Enjoying the simple things in life post exams...

ergo

Ok, here's my top 5 or something

you know how it is, for ages it's all library/try to study/exams etc then next thing Freedom, well, until you start working , so now you can relax and do nothing ie...

1. staying in bed all day with a guilt-free hangover (except maybe guilt over what you did the night before), pausing only to crawl to the kitchen for water, paracetamol or dry toast or whatever you're into, only beginning to feel human again by 5 or 6pm by which time you could start drinking again..
2. watching 4 episodes of the Simpsons back to back
3. drinking coffee just for the taste and not because without it you might just die
4. wandering around town aimlessly, maybe stopping off in every music shop you pass
5. catching up with your friends who don't have exams or don't have them as ridiculously late as Trinity

that's me anyway

eclectichoney

Just one, beer mmmm.


And spending the day in bed reading trashy fiction instead of stupid/boring/confusing journal articles/textbooks

Staying up all night (and not for studying purposes )

John

I visited the Chester Beaty library yesterday, went for a nice lunch and a pint. Read a novel on the luas instead of notes. It's so nice. Except I hate when you get phantom guilt and think "Oh ****! I should be studying" and then realise no you don't.

Agent Smith

its so peacefull, Just relaxing and taking it all in...


exams suck

sinjin_smythe

yeah but there's always something to spoil it. For example you get 1-2 weeks off to do nothing after the exams and then you have to go get a job and before you know it your back in college

Kevin_rc_ie

Read a novel on the luas

did you read a novel based on the luas, like how some hunky detective solved crimes by riding the luas around town or how the luas came about and stuff?

or ddi you actually read a whole novel of topic X on the luas. were you jsut riding around? or did you just read a portion of a book while on the luas?

John

It was a portion of a thriller set in post-WW2 Berlin that I read on the luas. Nice braincandy before I start back into the world of neuroscience on Tuesday.

DrIndy

Jaysus! In Brownsville which is in south texas, on the mexican border. Visiting the venerable Chris Gambino. I landed at 8pm last night local time and we went straight across the border for tacos and beer! They got beer for $1 here! We got back at 4am yesterday!

We're planning on heading out now to the beach and maybe go hunting for a bit today. Just roused the man outta bed........

snorlax

my exams are over, ended up somehow getting very merry today at the pav on that druids stuff (its just so cheap) and now recovering at home preparing for tonight.......

cuckoo

DrIndy wrote:

Jaysus! In Brownsville which is in south texas, on the mexican border. Visiting the venerable Chris Gambino. I landed at 8pm last night local time and we went straight across the border for tacos and beer! They got beer for $1 here! We got back at 4am yesterday!

We're planning on heading out now to the beach and maybe go hunting for a bit today. Just roused the man outta bed........

Hunting? Like - killing things? Remember, it's difficult for the physican to heal thineself if you're unconscious.

snorlax

oh god not Chirs Gambino.........

i hope that post isnt serious, i cant stand hunting, ugh:(

Crash

Hahaa, hows gambino?

DrIndy

No, this post is very serious!

Brownsville is even hotter, closer to 35C and getting uncomfortably hot now. We went shooting, chris has a shotgun and his friend has a 9mm handgun. We shot up a few bottles and other detritus and then potshotted a few tarantulas and birds in the distance...... woulda liked to get a snake coz I hate them so much. Shotgun had a mighty kick and my shoulder is feeling it. Handgun is better......

Chris is doing good, he's going to law school in the autumn. His dad is really cool and he has a cat complete with 3 very cute wee kittens.

We recovered from our trip to mexico. Heading to the beach and having a BBQ on the dunes. I have been banned from singing Koom Ba Yah - as I was threatening in the car today. Got a cooler full of beer and meeting a big gang of cool people.

We're heading to Mexico on friday to experience the friday night mexican style, complete with happy hour (in mexico is even more ridiculously cheap than anywhere here). Border patrol on the US side are really sound, but have been warned about Los Federales as well as leaving the main pub strip just across the border!

