Bravo mate. Just, bravo!Elementary - Dear Watson said:Dude... just wanted to say that I love the way you write! That was a pleasure to read! I hope I see you round the forums more often!Bug MuIdoon said:SNIP
OT: In terms of confessions... Well, the only thing I ever did that I regret was start a personal vendetta against a lass from my school.
Essentially what happened was during my 6th Form, a girl joined my year at school after moving over from the US. Within a year of being at our school, her loud, obnoxious personality had a polarising effect on our school. She made a large group of friends who seemed to adore her, but she also seemed to rub everyone else up the wrong way. Throughout the rest of the school, however, she seemed to be well received, in a way a foreigner always is.
Well... we were of a year where the school had suddenly doubled the size of the 6th form, so we were the biggest 6th form there had been at the school, and due to the fact we were of the age where we got cars this left a problem with parking at the school. In order for the teachers to be able to get priority of students in the car park, the school made an agreement with the local football club for 6th formers to be able to park there, (approx 7 min walk away) which for some reason outraged a lot of the 6th form. This was spearheaded by the lass from the US, who didn't even drive, had been at the school less than a year, and got a story in the local paper that made it look like discrimination and made the school look bad! She then started a petition to make the school build a new carpark so the students could use it... (Instead of, you know, bringing it up to the governors, or actually requesting one like normal people!)
This riled me... like seriously riled me! I couldn't stand the *****, and now she was making my school look bad, the school I was loyal to, and had a lot of fun on the media and arts side at... So I started my own petition anonymously, and used my position in the school to get a copy of it posted into every tutor group in the school, so that one day, just after lunch, all the tutor groups had a cover letter to read, and a petition to pass round, trying to send the US chick back out the school and back over the pond... Harsh... I know!
The thing was, the teachers hated her, and many of them took it seriously, and within a day around 60% of the classrooms had it up on the notice boards, and it had more sigs than the carpark petition! Obviously it also caused a lot of upset... Seriously a lot of upset, and eventually I owned up (which shocked a lot of people!) and I wrote an apology to be read out to all tutor groups...
The weird thing is, although it was a horrible thing to do, I am also quite proud of the effect I had, and it is what first introduced me to the power of PsyOps and Info Ops and the effects of influence, which I now use in my career!
Ka-Ching!
You should feel bad for doing something like that, I should feel bad for applauding something like that, but damn it, that was awesome!