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Move?

It’s 2009 and the students at the University of Malta have caught the progressive flu. In a move that is definitely intended to mimick the more progressive politicians (read twisted ideas of cool and trendy) a new organisation was launched on campus. While you could be forgiven for thinking that the name Pulse was so extraordinarily passé and out of touch you are now allowed an intellectual barf bag into which to expel your natural reaction to the absolute dimwitted name that Move tends to be.

The twenties had Avanti! and now the noughties have Move. What did the latest addition to the heartland of promising politicians have to propose upon its birth on campus? Why if not that absolutely progressive, earth-shaking, monumentally mind-blowing suggestion that condom machines be installed on campus! I had to double-check in the hope I was wrong but hey… nope… like a latter-day Joseph Muscat on a stipend, Move will strive for Condoms on Campus.

As though we did not have enough rubber johnnies climbing the political greasy pole already.

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12 responses to “Move?”

  1. DF Avatar
    DF

    You might be being a tad harsh j’accuse. They may have reasoned that condoms is a good place to start their progressive battle. It’s easily understandable, practical, ‘sexy’ (as in, “Ooo, sex is involved”) and (this is the sad bit, of course) still controversial down under. So why not kondijiet as a first challenge to the conservative fortress? The kondo might become a symbol for all their future progressive efforts…

  2. Unexpected Traveller Avatar
    Unexpected Traveller

    They probably were told that they’ll be screwed as soon as they walk through University’s doors and want to make sure that it’s done safely …

    The U T

  3. Fausto Majistral Avatar
    Fausto Majistral

    Is it a “latest addition”? There was a “Move” in 2001 although, from the looks of it, the exclamation mark got dropped.

  4. Fausto Majistral Avatar
    Fausto Majistral

    No, Jacques, you are right. People who try to gain intellectual respectability for assorted opinions they hold by describing them with an “-ism” deserve that kind of critic-ism.

  5. RJ Avatar
    RJ

    The survey carried by MOVE was on uni students’ perception on different issues, divorce, abortion, gays marriage … including condoms machines.

    We whine when students do not take initiative, we bring them down when they do. Don’t you think you are being a wee bit of a prick on this one?

    Then again, you might have prefered SDM’s donuts? :P

  6. Jacques Rene Zammit Avatar
    Jacques Rene Zammit

    @ fausto could be they are an exclamation mark less reincarnation. There’s no knowing the bounds of non creativity.

    @RJ sorry to burst your virgin bubble but I stopped subscribing to sdm when it returned to being a PN branch on campus. We whinge when students are silent and we whinge even more when students are so gullibly overwhelmed by this progressive nonsense. There definitely is a wee prick in the room but the miniscule phallus is definitely not the blog author… Now go buy yourself a pack of ribbed cherry flavoured ones…. And wave them in the air as only a real progressive would!

  7. RJ Avatar
    RJ

    … got a little bit on the defensive, mate? no need Jonnie, breathe in, breathe out, sit tight, watch porn, CNN, BBC or whatever twitters your ‘not so miniscule phallus’ mind. Either way, things never change and even if they do change, we’ll make sure that they don’t. Isn’t it corret? Otherwise, what’s J’accuse to write about? … a pack of ribbed cherry flavoured condoms, pricks and more or less tasteful things that really do not matter much…?

  8. Jacques Rene Zammit Avatar
    Jacques Rene Zammit

    Glad you got thé point rj. Condoms are a stupid distraction for those currently duped into thinking that “change” and progressive means being naughty. I remind you that you were all defensive simply because it took jaccuse to point out the pointlessness of this moving change.

  9. RJ Avatar
    RJ

    I can’t understand how you made a survey look like a policy paper on a condom machine on campus. Personally, I would be more interested in the just 55% of the uni students in favour of divorce. I was expecting an 80%. But, then again, condoms are more fun to discuss when you are bored in office.

  10. Fausto Majistral Avatar
    Fausto Majistral

    @RJ

    Wasn’t that the organisers’ intention? The survey’s findings were, after all, announced at an event they called “Sex for L(a)unch”. The rubberheads are witty, aren’t they?.

  11. Jacques Rene Zammit Avatar
    Jacques Rene Zammit

    @RJ You can’t understand? It’s called WYSIWYG: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091014/local/university-students-in-heated-debate-on-sexual-health

    “The issue of whether there should or should not be a condom machine at the university and the distribution of condoms during freshers’ week practically took over a Move well-attended and heated debate held at the Quadrangle this afternoon. The debate launched Move, a new progressive students’ organisation. During the activity Move made public the results of a survey it organised during freshers’ weeks and distributed condoms.”

    Now. Do you understand?

    Cheery flavoured condoms anyone?

  12. danny attard Avatar
    danny attard

    while on the subject of rubber johnnies, I recall a most piercing question you asked in your Aug 7th ‘When the rule of law is a gambling act’

    ‘So. We have a list of questions for Mr Fenech. How do “lacunas in the law” in March become “evident” certainties in August, enough to justify a police raid?’

    any ideas?