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Image Description: the Bridge nightclub logo in its true home, a massive pile of rubbish This title is of course entirely rhetorical: a three letter word to the affirmative is in my view a reasonable response to the question at hand, but I wouldn’t have much of an article on my hands if that was […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” Fear not Oxfordians, like Jesus being sent to save Humanity, Rordon is back to rescue you from yourselves. In the weekly meal of roasts, in-jokes, and too many […]
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Image Description: an image of comedian Linus Karp, dressed up as a cat. What were you doing in January 2020? You may have been reading, revising for those all important A-Levels or Prelims. You might have been out clubbing, feeling the pulse of a Plush or Fever through your corporeal form (and a similar pulse […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” From snowfalls to carols to Christmas trees, 7th Week has felt Oxmassy in all the right ways. But the festive spirit does not deaden the razor-sharp reporting […]
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Image Description: a number of dictionaries on a book shelf. ATIK: see ‘Park End’ Brookes: the ones you swipe left on on dating apps. “Brookes not books / 6’1 and that’s 2 separate measurements xx 😉” Crewdate: only if a courageous ally orchestrates a highly targeted ABC will the prospective romantic walk away with an […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” MT21 hurtles on at breakneck speed, and the pace hasn’t let up for Rordon Gamsay, the OxStu’s official nosy parker, either. This week he bent over backwards […]
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Image Description: An Oxford tutorial being conducted In a article published earlier this term Asher Weisz, OxYou’s foremost (and arguably only) journalist, argued that the best way to ensure success at Oxford is to ‘do as little work as possible, and make sure your tutors love you’. This bold and (let’s be honest) accurate statement […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” If 5th Week got you down, fear not: Rordon Gamsay has remained as stubbornly and annoyingly productive as ever, and found time in-between his essay crisis, emotional […]
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Image Description: A room of hacks I am now in my third year. The grey hairs are appearing one by one in my curly locks and the sum of my wisdom has grown so vast that I have backache from carrying it about in my enormous head. The Greeks believed that the greatest wisdom came […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” Another week, another roast… For this edition, Rordon Gamsay hit new lows in pursuit of the elusive beast that is News, appearing on a dishonoured TV station and […]
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Image Description: a gravestone bearing the words ‘RIP OxCORT, 2007-2021’ OxCORT, tutors’ equivalent of “RateMyProfessor.com”, was found murdered on 22nd October, just weeks after its fourteenth birthday. Its death was confirmed last Thursday night by Shane Cuff, Chief Information Officer at the Oxford IT Services, who had been OxCORT’s supervisor since 2018. OxCORT reportedly suffered […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom” It’s Sunday [Editor’s note: sort of], which means that Rordon Gamsay, the OxStu’s reigning Snakes and Ladders champion, is back with some more news stories that other journalists […]
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Image description: two students at work, 2021 (colourised). The screen stares at you, accusingly. The clock ticks, accusingly. In the morning, your scout will come in to find you slumped over your desk with coffee stains on your t-shirt and they will look at you, accusingly, and will ask, accusingly, if they should empty your […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. This week, roving reporter Rordon Gamsay failed to obtain tickets for the Varsity ski trip or the Union ball. However, he did manage to find all these juicy […]
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Image Description: Comedian Tez Ilyas pointing on a blue background Tez Ilyas is a British Pakistani comic from Blackburn. He’s known internationally for his stand up, appearances on panel shows such as Mock the Week and the Last Leg, his Tez O’Clock show and most recently for his debut novel- The Secret Diary of a […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. By now the Oxford student body has realised it’s probably time to actually do their degree. It can’t be fun and Freshers’ flu all the time! But never […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. In a return as triumphant as that of the Jedi, the King, or your termly SFE payment, the OxStu’s most high-profile and incident-prone reporter Rordon Gamsay returns to […]
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Image description: a picture of Rhys Nicholson on a green background Gaia Clark Nevola talks to Rhys Nicholson, an Australian comedian, about his style of comedy, his inspirations and where he’s hoping to head next. The disadvantage of having spent lockdown re-watching the sharp and at times manic comedy of Rhys Nicholson is that now […]
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Image Description: A still from the sitcom ‘Kim’s Convenience’ showing the exterior of the titular convenience store In an early episode of Kim’s Convenience, a gag is made when one of the main characters, (Janet), her cousin from Korea (Nayoung), and Janet’s two non-Korean friends get confused by the complex linguistic formalities of familial address […]
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