Caoimhe McKearney
-
Kobieta, 21,
16
- z The Moy
- Związek: W związku
- Wyświetlenia: 3 913
- Jest z nami od: July 2006
- Ostatnio online: 11 tygodni temu
- bebo.gazeta.pl/keva_its_all_lethal
- Ja, o mnie i jeszcze raz ja
- Don't use this thing anymore - find me on facebook instead!! C xx
- Moja druga połowa
-
- Music
- really weird mix of folk and classical
- Sports
- skiing, olympic bobsleighing, hanggliding, white water rafting, ice skating.. and of course good old GAA!
- Loves
- skiing, bobsleighing, iceskating, tyrone matches, booking cheap flights, airports, flying, ryanair's penny flights, easyjet, trains, music, orchestra, reading, harry potter, chocolate, getting post, ceilidh band, my violin, making money, my dog chuckie, zen broadband, my laptop, BARRY!
- Hates
- delayed flights, baggage charges, being poor, shopkeepers that set the coins on top of the notes so they spill everywhere, rude customer service people that put you on hold for hours on a premium rate number, chords and cadences, stupid student houses in belfast, bad grammar/spelling/punctuation on signs, boring law books, even more boring law reports, dr fara...
zamknij Ankiety
-
If I was thinking of learning a new instrument, what should it be?
- Cello
- Flute
- Uilleann pipes
- Oboe
- Flugel
-
AAAGH UCAS FORMS! What should i be?? Help!
- Barrister
- Architect
- Journalist
- Musician
- Dentist...(coylo's advice! lol)
zamknij Blog
-
Irritating Shopkeepers!
Okay, fair enough, you have to have some pity for poor souls employed in customer service/sales assistant jobs.. There's nothing like dealing with idiots day in, day out to instil in you just how wrong the old adage 'the customer is always right' really is. And yes, given that most retail jobs are poorly-paid, requiring long thankless hours under the direction of humourless money-grabbing management figures, it's no wonder that customers often bear the brunt of staff drudgery. And of course there are countless obnoxious and ignorant customers who well deserve any unpleasant treatment they get at the hands of shop assistants.
On the other hand, however, it's only fair that any customer who's clearly making an effort to be nice and empathetic deserves better. Yet sadly, passive aggression is a persistent problem at tills around the world. No doubt within the last week you've made a purchase involving a sullen teen at a cash register offering zero eye contact, sub-syllabic grunting, change flung at you onto the counter and much inconvenienced tutting. Irritating as hell, but rather than screaming 'WHAT'S YOUR ******* PROBLEM??!!!' in their face, you can deal with this in a more subtle manner...
1. If they don't respond to your cheerful greeting upon rocking up at the till, start using sign language. When they inevitably ask what you're doing, simply explain that you thought they might be deaf.
2. Perhaps the least you can expect from someone operating a cash register is to be told how much you owe them. Infuriatingly, even this seems to be beyond some till jockeys, who instead will just hit the 'total' button and then stare into the middle distance, expecting you to take your cue from the digital read-out. Should this happen to you, simply look at them expectantly while counting to ten. If they fail to take the hint within the allotted time, casually walk off with your goods without paying. That ought to wake them up.
3. Finally, when someone deliberately chucks your change down on the counter rather than putting it in your politely outstretched hand, smile like you're embarrassed. Then sheepishly explain that you're sorry for the inconvenience but they'll have to pick it up again for you since, despite its remarkably lifelike appearance, your artificial arm isn't actually equipped with an opposable thumb.
Personally, the thing that annoys me most is not one of the above, but the strange phenomenon sweeping the country by which it appears trendy for shop assistants when giving change to place any notes on the palm of your hand first and then heap a load of coins on top!! Haven't they noticed that approximately 64% of the time the customer ends up dropping the coins, then the notes, and sometimes even their bag of shopping??! And have they never experienced for themselves that 100% of the time this procedure causes nothing but hassle, awkwardness and ten minutes of fumbling with a purse/wallet before you can even begin to walk away from the counter??!!! I have yet to develop a strategy for dealing with this complaint.. perhaps dropping all the coins down behind their side of the counter?! Other suggestions welcome.
Well, there you have it - the failings of modern-day businesses. Do you too suffer at the hands of ill-trained, uncaring shop assistants? If you feel like uniting with me in a campaign to bring the retail industry to its knees, get in touch..
Note to shop workers: If this doesn't sound like you, great! Chances are your customers adore you and you'll be the next Employee of the Month. If, however, you recognise yourself in any (or god forbid all!) of the descriptions above, GET IT SORTED!!!0 komentarzy 900 dni
-
WHY I'M NOT GOING TO QUEENS
This brilliant article from Newton Emerson (Irish News, March 2005) explains very concisely, for those of you who keep asking, exactly why i don't want to go to belfast next year..
