If you could kill one person in history...

Mossy Monk · 13-10-2002 08:47PM

Originally posted by The Gopher
Er,actually most people leave school at the end of fifth year

don't most secondary students go on to complete the leaving cert which IIRC takes place at the end of sixth year

phaxx · 13-10-2002 08:56PM

Yeah, that's what I thought, but we're obviously mistaken, TheGopher sounded pretty certain most people leave second level early and don't complete the leaving cert.

STaN · 13-10-2002 09:02PM

i would kill...

whoever started this lineage of the 'Bush' 's, their gonna feck the planet tbh, and allot of his motives comes from his father

The Gopher · 13-10-2002 09:04PM

I dont know where you went to school but the LC takes place in all the schools round here when a student is at the end of their 5th year i.e when most of them are 17 years old.End of 5th year as in the summer before they would go into sixth year,which they dont do unless they **** up the LC and have to repeat.
Maybe your schools have compulsory transition year-none of the schools round here do transsition year at all.
BTW what does IIRC stand for?

But if your schools do some sort of extra year I feel sorry for you;) But I always thiought that the transition year thingy was voluntary.

kaimera · 13-10-2002 11:01PM

Originally posted by StrataGIST
how about the guy who decided "science" and such 'black magic' was outlawd and banned and could get you killed back in the middle ages ?

recon we would be more advanced if science was engouraged for them few hundred years?

Brilliant!
Cures for cancer...deep space travel....abilities to turn ppl to frogs...

Pigman · 13-10-2002 11:45PM

Originally posted by Krusty_Clown
I would kill:
Whoever created that 'rock-the-boat' song.

You'll be looking for a guy called Wally Holmes then apparently.

Bard · 14-10-2002 12:07AM

Probably the guy who, drunk and dozing off at the wheel, ploughed his 16-wheeler truck through the central barrier of a motorway and rammed head on into the front of an oncoming car, just over eight years ago, ... causing my then girlfriend to be flung through the windscreen of said car and sustain massive injuries only to die a week later in hospital.

To top it all off, she was pregnant. (And yes, it was mine)

To top it all off even further, her father (who was driving the car) went into immediate shock and never recovered from the mental scarring caused by the experience. He has since committed suicide.

--

I suppose that's not someone "from History" but ... hell, - he's someone from MY history, so he'll do nicely.

phaxx · 14-10-2002 01:18AM

Originally posted by The Gopher
But if your schools do some sort of extra year I feel sorry for you;) But I always thiought that the transition year thingy was voluntary.

IIRC == If I Recall Correctly.

Ah, I see - yes, I did 4th year, it's compulsary in my school (and I agree with this) I was under the impression everyone did "6th" year as their final, and some schools just skipped 4th and went straight to calling it 5th and then 6th, but that's obviously not the case.

Bard: !

PiE · 14-10-2002 01:41AM

Originally posted by phaxx
Bard: !

Agreed.

...

4th Year wasn't compulsory in my school, and yet we still considered the final year to be 6th, as I'm pretty sure 99.9999999999% (the final 0.0000000001% being Gopher) of the population does.

Oeneus · 14-10-2002 07:18AM

Originally posted by phaxx
Oh don't be rediculous - you reminded me of some complete moron who used to be in my english class (he left school at the end of 5th year, very smart guy) who once said, out loud to the class, "Da Xes and Ys in mats shud be BANNED!"

He's now driving a dump truck to and from some building site.

Heh. Until you got to the "Da Xes and Ys in mats shud be BANNED!" I thought you were talking about me.

Slydice · 14-10-2002 07:44AM

Walt Disney

Shinji · 14-10-2002 01:00PM

I was under the impression everyone did "6th" year as their final, and some schools just skipped 4th and went straight to calling it 5th and then 6th, but that's obviously not the case

Considering the mathematical geniuses Gopher's school is turning out, are you honestly surprised that they can't number their years properly?

As to who I'd kill in history, given a chance... It'd take a lot of careful research work, but if you could find the single person responsible for originating the inquisitions of the middle ages, that's who I'd go for. That person knocked human science and understanding back 150 years single-handedly.

seamus · 14-10-2002 01:00PM

Whoever wrote, "It's raining men".

The way I see it, if someone had killed Hitler before WW2, we'd all be dead now. The nukes finished world war II. Since then, no-one has used a nuke in combat because of the immense destruction we had seen in Nagasaki & Hiroshima, and a hell of a lot about radiation, destruction etc was learned from those two bombs. Back then, nuclear technology was crude at best, and comparatively weak.

If they had left it 10/15 years, and used nukes against someone else, say Stalin, technology would have been well advanced, and so, IMO, there would have been far greater consequences - Most of all:
The weapons would have been far bigger.
The attacked country would have counter-offensive nukes.

