Drinking Societies

Tonight Matthew

I'm a little strange? I'm not the one who feels the need to wear matching ties with my mates in order to get battered. Does the Pitt Club meet in that place on Jesus Lane? If so, I once got pissed in there and vomited in a bush outside. That's what I thought of it.

We do meet at 7A Jesus Lane and what were you doing there? Surely someone with your disdain for drinking societies wouldn't even contemplate entering the Pitt Club premises. Perhaps you were frequenting Po Nah Nah or Pizza Express.

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Tonight Matthew

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Mart21

We do meet at 7A Jesus Lane and what were you doing there? Surely someone with your disdain for drinking societies wouldn't even contemplate entering the Pitt Club premises. Perhaps you were frequenting Po Nah Nah or Pizza Express.

Nah, it was a Scudamore's party. I used to work for them. Thankfully, despite the setting, there were no matching ties to be seen.

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I didn't even realise the Pitt Club existed any more :redface:

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We still exist despite having to sell most of our club building to Po Nah Nah and Pizza Express to overcome financial difficulties. We currently own the upper floors of 7A Jesus Lane and hold meetings there during term time.

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How many members are there? Is it fairly exclusively public school? Do you do formal swaps etc like most other college socs do?

Sorry - it's just I thought they no longer existed and know nothing about them!

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RetiredAccount89

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Tonight Matthew

I still long for the night that I see a 'drink soc' out in Cambridge. I guarantee that I will produce a fresh pair of buttocks to the lot of them. They won't know what hit them, except for their mate 'Big Gav', up the arse, as a punishment for not engaging in the latest round of 'drinking games'.

Utterly gash.

yes that'll shwo them.
In what way is a drinking soc possibly different froma bunch of guys that goes out on the town on a friday night? I know me and my friends used to.

The only difference is they are called a drining soc, and act with (slightly) more decorum for the evening

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Helenia

How many members are there? Is it fairly exclusively public school? Do you do formal swaps etc like most other college socs do?

Sorry - it's just I thought they no longer existed and know nothing about them!

There are approximately 50 members excluding those who have left Cambridge. All members, including myself, have been to public school. We do have social functions, however, these rarely involve formal hall. The main reason for this is that the more unruly among us have a tendency to misbehave, resulting in the whole group being ejected from the hall (very embarrassing).

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RetiredAccount89

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Helenia

How many members are there? Is it fairly exclusively public school? Do you do formal swaps etc like most other college socs do?

Sorry - it's just I thought they no longer existed and know nothing about them!

Mmm, was a high degree of 'bell end' when i was there and no doubt still is. 90% of them are from stonyhedge, harrow, eton...mainly rugger buggers.
Then theres the whole piutt club invites at the beginning of the year to any fittie they see where they lather them up with as much alcohol as possible and go right up to the 'indecent/sexual assault line'. I've known 3 girls who went to those things and came back int ears because they had been practically raped by handsy pitt clubbers.

Then theres the whole eltist element to it....
it basically to me is representative of everything that USED to be wrong with cambridge.
Last bastion of the chavaunist letch in cambridge.

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*Thanks god for once that she's not a "fittie"*

I'll stick with the boatie boys I think :wink:

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I will respond to your points in order.

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Mmm, was a high degree of 'bell end' when i was there and no doubt still is.

Would you be so kind as to define 'bell end' since it is not a term of which I'm familiar.

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90% of them are from stonyhedge, harrow, eton...mainly rugger buggers.

What is wrong with Stonyhedge, Harrow and Eton? I went to Eton College (Manor house, House Master Dr. Gailey) and it didn't do me any harm.

What is wrong with having a club or society for public school boys'? After all we do have a Cambridge University Socialist Workers' Club, which I'm sure would be exclusively working class, although I could be wrong (Champagne socialists' do exist).

I notice that you mention 'rugger buggers', do you have a particular dislike for rugby and those who partake of it?

