"Hitler" drinking game mocks holocaust

[Thunder]

Well this caught my eye, i dunno if its been posted before.
"
Hitler – The Drinking Game, involves students downing drinks on the turn of cards laid out in the shape of a Swastika.
Players are required to make Nazi salutes and "interrogate" other players.
There is also a section called The Holocaust where players have to "down in one" a pint glass filled with spirits.
The game has its own Facebook group (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Pictures-from-the-Facebook-Group-Hitler---The-Drinking-Game/Media-Gallery/201001215521413?lpos=Home_Article_Related_Content_ Region_2&lid=GALLERY_15521413_Pictures_from_the_Facebook_Gr oup_Hitler_-_The_Drinking_Game) created by Huddersfield University students Nicholas Rowley and Anthony Pike."


Full article
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hitler-Drinking-Game-Mocks-Holocaust-Huddersfield-University-Students-Criticised-For-Group/Article/201001215521309?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Feat ure_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15521309_Hitler_Drinking_Game_Mocks_Ho locaust%3A_Huddersfield_University_Students_Critic ised_For_Group


What are yer thoughts on repercussions against them?yay, nay?

[XabbaRus]

Idiots, but then they are in Huddersfield, that it has a "university" is a laugh.

Idiots the bunch of them.

[Skybird]

Making a game of drinking, is dumb. Focussing it on Hitler, is disgusting. So what we have here is a bunch of disgusting dumbheads.

[antikristuseke]

Slow news day?

[DarkFish]

meh. I for one don't really care

drinking games can be fun, if you're with good friends who make sure you don't get utterly drunk.

That they make nazi salutes, who cares? making a nazi salute isn't going to make you a nazi, and not making them isn't going to stop a nazi from being one.




I'm sure I'm gonna be heavily thrashed for this:oops:

[Tarrasque]

Idiots, but then they are in Huddersfield, that it has a "university" is a laugh.

OI! Leave Huddersfield Uni out of this. It's a good Uni!

Those idiots however are a disgrace both to the Uni and the UK.

[Sailor Steve]

What are yer thoughts on repercussions against them?yay, nay?
If they're breaking the school's rules, then the school can discipline them.

I don't see making it illegal to be an idiot has ever helped the situation.

[Letum]

Students drinking?
A drinking game that isn't polite?!
Whatever next?

[Buddahaid]

Students drinking?
A drinking game that isn't polite?!
Whatever next?

Yea, it's a charmer. What's next? The pogroms in the stetl drinking game?

[Snestorm]

A drinking game?
No thank you.

[Jimbuna]

Silly boys....low on mentality and bored I suspect :nope:

They would always turn into matress magnets when in a cell overnight :hmmm:

[Freiwillige]

While its definitely tasteless, youth are attracted to the forbidden. This game will not be an effective recruitment tool for the fourth Reich so whats the fuss?. I mean if your not a Nazi this game isn't exactly going to make you one and if you are a Nazi well then your political leadership has been extinct for the past 65 years! In the end its just plain dumb but that's college.

[Task Force]

hmm... yea, they may have made up a stupid game... but to put it on the web, knowing you will get alot of people complaining, and stuff... Thats just stupid...

[Oberon]

I would have thought that a Hitler drinking game would have only involved one shot and that would have to be done in an underground bunker... :hmmm:

[DarkFish]

I mean if your not a Nazi this game isn't exactly going to make you one and if you are a Nazi well then your political leadership has been extinct for the past 65 years!
Make that "your chances of ever getting a leadership role inside the party have just become extinct for the next 65 years!":)

"You! You filzhy drunk bazhtard! Get here!"

"Jawohl herr" [HIPS] "Groberuppen... Obergruppensturmbahnhauptfeldwebelführer!"

"I hav heard you make fun with our great Führer's zymbols! You zhink nazism is joke?!"

[HIPS] "Ah yes me and jolly old chaps hav been playing drinking game! It whaz zho verry funny herr Oberwebelfüh... Sturmbahnober.. whazhever, we hadd to make all zhose vunny ..zeh.. stehst.. ..zhestures witzh zhe arms! Like holding zhtraight arm high in air! Can you believe zhomeone actzhually make zhuch" [HIPS] "...zhuch crazy zhesture for real? Alzho I played ZHew who whaz interrogated! Zhand I won! I zhefeated zhe filzhy nazi interrogator for zhe hebrew people! Zhudaism FTW!" [HIPS]:dead:
:()1::()1:

[Oberon]

That's another fault with this game, German ranks are hard enough to pronounce when sober!! :stare:

[Ducimus]

If things like, racist Neo nazi's, holocaust denial and historical revisonism didn't exist today - that might acutally be funny. But they do, and it's not.

