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** General "points" thread **

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    #32
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,466 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    adamtj09 wrote: »
    where do u buy a paper at 11pm?

    No newsagents at all open late?

    I remember back in the day people used to queue outside the Irish Times & Indepedent offices to buy the papers direct.;)

    Anyway - they are delivered late at night, I am guessing someone will get a look at them around midnight . . .


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    #33
    leesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭leesmom


    ive seen the newspapers sitting outside my local spar at probably 1 in the morning. looks like its a night of camping down there for me:D


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    #34
    zonEEE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭zonEEE


    leesmom wrote: »
    ive seen the newspapers sitting outside my local spar at probably 1 in the morning. looks like its a night of camping down there for me:D

    Thats more then likely the returns from the day before ;)


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    #35
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    strongr wrote: »
    Thats more then likely the returns from the day before ;)

    Haha. I'd imagine you rummaging through the pages for the points only to see that it's an old paper :pac:


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    #36
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,603 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    JW91 wrote: »
    In the name of God would you ever get a grip! You're honestly so nervous that you won't be able to sleep tonight?

    I've never understood how people can go so over the top about things like this.

    It's not the end of the world if you don't get what you want. It's way too trivial to be losing sleep over

    Are you actually joking. At the very least this effects what most of us will have to do for the next 12 months, for a lot us it will effect what we do for the next 4 years, and for a small group of us it will effect everything about our lives from this point on.

    It will effect what we work as, where we work, the people we meet. A lot of relationships are born through work, so their is a good chance we will meet wives their, which means children from their. We will retire on whatever pension we get here, if its a high job it could make or break us as famous mean whether or not we get remembered.

    Or it could just mean we have to repeat.

    Either way, worth getting worked up about.


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    #37
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    I wouldnt rely on the papers anyway... What if you got exactly the right points but they had to do that random selection thing and you dont get an offer?? D:


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    #38
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,466 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    ChickenScratch wrote: »
    I wouldnt rely on the papers anyway... What if you got exactly the right points but they had to do that random selection thing and you dont get an offer?? D:

    Well, it would at least give people a very good indication as to whether they are close to getting their course or not . . . in all fairness.


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    #39
    corridon69
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭corridon69


    quick question how long do we have to accept our offers


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    #40
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    25th ish, not certain though! It's all on the CAO site anyway, you dont even have to sign in to see it


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    #41
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    corridon69 wrote: »
    quick question how long do we have to accept our offers

    http://www.cao.ie/apply.php?page=myapp
    25th Aug on first round


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    #42
    mufc4lfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭mufc4lfe


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Are you actually joking. At the very least this effects what most of us will have to do for the next 12 months, for a lot us it will effect what we do for the next 4 years, and for a small group of us it will effect everything about our lives from this point on.

    It will effect what we work as, where we work, the people we meet. A lot of relationships are born through work, so their is a good chance we will meet wives their, which means children from their. We will retire on whatever pension we get here, if its a high job it could make or break us as famous mean whether or not we get remembered.

    Or it could just mean we have to repeat.

    Either way, worth getting worked up about.
    Nicely put in fairness to ya!
    am.....1-0 to errlloyd haha:pac:


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    #43
    leesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭leesmom


    Larkin501 wrote: »
    Haha. I'd imagine you rummaging through the pages for the points only to see that it's an old paper :pac:
    that would actually be so funny:D


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    #44
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Are you actually joking. At the very least this effects what most of us will have to do for the next 12 months, for a lot us it will effect what we do for the next 4 years, and for a small group of us it will effect everything about our lives from this point on.

    It will effect what we work as, where we work, the people we meet. A lot of relationships are born through work, so their is a good chance we will meet wives their, which means children from their. We will retire on whatever pension we get here, if its a high job it could make or break us as famous mean whether or not we get remembered.

    Or it could just mean we have to repeat.

    Either way, worth getting worked up about.

    its not.... you have your points..... the amount of points required for different courses wont change if you get up at 4am ...or 10am or even 2pm.... at this point nothing you do will change if you get into college or not..... you just wake up tomorrow at whatever time suits and find out ... at the end of the day - if you dont get the points for a college course - you can either repeat or do a post leaving cert course...or try get some work experience in that area.


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    #45
    adamtj09
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭adamtj09


    can we definitley check the points at 4am?????


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    #46
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Lads I remember in my day (98) it was aertel at midnight, and mine had the dreaded * after it! Found out the next day i got it! Changed course after two years though!


    Anyway good luck to all!


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    #47
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Not to go off topic but I dont think I could ever, ever EVER repeat that mother ucker again.


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    #48
    gerbilgranny
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭gerbilgranny


    leesmom wrote: »
    as above, on the off chance that i cant sleep , would it be worth my while switching my laptop on to see the points at 4am?

    Leesmom, I only come on here every so often (am a nervous mammy of a Leaving-Certer), but it's clear to me that you are a bit of a star here.

    I truly hope tomorrow brings you good news. You deserve it.:)


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    #49
    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    anyone using teletext, its rte1 page 750, to be updated at 6am apparently.


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    #50
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    is that midnight or 4AM?

    Oops, didnt read that properly - clearly all the excitement ;)


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    #51
    Edsgravy0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Edsgravy0


    Can we expect them at 1 if somebody gets a paper though?


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    #52
    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    Yeah probably, i know in my shop the newspapers get delivered very early. They're all well printed by now like, so anyone near a 24 hour tesco in dublin might be able to get them already. I know a maxol garage that used to sell sunday papers on a saturday night.


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    #53
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    CANT ANYBODY GET TO A PETROL STATION AND PUT US ALL OUT OF OUR MISERY??


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    #54
    yurmothrintites
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭yurmothrintites


    I know when I did it two years ago a few points for popular courses were out at around 1 or 2am-ish. If I got just about the points for my course now and the points were out before the offers at 6am, I wouldn't be able to look at them because of the dreaded *.


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    #55
    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    I live in the sticks so I can't, come on ye metropolitans help us out!


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    #56
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Yeah, damned lazy dubs.

    <_<

    I'm in my jamies. That's my excuse and Im sticking to it


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    #57
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    btw people you can use rte's teletext through their site. Using it from a tv is ridiculously slow.


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    #58
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,466 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    creggy wrote: »
    btw people you can use rte's teletext through their site. Using it from a tv is ridiculously slow.

    Indeed - http://www.rte.ie/aertel/750-01.html

    That will be updated later.


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    #59
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    So bottom line, unless you can get your hands on a paper early, everythin's pretty much out at 6?

    Feck the all nighter, i may just go to sleep:P


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    #60
    ooPabsoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭ooPabsoo


    i have a newspaper in my hand right now!!!


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    #61
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    OMG


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