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Originally Posted by Kizzy

You are misunderstanding my point. There is no grey area where this talk is acceptable in anyone...of any age.

It's a good thing I didn't at any point say it's acceptable then, isn't it?

As I've said before your window of cognitive competence is a tad narrow imo. And is limited to people around your age it seems...

Nothing to do with cognitive competence, it's about maturity and naivity, which we have to excuse in the young to some extent or we're going down a very dodgy path. Young people talk out of their arses, they try to be edgy, they think it's funny, they encourage each other... I think it's really scraping the sociological barrel to start tarring people for life at 18 "because they were adults who should have known better".

Again I haven't even said it was the wrong decision; they removed the offer from ONE of a group of people who were all involved in these conversations, which suggests that the one who was denied entry "took it to another level" in some way that hasn't been specified. They HAVEN'T removed the offers of all of the people involved, so that suggests that the University understands that it's possible for them to redeem themselves.

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Expelling someone over that is going a bit far. Of course "lads" are going to "banter", and what's more it's fresher culture to pork an uggo, povvo, or fatties.

Originally Posted by Niamh.

grim

Originally Posted by Liam-

Revolting

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Ikr, why would they ot go for the hottest

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't know why you think it's hilarious, we're talking about actual human beings here

Originally Posted by Liam-

He’s trying his hardest to be the resident edgelord

See here we have a prime example - we could just ban Oliver for his nonsense but we don't, we accept that he's just doing "immature internet stuff" and let him know that it isn't funny or edgy and gradually he does it less and less. If we banned him he'd be off in a 4chan echo chambre getting a tonne of positive reinforcement for comments like this. We all know that he'll turn out alright in the end so we keep him around.