If the horror of N & H hadn't been experienced, I think the Americans would have been willing to 'demonstrate' their weapon against someone else at some point.

Bard: ****, I never did buy you that pint in McTurcaills...

Bard · 14-10-2002 01:12PM

Originally posted by seamus

Bard: ****, I never did buy you that pint in McTurcaills...

Eh?

That was 6 months ago!

Had you promised me one?

DRakE · 14-10-2002 01:16PM

Originally posted by PHB
If Hitler had been killed and WW2 had happend

WAke up. Hitler was killed, and WW2 did happen

seamus · 14-10-2002 01:21PM

Originally posted by Bard
Eh?

That was 6 months ago!

Had you promised me one?

Yep, I was quite drunk, muttering something about IOFFL, and about you being the first person I recognised......:)

Snoop_froggy · 14-10-2002 03:03PM

The Director, Producer and all the over writers of
'A WareWolf on Campus'

The Gopher · 14-10-2002 06:07PM

Originally posted by PiE
Agreed.

...

4th Year wasn't compulsory in my school, and yet we still considered the final year to be 6th, as I'm pretty sure 99.9999999999% (the final 0.0000000001% being Gopher) of the population does.

Sorry but I just want to clear something up.I started secondary school about a fortnight short of my 13th birthday and if all goes well will be leaving 3 odd months before my 18th birthday.I personally know people from 5 secondary schools around here(two techs,a boys school,girls school and Protestant school)and they all leave at the end of their 5th year,when the majority are between 17 and 18.
If you dont take the year off for transition year is anybody elses different as its news to me.

kaimera · 14-10-2002 07:13PM

lemme remember...

1st year...
2nd year...
3rd year...JC

5th year...
6th year...LC

Dunno what The Gopher's counting...

4th year [transition year] IS optional.
Nobody calls the start of the senior cycle 4th year.

Tis in fact 5th year.

DeadBankClerk · 14-10-2002 07:43PM

Devore, for stealing my soul.

therecklessone · 14-10-2002 09:46PM

Originally posted by Kaimera

Nobody calls the start of the senior cycle 4th year.

Tis in fact 5th year.

Depends on where you went...

It was 4th year in my school. Did cause a lot of confusion with my college mates though.

Bard · 15-10-2002 09:00AM

... and it was 5th year in my school.

we went 1,2,4,5,6 before the introduction of transition year (which I was no longer in school for).

3rd year didn't exist and 4th year was Junior Cert year. Made the Junior Cert'ers feel a little more important/aloof I suppose - having the higher number than they actually merited.

When they brought in transition year, 3rd year was added and was Junior Cert year while 4th year then became the doss year... I mean transition year, of course...

It's bollocks really... who cares about what numbering system is used?

Some people do 5 years, some do 6. Thats it.

Simple, really.

Originally posted by phaxx
Bard: !

Yes, phaxx?

Makaveli · 15-10-2002 09:13AM

Congratulations to Gopher for pulling this thread totally off topic with the way his school works.

It may be your 5th year in secondary school, but it is generally known as 6th year.
Kaimera showed you how it works.

Who would I kill, er, I dunno.

OLDYELLAR · 15-10-2002 10:26AM

john lennon..ggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

DrizztIE · 15-10-2002 11:45AM

Originally posted by OLDYELLAR
john lennon..ggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

.... you could kill... john lennon ... why?
His music is good.

Carbiens · 15-10-2002 11:54AM

santa

plastic membrane · 15-10-2002 01:41PM

That Motherfu**er Hitler. Possibly Billy Ray Cyrus too..

Sposs · 15-10-2002 03:02PM

your ma!

OLDYELLAR · 15-10-2002 04:20PM

originally posted by DrizztIE

you could kill... john lennon ... why?
His music is good.

i hate john lennon`s music , it`s just a childhood thing and hence i hate john lennon, gggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......................................but since he`s already dead , i guess i l have to find a new goal in life.

po0k · 15-10-2002 04:52PM

Regardoing LC:

My school didn't have a transition year.
At all.
And I'm happier for it.
I got the fúck out of that hole a year earlier and am well pleased with college.
I'd still consider the year you leave to be 5th year, unless you did the transition year in which case it's your 6th year on school.

Regards killing someone: The person(s) responsible for organised religion.
Has cause waaaaaaay to much pointless shíte-hawking over the years.
People adhereing to a specific set of belief's jotten down on some bog roll which ahs been basterdised through the ages by cross-translations, re-writings and "creative interpretation".

All together now "JIHADD!"

If you could kill one person in history...

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