VUBES

What does the V stand for?!

Virtuous? Verbose? Valued? Virulent? Vigilant? Vicarious? Violent? Virile? Voracious? Villainous? Vacant? Vigorous? Valid? Vindictive? Virtuoso? Visionary? Viscous? Vivacious? Vivid? Vocal? Volatile? Voluptuous? Vehement? Vain? Vulgar? Victims? Veterans? Vacuous? Venezuelan?! Very Viking?!

All of these and more!

But mainly the V is for Vintage.

VUBES are the few who graduate from UBES but who are still locked in a world of gear-slagging, mum-jokes, and whisky addiction. A world where the men have interesting facial hair and the women are clean-shaven.

Where will you find Vubesters?

Driving the minibus (badly).
Preening their beards.
Drinking whisky and laughing at Ubesters choking on whisky.
Waxing lyrical about single malt, new gear, old stories, and their rheumatism.
Telling stories of drunkenness and dangerous mountain escapades (often related).
Complaining about old injuries (often caused by being drunk on mountains).
On mountains (trying to find the route down to the pub).
In the pub (talking about mountains).
At work, or studying for postgraduate degrees.

Many Vubesters are `esteemed members' and should be treated with the utmost (dis)respect.

Vubester society.

Vubes has no acknowledged leadership or control structure. The `Council of Daves' thinks its in charge but isn't really. Ex-presidents think they're in charge but they're not. Nic tries not to take responsibility for anything, Tamlyn is refused responsibility for anything, Jude is irresponsible if she drinks anything and the less said about everyone else the better.

So what is the point of Vubes?

To give old people something to do.
To help old people meet (and victimise) young people.
To provide whisky-drinking training.
To have a supply of people old enough to drive the bus.
To remember why some ideas are stupid (because we've tried them before and they were proved to be stupid).
To provide trips during holidays when `normal' students are at home or during exams when the committee are too busy to organise anything.

We have a Message board!

We also have a mailing list -- please contact the Grand Vizier of Vubes (Dave Jarman) to join in.