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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Lads/Ladies does anyone know of anywhere that does Spanish courses in Limerick with the aim of getting some recognised certification at the end of it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Voy


    They have some in LCFE starting next week. You get a FETAC certificate but don't know much about how recognised that is.

    http://www.lcfe.ie/EVENING-PROGRAMMES/Language-Courses.aspx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Voy wrote: »
    They have some in LCFE starting next week. You get a FETAC certificate but don't know much about how recognised that is.

    http://www.lcfe.ie/EVENING-PROGRAMMES/Language-Courses.aspx



    Not recognised in many European countries as a proper qualification. Having said that though, I would wholeheartedly recommend anything that gives a person a good grasp of another useful language.

    If I had stuck with only being fluent in one language I would have missed out on working in some amazing countries and with some amazing people. Even here in Ireland I currently have work that because I speak a number of languages that I would have had no hope of getting if I only spoke english but had the same qualifications as I do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    source wrote: »
    So after a thorough cleaning, I got the laptop back today.

    Guess what...........I'm typing this on a USB keyboard. :rolleyes:

    Turns out it was beyond repair. xsiborg any chance you could let me know where you found that keyboard in Limerick. I might take you up on your offer after the weekend if you're still willing.

    no bother source, the name of the place is "pc repair centre" on davis street on your way up to the train station, you can contact them here:

    http://laptopfix.ie/contact.html

    the guy said that if you brought him in the laptop he'd have it fitted for you in 15mins so i assume thats why he was charging €50 (€30 for the keyb, €20 to fit, well, i'd hope that's what he meant anyway!) but given that there wouldn't be a high demand for the keyboard, maybe that's why so high.

    you're after reminding me too that i have a spare 1GB stick of RAM here for the last two months after upgrading a laptop for another customer and as i was cleaning off a netbook for another customer last night it occurred to me that i could just throw in the spare stick of RAM to upgrade the netbook to 2GB to better handle windows 7, not so unfortunately as it only had the one slot, filled with the 1GB stick.

    so anyway, long story short, im thinking if sarahbeep wants the 1GB stick it's all hers as im thinking she too has only 1GB in her netbook. my own netbook has the two slots so, it's possible. i don't think it'd go in your's source as your BIOS might be too old to recognise it, even with an update... :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Kess73 wrote: »
    Not recognised in many European countries as a proper qualification. Having said that though, I would wholeheartedly recommend anything that gives a person a good grasp of another useful language.

    If I had stuck with only being fluent in one language I would have missed out on working in some amazing countries and with some amazing people. Even here in Ireland I currently have work that because I speak a number of languages that I would have had no hope of getting if I only spoke english but had the same qualifications as I do.

    I need something recognised abroad im afraid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭source


    xsiborg wrote: »
    source wrote: »
    So after a thorough cleaning, I got the laptop back today.

    Guess what...........I'm typing this on a USB keyboard. :rolleyes:

    Turns out it was beyond repair. xsiborg any chance you could let me know where you found that keyboard in Limerick. I might take you up on your offer after the weekend if you're still willing.

    no bother source, the name of the place is "pc repair centre" on davis street on your way up to the train station, you can contact them here:

    http://laptopfix.ie/contact.html

    the guy said that if you brought him in the laptop he'd have it fitted for you in 15mins so i assume thats why he was charging €50 (€30 for the keyb, €20 to fit, well, i'd hope that's what he meant anyway!) but given that there wouldn't be a high demand for the keyboard, maybe that's why so high.

    you're after reminding me too that i have a spare 1GB stick of RAM here for the last two months after upgrading a laptop for another customer and as i was cleaning off a netbook for another customer last night it occurred to me that i could just throw in the spare stick of RAM to upgrade the netbook to 2GB to better handle windows 7, not so unfortunately as it only had the one slot, filled with the 1GB stick.

    so anyway, long story short, im thinking if sarahbeep wants the 1GB stick it's all hers as im thinking she too has only 1GB in her netbook. my own netbook has the two slots so, it's possible. i don't think it'd go in your's source as your BIOS might be too old to recognise it, even with an update... :(

    Cheers man, I'll get onto him mon or tues. I already have 2gb in my lappy.

