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8 November 2012
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I’ve been away from the board for a few days as I attended WonderCon. I have a few photos at Instagram like this one.
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I’ve been away from the board for a few days as I attended WonderCon. I have a few photos at Instagram like this one.parlance
My daughters attend lots of comic and anime conventions, and are into cosplay in a major way. One of them even managed to get a fully paid trip to Adelaide to appear as Korra in a show at the convention.
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I’ve been away from the board for a few days as I attended WonderCon. I have a few photos at Instagram like this one.parlance
My daughters attend lots of comic and anime conventions, and are into cosplay in a major way. One of them even managed to get a fully paid trip to Adelaide to appear as Korra in a show at the convention.
That’s awesome! She looks great!
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29 August 2013
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I’ve been away from the board for a few days as I attended WonderCon. I have a few photos at Instagram like this one.parlance
Nice pic – and hope you had a great time at the show.
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8 November 2012
Offline I did, it was the best time I’ve had at that particular con! I credit this partly to having a hotel instead of driving back and forth, taking it easy, avoiding panels with long lines. And lots of shooting. 
Oh, and meeting @midnight’s Chris Hardwick didn’t hurt.
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I did, it was the best time I’ve had at that particular con! I credit this partly to having a hotel instead of driving back and forth, taking it easy, avoiding panels with long lines. And lots of shooting.Oh, and meeting @midnight’s Chris Hardwick didn’t hurt.
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Sounds great. I pop down to Sydney for a con called Supanova every Now And Then and it’s interesting the people you meet. I have run some demos of the card game Magic: The Gathering for Wizards of the Coast which usually pays for the hotel and some nice loot from the con.
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8.33am
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29 August 2013
Offline Big temperature drop the last few days considering we had a heat wave only a couple of weeks ago.
It’s down to 8C/46F and it’s not night-time yet. The heaters just came on for the first time this year.
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Offline Over here in Scotland 8°c is a decent day. Hit 10°c and we’re thinking of calling in sick to enjoy the balmy conditions.
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29 August 2013
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Over here in Scotland 8°c is a decent day. Hit 10°c and we’re thinking of calling in sick to enjoy the balmy conditions.
I can imagine, I remember some pretty wild winters in North Wales, including one where our village was cut off from the world for over a week by snow and we had to have helicopters drop food at outlying houses.
Here in Canberra minus 7c or so is about as cold as it gets.
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Offline In My Life -I’m not only a household worker I’m also a plumber, maintenance, and mechanic I’m washing the car now, do you have a dirty car? I can wash for you haha, this is my life just smile:-)
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Offline There is a dirty car in my drive, tho the tap and hose are closer than Hong Kong and it would be far cheaper and quicker.
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There is a dirty car in my drive, tho the tap and hose are closer than Hong Kong and it would be far cheaper and quicker.
You book a ticket for me I will wash your car or have to fix Something there
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@meanmistermustard All of my tutorials/lectures will be done through the medium of Irish i.e. no English.
Yet again my life plans have changed looks like I’m going down German and Commerce after all…
A friend of mine who is in his final years of applied languages, where he does French, Spanish and Japanese told me that he was at a market fair and employers turned him away because he didn’t have a computer or business degree ffs! Why is it so bloody difficult to get a good job? I was looking at an internship in a company in Dublin and the wages were €150 a month that’s taking the piss! And I’d be looking at earning €20,000 a year for the first couple of years which would be difficult enough to live on in an expensive city like Dublin 
So next year I think I’m taking a year out to do a level 5 course in business while doing a French diploma one night a week. Hopefully if I get a high enough grade in French in my Leaving Cert I’ll be able to skip into year 2 of the diploma.
I hate living in a monolingual-English speaking country, there’s no respect for people who are multilinguals and they get thrown in the corner because they don’t have a damn science degree!
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Offline @AppleScruffJunior, so you need a computer or business degree? What it is exactly that you want to do, i thought it was to do with translating languages so i’m lost why you would need a business degree?
I’m probably being incredibly daft with all this and everyone sitting going “what are you on about you muppet, its damn obvious!! How on earth did he become a mod?”.
