Library Bond Form...?

Morbert

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/docs/library_bond.pdf

Does anyone know what this is about? Do I need to pay a deposit? Or will I be fined €325 if I don't return "the ten books"?

It's a very very silly form.

[edit]-The title should read "Library Bond Form...?"
[modedit] And so it does. - PFM.

I think you just sign it. And I quite like the form

Mark200

Jaysus that queen ****e is kinda annoying

karlr42

I'm with Myth, I like that form. If I were made to sign something so.. regal every time I took a out a book, I probably wouldn't have been super-fined last year.

I'd also sign it with quill.

Brian

Mark200 wrote: »

Jaysus that queen ****e is kinda annoying

Don't go to a college founded by Protestants then?

Crania

karlr42 wrote: »

I'm with Myth, I like that form. If I were made to sign something so.. regal every time I took a out a book, I probably wouldn't have been super-fined last year.

+1

I love the form, I think it's pretty cool and very Trinity-esque. Nothing worng with a bit of tradition.

Morbert

Don't go to a college founded by Protestants then?

It would still be annoying.

Heh anyway.. I don't really mind the form. It shows that the college has a sense of humour. But I wish they'd make it clearer. Will myself, my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns have to cough up even more money? I would hate to have such an obligation in full force and virtue of the law.

Oh well... I shall know upon the morrow.

Boston

I've signed the bond. As an undergraduate you don't get the option. Theres another page which clearly explains what you're agreeing to.

Mark200

Baza210 wrote: »

Don't go to a college founded by Protestants then?

Yeah....

"So Mark, why didn't you choose to put down Trinity on your CAO?"

"Cos it was founded by protestants"

Crania

I get an awful slagging about the whole Trinity being for Proddies only. Typical Irish, rural, small-minded shite. Whenever people from around my local area ask me where I'm going and I say Trinity, they insert the usual 'I thought that college was only for Proddies?!'. To which I reply 'Yes, but I am a Protestant'. Shuts them up very quickly.

By the way, I'm not a Protestant, as if anyone cares anymore anyway, but I just like to wind up those small-minded idiots.

pisslips

In fairness, these days, I think only very old people sometimes think like that, people who remember Archbishop MacCabe or something.
I remeber my English teacher telling me how he wasn't allowed to go to Trinity because he was catholic.

Anyway, they might aswellhave one for mary.

Crash

Arch bishop mcQuaid, who actually refused my grandfather a dispensation to go to Trinity actually. hence why he was quite happy that both my sister and myself did

Pet

Crania wrote: »

I get an awful slagging about the whole Trinity being for Proddies only. Typical Irish, rural, small-minded shite. Whenever people from around my local area ask me where I'm going and I say Trinity, they insert the usual 'I thought that college was only for Proddies?!'. To which I reply 'Yes, but I am a Protestant'. Shuts them up very quickly.

By the way, I'm not a Protestant, as if anyone cares anymore anyway, but I just like to wind up those small-minded idiots.

Most of us have heard it, I think. My parents are from the West of Ireland, so I get friendly slagging from my relatives, and not-so-friendly slagging from their neighbours. My lack of interest in GAA, Irish, or any traditionally "male" pastimes [such as car-pimping or machinery] does not help this fact, either. Couple that with my intense hatred of pointless small-talk, and I can really ruffle some feathers down at the local.

It's ****ing awesome.

pisslips

I'd actually like to know how Queen Elizabeth has any jurisdiction over trinity library.
I mean if I do not return the books, am I answerable to the crown?
So, basically I'm not answerable to anyone?

Boston

Pet: Ah yes, the "too good to talk to us now that you're in Trinity line". My normal response is "Yes".

pisslips: It's still a legal document, you don't have to sign it.

Brian

Pet wrote: »

My lack of interest in GAA, Irish, or any traditionally "male" pastimes [such as car-pimping or machinery] does not help this fact, either. Couple that with my intense hatred of pointless small-talk, and I can really ruffle some feathers down at the local.

It's ****ing awesome.

Emboldened points indicate a certain awesomeness of character.
Pity about the lack of interest in cars, or I'd certainly sex you.


@other discussion point: Both my parents went to TCD, so they're not going to give me any stick over that. I'm barely Irish anyway, so I don't care much for religious squabbling.

Boston

Laugh if the first words between you to are "So come here often?"

