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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    We don't really get "Holidays" the same as you. We get vacation time which increases for every year you stay at a job. But i've only been at my job since May. So if I get to get away it isn't far away for a length of time.
    We did go camping in June, though. up in Northern Wisconsin. That was nice. You're lucky you are close enough to so many other places where you have the option of going to other countries without it costing an arm and a leg.


    Q: So now you think I'm boring, don't you?:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    [sarcasm]I always thought you were boring, now I know you are boring and unadventurous[/sarcasm].So you can't tell your boss when you want your holidays, he has to tell you? that sucks.

    is that the same all over the country?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    Well, no, we can request vacation time whenever we need/want it. But if everyone wants off on the same week, chances are it won't happen.
    I suppose it depends on the type of job, though. I used to work in the office of a factory where each year the factory would close for a week in July and the week od Christmas. But the office workers still had to show up and sell sell sell so that the factory workers would have more work upon their return. THEY get those two weeks as well as regular vacation time. But I would murder someone if I worked in a factory.


    Q: Do you have a job?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    yes, I am a barman. but only on weekends, I am a college boy on week days.

    how did you hear about Boards?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    I just sort of stumbled across it one day while googling Ireland. I spent about 2 weeks lurking following a certain thread and then I just couldn't take it any more! I had to jump in! been addicted ever since!


    Q: So what is your major in study? Or is it general study?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    I am studying Software Development (typical neeeeerd, I know)

    did you go to college?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    Well, it looks like there are lots of IT jobs in Ireland right now, so you ought to do fine.
    Yes, I have a degree in Flexography (A printing process) that lead me to be a graphic artist for a while but my boss was a dick so I switched fields and never looked back. I've also taken a few computer classes and bar tender licensing class - but that was because I was in charge of a church picnic and had to have the license.

    In America they don't really care what your degree is in, just so long as you have one. I certainly don't do any printing/ designing in the hospital I work at!

    I want to go back and get a degree in Radiology but it's a $9000 class. Once I'm working at the hospital long enough they will help pay for the schooling. So that's cool!

    Q: Ever go to a church picnic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    we don't have church picnics, and even if we did I am not a religeous man. IMO it's all a bunch of fairy tales.

    how many men's eyes widened when they heard you studying flexolography? it sounds very sexual, don't you think?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    Hee hee! That's why I figured I'd better elaborate! Gee! I wonder if having that on my resume is why I got so many job interviews???:D
    You ask interesting questions, Marts!

    Q: So what's the weather like there right now?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    I can't tell, it's 2 in the morning

    what's the weather like in Wisconsen(sp?)?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    It's about 70 degrees F = about 21 degrees C.
    Beautiful night.


    Q: Ever do something REALLY stupid?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    all the time, life would not be fun if we didn't.

    why the hell are american place names so god damn hard to spell, I mean massacheussis? (help me out here)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    Ha! Massachusetts. That's so you can use them as passwords and none of your mates will guess it and even if they did they couldn't spell it!

    And for Americans, there are many many Irish places we couldn't even begin to pronounce by looking at the spelling.
    That's what makes it fun. But of course I live near Butte Des Morts and Neceeda and many Wisconsinites can't even pronounce those.


    Q: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    I can't think of anything.

    what about you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Joined the army.


    Were you ever interested in watching badgers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    My folks went to St. Loius when I was 16.
    I threw the party of the century.
    Burn holes in the living room floor, people having sex in my sister’s bedroom, way out of control.
    But the worst part was that my dad was refinishing a 1951 Dodge Coronette Car and had body parts sanded down to bare metal and stored in the basement.
    Someone set a glass of beer on the hood and it spilled. I didn’t catch it in time and it ate through the metal.
    I think I am STILL grounded for that – as well I ought to be! I wanted to cry! I loved that car!


    Boneless: I'm sorry, we are all out of Badgers. Would you accept a Wolverine in its stead?


    Q: Do you think my dad will ever finish rebuilding that car? (It's still in storage in pieces)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,954 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    A: he's probably putting it off out of fear that you will ruin it again :D

    Q: why would you not do radiographer course? in the long run $9000 is nothing, radiographers make lots of money!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    A: I'm not interested in being a radiographer tbh

    Q: Will I find a nice place to live? And soon?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    The place two doors away from me is empty.

    Q wanna move to Wisconsin?:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    A: I was hoping for Cork City tbh

    Q: Whats in Wisconsin?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    I would love to but George Dubya won't let me into the USA.


    Have you ever visited Alaska?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    Brats, beautiful Autumns, Me, gorgeous Winters with lots of snow, hot summers, good colleges, people wearing camouflage year round, people who talk funny, That guy who played Screech on Saved By The Bell, low cost of living...
    What's not to like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    From that list...teh guy who played Screech on Saved by the Bell, methinks

    Sigh, will the torrent of doom ever finish?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    A; The evil Grist Mongers shall have to release you eventually.

    Boneless, too bad Goerge W doesn't understand your charms!


    Q: Why has kindergarten killed my whole morning routine?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    For the fun of it!

    Why must I work?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    To keep me in jelly beans.


    Wheres my jelly beans?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    They're in your pants. You'd know that if you were going commando


    Q: Are they Jelly belly Jelly Beans? Yum!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Most properly, yes... and I have no pants on yet...:eek: I'm wearing a hard hat and hi-vis vest....:cool:


    Do dogs dream of submissive cats?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    No, they like the challenge of non-submissive cats.


    Q: so would they be dreaming of my cat, Fijhonna, then?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    Only if she's non-submissive

    Jelly babies, huh?


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