Chris says "Hi!"

Agent Smith

yeah..... but its breakfast time back home...

cuckoo

DrIndy wrote:

We shot up a few bottles and other detritus and then potshotted a few tarantulas and birds in the distance...... woulda liked to get a snake coz I hate them so much. Shotgun had a mighty kick and my shoulder is feeling it. Handgun is better......

Chris is doing good, he's going to law school in the autumn. His dad is really cool and he has a cat complete with 3 very cute wee kittens.

What did the tarantulas and birds ever do to you guys?!?!?

I bet Chris eats kittens. On bbqs.

Tell him 'hi' back!

snorlax

hmm i actually met Gambino in the chapel in first year (PSN meeting place), didnt have a clue who he was at the time, he had some wacky ideas though .
hey we should set up a Gambino thread so ppl can inlighten us of any interesting tales people may have....im sure the trinity news is full of them. i dont know if its true but i hear he flung a liver at bypassers near pearse street dart station..ugh!

whatever about tarantualas/spiders, shooting birds is horrible.....ah come on indy you'll be like the redcoats/ prince william+harry soon enough if you keep that going. better not be any deer or foxes

.

down with blood sports!!........... :mad: :mad: :mad:

DrIndy

Hunting and shooting is fun! People have an aversion to hunting, yet happily eat burgers and steaks without a quibble about the conditions the animal was raised in. Everyone owns guns here and goes out shooting. My shoulder hurts from the kick from the shotgun. Don't think I had it braced just right.....

I had a whale of a time, we went out to Padre Island yesterday and had a big bonfire/cookout. So much fun and met a whole load of crazy texans.

Getting the experience of a friday night in mexico tonight!

John

DrIndy wrote:

Hunting and shooting is fun! People have an aversion to hunting, yet happily eat burgers and steaks without a quibble about the conditions the animal was raised in.

What I find more ironic is the vegetarians and vegans who have dogs and feed them dog food from animals kept in equally horrid conditions as those killed for our dinners.

Nietzschean

John2 wrote:

What I find more ironic is the vegetarians and vegans who have dogs and feed them dog food from animals kept in equally horrid conditions as those killed for our dinners.

lol good point

Kevin_rc_ie

yeah tell me about this legend gambino.

snorlax

DrIndy wrote:

Hunting and shooting is fun! People have an aversion to hunting, yet happily eat burgers and steaks without a quibble about the conditions the animal was raised in. Everyone owns guns here and goes out shooting.

indeed but is shooting something for no point other then fun/ boredom any good reason to end an other animals life?

i think a few people would quibble about the condititons the animals are kept in (especialy those chicken farms, and i think theyr was a rumpus over them before) but at least we're using the animals in this case to eat rather then for indiscriminate fun. also i think the difference is that people make a choice to go out and kill things but don't really have a choice over which tescos to get their meat from.

DrIndy

Christopher Gambino is a legend! Sound as a bell and a true gentleman. He's planning a trip to ireland in august and I will be meeting him up back home and we will relive the heady days we had together in college. Doyles and the Pav won't know what hit them!

Chris says: "I have a hangover and I can't find my car"

(We parked it over at a friends house and thats miles away in america).

So we're stuck here until Ramone wakes up and picks us up to collect the car.....

cuckoo

Ah, chris...the memories.

'women tempt me to sin, i am a sinner but the woman i marry will be a virgin'

'gay people are sinning and will end up in hell'

'god bless george bush'

'i love my guns'

That's pretty much the Chris experience. Underneath all the strangeness i'm pretty sure there's a nice guy - he's just a lot eccentric.

Boo hiss Indy shooting things for 'fun'. Also, have you considered the environmental effect? All those bullets... Indy, you're a doctor - you're supposed to be playing golf for recreation, not killing things.

