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  • 12-06-2011 12:06pm
    #1
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭


    Supposing one had some free time, let's say between a few months and a year, and wanted to learn/study something - what would one choose?


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  • #2
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Trumpigami - The ancient Japanese art of hair-folding.


  • #3
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Hand puppetry



  • #4
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Nuclear physics and the practical applications thereof. Or how to disassemble (and reassemble) an engine.


  • #5
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    piano and drums


  • #6
    joshrogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    The art of trolling.


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  • #7
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    Just watch Dawson's Creek over and over again.


  • #8
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    When does your sentence start op? If you have some time before it begins you should learn some self defence - might be useful in the showers.

    Once you are in there I believe there are some good training programs in lock picking, car stealing, drug mixing, and tiger kidnapping.
    :D


  • #9
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    One thing I'd devote time to learning (If I wasn't lazy) is a foreign language.


  • #10
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Which one though? There are so many...

    And aye, piano would probably be top of my list too.


  • #11
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Learn how to draw the dole


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  • #12
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Which one though? There are so many...

    And aye, piano would probably be top of my list too.

    I don't know I can already speak a little bit of German so probably that.


  • #13
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Beat the internet!


  • #14
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Online poker. Some squirt porn to help dull the pain of spunking your money up the wall when you are losing


  • #15
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Anything you think you might be good at which cant easily be outsourced to India or China.


  • #16
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Assuming I'd have a lot of free time I'd take up a martial art, probably Krav Maga, learn a useful language, (Russian or Chinese) and do some other course that would benefit me in a job (Safepass, First Aid, ECDL).


  • #17
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    I would love to know more about theoretical physics. It is fascinating to me, the unity of science and philosophy.


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