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Then theres the whole piutt club [sic] invites at the beginning of the year to any fittie they see where they lather them up with as much alcohol as possible and go right up to the 'indecent/sexual assault line'.

We do invite suitably attractive young ladies to the Pitt Club, however we would never countenance sexually assaulting them. I can assure you that I've never engaged in the sort of activities mentioned in your post.

I've known 3 girls who went to those things and came back int ears [sic]because they had been practically raped by handsy pitt clubbers.

I would like to know the names of the members who abused these young ladies so that we can expel them from the club. I can assure you that their behaviour is not typical of the majority of our members.

4) Then theres the whole eltist [sic] element to it....
it basically to me is representative of everything that USED to be wrong with cambridge.

Most clubs are elitist to some extent; one could argue that Cambridge University is elitist because it selects only the brightest students. The assertion that all elitism is bad is clearly asinine. Perhaps you would prefer it if Cambridge University applies the principles of egalitarianism and admits everyone who submits an application including those that obtain one G grade at G.C.S.E.

I think you need to adopt a more balanced approach when judging the Pitt Club and other elitist societies. They are not all bad.

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Mart21

We do invite suitably attractive young ladies to the Pitt Club, however we would never countenance sexually assaulting them. I can assure you that I've never engaged in the sort of activities mentioned in your post.

And who said feminism was dead?

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Narcissus

Helenia

And who said feminism was dead?

What do you expect from a Slough comp? :biggrin:

Floreat Etona! :p:

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Ticki

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The only Pitt Club members I know are not the most pleasant of people. Perhaps you have to be a "little woman" to truly appreciate them.

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Tonight Matthew

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Jamie

yes that'll shwo them.
In what way is a drinking soc possibly different froma bunch of guys that goes out on the town on a friday night? I know me and my friends used to.

The only difference is they are called a drining soc, and act with (slightly) more decorum for the evening

EDIT:In case you saw my previous resposne, I think I have come up with a more simple explanation of my position:

Basically, in my experience, people who treat getting drunk as some sort of big deal ("worrr, let's get well pissed lads", etc) are generally bell-ends. Obviously, making a society out of it is certainly treating getting drunk as some sort of big deal. So there you have it.

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srmcit

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Mart21

What is wrong with Stonyhedge, Harrow and Eton? I went to Eton College (Manor house, House Master Dr. Gailey) and it didn't do me any harm.

didn't it? and yet you feel you have to rely on the kudos provided by membership to a sillily self-righteous old boys drinking club.

Mart21

We do invite suitably attractive young ladies to the Pitt Club, however we would never countenance sexually assaulting them. I can assure you that I've never engaged in the sort of activities mentioned in your post.

you don't have to physically abuse someone to be chauvinistic. what's the procedure? invite a nice bit of skirt along to talk about sartre? come on.

Mart21

I think you need to adopt a more balanced approach when judging the Pitt Club and other elitist societies. They are not all bad.

perhaps true, but they're hardly good. it's precisely the brand of loutish exclusivity that serves to perpetuate a crass and ultimately negative oxbridge stereotype.

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Simone de Beauv

So some pretty girls are invited into the Pitt Club? When does this happen?
(just wondering...)

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freddie88

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Simone de Beauv

So some pretty girls are invited into the Pitt Club? When does this happen?
(just wondering...)

You have to be well connected. Two of my friends are regular visitors and are very attractive, and say they are surrounded by the most beautiful girls they have ever seen - the girls must be stunning. But they also said that they will (on the whole) end up in bed with a member of the Pitt club after the party, and it seems a bit like prostitution in a way... :s:

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freddie88

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Mart21

Would you be so kind as to define 'bell end' since it is not a term of which I'm familiar.

Mart21

I think you need to adopt a more balanced approach when judging the Pitt Club and other elitist societies. They are not all bad.

I have heard that on the whole, they are very charming and lovely, but there is definitely an element of choosing the attractive girls and making efforts to get them into bed... Of course this happens in Cindy's but I guess it's different because it's a club...

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