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Damn you, CTYI!

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    #92
    smiley_knees
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭smiley_knees


    spudington16 wrote:
    You had a good stretch in CTYI but it's time you moved on with your life...Why not just enjoy your three months off?
    I take my hat off to anyone who can do that without looking back...
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    ...

    ...

    Well, if I *wore* one I would...


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    #93
    Starbabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭Starbabe


    I agree. It has such a big impact on people that just being able to move on is really hard. Everyone wants more.


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    #94
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    smiley_knees wrote:
    I take my hat off to anyone who can do that without looking back...
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    ...

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    Well, if I *wore* one I would...
    I did that. the year after CTYI was great fun :)

    i mean, now i am hoping to go back there to work, but while CTYI changed me, it isnt ME - it didnt make me, it just helped me along. its not the be all and end all :)


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    #95
    Oisín Collins
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Oisín Collins


    I don't know what the fallout of this will be but...here goes!

    I have moved on.

    Yes, CTYI was great, and I wouldn't change my time there for anything but I'm going forward. Life after CTYI DOES exist and I'm living that for the moment with no looking back on it, except as a fond memory.

    If someone offered me the chance to be a student at CTYI again, now, I'd turn them down. I've had my time but at some point we all have to move on.

    Also, I'm neither clinging to old memories or bitter and twisted like some people past the age limit, which I see as a good thing.

    I will say this, letting go wasn't the easiest thing and it took a while but it's not a bad thing at all. It gives you a chance to look outside a smaller scope and to go out into the world without the safety net of "I'll still have CTYI this summer".

    To respond to the ACTUAL thread title, not "Damn you, CTYI!" in my opinion but "Thank you, CTYI!". I learned a lot and grew up a lot and good luck to everyone who's only starting off. Have a blast!


    For those of you who are too old, get over it and move on. It's nice out here on the other side.


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    #96
    Oisín Collins
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Oisín Collins


    Hehe,

    That's two of us Neil, let's see who else joins in and who starts gettin pissed off!


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    #97
    Evan Thankful Tackle
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Evan Thankful Tackle


    Funny how both of you, who have moved on from CTYI, are regular posters on a CTYI board....................


    makes you think


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    #98
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    The thing is - the great thing about it being like that is that i don't have any CTYI friends anymore. i have people who have become close friends, i have friends, and i have aquaintances - none of them are just CTYI friends anymore - i know all of them that bit better :)


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    #99
    Barry Aldwell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Barry Aldwell


    crash_000 wrote:
    I did that. the year after CTYI was great fun :)

    i mean, now i am hoping to go back there to work, but while CTYI changed me, it isnt ME - it didnt make me, it just helped me along. its not the be all and end all :)
    Ditto


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    #100
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    crash_000 wrote:
    but while CTYI changed me, it isnt ME - it didnt make me, it just helped me along. its not the be all and end all :)

    i'd have to agree-and yes, i am very aware that i'm going back this year- to a certain extent. i definitely feel that ctyi had a profound effect on me but at the same time, since i first went to ctyi, other things have had profound effects on me, maybe moreso than ctyi and at this stage, i would definitely consider myself to have changed a lot since i first went. i think that, if it were not for the prospect of seeing a few people that i've grown very close to (and they know who they are), i wouldn't be going back for this, my final year. in some ways i'm looking forward to it and in others i'm dreading it a little bit.


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    #101
    Oisín Collins
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Oisín Collins


    Deleted User wrote:
    Funny how both of you, who have moved on from CTYI, are regular posters on a CTYI board....................


    makes you think

    Emmet, if you would be so kind as to check my post count, it's in the low 60's.

    Now yours is in the 1,100's, nearly 20 times mine. I wouldn't really consider myself a regular poster to be honest.

    Ditto on Neils point about people not just being CTYI friends anymore.


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    #102
    Evan Thankful Tackle
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Evan Thankful Tackle


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=630792

    proves itself, they're all in the CTYI forum!


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    #103
    Oisín Collins
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Oisín Collins


    .............and?

    There's still only 60 something of them, since July 2002. Thats 0.06 posts per day (according to my profile page) while yours is 1.22 per day.

    What exactly are you proving there?


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    #104
    Evan Thankful Tackle
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Evan Thankful Tackle


    that you haven't moved on from ctyi, if you make posts in a CTYI forum, and only a ctyi forum, i'm not saying there's anything wrong, just that you do.


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    #105
    LiamD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭LiamD


    He's got ya there.


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    #106
    Oisín Collins
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Oisín Collins


    I beg to differ. Like I said, CTYI is memories now. I've moved on from it but I'm still allowed look back on it as a memory, as I said in my original post.

    Besides, it's a good forum for interesting debate, which is always good fun.


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    #107
    LiamD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭LiamD


    It seems that that's a very unpopular opinion.


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    #108
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,708 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Ois&#237 wrote: »
    Besides, it's a good forum for interesting debate, .
    hahahahahahaha


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    #109
    kawaii
    Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭kawaii


    elvenscout742 wrote:
    What a jip!

    What's a jip. Seriously, explain.


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    #110
    Plunky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Plunky


    I'm not a big fan of all the Ois-bashing that went on!.. It's his choice whether he wants to move on from the actual organisation or not! And just cause he uses this forum to stay in touch with interestingly minded people and/or friends of his that he made there is his choice, and does NOT mean he hasn't moved on!.. We shouldn't judge him just cause we happen to post in other forums on boards, or on other sites altogether... messageboards are just a way to talk to people! It's almost like sitting in a pub!..


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    #111
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    I concur with that - hell i'm 3 years out of CTYI at this stage and up until recently i modded these forums (though really that was more because i have a strong loyalty to the forums, as opposed to CTYI) as these forums have given me some great discussions at the time :)


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    #112
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,708 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Plunky wrote:
    It's almost like sitting in a pub!..
    hahahahahahaha


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    #113
    LiamD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭LiamD


    Plunky wrote:
    I'm not a big fan of all the Ois-bashing that went on!.. It's his choice whether he wants to move on from the actual organisation or not! And just cause he uses this forum to stay in touch with interestingly minded people and/or friends of his that he made there is his choice, and does NOT mean he hasn't moved on!.. We shouldn't judge him just cause we happen to post in other forums on boards, or on other sites altogether... messageboards are just a way to talk to people! It's almost like sitting in a pub!..
    He couldn't have said that himself, no?


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    #114
    Plunky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Plunky


    Oh for chrissake liam, of COURSE he could, BUT he wasn't online, I saw the posts and decided to have MY 2 cents. The guy isn't able to express MY opinion in fairness!


    muppet.


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    #115
    LiamD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭LiamD


    Sorry I'm not stirrin it, but if you read up Oisin did post what he thought?The only comment after his comment(nearly 20 days ago) that you replied to was whats a jip?I didn't really see why you were posting tbh and I don't think anyone's 'bashing' him as you say.


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    #116
    Plunky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Plunky


    I hadnt' read the thread in ages, I was replying to your unpopular opinion comment. Forgive me, oh great one* for not checking the dates on every thread!... *of knackerdom


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    #117
    LiamD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭LiamD


    You mean the one that said that the unpopular opinion is this place is a good place for a debate?


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    #118
    Plunky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Plunky


    Oh jeez forgive me once again for being tired and stressed about my exams and not actually reading your mind all the time.


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    #119
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Liam stop fscking stirring.


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    #120
    ceewa
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭ceewa


    it must be well over a year since i checked in here and still de same conversations...


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