"The most interesting thing about the complete breakdown of law and order in Belfast’s student district is that it definitively disproves every fashionable excuse for such behaviour. Deprivation, exclusion and alienation are not labels easily applied to those vomiting into the wheelie bins of Rugby Avenue.
The next most interesting thing about the nightly disturbances is that, according to the local residents association, they occur only from Sunday to Thursday.
This is because the farmboys from Tyrone and elsewhere who cause all the trouble go home every Friday to get their laundry done. Queen’s is unique among the universities of the British isles in the scale of this weekly evacuation – indeed the chance to go running back to mummy every weekend is the reason many undergraduates apply there in the first place. Queen’s students believe that those of us who went to university outside Northern Ireland look down on them for their failure to cut the apron strings – and they’re damn right we do. What sort of 18-year-old, given the choice to go anywhere, goes 30 miles up the road? It’s not that Queen’s isn’t a real university – it’s that it isn’t a real university experience.
It is instead an enormous seventh-form centre, a near-seamless continuation of school. Those transferring from Methody can even get the same bus.
The unfortunate accident of geography and provincialism that fills Belfast’s groves of academe has other strange side-effects. Unlike a normal university students arrive at Queen’s in the company of dozens of school friends, with all the associated temptations to prolong their adolescence. They move in with people they have known for years, transforming what should be the start of adult life into a year-long house party. The houses themselves suffer horribly from the ability of their occupants to retreat back to civilisation once a week rather than twice a year – never in all my travels have I seen digs as dirty as those around Queen’s.
Any student house which does seem reasonably well-cared for invariably turns out to have been either cleaned by their mum or bought by their dad.
In fact Queen’s students clearly do very well from sticking close to the parental cash-cow. Take a walk around the district and the number of people in this season’s £80 sports tops will amaze you nearly as much as the number of brand new small cars. There must be no other university on earth where you can sit outside the main building for an hour without seeing a single student on a bicycle.
Queen’s is very proud of the fact that it has the widest socio-economic intake of any university in the UK and, as you know, nobody spoils their offspring quite like the lower-middle class.
However, all these factors have always been true at Queen’s, so why have things suddenly gone so terribly wrong?
The answer is that over the past decade the proportion of 18-year-olds going to university in Northern Ireland has shot up from 20 per cent to 50 per cent, in line with New Labour’s insistence that everybody can be elitist. As a result farmboys who would previously have stayed at home learning traditional trades (kickboxing, tractor maintenance, whatever) are now encouraged to do sociology at Queen’s. Whether this will benefit society in the long run only time will tell but the fact remains that farmboys are a lot less interested in sociology than sociology is interested in them. No wonder they spend the whole week drinking – training such people to be academics is like teaching monkeys to play chess.
Proof that the farmboys are not cut out for the intellectual life could be observed last Thursday when crowds of Queen’s students celebrated St Patrick’s Day by flying tricolours from t0 komentarzy 900 dni
-
Brilliant America quotes
Americans in general: "Y'all"
Pete at Six Flags: "W'all"
Manny, host dad in LaGrange: "I don't suppose y'all are Catholic, but I'm gonna say a Catholic blessing anyhow."
Ted Costnickel: "Why don't y'all come over to our hot-tub and we'll take pictures and you can e-mail them to your folks back home?"
Charlie and Karen Wise, host parents in Lookout Mountain: "We thought all Irish had red hair."
American shopkeepers: "Have a nice day."
Karen: "Lucia did the plumber."
David: "Ah, bless."
David at the safari park: "I'm shy...no, really."
Charlie: "So is your dad's car automatic or stick-shift?"
Charlie: "The Plumber."
Teenagers in Chattanooga: "Awesome, dude."
David, contemplating another hotdog: "But I don't wanna look greedy..."
Karen: "I eat a lotta fruit. I like...(head movement)...bananas."
Karen: "Mister Graaaaaaay...."
Karen: "Mister Gray don't like strangers. When y'all got here he was like, 'Mommy, this ain't right, it just ain't right!'"
Brian Chadwick, gynaecologist: "I work where other people play."
Karen: "I put it together when he and his father were piddling together."
Guy at Six Flags: "Where y'all from?"
"Ireland."
"Ireland?! Dang! That's where all the leprechauns are from!"
Tim: "Every girl should be treated like a princess."
Audience member at Hunter Museum: "So is Ulster like a small town, or a county?"
To Lucia at Mass in LaGrange: "Now there's an Irish face if ever I've seen one!"
Karen and Charlie: "They're talking in their native language!"
Tim (on Lucia): "I'd knock her up."
Tim: "The bricks folded..."
Griff and Alexa: "We don't like Tim and Donald, cos they're LAME!"
Griff: "OMG, it makes me wanna hang round with y'all and protect y'all cuz he's making you think he's cool when he's not and we know he's not but he's making you think that he is cuz you're not from here..."
