Did you go out to celebrate when you got your Leaving Cert results?

Duck's hoop · 13-08-2014 08:33PM

Macavity. wrote: »

Back in my day, instead of a holiday after the exams we got a punch in the face. And we were lucky to get it too!

Youth is truly squandered on you.

Fiolina · 13-08-2014 08:33PM

Emmeline Deep Mule wrote: »

Innocence my eye! I think we were more street wise and tuned into the world than many nowadays. Simpler times due to affordability perhaps but not innocent. When many guys were working from the age of 13 we soon lost our innocence. I was lucky to have had a scholarship to stay at school until the leaving cert.

Yeah, you're right actually. When I did my leaving, I'd been working part time since I was 13 (prob why I failed exams) but I'd been there, done that etc so it was no big deal going out for the exams whereas for most of my friends it was a really big deal.

aqn29swlgbmiu4 · 13-08-2014 08:38PM

Rang all my friends to see how they got on!

sblythe · 13-08-2014 08:43PM

I was in work that very evening, so no. All my mates did though, and my boss even asked me if I wanted the night off but I declined. On the plus side, my parents did contribute a bit to my car insurance because I did well. 5 years ago now.

Aineoil · 13-08-2014 08:44PM

I got my results in 1987. I did well and I got what I wanted, my parents weren't that happy with my results. I think my father wanted my Leaving Cert results to be amazing. My results were very good, but in my father's eyes unless you got 8 A's, you weren't that good.

I wasn't allowed out to celebrate as my parents were at a family wedding the day the results came out as I had to look after my younger sisters. Even if there was no wedding I don't think I would have been allowed out to celebrate. That was a bit crazy because in less than a month I was at university and could celebrate any thing in a pub......and we did. I wasn't really a drinker .

Did we even celebrate the LC results back then?

Anyways my son will sit he LC in two years time. I'll never put him under the pressure I was put under. I will support him in any career choice he makes. He's more clued in than I was at his age.

At the end of the day life is short and you should choose a career that makes you happy. Life is no dress rehearsal.

better call saul · 13-08-2014 08:45PM

the groutch wrote: »

Yes, but I didn't get plastered and act like a complete asshat like most of them will tonight.

I did was mighty, got the shift and a sneaky boob grab.

If only my life achievements were as simple now as getting to touch a breast

better call saul · 13-08-2014 08:47PM

Lizbeth Wide Manatee wrote: »

Rang all my friends to see how they got on!

One of them cnuts are we?

The Rabbit · 13-08-2014 08:50PM

Oh yes indeed!

I bought new clothes, lashed half a tub of gel into the hair, a cloud of Lynx Africa.

Headed into town with all my mates.

Got told to piss off home at the door of the nightclub. I didn't turn eighteen until midnight.

The bastards.

sblythe · 13-08-2014 08:50PM

Aineoil wrote: »

Did we even celebrate the LC results back then?

Do we even celebrate results now? My cousin got her results today, she got 390 points, but her friend failed (miserably, I'm told). I'm not sure what she got, but she didn't care very much, and she is still accompanying my cousin and her friends out to celebrate.

takamichinoku · 13-08-2014 08:53PM

Yep, about 10 of us went to LONGFORD

. I wasn't gonna go originally but my mam was gone so nuts at home about my results (they weren't bad, no clue what she expected) that I figured I should get away. On the way into the club (Longford had one back then, maybe even two; this was before the banks and all that, like), me and the guy I got along best with over my five years in the school decided instead to go get some things in the off license and have a big long conversation instead, was great.
I remember there was something weird about the whole night that made it really obvious we'd never speak to each other again though.

efb · 13-08-2014 08:55PM

Went out, got drunk singing "ain't nothing gonna break my stride" and got a certificate of whiskey appreciation or something lol

forgotten password · 13-08-2014 08:55PM

no i went pickin stones

sblythe · 13-08-2014 08:59PM

takamichinoku wrote: »

I remember there was something weird about the whole night that made it really obvious we'd never speak to each other again though.

