Girls just wanna have fun

[stockhausen]

Leeds Uni Hockey club recently held a "Chav themed" party; they sent out an invite telling members to dress as "lower-class" people and included a dictionary definition of "chav" as "a young, lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour".

The invitation read: "We educated fair maidens, studying in one of the country's grandest universities, would find such behaviour entirely alien".

Members were told to "set aside all they believed to be good, honest and noble" and "replace champagne flutes with cans of K cider".

Why would anyone find this objectionable? It isn't as if they mentioned that Chavs come from Essex.

 

[Cleisthenes]

You haven't actually said that anyone has a problem with it...

 

[Dis86]

Cos everyone is an oppressed minority these days. Even scum.

 

[LabR@t]

Cos everyone is an oppressed minority these days. Even scum.

Everyone apart from that group.

 

[stockhausen]

Nor would I. However, a spokesperson (sic) from the students' union has said the theme was unacceptable and the event is being investigated.

 

[Ayahuasca]

As long as they had fun who cares, plenty of people take the **** out of the upper class.
Plus I’d rather drink cider than champagne!

 

[robfosters]

Is Leeds really one of our grandest universities?

 

[tom_nieto]

Is Leeds really one of our grandest universities?

Full of chavs last I heard

(This is a joke, please don’t set the spokesperson on me)

 

[Scrutinize]

Ah lol Stockhausen

 

[XeNoN89]

Another case of everything is offensive

 

[Thekwango]

"We educated fair maidens, studying in one of the country's grandest universities, would find such behaviour entirely alien".

except when they are drunk out of their minds and getting their pasties smashed.....

 

[touch]

getting our pasties smashed.....

Freudian slip?

 

[Malevolence]

Another case of everything is offensive

https://twitter.com/ICYMIvideo/status/956889590543060992

 

[Thekwango]

Freudian slip?

lol, I started writing the post from their point of view then changed it.....seems I didn't change it all!

 

[FlakGunna]

 

[balky12]

They might have put out as easy as chavs... Missed a trick there.

 

[aardvark]

lol - the leeds sports societies are a perfect example of 'brash and loutish' behaviour.
I never liked them and still don't.
Hockey and rugby are the worst (men and women)

 

[MrRockliffe]

Leeds is generally considered middle of the range - I wouldn't have considered them an upper class uni like the following are:

• Southampton
• Surrey
• Cambridge
• Oxford
• Exeter

So it seems strange to me that they'd have a party like that

 

[ahar]

Leeds is generally considered middle of the range - I wouldn't have considered them an upper class uni like the following are:

• Southampton
• Surrey
• Cambridge
• Oxford
• Exeter

So it seems strange to me that they'd have a party like that

You failed to spot that at least one of them is not a great university.

Oxford's a complete dump!

(With apologies to the writers of Blackadder for my shameless derivation)

 

[Nitefly]

Can we please shove all of these ‘is this offensive / someone finds this offensive’ threads into a new sub-forum. The abundance of them is bona fide redonk.