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shruikan2553 · 04-02-2014 11:20PM

coolhull wrote: »

I believe the point he/she was making is that anyone who does attend college of any sort should make it a priority to at least be able to spell the name of the institute correctly.
Or is that too much to ask of a third-level student?

Often it is. Many people are attending "collage".

GarIT · 05-02-2014 11:10AM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Often it is. Many people are attending "collage".

As well as that Ireland doesn't know what a college is. All over the world except in Ireland, the UK and New Zealand, college implies a standard of education and not just a type. In the rest of the world to label an institute as a college the institute has to pass a series of tests examining it's standard of education, In Ireland anything after secondary school is college. In the rest of the world University also implies a higher standard of education than a college but in Ireland universities are decided based on an arbitrary decision by government based on where we need something labelled a university.

petes · 05-02-2014 11:13AM

FortuneWookiee wrote: »

Some friend you are.

I think it's a bit low to indirectly make fun of a whole load of people who attend. They're just trying to better themselves.

Sorry, but that's as funny as some of the statuses on this thread!

yerwanthere123 · 05-02-2014 12:50PM

I just saw a sick video of baby sitters caught being abusive to small children,it made me breath very heavy.and realltly disturbed me my heart is still beating hard. If someone abused my Childen u would literaly beat them til most boneswher broken.then id goto tothe kitchen get a.sharp blade and completely remove there head.

Dunno why you'd go to the bother of beating them until "most boneswher broken" when you're going to remove the head anyway?

Alf Veedersane · 05-02-2014 12:51PM

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Dunno why you'd go to the bother of beating them until "most boneswher broken" when you're going to remove the head anyway?

I'd imagine it's to inflict as much pain as possible before ending them.

No Pants · 05-02-2014 01:00PM

coolhull wrote: »

I believe the point he/she was making is that anyone who does attend college of any sort should make it a priority to at least be able to spell the name of the institute correctly.
Or is that too much to ask of a third-level student?

Certainly by the end of their second year they should have it down.

PerrinV2 · 05-02-2014 07:38PM

After the amount of facebook movies popping up today one man had too much
"****in facebook movies! c***s are everywhere"

Well it made me lol

implausible · 06-02-2014 07:57PM

GarIT wrote: »

As well as that Ireland doesn't know what a college is. All over the world except in Ireland, the UK and New Zealand, college implies a standard of education and not just a type. In the rest of the world to label an institute as a college the institute has to pass a series of tests examining it's standard of education, In Ireland anything after secondary school is college. In the rest of the world University also implies a higher standard of education than a college but in Ireland universities are decided based on an arbitrary decision by government based on where we need something labelled a university.

Em, lots of secondary schools have college in the title. It's just a synonym for school.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 06-02-2014 08:11PM

GarIT wrote: »

As well as that Ireland doesn't know what a college is. All over the world except in Ireland, the UK and New Zealand, college implies a standard of education and not just a type. In the rest of the world to label an institute as a college the institute has to pass a series of tests examining it's standard of education, In Ireland anything after secondary school is college. In the rest of the world University also implies a higher standard of education than a college but in Ireland universities are decided based on an arbitrary decision by government based on where we need something labelled a university.

College isn't an official title in Ireland. It's just a common term used by people when talking about what ever place of higher education they attend. It doesn't higher or lessen anywhere so I don't see the problem with it?

GarIT · 06-02-2014 08:18PM

implausible wrote: »

Em, lots of secondary schools have college in the title. It's just a synonym for school.

I know, I basically said that in my post.

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

College isn't an official title in Ireland. It's just a common term used by people when talking about what ever place of higher education they attend. It doesn't higher or lessen anywhere so I don't see the problem with it?

The problem I have with it is that it isn't an official title and we don't conform to the majority of the rest of the worlds standards. The word college was invented to imply a high standard of education and prestige. Ireland adopted the term but not the standards.

In a strange way it works in Ireland favour. Someone who did a PLC course could make the claim of being a college graduate where in America you would have to have done much more to be a college graduate. That is why there is much more of an emphasis on it in America.

06-02-2014 08:21PM

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Dunno why you'd go to the bother of beating them until "most boneswher broken" when you're going to remove the head anyway?

I also don't know why she's instructing us to beat them for her

XxMCRxBabyxX · 06-02-2014 08:29PM

GarIT wrote: »

I know, I basically said that in my post.

The problem I have with it is that it isn't an official title and we don't conform to the majority of the rest of the worlds standards. The word college was invented to imply a high standard of education and presteige. Ireland adopted the term but not the standards.

No it wasn't.

