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Originally Posted by mobertol
Thanks Sue was about to say exactly the same thing! (Ddogy internet connection at the moment for some reason been getting bumped off!)
The Union is open to all -you don't have to be affiliated to any political party to join and the debates are fairly run allowing the same time for all partecipants to exchange their views then all members vote - NOT on the views themselves but on the skill of the debaters presenting their case you over on to their view of the motion which is up for discussion at winning!! I still have my card and m life member -if ever I'm down that way and fancy popping in to watch a debate I get in free...some of the guests are very entertaining.
As to the bit in the article about the young conservative men making comments aimed at female members talking about "Smidgeons" and laughing -par for the course -I would suggest any group of "males" together whatever their age, political interests or other affiliations will always jest about the ladies and make cocky comments among themselves - it doesn't offend me and to be honest rather makes me laugh, especially when it's men of a certain age. May I suggest you read certain threads of Accyweb for example the one on Beach volley currently so interesting to some  There are lots more if you go back over old threads too. It's just "boys" talk - sad really...but then boys will be boys  |
Dianne was going to add a comment exactly along the lines of your last paragraph but got too annoyed. I too find it quite amusing and the writer of the article would probably find similar activities at every university in the land.