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  • #8072
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Hearing word that we have confirmed cases here

    Wouldn’t surprise if it was one of those schools coming back from Italy last week.


  • #8073
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,378 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Wouldn’t surprise if it was one of those schools coming back from Italy last week.

    I don't have any media link, but I'm hearing from a source of a Dublin hospital having 3 cases

    Edit: obviously this is not official


  • #8074
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,378 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Fair enough.

    I'd expect though that the word will be very wise spread before we get any official confirmation


  • #8075
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,154 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Folks, please avoid rampant speculation. Discuss it, but no bizarre stuff (it's elsewhere on boards and we don't want it here)


  • #8076
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,154 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    BTW The Rape of Lucretia raised a great point in Current Affairs. I had no idea that so many of you lot went skiing in Italy in the winter. I'm so out of date with my holidays.


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  • #8077
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    awec wrote: »
    BTW The Rape of Lucretia raised a great point in Current Affairs. I had no idea that so many of you lot went skiing in Italy in the winter. I'm so out of date with my holidays.

    Several schools did on mid term apparently and my old school came back with 7 kids having flu like symptoms seemingly. Caused a little bit of panic.


  • #8078
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,741 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Probably isn't helped by the fact we've had a cold snap over the past couple weeks with the storms, and it's flu season anyways.

    There was one suspected case in my job, a lad who'd travelled to a conference in Italy but nothing confirmed. I'd say there's hundreds of others.

    It's mad how much of a frenzy it's whipped up, I've heard some absolutely absurd rumours that people are picking up about people having confirmed cases and contaminating nursing homes etc which were complete bollox


  • #8079
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,988 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    My eldest was in Andorra on a ski trip with the school last week. She was sick yesterday and had the day off....herself completely convinced she has the Corona virus.
    No thought as to a bit of a cold or a sniffles...nope, straight to the virus.

    *she was grand last night and will be back in school today*


  • #8080
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    mfceiling wrote: »
    My eldest was in Andorra on a ski trip with the school last week. She was sick yesterday and had the day off....herself completely convinced she has the Corona virus.
    No thought as to a bit of a cold or a sniffles...nope, straight to the virus.

    *she was grand last night and will be back in school today*

    She hasnt heard that the virus flares up, calms down and that reasserts itself violently before the endgame.


  • #8081
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Since when the hell do schools go on skiing trips!?!?


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  • #8082
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Since when the hell do schools go on skiing trips!?!?

    Celtic Tiger pups


  • #8083
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,988 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Celtic Tiger pups

    It was news to me as well. Especially when she told me the cost.

    We used to get a poxy day out to a local forest park or national trust attraction.


  • #8084
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    We went on a skiing trip 20 years ago in TY. Utter waste of time. End of skiing season when it was cheaper and stayed in exceptionally budget accommodation and flew into an airport 7 hours away. I'll never go skiing again. There's only so many times you can go to the top of a hill and slide down it before it becomes mind numbingly boring.


  • #8085
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Since when the hell do schools go on skiing trips!?!?

    When I was in school (early 90s) we went on a week's trip to France, but they at least made some effort at making it educational - Bayeux tapestry, WW2 cemeteries, Versailles, etc.

    What's the educational value in going skiing?


  • #8086
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Buer wrote: »
    We went on a skiing trip 20 years ago in TY. Utter waste of time. End of skiing season when it was cheaper and stayed in exceptionally budget accommodation and flew into an airport 7 hours away. I'll never go skiing again. There's only so many times you can go to the top of a hill and slide down it before it becomes mind numbingly boring.

    I go a lot these days, being based basically in the alps. But I don't really get the people who turn up at the first lift, eat a sandwich on the slopes and ski all day. If I don't spend at least half my time on the slopes in a bar "enjoying the mountain air" I think I've done it wrong.

    Also just realised that I too was in TY 20 years ago :(


  • #8087
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Former Former wrote: »
    When I was in school (early 90s) we went on a week's trip to France, but they at least made some effort at making it educational - Bayeux tapestry, WW2 cemeteries, Versailles, etc.

    What's the educational value in going skiing?

    Zero. I don't understand it at all. Just seems like a good way to highlight the poorer kids.


  • #8088
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Zero. I don't understand it at all. Just seems like a good way to highlight the poorer kids.

    Maybe it's only posh schools who do it?


  • #8089
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,154 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Former Former wrote: »
    When I was in school (early 90s) we went on a week's trip to France, but they at least made some effort at making it educational - Bayeux tapestry, WW2 cemeteries, Versailles, etc.

    What's the educational value in going skiing?

    It's not educational, it's just a see-the-world expanding horizons type thing. And fun.

    My school did it. Also had trips to Spain for a week.


  • #8090
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    even within the posh schools there are a lot of kids whose parents sacrafice a lot to get the fees together, this kind of thing is beyond lots of those parents.


  • #8091
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    AWEC is posh


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  • #8092
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    AWEC is posh

    So is mfceiling.

    Feck covid-19 the world is ending:pac:


  • #8093
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,154 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    AWEC is posh

    Haha if you ever met me...


  • #8094
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    awec wrote: »
    Haha if you ever met me...

    Dont rule it out. I do occasionally buttle to earn the odd extra shilling.


  • #8095
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    I never thought about that function having a verb. Huh.


  • #8096
    aloooof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭aloooof


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    I never thought about that function having a verb. Huh.

    Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip: "Verbing weirds language".


  • #8097
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why did awec cross the road?

    His 3rd car was parked on the other side.


  • #8098
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why did awec cross the road?

    To avoid the middle class people coming his way.


  • #8099
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,154 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why did awec cross the road?

    His 3rd car was parked on the other side.

    I would be most unimpressed with my driver if he made me cross the road to get to the car.


  • #8100
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why did awec get on the bus?


    Ha ha ha ha ha awec would never get on a bus.


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  • #8101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What's the difference between awec and a prawn sambo eating, wax jacket wearing, d4 Leinster supporter?


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