Viral Stories Of 2013: The Student News Everyone Was Talking About

Horny Students, Naked Calendar, CCTV Sex, Stapling Testicles...
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There was a lot of sex among the viral stories of 2013: Exeter University students were caught romping on CCTV, a student from er, Exeter University was named the UK's horniest, and one fellow stapled his testicles together after losing a bet.

In fact, there were so many student stories which went viral, we've rounded them all up for you. How nice of us.

If you think we missed one out - you should give us a tweet @HPUKStudents and we'll do our best to add it in (crediting you, of course).

2013's best viral student stories
One word: OUCH(01 of10)
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Again, another Tab delight - student Nathan Bells stapled his testicles together after losing a FIFA bet.What a bellend. (credit:Oxford Tab)
UK's horniest student(02 of10)
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Ah, Elina Desaine. Crowned the UK's horniest student, you made headlines across the world and romped to international fame. Except, now you might actually be facing expulsion from university. Which isn't so great. (credit:Shagatuni.com)
So I showed Jay Z round my church..(03 of10)
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Yep. That really happened. First published in The Tab, the 'sleb mags soon followed suit and picked up the story (credit:The Tab)
The naked calendar(04 of10)
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2013 was the year of the naked student calendar, with Oxford's men's rugby club coming up trumps (credit:OURFC)
Killer geese(05 of10)
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Published in the Warwick Tab, this story was a big hit on the net. (credit:Warwick Tab)
Ratemash(06 of10)
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Ah, Ratemash. That site taking people's photos on Facebook, uploading them and getting everyone to rate your hotness. Oh, and they pretend people are students when they're actually not. The story hit the headlines in several nationals but.. yep, the site's still going strong (credit:Ratemash)
Loughborough's Naughty Cringefest(07 of10)
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ARGH it was bad. The video of student union officers singing along to Naughty Boy's La La La in an attempt to boost membership numbers was SO awful it went viral. (credit:YouTube)
THAT fancy dress costume..(08 of10)
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Chester students Annie Collinge and Amber Langford became famous for all the wrong reasons when they donned twin towers costumes, complete with burning planes and victims for a fancy dress party. (credit:The Sun)
Pickles On Tour(09 of10)
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Oxford University student James Johnson and Daniel Falvey, at Nottingham University, decided to cart along a cardboard cut-out of Eric Pickles and documented their trip on their picklesroadtrip.com blog.We don't know why they did it. But we're pleased they did. (credit:picklesroadtrip.com)
Tequila UK(10 of10)
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Love it or hate it, it was a huge story. Tequila UK was branded "disgusting" for making a video which discussed raping students in order to promote a night out. (credit:Facebook)