I stayed in contact with a few friends after 6th year but eventually they all went off to do bigger and better things and I only know one now, whom I haven't seen in about a year. The thought never crossed my mind when we were in school.

MRnotlob606 · 13-08-2014 09:03PM

We drank a many a lemonade and engaged in a four hour long orgy in a barn with some quadriplegic goats whilst wearing occult-like masks and chanting vaudeville era songs, that's how we do things down the country.

C.K Dexter Haven · 13-08-2014 09:06PM

Macavity. wrote: »

Back in my day, instead of a holiday after the exams we got a punch in the face. And we were lucky to get it too!

We would have been happy to get the exams in the first place, no less a good decent punch in the face:(

OK, we'll leave it there:P

baldbear · 13-08-2014 09:09PM

I drowned my sorrows! I Did bad and ended up in Athlone.....I remember looking up the CAO points on teletext.. Aghh the good old days.

takamichinoku · 13-08-2014 09:09PM

sblythe wrote: »

I stayed in contact with a few friends after 6th year but eventually they all went off to do bigger and better things and I only know one now, whom I haven't seen in about a year. The thought never crossed my mind when we were in school.

Ah sure it was probably 17 year old me endlessly ranting about how I'm done with all the c*nts in Longford that gave it that vibe, really.

13-08-2014 09:09PM

sblythe wrote: »

I stayed in contact with a few friends after 6th year but eventually they all went off to do bigger and better things and I only know one now, whom I haven't seen in about a year. The thought never crossed my mind when we were in school.

Strange how different things turn out for different people. I'd be the opposite to you, my main group of friends are the same ones I started 1st year in school with 16 years ago. We all went to university locally with some of us even doing the same course so the group never got broken up.

On the other hand as we were all around we didn't really mix much with others in university so I don't keep in contact with people from undergrad at all.

JillyQ · 13-08-2014 09:12PM

Got mine 27 years ago. I was in boarding school had to ring the school took about an hour to get through. Went out that night with some of my friends from home. Was happy enough with them.

Aineoil · 13-08-2014 09:14PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

We drank a many a lemonade and engaged in a four hour long orgy in a barn with some quadriplegic goats whilst wearing occult-like masks and chanting vaudeville era songs, that's how we do things down the country.

Maybe in your part of the country.

Are you from Cork?:eek: You guys do things differently!!!!!!!

Captain Chaos · 13-08-2014 09:14PM

Got mine 11 years ago and didn't go out as I was so angry at what I got compared to my mocks. Looking back now, it was a waste of time and I never needed it anyway as the college courses I did do I had no interest in. If I left school after my JC I'd actually be in an even better position today.

DazMarz · 13-08-2014 09:15PM

Back when I got mine, we were all warned by the teachers not to go off mad drinking. Of course, a lot of us were like "Eh, we are no longer your pupils. We're able to do whatever the fúck we want. Good luck with that." Basically, "FÚCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME!!!"

Found the only bar in the whole town that was open at 10am. Rough as a badger's arse this place was. But seeing as the only other customers at this point were a couple of old alcoholics, we ensconced ourselves and began drinking. Like fúck.

We then intended to troop into Dublin for a proper gee-eyed session. I, however, got an itch. An itch to play poker. And it wasn't going away.

I arranged to meet up with the lads in a club later on, while I stole away to a casino in the heart of Dublin for a tournament. I assured the lads that in my inebriated state I would be soon knocked out and would join them once the itch to play poker had been scratched.

I didn't get knocked out as quickly as planned. Ended up winning the tournament (I sobered up as the night wore on and began pumping the coffee in), pocketing a cool €1300. I got a taxi home and fell into bed with my winnings in my arse pocket and slept. The sun was well up by the time I got home, about 7:30am.