    Thanks again mate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    best i can find is this

    http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/adult-and-continuing-education-courses/spanish.html

    Sept - April 2013
    Sept April 2014

    2014 is a long way away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    I need something recognised abroad im afraid.



    Cannot help with regards to Irish based centres of learning I'm afraid. I have German, Flemish (Belgian Dutch), Dutch, and Japanese to the level where I can operate on a personal/professional level and where I understand the nuances , along with French to a pretty decent level and passable french and Danish.

    I learned all of mine (save for Japanese) in Liverpool or Germany and fine tuned them even further whilst living/working in the various countries.

    Hell I even learned basic Irish outside of Ireland, and am probably at leaving cert level atm. It does sound funny with a scouse twang though as I have not mastered disguising the scouse in me when trying to speak Irish yet.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Voy


    Actually think Japanese might even top that in a Liverpool accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Voy wrote: »
    Actually think Japanese might even top that in a Liverpool accent.



    Luckily my accent is not a Jamie Carragher or Wayne Rooney type scouse accent. :D They would be to the scouse accent what the tracksuit accent over here would be to the Limerick accent.

    My Japanese is pretty good and fairly neutral thankfully.:) My Liverpudlian accent is heavily tinged with a german twang from my time living in germany as I have lived in Germany twice and for a number of years each time as it was a good central location for me as my work at that time involved going to many of the surrounding countries. So it was easier to be based in one and commute than to up sticks every year or so. Needless to say that despite that I still became very accustomed to living in hotels, and I am still a bugger for getting wanderlust.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    who here enjoys a nice pie?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    who here enjoys a nice pie?

    would this have anything to do with a PIE (Perdormance Inference Engine)? :confused:

    http://pam2000.cs.waikato.ac.nz/pdf_papers/pie.pdf


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    Ger from Limerick on Take Me Out (Irish Version) right now... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney



    beers hey...how subtle was this hint? will we get away with ignoring it?



    NO!

    (yeah, it was me :p)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    xsiborg wrote: »
    would this have anything to do with a PIE (Perdormance Inference Engine)? :confused:

    http://pam2000.cs.waikato.ac.nz/pdf_papers/pie.pdf

    i was actually referring to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884

    but close enough :)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Anyone for a singles' Beers during Valentine's week? :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Anyone for a singles' Beers during Valentine's week? :pac:

    LOL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    NO!

    (yeah, it was me :p)

    you left the last one early!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    I'll make sure to have a disco nap next time around!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    I'll make sure to have a disco nap next time around!

    a what now? is that some fancy jackine thing?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    a what now? is that some fancy jackine thing?

    Like Oh Em Gee! You don't know what a disco nap is?????

    Sure all the hipster kids are doing it....

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=disco+nap


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Like Oh Em Gee! You don't know what a disco nap is?????

    Sure all the hipster kids are doing it....

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=disco+nap

    disconap
    an old pervy guy that hangs around internet webboards in order to hit on any british girls that post
    "Ewww, that old guy just told me how cute he thinks my avatar is, what a disconap"


    So your into old pervy british guys then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    Anyone for a singles' Beers during Valentine's week? :pac:

    awh nuts, that's me out then, now if you'd said a single beer... as that's about all i could handle of them craft beers! :o

    oh, that reminds me, i was in BDJ's this evening (that's "the vineyard" off-licence in mount kennet for those who are wondering!) and i asked him would he be stocking craft beers, he said he was looking into it so i threw in a couple of names i remembered like erdinger and aspalls cider, and that "oh so easy to drink but blew my tiny mind" 1689 stuff! :D

    on a side-note, the same BDJ's has some top-notch diner food, it's a diner now aswell as an off-licence, comes in handy as my wife is away for the weekend, that oven in the kitchen will be as clean come monday as it was this evening when she left! :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    disconap
    an old pervy guy that hangs around internet webboards in order to hit on any british girls that post
    "Ewww, that old guy just told me how cute he thinks my avatar is, what a disconap"


    So your into old pervy british guys then?

