You also invented homos!

We attended The Only Fun In Town last night, which was being hosted on the same night as "Ned and Emo night" at the union, an event which was sure to make my blood boil. Whenever I go to the union I try to keep an open mind about the other people who go there, but they sure make it difficult.

Practically everyone attending went as a "ned", presumably because they relished the chance to dress in the regalia of their spiritual ancestors, and those few people who did go as "emos" were dressed like gay ravers. Seriously, we're talking black tank tops, red ties on collarless black t-shirts, black armbands around biceps, mascara etc.

Also, when I went to the toilet, two cockmunchers obviously picked me out as an outsider to their carnival of idiocy, and turned the lights off. So I was groping around in the pitch blackness (there are no windows), when someone else came in and turned the light back on. I was like "Someone turned the light off when they went out", to which he responded, in a really smarmy voice "Oh yeah, sure, like you didn't do it yourself". In a fit of extreme manliness, I quipped back "Oh yeah, I did it myself, because I enjoy stumbling around in the dark you stupid prick", and walked out.

Zing!

There was also an awful lot of people touting various candidate t-shirts, hanging around in groups of differing political allegiance. I've noticed a somewhat more lackadaisical approach to canvassing this year, which hasn't involved screaming at people outside of the union like apes at a zoo (at least to our notice). Also, a lot of the policies seem pretty half-hearted and pointless (although that has been a feature of previous campaigns); for example, two separate candidates are promising to start a Facebook page. Surely that isn't something which takes a lot of time or effort?

EDIT:

Just wanted to show you this guy's campaign poster (there are quite a few bad ones, but this might be the worst this year):



I may be wrong about this, because I'm sure there have been some pretty awful ones in the past, but I think "Don't be a Focker, Vote for Cocker" might be the worst slogan of all time.

As for the policies, this is one of the Facebook people; the other two policies are pointless, because I seriously doubt that a change in the legal drinking age is even going to happen, and even if it does it wouldn't be in the year that this guy is "Honorary Secretary" (a meaningless job title if ever I heard one), and even if it did happen this year, just what is this guy going to do about it? I suppose the Government/Council are going to cancel all plans for the law change and start running the other way once they hear that Cocker's on the case.

And it's wrapped up nicely with "Get Your Cocker Out!" Christ, are we living in a 1960s Carry On film?

(EDIT 2 - I took out some of the nastier stuff in this rant - I often get carried away with this sort of thing, and as readers can probably tell from Gary Cocker's post (if it is indeed Gary Cocker), he isn't a nasty guy. His campaign poster is still clearly misled, but it obviously got him elected, so what do I know? /EDIT 2)

/EDIT.

But anyway, we didn't stay too long for fear of getting terminally drunk, and so we went home and watched Ghost World instead, which was pretty great. Here's a clip:



While that clip kind of makes it look like a dumbass teen movie of sorts, it wasn't, but there are some pretty funny bits in it. Also, there's a great opening clip of a Bollywood dance routine, which I found in full, as the song is pretty damn catchy:



The film is pretty different from the comic; Seymour (played by the awesome Steve Buscemi) is kind of just a minor character in the book, while he plays a major part in the film. Also, in many ways the movie is a lot more depressing in an obvious way, rather than mildly melancholic, which is how I'd describe the comic. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.

This has been quite lengthy/ranty.