Oxford Dictionaries:

college
Top 1000 frequently used words
Line breaks: col|lege
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlɪdʒ /
NOUN
1an educational institution or establishment, in particular:
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1.1one providing higher education or specialized professional or vocational training:
colleges of further education
I’m at college, studying graphic design
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SYNONYMS
1.2(in Britain) any of the independent institutions into which certain universities are separated, each having its own teaching staff, students, and buildings:
the Oxford colleges
[IN NAMES]: Trinity College, Cambridge
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1.3British a private secondary school:
[IN NAMES]: Eton College
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1.4US a university offering a limited curriculum or teaching only to a bachelor’s degree:
[IN NAMES]: Harvard College
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1.5the teaching staff and students of a college considered collectively:
the college was shocked by his death
2an organized group of professional people with particular aims, duties, and privileges:
[IN NAMES]: the Royal College of Physicians

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin collegium 'partnership', from collega 'partner in office', from col- 'together with' + legare 'depute'.

Wikipedia:

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. Usage of the word college varies in English-speaking nations. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate university, or an institution offering vocational education.
In the United States, "college" formally refers to a constituent part of a university. In the US, "college" and "university" are interchangeable,[1] whereas in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and other former and present Commonwealth nations, "college" may refer to a secondary or high school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, or a constituent part of a university. (See this comparison of British and American English educational terminology for further information.)

There is no one meaning and it's general meaning is accepted as simply being a place of education. The word was invented in a time when varying standards of education didn't even really exist and in fact the word college can now sometimes be seen as to lessen an education in some cases (i.e. to a University) as opposed to "imply a high standard of education and prestige."

XxMCRxBabyxX · 06-02-2014 08:37PM

GarIT wrote: »

In a strange way it works in Ireland favour. Someone who did a PLC course could make the claim of being a college graduate where in America you would have to have done much more to be a college graduate. That is why there is much more of an emphasis on it in America.

That's just colloquialisms. It's not like it would actually affect your CV in any way.

GarIT · 06-02-2014 08:46PM

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

That's just colloquialisms. It's not like it would actually affect your CV in any way.

I know, I'm not saying its a big issue really, I'm just saying if it was up to me I'd do it differently. As you said yourself it could be used to degrade institutes as in not being a uni, I think we need another word for PLC courses. A relative did an IT course and one of the people teaching them only had a leaving cert and just had an interest in the field, that's embarrassing. It would be insulting to colleges to class them with a place that offers level 6s and 5s.

06-02-2014 09:35PM

The following showed up on a friends FB page who's girlfriend had a baby before Christmas:

H
X

His girlfriend then commented on it with this:

Aww <inserts baby name here>'s 1st status x

The baby is about 3 months old

:rolleyes:

yerwanthere123 · 07-02-2014 02:37PM

Back to tralee so tommorow for the "college night" Hope its good. Must pull meself a hoe.

coolhull · 07-02-2014 07:01PM

Is gardening one of his hobbies?

honerbright · 07-02-2014 07:23PM

Goodbye snapchat..ur way too expensive for me..phone bill 112euro and 65euro on snap chats..FML!!!!

krudler · 07-02-2014 07:25PM

honerbright wrote: »

Goodbye snapchat..ur way too expensive for me..phone bill 112euro and 65euro on snap chats..FML!!!!

does snapchat charge you? thought it just used data

honerbright · 07-02-2014 07:38PM

krudler wrote: »

does snapchat charge you? thought it just used data

That's what I thought! I don't use it, but how many would you be sending/receiving to generate that kind of cost?

Tetra · 09-02-2014 02:56AM

Jane...feeling loved
Dave, I love you sooo much!!♥

Dave likes this.
Dave I love you too, my Angel.

(Puke!)

Tetra · 09-02-2014 03:26AM

"Her smile (For my Wife)

I love you more than words can say, and I know you know it's true.

When I look in your eyes I see no pain deep in those orbs so blue.

I see I chose as I should when you smile back at me.

For it is with not your hand but with your heart that you hold on my key.

Your love makes me both week but strong, enough to move a mountain.

When I have big dreams and set my goal it's you who makes me doubt none.

Without your love and support I would make it not a mile.

For it is you who guides me and lights my way with nothing but your smile."

coolhull · 10-02-2014 12:23AM

Tetra wrote: »

"Her smile (For my Wife)

I love you more than words can say, and I know you know it's true.

When I look in your eyes I see no pain deep in those orbs so blue.

I see I chose as I should when you smile back at me.

For it is with not your hand but with your heart that you hold on my key.

Your love makes me both week but strong, enough to move a mountain.

When I have big dreams and set my goal it's you who makes me doubt none.

Without your love and support I would make it not a mile.

For it is you who guides me and lights my way with nothing but your smile."

That strange noise you hear is Wordsworth spinning in his tomb

leggo · 10-02-2014 12:50PM

You know you've got a real gem of a Facebook friend when they write in such bad textspeak that at the end it says, "See Translation"

shruikan2553 · 10-02-2014 01:40PM

leggo wrote: »

You know you've got a real gem of a Facebook friend when they write in such bad textspeak that at the end it says, "See Translation"

was about to put up that a friend of mine was asking why facebook keeps doing that on their comments. No idea the polite way of telling them that a computer thinks they're illiterate.

