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Uni of York Douglas Adams Society
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This week’s event is… Presentation Night! (Formal)

Niche interests! Cool stories! Things that make sense to only one other person! If you can convey it through the medium of slideshow presentation, we want to see it!

Submit through the link below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This week’s event is… Stupid Werewolf!

It’s the classic social-deduction game, but with a DougSoc twist!

Will the villagers find the werewolves in time, or will they turn amongst themselves before the first night has even begun? (It’s DougSoc: of course they will.)
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This week’s event is Bar Crawl!

Important: the event this week starts at The Postern Gate Wetherspoons in town. Please make your own way there for 20:00.

Our planned route for tomorrow is:
Wetherspoons, The Postern Gate
The Old Bank
Bobos Cocktail Bar
Tank & Paddle

Please bring ID.
The background is the bar from the videogame “The Town With No Name”. The bartender’s face has been replaced with The Orb, a red circle with spikes. At the top, the event title “Bar Crawl” is written in gold engraving on wood grain. The DougSoc logo has also been woodgrain styled. A woodgrain panel (with yellow text) gives details of the bars to be crawled.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This Week’s event is… Full Circle!

The game where going on obscure tangents is encouraged!

Go on as many tangents as you can, but don’t forget to go Full Circle back to your starting topic!

All Change 20:00 VBar, 2025-11-18! (or join this service at 20:30, in D/L/047)
A light blue radial background, superimposed with a tube-map style network of different-coloured lines. In the top left is an underground roundel with the event’s title. In the bottom right, the Orb (a red sphere) is wearing an “Underground” branded dark-blue cap.
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week’s event is Sparklers & Minigames!

Douglings are not immune to the allure of sparkly things. And fire.

After sparklers, we’ll be going inside for some minigames!

Join us in VBar 20:00 Tues 04 - Check our Discord for when we start minigames.
A starry sky in the background. Title in sparkly font reads: “Sparklers”. Below it, “& Minigames” in the Super Mario font. In the bottom left, photographs of the card games UNO and Muffin Time. In the bottom right, the DougSoc logo. Scattered throughout the image, sparklers burn brightly.
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This week’s event is Bad (horror) Movie Night!

We watch a horror movie! A bad horror movie! Which is more horrifying - the plot, or the movie itself?

This Tuesday 28th only! Doors open 20:00 VBar, and our feature starts at 20:30 in D/L/047.
A darkened movie theatre. Overlaid at the top of the image, a cinema marquee sign reads: “DougSoc Presents… Bad Movie night” In the foreground below, a film projector projects the DougSoc logo onto the theatre screen. In the bottom right, another marquee sign gives details of the event’s time and location.
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This week’s event is Good Vs. Evil!

Douglings! Are you ready to ruuuumbleeeee!?!?

If you would like to be a part of this whirlwind extravaganza, then come on down to VBar at 20:00, Tuesday 21st! Or make a late entry at 20:30 in D/L/047.
In the background of the image, a picture of space overlaid with a lightning bolt striking from top-right to bottom-left. Either side of the lightning bolt, the event title “Good Vs. Evil” is presented in fonts with a ‘good’ or ‘evil’ appearance. Several textboxes form an opening monologue, which reads: “Primal forces battle it out…in the ancient and time-honoured tradition of silly minigames…Two will enter, only one can leave! It’s time… for… Good Vs. Evil!”
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This week’s event is Murder Mystery!

The Douglings are fine. No really, they’re doing great!

We might have had a slight… problem with one of the penguins though.

Think you can help?

V-Bar, Tuesday 20:00 and D/L/047 from 20:30.
At the top, a title with a reflection reads “Murder Mystery”. The ‘u’ in the title is coloured red, similar to the Cluedo logo. At the bottom of the image, an old-fashioned typewriter with a sheet of paper loaded. In the top left of the paper, the location of the event. Top right, the DougSoc logo. In the middle, text reads “Feelin’ fine.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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For those coming to Hide and Seek tomorrow, here's the map of what parts of campus are "in-bounds". Anything within the black line is fair game.
October 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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This week’s event is Hide and Seek!

You will hide.
You will seek.
You will be hidden.
You will be sought.

Join us in V-Bar from 20:00, Tuesday 7th or Greg’s Place from 20:30.
Three cubes, occupying a third of the image each vertically, with text in a greek-style font spelling out one word per cube, from the event’s title. The cubes have yellow or pink outlines, corresponding to the colours of Vanbrugh and Derwent on the campus map. Various people are peering over the top of, and around the sides of the cubes. Text in a military-style font reads: “You Will Hide.”, “You Will Seek.”, and a description of the event’s date and location.
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This week’s event is Inflatable Death!

Fight to the Death!* with a wide array of inflatable objects!**

(Safety goggles will be provided. Please avoid actually injuring each other.)

In V-Bar from 20:00 Tuesday 30th, then D/L/047 from 20:30.

*mild exhaustion
**subject to availability
A busy and chaotic image. In the background of the image, wooden pallets burn fiercely. At the top, stylised text reads: “Inflatable Death”. “Inflatable” is in a rounded blue font, whilst “Death” is in a red stencil font, which is on fire. At the left of the image, a man wields an inflatable axe in his front hand and an inflatable caveman's club in his back hand. He is charging at an inflatable flamingo. There is an inflatable parrot on his shoulder. In the bottom left, a man in silhouette plays an inflatable saxophone. At the bottom right, a rockstar strikes a pose whilst holding an inflatable electric guitar. Elsewhere in the image, an inflatable dolphin with an inflatable eye superimposed on it. A larger version of the same eye looks down on the rockstar.
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Welcome new members! Confused about what a DougSoc evening actually entails, or what a ‘Dougling’ is? Check out our explainer, on our website here: dougsocyork.wordpress.com/guides/dougs...
At the top, a title: “DougSoc Explained”. The title is stylised in bold, bright, round letters. Text below directs people to view the explainer on the website, which is linked in the description of the post.
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Reminder that DougSoc is at the YorkSU Welcome Fair at Stall 64 in the Main Hall of the York Sport Centre until 16:00 today. Come say hi! We have sweets!
A picture of the DougSoc stall. In the foreground, in the lower left, a ship hull made out of cardboard and painted green with black and red stripes with the name “The Good Ship DougSoc”. In the background, two people sit at a table with a tub of sweets and various promotional material.
September 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Hello Students!

