The Cut Block, some lineman's best friend, other's worst enemy. Seen by many as an act of cowardice and surrender to your opponents greater skill or strength. Be it on the field, or in life they will lead to bad feeling in a local radius. Only acceptable when done to topple your housemates around blind corners.
Another year of university done. That makes two whole years of my life spent in Aberystwyth. This year has flown, probably due to me not once wanting it to end. Inevitably it had to happen, and people gradually packed up and left. Now I'm packing, and if I'm honest it feels like time to go home. (For those of you that know me at all, you'll know this is huge as I usually dislike being home). So with my bags piling up in Steve's recently cleared, surprisingly tidy and nice smelling room (----->)I sit down to write about the year gone by.
Reflections on this year.. hmmm in short its been great, but that doesn't mean it hasn't come with it's bad moments. Before further expansion I'm just going to list the good and bad things about this year. Here goes:
Good: Thunder, Beer, Pussy, Chicken, Gateau, Sleep, Kick Return, Mexican, Mohawk, BEAR, D-captaincy, THE Jack, Madden, NCAA, Bcs National Championship, Das Experiment, Wrestlemania, Old Boys , Top Flight Cricket, Lucy, 16 Prospect Street and all it's visitors, Tiger Woods, Golf, Fancy Dress and Working Out.
Bad: Losing Season, Hard Work not Being Rewarded, Friends not Getting a Deserved Send Off, Joint Socials, Revision, Lecturers, Bitches being Bitches, Packing, Phil not Finishing Friday Night Lights, 70% of Socials, Weather and People Leaving.
The good has been very good. Thunder, beer, pussy kicked it all off and from there it escalated. College football Saturday's were amazing, as were early socials when people still made an effort. The majority of this list speaks for itself. Das Experiment was perhaps my favourite night out of the year. The good bits couldn't have been attained had it not been for 16 Prospect Street and its distinguished set of visitors from #85, #59, #4 and #3 to Roofio. To expand fully on this list would take a while and a lot of blog space, so if you weren't involved... waaaaaaaaah.
The bad needs to be mentioned, such high hopes for this year, and an amazing start tailed off to a bad end. Piled with stress of revision, I saw but barely noticed the hardships of my friends. People left without the bang they should've gone out with, nights out were missed and until the last month Steve barely lived here. People went out of their way to spoil things and cause harm, showing how small a place Aber is. I love it, but I'm beginning to outgrow it.
A year that begun with such promise of chicken, gateau and sleep ends with cut blocking and distractions. Fun that it is running around the house distracting everyone, or always being around a corner waiting to scare it has come to an end. Second year of Uni, a year that started so well and ended in a bad way because shit people were awful. Just like lineman when they Cut Block.
I'm interested in this...'Losing Season, Hard Work not Being Rewarded, Friends not Getting a Deserved Send Off'. The losing season is clearly Tarannay... are the others, too?
ReplyDeletehard work is more aimed at my failed run at president. friends not getting deserved send off was Huw's shit last week in aber and how everything kinda pittered out socially.
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhhhhhh.... didn't realise Huw had a bad week? That's a bit crap. Only one word to say about the election: cheeries. Actually, I can add four more: 'shouldn't get a vote'.
ReplyDeleteI think socials are a real problem! Too many, too often. I'm a 'less is more' kind of guy when it comes to outings! Do they need to be EVERY week, and, if so, do they ALWAYS need to be getting twatted?? BBQs, movies, charity events... SO many ways to be social without dressing like a goon and spending half your student loan. But that could just be me getting old! :)
yeah, it wasnt the send off he could have had but we made the most of it between us all.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the socials being a problem. Im fed up of 2 dressups atleast a month. Everyone loves fancy dress once in a while but i prefer going out and having a chat with my mates and occasionally playing pranks on people.
I definately think sober socials are a good idea. Movies and charity events being big priorities for me. Ill push the idea with steve, i'll be like a pupper master putting my ideas into the committee...
p.s your not that old, you still play football well.
Unfortunately this sounds far too much like the way Aber was going (had gone) towards the end on my time there.
ReplyDeleteNot enough people who actually enjoyed each others time together having a nice gentle beer or just dicking around. Shame really.
But I will say that cut blocks can be all kinds of cool when executed correctly and in the right environments. I say this as both a RB and a LB! I once got 360 flipped by a Staffs FB and it was one of the best blocks I've ever seen (and then not seen, and then seen again!)
Just remember, love the boys, love the girls, love the lash!
its a shame, it really is. Im gonna keep doing everything i can to stop it going that way. It just seems like im one of the only people in aber to ever be able to balance having a girlfriend and a social life whilst keeping them both seperate so i can enjoy a night on the piss or spend time with my friends on sober nights. Girlfriends and girls in general always lead to trouble amongst the boys, especially with two interellated clubs. But enough from me, i can rant all day about this shit haha.
ReplyDeletenice insight on the cut block though. It does produce some sick blocks now and again but theres just something pussy about big guys not wanting to hit smaller guys heads up.
Oh definately, if it's a fat fucker on someone smaller, it's super kevin spacey gay! Cuts are for RBs (especially on massive DEs) or for goaline situations. There is something beautiful about watching an entire line sub out their opposite numbers!
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