    ??? That's so not listed on the first page anyway. Check the link again ;)

    Ninja edit ftw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Since Munster won and the match WILL be in Thomond park(supposedly the 7th April) then hotels will be hard to come by.

    Jurys Inn website went from €59 to €139 within 5 mins of the whistle although currently Lastminute.ie is €49 for the same night in Jurys Inn.

    Get yourself a booking if you want to be in town that night.

    BTW €10m to the city. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    I heard that the qtr finals are being played on the 28th BB due to six nations


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    first time in the cinema in about ten years, but sure when you gave a 7 year old to entertain, what ya gonna do! :D bloody chipmunks for the next hour and half... :(

    EDIT: broke a €50 to pay for admission, left the cinema with €10 + change! :eek:

    does not compute! unless of course after the seriously salty popcorn they charge €2.80 for a bottle of water! double :eek: :(

    meh, feck it, he enjoyed himself anyway... :)

    *empties moths out of wallet* :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Can't find anywhere to find out if there is any good bands playing tonight, anyone else know? Nancys normally have and curragower


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭SarahBeep!


    Riot in Cruises St at 6PM =\


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Can't find anywhere to find out if there is any good bands playing tonight, anyone else know? Nancys normally have and curragower

    I'm meeting friends in the Curragower in a few minutes. Reliably informed there's a band playing there now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    Riot in Cruises St at 6PM =\



    You causing trouble again? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭SarahBeep!


    Kess73 wrote: »
    You causing trouble again? :p


    Haw :P


    Nah, at about 6 about 40, if not more, 'socially disadvantaged members of society all under the age of 20' were in Cruises St for a huuuuuuuuuuuuge fight!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,099 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Did you throw a can of Dutch Gold into the crowd and watch the madness unfold? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭SarahBeep!


    Did you throw a can of Dutch Gold into the crowd and watch the madness unfold? :pac:

    Nah we locked the doors then stood in the window enjoying the show!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    Haw :P


    Nah, at about 6 about 40, if not more, 'socially disadvantaged members of society all under the age of 20' were in Cruises St for a huuuuuuuuuuuuge fight!!


    Cruises street really seems to be a magnet for scum.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Someone mentioned Beamish in another thread about Limerick pubs. The Curragower were pouring it to perfection yesterday evening. I might have to insist on putting them on the agenda for the next Beers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Someone mentioned Beamish in another thread about Limerick pubs. The Curragower were pouring it to perfection yesterday evening. I might have to insist on putting them on the agenda for the next Beers!


    Beamish? Yuck.


    Ya need to get some Aspall cyder (yummy yummy) into you.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Kess73 wrote: »
    Ya need to get some Aspall cyder (yummy yummy) into you.

    The lads in Mister Macs off-licence are getting to know me from buying Aspall in there so often! Best cider on the market, and well worth the higher price too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Haven't tried the Aspalls. Like the Stella Cidre, Kopparberg is more like an energy drink or something - how does all that sugar stay in suspension? :D
    Like the ol Beamish, suppose it reminds me of the motherland and having my breakfast overlooking the Beamish and Crawford brewery :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    The lads in Mister Macs off-licence are getting to know me from buying Aspall in there so often! Best cider on the market, and well worth the higher price too.


    It is bloody lovely especially the organic version.

    Where is Mister Macs? Would be handy to know another Offy that stocks Aspall. I normally get mine at the Next Door offy on the Father Russell road.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Kess73 wrote: »
    It is bloody lovely especially the organic version.

    Where is Mister Macs? Would be handy to know another Offy that stocks Aspall. I normally get mine at the Next Door offy on the Father Russell road.

    Macs is on the Ennis Road, between the petrol station and JFK Memorial School.

    O'Brien's Wines at the Parkway sell it too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭SnoopyGunner


    Kess73 wrote: »
    It is bloody lovely especially the organic version.

    Where is Mister Macs? Would be handy to know another Offy that stocks Aspall. I normally get mine at the Next Door offy on the Father Russell road.

