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Official bitch about daily life in UL

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    #8012
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    I genuinely believe there are a small group of people interested in the welfare of these dogs. They represent a very small minority. The rest is made up of sheep, picking a side then voicing their mostly uneducated, bias view on it, but sadly majority is made of trolls; and these trolls know they're at an all you can eat buffet.
    I haven't been following it really either, just had a quick look today, looks like things have gotten out of hand, not sure what either side have said but there's been threats of guards and the like.
    Agree with TMJ here though, if you're going to target the dogs based on the grounds of them being mistreated and that their racing for our pleasure; they have to target student race day too.
    Personally think it's a situation, handled badly from the beginning and given the fuel to escalate. Come Monday you'll never hear anything of it again. Until maybe next year.


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    #8013
    Anonymagician
    Registered Users Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Anonymagician


    I think the protestors intentions are good, but they have went about it the wrong way in attacking students and all the reviews on the SU page etc. I wish there could be civilised discussion over the issue, but unfortunately the people trying to be funny on the protest event page are making UL students look incredibly dim.


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    #8014
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Anonymagician wrote: »
    I think the protestors intentions are good, but they have went about it the wrong way in attacking students and all the reviews on the SU page etc. I wish there could be civilised discussion over the issue, but unfortunately the people trying to be funny on the protest event page are making UL students look incredibly dim.

    Don't blame me, I'm an alumnus, not a student. :pac:


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    #8015
    iLaura
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Don't blame me, I'm an alumnus, not a student. :pac:

    Can we pretend that we never left?


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    #8016
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    iLaura wrote: »
    Can we pretend that we never left?

    I still haven't! :pac:

    Denial is a wonderful way of not facing the real world. :P


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    #8017
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    I'm a student!! :D

    But I just don't care...
    Blissful ignorance, perhaps not the best way to tackle things, but F***, it's effective anyway :D
    One would think other students have commitments similar to myself at this point of the year.
    I don't mean to judge or tar all with the same brush (by saying that it means I can say what I'm about to without ridicule ;P) but they don't seem like the people who have their modules learnt off by heart :P


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    #8018
    iLaura
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    Chris Martin wrote: »
    I'm a student!! :D

    But I just don't care...
    Blissful ignorance, perhaps not the best way to tackle things, but F***, it's effective anyway :D
    One would think other students have commitments similar to myself at this point of the year.
    I don't mean to judge or tar all with the same brush (by saying that it means I can say what I'm about to without ridicule ;P) but they don't seem like the people who have their modules learnt off by heart :P

    Gooood Chris, education isnt about learning things off by heart, its about UNDERSTANDING the material, everyone knows that :P


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    #8019
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    Apologies, I hold everyone to the same Zen standards as myself..
    Study it, breathe it, be it, reproduce it.

    Also the latter wasn't meant to be taken literally as much as it was a nice way of saying 'have done f*ck all thus far..' :D

    Damn my niceties!


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    #8020
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    Okay having read that facebook page now more thoroughly. The stupidity, ignorance, bullying for "bants" etc. astounds me. I've seen maybe one sensible post so far....


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    #8021
    iLaura
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    legocrazy505 wrote: »
    Okay having read that facebook page now more thoroughly. The stupidity, ignorance, bullying for "bants" etc. astounds me. I've seen maybe one sensible post so far....

    Yup, they're as bad as each other. Though I do think Colin Clarke's post hit the nail on the head, and how most of the protestors ignored the valid argument and question in preference to responding to 'trolls'.


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    #8022
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    iLaura wrote: »
    Yup, they're as bad as each other. Though I do think Colin Clarke's post hit the nail on the head, and how most of the protestors ignored the valid argument and question in preference to responding to 'trolls'.

    This is basically my feelings in politics too and generally with how a debate is conducted these days. Listening to someone on 4FM blabber on about "leftists" being the PC police and "tree huggers" when the alt-right do just as much PC outrage.

