{"id":6658,"date":"2025-11-26T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:01:40","slug":"the-gaudie-out-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/satire\/2025\/11\/26\/the-gaudie-out-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gaudie: out of hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing screams terror quite like a room of humanities students in costume. The Humanities\u00a0<\/span>Ceilidh was full of good food and cheap alcohol, a recipe for a <\/span>Gaudie<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>disaster. Costumes\u00a0<\/span>ranged from on the nose bourgeoisie caricatures to movie characters. One Gaudie<\/em> editor\u00a0<\/span>was dressed up as the incarcerated Luigi Mangione\u2026 or something like that, the first name\u00a0<\/span>was definitely Luigi. He was wearing a green shirt and hat but he was Italian with a dazzling smile which could have been either, really.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The evening hosted tarot card readings where it was confirmed by the universe that I needed\u00a0<\/span>to drink less; I washed that news down with a refill of champagne. There were plenty of\u00a0<\/span>opportunities to be thrown around by a complete stranger under the guise of Scottish\u00a0<\/span>tradition but really just to feel something. For the few <\/span>Gaudie<\/span><\/i>\u00a0people there, it was an\u00a0<\/span>opportunity for us to bond in an unprofessional capacity. Our Editor-in-Chief gave a speech at the\u00a0<\/span>beginning of the night, but once he left we had free reign. We spoke about an array of\u00a0<\/span>interesting and varied topics, for example: writing our upcoming articles, editing our\u00a0<\/span>upcoming articles and finally, producing them! I’m not quite sure why so many people left the\u00a0<\/span>room when we started talking?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The night wrapped up with more champagne being consumed at rapid rates. I shed a tear\u00a0<\/span>when \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d played to end the ceilidh because I just love humans and miss school\u00a0<\/span>assemblies and masses I was made to attend. This was a completely sober thought and I\u00a0<\/span>would’ve cried anytime, anywhere. I decided I needed a pint to get my energy back up as the\u00a0<\/span>night was not over. <\/span><\/p>\n

With our tickets, we had exclusive access to an Aberdeen \u201cclub.\u201d We\u00a0<\/span>stumbled our way to the bus stop and piled onto the \u201c1\u201d into town. On the bus we came across some slightly questionable and definitely racist costumes but I guess Halloween is about scary things, right? As a history and IR student, I know a thing or two about insane racists. Nothing problematic there\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

We made our way down winding stairs to the club beneath Drummonds (I’m as shocked as\u00a0<\/span>you are that it exists). We had to give our names to the bouncer outside which as frontline\u00a0<\/span>journalists got us all a bit paranoid. As I turned the corner I was met with 4 DJs in a booth\u00a0<\/span>with no glass, all of them looked 12 and were playing unidentifiable house music. They\u00a0<\/span>could’ve thrown us a bone and at least played one Chappell Roan song. All of my requests for\u00a0<\/span>non-political music from Kneecap were rejected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>But one thing about the <\/span>Gaudie<\/span><\/i>\u00a0is that we are like chameleons, there isn’t a crowd we don’t fit\u00a0<\/span>into. So stolen bottles of champagne and pretentious costumes were all the rave in\u00a0<\/span>Drummonds, I promise. Now if this piece of groundbreaking, on the ground journalism hasn’t\u00a0<\/span>inspired you to get<\/span> Rowdy with the Gaudie<\/span><\/i>, then I\u2019m actually not sure what will. I hope to see\u00a0<\/span>you all next year in your most tone-deaf costumes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nothing screams terror quite like a room of humanities students in costume. The Humanities\u00a0Ceilidh was full of good food and cheap alcohol, a recipe for a Gaudie\u00a0disaster. Costumes\u00a0ranged from on the nose bourgeoisie caricatures to movie characters. One Gaudie editor\u00a0was dressed up as the incarcerated Luigi Mangione\u2026 or something like that, the first name\u00a0was definitely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","iawp_total_views":27,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[206,1618,477,1214],"wf_post_folders":[228],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-satire","tag-aberdeen-university","tag-ceilidh","tag-halloween","tag-the-gaudie"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Hannah Fortune","author_link":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/author\/hannah_0525\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/From-Gaudie-Contributor-225x300.jpeg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Satire<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Satire<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Aberdeen University<\/a>","ceilidh<\/a>","Halloween<\/a>","the gaudie<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Aberdeen University<\/span>","ceilidh<\/span>","Halloween<\/span>","the gaudie<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 months ago","modified":"Updated 10 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 26 November 2025","modified":"Updated on 26 November 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 26 November 2025 13:01","modified":"Updated on 26 November 2025 13:01"},"featured_img_caption":"Photography of the Humanities ceilidh taken by Kate and given to Gaudie for this article ","series_order":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudie.co.uk\/wpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}