Overheard At McGill » politics

And If I’m Lucky, Catch A Sighting of Kim Jong-il!

Overheard@McGill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:42 +0000

Girl 1: That’s the only reason I want to go to Japan…that and to see the Great Wall…

-Aylmer

Can I put my ballot in your box?

tdomf_9e22f — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:40:18 +0000

(discussing Rez Council elections)
Girl: I’d totally be his VP Internal.

- Lower Campus

Sit! Good girl! Come get some equality! Good! Who’s a good feminist? Good girl!

betty007 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:22 +0000

Girl:Â (asks forcefully)Â What about the rights of the mother?

Guy: Easy there, feminist…

-Leacock

“I supported Bush, and all I got was a struggling economy and this shirt.”

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:57:01 +0000

Guy 1: So I signed up for the Republican Club.
Guy 2: But you’re not Republican, are you?
Guy 1: No, but this guy was wearing a shirt I really liked. I just want the shirt.
- Lower Campus

That’s right. Another Ron Paul joke. Cry about it.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:33:09 +0000

Girl 1: Ron Paul? Isn’t he a porn star?
Girl 2: Nope, that’s Ron Jeremy.
- Outside of New Rez

Something something Hillary, something something

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:40 +0000

Guy 1: Well, she’s a senator.
Guy 2: She’s a woman, yeah…but she’s not stupid.
- Schulich 5th

Republican (n.): A vicious species, prone to aggression and tax cuts. Once dominant in the U.S., they’ve been an endangered species since the massacre of 2006.

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:27:07 +0000

Girl #1: …And then he said he was going to vote for the Republicans…
Girl #2: I don’t even know what a Republican is!
—Redpath Cafe

The first stage in an IDS mental breakdown:

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:14:56 +0000

Ditzy girl: Oh my god, this is just too easy. I get it, Africa is poor. Can’t we all just get over it?
- Lower Campus

Yes, but their limbs will remain in Iraq until at least 2009.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:07:13 +0000

Girl: Last night, Bush said that 5,000 soldiers would be sent home from Iraq by the end of the year.
Guy: Alive?
- arts lounge

Realist: “This is the price you pay for cheap tuition” Neocon: “The floor will greet us as liberators”

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:07:59 +0000

Girl enters class late and slips on wet stairs near the front of class. Class giggles.
Prof: Are you ok?
Girl: Yea, it’s slippery
Prof: No shit
- POLI345

and for the record lady, it shall only be up to His Highness to determine how close that pedestal places His crotch to my face

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:52:24 +0000

Guy: Last year I had the Prince of Yemen in one of my Psych classes and he was absolutely beautiful.
Girl: Did you want to marry him and do dirty things to him?
Guy: No, it was more like put-him-on-a-pedestal-and-look-at-him-all-day kinda beautiful.

-The Atrium

They arenâ€™t so far offâ€¦didnâ€™t The Terminator win the election on groping?

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:23:36 +0000

Guy 1: I heard that Carrottop is really buff now, like really huge.
Guy 2: He should start giving out random bear hugs.
Girl: Wouldn’t it be funny if movie stars just started grabbing people and yelling out the names of movies they’ve been in?
Guy 1: (Screaming and hugging himself) ”CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD! CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD!”

-BMH Caf

A peek into Middle Eastern peace negotiations…

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:42:52 +0000

(Its 5 in the morning and two guys have obviously been overworking for at least 10 hours)

Guy 1: How did you study for the calculus final?
Guy 2: Well, my friend took the course and he failed it
Guy 1: What are you talking about… what does your friend have to do with it
Guy 2: I said I took it. Who are you talking about, which friend?
Guy 1: You said that your friend took the course and failed it.
Guy 2: I never said that.

