...Mansfield. As the last of us to leave this cocoon of safety, this last bastion of eccentricity before people in the real world start asking us pressing questions like "You what?" and "Why are you wearing that stupid hat, it makes you look like a student", I feel obliged to appreciate it while I am here. As a friend once said, "You moan about it the whole time you're there, but you'll miss it like air once you're gone".Sure, it may be poor. It may be small. It might be portrayed in the papers as being populated entirely by homophobic six year olds1. But when you see something like the KFC Megabucket Challenge, it warms the heart, it really does. Six men, men of Mansfield, racing to finish a KFC megabucket meal including four large fries and 1.5l of carbonated beverage of choice.
Is there a nobler sport than competitive eating?
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1. Like after open mic night, when the JCR was allegedly filled with crowds of angry students singing "Paul Lodge loves it up the arse".
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In my day, we passed a motion banning the mega bucket challenge, on the grounds that a competitive eating event in which vegetarians and those with religious dietary reasons for not eating meat could participate, aka, competitie pizza eating. Was this rescinded? Have all of my liberal good works been overturned?
I blame the Archbishop of Canterbury, but then, I'm blaming him for everything, these days.
The Megabucket Challenge was reinstated on the following grounds:
1) The people that objected have left.
2) Nobody can remember where it says it's banned.
3) There are some people who are really keen to do it.
I miss Mansfield because frantically assembling papers at the last minute was a blast. Also, I liked living in the basement.
In my day Mansfield was a beatnik. Well, it cultivated an air of social progressiveness. Progressitude. Progressivity.
Remember muffincake? Dumplingbread? Limeball? Regent Street was truly an age of compound words.
Oh Dumpling bread. Those memories were so happy that I want England again. GIVE ME YOUR NATION.
The ban was lifted when Ed overhauled the JCR in his image. You know, after the two poor secretaries and the fire. All policy was overturned, unless there was a written motion to not overturn it, and it was replaced by... I think it was replaced by the bench's opinion on it.
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