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When you say you’ll be staying at work late on a Friday night, colleagues give you a sympathetic smile.
Then they quickly run to make their own escape to the pub. Pity these colleagues and their naivety. Little do they realise that by 6.30pm you’ll be laughing hysterically while singing I Won’t Be Unhappy Tonight and shaking vegetable-shaped maracas. You will, however, be doing this sober. One day, the powers that be will learn that if you say ‘free drinks’ to students, they aren’t expecting tea and coffee.
The LGBT History Month celebrations will culminate on Friday 28th February, with a closing party for staff and students. Held at the Student Union, there will be a quiz, music and ‘refreshments’. It is yet to be confirmed whether these ‘refreshments’ will include alcohol. The philosopher John Lily once said “Whatever one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true”. I believe there will be alcohol.
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