I got 495 points and €1300. Not a bad result!!!

kfallon · 13-08-2014 09:15PM

Was a lovely sunny day, got my results, knew I'd got enough points so lay in a field having a few cans with mates in the afternoon. Parents took me for a pint in early evening, got something to eat and out again with my mates! Standard stuff I would imagine!

Aineoil · 13-08-2014 09:18PM

baldbear wrote: »

I Did bad and ended up in Athlone......

There's no such thing as doing bad. Are you happy in a general way?

Aineoil · 13-08-2014 09:21PM

DazMarz wrote: »

Back when I got mine, we were all warned by the teachers not to go off mad drinking. Of course, a lot of us were like "Eh, we are no longer your pupils. We're able to do whatever the fúck we want. Good luck with that." Basically, "FÚCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME!!!"

Found the only bar in the whole town that was open at 10am. Rough as a badger's arse this place was. But seeing as the only other customers at this point were a couple of old alcoholics, we ensconced ourselves and began drinking. Like fúck.

We then intended to troop into Dublin for a proper gee-eyed session. I, however, got an itch. An itch to play poker. And it wasn't going away.

I arranged to meet up with the lads in a club later on, while I stole away to a casino in the heart of Dublin for a tournament. I assured the lads that in my inebriated state I would be soon knocked out and would join them once the itch to play poker had been scratched.

I didn't get knocked out as quickly as planned. Ended up winning the tournament (I sobered up as the night wore on and began pumping the coffee in), pocketing a cool €1300. I got a taxi home and fell into bed with my winnings in my arse pocket and slept. The sun was well up by the time I got home, about 7:30am.

I got 495 points and €1300. Not a bad result!!!

Now that is a result. I give you an A +++++++++++++++

sblythe · 13-08-2014 09:22PM

Tony Melodic Bed wrote: »

Strange how different things turn out for different people. I'd be the opposite to you, my main group of friends are the same ones I started 1st year in school with 16 years ago. We all went to university locally with some of us even doing the same course so the group never got broken up.

On the other hand as we were all around we didn't really mix much with others in university so I don't keep in contact with people from undergrad at all.

Indeed. One of my friends went to study back in his country, and two others went to two separate colleges. I knew absolutely nobody in my course but now I have made some great friends.

Aineoil · 13-08-2014 09:37PM

Fiolina wrote: »

Yeah, you're right actually. When I did my leaving, I'd been working part time since I was 13 (prob why I failed exams) but I'd been there, done that etc so it was no big deal going out for the exams whereas for most of my friends it was a really big deal.

Fiolina
You liked my post. So as an aside I have to tell you all my father refused to drive me to the exam center. I thumbed a drive to sit all of my exams.

In 1984 you could thumb a drive.

Fiolina · 13-08-2014 09:46PM

Aineoil wrote: »

Fiolina
You liked my post. So as an aside I have to tell you all my father refused to drive me to the exam center. I thumbed a drive to sit all of my exams.

In 1984 you could thumb a drive.

You could thumb a lift and there wouldn't be an eyebrow raised.
As another aside - I did work experience (after my leaving) in the arsehole of kKldare in the early 90's when random girls went missing, always hitched and didn't think twice about it :eek:

JillyQ · 13-08-2014 09:51PM

Fiolina wrote: »

You could thumb a lift and there wouldn't be an eyebrow raised.
As another aside - I did work experience (after my leaving) in the arsehole of kKldare in the early 90's when random girls went missing, always hitched and didn't think twice about it :eek:

Used to thumb from dublin to galway in the late eighties & early nineties. It was reasonably safe back then.

Mariasofia · 13-08-2014 09:54PM

JillyQ wrote: »

Used to thumb from dublin to galway in the late eighties & early nineties. It was reasonably safe back then.

I remember thumbing to Dublin with my sis years ago. A big muscly truckie pulls up "hop in girls

" ..... we did and so did my ma who was hiding behind a wall :-D
.......... we got dumped in Fermoy!!

Did you go out to celebrate when you got your Leaving Cert results?

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