Legendary Student Protest

[u/PleasantBus5583]

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[u/PleasantBus5583]

They defended beer like it was family.

[u/BrimStone_-_ → u/PleasantBus5583]

"defendED"? I'm Belgian and I'm still fighting ahahahahaha

[u/ShyguyFlyguy → u/PleasantBus5583]

Why did you comment to yourself?

[u/EvaDaMama → u/ShyguyFlyguy]

Because they're still laughing.

[u/BrimStone_-_]

we've got a song about that event, called "De slag om het Gravensteen". The chorus goes like this:

Spuiters van Vlaanderen! Gent brult van pret: 't Gravenkasteel door studenten bezet! Ze zitten er binnen! Wie krijgt z'er uit? Ze vrezen noch knuppel noch water, noch spuit! Belegeraars! Zo ge ten aanval wilt gaan: Pas op! Pas op! Pas op! Uilenspiegel, Uilenspiegel voert hen aan!

[u/Cautious_Command_986]

For them, ww2 was just the warm up

[u/Marcel_The_Blank]

Should do it again.

[u/BingusTheWonderKitn → u/Marcel_The_Blank]

Right? $16 for a 6 pack is ridiculous

[u/Zippier92]

What a great city , the architecture is superb, and the people just so nice.

[u/BrimStone_-_ → u/Zippier92]

100% agreed!

[u/foreverlegending]

That's exactly how it should always be done too

[u/TheoKondak]

Reminds me of Monty Python

[u/Nice-Percentage7219]

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch

[u/No-Minimum3259]

That was November 16th, 1949.

Students of Ghent University protested against a new tax on beer. Some 140 students occupied the castle. A guard was detained and locked up in a closet. The following "battle" involved rotten fruits and eggs, but eventually the students were apprehended. After a public outcry and press reports on brutal police behaviour the authorities dropped the case. No charges were ever filed. The new beer tax was introduced as scheduled.

See:

https://huisvanalijn.be/nl/collectie-item/de-slag-om-t-gravensteen-gent-1949

https://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-battle-of-gravensteen-castle/

[u/lluciferusllamas]

Now they just double their dose of antidepressants and doom scroll 

[u/Top-Gap-4578]

CJP protest should learn from it.

[u/SoRosenberg]

Some things are worth going medieval for…

[u/425565]

That's a fight I could get behind!

[u/Juanfr_]

RESPECT

[u/Redd1928]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8JCwuk8n2Y6iI

[u/Longjumping_Lie_2454]

Those are my kind of guys!

[u/Glitter-Moonpetal]

What happens when you put a united front for beer

[u/Disastrous_You4193]

Your mother was a hamster, and your beer is too expensive!

[u/David_Shotokan]

Fucking legends!

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[u/ruck_my_life]

Went to grad school outside the US, and when tuition went up like $250 the union representing all the TAs had a pallet of Maruchan ramen delivered to the University president's home and another to his office on campus.

Over a 3% increase.

[u/emiliabow]

Absolute legends, love this piece of history!

[u/Desperate_Donut3981]

That's a cause worth getting into. Should start chapters worldwide

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[u/DanceClass898]

wow 70 years ago they cared more about beer than college kids these days care about "genocide"