Enya died for our sins

[alexsarll]

Metro has a letter from M Khan, complaining about the Miss Afghanistan contest.
So he's still bent, then.

Hey, perfectlyvague - what's your Sheffield pyjama jump story? These young folk know not what it be, for it was cancelled after 1996 by boring b@st@rds.

In other news:

kitty_collar wuz robbed at karaoke.

It's remarkably easy to accidentally impersonate a wrongcoq if you try to join a library during children's hour. While wearing all black. And want a book from the children's section.

puzzled_anwen's birthday followed by JB&B made for a great evening, I just wish I hadn't been so inexplicably tired. Hurling imprecations at wrong buses is so much more fun when you're rolling deep. And kiss_me_quick was on particularly fine form. Perhaps those trousers are her artefact of power?

Camden is bad and wrong. Chalk Farm made me drunk on Saturday, and then on Sunday Camden's markets defiantly refused to furnish Miss Raichu with bat wings, or me with nail varnish. And if it can't be relied on for things like that then has it any purpose at all? It's just a pseudo-counterculture Oxford Street, except at least if you can batter your way through the ox people on Oxford Street there are things to buy.

Shrek is ace.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It was a marvellous institution, and a great shame it ended. In amongst the usual carnage one of the votes for it to be cancelled was from the LGB rep, who had heard of some minor homophobic shouting. Which apparently counted for more than the dozens of people who had their first same-sex experience that night. Short-termist pillock.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it was stopped. Kids these days. Chuh.

[stoopidbird.livejournal.com]

No see pjyama jump was stopped as a number of opportunistic men (not students) took it upon themselves to dress appropriately and hang around outside the places it was occurring and pick off girls who were absolutely hammered. They had increasing problems for 3 years and then on the fourth (which I think was 1993 or 1994 - the year I went anyway) 7 women reported rapes and a large number of being assaulted. The SU looked at ways of trying to police the event or make it a bit safer but it was so big and out of hand by then there just wasn't a way of doing it, so they pulled the plug.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

(actually, they tried to turn it into a paying event the next year, by keeping the club which was supposedly the endpoint of the festivities, but not the rest)
People had died of hypothermia on prior Pyjama Jumps without it being cancelled.
Any event with lots of people getting hammered is going to have casualties. Based on the same logic, the West End would be closed tomorrow.