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21 November 2012
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@AppleScruffJunior, so you need a computer or business degree? What it is exactly that you want to do, i thought it was to do with translating languages so i’m lost why you would need a business degree?I’m probably being incredibly daft with all this and everyone sitting going “what are you on about you muppet, its damn obvious!! How on earth did he become a mod?”.
Don’t worry, I have no idea either, and I’m completely clueless about your british schooling system. What on earth is a leaving certificate?
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18 March 2013
Offline Great we’re all on equal ground, I don’t know what I’m talking about either 
What ASJ would actually like to do is primary school teaching but there are no jobs and until I’m 30 or so I’ll be struggling to make ends meet so that’s out.
Because I like languages I was going to do translation but the jobs out of that are very badly paid and while it’s important to be happy where you’re working blah blah I wouldn’t be able to live on those crap wages unless I moved to another European country where English isn’t the main language and hoped to work for a book publishers or whatever.
I need a business/computing degree to actually live above the poverty line And to get into the massive MNCs that have located in Ireland, think Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon blah blah.
Only 5% of Irish people can speak 2 languages so with French and German I would be an attractive employee. That’s why I’m doing a diploma in French but I’d rather be doing a degree in it to be honest 
. Alas no uni in Ireland allows you to do commerce and 2 languages because they’re all muppets!
And for @Linde , The Leaving Cert as defined by Wikipedia:
“The Leaving Certificate Examinations (Irish: Scrúduithe na hArdteistiméireachta), commonly referred to as the Leaving Cert (Irish: Ardteist), is the final examination in the Irish secondary school system”.
I’ll be finished on June 12th 2015 at 12:50pm and it will be the happiest day of my life!
I’ve been on it about it so much on the forum this year (sorry everyone) that I didn’t want to keep on repeating myself as to what it is.
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7.31pm
21 November 2012
Offline Oh right. We just call that a diploma.
I was doing pre-university education as I wanted to study Psychology to become a Psychologist, but as I sucked at maths that plan sank like the Titanic. You needed to have pre-university education for that and maths is mandatory when you’re doing that so I couldn’t drop it. I had to have a 6 out of 10 for maths. I got a 4. Failed my finals and went to re-do the last year, but a level below. Higher General Secondary Education. That meant I had to go to a University of Applied Sciences too. So I just picked the thing that was most similar to Psychology, and that was Social Educational Care. I could have gone to study Psychology after I had completed my first year of SEC, as I had all 60 ECTS, but I didn’t. Anyway, I know all about useless subjects or certificates getting in the way of what you want.
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Offline I’m alright at maths but I’ll have to do statistical maths next year which are meant to be horrible, luckily they’ve got free maths classes for dunces like me so I can try and get a good grade in it 
Edit: Here’s a story for everyone if you ever think you’ve done bad in a test. As a 14 year old I was given a non-compulsory test which was going to predict the job that I would be best suited for (I got receptionist ). So, naturally you were given a variety of tests to suit your verbal, written, and visual skills.
I had to do one section where I was given deconstructed 3D shapes and I had to say what the shapes were if they were put back together e.g.
^That’s a cube.
I kid you not in the 80 questions or so of those I answered, I got 12%……12%. Only time I’ve ever failed a test I think although I found it funny how actually bad I did.
I think I got the worst in my year
So has anybody beaten 12%? 
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8.27pm
21 November 2012
Offline We had a test like that in 6th grade that decided to which secondary school you had to go. I had the highest score of my school. 549. It’s the Cito toets, maybe @Beatleva knows it as well. I thought it was a piece of cake, but a lot of people got reeeeaally low scores. That was when I realized I wasn’t as stupid as I looked like (lol)
Funnily enough, we had a test like that 3 years later again, and I don’t know what happened in the meanwhile, but I think half of my brains died, because I found it difficult and I had quite a low score too. Lowest score of the year as well, had a veeeery bad day that day. With the level this score pointed out, you can be a farmer, a cleaning lady, a plumber..jobs like that. Not that there’s anything wrong with those jobs. Didn’t tell anyone and it has remained a secret until..erm..now. Oh well. I ended up pretty well I think.
Edit: Oh my, this comes across as a bit arrogant. It’s just that school is one of the few things I’m really confident about.
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