• British University Student Union bans clapping to avoid 'triggering anxiety'
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I used to work in an open kitchen offending someone by swearing once and it kind of set me off into a mood I still hold this day. I dont really know how to say it simply but, its like a self fulfilling prophecy. Not sure if I'm the only one that feels this way but when someone says "what if my kid hears!?" it reads to me like, "woah buddy, dont use that word in that context. I'm trying to teach my kid it means something different and to get upset when they hear it" which like a snake eating it's own tail. Maybe it's because I was a job that's notorious for prompting a lot of swearing, with open access to my person by the general public. But it feels like some culture war shit to come into a place that's extremely likely to have a manner of speaking and tell people they have to use different language so as to protect your sensibilities. No joke, we started inventing slurs. We'd come up with something that sounded offensive but had no meaning, and ascribe "shitty customer" to it just for the irony (of them not being offended when they really should and complaining when they shouldn't.) If I burn myself and scream FUCK, there will be most certainly a couple of jumers coming to the window to complain. Oblivious to the fact that we just called them something super offensive, because it doesn't have meaning outside of those walls.
yeah well... that's why we have to pay more for uni here... they get away with it by adding all these unnecessary extras
The ~9k a year that current students are paying for tuition alone isn't caused by these "extras". That's the Tory government trying to fuck the lower classes up as much as possible by ensuring education is terrifyingly expensive for the poors. We used to have (and I happened to be one of the last to get) a much lower tuition average of around £3k. Unis are subsidised to hell and back, or at least they were, to take some of the burden off the students. But the Tories are a bunch of souless automatons so that got fucking ruined.
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