When the tourists move in.........

Scruff101

.......it's so funny to see the changes around campus accomodation now that it's time for the tourists to move in.
For example, in New Square they put up new shower curtains, got paper bath mats, scrubbed the stone floors so much that some of my friends thought it was new when they saw it, until I told them it was not new, just clean!! But the funniest thing had to be the chair covers at the pay- phone in House 35, they have this flowery cushion on the chair so the poor tourists can feel comfortable phoning home!!
Anyone else notice this?!

DrIndy

nope, hide out in the attic though and become the ghost of new square......

Ilac

I was in the Buttery last summer during the tourist season. There were flowers on the tables! And welcome signs in various languages…

John

All the bins have on campus have been replaced with new clean ones.

DrIndy

pee all over them quick so they smell like the old ones............

Agent Smith

I miss Indy...


Offer "cheap" tours of Trinity.....

DrIndy

offer cheap tours that end in sherriff street!

Alternately, when they ask for directions, send them the exact opposite way.....

ItalianStallion

y'all should be nice, they're helping to pay for your free education

cuckoo

ItalianStallion wrote:

y'all should be nice, they're helping to pay for your free education

hmmmm, i thought my taxes pay for my 'free' education.

John

Yeah tourist money keeps TCD in wine and cobblestone polish

The Shol'va

ItalianStallion wrote:

y'all should be nice, they're helping to pay for your free education

I hardly think my free education is coming from the €52.50 jumper I sold to an American women yesterday at nearly 60% profit for the SU.

The shop closes at 6 now, I don't like it, I want to work 'til 9... oh well, less tourists for me to deal with. "Do you take American money?"

county

cuckoo wrote:

hmmmm, i thought my taxes pay for my 'free' education.

what tax do you pay,your a student!!!!

Pet

county wrote:

what tax do you pay,your a student!!!!

VAT? Part-time job?

Andrew 83

I think they charge tourists 55 euro a night for a standard room as opposed to the 15 or so they charge students for an extra day in exam time (I assume it works out about the same during term time), for nearly 400% of the regular price I won't begrudge them some minor frills!

county

Pet wrote:

VAT? Part-time job?

i mean proper tax!!!

Agent Smith

VAT = VALUE ADDED TAX


correct me if i'm wrong, ( i'm no Bess student) but is VAT not a TAX?

cuckoo

county wrote:

what tax do you pay,your a student!!!!

That's between me, the accountant and the Revenue. :cool:

But for starters, i pay VAT, DIRT, stamp duty....the list goes on.

Actually, i get pretty f**king p**sed off at the casual assumption that 'students don't pay tax'.

Agent Smith

i pay VAT, PAYE, Stamp duty x2 ( lazer and Visa card).



i'm getting screwed....

Pet

cuckoo wrote:

That's between me, the accountant and the Revenue. :cool:

But for starters, i pay VAT, DIRT, stamp duty....the list goes on.

Actually, i get pretty f**king p**sed off at the casual assumption that 'students don't pay tax'.

Same. I got about 20 mins worth of abuse from someone in a pub last summer, who was telling me that as a student, I was a parasite sucking money from decent taxpayers. It turned out that he was long-term unemployed as he dropped out of school at 15, and was too lazy to get an apprenticeship, so instead he claimed the dole. Looking back, I really wish I'd smashed a bottle in his face.

Crash

Heeheehee, my earnings from the summer sneak in just under my tax free allowance

<----parasite sucking money from decent taxpayers it is.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Pet wrote:

It turned out that he was long-term unemployed as he dropped out of school at 15, and was too lazy to get an apprenticeship, so instead he claimed the dole. Looking back, I really wish I'd smashed a bottle in his face.

aaaawwww ... that's so cute!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

also our parents have (mostly) paid tax to support the education system. if they hadn't had to pay this tax for the education system then they would have the money to pay fees.

ItalianStallion

Pet wrote:

Same. I got about 20 mins worth of abuse from someone in a pub last summer, who was telling me that as a student, I was a parasite sucking money from decent taxpayers. It turned out that he was long-term unemployed as he dropped out of school at 15, and was too lazy to get an apprenticeship, so instead he claimed the dole. Looking back, I really wish I'd smashed a bottle in his face.

fair play! i love the hypocracy of drunk people in pubs.

John

The best is those pub arguments where the two people involved swap opinions halfway through and end up arguing against their original point.

Kevin_rc_ie

i'm more of an ironic drunk then hypocratic.