tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post664574752447404214..comments2023-10-29T09:38:58.821+00:00Comments on For Nine Pounds - An Analogue Blog: Students - fuck off to where you came fromIdiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779802480127180504noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-15388890881395391252007-08-10T23:45:00.000+01:002007-08-10T23:45:00.000+01:00Have had further thoughts about this. Think we nee...Have had further thoughts about this. Think we need to write a song with Shan's title. We could sing it when frustrated. Anyone know how to play the guitar? Loudly?bennyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458929948666472435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-67594010716566540532007-08-09T23:47:00.000+01:002007-08-09T23:47:00.000+01:00I'm with fitzy on the electrified cattle prod deel...I'm with fitzy on the electrified cattle prod deely. Mostly. With me it's the lack of please or thank you in any given circumstances. Even when I've just failed to accelerate and run them all over. Do I get even a nod? No.<BR/><BR/>Was on a path the other day where a group of 20 or so of them outside a coffee shop took up the whole path and refused to even acknowledge anyone when they tried to push through.<BR/><BR/>I know it's the cultural differences but manners should be a global norm.bennyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458929948666472435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-22448204266003017182007-08-09T01:14:00.000+01:002007-08-09T01:14:00.000+01:00Oh Milan...tsk tsk tsk.../walks away chortling und...Oh Milan...tsk tsk tsk...<BR/><BR/>/walks away chortling under her breathPolkaDothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07760855421957187566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-30494273246181327082007-08-08T23:33:00.000+01:002007-08-08T23:33:00.000+01:00Meant to say Shan (I feel I can call you Shan), I'...Meant to say Shan (I feel I can call you Shan), I'm not far from your job, we could pass each other often and not realise: like two passing stars in the night, like two passing ships at sea, like two flowers flowing in the breeze, like two US news stations helicopters reporting on a car chase....ok, maybe not that last one.Bonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010986736813010003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-22478721284595467122007-08-08T23:25:00.000+01:002007-08-08T23:25:00.000+01:00I'm all for the anti-PC McCarthiasm movement but I...I'm all for the anti-PC McCarthiasm movement but I do feel a little nostalgia for the Italian/Spanish students. They were the first post-free-State foreigners to land here, before the Swedish, Aussies, and celtic tiger economic migrants, they used to annoy me on the bus too but they haven't been out my way in years so I can look back in fondness.Bonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010986736813010003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-54822744116836769472007-08-08T22:19:00.000+01:002007-08-08T22:19:00.000+01:00I think we get special dispensation to be allowed ...I think we get special dispensation to be allowed complain about students and make fuck off back where you came from comments - I didn't mean to imply racism, I know exactly where you're coming from, though I have observed and participated in much student- bashing (only the bitchy kind!)over the years. <BR/><BR/>It's slightly unconfortable though if you think about it, because while the Irish are immensely put out by the students' proliferation and crap manners and behaviour, we also make some serious money off them as a nation each year. <BR/><BR/>They get such real abuse from the scumbags too... <BR/><BR/>but I'm still torn between defeding them and cheerful hatred - you might have been able to sense my didvided opinion from my coment!Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-74323989097778348982007-08-08T21:14:00.000+01:002007-08-08T21:14:00.000+01:00I should have also pointed out that I am in no way...I should have also pointed out that I am in no way racist and grew up iin a family that took students for years .<BR/><BR/>I also know that this shouting etc has been happening for years, maybe its because I am getting old that it irritates me more.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow I did always say I am a ranter.Shanachiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13391428971247556299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-61501304071528632312007-08-08T14:12:00.000+01:002007-08-08T14:12:00.000+01:00Ah, familiar tunes - I grew up eound Greystones, s...Ah, familiar tunes - I grew up eound Greystones, student hub of the Southeast... the bus pehenomenon is well documented - you can tell who's Irish because they're huddled in their seat with bloodshot eyes while all around them, Spanish kids shout at eachother without stopping. <BR/><BR/>I've had the misfortune to teach EFL for several years and have met some nice kids and some god-awful, rich,demanding, bitchy kids... they're not actually rude (well, actually some of them are) but the stuff we object to is cultural difference - it's a failure of their teachers that they don't learn:<BR/> - not to dawdle across the road in front of cars<BR/>- to say please and thank you - they don't do it in the same obsessive way at home - seriously, count how many times you say please/cheers/thanks' in any one short transaction, it's silly.<BR/>-I don't understand the crowding round doorways/missle of the street thing, why do they do it, why?<BR/>-Spanish people just seem to all talk at once. Loudly.<BR/>-drinking one glass of beer between three people is normal in their towns!<BR/><BR/>In fairness, I have met lots of really good kids, but they tend to be from the country or Catalonia, NOT the big cities, where their rich parents are just palming them off on Ireland so they can go on holiday, and they stay with lower class Irish families who have a very different hygeine standard and feed them Easy Single sandwitches with 'lo-fat spread'while they have roast chicken in another room (seriously). And it rains, and there's nothing for teens to do - and they get beaten up by scum a lot, and noone seems to care... <BR/><BR/>Still, you don't know student-racist-fury until a bored Spanish 16 year old has whined 'Thees no is inter-esting' at you for the 5th time.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-47588269724034427162007-08-08T13:32:00.000+01:002007-08-08T13:32:00.000+01:00Ooh, how annoying! At least you got on the bus! Gr...Ooh, how annoying! At least you got on the bus! Growing up in malahide (student hub of the northside) I got well used to summers of the bus skipping my stop as it was too full of student passengers to allow anyone else on! However, I did go to Spain myself as an Oirish student to learn spanish, so I cant be too hard on them. Next time ROAR at them "Ah shaddapa ya face"!Mossienolongerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903369685544052899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840706572296442429.post-82213590857063675592007-08-08T13:02:00.000+01:002007-08-08T13:02:00.000+01:00Electrified cattle-prod, that's what you need!Electrified cattle-prod, that's what you need!Missfitz Marionetteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13418569249584157079noreply@blogger.com