    I want to try Aspall's cider lol... Kess, have you tried the cider in the Curragower? It's yummy, organic and strong and you and I could confer about CK lol... :D Should definitely have a chat on a boards night and discuss the gossip ;)

    PS Mac's is on the Ennis Road :)

    Oops IO told you lol ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    I want to try Aspall's cider lol... Kess, have you tried the cider in the Curragower? It's yummy, organic and strong and you and I could confer about CK lol... :D Should definitely have a chat on a boards night and discuss the gossip ;)

    PS Mac's is on the Ennis Road :)

    Oops IO told you lol ;)



    If the Curragower is the pub I am thinking about, then I have never been there.

    What brand of cider is it? Aspall cyder ( with a Y :)) is the first cider/cyder to really tickle my taste buds away from the Devon ciders, although technically some of them are nowadays made in Hereford in Herefordshire rather than in Devon. :)


    Speaking of short stuff, yesterday I saw the person that used to live in his house before he did, and she is still as nutty as a squirrel's larder. He is an improvement I guess :D. One of his other ex neighbour's is doing well for himself and had a new book published of late (last summer I think) that is getting a lot of rave reviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭source


    The laptop which cannot be killed has returned once more. Thanks xsiborg, went up to that guy in Davis St and got it sorted for €50.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    source wrote: »
    The laptop which cannot be killed has returned once more. Thanks xsiborg, went up to that guy in Davis St and got it sorted for €50.

    no bother t'all source, i know €50 was pricey but if the rest of the laptop stil does what you want it to do, and will do for the foreseeable, sometimes it's better to get it repaired rather than fork out even more money for a new laptop essentially to do the same thing!

    my son still uses windows XP on a ten year old dell gx150 desktop computer attached to his tv as a monitor and it works the finest for his youtube and cbeebies requirements, or his latest thing- 'bin weevils', he's already got the hang of pulling up a word or excel document when i walk by the room, lol, course what he doesnt see is im out in the living room keeping an eye on everything he's doing with remote desktop.

    ok i will admit to messing with his head a little the odd time, and i know he's eventually going to figure it out, but thats a whole other ball game... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    xsiborg wrote: »
    no bother t'all source, i know €50 was pricey but if the rest of the laptop stil does what you want it to do, and will do for the foreseeable, sometimes it's better to get it repaired rather than fork out even more money for a new laptop essentially to do the same thing!

    my son still uses windows XP on a ten year old dell gx150 desktop computer attached to his tv as a monitor and it works the finest for his youtube and cbeebies requirements, or his latest thing- 'bin weevils', he's already got the hang of pulling up a word or excel document when i walk by the room, lol, course what he doesnt see is im out in the living room keeping an eye on everything he's doing with remote desktop.

    ok i will admit to messing with his head a little the odd time, and i know he's eventually going to figure it out, but thats a whole other ball game... :D


    you know when your old...he's going to shove you in a home


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    you know when your old...he's going to shove you in a home

    he's trying to get rid of me already! haha, doesnt like me accompanying him to the toilet when we're out and about which is how he left his phone behind him in supermacs yesterday.

    i was hoping whoever picked it up would be decent enough to hand it back, tried calling twice, then hoped they'd switch in a new sim card so i'd get their location and number on my phone, no chance so an hour later before i knew the battery was going to go dead, i did a remote wipe, then got the IMEI blocked, whoever took it can enjoy their new fancy paperweight!


  • Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭SnoopyGunner


    Kess73 wrote: »
    If the Curragower is the pub I am thinking about, then I have never been there.

    What brand of cider is it? Aspall cyder ( with a Y :)) is the first cider/cyder to really tickle my taste buds away from the Devon ciders, although technically some of them are nowadays made in Hereford in Herefordshire rather than in Devon. :)


    Speaking of short stuff, yesterday I saw the person that used to live in his house before he did, and she is still as nutty as a squirrel's larder. He is an improvement I guess :D. One of his other ex neighbour's is doing well for himself and had a new book published of late (last summer I think) that is getting a lot of rave reviews.

    He most be an improvement lol :D

    It's Weston's cider that's stocked at the Curragower :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    He most be an improvement lol :D

    It's Weston's cider that's stocked at the Curragower :)



    The organic version of that is lovely.


    What kind of crowd goes to that pub? If I am thinking of the right pub, then I had an image of a jock and Hipster wannabe type crowd.


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