BIG DEBATE

The build up to this event has been tense, shadowed in secrecy, keeping hush about who or what we are defending in the biggest university debate of 2017.

Mickey Mouse!!! Last week I shoved my hand into a battered old pillow case and rummaged around, what looked like a shredded invoice, and pulled out a small slice of paper with the words ‘MICKEY MOUSE’ printed on it. I proceeded to dash this straight into my wallet and keep it locked away until my group meeting the following day.

The deciding day crept up real quick, we lock the door behind us and get straight to business. I flip open my prehistoric MacBook and quickly wham up the Keynote presentation I merged together the night before. The debate hasn’t even begun yet and I’m already defending the childhood Disney legend, until… one of the girls in the group shows the Rolling Stones lick and I am torn, TORN! Part of me wants an easy victory, is there anything else as iconic as Mickey Mouse? Part of me wants to go with what I find more inspirational and iconic. We went with the mouse.

ANNNND… we’re off. Pitched against Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, easy, but a somewhat bitter sweet victory, and that was the re-occurring theme for the remainder of the day. After lunch was the iPod, their group suffered a hideous downfall when they tried to attack us with an anti Mickey Mouse propaganda video, made in 1936, Big Mick was created in 1928, see ya, iPod. We swiftly move into the finale and have to argue why a cartoon mouse is more iconic than David Bowie, tough fight. After copious amounts of, unnecessary, cat fighting, and actually shouting at my friends, we ended with a draw, the claps for Mickey were definitely louder but considering how much Bowie has influenced my existence, I’ll happily take a draw.