    Debates and public discussion these days are not about the exchanging of ideas, it's a mud slinging contest.

    And also then you have the fact that on either side when they are hit with a good point they will just pretend it's not valid or not true in any way. Nobody is willing to even agree on common issues. Oxford Dictionaries picking "post-truth" as the word of the year is pretty apt considering what we've seen in public debate and discussion, on that events thread or in the presidential debates.

    I'm probably repeating myself but I've found these days I can't go a day without questioning my faith in humanity. :P


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    #8023
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,552 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    legocrazy505 wrote: »

    I'm probably repeating myself but I've found these days I can't go a day without questioning my faith in humanity. :P

    Wait until it gets to the point where "How to successfully live as a recluse" and related topics show up in your internet history...


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    #8024
    Killergreene
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 431 ✭✭Killergreene


    sounds like a job for john cambridge guys. He'd have cleared these vermon off the UL page long ago and he'd have skinned every greyhound in castletroy just to further incite the crowd. The force was strong in him.


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    #8025
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    I miss the days of the true JC... :'(


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    #8026
    Aragneer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Aragneer


    The handling of the dogs race night was very bad on both parts. What annoys me most as someone who works and helps animal welfare charities, etc, is how awful the protesters and keyboard warriors. They showed good facts with their articles about the dogs but then attacked all students as a whole and earned themselves the award of 'trolls'. They did a terrible thing for the cause and probably turned a few students away from even thinking about the welfare of the dogs.

    I won't get into that kind of stuff.

    On the side of the SU - I voiced my opinions a few pages ago about my lack of respect for them with their gifs and their handling of it. It's my own personal thought and I will go further into it if anyone wants but yeah...

    ON ANOTHER MATTER:

    So Enda Kenny is coming to campus today. Anyone going to the protest?

    Anyone going to TP him for his tweet and discussion on Pence? (Sorry to anyone who actually condones Pence's views but yeah).
    I'd rather protest about that then the fees but then again - I am alumni.


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    #8027
    FlyingIrishMan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭FlyingIrishMan


    Aragneer wrote: »
    Anyone going to TP him for his tweet and discussion on Pence? (Sorry to anyone who actually condones Pence's views but yeah).
    I'd rather protest about that then the fees but then again - I am alumni.

    It's politics, he can't not be friendly with the soon to be President and VP of the US.


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    #8028
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    FlyingIrishMan wrote: »
    It's politics, he can't not be friendly with the soon to be President and VP of the US.

    You don't have to play mr nice puppy dog in politics. See how other EU members are handling it for how you are supposed to play the game. The way Enda is playing it makes him look like some two faced teenager girl, call Trump's comments racist then a few months later they are two peas in a pod.

    Anyway with the protest, I can't go because physics test. Lecturer didn't turn up last time because he misread his timetable, with any luck he'll misread it again.


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    #8029
    Aragneer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Aragneer


    FlyingIrishMan wrote: »
    It's politics, he can't not be friendly with the soon to be President and VP of the US.

    I've seen plenty of politicians and others be unfriendly to the soon-to-be president and VP.

    He can be friendly but a fair 'congrats' would have been fine. What he said about Pence understanding the Irish public made me sick.

    Anyone - not to get into that as politics turn people against one another -

    I would love to see what numbers turn out for the protest.


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    #8030
    TMJM96
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭TMJM96


    Aragneer wrote: »
    The handling of the dogs race night was very bad on both parts. What annoys me most as someone who works and helps animal welfare charities, etc, is how awful the protesters and keyboard warriors. They showed good facts with their articles about the dogs but then attacked all students as a whole and earned themselves the award of 'trolls'. They did a terrible thing for the cause and probably turned a few students away from even thinking about the welfare of the dogs.

    I won't get into that kind of stuff.

    On the side of the SU - I voiced my opinions a few pages ago about my lack of respect for them with their gifs and their handling of it. It's my own personal thought and I will go further into it if anyone wants but yeah...

