SMC ride this Saturday (22 Aug)

**motorbyclist** · 27th August 2009, 15:46

Originally Posted by jono035

All they want is to show the club has a proper fiscal structure, good record keeping and a solid idea of what to do with the money.

well we've got the last part right. it's the rest that's the problem - i remember squigs announcing a few weeks ago we finally had a bank account!

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

So why the hell did you run for the position if you knew you wouldn't have any time for doing anything as part of it?

You all elected me! Do i look like a fundraising co-ordinator?

And i didn't realise i'd be quite this flat out right now.

My main bitch is how much beurocratic red tape has to be waded through - if we had a short notice event for which we needed funding (or the deadline was this month instead) we simply wouldn't be able to get it.

Originally Posted by Rayray401

The SMC has a budget and a fiscal structure?

no. We dont.

**motorbyclist** · 27th August 2009, 16:00

Originally Posted by Squiggles

Assume.

I have up to date copies of all those things.

Originally Posted by Squiggles

And in the event we do get it granted i have to pay for it then AUSA reimburses me

However should you feel the desire to actually complete that form, i can provide you with the RRRS grant as a benchmark for the bullshitting

well you have my email address.....

Originally Posted by jono035

I'm not surprised and to be honest I would have been a bit shocked if it was anything else.

I'd be a bit shocked if it was a "sign here, receive money" type deal also, but what they have is imo way over the top.

mostly it is the crap about diversity and inclusion. that crap always annoys me because it somehow implies that we give a shit as to what colour/race/religion our members are, and that going to a sporting event or training course or buying sports uniforms etc is in my view, completely unrelated. (also comes back to the whole case of how we can't have true equality in society if certain groups are differentiated by law for preferential treatment - things like the suggested female quota for corporate boards does nothing to help women but improve the statistics; in the eyes of their male colleagues they're not there on merit but to fill a quota, even if that isn't the case! - read this or last week's debate column)

furthermore, in regards to jafas comments, there's a deadline and i'll be relying on dan (currently hospitalised iirc) and the infamous squiggles to supply info.

I had assumed (yes, bad idea but not always) that i'd be creating all these documents myself.

however, being able to re-write the last one will make it much easier

**jono035** · 27th August 2009, 16:52

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

mostly it is the crap about diversity and inclusion

Oh yeah, that part is a crock of it, that's for sure.

**Real_Wolf** · 27th August 2009, 22:41

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

... You all elected me! Do i look like a fundraising co-ordinator? ...

Wait wait wait wait wait wait... wait...... wait.......... wait........ This isn't my batman glass.

what I meant to say is weren't you voted in as the SMC safety officer? Shouldn't something such as this be directly within your jurisdiction (along with ital there being secretary sitting and taking your dictation).

I always have been so confused about ethnic diversity. Why is it that everyone was going "omg, look at America, they voted in a BLACK president, amazing". Who cares if he's black.....

Or another one I love, Maori seats, Maori rights, its like segregation. Lets make all the Maori's fit in here, and all the non-Maori fit in over there, so each has seperate rights and allowances.

Best of all is the 'scholorships' stuff, where you have Polynesian scholarships, Maori scholarships, Female scholarships, etc. Wheres the straight white male scholarships I ask you? No, should one of those exist it'd be racist/sexist.

I want to go into womenspace, or have a menspace (course we'd need a women, or a feminine man to clean it), kinda sexist for there to be such a thing at uni hmm?

**Real_Wolf** · 27th August 2009, 22:44

Originally Posted by ital916

Stephen has a copy of the minutes. I went to type them up after the last AGM and he had done it. Next AGM I will take the minutes. If club members wish, I will be happy to take minutes at chillers if there is a portion of the time where official club business is being discussed.

I vote that andrew still kicks himself in the head though...just for a "laff"

Does making duncan crack count as official club business? Cause that sorta thing is definetely worth being on the minutes

**Danae** · 27th August 2009, 22:45

Originally Posted by Real_Wolf

I want to go into womenspace, or have a menspace (course we'd need a women, or a feminine man to clean it), kinda sexist for there to be such a thing at uni hmm?

There's a womenspace?!

Bet it's retarded. And pink.

Menspace would look exactly like an old style bar with every beer ever on tap and motorsports playing all the time. Like that lotto ad where the mother-in-law comes over and the guy retreats into his man cave and gets a pie thrown at him and he catches it.

**Ooky** · 27th August 2009, 23:10

MMMmmmmm air pie

**Danae** · 27th August 2009, 23:13

The pie being airbourne causes it to cool ever so slightly, becoming the perfect temperature for om nom-ing. The spinning action causes the cheese to spread out throughout the pie instead of being bunched up at one end. Perfect cheese distribution is attained.

**Squiggles** · 27th August 2009, 23:25

Originally Posted by Danae

The pie being airbourne causes it to cool ever so slightly, becoming the perfect temperature for om nom-ing. The spinning action causes the cheese to spread out throughout the pie instead of being bunched up at one end. Perfect cheese distribution is attained.

You were clearly a man in a past life.

**Danae** · 27th August 2009, 23:28

Originally Posted by Squiggles

You were clearly a man in a past life.

Should I be offended?

**Hiflyer** · 27th August 2009, 23:28

Originally Posted by Danae

The pie being airbourne causes it to cool ever so slightly, becoming the perfect temperature for om nom-ing. The spinning action causes the cheese to spread out throughout the pie instead of being bunched up at one end. Perfect cheese distribution is attained.

Originally Posted by Squiggles

You were clearly a man in a past life.

from the few posts I have read... I may agree

**PirateJafa** · 27th August 2009, 23:32

Originally Posted by Danae

Should I be offended?

Well clearly you commited a truely heinous act at some point to have been cursed upon your reincarnation into such a inferior lifeform.

Edit: So take it as you will, lol.

Edit Edit: Maybe you were Stalin? He had the manliest moustache of the 20th century. Although Bismarck had the manliest moustache of all time.