Have Our Universities Gone Pc Mad?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6267559/Cowboys-Indians-outfits-banned-fancy-dress-parties.html?mrn_rm=als1

[Mamyalynne]

The best fancy dress parties are the ones where the lights go out and everyone grabs what they can find from the centre of the room - I still have nightmares about Uncle Herbert in a Playtex girdle and a grass skirt.

[Peter Pedant]

/Better idea would be not to have fancy dress parties if it bothers them, sorted.//

think back to your younger days MamaL - even if it was so long ago - the idea of fancy dress was to shock
Prince Harry as a nazi
I wondered if I should go as Maddy McCann and got disinvited once

what about a transvestite party ( sixth form 1970 - banned)

Vicars and Tarts parties were popular in the thirties - we revived it 1975 and some men came as yup Tarts
( Vicar of Stiffkey and all that)

[yeah yeah cries of Vicar of Hookey from the usual suspects]

[Spicerack]

My girlfriend won the first prize at a Halloween Fancy Dress Party.
We didn't even know it was fancy dress.

[woofgang]

isn't this what unis are for?

[Mamyalynne]

Do behave Peter, I have total recall - oooh a new idea for a costume.

[anotheoldgit]

Just thought perhaps they will be banned now, due to their connection with Nazism.

[Mamyalynne]

Girdles?

[Jackdaw33]

//But the proposals were ridiculed yesterday. Rob Lyndhurst, a 33-year-old father of two from Canterbury, said: 'To think these people are supposed to be among the brightest young people in Britain."\\

If they were the brightest young people they wouldn't be

[Jackdaw33]

...to continue,

...studying at a 3rd rate university like Kent.

[Peter Pedant]

// what next all students to be dressed in Chairman Mae type uniforms. //

that would be Chairman Mae West uniforms innit - well you did say fancy dress

the flirty oktoberfest girls cozzy see above posted by one always-confused-but-more-outraged ABer is called a dirndl I think

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// The best fancy dress parties are the ones where the lights go out and everyone grabs what they can find from the centre of the room ///

Problem being when the lights go back on again everyone has grabbed what they wanted and the room is empty. :0)

[sanmac]

Of corset is, peter.. a.dirndl:)

[Mamyalynne]

That did happen on occasion, dignity was lost and they were banished to the kitchen.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

A little unhygienic don't you think?

[Mamyalynne]

Grandma's kitchen was immaculate.

[hereIam]

Ha ha at Spice at 15:45 ...

[Old_Geezer]

Seems they went mad years ago.