drinking

drinks club social ruins pub
i have never understood the fraternity thing at university, even less as it is popularised in american high school/ grad school movies (never very funny and never very insightful - ok i make an exception for election as that was wonderful..... oh and rushmore. ok already so i lied so there are some good ones).
i can remember my few short months of playing club rugby where the whole drink and prank culture was part and parcel of playing. in the end my love of running around on a muddy field in the cold getting pummelled into the ground was overtaken by a desire to avoid getting involved in drinking games and setting off fire alarms because it was funny.
so reading about the oxford university drinking club that went into a pub with the sole intention of causing havoc brought back all those bad memories.
but it’s ok even though it was intentional and the group broke 17 bottles of wine, every piece of crockery in the bar and a window they were nice about it.
""even when i pulled them off each other when they were fighting and chucking bottles at the walls, they would say 'sorry old chap, just a bit of high spirits'." "
when the police got there, they arrested 4 of them, and those four are going to be fined £80 each.
but it's tradition so that’s ok.
you have to wonder if they had been chavs if the story would have been so "nice" about it or would it have been yet another example of soaring yob crime.
i guess it goes to prove the old song is still true. "it's the same the whole world over - rich get all the please and the poor get all the blame."