By: cortex
Please repeat after me, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED. How do you repeat after a press release? get some movement literature read it, memorize it, regurgitate portions of it ineptly and seemingly at random on...
View ArticleBy: jayder
The cameraman Alex Lotorto, who is reportedly not an NYU student, appears to have posted some comments on the NYULocal blog. ***************** Alex Lotorto Feb 23, 2009 7:24 Hey its me, the douchebag....
View ArticleBy: dirtynumbangelboy
Holy christ I could only make it through about thirty seconds of that.
View ArticleBy: dunkadunc
I'm starting to really loathe what counts as 'hippies' these days. I've always gone to protests dressed pretty normally, and I cringe at a lot of the people who show up and just how... lame it all is....
View ArticleBy: not_on_display
We'll have to get a consensus on how we are to approach the idea of changing our stance on luls or lulz. Is anyone here able to facilitate at this point?
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
No more luls except for silly stuff like cats falling humourously off things, or actual intentional comedy sketches. STOP WITH THE LULS people you are withering your own hearts. Fascist.
View ArticleBy: grouse
Yes, many of them. The video description claims that the cameraman is not an NYU student.
View ArticleBy: psmealey
Because NYU is famously, a very expensive school, I had always assumed its admission standards were high. Are these clowns imposters?
View ArticleBy: wrok
>Wasn't there an AskMe recently about what the correct word was for being embarrassed for someone else? Kafkaesque. Well, if you ask me at least.
View ArticleBy: By The Grace of God
seriously fuck luls. Let's all be compassionate. No more luls except for silly stuff like cats falling humourously off things, or actual intentional comedy sketches. STOP WITH THE LULS people you are...
View ArticleBy: By The Grace of God
Aw, fuck. I am sure some overeducated students sounded silly during their anti-apartheid protests in the 1980s. This individual protest doesn't matter by itself much, but combined with all the other...
View ArticleBy: ChutneyFerret
chutneyferret: But my parents could have paid their mortgage off by the time I graduated had I gone to a state school where I'm from. jayder: You weren't forced to go to NYU, were you? Why didn't you...
View ArticleBy: pyramid termite
what good is a college education if you can't figure out how to stick a wad of gum in the coin slot of a coke machine?
View ArticleBy: tehloki
This is seriously the dumbest protest I have ever seen. I am wholeheartedly in favour with all their demands, and I still think they're a bunch of douchebags without a clue who are harming the causes...
View ArticleBy: showmethecalvino
It's like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, only funny for the whole time.
View ArticleBy: Football Bat
I managed to end up outside of the Kimmel Center a few hours before this occurred, drunk off my ass, and attempted to find out what exactly the demands of the occupiers were and was fed the mix of...
View ArticleBy: redsparkler
It's like a baby bird, flexing its wings. I know the narrator has a slight airhead lilt to him, but he's really totally trying, you know? Trying really really hard to remember everything he knows about...
View ArticleBy: jayder
chutneyferret: But my parents could have paid their mortgage off by the time I graduated had I gone to a state school where I'm from. You weren't forced to go to NYU, were you? Why didn't you just go...
View ArticleBy: jayder
There are so many hilarious lines, it's hard to decide on a favorite. That cameraman --- the main one you hear speaking, is such a fucking moron, I kept asking myself, "Is this a parody?" ** Whoa, hey,...
View ArticleBy: ChutneyFerret
I find myself of two minds about this protest. On the one hand, as an NYU alumnus whose loans are still in deferment, I have to wonder just how the hell they are justifying making all those undergrads...
View ArticleBy: KokuRyu
The crux of the problem with student protests: ...There is the horrible--the really disquieting--prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that...
View ArticleBy: grouse
Wow, what an amazing video. It made me sympathize much more for the poor administrator who had to deal with the mess. These people are really tone-deaf.
View ArticleBy: fieldtrip
It seems like quite a bit of the information on NYU's finances is publicly available since it is a nonprofit. From NYU's website: To request a copy of New York University's most recently filed IRS Form...
View ArticleBy: paulinsanjuan
Recently, I was at the Powershift '09 environmental youth conference in DC. On the second night, Saturday, the Roots played an amazing concert at the Washington Convention Center. The concert ended...
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
What a bunch of sissies. Here are some students that actually changed things with their protests (though bringing down the dictator has produced dubious, unstable results).
View ArticleBy: The Card Cheat
At least they actually took over the food court for a while. In '95 the student government at UWO organized a "virtual sit-in": "Would-be protesters can join the 'sit-in' by clicking on one of an array...
View ArticleBy: 31d1
Possibly the only youtube video I've seen that is appreciably worse than its comments.
View ArticleBy: goodnewsfortheinsane
Re: The Coke Ban, many students at NYU have bought into the Killer Coke movement. Oh my, that's only the second time in my life I even heard of "Killer Coke". The first time was, I happened to be in...
View ArticleBy: BugsPotter
Cool! This thread let's me know what it's like to attend a meeting of the Young Republicans without having to leave my chair!
View ArticleBy: hermitosis
I don't care how stupid the kids are, it really irritates me that people joke (or are maybe serious) about how they need to be maced or tazed or knocked upside the head in order to learn a lesson.
View ArticleBy: shii
Protests only work in Thailand because the Thai government is constantly on edge of being couped. If the military sees too many people protesting, they will get nervous and expel the government from...
View ArticleBy: jcworth
The most remarkable part is apparently the guy who filmed this thing decided to post it on YOUTUBE??? Man, if that was me I would have chucked the camera off the bridge and thrown myself after it. I...
View ArticleBy: Cool Papa Bell
I had skimmed the blog and the news earlier. Now I watched the video. Yes, that's the most embarrassing protest video ever. That plays out like a comedy sketch. What's shocks me is how much more civil...
View ArticleBy: crazylegs
Gompa's right, I change my vote. "You have to pretend you can't hear us" get's first place, with "they drink corporate water" a close second.
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