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Irish Independent/Times Exam Diaries (Should be ashamed!)

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  • #352
    Knuffel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Knuffel


    BarryDoodles wrote: »
    Hmmm Is it Laura Brady? Indulge me and state our Classics Teachers name?
    b.t.w i tried defending you :(

    But why Barry? You know as well as i do that you were indulging in a bitching session about her last week! :p


  • #353
    conormurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭conormurphy


    Bonzo-Reborn wrote: »
    yes i chaw what you mean...

    cause i hear that sometimes they just repack used jocks ya chaw mean?

    where the hell did you get that phrase from

    Its shortened Dyenawhaimean, chaw mean?

    If they did repack the jocks and they have big dirty skids all over them, ill send them back and theyll send my money back, chaw mean. I'm cool like that chaw mean?


  • #354
    LeCapitaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭LeCapitaine


    conormurphy wrote: »
    Its shortened Dyenawhaimean, chaw mean?

    If they did repack the jocks and they have big dirty skids all over them, ill send them back and theyll send my money back, chaw mean. I'm cool like that chaw mean?


    I know what chaw me.skids1.jpgLike if they were like that you would send them back. yeah?


  • #355
    conormurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭conormurphy


    Thats it, Id probably just put them on someones head insted of sendin them back chaw mean?


  • #356
    BarryDoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭BarryDoodles


    Knuffel wrote: »
    But why Barry? You know as well as i do that you were indulging in a bitching session about her last week! :p

    Just wondering if it was her. That bitch session was ours, where as these people are bitching for the wrong reasons...and if you remember i didn't exactly complain i just stated facts :p
    Now to guessing who this is. Hmmm Phoebe, Amy, Dimtri and karl were there. Its Amy's style to berate me for talking about a girl however given you style (or lack of) I say its the girl whos daddy defends Irish poets that aledgely fiddle with middle eastern children


  • #357
    BarryDoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭BarryDoodles


    People dont like that she 1.Her parents have money 2.Goes to the institute 3.Goes to movies 4.Gets more attention than they do and 5.Gets to write but yet they seem to follow every article she writes word by word then post complaining about it while starting threads like "oh my god i'm repeating, i didn't get 300 points"
    Ladies and Gentlemen, am I right that you dislike the girl because shes better than you?


  • #358
    White-Teeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭White-Teeth


    BarryDoodles wrote: »
    People dont like that she 1.Her parents have money 2.Goes to the institute 3.Goes to movies 4.Gets more attention than they do and 5.Gets to write but yet they seem to follow every article she writes word by word then post complaining about it while starting threads like "oh my god i'm repeating, i didn't get 300 points"
    Ladies and Gentlemen, am I right that you dislike the girl because shes better than you?

    Someone who has to do the leaving cert THREE times is better than no one.

    With regards to money, she was born luckier than everyone else, not better.


  • #359
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    BarryDoodles wrote: »
    People dont like that she 1.Her parents have money 2.Goes to the institute 3.Goes to movies 4.Gets more attention than they do and 5.Gets to write but yet they seem to follow every article she writes word by word then post complaining about it while starting threads like "oh my god i'm repeating, i didn't get 300 points"
    Ladies and Gentlemen, am I right that you dislike the girl because shes better than you?

    No one likes her, because she has to repeat the LC 3 ****ing times before she's able to get her course, and acts like a pompous bitch commenting on it. That's assuming she doesn't manage to cock-up this time as well.


  • #360
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    because shes better than you?

    I'll have to go check my bank account, so I can work out exactly just how better than me she is :rolleyes:

    Absolute rubbish. Nobody dislikes her because she has 'money', or mommy sends her to school in town, we dislike her because her articles were an absolute joke that didn't reflect the realities of the leaving cert in any way,shape or form.


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  • #361
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    To all the people moaning about her spending money, not the people moaning about her WIRITNG about spending money, just bitching about the fact that she SPENT lots of money...


    why do you care?


    Seriously, what has it to do with you?


  • #362
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    I don't care if people spend all their money on ****ing pogs, the fact is she names
    *the brand
    *the cost

    of a pair of SHOES when talking about her French exam. It's irrelevant.

    As has been pointed out before, its obvious enough her trip to Sex and the City went straight to her head, and now she's Little Miss SJP of the Times, so the high heels and the rest are essential,darling.

    As for what it has to do with us, the Times is supposed to be a high quality newspaper- it normally is, with people like Frank McNally and occasional contributers like Vincent Browne. Even when they give the young folk a shot, the standard should be good (i.e the school mag competition) NOBODY should have to read about Laura Bradys shoes when eating their corn flakes- not least on the exam page.

