Doesn't help you much if you want to deliver a bomb. We are 5.7 million people here after all.
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I am a physicist. We just make a raft, sail into the middle of the lake, and drink beer while watching the others compete from first row seats. It is the economists and law who hire strippers.
They put all their money into homemade particle accelerators. And then they accelerate strippers. In the words of Phil Jupitus:
"If you actually got two cannons and fired lesbians at each other... Is that what they built that CERN thing for in Switzerland?"
I suspect that the only way that they can't afford it is emotionally.
They can, but TÅGEKAMMERET (the cloud chamber) which is the party and lecture association for the sciences (except chemistry and biology) has made it a tradition that they ferry everybody over on the raft at once, empty all the beer, claim winners, but get disqualified and then celebrate the win on the lake. That is what they do every year. And TÅGEKAMMERET never breaks a tradition once it has been made: For instance if you write it with small letters or in multiple words you owe a round of beer. Similarly the tradition of hearing your beer before drinking it has survived there---probably as the only place in Denmark.
They also dutifully call the manufacturer of Whiskas (a brand of cat food) every year to make sure that it is still safe to eat. Because the discipline 'akademikere ville vælge Whiskas' (academics would choose Whiskas) is both a pun on old Whiskas commercials and a part of what is known as BODYCRASHING. Which is an abbreviation for: 'Bræk og desuden yder Cerm rationel afskaffelse af sultne homosapiens i naturvidenskabelige gemakker' (puke and besides that Cerm provides rational elimination of hungry homo sapiens in scientific chambers).
It is an annual competition (started in the early 80s) where you compete in eating/drinking strange things. Some are really disgusting; others not.
The president and the vice president of TÅGEKAMMERET has to battle in 'the killing cream'. It is something like this: First you drink a beer, then you drink half a liter of cream with food color in it, then you drink another beer. Sounds easy, but actually is really hard due to the beer reacting with the cream in your stomach. The one to win the killing cream gets the power of TÅGEKAMMERET for the next year.
(yes we are a bit crazy at the science department.)
The economists on the other hand always bring a stripper and are expected to do it.
What does the department of languages and literatures do? I'm just curious about the folkways that would have been laid out for me, were I a Dane.
As a fellow physicist I can relate to that. I guess we will never know then.
I studied "applied physics and electrotechnical engineering" but accidentally got into human factors after leaving the uni. So I guess I am more or less a liberal arts dude to you now?
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I was going to suggest we just bomb all of Denmark to get rid of Wagon, but his tales of TÅGEKAMMERET have suitably amused me as to not suggest bombing all of Denmark.
This year, anyway.
This year, anyway.
What do you mean by human factors?
Also it sounds more like an engineer. And despite the countless jokes we make about them the are good enough at the bottom.
By the way: If you are to work with some strange system and you need the equations of motion of it would you then look them up or use Lagrange formalism?
I Google translated the wiki page on them then; and corrected grave errors. Also that wiki page keeps being tagged for deletion and for not being neutral due to the names of some of the things TÅGEKAMMERET makes: For instance VKF (the worlds most boring lecture) which people thought was a personal opinion and not the actual name of the thing. 3 lecturers compete in making the most boring lecture---and it is the most unusual topics they choose to talk about (within their field of course).
Tågekammeret or TK or the chamber is a party and lecture association at the University of Aarhus, covering mathematics, physics, computer science, IT Bachelor, mathematical economics and nanotechnology (originally also chemistry, but chemists broke out later and formed @lkymia). The association was founded 11 October 1956.
Name
Tågekammeret is named after a physical instrument called a cloud chamber is used to visualize the elementary particles.
By founding the association was unnamed but known as "Math / Phys association". At the first annual general meeting several different names were discussed, but all rejected. Under "possibly" the point was, however, taken up again, and it was agreed that the association could get the name Tågekammeret (in the record, however, written in small letters and hyphen) until a better name could be found. It is not, however, occurred in the last 50 years. The exact history can be found in the association's first protocol.
Ceremonial
Over time, Tågekammeret built up a collection of annual events and a series of mandatory rules.
Rules:
Mentioned first, as they, among other things explains the different style.
The association's name is written TÅGEKAMMERET - ie with nothing but capitals and undivided.
Beer and soft drinks must not be opened with something that is intended for opening - for example. a bottle opener or a door handle.
If you on Thursdays drink a beer or soft drink without hearing it first, you must give a round or a crate of beer.
It is allowed to throw capsules but if it hits a person you owe him a beer or soda. (Band shot by lamps or against other things permitted).
Flick of caps is prohibited, as it is uncontrollable acceleration, why you also are not allowed to drink beer with a cockatoo in your breast pocket.
Destruction of furniture is of course forbidden. (Including to lengthy hearing of soda or beer).
Only members of the Vice Precidency must tinker with RεmToR (see below).
You are allowed to honk in CERMs horn, if you give a beer or soft drink to anyone who hears it. (The exception to this rule is, of course, past and present members of the CERM guild).
Do not take a bike ride in Kvitten. (A storage room for props of approximately 1.5 m²)
You may not post summation sign (Σ) inside the chamber.
During board meetings it is also forbidden to be the cause of a phone located in the chamber disturbing.
Annual events:
There are a number of events held at more or less fixed days during the year:
End-September
Reception - shortly after the election of the new board of directors
October
Foundation Event
HSTR (Secret Picnic To Rønde). Picnic to a secret destination. Name comes from a former FoRM-and (Carsten "Old" Hansen) who came to reveal the otherwise secret destination that year was Rønde.
