The stupid answer books

smemon

this does my nut in.

why the hell aren't they self-seal?? have to lick the stupid yolks and even still they don't close and keep popping open.

this is the bloody leaving cert, everything should be perfect. ive better things to be at than licking envelopes shut. unnacceptable in this day and age :cool:

PrettyInPunk

i have to say.i dont think any of mine have stayed closed.i probably didnt slobber enough on them.ew.

Raphael

They seal fine for me. and If they were self sealing, wouldn;t they stick to each other in the piles?

Hehe...I typed self-sealing as self-stealing there =p

PrettyInPunk

no because u would have a plastic strip over the sticky bit./

abercrombie

i hate having to lick them!! a junior cert gave herself a nasty papercut today...poor thing!!

Shrimp

For ours u just peel of a cover strip then close the flap over.... self sealing..

than again, none of you go the elite schools...

smemon

Raphael wrote:

They seal fine for me. and If they were self sealing, wouldn;t they stick to each other in the piles?

no, as you could place a removable strip of plastic over the sticky bit.

if this was america, we'd have self seal envelopes :mad: bloody government trying to save a few bob.

abercrombie

Shrimp wrote:

For ours u just peel of a cover strip then close the flap over.... self sealing..

than again, none of you go the elite schools...

you have a cover strip??!!! not fair!!!

Rockerette

hehe you lickers. i stragecially spill a few drops of water from my bottle onto the table and use that

and they stay closed, oh yeeeeah

mang87

im ****ing well bringing in cellotape tomorrow

Shrimp

abercrombie wrote:

you have a cover strip??!!! not fair!!!

yeah it's a sticker like... u pull it away then it's sticky, then u flap over the....... flap...

ThrownAway

Use blood muhahaha

''My sweat and blood went into that paper''

Raphael

Tbh I like the sealing thing, adds the sense of finality. Although they don't taste too good XP

OctavarIan

I haven't sealed any of mine. The superintendant can do it for me, last thing I need to be doin is licking my ****ing answer book. Can't stand licking envelopes or anything like that, it does my head in!

bobneedshelpnow

yeah ours are have the sticky seal though so far iv handed the job over to the superintendent...... come what else has he to do........

im at the front and the room is huge with my whole year and he stays at the front all the time reading exam guidelines and looking out my window ... it would be so easy for about 20 rows behind me to cheat i think......

Inglorious

I really dont see what all the fuss is about. You have to lick a page, it takes about 3 seconds, and leaves a neutral taste....big freakin' deal.
Surely there are more important things you should be worried about.

PeadarofAodh

I don't like it much either but I just dip my finger into my water bottle and do it that way!

Attractive Nun

And why does it instruct you to "gum the paper shut", what the hell does that mean? Very confusing altogether. On the first day I didn't know how you were supposed the close them, nobody else seemed to be licking them so I felt like a right twat. I'll blame that on my sub-par maths paper.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

mang87 wrote:

im ****ing well bringing in cellotape tomorrow

haha legdn! good idea

smemon

Inglorious wrote:

Surely there are more important things you should be worried about.

it's like saipan all over again........ no balls, no kit....no lucozade energise bottles...."this is not what i trained my balls off for all season"

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Shrimp wrote:

For ours u just peel of a cover strip then close the flap over.... self sealing..

than again, none of you go the elite schools...

here hold on, shouldnt we all have the same ones? seeing as they're provided by the sec, and not the school....

Do you get a better marking scheme as well?:D

fatal

whats the point of them anyway...if someone wants to tamper with them..they simply peel away the flap and use pritt stick to seal it again

ballyarse

ha ha ha everyone our examiner does it for us he tells us not to seal it just to leave it on the desk when we're done

ThrownAway

ballyarse wrote:

ha ha ha everyone our examiner does it for us he tells us not to seal it just to leave it on the desk when we're done

Must be some sort of fetish he has

''ye can close the door behind ye when ye're leaving''

deisedolly

ThrownAway wrote:

Must be some sort of fetish he has

''ye can close the door behind ye when ye're leaving''

ROFL, that's hilarious, ya mad b*stard!

ThrownAway

bastardess

Garret

The JC ones tasted nicer

these ones are nasty

ThrownAway

I don't think the taste of anything :eek:

Maybe I lost my sense of taste you could always spit on your fingers to avoid the whole horrificness of it all

Wez

ThrownAway wrote:

Must be some sort of fetish he has

''ye can close the door behind ye when ye're leaving''

lol

I don't mind sticking it.. Just like sticking skins.. :P

smemon

ThrownAway wrote:

Must be some sort of fetish he has

''ye can close the door behind ye when ye're leaving''

ha ha, you could take advantage of that situation. it would involve either double sided cellotape or clear glue

ThrownAway

smemon wrote:

ha ha, you could take advantage of that situation. it would involve either double sided cellotape or clear glue

I'd love to see the look on his face It'd break his heart

caesar

smemon wrote:

ha ha, you could take advantage of that situation. it would involve either double sided cellotape or clear glue

I'd go with the glue, super glue Ha i think this is one for the dares thread. You'd have to do it on your last day though.

Sofaspud

A good trick I learned during the Junior, there's a large accumulation of slobber just under your tongue, so stick you finger into that and rub it along the strip a couple of times, works like a charm. I used to feel like a right twat picking up the book and licking it.

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Sofaspud wrote:

A good trick I learned during the Junior, there's a large accumulation of slobber just under your tongue, so stick you finger into that and rub it along the strip a couple of times, works like a charm. I used to feel like a right twat picking up the book and licking it.

Ew...

I love closing them up, gives me that "yessss im finished" kinda feeling!!:D

BMH

JC ones taste quite nice.

I don't get the "Yesss I'm finished" feeling though, it more of a slow "realisation that you skipped a question by accident and now it's to late kind" of feeling

Delphi91

Shrimp wrote:

For ours u just peel of a cover strip then close the flap over.... self sealing..

than again, none of you go the elite schools...

If this is a legit post, then there's a problem.

Students are not allowed to use any answer books which are not supplied by the superintendent - and the SEC (State Examinations Commission) do not supply self-seal answerbooks. (Its actually in the rules and regulations). If you've used anything else, you could be in danger of not being given marks or of losing them.

The only thing that the SEC supply which is self-sealing are the envelopes used to send back the completed answer books.

I know this because I am a superintendent.

BTW, I agree that self-sealing answer books should be supplied.

Rockerette

oooooh Shrimps in trouble....







does noone else just use water?
i havent licked one of them in my life!

BMH

Rockerette wrote:

oooooh Shrimps in trouble....







does noone else just use water?
i havent licked one of them in my life!

Aren't you just a little bit curious?

Feral Mutant

In my school all the answer books seem the same. Most have to be wet and sealed but some have a plastic thing on them which you peel off and underneath it's sticky. Since sticking and licking papers are the same besides that my guess is that they all started with the self-sealing bits but most fall off during the transport to the schools. If I do get one that has to be wet, I just lick my finger and use that. I don't lick my answer books.

jimi_t

Shrimp wrote:

For ours u just peel of a cover strip then close the flap over.... self sealing..

than again, none of you go the elite schools...

My hole

Both for the self-sealing comment and the "elite" schools comment

Glazun

PFft.. mine are probably all open by now.. I usually am in a rush to close them, even if I'm finished half an hour before the exam, I sit around with my paper, just incase divine inspiration hits me. Sometimes I'm all alone, wasting the examiners precious time. Ah well, I got a lot of irish corrected today..