    I say relegate her to the magazine, with Roisin Ingle and the sort. Happy days. Shes clearly not a bad writer, she was just a bad choice for the exam diary- that's seems to be the main feeling here? Some kind of young fashionista for the magazine maybe.


  • #363
    White-Teeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭White-Teeth


    Okay, so it's all over. However, before everyone rides off into the sunset, there's just a moment to reflect.

    I know there are a couple of threads on here about the infamous Laura Brady (loike, roysh, etc.). However, this thread directs its fury at the Irish Times. What were they thinking? How on earth did they think a D4 princess (who's really very pompous and downright arrogant) who's doing the LC for the THIRD time could relate to the ordinary student? In fact, her aim appears to have been to make students feel bad.

    Someone pulled someone strings big time. Judging by the reaction on message boards, through word-of-mouth, and letters to the paper (see below), a lot of people are very angry.

    Well done, the Independent! Maybe next year the Times could grow a spine and not bow to the will of the D4 mummies and daddies? One can dream, I suppose.

    PS, the reaction:

    Exam Diary hits a sore point

    Madam, – I am one of the 51,000 students currently sweating through the Leaving Cert exams. In previous years I have enjoyed reading a student’s Exam Diary in The Irish Times, but in the past few days I have grown increasingly frustrated with the diary of this year’s writer, Laura Brady.

    Admittedly, her bravery in sitting the Leaving Cert for a third time arouses a certain admiration and there is no doubt she will wholly deserve her points. I wish, however, she would spare a thought for those of us undertaking these trying and testing examinations for the first time.

    As you can imagine my satisfaction with my 12-page English paper was somewhat diminished on reading about the abundance of Laura’s 25-page submission. I had thought that in the Exam Diary I would find some sense of solidarity and consolation, but unfortunately Ms Brady seems all too keen to differentiate herself from her peers.

    Maybe, in my panicked and stressful state, I am failing to pick up on the humour in her columns. However with little anecdotes such as “I felt like I had 200 points tucked under my pillow”, I suspect I’m not the only one to miss the joke. – Yours, etc,

    REBECCA CAHILL,

    Edmonstown,

    Ardee,

    Co Louth.

    Madam, – While Laura Brady delights in trivialising the stress and pressure many Leaving Cert students are feeling at this time, maybe she should have approached the past week with more respect for the gravity of the state exams.

    As a third-time candidate, striving for those all-important points to achieve her goal of studying medicine, Ms Brady shocks me with her devil-may-care attitude. Her references to her unbelievable self-assuredness (200 points are, apparently, already tucked under her pillow) combined with her love of Sex and the City and all things girly and light, make me wonder how dedicated she really is to pursuing this dream of saving lives and healing the sick. But that is personal and, therefore, none of my business. Nor is it any of my business that she sleeps in a baroque bed, or that she can afford to splurge close to €600 on shoes. Bring back Miroslawa Gorecka, or someone with her earnest nature and kind words.

    Maybe Laura Brady is included in the Exam Times page to provide comic relief? If so, job well done. She has powerfully depicted the stereotype of a South Dublin princess. – Yours, etc,

    S. O’CARROLL,

    Tralee,

    Co Kerry.

    Madam,- There’s a marked contrast between Laura Brady’s lifestyle and that of your columnist Kathryn Holmquist as depicted recently in your paper.

    If Laura wants to continue having breakfast in posh places and paying €575 for one “divine” pair of shoes, she’d better consider a career outside newspapers, unless she has sights on your post and salary, Madam.

    How did we survive in boarding school in the 1960s, when a treat during the exams was an HB choc ice, if the nuns opened the school shop? We had no newspaper articles and radio programmes with post-mortems on each day’s papers, and no Mammies about either. But we survived! – Yours, etc,

    SHEELAGH COYLE,

    Derryguile,

    Mountmellick,

    Co Laois.


  • #364
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Wah wah wah a girl has more money than me and is making me jealous wah wah wah she's not going to fail maths like me so I can't relate to her :(


  • #365
    White-Teeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭White-Teeth


    Piste wrote: »
    Wah wah wah a girl has more money than me and is making me jealous wah wah wah she's not going to fail maths like me so I can't relate to her :(

    Actually, I'm saying this on behalf of Leaving Cert students. I passed maths, dear. (PS: Unlike her, it didn't take me three attempts to get 545 points or whatever it is.) And I just graduated with a master's degree.

    And I could care less how much money she has, to be honest. Though it is quite amusing that aforementioned money was used to put her through the Institute thrice.


