Guess who's back!!!!!

Jonny Arson

well it's me of course duh!

Oh don't worry I can hear your delight and enthusiasim that the greatest shining light in your lives back doing what he does best...... spreading the cheese!

Now I know I could go on all day about how great I am but there are a couple of things I must get off my chest (moan, moan, moan)


193 EURO to repeat one exam!!!!! F OFF! Has this always been like this? I had always presumed it would cost about 80-90 but this is a complete rip off. Also could anyone tell us if you failed 3-4 exams would you pay the exact same fee? Typical UCD. Robbing precious cash off us students and most of it will probably go to funding a bouncing castle in Mr. Brady's little private gym :mad:

Something else to do with the August dosser exams. When do you usually get the results? I finish on the 15th so would it be soemthing like 2 weeks?

Has anyone been to the AIB on campus lately? Oh my gosh is security OTT! When you go in you come up to an electronic door now and have to press a button, then once you get passed that door you have to do the exact same thing again to enter the bank.... it's crazeee, you'd have to see it to believe it.

Has Economanic posted anything which makes sense and is not hyprocritical to the extreme? :rolleyes:

Well anyways please welcome me back with open arms or I'll ban you all!

Zft2

Mr.Nice Guy

Nice to hear from you again Zanemeister.

But you must promise to try and act more like this:

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/4945/bravowavs/jbstand.jpg

And less like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/superheroes/images/hulk.jpg

Jonny Arson

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Nice to hear from you again Zanemeister.

But you must promise to try and act more like this:

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/4945/bravowavs/jbstand.jpg

And less like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/superheroes/images/hulk.jpg

lol Nice Guy but that image of the Hulk is actually tribulus.... not kidding seriously!

Zanemeister? Ha ha ha ha ha!

Red Alert

So you coming back next year Zane?

Kevin_rc_ie

WB zane.

Mr.Nice Guy

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

WB zane.

Uh-oh, he called you a worthless bum!

Jonny Arson

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Uh-oh, he called you a worthless bum!

TBH he does have a point :cool:

BTW can someone please answer me my question about the repeat exams.... this 193 yo-yo rip off has pissed me off big time.

tribulus

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

lol Nice Guy but that image of the Hulk is actually tribulus.... not kidding seriously!

Zanemeister? Ha ha ha ha ha!

Cheers zane you're really giving me a good rep :eek:

I'm not as green as him and i've better hair :cool: :cool:

welcome back

panda100

Yeah doesnt seem fair zane-it shouldnt be that high the repeat fee-im repeating 5subjects though so not complaining to much-but it should be a lot less if your repeating one!But thats rip-off ucd for ya!

zap

to be honest i think ucd are right to charge that price there is no excuse to be repating an exam unless you don't bother your ass doing anything, if you have a legit excuse then your repeats would be free. Secondly the air lock door is like that in alot of AIB around the country.

Jonny Arson

Red Alert wrote:

So you coming back next year Zane?

Sorry that Red Alert I missed your post. At the mo' yes providing that I pass Sociology in the repeats. Don't wanna come back tho' but there isn't another course out there that suits me down to the wire. Just gonna have to stick it out for the next 2 years but at least I potentially have a few friends starting out here next year which should make things a little better.

panda100 wrote:

Yeah doesnt seem fair zane-it shouldnt be that high the repeat fee-im repeating 5subjects though so not complaining to much-but it should be a lot less if your repeating one!But thats rip-off ucd for ya!

WTF you failed 5 subjects!!! :eek:

You're medicine girl, you have brains unlike thicko's like moi!

zap wrote:

to be honest i think ucd are right to charge that price there is no excuse to be repating an exam unless you don't bother your ass doing anything, if you have a legit excuse then your repeats would be free.

Yeah but unless you've got money growing on trees everything is hunky dory. Totally have to accept that anyone who fails a subject should pay but 193? That's a rip off especially when I'm only repeating one when some like Panda are repeating 5 subjects at 5 times the cost for the exact same price as me. Now that is wrong, unfair and lacks any logic.

BTW to say that anyone who fails an exam did not bother doing anything is a bit harsh. People fail for many other reasons than dossing. Now I didn't kill myself studying but I know my failure was due to blanking out through nerves and stress. Had this not happened I would have been confident of passing.

zap

i still think it is a reasonable price, if I failed an exam I would expect to have to pay, also the one price for all might be harsh for you but is very cheap for others so it evens out.

rainbow kirby

Probably did work out to be fair last year... I repeated everything when I was in 2nd year. Go being dumb.

kasintahan

How many second years have you done Rainbow :eek: ?

From a precursory count it seems you my be encroaching upon my record!

Lucky_Devil

Miracles do happen...I didnt fail any exams...but that means i do have to come home early...FOR GRADUATION...so i get punished YET AGAIN for picking random dates for flights


I managed to get through 4 years of actuary without failing a single subject along the way...40.0% twice, 40.2% & countless others in the 'dodgy' 40-45% zone

Either way, I'm finished & if it wasnt for money issues id be drinking myself to death right now...can only manage to a stupor at the moment, but working on it!

rainbow kirby

kasintahan wrote:

How many second years have you done Rainbow :eek: ?

From a precursory count it seems you my be encroaching upon my record!

Just one before this year... (2003/04 I was in 2nd year). Made a pathetic attempt at 3rd year maths physics this year...lol is all I say to that.

Then this year coming.

Mr.Nice Guy

rainbow kirby wrote:

Just one before this year... (2003/04 I was in 2nd year).

Then this year coming.

Don't worry rainbow, you won't come close to encroaching on kas' record.

Sure this was him in first year:

http://phototravels.net/japan/pcd3860/old-man-beard-83.3.jpg

kasintahan

Nah, that guy still has his hair. I lost mine in a chemisty lab in DIT!

Berger

You're a pathetic loser Zane. Get the hell out.

panda100

Ok before you all think im a complete dosser for failing five subjects-i actually got 47% in 3 of them and 49% in 2 of them so am mega pissed off i failed by a measly 1%!Also have two exams on monday and its my sis wedding on the saturday nite before which means i have to drive up to dublin sat eve to study sunday!missing the dancing,drinking and generalmayhem!!Missing the party of the century all for a measly 1 friggin percent!!

panda100

Oh and zane from mtz-rya bill bones?

blondie83

panda100 wrote:

Ok before you all think im a complete dosser for failing five subjects-i actually got 47% in 3 of them and 49% in 2 of them so am mega pissed off i failed by a measly 1%!Also have two exams on monday and its my sis wedding on the saturday nite before which means i have to drive up to dublin sat eve to study sunday!missing the dancing,drinking and generalmayhem!!Missing the party of the century all for a measly 1 friggin percent!!

Ah no one thinks your a dosser, sure if we had a 50% pass mark 100% of my class would have failed third year! Thats fairly rough actually, I can't count the number of times I've got in the 40's :eek: Anyway Arts ppl you have to understand that some of the other courses have lots and lots of subjects, (we had 13 this year) so while failing 5 in Arts might be bad, or even down right impossible, its fairly common in other places!

Jonny Arson

Ah but Panda..... MEDICINE..... c'mon.... you have brains! Oh I love being a thicko Arts idiot who thinks repeating one subject is the end of the world.

BTW yes I'm good ol' Bill bones who currently sailing on the Albion in the quest for Arcady.

Berger wrote:

You're a pathetic loser Zane. Get the hell out.

*punch*

eh I'm not the one from ''Ballyeeeeerrrrrrrrrr'' am I? :rolleyes:

ozt9vdujny3srf

lolz berger!

1 week ban.

uberwolf

Berger wrote:

You're a pathetic loser Zane. Get the hell out.

keep your opinions and your abuse to yourself. Take a week.

Sangre

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

TBH he does have a point :cool:

BTW can someone please answer me my question about the repeat exams.... this 193 yo-yo rip off has pissed me off big time.

Its a tax on stupid people.

Jonny Arson

Sangre wrote:

Its a tax on stupid people.

Ah vintage Sangre

I can't believe I'm saying this but welcome back!

arbeitsscheuer

Yeah, in a weird way I've missed the grumpy old sod.
A toast to the return of Sangre and Zane!

A double-act that is without equal in its vitriol...

BleakestH

I'm pro taxing stupidity.

Kevin_rc_ie

welcome back Sangre!

Blush_01

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Typical UCD. Robbing precious cash off us students and most of it will probably go to funding a bouncing castle in Mr. Brady's little private gym :mad:

Eh, you mean Mrs. Brady's private gym that she moved from their old place and the SU blew out of proportion? The overhaul on the house was also just to make it habitable, and it's not like he'll be taking the home improvements with him when he leaves, so it's an investment. The real issue was the landscaping which was probably unnecessary, but everything else can be logically accounted for. I wonder what the bone of contention with "the man" will be this year!

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Has anyone been to the AIB on campus lately? Oh my gosh is security OTT! When you go in you come up to an electronic door now and have to press a button, then once you get passed that door you have to do the exact same thing again to enter the bank.... it's crazeee, you'd have to see it to believe it.

No, the crazy thing is that they got robbed just after it was installed. Via the back entrance. Oh yeah, they're actually that smart. Don't you just love it?

Slash/ED

Isn't that how all AIBs are with the two doors? My local one is anyway

Blush_01

Yeah,the one at home isn't. But the one in Deans Grange is the same as that.

<mutter>What a middle-of-nowhere hole that place is... I can't wait to move.</mutter>

kasintahan

Blush_01 wrote:

Yeah,the one at home isn't. But the one in Deans Grange is the same as that.

<mutter>What a middle-of-nowhere hole that place is... I can't wait to move.</mutter>

Deansgrange? The middle of nowhere?

It's on the 46A, the 45, the 75, the 7B (or is it A?) and to a lesser extent the 84 bus routes. There are dozens of shops, a supermarket (soon two), 2 banks, 2 off-licences, a chemist, 2 chippers, 2 large pubs, a number of restaurants, petrol stations etc, etc + LOT's of green fields (unusual for such prime real estate).

The place is a hub of activity. Night life is certainly not it's thing but Dun Laoghaire or Stillorgan are a 10 minute cycle (or a 40 minute crawl as I can multiply attest ) and town a half hour on the bus. Given it has a one of the busiest junctions on the southside getting a taxi is no sweat either.

Blush_01

<rant> 63, 84, 75, 7b/d, 145, 46a/c/d/e. However, I happen to live a fair whack by foot from those bus routes and oh-so fabulous assets you've listed. Every time I shop in Super Valu they overcharge me. EVERY time. They hate to see me coming because they know it'll take at least 10 minutes to serve me, due to the fact that I won't put up with being overcharged - it's kind of illegal. It never takes less than 45 minutes to get to town - and considering I use the first bus in the morning that leaves Dun Laoighre at 6.15 as regularly as I use any other, I have a bit of an idea. On a good day you can spend over an hour just getting to Stephen's Green. I can understand how Deans Grange might be ok if you're from there, living at home and not renting. But I'm not. So the fact that I could rent a place more convenient to college and work is something I can think about. I have to pay rent anyway, so why pay more rent to live somewhere less convenient? To get to the exams in May I have to get the bus at 7.30 just to get through Blackrock on time. That's ridiculous! Plus, I was grumpy and had had to put up with some au pair's rotten little charges playing with the doors in AIB when I was trying to get through them at the bank. Which happened again yesterday. If I see those kids again, I'm buying them leads.

kasintahan

Blush_01 wrote:

<rant> 63, 84, 75, 7b/d, 145, 46a/c/d/e. However, I happen to live a fair whack by foot from those bus routes and oh-so fabulous assets you've listed.

Then you don't live in Deansgrange!
I, drunkenly, cycled from Ballybrack and it took 15 minutes to the far side of the Deansgrange graveyard. Get yourself a bike!

Blush_01 wrote:

Every time I shop in Super Valu they overcharge me. EVERY time. They hate to see me coming because they know it'll take at least 10 minutes to serve me, due to the fact that I won't put up with being overcharged - it's kind of illegal.

They do have a nasty habit of doing that. It's not the first report I've heard.

Blush_01 wrote:

It never takes less than 45 minutes to get to town - and considering I use the first bus in the morning that leaves Dun Laoighre at 6.15 as regularly as I use any other, I have a bit of an idea. On a good day you can spend over an hour just getting to Stephen's Green.

Codswallop! I take the bus to Stephens green three times a week and it takes 30 minutes from the centre of Deansgrange. It can take longer a rushhour (upto 50 minutes) but that is rare. The nitelink home takes less than 20 minutes (17 mins to Foxrock church my bladder reminds me). Sunday services are a bit flakey though.

Blush_01 wrote:

I can understand how Deans Grange might be ok if you're from there, living at home and not renting. But I'm not. So the fact that I could rent a place more convenient to college and work is something I can think about. I have to pay rent anyway, so why pay more rent to live somewhere less convenient?

That's fair enough, rent whatever and wherever you find convenient. Personally I'd love to live in town but the rent is exorbitant most places.

Blush_01 wrote:

To get to the exams in May I have to get the bus at 7.30 just to get through Blackrock on time.

Eh? Push bike? It's 10 minutes (2 miles) to Blackrock from Deansgrange. All flat, no uphill.

Blush_01

You people and your physical exertion. I firmly maintain if yoga kills (and I have a badge to prove it) then all other sports are worse - I don't quite know how, but they are.

I don't buy a bus ticket for nothing!