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I cant believe what my friend is doing?

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  • #32
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    mufc4lfe wrote: »
    Mrs.mikom..........is that you?

    Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?


  • #33
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Engineer + Garda = Macgyver guard, how can this not be a good thing?

    Except for the mullet I'm all for it.


  • #34
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    Anybody who gets their hands dirty is labeled as a 'Greese Monkey'.

    Better to play the system, wear a suit & spout crap.

    Thats what FF polititians have done for years.

    Obviously, we as a people, seemed to have looked up to the suit-wearing sleeveens of FF for far too long that can be healthy.

    I can't understand how people here complain about the Govt.

    Who voted them in?

    :confused:

    Where did this come about from a person who changed from Engineering to AGS?


  • #35
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    brendansmith wrote: »
    Building Engineers where suits

    That's true & see how respected they are now!

    In other countries, such as Germany, Engineer, is a protected term.

    In the same way Doctor is here.

    Any auld eejit can call themselves 'engineers' for any job description here.

    Hence engineering, as a term for any career here has been totally devalued.


  • #36
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKII3h22jU

    I watched that opening sequence.

    Now I hate you.

    It's your fault.


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  • #37
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Dude, like I know you think your friend is, like, mental for applying to be, like, a Garda and that, but, like, I'm totally glad you got over your mentalness a while back:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59281972&postcount=1087 :cool:

    Cheer up, OP.

    If there are any vacancies for professional green-eyed monsters, you'll have it nailed. :pac:


  • #38
    the_barfly1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭the_barfly1


    Still a year or more before the Gardai are taking on any more recruits though if im not mistaken?


  • #39
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Overheal wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKII3h22jU

    He's the kid from Sister Sister!!

    Great now I'm youtubing that intro now. Followed by kenan and kel :P


  • #40
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    :confused:

    Where did this come about from a person who changed from Engineering to AGS?

    Okay, I dunno what AGS means....


  • #41
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Great now I'm youtubing that intro now. Followed by kenan and kel
    Kenan Williams is on SNL these days. Kel Mitchell on the other hand, I have no idea. The fact that I remember their full names is the most disturbing thing of it all.

    /the more you know


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  • #42
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    Okay, I dunno what AGS means....

    An Garda Siochana maybe?


  • #43
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Overheal wrote: »
    Kenan Williams is on SNL these days. Kel Mitchell on the other hand, I have no idea. The fact that I remember their full names is the most disturbing thing of it all.

    /the more you know

    Kenan Willams? Try Thompson :P

    And he was Kenan Rockmore on K+K!


  • #44
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    Kenan Williams is on SNL these days. Kel Mitchell on the other hand, I have no idea. The fact that I remember their full names is the most disturbing thing of it all.

    /the more you know

    Kel Mitchell unfortunately died of an Orange Soda overdose in 2002.

    "Who loves Orange Soda?"
    "Kel Mitchell loves Orange Soda to a crippingly, incapacitating and ultimately fatal degree. He does, he does, he does."

    It was a tragic loss.


  • #45
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    An Garda Siochana maybe?

    It might be, but I suspect Anti Govt Stance.


    Well, on that score, I'd say my point is valid.

    Govt's are elected by the people of the country.

    So, it's a cultural thing, this disrespect of anything to do with engineering.

    Your best off getting a job in the Civil Service & all that...


  • #46
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    OP, why is there a question mark at the end of what is obviously a statement in the thread title?


  • #47
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Terry wrote: »
    OP, why is there a question mark at the end of what is obviously a statement in the thread title?

    Im Ron Burgundy?


  • #48
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    mufc4lfe wrote: »
    Well aren't you funny!I only used the word "like" ONCE and you make a big laugh out of it...sad,sad,sad.:rolleyes:

    Dude, loike, I am so loike, looking for a job loike, because I'm a bit recessionista loike.......... Joining the Gardaí? Loike yeah, I can loike do that.......

    Terry wrote: »
    OP, why is there a question mark at the end of what is obviously a statement in the thread title?
    Aaaaarghhh. Grammar Nazi..... Quick Run_To_Da_Hills.........


  • #49
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I spent 4 years doing an electronic engineering degree and there are no jobs for it. Any jobs that are available, they are looking for experienced candidates?

    I think the OP's friend is doing the smart thing in looking elsewhere.


  • #50
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Surely engineering knowledge would be useful in situations arising in the gardai? If he moved into armed units surrounding buildings, also if he has an engineering degree his critical thinking's probably very good

    so prob will get promoted a lot faster than a school leaver. fair play to him.


  • #51
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Does he like doughnuts?


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  • #52
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Dude, like I know you think your friend is, like, mental for applying to be, like, a Garda and that, but, like, I'm totally glad you got over your mentalness a while back:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59281972&postcount=1087 :cool:
    Sheer Genius!!! If I had a hat I'd take it off to you sir!

    REDUNDANT THREAD me thinks ;)


  • #53
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    It might be, but I suspect Anti Govt Stance.


    Well, on that score, I'd say my point is valid.

    Govt's are elected by the people of the country.

    So, it's a cultural thing, this disrespect of anything to do with engineering.

    Your best off getting a job in the Civil Service & all that...

    AGS = An Garda Siochanna. So your post really made no sense. Never heard of anyone abbreviating "Anti government stance" but if it is a standard abbreviation then obviously an understandable error.


  • #54
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Chicks dig uniforms.


  • #55
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    bonerm wrote: »
    Chicks dig uniforms.

    especially the ones they wear in mountjoy


  • #56
    Crash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,218 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    Okay, I dunno what AGS means....
    I don't think you know what engineer means either, tbh.


  • #57
    Dopey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Dopey


    He will be very well equipped to defend the state against engine crimes.


  • #58
    c0rk3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    I know a lad finished a four year Chemistry degree applying to Sandhurst (British Army Officer training camp). Hes from Dublin with no connections to Britain... When asked why hes trying to get in he joked about the uncertainty principle and Schrodinger cat


  • #59
    MoominPapa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Dude, like I know you think your friend is, like, mental for applying to be, like, a Garda and that, but, like, I'm totally glad you got over your mentalness a while back:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59281972&postcount=1087 :cool:

    Nice bit of detective work. Ever think of becomming a Garda?


  • #60
    ChemOC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭ChemOC


    c0rk3r wrote: »
    I know a lad finished a four year Chemistry degree applying to Sandhurst (British Army Officer training camp). Hes from Dublin with no connections to Britain... When asked why hes trying to get in he joked about the uncertainty principle and Schrodinger cat

    My military career is both alive and dead until you tell me whether I've been hired!


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  • #61
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Except for the mullet I'm all for it.
    Don't diss the fro bro, it's where he hides his awesome. :D


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