  • #366
    White-Teeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭White-Teeth


    PrivateEye wrote: »
    I say relegate her to the magazine, with Roisin Ingle and the sort. Happy days. Shes clearly not a bad writer, she was just a bad choice for the exam diary- that's seems to be the main feeling here? Some kind of young fashionista for the magazine maybe.

    No, I can't even allow her that. She's an awful writer. She really is. It's infantile stuff she spews out.


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  • #367
    thefinalstage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,503 ✭✭✭thefinalstage


    Piste wrote: »
    Wah wah wah a girl has more money than me and is making me jealous wah wah wah she's not going to fail maths like me so I can't relate to her :(

    What a bitch...the articles were below par and the writings of this girl alienated the regular rank and file student. They are as far as I can tell, there to help students realise that others are in the same boat.

    EDIT* Through the institute three times? Damn....I hope she does not become a doctor. Imagine her diagnosing a patient and taking three attempts to get it right...


  • #368
    Timans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Timans


    White-Teeth wrote: »
    Actually, I'm saying this on behalf of Leaving Cert students. I passed maths, dear. (PS: Unlike her, it didn't take me three attempts to get 545 points or whatever it is.) And I just graduated with a master's degree.

    And I could care less how much money she has, to be honest. Though it is quite amusing that aforementioned money was used to put her through the Institute thrice.
    LOL.

    Piste, you just got served.


  • #369
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    I resorted to buying the Brit broadsheets after a while, because Madam Editor lost her marbles there for the last two weeks and that + the above points was enough for me.

    Saying that, I think we've gone into Laura Brady overkill now, and with all due respect to you White-Teeth (because I know exactly where you're coming from) we could probably do without this thread. I do see your point about directing it at the Times instead, but to be honest none of the anger should ever have been directed at Laura (I admit to taking pot-shots myself!) It's the Staunton/Delaney type of situation- where you get somebody PUT in a bad role.

    The Irish Times is said to be an ABC1 (as in upper-middle class) kind of newspaper- and if they want to shift that image, they are REALLY going about it the wrong way. A 600 yoyo pair of shoes is a relic of the Celtic Tiger.

    It's not about being jealous of her.
    I'm not jealous of the ****ing Olsen Twins, I don't care how much money somebody has- I've enough money to go out with my friends, go to a match on a Friday night or have a few pints- happy days. Beyond that it's irrelevant to me. I just think Laura Brady should not have been given the platform she was, because she failed as an exam-writer (as I said in the other thread- shes not a bad writer at all, but she'd do better in a fashion magazine sadly)


    So White-Teeth, I think you're spot on here- but I'm worried about petrol on a fire and all that :pac:


  • #370
    mattfender
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mattfender


    Whats this all about?


  • #371
    White-Teeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭White-Teeth


    thelastangryman wrote: »
    What a bitch...the articles were below par and the writings of this girl alienated the regular rank and file student. They are as far as I can tell, help students realise that others are in the same boat.QUOTE]

    Exactly, that's why I'm so angry. I remember the LC was so stressful and upsetting. I remember the feeling of thinking I completely screwed up a paper. Imagine, then, opening up your Times, and reading the writings of this girl? "I have two hundred points under my pillow." Oh, puh-lease.


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  • #372
    GA361
    Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭GA361


    White-Teeth wrote: »
    Actually, I'm saying this on behalf of Leaving Cert students. I passed maths, dear. (PS: Unlike her, it didn't take me three attempts to get 545 points or whatever it is.) And I just graduated with a master's degree.

    And I could care less how much money she has, to be honest. Though it is quite amusing that aforementioned money was used to put her through the Institute thrice.

    She does sound a bit condescending,uncomforting allright.


  • #373
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    She really REALLY irritates me!
    But, then again so does this ''South Dublin is rich'' stereotype. Please, I urge you. come to Tallaght or Crumlin. :)
    ...but yeah it just irritates me that she's clearly there because of her family connections etc.
    She has no connection whatsoever with around 80% of people doing their Leaving Certificate


  • #374
    BJC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭BJC


    Why are you so bothered by this white-teeth?
    Yes, Laura Brady is incredibly condescending, yes she seems like the typical horrifically mutated spawn of the celtic tiger and yes, she seems downright unpleasant and honestly, very detached from real life and the plight of real students.
    But guess what, we don't live in a Communist state and she can spout whatever bullsh*t she wants in whatever paper that lets her. If it effects you so direly then it's your problem not the irish Times'. Who, by the way will probably sell an extra ten or twenty papers in response to this thread.


  • #375
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Do we really need three threads on this topic?


  • #376
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Piste wrote: »
    To all the people moaning about her spending money, not the people moaning about her WIRITNG about spending money, just bitching about the fact that she SPENT lots of money...


    why do you care?


    Seriously, what has it to do with you?

    I don't care how much money she spends, I just happen to think that it's not relevant to the Leaving Cert. I agree with others when she talked about "200 points under the pillow" that it's just plain rude and arrogant, and puts other students off.


  • #377
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    PurpleFistMixer wrote: »
    Do we really need three threads on this topic?

    But of course! It is of utmost importance that we complain as much as is at all possible. *nods*

    Otherwise.. yes, her articles were largely irrelevant for LC students (Also, just to stick my oar in - I don't think anyone was jealous of her money or anything of the sort!); yes, the Times haven't a clue but ffs it's been done to death now, give it a rest!


  • #378
    rebel girl 15
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 15,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    I read her intro piece, she should be shot!!!!!!!!!!!! How mad is she doing it three times! I'm going through it once, and if I don't get my first choice, I;ll take my second!

    The Irish Times should be took to the cleaners!!!!!!!

    What the hell were they trying to do? Certainly to sell papers! I'm involved in journalism for the past three years, and to do that to the other 56,000 candidates, and to have her blase attitude being rewarded like that makes me sick! Every other LC in the country having to read that, going through it the first time!

    And do you know what is going to happen - like so many other college students in the country, she is going to go into her course and hate it, thinking that its a great job, when in fact she will find it horrible - imagine having to go to a person like that if you are sick - she'd end up broke!!!!!

    She is a product of our new society - driven by money and status,

    And why does she refer to herself in the third person?


  • #379
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    Well maybe she really wants to do medicine. I don't know her that well, but I pray that her only motivation isn't money (which, for a lot of people doing medicine, it is. Also cause its the highest course they think its class. Which its not imo.). Money can only sustain you for so long. TBH, I don't know if everyone should be giving her such a hard time, they've never even met her. Her writings must be really bad.

    Anyone quotes from her to prove the accusations???


  • #380
    rebel girl 15
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 15,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    They make her out to be some sort of a martyr, going through in three times - fair enough if she has her heart set on medicine, but from my reading of her piece on skool.ie - its all about money


  • #381
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    White-Teeth wrote: »
    Actually, I'm saying this on behalf of Leaving Cert students. I passed maths, dear. (PS: Unlike her, it didn't take me three attempts to get 545 points or whatever it is.) And I just graduated with a master's degree.

    And I could care less how much money she has, to be honest. Though it is quite amusing that aforementioned money was used to put her through the Institute thrice.

    Nah I was more referring to the people writing the letters in to the Irish Times complaining that she wasn't your "typical" LC student.


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  • #382
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    BarryDoodles wrote: »
    Ladies and Gentlemen, am I right that you dislike the girl because shes better than you?
    She's repeating the Leaving for the third time. If that isn't epic failure I don't know what is...

    I got more than her my first time round, was in a public school and got no grinds, extra revision books or anything else.

    Therefore me>her.

    I haven't read many of her articles but she seems like a deluded, spoiled idiot to me.
    Piste wrote: »
    Wah wah wah a girl has more money than me and is making me jealous wah wah wah she's not going to fail maths like me so I can't relate to her :(
    I think it's more the fact that LC students feel hard done by when they're being represented in a major national paper by an overtly materialistic girl who comes across as having her head in the clouds and is entirely non-indicative of a normal LC student.

    Repeating the LC twice and having your parents pay for you to go to a very expensive school is not admirable, and in fact makes a mockery of the whole LC system. To me, as a 19 year old, I feel saddened that not only does there exist such a person so out of touch with reality, but that she is put up on a pedestal, essentially being rewarded for her failure, whereas thousands of other LC students who would have loved the oppertunity are denied the chance.


  • #383
    A-Bit-Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭A-Bit-Dodge


    Oh dear...whats gone wrong here??

    Why is it such a big problem that the majority of students "can't relate" to this Laura Brady person?

    I'll admit she's making herself out to look like a bit of a queen but was it so wrong for the Irish Times to have a bit of diversity in the diaries this year? Fair enough, she is crazy to be doing it 3 times but thats her choice and if the Irish Times want to make a case study out her fetish for repeating then so be it. You don't know, maybe there is a few others out there who are doing the leaving for the second third fourth whatever time. Don't you think they might like to open up the paper and see someone like them who is passionate enough about their course that they'd go through this year (of hell btw) time after time till they get the points? Think about the minority for a change people... and more importantly...