-Burnside at 5 am

Also, the way they dress… If that doesn’t violate a Geneva Convention I don’t know what does

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:50:59 +0000

TA: What’s wrong with the US always pointing its finger at China for its human rights abuse?
Stupid Girl: It has human rights problems too!
TA:Explain
Stupid Girl: I mean, look at its divorce rates!
– American Foreign Policy conference

Whatever, do you want any coffee?

nefertiti375 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:10:18 +0000

Girl 1: So what’s your last name?
Girl 2: Ghali.
Girl 1: What?
Girl 2: You know…like Boutros-Boutros.
Girl 1: Never heard of it.

—Leacock

…but Iraq’s a BLAST!

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:00:25 +0000

Prof: War is not fun. And Vietnam certainly wasn’t fun.

—POLI-346

Comparing the health of the peace process to that of Sharon would have been funnier had his doctors not given up on any chance of recovery.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:20:02 +0000

TA: “So following Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in September of 2000, the Palestinians became violent again and the Second Infitadah began. However, this time there was far more intense violence directed at Israeli soldiers and citizens, rather than just the rock throwing of the First Infitadah…This really put the Palestinian peace process into a coma…kinda like Sharon…”

—POLI 347

Or another strip club on St. Catherine’s…but what the hell?

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:17:39 +0000

Model UN Delegate: That makes about as much sense as opening a gay bar in Texas.

—McMun 2007

B-U-S-C-H

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:23:13 +0000

Girl: How do you spell ‘president’?

—Gardner Hall, during the Open House

Confessions of a Dangerous(ly undereducated) Mind

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:38:19 +0000

Girl 1: What’s see-cut (CKUT)? Is that like the McGill channel?
Girl 2: Yeah, I think so.
Girl 1: Why does McGill need a channel? That’s so stupid.
Girl 2: Maybe it’s more of a university channel.
Girl 1: Yeah, it says “University” on that sign.
Girl 2: That’s the street it’s on!

…Girl 1: (later) I can’t believe I’m in American Foreign Policy. I don’t know anything about it. All I know is that Bush is a Republican and he’s President.
…
Girl 1 (later): Everyone here knows so much more about American politics. (minutes pass) We know where to get a nice black cardigan, and some tights.

—AUS Lounge

Jack Bauer is convicted at the Hague for torture, murder, vampirism, in addition to several counts of plot holes and continuity goofs.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:29:18 +0000

(While discussing the rationale for creating international organizations)
Student: Is it not possible that a state could create an international organization simply to serve as a diversion for other things?
Prof: How do you mean? Give me an example…
Student: Well, this one time on ‘24′…
(Class explodes in laughter)

—POLI 345 (Int’l Organizations)

Military-Industrial Complex ain’t got nothing on McGill’s Superiority Complex.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:57:15 +0000

Student: Is it true that a McGill professor is working on a bunker-busting bomb?
Professor: Yes, because we have learned that Concordia is up to something in their bunkers
(Class: slight laughter )
Professor: Yes, that is where they are training them to deliver pizza.
(Class: loud laughter and applause)

—POLI 227 (Intro. to Developing Areas), Leacock 132

(VP) University Affairs

Alex — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:12:39 +0000

Girl: You’ll always be my VP External!
(Handsome) Boy: Thanks baby, I can be your VP Internal if you want me to be
Girl: EWW!
- DouglasÂ

Hey, Somalia, you want some foreign aid taking off those dirty, dirty sanctions?

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:58:51 +0000

Guy: We’re taking it back, I’m putting the rape back in diplomatic relations.

—SSMU Lounge

Yeah, they’d just be useless in the field as well… any field.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:20:05 +0000

[Prof is doing a colonialism simulation it incldues a girl and a boy pretending to be married farmers.]
Prof: Okay, go on and farm.
[The boy and the girl go to the front, and sit down on the steps of the stage.]
Prof: Stand up, you can’t farm sitting down!
[The two students stand up, and just stand there doing nothing.]
Prof (To boy): Come on, farm! Use your hoe!

–Intro to Developing AreasÂ