/obligatory - yeah, i was vegetarian for years, eat meat now but i am very fussy about what meat i will eat, and totally understand the killing animals and birds to eat, but i prefer it be done by someone who knows what they're doing with a gun so it's a quicker kill - but shooting at anything that moves for fun?

DrIndy

we were playing shotgun golf, trying to knock various objects as far as possible using the shotgun........

Guns are cool..... and I have no reticence towards them even though I am a doctor. I object to people being shot, not having some fun out on a ranch with a few friends...

snorlax

chris is a virgin? :eek: ! or does that rule count just for the ladys?

how are guns not relevant being a doctor?

: Taxpayers pay more than 85% of the medical cost for treatment of firearm-related injuries.
- Martin M, et al. "The Cost of Hospitalization for Firearm Injuries." JAMA. Vol 260, November 25, 1998, pp 3048, and Ordog et al. "Hospital Costs of Firearm Injuries." Abstract. Journal of Trauma. February 1995, p

:In 2002, there were 30,242 gun deaths in the U.S:

* 17,108 suicides (56% of all U.S gun deaths),
* 11,829 homicides (39% of all U.S gun deaths),
* 762 unintentional shootings (3% of all U.S gun deaths),
* and 300 from legal intervention and 243 from undetermined intent (2% of all U.S gun deaths combined).

-Numbers obtained from CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2005.

DrIndy

Regarding the JAMA article, remember that the vast majority of the healthcare sector is private and only the taxpayer pays for the free clinics. Taken in the overall context of american healthcare, this is much, much smaller amount of money.

The people involved in gang skirmishes tend to utilise the limited american public health sector.

A very valid point is criminals will always get guns - legally or otherwise. In ireland, the guns are owned by the criminals. In the US, guns are owned by criminals and by everyone else who can then defend themselves.

There is some merit for restriction - as it will prevent opportunistic shootings such as the random rampages we hear about in the news, rather than premeditated gang murders which will occur whether there are gun restrictions or not.

However, those opportunistic shootings are actually really rare, just high profile when they occur.

snorlax

why are the stats for deaths much higher in the states then any other country where guns are banned?

FACT: Comparison of U.S. gun homicides to other industrialized countries:
In 1998 (the most recent year for which this data has been compiled), handguns murdered:

* 373 people in Germany
* 151 people in Canada
* 57 people in Australia
* 19 people in Japan
* 54 people in England and Wales, and
* 11,789 people in the United States

(*Please note that these 1998 numbers account only for HOMICIDES, and do not include suicides, which comprise and even greater number of gun deaths, or unintentional shootings).
- Provided by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

and also

home held guns are more likely to be used for homicide then self-defense (the main reason you avocate for their use)

FACT: While handguns account for only one-third of all firearms owned in the United States, they account for more than two-thirds of all firearm-related deaths each year. A gun kept in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a homicide, suicide or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense.
- Kellerman AL, Lee RK, Mercy JA, et al. "The Epidemiological Basis for the Prevention of Firearm Injuries." Annu. Rev. Public Health. 1991; 12:17-40

and suicide is the leading cause of firearm death rather then gang related crime/ murder

FACT: Suicide is still the leading cause of firearm death in the U.S., representing 56% of total 2002 gun deaths nationwide. In 2002, the U.S. firearm suicide total was 17,108, a 1% increase from 2001 numbers. Total gun suicides in Illinois for 2002 were 466, a decrease of 8% from the 2001 numbers. Most suicides in the U.S. are committed with firearms.
-Numbers obtained from CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2005

People who keep guns at home have a 72% greater chance of being killed by firearms and are 3.44 times more likely to commit suicide than those who do not keep guns at home (Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol 41, p. 771).

Pet

+rep for getting all those statisitcs that I was too tired to..

snorlax

i have plenty more related to the amount of kids killed by guns.

just remember that teenager in the states who went into his school and shot all his classmates... the scale of the atrocity mightn't have been quite so devestating if theyr hadnt been a gun involved.

