[09:32] <Amaze-balls> Good morning Ubuntu Ireland
[09:33] <zmoylan-pi> hi
[09:37] <Amaze-balls> How are ye all doing
[09:38] <ebel> morning
[09:39] <Amaze-balls> I finally switched completely to Ubuntu :)
[09:40] <Amaze-balls> Im trying to learn Linux as im studying for the LPIC exams
[09:40] <Amaze-balls> Hoping to find some like-minded people through this channel
[09:46] <ebel> :) cool.
[10:08] <tdr112> welcome Amaze-balls
[10:26] <czajkowski> Amaze-balls: howdy
[12:27] <Amaze-balls> Hello :)
[12:27] <Amaze-balls> SOrry for the late response
[12:27] <Amaze-balls> was dealing with a customer :)
[12:28] <Amaze-balls> So are you guys regulars to this freenode channel ?
[12:28] <zmoylan-pi> mary poppins or al pacino 'dealing' :-)
[12:28] <Amaze-balls> Pacino :)
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> Im learning about SHELL VARIABLES
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> I know I know Im a noob, but gotta start somewhere
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> fruit=apple
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> export fruit
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> echo $fruit
[12:33] <Amaze-balls> l:)
[12:38] <ebel> yeah, most people here are regulars. :)
[12:49] <czajkowski> Amaze-balls: so wher are you based?
[12:49] <czajkowski> also welcome :)
[13:24] <Amaze-balls> Im from The Netherlands, been living almost 2 years in Cork and moving to Balbriggan on the 1st of August
[13:24] <Amaze-balls> :)
[13:24] <zmoylan-pi> but have you picked up the accent like, right? :-)
[13:24] <Amaze-balls> starting a new job in Dublin and found a nice house in Balbriggan last saturday :)
[13:24] <Amaze-balls> Yupp :) its in there somewhere
[13:25] <Amaze-balls> I even know how to ask to go to the toilet in gaelic
[13:25] <Amaze-balls> ;)
[13:25] <zmoylan-pi> the only phrase every irish kid leaving school after years of irish classes is guaranteed to know :-D
[13:26] <Amaze-balls> An bhfuil céad agam dul amach go dtí an leithreas más é do thoil é
[13:26] <Amaze-balls> I think
[13:26] <Amaze-balls> :)
[13:26] <zmoylan-pi> it even makes it into the comedy black books iirc
[13:29] <Amaze-balls> :)
[13:36] <slashbel> i feel bad for migrating here and not bothering to learn the language
[13:37] <tdr112> slashbel: I dont feel bad, being born here and not knowing it
[13:37] <zmoylan-pi> i'm proud i finished school in ireland and remember about 3 phrases the most important of which is to ask if i can use the loo :-)
[13:39] <slashbel> zmoylan-pi: ~15 years of irish tuition!
[13:39] <slashbel> you should be fluent by now
[13:40] <zmoylan-pi> irish teaching of irish is so bad that most leave school with no knowledge of it other than it was a waste of time
[13:40] <greyback> it's hard getting good at a language if it's not spoken around you. I hated Irish at school, but got interested in it during college and spoke it with friends. Now I'm not using it at all and loosing it again
[13:41] <zmoylan-pi> i felt it was pointless and refused to learn it
[13:41] <zmoylan-pi> this did not go down well at school
[13:41] <greyback> independent thought?! Crush it
[13:42] <zmoylan-pi> parents were called.  made more complicated as at the that time my irish teacher was also my history teacher and i was #1 in history class which confused him
[13:42] <slashbel> not confusing, history is interesting
[13:45] <zmoylan-pi> in the end an unspoken agreement was i wouldn't be called on in class and i'd sit there with books in front of me.  get a straight fail \o/
[13:46] <slashbel> hehe
[13:47] <slashbel> so what's with asking to go to the toilet in irish? do the timetables in irish schools not allow for toilet breaks, or was it just an excuse to get out of irish class for 5 minutes?
[13:48] <zmoylan-pi> out of class for 5 minutes
[13:48] <slashbel> and half the kids would come back from the 5 minute break smelling of fag smoke, i'm sure
[13:49] <zmoylan-pi> in primary yes, in secondary stoned
[13:49] <zmoylan-pi> and/or drunk
[13:50] <slashbel> i thought my school was a little rough…
[13:51] <zmoylan-pi> i do remember leaving on my last day watching gardai going in to arrest eejit who threw breezeblock through jcb window, while there was someone in cab
[13:52] <slashbel> lovely
[13:52] <zmoylan-pi> heard one bugger robbed his local postoffice without wearing a mask, and was arrested a week later when he went in for dole
[13:54] <slashbel> he would not have been the smartest lad at school?
[13:55] <zmoylan-pi> funny guy, but not the smartest, no
[13:57] <zmoylan-pi> special mention also goes to guy kicked out of leaving cert art exam after dropping and breaking bottle of vodka he was drinking from
[13:58] <zmoylan-pi> or was it leaving cert...
[13:59] <czajkowski> it's still needed for some jobs in ireland
[13:59] <czajkowski> outside of teaching that is
[13:59] <zmoylan-pi> civil service
[13:59] <zmoylan-pi> gardai
[14:00] <czajkowski> solicitors
[14:00] <czajkowski> you
[14:00] <slashbel> that's to keep the foreigners out of the gardaí and away from the kids?
[14:00] <czajkowski>  also need it to get into most unicersities
[14:00] <czajkowski> slashbel: nope it's cause you're entitled to be cautioned in irish
[14:00] <zmoylan-pi> no, i think you can get into the gardai without irish if you weren't born in ireland
[14:00] <slashbel> seriously, that's going to be a problem here!
[14:00] <czajkowski> same way you're entitled to have your trial in irish
[14:00] <czajkowski> they reduced the height requirement for a while
[14:01] <czajkowski> then upped it back up
[14:14] <Amaze-balls> lol
[14:46] <Amaze-balls> lol