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tGC AMA with bear1

  • 17-07-2017 6:45pm
    #1
    ancapailldorcha
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    Bear1 is next! Ask him things!

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #2
    HalloweenJack
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    What does your typical weekend involve?


  • #3
    bear1
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    Typical weekend, well we've a 2 year old so it would involve being woken up at 8am or there abouts.
    Crawl out of bed and help the missus get breakfast ready, change the nappy, brush her teeth (not the missus :D) and then go out.
    Be home by around 1pm when the little one goes for her nap for a few hours.
    She wakes up and repeat.
    In the evenings then the wife and I chill out finally but you're usually wrecked at that stage.
    Stick on a movie or watch a tv show. She heads off to sleep and I stay up a bit longer watching netflix.


  • #4
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Why did you first join boards?


  • #5
    bear1
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    Hmm, that's a good question.
    I'm pretty sure i joined for 2 reasons, 1) I wanted to get some info about plans years ago to turn Dublin airport into a mini high rise city.
    The second reason was I really missed communicating with Irish people as we don't get many if any out here so it felt pretty nice to be able to chat with fellow countrymen and read the slang.
    In a way it helped and still helps me cope with being away from home.
    If it wasn't for boards I'd have probably gone senile by now.
    Although judging by some of my posts I've probably already passed that stage!


  • #6
    HalloweenJack
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    Where are you living now? What are you doing there?


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  • #7
    bear1
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    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    Where are you living now? What are you doing there?

    I'm living in Warsaw.
    My wife is polish and we've a little girl that was born here.
    Moved over in 2009 but I was back and forth.
    I'm working in a financial institution which also has offices in Dublin so I deal a lot with them.
    That being said, I'm dying to come back.


  • #8
    Wibbs
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    What do you like about Poland, what do you dislike? What could Ireland learn from them and what would we do well to avoid?

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #9
    bear1
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    What do you like about Poland, what do you dislike? What could Ireland learn from them and what would we do well to avoid?

    They can have pleasant summers but seriously screwed up winters. And i mean horrible, you could have 5 months of snow and minus temperatures.
    I like how many young people speak English so you can get by with the younger generation and the older generation appreciates it if you try and speak polish to them.
    What could Ireland learn.. Hmm tbh the powers that be could learn how to plan infrastructure properly. It's amazing for me when I see constant new highrises being built and in Dublin getting something higher than 15 storeys is a monumental task.
    We'd do well to avoid the type of government in control here, which is to say a government very very intertwined with the Catholic church which has huge power here.
    They pass controversial laws which can and has frightened people here
    To be in a position where prices are on the rise but your salary stays the same.
    Bureaucracy is still ripe here which back home wouldn't be the case.
    Good and bads as with any country tbh


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