Are you a fan of whimsy, originality and stupid jokes?

Meet DougSoc: We’ll be at the YorkSU Welcome Fair tomorrow from 10:00 to 16:00! Find us in the York Sports Centre Main Hall, Stall 64.

Also look out for an interview with our very own Chair Alex on YSTV, 16:16 the same day!
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week’s event is… Poster Put-Up!

Make posters! Put them up! Baffle the inhabitants of the UoY campus with obscure references and nonsensical creatures!

Tonight Tuesday (2025-09-16), VBar from 20:00 and D/L/047 after 20:30.
A square with a black outline fills most of the page. Text in the centre of the square reads “This space intentionally left blank”. Small light-grey text in the bottom left gives details about the location of this week’s event.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Come along to our final(?) event of the year, TASKMASTER!

We will be competing in absurd challenges like the show Taskmaster, except with no budget.

Your first task is to meet at V-Bar on 2025-06-03. Your time starts Tuesday, 20:00. (Heading to D/L/036 at 20:30)
Background: the “Taskmaster” studio. The Taskmaster envelope forms the title, but the wax seal has eyes and a smile making it look like the Orb. In the Taskmaster’s throne on the left is a cardboard cutout of Brian Blessed, and beside him is the Orb, but its eyes have been replaced with photorealistic inflatable eyes. On the right are two photographs of inflatables: a Turret from the videogame Portal 2, and an inflatable Flamingo.
June 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This Week’s event is… Full Circle!

The game where going on obscure tangents is encouraged! Go on as many tangents as you can, but don’t forget to go Full Circle back to your starting topic!

All Change 20:00 VBar, 2025-05-27! (or join this service at 20:30, in D/L/036)
A light blue radial background, superimposed with a tube-map style network of different-coloured lines. In the top left is an underground roundel with the event’s title. In the bottom right, the Orb (a red sphere) is wearing an “Underground” branded dark-blue cap.
May 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This week’s event is Art Attack!

And the theme is rats! Rats, rats, we are the rats…

This post is also printable! Colour your own ORB, and submit it to us via our website!

Be there, or be square: VBar, Tuesday 2025-05-20 20:00! (then 20:30 D/L/036)
Title: Art Attack! Tuesday 20th, VBar. Below this is the Orb. It is a circle, within which are cartoonish eyes and a semicircular smile. There are spikes around the outside of the circle, and the whole Orb is drawn in a line art style.
May 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Surprise! There’s a second event this week!

Tonight… Euro Karaoke! Sing along to Douglings’ favourite Eurovision entries from across the years!

Stupid outfits highly encouraged!

VBar 20:00 Thursday, Moving to D/L/036 at 20:30.
Background: a club. Title: Euro Karaoke. A description of the date and time is provided: VBar, 20:00 Thursday, Moving to D/L/036 at 20:30. In the bottom right, a red circle is singing into a stand microphone.
May 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This Week’s event is Hide and Seek!
The Douglings have gone missing, and you gotta help us!
Come on down to VBar, Tuesday 2025-05-13 20:00! (or 20:30 Greg’s Place)
A picture of University of York Campus West. Several trees are visible, and several red orbs with faces are hiding behind them.
May 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This week’s event is Werewolf (Outside! (with Snacks!))🐺🧺

Meet us in V-Bar, Tuesday 2025-05-06 18:00! (Earlier start to maximise sunlight.)

We will be playing Stupid!Werewolf, our DougSoc house-rules version of popular deduce-’em-up Werewolf!
In the foreground, a red orb is licking its lips, anticipating the food laid out on the picnic rug to its right. In the midground, a blue orb is being chased by a werewolf, and has a panicked/scared expression. The Siward’s Howe water tower can be seen in the background, and the weather is sunny.
May 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This week’s event… Spec Ops! Blood! Death! Barely-functioning water guns! We have it all!

Bring a towel! Bring Spare Clothes! Bring a thirst for blood!*
And water! Can’t have a water fight without water!

*(No actual murder please.)

Join us in V-Bar 20:00 tonight! (Tuesday 2025-04-29)
A parody of a spy video game, styled as a fictional Wii game. A red orb with spikes is wielding a water pistol and looking menacingly at the camera. There are explosions on the top and sides and in the background. Large text at the bottom reads: “Spec Ops: 008”. Next to the “8”, a water pistol is facing towards the right.
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This week’s event is 1001 Blank Cards!🗃️

As the name implies, this is the card game written by you! Write whatever zany actions you can think of to build up a deck of ludicrous nonsense!

Come meet us in V-Bar at 20:00, or D/L/036 from 20:30!
A pack of blank cards. The cards are white, with thin gray lines. The pack of cards is titled 1001* Blank** Cards***. The asterisks refer to 3 disclaimers in the bottom-right corner of the card. The disclaimers read: Approximate contents. Not all cards blank. Colour and material may not be as shown on packaging. There is a DougSoc logo in the bottom-left corner. In the bottom-centre a large yellow sticker with a red outline reads: "Asbestos Free!".
April 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Nature is crazy.
February 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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feathers mcgraw portrait
feathers mcgraw with a seal on his lap in a swivel chair
February 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM