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  • #8102
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What's the difference between awec and a prawn sambo eating, wax jacket wearing, d4 Leinster supporter?

    Seriously folks.. Does anyone know?


  • #8103
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seriously folks.. Does anyone know?

    Potato farls?


  • #8104
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stheno wrote: »
    Potato farls?

    Not if you put caviar on them


  • #8105
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    My daughter went skiing in Andorra last year and then 5 days on the Camino a few weeks later. TY is great gas, just not very good for your bank balance. Posh isn’t a word anyone would use to describe her school, that’s for sure.


  • #8106
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Stheno wrote: »
    So is mfceiling.

    Feck covid-19 the world is ending:pac:

    You've obviously never met me Stheno. I am a pure bred culchie!!


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  • #8107
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    mfceiling wrote: »
    You've obviously never met me Stheno. I am an inbred culchie!!

    Fixed that for you, otherwise it’s an oxymoron


  • #8108
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,109 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's the difference between awec and a prawn sambo eating, wax jacket wearing, d4 Leinster supporter?
    This is getting personal. :mad:


  • #8109
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Fixed that for you, otherwise it’s an oxymoron

    Sure, but isn't inbred a bit redundant?


  • #8110
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Sure, but isn't inbred a bit redundant?

    Sure all them culchies are redundant. All the jobs are in the shmoke.


  • #8111
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    mfceiling wrote: »
    You've obviously never met me Stheno. I am a pure bred culchie!!

    This is what I thought about you and your missus which is why I was so confused!!
    Tis far from school skiing trips ye were reared!


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  • #8112
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm gonna put it out there. Proper top level schools wouldn't do something like a ski trip as they value education above all else and there is very little educational merit in a ski trip.

    I'm bitter my school never did a ski trip


  • #8113
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,702 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    stephen_n wrote: »
    My daughter went skiing in Andorra last year and then 5 days on the Camino a few weeks later. TY is great gas, just not very good for your bank balance. Posh isn’t a word anyone would use to describe her school, that’s for sure.

    We worked the school shop as a "business learning experience" in TY. Which in retrospect was just free labour.


  • #8114
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Stheno wrote: »
    This is what I thought about you and your missus which is why I was so confused!!
    Tis far from school skiing trips ye were reared!

    And you're not wrong. We're rearing a bunch of self entitled kids!!


  • #8115
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    We worked the school shop as a "business learning experience" in TY. Which in retrospect was just free labour.

    We didn’t have TY in my time, if you did 4th year in those days it was because you had done the group cert before your inter.


  • #8116
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    mfceiling wrote: »
    And you're not wrong. We're rearing a bunch of self entitled kids!!

    Assign them chores to pay back the cost of the trip!!!


  • #8117
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    stephen_n wrote: »
    We didn’t have TY in my time, if you did 4th year in those days it was because you had done the group cert before your inter.

    We had a school bank in fifth year


  • #8118
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Stheno wrote: »
    We had a school bank in fifth year

    I barely made it that far.


  • #8119
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    stephen_n wrote: »
    I barely made it that far.

    You missed out.

    I had the job yuk ous role of being the school bank manager

    Between that and doing maths in the boys school and another subject in a third school I was grounded for months due to mothers spies regularly reporting me out of school during the school day


  • #8120
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,331 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    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.

    That sounds like a great trip. My school did ski trips but it was only a 4 hour bus trip away. I went on a geography trip to Hawaii, French language trips to New Caledonia and Tahiti and a few sports trips to Australia.


  • #8121
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Did any of you fix televisions as part of your school work?

    Screen just went blank on our tele there. Sound is still grand but the picture is gone. I've tried turning it on and off so that's my knowledge of electrical devices complete.


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  • #8122
    Addison Yummy Fashion
    Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭ Addison Yummy Fashion


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Did any of you fix televisions as part of your school work?

    Screen just went blank on our tele there. Sound is still grand but the picture is gone. I've tried turning it on and off so that's my knowledge of electrical devices complete.

    did you try percussive maintenance?


  • #8123
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Addison Yummy Fashion wrote: »
    did you try percussive maintenance?

    If by percussive maintenance you mean thumping it a few times then yes...yes I did try percussive maintenance. Or as my dad would say "hit that yoke a skite"


  • #8124
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    mfceiling wrote: »
    If by percussive maintenance you mean thumping it a few times then yes...yes I did try percussive maintenance. Or as my dad would say "hit that yoke a skite"

    Did you check the input on the remote?
    And power it off at the plug?


  • #8125
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Check the cables going into the back of the tv. Often if it's picking up one of either the sound or visual it's because the cable is very slightly loose. Make sure it's fully in then try again.


  • #8126
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,382 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Did any of you fix televisions as part of your school work?

    Screen just went blank on our tele there. Sound is still grand but the picture is gone. I've tried turning it on and off so that's my knowledge of electrical devices complete.

    Buy a new one.


  • #8127
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    awec wrote: »
    Buy a new one.

    This is the posh response......


  • #8128
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What do you get if you cross awec, with someone who owns two summer homes?

    ...


    awec


  • #8129
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    awec wrote: »
    Buy a new one.

    Yeah tried everything. Actually had to talk to each other tonight. That was weird.

    Told her to beat the door of Harvey Norman's down at 9 in the morning.


  • #8130
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Told her to beat the door of Harvey Norman's down at 9 in the morning.

    When you said you talked to each other, this was the extent of your conversation, wasn't it?


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  • #8131
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    awec wrote: »
    Buy a new one.

    Look at you doing your common people routine. We know your real answer is buy two new ones.

    Just remember, everybody hates a tourist.


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