General discussions

[Adrian Brezhnev]

Has anybody actually ever taken part in a real life General Discussion or mass debating session that went terribly wrong? I have.

Sadly though, most general discussions tend to be mind nummingly tedious- and look like this:

[Santa's Boyfriend]

The woman at the far end:

"It was THIS BIG, I'm telling you..."

[RFT]

Is that Gerry Adams at the far end?

[Regular John]

Yehahamamhgshguhhssuuh... CAIRO auhauhhcajccnmnnahahsj... SNAKE! SNAKE!

[Captain Crunch]

Why is there a portrait of Christopher Lee hanging up?  Is this his fan club AGM or something?

[wilystoat]

I think it's Bertie Russell. Have you noticed that there are fourteen people in the room, and nineteen bottles of water? Crikey!!!!

[imitationleather]

What about the person holding the camera?

[Ciarán2]

I wanted to join the Philosophical Society at college, but was told it had turned into something called PhilSoc and was now a debating thing, with typical subjects being Posh and Becks or whether cats are better than dogs. so the actual philosophy society was called the Metaphysical Society. It looked just like the photo above and was full of fellas with bad side partings and dickie bows trying to trump each other with the amount of books they had read. It was absolutely bloody awful and had that typical thing about it you get of "oh we're all gonna get right pissed up on wine here!"

[Pinball]

Caption: The Pessimist Society discuss their plans for global domination.

[skibz]

Caption: The Pessimist Society discuss their plans for global domination.

...before writing the plan off as impossible.

[Bogey]

I went to a meeting of the Birkbeck Philosophy Club*, in a room almost identical to that one, and I remember joking beforehand about forgetting my cravat**. There were at least three of them there, plus waistcoats and dickie-bows. It was truly awful, and all about trying to out-sesquipedaliise each other like some tossers would.

*"Society"
**I do own a cravat, though, you understand, I just choose not to abuse it.

[Adrian Brezhnev]

I wanted to join the Philosophical Society at college, but was told it had turned into something called PhilSoc

I don't suppose you were at Exeter University were you? It sounds like the kind of thing that went on there- but perhaps all universities and colleges give most of their soceities names like Philsoc, Fizzsoc, Chemsoc, or SockSoc

[RFT]

Not to forget the choice of metallers at every bloody university in the country- Rocksoc. who nearly always had all the same members as the Science Fiction Society and the live-action roleplaying society.

[Ciarán2]

I wanted to join the Philosophical Society at college, but was told it had turned into something called PhilSoc

I don't suppose you were at Exeter University were you? It sounds like the kind of thing that went on there- but perhaps all universities and colleges give most of their soceities names like Philsoc, Fizzsoc, Chemsoc, or SockSoc

Nah, this was in Trinity College, Dublin. A place where you will also find a "Rock Nostalgia Society".

"Remember rock, eh? Ah those where the days..."

[Morrisfan82]

Nah, this was in Trinity College, Dublin. A place where you will also find a "Rock Nostalgia Society".

... so, Geologists then.

[Bogey]

:-)

[Adrian Brezhnev]

Well, it's a far better name that Geolosoc