Muise... · 10-02-2014 01:54PM

Some Cork clown doesn't understand:

a) Emergency call protocols

b) That Emergency services will not arrive at the speed of light

and that perhaps he should look for a lifebelt along the quay, and save his anger for whoever removed them.

Status shared by 1,776 people, who love the drama.

"Just saw a guy drown....I called emergency services and asked for cork city services, I asked for an ambulance and fire brigade.....when asked my location I said Patrick's bridge city centre, I was then asked where that was, could I perhaps name the closest street....I said Patrick street.....I was then asked was I in Fermoy or Middleton.......I said CORK CITY.....she said she couldn't locate it......at this point the guy had drifted as far as Parnell place (just by the bus station) at which point he had gone under......so I told the way too calm and collected idiot on the phone that we were by cork city bus station on Parnell place.......she responded......nope, can't find that either.......
Somebody on the other side of the river had rang too as we ran into each other on the bridge......his call arrived....but the guy was gone..
The men who arrived were doing the best they could......

But once again, what's the ****in point in having emergency service numbers when they treat you like your ordering a ****in pizza and that time is not a factor on the ****in phone.....

AND....how ****in slow do you have to be to not be able to find PATRICKS ****ING BRIDGE if your the operator for CORK ****IN CITY.........

Finally to the guy who was in the water I'm sorry."

Pawwed Rig · 10-02-2014 01:55PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

No idea the polite way of telling them that a computer thinks they're illiterate.

I think blunt honesty is the best policy. Please post response here.

ivytwine · 10-02-2014 02:36PM

Muise... wrote: »

Some Cork clown doesn't understand:

a) Emergency call protocols

b) That Emergency services will not arrive at the speed of light

and that perhaps he should look for a lifebelt along the quay, and save his anger for whoever removed them.

Status shared by 1,776 people, who love the drama.

"Just saw a guy drown....I called emergency services and asked for cork city services, I asked for an ambulance and fire brigade.....when asked my location I said Patrick's bridge city centre, I was then asked where that was, could I perhaps name the closest street....I said Patrick street.....I was then asked was I in Fermoy or Middleton.......I said CORK CITY.....she said she couldn't locate it......at this point the guy had drifted as far as Parnell place (just by the bus station) at which point he had gone under......so I told the way too calm and collected idiot on the phone that we were by cork city bus station on Parnell place.......she responded......nope, can't find that either.......
Somebody on the other side of the river had rang too as we ran into each other on the bridge......his call arrived....but the guy was gone..
The men who arrived were doing the best they could......

But once again, what's the ****in point in having emergency service numbers when they treat you like your ordering a ****in pizza and that time is not a factor on the ****in phone.....

AND....how ****in slow do you have to be to not be able to find PATRICKS ****ING BRIDGE if your the operator for CORK ****IN CITY.........

Finally to the guy who was in the water I'm sorry."

I saw this yesterday and something really didn't sit right with me.

First of all, if someone had drowned in Cork, I think we would have heard about it on the news by now?

Secondly, and I know this because a friend of mine had an accident in Cork city recently, as well as that kid from Midleton that died, the ambulance services are really stretched but that an operator wouldn't know where Parnell St bus station is? Unlikely. More likely the ambulance couldn't get there in time.

And lastly, he couldn't get an ambulance so he just stood there and watched the guy drown?

Either someone has been listening to too much Phil Collins or he's the t-word...

RainyDay · 10-02-2014 03:17PM

ivytwine wrote: »

I saw this yesterday and something really didn't sit right with me.

First of all, if someone had drowned in Cork, I think we would have heard about it on the news by now?

Secondly, and I know this because a friend of mine had an accident in Cork city recently, as well as that kid from Midleton that died, the ambulance services are really stretched but that an operator wouldn't know where Parnell St bus station is? Unlikely. More likely the ambulance couldn't get there in time.

And lastly, he couldn't get an ambulance so he just stood there and watched the guy drown?

Either someone has been listening to too much Phil Collins or he's the t-word...

It doesn't sound very credible, but if there is any truth to his claim that the operator couldn't find 'Patrick St', then there is a very serious problem here. Is it possible that the operator on the end of the phone was a long way from Cork, and had possibly never been to Cork and never heard of Patrick St?

Muise... · 10-02-2014 03:38PM

RainyDay wrote: »

It doesn't sound very credible, but if there is any truth to his claim that the operator couldn't find 'Patrick St', then there is a very serious problem here. Is it possible that the operator on the end of the phone was a long way from Cork, and had possibly never been to Cork and never heard of Patrick St?

He describes the operator as "way too calm and collected", which tells you a lot - it seems he'd prefer it if they spazzed out altogether and posted OMG on facebook rather than working out the logistics of a rescue - so I'm guessing he was ranting and roaring and they didn't understand him.

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