. indeed a lot of these kids aquired their guns from friends/ family/ aquantances who kept guns at home for "defensive purposes".......

Pet

Anyways. A gun is a pussy's tool. If you can't kill something with your bare hands, you shouldn't be killing it in the first place...

Kevin_rc_ie

Pet wrote:

Anyways. A gun is a pussy's tool. If you can't kill something with your bare hands, you shouldn't be killing it in the first place...

agreed.

Pet

Pet wrote:

Anyways. A gun is a pussy's tool. If you can't kill something with your bare hands, you shouldn't be killing it in the first place...

Yeah. Someone icing a bear with their bare hands is totally different then shooting them in a back with an uzi.

Nietzschean

lol if they can take on a full grown bear with their bare hands i won't try stop them...unless i've the uzi maybe..

Crash

I took the tiger out with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son, they were a different story. i had to beat them to death with their own shoes.


nasty business really.

John

crash_000 wrote:

I took the tiger out with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son, they were a different story. i had to beat them to death with their own shoes.


nasty business really.

Crash impresses me more and more everyday. First the hilarious crap story, then he likes Tool and now Wayne's World quotes. What will he spring on us next?

Pet

Myth wrote:

Yeah. Someone icing a bear with their bare hands is totally different then shooting them in a back with an uzi.

Pssh. You know I meant in a game sense, not in a "life-or-death" kinda way..

Crash impresses me more and more everyday. First the hilarious crap story, then he likes Tool and now Wayne's World quotes. What will he spring on us next?

Indeed. Maybe he'll launch into a legendary guitar solo? Either that or he has superpowers.

DrIndy

There's a stuffed bear on sale in a shop here - $8000!

You can also get huge piece of carved ivory for $2000 - but I couldn't import either into ireland due to the laws, only buy them over here......

Kevin_rc_ie

DrIndy wrote:

You can also get huge piece of carved ivory for $2000 - but I couldn't import either into ireland due to the laws, only buy them over here......

that is fukcing disgusting.

xeduCat

I'm scared of you all, and of the fact that you know where to find me...

DrIndy

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

that is fukcing disgusting.

And they got stuffed kittens too....

Owning ivory is ok, all this stuff is probably 50 years old, none can be imported anymore, but whatevers already in the country can be sold.......

EduCat - you in trouble.... I know where you live.....

cuckoo

DrIndy wrote:

And they got stuffed kittens too....

Owning ivory is ok, all this stuff is probably 50 years old, none can be imported anymore, but whatevers already in the country can be sold.......

Mega bad karma. I'm agreeing with Kev on this one.

Kevin_rc_ie

cuckoo wrote:

Mega bad karma. I'm agreeing with Kev on this one.

that sounds as if you disagree with me a lot. soon you will realise that everything i say is correct and the truth.

Fortinbras'

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

that sounds as if you disagree with me a lot. soon you will realise that everything i saw is correct and the truth.

You and your prying Kev

punka

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

i saw is correct

or ISAW???



(sorry.)

Kevin_rc_ie

Fortinbras' wrote:

You and your prying Kev

? Who's Fortinbras'? Other then a bit character from Hamlet?

Good one Punk ;-)

Pet

Mega bad karma. I'm agreeing with Kev on this one.

Me three..

snorlax

save the kittens!:)

this thread gets worse and worse and ever since i changed my avatar to a bird iv got some pms from fellas on boards asking me out, ahh bless! might work for Myth and kev too!
you know birds of a feather flock together!

snorlax

snorlax wrote:

save the kittens!:)

this thread gets worse and worse and ever since i changed my avatar to a bird iv got some pms from fellas on boards asking me out, ahh bless! might work for Myth and kev too!
you know birds of a feather flock together!

Ya what?!

Crash

*goes to pm myth - got a bird avatar mate :P*

snorlax

im sure there's some lovely people on these boards myth!:)

Not exactly sure what you're getting at...