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Reply 40
KupoIncarnate
Havent found out any specifics yet, but thats because hardly anyone is back at college yet (I'm here a week early for rowing). Currently trying to work, and on the side filling a friends room with 500 balloons as a prank. Its going well, but we bought cheap balloons so they keep bursting, dammit! The friend in question is due back in Cambridge tomorrow and we have 150 to go. Its doable... just its going to make me fail the mock exams I have next week. Pfff nevermind.


At least you set your priorities... :cool: Actually the prank is pretty funny but I have never seen that cheap ballons that constantly burst. Useless tip; don't fill them with so much air then. I just hope that you did have some kind of machine which does the blowing or in the end you will be spending your weekend with some kind respratory disease in hospital. :wink:

How come you still got holidays? Under what did this holiday go; easter? Thats ages ago! So how long are the holidays then?
Its one of the many stupid traditions of Cambridge - not only do they give us more work to do, they give us less time to do it as our terms are 8 weeks rather than the usual 10 of other universities. Which is why I am meant to be doing a lot of work now, so I can keep up through the course of the coming term which starts a week thursday. Oh yeah, by the way, Cambridge weeks run Thursday to Thursday. Sensible eh?

Alas, no blowing machine. We have finished the 500 balloons early tho, so may be going to buy some more tomorrow morning to get the maximum balloonage before my friend arrives. Its looking pretty impressive atm. Alas, still no genuine work done.
Reply 42
KupoIncarnate
Its one of the many stupid traditions of Cambridge - not only do they give us more work to do, they give us less time to do it as our terms are 8 weeks rather than the usual 10 of other universities. Which is why I am meant to be doing a lot of work now, so I can keep up through the course of the coming term which starts a week thursday. Oh yeah, by the way, Cambridge weeks run Thursday to Thursday. Sensible eh?

Alas, no blowing machine. We have finished the 500 balloons early tho, so may be going to buy some more tomorrow morning to get the maximum balloonage before my friend arrives. Its looking pretty impressive atm. Alas, still no genuine work done.


gah! 7 days a week!!! But then again I did hear that you are not allowed to work or really do anything besides study so that is fair enough.

Alas, A kodak moment! I hope one of you guys did take photos of the room. BTW How did you get the keys of his room?
At Selwyn we share showers between 2 rooms - each shower has 2 doors, one to each room and when you are in there you lock both. But it also means everyone has a "shower buddy" whose room theirs is connected to. Perrrrrfect for pranking. You are meant to keep your shower door locked to stop your evil and unstrustworthy shower buddy from stealing your stuff, but nobody does cos we generally trust eachother. And thats the fatal mistake that my friend Fi made... even though we played a prank on her room last term as well!

Muahahahaha!
Reply 44
KupoIncarnate
At Selwyn we share showers between 2 rooms - each shower has 2 doors, one to each room and when you are in there you lock both. But it also means everyone has a "shower buddy" whose room theirs is connected to. Perrrrrfect for pranking. You are meant to keep your shower door locked to stop your evil and unstrustworthy shower buddy from stealing your stuff, but nobody does cos we generally trust eachother. And thats the fatal mistake that my friend Fi made... even though we played a prank on her room last term as well!

Muahahahaha!


you are trully EVIL! I now understand the importance of ensuite showers and that you should never trust your shower neighbour!

To a certain extend he probably is expecting a prank of some sort eventhough it's not a bad prank like sticking his underwear on a flagpole or something. Or what did you do last time?
Last time we made it look like a crime scene, trashed the room, tipped the desk and bed over, drew a chalk body outline on the floor, smeared ketchup handprints on the walls in a collapsing-to-the-floor kinda way and put police tape around the door. Also a big knife stuck into the top of the overturned desk and lashings of ketchup. And to get rid of the ketchup aroma, a tissue of acetone on the radiator to make it all smell all clinical. It looked pretty good all in all.

Also her reaction (and her dads reaction) was HILARIOUS!

She loved the balloons by the way. Went down a storm. Now we just have to find some use fo 500 inflated balloons. Answers on a postcard to Ben Jones, Selwyn College - the best plan will be put into action this weekend!
Reply 46
partay!! with loads of balloons!
Well in the end we threw them down our stairwell and dared someone to jump from the 1st floor. He didnt do it. Alas, it would have been good. Does anyone feel this thread has gone slightly off topic?
Reply 48
yes!!!
And i am not sure how to get it back on track! All I can say it would really help if a orientalist would show up in here.

eventhough its too late with the ballon thing but i was thinking of redoing the music video to 99 red ballons.
Reply 49
I think because the number of students doing it is so small there's less relevance as to which college you apply to, and more a sense of being part of an inter-colegiate 'oriental studies department.' Come on, there are only like 30 people doing it accross the university per year so I doubt that there's a particular college that specialises in it :P.

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