[Carotio]

Apparently, the FB group is erased now, probably as a result of complaints, but someone has then established a support group... typically, FB mentality...
Hitler – The Drinking Game --> THE GUYS WHO CREATED THE HITLER DRINKING GAME ARE LEGENDS!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=250160521497
This group then passes on the rules for the drinking game.

I wonder how long that group will exist....

Morons....:nope:

[DarkFish]

well at first I was kinda neutral
but now that I've read this thread a couple of times and thought about it, I have to admit I'm now actually supportive of the students.


For starters, it's a game (and it does look like a funny one at that)! It's not the real world. If we play as a German Kaleun, we're also supporting the nazis. We mercilessly sink allied ships, even passenger liners, not thinking of all the innocent lives that that may have cost in reality. Why? Because it's FUN! Games are for FUN, they're not there to remember all lives that have been lost, however tragical that may be!
If I run a bullet through the head of a Russian soldier when playing a German in CoD:WaW, I'm not gonna pray for the souls of all poor Russians who have been slaughtered by the Germans in WW2. Similarly, if I make a nazi salute I ain't gonna pray for all exterminated Jews. (I'm an atheist so I don't pray anyway, but still:))

Secondly, I dont know where you all usually play your drinking games, but *I* generally don't do it in public. A drinking game is a private event, and only people who consent participate. It's not like millions of people are being forced here to watch students make nazi salutes.
Sure, they posted it on facebook. So what? No-one's gonna force you to go to their facebook page. If you don't want to see it, don't go there. You have that choice!



Oh man, I'm sure I'm gonna regret having ever posted this:damn:
[Jumps into bomb shelter waiting for the artillery barrage to come]

[Oberon]

Depends on your view of fun I guess.
It is a bit of a storm in a teacup, after all, they're students, they do stupid things, particularly when they've had a few, however at the end of the day it's primarily about the continued rise of far right groups across Europe (and indeed the world). I think it's rather unlikely we'd see about Hitler in the strictest sense of the word, people are too jumpy and quick to pull the Nazi card at the slightest sense of racial inequality, and of course, most of Europe is too scared to pass anything that might be seen as inequality...but there is definately a slow movement towards more right-wing ideals when left-wing politicians continually stuff things up (not that right wingers have done things that much better, but social memory is short)
I think there's a lot of sensitivity around the Holocaust, and a lot of emotion, which is hardly surprising, and things like this are bound to provoke a reaction.

[Schroeder]

Maybe it was all just about provoking reactions.;)

[Stealth Hunter]

I actually thought it was kind of funny, just because it involves Hitler and really a lot of creative thinking.

When will we have a STALIN drinking game?

[XabbaRus]

There is a bit of a difference playing a german u-boat commander than getting rat arsed, doing Hitler salutes and saying things like One member suggested Bailey's liqueur should be mandatory, because: "The Holocaust concludes with necking a Jew's brain."
If you find that a laugh up to you but I and many people don't.

You see there are drinking games, and drinking games, and this ain't one to be proud of.

I don't find the hakenkruz on my -109 in IL-2 automatically offensive or on my model plane as that is the historical context it was in.

I do find people daubing swastica's on themselves and doing Nazi salutes in the name of fun at best distasteful. If the guys who started this think it is a laugh then they have a severe lack of understanding of the world and history and I also doubt whether they are "decent" people.

Sure Facebook in the main does seem to be filled with tossers who have no life.

PS. I also hate the lame excuse "well they're students, students do stupid stuff." Well in terms of doing stupid stuff, British students seem to lead the world.

[Snestorm]

Freedom Of Speech was never intended to protect popular speech only.

They can say what they wish, but they should also have enough brains to know that others will judge them accordingly, and may react accordingly.

(Note: Freedom Of Speech only protects against speech restrictions imposed by government, NOT other people and entities.)

[Letum]

Freedom Of Speech was never intended to protect popular speech only.


I don't think this is much of a freedom of speech issue.
the drinkers are not interested in communication a point of view or a message.

[AVGWarhawk]

This game will look great on their resumes! :03:

Extra Cirricular Activity: Hilter Drinking Game

FAIL!

[Snestorm]

I don't think this is much of a freedom of speech issue.
the drinkers are not interested in communication a point of view or a message.

My point was that they can say whatever they wish but, they had better be prepared to pay the consequences that other people may bestow upon them.

[d@rk51d3]

Quite ironic, considering that Hitler didn't drink. :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

This game will look great on their resumes! :03:

Extra Cirricular Activity: Hilter Drinking Game

FAIL!

Possibly even...



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