November
J-Day - The day before Christmas beer comes on the street, drinking a box of Christmas beer from last year during great ceremony.
BODYCRASHING - A competition in which contestants compete to be first through alternative dishes as "Kiksekage with palm oil (instead of crackers)", "Academics would choose Whiskas" and the classic "The killing cream". In the year 2006 the new discipline "50 chocolate frogs with mint on time" was first held.
December
Christmas Cuttings
Christmas Party with revue
February
Worlds most boring lecture
March
Carnival
April
Spring Party
May
May Festival with revue
The above indicate an approximate position, but may be modified in order and month.
Additionally, held an annual competition in a board game for 4 people, which in turns using dices each must bring 4 pieces of safety around a cross-shaped game board. Since this competition must not be referred to by the same name more than once, it is a little difficult to specify to name of the game in detail, but it is often played with a cube, which has a globe and a star.
Hearing beer:
To hear the beer is a tradition in Tågekammeret.
One hears a beer by rubbing the bottle against a table edge, so that the grooves in the bottle provides a distinctive sound. It continues until somebody answers with HEARD!
If, you on Thursdays in Tågekammeret forget to hear your beer, you must provide a crate of beer - or if there are less than 30 present in the chamber, a beer each. You can also choose to empty your beer on site. If this fails, the rule on a crate of beer applies.
History:
Many new members of Tågekammeret mistakenly believe that it is contrary to the chamber's unwritten rules to drink a beer without hearing it first. This is not correct.
The Danish beer bottle has not always had the grooves at the bottom [1] as today. When the grooved beer bottle was introduced in the bars in Aarhus there arose the tradition that if you got one of the new bottles with grooved bottom, so you had to make a give a round.
As the new bottles became more and more frequent, people were tired of constantly having to give rounds. Therefore the tradition slipped at the bars.
But since Tågekammeret does not have a tradition of dropping its traditions, it introduced instead the rule that one could be allowed to fail to give a round if he showed it reverence for the new bottle grooved base by rubbing it against the table.
BODYCRASHING:
BODYCRASHING is an annual competition in Tågekammeret where participants compete in eating weird (and often disgusting) things on time. The name is short for "Puke And Moreover CERM Provides Rational Elimination of Hungry Homo Sapiens in The Science apartments."
Reportedly the sport began in February 1985 when the chamber chairman and vice chairman challenged each other to a duel on beer and cream - a discipline that would later become known as the killing cream - and in time the event was expanded with more participants and disciplines.
BODYCRASHING has over the years been exposed to a lot of attention from the Danish media. (Including live broadcasts from it.)
Traditional disciplines
The killing cream
Alternately beer and cream (and in recent years also food coloring). This is a very unpleasant discipline, as the carbon dioxide in the beer whip the cream, which usually results in that the mixture does not remain in the stomach for very long.
Pentathlon
Marzipan bread with tartar sauce; soy milk with Ribena; a package Fisherman's Friend; a cup syrup; cold ravioli with chocolate sauce and chocolate bars.
2^4-3
13 pieces of 2 dl. drinks with the following contents in the specified order: melted strawberry ice cream, oil / vinegar dressing, svineboullion, slightly whipped cream, fresh cola, lazy beer, herring pickle, soy milk, grapefruit juice, Cocio, cold auto dull, drinking yoghurt, tomato juice.
Blended grill
A béarnaiseburger, a case of fries with dip, a toasted hot dog with everything and a bottle Cocio blended and drunk from a glass boot. Served with cola.
Cocio on time
24 cl Cocio drink in such large quantity as possible in the course of three minutes. (The record is something like 35 Cocio's in those 3 minutes; the strategy is: Drink and puke, drink and puke, etc.)
Board of Directors:
The board consists of seven members:
NF
The Vice-President (abbreviated NF) is to write flyers on RεmToR, an excellent Norwegian typewriter that inspires NF inspiration. The vice-president also each year wishes the Queen a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The vice-president is organized in the the vice presidency. In addition to the typewriter NFs symbol is a himmelbjerghat.
CERM
Ceremony Master writes songs and organizes happenings. The old CERM is usually destructor (TK-language instructor) on the Christmas Revue.
VC
Vice Ceremony Master ensures that there is beer and water in the chamber. Both CERM and VC are organized in the CERM Guild. If CERM is unable to cope with his tasks, the VC is the deputy of CERM. Hence the name.
KA$$
Treasurer. KA$$ is traditionally evil (because he wants money). The treasurer is organized in KET.
SEKR
The Secretary shall make a record of everything that happens during the year. Late in the year SEKR gathers the year's happenings on TK and writes it in the protocol. Also is responsible for there being spirits at parties.
PR
PR draws posters and stands for the decoration of events. PR and SEKR are not members of any union.
FoRM
President pretends to lead the association. FoRM is stupid, but FoRM is right (quite literally, as symbols of Forms power is a crown, a cape and a steering wheels). FoRM is organized in the FoRM junta.
The FUs
The members of the party committee is typically the first-year students, and their main job is running out with NF's flyers. They are organized in **** (the FUs Central Committee). (The forum rules forbids me from mentioning the abbreviated name of their committee.)
Chamber Titles
There exists an ingenious system of prefixes to the titles so that K- means coming, G- old (ie a year ago), B- grand (ie two years ago), O- great (ie three years page), TO- great great (ie four years ago), T^2O- great great great (ie five years ago), and so on.
We already knew you were in Aarhus. It's a simple matter of plotting a 80 km circle centred on LEGOLAND.