BSG Initiation Ceremony

News from the BBC today about the latest academic initiatives from our halls of learning.

I think we should implement a BSG version. Any thoughts?

Details of initiations are meant to be kept secret but they normally involve an organised ritual or evening which involves excessive drinking and having to take part in tasks and follow strict orders.
University of Gloucestershire students told the BBC that during the ceremonies, first-year students are made to do "anything you are told" by the senior students. One, 20-year-old Natalie Sutton, said that during her hockey initiation ceremony she was forced to put fish in her bra and then eat it.

She added: "I had to go to the toilet in a bucket in a dark basement, which was full of other people's urine. People were crying and vomiting." Another, Nick Levy, said that during his ceremony he was told to drink excessively and then run naked through Cheltenham. He added: "We had to put matches in private, inappropriate areas and set them on fire whilst drinking more beer. I did it to be accepted by the older guys at the time. "It was a bit tormenting, but if you didn't do it you would get called a wuss".

Aren't students fun.

She had to eat her bra?

I think this is an excellent idea.

Perhaps a checklist?

1) Mistake zooo for a gay man.
2) Be insulted by Chipolata.
3) Post in Critique and be told by sootyj, "You've written better."
4) Mention EllieJP's boobs in an irrelevant thread.
5) Mistake Finck for a German man.
6) Be insulted by Seefacts.
7) Be offended by Aaron.
8) Post in the middle of a full-on Scatters/PhQnix love in thread.
9) Make Griff cross.
10) Announce your intention to knock BSG on the head for a couple of weeks.
11) Post the very next day.

12) Vote for Bussell, Ricketts and Stott.

Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 2 2008, 10:47 AM BST

Aren't students fun.

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When I joined the women's rugby team at uni I had to wear patients robes (with no back) and just underwear underneath and eat the most disgusting food. Down drinks and slap every single one of the rugby boy's bums whilst covered in plasters. We also went knicker bobbing in cider. They were clean!

Quote: EllieJP @ October 2 2008, 11:14 AM BST

When I joined the women's rugby team at uni I had to wear patients robes (with no back) and just underwear underneath and eat the most disgusting food. Down drinks and slap every single one of the rugby boy's bums whilst covered in plasters. We also went knicker bobbing in cider. They were clean!

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I used to hate people like you at uni.

Make Griff cross.

Quote: Graham Bandage @ October 2 2008, 11:03 AM BST

She had to eat her bra?

I think this is an excellent idea.

Perhaps a checklist?

1) Mistake zooo for a gay man.
2) Be insulted by Chipolata.
3) Post in Critique and be told by sootyj, "You've written better."
4) Mention EllieJP's boobs in an irrelevant thread.
5) Mistake Finck for a German man.
6) Be insulted by Seefacts.
7) Be offended by Aaron.
8) Post in the middle of a full-on Scatters/PhQnix love in thread.
9) Make Griff cross.
10) Announce your intention to knock BSG on the head for a couple of weeks.
11) Post the very next day.

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You've written better.

Aren't students pathetic.

Quote: sootyj @ October 2 2008, 11:17 AM BST

You've written better.

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So have you. Not much better mind.

Quote: EllieJP @ October 2 2008, 11:14 AM BST

When I joined the women's rugby team at uni I had to wear patients robes (with no back) and just underwear underneath and eat the most disgusting food. Down drinks and slap every single one of the rugby boy's bums whilst covered in plasters. We also went knicker bobbing in cider. They were clean!

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The bums?

Quote: chipolata @ October 2 2008, 11:16 AM BST

I used to hate people like you at uni.

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Yep... but if I hadn't have joined I would have never got over my depression and would have moped about the whole year. Making new friends and doing something active was one of the best things I ever did.

Quote: EllieJP @ October 2 2008, 11:18 AM BST

Yep... but if I hadn't have joined I would have never got over my depression and would have moped about the whole year. Making new friends and doing something active was one of the best things I ever did.

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Quote: Nigel Kelly @ October 2 2008, 11:18 AM BST

So have you.

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You haven't.

How about just making the poor novitiate write a 2,000 page sitcom pilot in critique.

Of which every BSG memeber, then says I read the first word and was to bored to continue.

Quote: chipolata @ October 2 2008, 11:18 AM BST

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Piss off!