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TSR George

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Reply 1

Piggsil

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Do you mean the Durham Union Society? We all become members of the Durham Students' Union automatically, but the Durham Union Society is the debating society. Is that what you're talking about?

Reply 2

Piggsil

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Right, well I'm not a member but I know lots of peple who are. Some of them say it was worth joining, some have never been to a single debate, and a few are only memembers because they got confused at the freshers' fair and thought that the Union Society was the union and if they didn't join they wouldn't actually be students......

Reply 3

AdamC

This confused me too when I first came to Durham...

DSU = Durham Students Union

DUS = Durham Union Society

They are different things entirely. You are automatically a member of the DSU but not the DUS.

The DUS puts on debates... it composed of Rahs... the exec are apparently fascists, and they con freshers into joining by confusing them! lol

I never joined. But it's what i've heard! :biggrin:

Reply 4

cobra

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AdamC

This confused me too when I first came to Durham...

DSU = Durham Students Union

DUS = Durham Union Society

They are different things entirely. You are automatically a member of the DSU but not the DUS.

The DUS puts on debates... it composed of Rahs... the exec are apparently fascists, and they con freshers into joining by confusing them! lol

I never joined. But it's what i've heard! :biggrin:

I've joined the dus and not through confusion, I knew what it involves and i go to debates and talks

Reply 5

undercover-ange

cobra

I've joined the dus and not through confusion, I knew what it involves and i go to debates and talks

Is it good? I wouldn't actually participate in debates and things but I'd like to listen/ go to see guest speakers and things. Also some of the events sounded good. I did just think it was to join the dsu so I "had" to do it because everyone else would but reading this thread I now understand. x

Reply 6

socialist cook

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cobra

I've joined the dus and not through confusion, I knew what it involves and i go to debates and talks

Yep i am the same as Oli, and i enjoy quite a few of the debates and talks.

It is not composed entirely of rahs, there are quite a few of us non rahs there and the exec is the Conservative Party in miniature, complete with backstabbing. Although they are more like the Republicans for election 'farces'.
But i never got involved in the Society for this reason, i am only a mere member.

It may seem a bit steep to join for life, but once you go to a few debates and get any free alcohol which comes afterwards(you get invited back to the reading room in 24 North Bailey Club if you ask a question from the floor) it's paid for itself really and it is actually for LIFE. So you can come back whenever you want and attend debates.

Reply 7

cobra

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undercover-ange

Is it good? I wouldn't actually participate in debates and things but I'd like to listen/ go to see guest speakers and things. Also some of the events sounded good. I did just think it was to join the dsu so I "had" to do it because everyone else would but reading this thread I now understand. x

yes i enjoy it, you dont have to partcipate, most people watch and then you can state your opinion if you want at the end. In freshers there will be a debate which you can go to for free to get a taste of what it's like before you join

Reply 8

TKR

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ill definitely be joining

Reply 9

cobra

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TKR

ill definitely be joining

it's about £45!

Reply 10

AdamC

I mite join this year... It'll be useful to network I guess.

I already have phone numbers for some important people though... like...

Andy Gilchrist (we love Firemen now!!)
Anji Hunter (she was dull)
Peter Tatchell (he was funny)
The leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party (the most dull man on earth... seriously)

All from when I ran a DUS-like club at my grammar school.

Reply 11

TKR

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cobra

it's about £45!

will they accept blow jobs?

Reply 12

cobra

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TKR

will they accept blow jobs?

They have plenty of other messed up systems so probably

Reply 13

Mattmoy_2000

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Is your entire monetary system based on blowjob equivalents? I thought most people measured their money in terms of how much alcohol/rent/food it could buy them.

Reply 14

lilsk8achic666

lol he's just making sure we all know his preference to give :smile:

Reply 15

Mattmoy_2000

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he also seems to be wh0ring himself to every Tom, Dick and Harry in Durham! (no pun intended).

Reply 16

Filibuster

Bit if advice for TKR dont pull in freshers week, you might be labelled a ho. Therefore you chances of gettin men would be bleak.
I might just come onto him in a bar and then it would ruin his chances of gettin men, because they'l think he's straight.

Reply 17

lilsk8achic666

I thought he had a bf anyway :confused:

Reply 18

cobra

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Filibuster

Bit if advice for TKR dont pull in freshers week, you might be labelled a ho. Therefore you chances of gettin men would be bleak.
I might just come onto him in a bar and then it would ruin his chances of gettin men, because they'l think he's straight.

nah you won't be labeled if you pull in freshers week as long as you don't pull a different person each day

Reply 19

Mattmoy_2000

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yeah, someone I know was called "narcoleptic" for quite a while after freshers' week...

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