Is it true that…(Kripa)
(i) only union members are allowed to use the toilets in the basement of the union house?
(ii) only union members are allowed to take water from the drinking fountain from the union house?
(iii) only union members are allowed to read the magazine ‘Farrago’?
If yes, I’ve been unknowingly violating the first and third rules!!
I read Farrago coz it is openly put on the stands in the union house AS WELL AS outside the balilieu library…it doesn’t specify that it’s for union members only, then why can’t I read it?
I got this startling info from the magazine itself…Union news, article titled ‘Goons target union “Scabs”‘ :
regarding (i) it says it has begun a UMSU’s crackdown on non-members using facilities, random membership checks are currently undertaken throughout the Union House. Students without memberships were manhandled out of toilets
regarding (ii) and (iii) ..forcing non-members to empty drink bottles full of water “filched” from member-subsidied drinking fountains & confiscation of stolen copies of Farrago..
I looked up the word filched and it meant to steal!! C’ mon guys…it’s water!! Is there such a thing as SPECIAL water for union house members??!!
I wouldn’t have come to have known abt this if I hadn’t read Farrago…and it says Farrago’s for union members..then how are we supposed to know abt these stuff?
If all of this is true, I would like to apologise for having used the facilities since I am NOT a union member…I shall satisfy myself by using the toilets in the other buidlings, reading some book that I brought from my home and using water from the balilieu library…
Is there any more rules that I need to be aware of? Pls let me know…
Thank You,
Till next time
I’m pretty sure that’s a satirical article… a joke.
Really? It was a real article that u see in the paper…Why would they write such a thing? It sounded so true and intimidating..pulling people out of toilets!! They even included real dialogues…but didn’t mention the name..
I am finding it hard to believe that it is a joke!!
Farrago always has a couple of joke articles. :3
Besides, they’d be cutting their exposure by heaps if non-union members couldn’t read it, which they definately don’t want.
The Farrago publication itself has been a joke since the commies took the reigns – and I mean that in the most affectionate of ways.
You really can’t fault them on such masterful satire, and the unconventional perspectives of many of the contributors make it a much more interesting and entertaining read than any broadsheet (or heaven forbid tabloid) newspaper this side of the AFR.
I do however have a number of bones to pick with my learned colleague Dr. Uninhibited (she is wonderfully disillusioned and needs a hug).
PXW
Join the underground union raiding movement!
My fellow pirates are constantly abusing the free toilets.