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rainbow kirby

zoegh wrote: »

Maybe it's a country thing?

Not always, I'm from Dublin and so are both my parents - and I used to get fruit.

rainbowdrop

The nearest thing I'v had to fruit recently is strawberry and orange flavoured chocolate Roses lol Got money, perfume, slippers and CD's for Christmas - I must be getting old cos I was more excited about the slippers than anything else;)

Can't wait to get back to normality now, healthy eating and no alcohol for me until St Patrick's Day!!*



*I can resist, I must resist, I shall resist

Annasopra

aaaaghhhh

Trying to write an essay on ideology and getting bogged down

rainbow kirby

*holds onto stomach*

Chocolate gone. Diet starts tomorrow. :pac:

Links234

oh dear

I still have the monster Toblerone to tackle

L.Jenkins

All this talk of chocolate. Just wait until easter

rainbow kirby

ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

All this talk of chocolate. Just wait until easter

Connemara marathon 2 weeks before Easter, time to work up a hunger

L.Jenkins

You'll eat your own weight in Chocolate after that!

Links234

making a dent in the toblerone, piece by piece

Dr. Baltar

omg! I think there's Lilly O'Briens buttons in the fridge actuallly!!!


EDIT: This means war against the rest of the family. They're gone!
How can someone eat a kilo of chocolate in three days? :O

Links234

are there any people here into piercings, tattoos or body mods?

Aard

I've had 8 overall, but am reduced to a lone tragus atm. The piece de resistance was a 7mm septum

Chuchoter

The extent of any kind of piercings I ever got was a cartilage piercing which I recently took out because it never healed :S I'd never get any tattoos though, way too permanent.

L.Jenkins

Links234 wrote: »

are there any people here into piercings, tattoos or body mods?

Yeah I have two tattoos, one on either upper arm. I'm get pierced again, but I know my parents, would go bonkers and I'm not up for any squabbling over small things.

Reminds me of the time I got a lip ring, took it out for awhile, then lost and the hole sealed up. So when I went to the US and got the piercing done again, they pierced the same hole and it really hurt the second time around.

stephen_n

Only thing I have pierced at the moment are my ears, had lip and eyebrow done but took them out when I went back playing rugby and let them close up! Have ten tattoos two on each upper arm two on chest one on navel one on hip one on base of spine and a back piece of a crucified angel!

baby and crumble

Used to have an eyebrow piercing, thought my Dad would go mad but all he did was look at me and go "well it's your face!" I had to take it out the first time because it got ripped out in the course of work (I worked as part-time care staff with psychiatric patients, in hindsight a facial piercing wasn't the smartest move, but you do silly things when you're 19...) Got it re-pierced about a year later, hurt like hell but the girl who pierced me was hot, so it could have been worse!

Currently planning my first tattoo, I want the word 'lemons' written in purple ink on my inner wrist in my Mums handwriting. She passed away about 18 months ago and her motto, even when she was dying was "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". I guess I just want it as a reminder of her awesome enthusiasm and positivity. And this poem was read out at her funeral, it was her fave, hence the purple ink.

I'm sure nobody wanted all that detail, but meh!

L.Jenkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPFvLUWkzs

You may have seen it already, but this guy is homeless and has a serious voice for radio. The video went viral in two days getting 13 million + hits and not he has himself a job.

Chuchoter

I saw that on the news last night!! I hope it works out for him

Turns out I actually do have a physics exam on Monday because stupid swine flu cancelled my operation. So I'm here instead of finishing questions on corneas and skateboarders and whatnot :mad:

baby and crumble

corneas and skateboarders? My my, the LC curriculum has moved on since my time!

I had a scary meeting with my scary new PhD supervisor today, and basically, sh!t just got real. Why did I sign up for this???? :eek::eek::eek:

Oh yeah, no jobs...

Chuchoter

zoegh wrote: »

corneas and skateboarders? My my, the LC curriculum has moved on since my time!

I had a scary meeting with my scary new PhD supervisor today, and basically, sh!t just got real. Why did I sign up for this???? :eek::eek::eek:

Oh yeah, no jobs...

Scary supervisors, not good :S

They put in loads of fun things to make it cool and accessible. Like the way they put snowmen on Christmas tests to make you stop crying over how hard it is XD

baby and crumble

crayolastereo wrote:

Like the way they put snowmen on Christmas tests to make you stop crying over how hard it is

What? That's hilarious. I can't imagine my school ever doing anything like that!!! Then again, my school did have strict rules on scrunchie colours (yes. navy or black ONLY.) :rolleyes:

Chuchoter

zoegh wrote: »

What? That's hilarious. I can't imagine my school ever doing anything like that!!! Then again, my school did have strict rules on scrunchie colours (yes. navy or black ONLY.) :rolleyes:

The other main purpose of snowmen was something to color in the hour left you always end up having after exams that you have to sit through :S Its even better on the Junior cert maths exams (this was my year)
http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2009/JC003ALP100EV.pdf
A picture of fruit, books, happy people in a swimming pool, I can so do this! Or maybe not :P

Red scrunchie? CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!! XD

Aard

Why is there pic art (Is that even what it's called? 1999 seems so long ago.) on a JC Maths exam? They serve no purpose, and the greyscale renders any colouring possibilities virtually nil. Does not compute!

Chuchoter

Aard wrote: »

Why is there pic art (Is that even what it's called? 1999 seems so long ago.) on a JC Maths exam? They serve no purpose, and the greyscale renders any colouring possibilities virtually nil. Does not compute!

I have no idea. You're hardly going to go: "**** I never did statistics, BUT FRUIT, I CAN TOTALLY HANDLE FRUIT!!!" :P

baby and crumble

Well in my line of work with people with intellectual disability we make accessible materials, using clip art and other things, so for me it's not weird to see pics on a document like this, but it a bit weird for State exam, I would have thought...

And as for the scrunchie thing, you have no idea. I play the saxaphone, and I was going to the loo before a concert once, and I had my strap on (get your heads out of the gutter!) which supports the sax. Looks like this



although without the back braces.

Anyway, really strict policy on no jewellery too, and the headmasters wife saw me with that giant black plastic and nylon strap around my neck with a hook on it and said "where are you going, no necklaces allowed"

Seriously. WTF???

Chuchoter

I wouldn't normally consider saxophone straps fashion statements now to be honest!! My vice principal once gave out to my friend who had dislocated her shoulder for wearing in her PE uniform because she couldn't do the buttons on the normal uniform and the cast didn't fit in it :P

L.Jenkins

Just sat here thinking, why did I have such hard time with Junior cert pass maths having read the higher level paper or any maths content when I was that age? :P I got As in engineering maths but couldn't do it in secondary school which baffles me somewhat.

stephen_n

ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

Just sat here thinking, why did I have such hard time with Junior cert pass maths having read the higher level paper or any maths content when I was that age? :P I got As in engineering maths but couldn't do it in secondary school which baffles me somewhat.

Funnily enough maths seems to be one of those things that comes easier as you get older. Even looking at my daughters JC maths stuff now it all makes perfect sense but when I was in school it confused the hell out of me, mind you that might have been the tipex thiners!

L.Jenkins

Thats only too true. Lots of what I learned either makes sense or is irrelavent.

L.Jenkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE

Very good tune and very comforting right now