Crash

pisslips wrote: »

I'd actually like to know how Queen Elizabeth has any jurisdiction over trinity library.
I mean if I do not return the books, am I answerable to the crown?
So, basically I'm not answerable to anyone?

You've misread the form. it states:

am bound unto the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin,

So you are liable to the provosts, fellows and scholars of the college, which has the full title of "College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin"

Ron DMC

crash_000 wrote: »

So you are liable to the provosts, fellows and scholars of the college, which has the full title of "College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin"

You left out the last bit.

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin for the conversion of Papists.

Crash

That was only for a brief period of time wasnt it?

Ron DMC

crash_000 wrote: »

That was only for a brief period of time wasnt it?

Yeah, but I throw it in every now and again to see people's reactions.

It's also the reason Trinity has the world's oldest Irish Department. So that students would learn the language and head out west to try and turn the locals.

Try telling that to your average naive, overly republican, sinn féin voting Irish student now and see what happens.

xeduCat

pisslips wrote: »

I'd actually like to know how Queen Elizabeth has any jurisdiction over trinity library.
I mean if I do not return the books, am I answerable to the crown?
So, basically I'm not answerable to anyone?

It's a different Queen Elizabeth, for the record. The one referred to in the form and in the title of the college is the First Edition (she of the 16th century) rather than Lizzie 2.0 (the current holder of the British Crown). Obviously at the time of the foundation of TCD ultimate legal (and in theory spiritual!) authority rested with the monarchy hence the inclusion in the title being fairly mundane (what was left of Crown powers re: TCD passed to the Irish (Free State) government at independence, though chasing delinquent borrowers was never one of them as it happens).

Ronny Mitchell

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Try telling that to your average naive, overly republican, sinn féin voting Irish student now and see what happens.

They can talk???

Crash

Oh they can talk. On. and on. And on and on and on.

Ron DMC

crash_000 wrote: »

Oh they can talk. On. and on. And on and on and on.

Why do you think I left?

Crash

...cus you failed?

Ron DMC

crash_000 wrote: »

...cus you failed?

Game, set and match.

Pet

Emboldened points indicate a certain awesomeness of character.
Pity about the lack of interest in cars, or I'd certainly sex you.

Dang. I guess I'll have to start doing some readingz.

[You do realise I'm a bloke, yes?]

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Yeah, but I throw it in every now and again to see people's reactions.

It's also the reason Trinity has the world's oldest Irish Department. So that students would learn the language and head out west to try and turn the locals.

Try telling that to your average naive, overly republican, sinn féin voting Irish student now and see what happens.

4realz!? I had no idea! Yesterday, animatronic pony sex; today, this -- you really do learn something new and shocking every day.

Boston

He's not into GAA, Irish, Small talk or anything traditionally male. I think he's hoping you're a bloke. Now that I think about it, Baza210 could be female...

Brian

No way, everyone knows that there are less girls in Engineering than there are on the Internet.

Boston

Not true, we only allow one female on this forum, and thats Hills

Brian

Let me do the math here.. less than Internet..Internet has one.. less than one.. no girls in Engineering. /jaynecobb

Well, I have a girlfriend.

shay_562

Pet wrote:

...Yesterday, animatronic pony sex;...

...I'm not the only one seeing these words, right?

Baza10 wrote:

Well, I have a girlfriend.

Who, iirc, you ranked as "better than a laptop". Ah, young love.

Still find it amusing that the Catholic church's contribution to bringing Catholics back into power in this country involved making sure that all of the knowledge and skill remained in the hands of the Protestants.

Boston

My mind refused to process that the first time I read it. The Google search has let me feeling lost and alone in a world of madness...

Pet

...I'm not the only one seeing these words, right?

Words? Honey, I've seen the video.

shay_562

Pet wrote: »

Words? Honey, I've seen the video.

Three questions: Why? What? And why?

Awayindahils

Boston wrote: »

Not true, we only allow one female on this forum, and thats Hills

Lol. And some how PFM still manged to become a mod.

Oh and its Hils not Hills. I am not some sort of geographical feature.:D

Boston

You clearly have two breasts not just one. And PFM is a girl / woman? Lol at my inability to spot that.

Agent Smith

shay_562 wrote: »

Who, iirc, you ranked as "better than a laptop". Ah, young love.

What type of Laptop :pac: