to chelseaand there post match outburst,should'nt the thread title be .......
MANCHESTER UNITED,HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAMEers.

That is all.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Warthog

People should be able to make up their own minds!

That's exactly what they're doing This thread amuses me, on the one hand "paid the ultimate sacrafice so that people can enjoy freedom", on the other "how dare you democratically make a decision based on your own beliefs". I don't agree with the idea of banning these, mind, but the irony of the responses is great.

Thing is... Is anyone really totally comfortable with the way they market the forces these days, specifically at young people? "Join the army and fly a little remote controlled drone, it's just like your Xbox except we pay you!" "Join the army and you'll get to drive a tank! Woo!" We've cracked down on cigarettte advertising that made smoking look cool and exciting and ignored the risk to health... You can say that people would have to be naive not to realise that the army is dangerous, and of course that's true, but then naivety isn't in short supply at uni.

Originally Posted by northwind

other stuff.............but then naivety isn't in short supply at uni.

+10000000

Remember - Everyone in Switzerland is in the Army, they all have guns at home in case they need to be called up!

i have to admit i go to manchester uni and am appalled that the armed forces are to be banned from advertisement on campus (firstly for this whole "unjust war" bullcrap and secondly also due to the fact that they do not recruit disabled people and thus "discriminate" against them. rubbish), not just because it takes away the students' right to the choice of whether to join what is in effect not the true armed forces but a "uni club" version of it, but also because it is simply outrageous that the BNP and several of the slightly more radical islamic groups are allowed to parade on campus all they like. b*stards.

in case anyone is around manchester:

Manchester Student's Union is holding a general meeting next wednesday (30/04/0 and following the recent ban at UCL one of the proposed motions is to ban the military from all campus areas. If the motion is passed it will last for three years and this is the one chance to opose it.

Everyone who is a current student at the University of Manchester can vote, all you need to do is turn up with your student card on Wednesday 30 April at 13:30 in Academy 2 in the union.

For more information see:
http://www.umsu.manchester.ac.uk/pdf..._A_30.4.08.pdf

Spread the word and get as many people along to the meeting as possible

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/7368932.stm

go join this group if you are on facecrack and it makes you mad too:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12245047631

[northwind]

Originally Posted by dissuade

secondly also due to the fact that they do not recruit disabled people and thus "discriminate" against them. rubbish

What, seriously? That's just insane. You have to wonder how people like that end up with any influence, I mean, it's not even in the interest of the organisation to have monkeys like that in them, because it makes them look so ridiculous. I never really did student politics but those I know who did said the hardest part wasn't getting the message out, it was getting it taken seriously... And so they spent half their time kicking out and marginalising idiots like that.

We ran the BNP and the Scientologists off campus though, that was good. We didn't vote against them, we just made them not want to come back. Which is quite undemocratic I suppose, but **** em. No radical muslims to run off... Wonder if there is now?

Originally Posted by northwind

What, seriously? That's just insane.

I give it a few years before a modeling agency gets sued by someone for being discriminated against for being ugly.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Gene genie

front page of the manchester evening news tonight reported that m/c uni are to take a vote next week on banning the armed forces from their campus. under a proposal officers from the army, raf, and navy would be barred from setting up stalls for the next three years because they object to the recruitment of young people to fight in what they say as 'unjust wars'.

members of families, sons, fathers, daughters and mothers have paid the ultimate sacrafice so that people can enjoy freedom and students can freely go to uni and yet they see fit to give this policy the time of day.

i'm not tarring all students with the same brush, i do have a hunch on who the particular students that are objecting, but i think i'll keep that to myself.

Uni's have far too many champagne communist, range-rover environmentalist and general do-gooder w4nkers.

Apparently these tosspieces tried to petition against accepting military funding for engineering at Leeds uni. "Jet turbine research for fighter planes is baaaad dudes"... and it doesn't matter that it makes airliners more efficient, because I suppose we should all be surfing and getting stoned in f###in cornwall.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

we should all be surfing and getting stoned in f###in cornwall.

Have to admit it has its attractions...

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah I quite enjoy sitting in a field in the sun with a few cans etc myself. I don't pretend it's a political statement though