    ON ANOTHER MATTER:

    So Enda Kenny is coming to campus today. Anyone going to the protest?

    Anyone going to TP him for his tweet and discussion on Pence? (Sorry to anyone who actually condones Pence's views but yeah).
    I'd rather protest about that then the fees but then again - I am alumni.

    Want to but I have college. I could probably skip it but it's week 12 so I feel going to a tutorial might help.

    I hope there's a decent crowd at it


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    #8031
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    Didn't even know it was on..
    That said, would I have gone?
    I'm not opposed to the student loan schemes they want to put in place, so long as they don't mess around with it. The interest free ones you pay back when you get a job as part of wage.
    Don't trust them an inch with it though.
    How Enda got back in as Taoiseach amazes me as much as Trump and Brexit.
    It's been a queer old year..


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    #8032
    TMJM96
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭TMJM96


    Does anyone know that when filling in an exit form do you actually have to get the course director to sign it?

    Thanks.


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    #8033
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    TMJM96 wrote: »
    Does anyone know that when filling in an exit form do you actually have to get the course director to sign it?

    Thanks.

    I didn't.


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    #8034
    Aceandstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    What happens if the co-op visitor doesn't "visit" or call during the co-op? I'm on an international co-op, and I've been told that it's likely to be a phone call. Nothing has been arranged yet, but I know who the visitor is supposed to be. Should I be trying to organise a call or something?


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    #8035
    Pete123456
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Aceandstuff wrote: »
    What happens if the co-op visitor doesn't "visit" or call during the co-op? I'm on an international co-op, and I've been told that it's likely to be a phone call. Nothing has been arranged yet, but I know who the visitor is supposed to be. Should I be trying to organise a call or something?

    They will organise the call (if there is one, although there should be) and they'll probably have spoken to your boss or supervisor already to see how you're getting on. It's a pretty laid back affair usually unless your supervisor is unhappy or something :)


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    #8036
    FionnK86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    They will organise the call (if there is one, although there should be) and they'll probably have spoken to your boss or supervisor already to see how you're getting on. It's a pretty laid back affair usually unless your supervisor is unhappy or something :)

    One of my best memories of Coop was the supervisor visit. I had told my boss that one of my lecturers was coming in on a certain day and he assured me that he would be there.

    The day of the visit he's no where to be seen. I had to send up the garage foreman so I had at least someone to talk to him. Lecturer arrives in, dressed in suit with briefcase, Graham the garage foreman comes up to the office covered head to toe in oil, shakes my lecturers hand (now also covered in oil), and precedes to tell him i was doing a 'grand job with the computers'. :D

    I passed Coop anyway, but would to know what his comments were about the place :)


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    #8037
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    I didnt even get a phone call when I was on Coop.. I think if you go abroad theres far less of a chance of them following up..


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    #8038
    TMJM96
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭TMJM96


    Given it's study week now I just want to remind ye to download ALL your notes off SULIS now because every study week it crashes :rolleyes:


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    #8039
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,552 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Chris Martin wrote: »
    I didnt even get a phone call when I was on Coop.. I think if you go abroad theres far less of a chance of them following up..

    I got one long after I'd finished my Co-Op and I was in Ireland... but my lecturer then became my supervisor, and she was a useless b*tch so that was the reason for that :p


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    #8040
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    Anyone in library today able to tell be how it's fixed for seats?
    Will be in later regardless but don't want to waste time waiting around if there's nothing.
    Should be a counter thing like Car Parks in cities have on desks in library :P


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    #8041
    TMJM96
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭TMJM96


    Chris Martin wrote: »
    Anyone in library today able to tell be how it's fixed for seats?
    Will be in later regardless but don't want to waste time waiting around if there's nothing.
    Should be a counter thing like Car Parks in cities have on desks in library :P

    First floor is awful until about 4/5pm, second floor is 80% full.

    After 7pm you'll have no problem. 11am-4pm is the busiest time


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