24

Jan

During the class break.

Posted by MGK  Published in Conversations, Bad Comedy

ME: So, did you look at the clinical and intensive options for next year?
ANDREW (ANOTHER LAW STUDENT): Yeah. I’m liking the intensive research one.
ME: I missed that one.
ANDREW: It’s where you team up with three or four other students and you do legal research for an NGO. You know, Amnesty International or Greenpeace or that sort of thing.
ME: Sounds cool.
ANDREW: Yeah.
ME: And probably very liberal.
CLAUDIA (ANOTHER LAW STUDENT): And that’s a problem for you how?
ME: Oh, I’m not complaining.
CLAUDIA: Good, because if you wanted to go to a conservative law school, you should have gone to Alberta.
ME: “University Of Alberta Law: Did You Know You Can Drink Crude Oil?”
ANDREW: “University Of Alberta Law: Mussolini Wasn’t That Bad A Guy”
ME: “University of Alberta Law: Producing Future Members Of The Fraser Institute Since 1971″
CLAUDIA: Oh god just stop.
ANDREW: You know, actually, you can ask to set up your own research program if you can find a willing co-sponsor and other students to work with you.
CLAUDIA: So the Fraser Institute could underwrite my legal education after all!
ME: Well, they’re conservatives. They probably do spring out for more than the lefties do.
(A pause.)
CLAUDIA: You’re trying to figure out how often they’d buy lunch for you, aren’t you.
ME: Don’t knock free lunches, woman.
ANDREW: Free lunches are the fuel that drives poor law students.
CLAUDIA: I’m not arguing against free lunches, but don’t you care who offers the free lunch?
ME: Are you looking for an answer other than “no?” Because you’re not going to get one.
ANDREW: If the Fraser Institute shows up tomorrow and offers free lunch while telling us about the evils of public health care, I am there.
ME: Hell with the Fraser Institute. The Future Fascists of Tomorrow could show up the next day and offer a free lunch along with a lecture by Ernst Zundel and I’d go.
CLAUDIA: Oh, god.
ME: “This is the best sauerkraut ever!“

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Will said on January 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

I heartily endorse your position - free food buys a lot of forbearance - but I do have to wonder what your reaction would be if you were offered a free lunch by, say, Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson and Pauly Shore, all in talkative mode.

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Bosswald said on January 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

Your little snippets make law school sound far more fun and attractive than it can possibly be. Kudos!

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It-Box said on January 24th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

Hmm. Canadian Law School is obviously of a different standard than British Law School. All my conversations with my fellow Law Students are about how tired we are, how broke we are and how much we could do with a cup of tea.

Oh and The Mighty Boosh.

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It-Box said on January 24th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

To be fair I think you could best describe the political mood of the campus as right of centre. But it’s really an apathetic form of conservatism. I’m on the Student Council and the only thing anyone ever wants to talk about is what kind of cups are in the coffee machine.

Kind of depressing really.

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Lunchebox said on January 24th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

There are people who turn down free lunches?

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mightybaldking said on January 24th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

“To be fair I think you could best describe the political mood of the campus as right of centre. But it’s really an apathetic form of conservatism.”

That’s all there is in the conservative youth movement anymore. Conservatives used to be the philosopher kings of the university campuses. Read this! Study this! We’ll discuss it at the next meeting. Since the Harris years, it’s been all keggers and elitism and the homeless deserve it. It wouldn’t bother me if they were Ezra Levant or Mark Steyn but they’re all Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly. Intellectually week.

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MGK said on January 24th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

Baldguy, you’ve just implied that you consider Mark Steyn - who is a twat - to be intellectually rigorous or something similar. This is deeply wrong.

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It-Box said on January 25th, 2008 at 6:49 am

Not even Mighty Bald KIng, those names would mean nothing to most of my fellow students. By Right of Centre I mean in the most pathetic “Well they ought to string him up, I don’t know why I pay my taxes, bloody immigrants, bring back national service” grumbling. Beyond parroting stuff they’ve read in the Daily Mail most people seem to have no interest in politics whatsoever. One guy even told to me that he’ll be voting for Cameron at the next election because “He seemed nice.”

Sorry. I need to stop grumbling.

Mark Steyn is indeed a twat, but he annoys Johann Hari - so his life clearly has some purpose.

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mightybaldking said on January 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am

Mark Steyn’s arguments are well constructed and follow a strict internal logic. It’s his axioms that are fucked up.

It-Box: You appear to be British. I’m writing from my North American viewpoint. Feel free to replace my names with your own, homegrown loonies. Here, we call them “Toronto Sun Conservatives.” The Toronto Sun is on par with the London Sun. - Boobies, oppressed white men and sports.

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John said on January 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am

I recall being branded as the most horrible kind of “poor people deserve it” facist in university because I disagreed with the statement “all people have a right to complete a university arts education at their own speed, fully paid for by the public”.

I kinda miss being the token right-wing lunatic. I should go back.

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AberrantEyes said on January 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am

…so, “Fraser Institute” is Canadian for “Heritage Foundation”?

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