    ...Lighten up!!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #384
    A-Bit-Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭A-Bit-Dodge


    JC 2K3 wrote: »

    Repeating the LC twice and having your parents pay for you to go to a very expensive school is not admirable, and in fact makes a mockery of the whole LC system. To me, as a 19 year old, I feel saddened that not only does there exist such a person so out of touch with reality, but that she is put up on a pedestal, essentially being rewarded for her failure



    I wouldnt, personally, call 545 points a failure...:confused:


  • #385
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    If you're going for medicine, it is.


  • #386
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    True. Lay off guys. Laura, I love you.


  • #387
    eoin2nc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭eoin2nc


    Who cares now? Her diary is finished and the LC will be soon but a distant memory.


  • #388
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    Amen to that!


  • #389
    Parsley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Parsley


    A-Bit-Dodge wrote: »
    I wouldnt, personally, call 545 points a failure...:confused:

    After spending FOUR years covering a two year course? I would.


  • #390
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    I know laura, she is a lovely person and is so clearly better than those of you moaning about her and insulting, but then i'm judging you on what your writing, just like you are doing of her and let me tell y'all- she painted a much nicer picture of herself in her articles than you lot are doing of yourselves.
    So in actual fact JC 2K3 Laura>you! http://static.boards.ie/vbulletin/images/smilies/tongue.gif
    Another point, she was 16 first time doin her lc and was in no way ready, and i admire her for repeating this year after missing out on her course by only 10 pts.


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  • #391
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    Ooops! Not sure if that icon came out! :( (classic icons never let down!)


  • #392
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Kgirl wrote: »
    So in actual fact JC 2K3 Laura>you!
    :(

    But you've never even met me, how can you judge me!!11?

    You have to agree though, academically, I am far superior.


  • #393
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Kgirl wrote: »
    Ooops! Not sure if that icon came out! :( (classic icons never let down!)
    Don't ever let that get in your way, Kgirl, if you want to come on to an icon, just go for it, don't worry about its possible sexuality.


  • #394
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    Just like you have never met her. (Sorry, i tried to assume that you knew that was my point)

    You seem to be FAR superior to anyone who has posted their own academic situation so far, well done!!!!! Now what, you gettin some kinda weird kick outta this mate?


  • #395
    cartman444
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭cartman444


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    :(

    But you've never even met me, how can you judge me!!11?

    You have to agree though, academically, I am far superior.

    dont be so MODEST!!:eek::D


  • #396
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    Kgirl wrote: »
    Just like you have never met her. (Sorry, i tried to assume that you knew that was my point)

    You seem to be FAR superior to anyone who has posted their own academic situation so far, well done!!!!! Now what, you gettin some kinda weird kick outta this mate?
    to be fair, at least the guy doesn't say ''oh I'm writing about the Leaving Cert'' and then write about.... shoes....
    And also, the other difference is, JC 2K3 isn't in a national newspaper


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  • #397
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    It was the diary of a lc student doing exams, an exam diary not just about the exams, but also of her time during (including between) exams, she wrote about her life, and people are complaining? It doesn't seem right that people complain about someone because they don't have the same lifestyles.


  • #398
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    Kgirl wrote: »
    It doesn't seem right that people complain about someone because they don't have the same lifestyles.
    I amn't complaining about that, I'm complaining that this girl Laura (who I was in school with too, btw) has no connection whatsoever with the majority of candidates because
    1,she's a repeat student for the 3rd time
    2.she had the money to go spend €475 on shoes


  • #399
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    Its not her fault that she isn't a typical lc student! In fact a lot of peoples problems should be directed towards the times if they feel that they weren't given an exam diary that suited them. I think it was interesting to see it from a different point of view though. And lets not forget that the diary isn't just written for lc students.


  • #400
    Kgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kgirl


    Another thing- people are so outraged that she talked about her shoes and bed and that she liked material things, why? If we had a male diarist who wrote about football and sports and went to watch a match before english as his way of relaxing, would people be in uproar then?? I don't think so. Bigotry seems rife round these parts...


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    thusspakeblixa
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    Well I mean... it kinda is her fault.... she could've taken her 2nd, 3rd choice anytime, but I suppose that was her choice to go on for more. Fair enough if that's what you're into, but it was still her fault.
    Anywho, why, oh why, would a girl display an attitude in a national publication which, amongst other things, said ''I now have 200 points under my pillow'' after Maths 1 when a very many of us (including yours truly) were sleepless after it worrying? Fair enough, she was reporting how she did, but a simple ''Maths went very well'' would suffice.
    And yes, I am annoyed with the Times, but not as much as I am with the lady in question.
    At the end of the day, it is her writing these articles.


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