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The desperation to find people to go drinking with is so intense in college that people will join societies.
Some of these societies can be deeply deeply strange.
1. Trinity Pirate Soc
This society gets an award for being the society with the most misleading name. At first glance it appears to be a society set up for any buccaneers and reavers attending Trinners.
In reality it is a group based off of the Swedish Pirate Party, a political group who campaigns for freedom of information and for reformation of copyright laws.
Trust trinity to turn pirates into something dry, disappointing, and sanctimonious.
2. UCC Hot Beverage Appreciation society
This is a society for those rare and intrepid individuals who enjoy their drinks not cold, not tepid, but hot.
So if you like the molecules in your drinks vibrating with thermal energy look them up. I can only imagine that their meetings consist of them sitting quietly in a circle, avoiding eye contact and slurping cautiously on their hot beverage of choice.
There will be one member who constantly quotes Twin Peaks, 'This is a damn fine cup of coffee!'
3. DCU Model UN
I can only imagine it as being something like this.
4. DCU Paranormal Soc
DCU's paranormal society was Ireland's first and only university paranormal society whilst it was active. It conducted ghost hunts, seances, and dream interpretation.
Mysteriously though, they disappeared...
Maybe they dug too deep and learned something they shouldn't have, maybe they fell victim to some curse.
Maybe they grew a bit of cop on realised ghosts don't exist and took up a more productive hobby, like topiary, or drinking.
5. NUIG: Nothing specific
This society has no specific focus at all. That's their gimmick. You can imagine them, squatting around pints in the student bar, thickly guffawing and remarking upon how 'mad' they are to set up a society about nothing specific.
This is a society started by the sort of troglodytical churls who quote Family Guy on their Tinder profile and have their job set as 'full time mad bastard'.
6. DIT: Banter soc
Probably a congregation of the sort of people who complain about feminism in Youtube comments.
I shudder to think what a meeting of the 'banter' society would consist of, but it would no doubt be loud, belligerent, and painfully unfunny.
The government should use this society as some kind of profiling system to catalog a list of gobshites living in the country.