Emily Parrish: "We don't grow sheep over here."
Emily Parrish: "Some people even put milk in their tea!"
Alexa: "What's tea?!"
Stuart's people: "I dunno if y'all are familiar with lemons??"
David: "I saved Austin Gallagher's ass!!!!!! (X10)
Te Costnickel: "Honey, they don't have rice in Ireland."
Matt Levesque: "Wheesht ye feckin eejit!"
Fiona: "Are you aware of the craic situation?"
Kate and Gavin: "EB phone home."
EB: "Our hosts in LaGrange tell us the percussionists are covered in bruises, but you can check that out for yourselves."
Cecil Morgan, bus driver: "I hope she beats me with a big stick when I get home."
Karen Wise: "We can handle that."
EB: "Look out the window and contemplate nature."
EB: "Learn to talk through the back of your head; that way you won't have to turn round."
Eamon, when the tutors' raft capsized: "Why couldn't EB have been on that boat??"
Jeannie and Manny, host parents in LaGrange, on the phone to the Chadwicks: "We wanna know who the two guys you have are, cuz we have two girls!"
"Two cute girls!"
Karen Wise: "So you see those short skirts in your room, they have shorts under, right?"
Ronan: "Ohhh yes."
David: "You know it!"
The now-infamous yellow Post-it; Hollee Brock's attempt at helping the Peace Process along: "Reconciliation."
Karen Wise, who has 14 professional portraits of CATS in her home: "I'm not really a cat lover."
Lady at Atlanta airport: "My great great great great grandfather was Irish; I'm going to visit him this summer."
Cecil the bus driver: "Watersports: water-skiing, jetskiing, bass fishing and...girl-watching."
Cecil: "I'll be busier than a one-legged man at a snake-stomping."0 komentarzy 1207 dni
zamknij Ostatnie gry
Wypróbuj najbardziej wciągające gry.
zamknij Tablica
zamknij Zdjęcia
-
01. Cambridge, July 2006, Stolen Pics
(9)
-
02. SUYO Concert Tour - Travelling
(21)
-
03. SUYO Concert Tour - LaGrange
(42)
-
04. SUYO Concert Tour - LaGrange, Last Day
(18)
-
05. SUYO Concert Tour - Lookout Mountain
(44)
-
06. SUYO Concert Tour - Lookout Mountain, Last Day
(7)
-
07. YMT:UK 2006 - The Last Tango
(34)
-
08. UYO 2006
(30)
-
09. Academy Formal 2006
(26)
-
10. Naoimh's 18th!
(22)
-
11. End of School
(6)
-
Camping at Keady
(18)
-
Epileptic Sex Rave
(27)
-
Me and Sam
(27)
-
SUYO
(26)
-
UYO 2007: 1
(47)
zamknij Komentarze
-
Dolores McGonagle86 tygodni temuhey hey just dot i wud say hey xxxxx
-
Kendra McGrath88 tygodni temuHey Folks…
A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
@HOUSES OF BLUES, THE FORT
18TH APRIL
£5 ADMISSION
IN AID OF HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NI
For those of you who don’t know I'm going out to Madagascar in the summer on a Habitat for Humanity Global Village trip, doing volunteer work to eliminate poverty housing. I would greatly appreciate some support and you can dress up as a film character if you’re brave enough!!
xx
-
Chanel Baeur90 tygodni temuHey Caoimhe!!!! Hope ya had a fun Easter!!!!! sorry we didn get to catch up, ive been workin every hour possible and the last 5 days ive been in scotland with jtown mountaineering club. Had the best time of my life!!! the snow was sooooo deep and nice and it was so much fun. Completly wrecked from climbing up hills of ice and the serious lack of sleep but its all good, and i finally think ive found some weirdos like my self lol. well keep havin fun nd keep me updated on the craic!!
Slan!! -
93 tygodnie temu
Naoimh Mcglone
hey hey mrs!!!!!
here...wise up...im equally dodgy at keepin in touch this weather...chances are, if ur not in belfast i wont be talkin til ye!!! lol!!! its jus wild hard wi all the stuff goin on at uni...n all those strenuous extra-curricular activities (i no ive spelt loadsa stuff wrong already...never was my strong point lik
)
yup were def gonna have til get a nite sorted out sumwhere!?!?!?! but where?!?!?! clublands jus waaaaaay too young these days...glenavon r mcaleers perhaps!?!?!
have sum love there ye girl ye!!! 
xxxxx -
Sheila Doherty93 tygodnie temuwhoe sounds like a busy time. on eaching practice at the moment. had my two inspections and they went real well so I can relax next week now. good to hear that you're finding some time to party - it can't be work all the time!! you missing home at all? most be hard not seeing everyone? I think being in dublin 5 days a week is hard enough! ha x
-
Sheila Doherty95 tygodni temu
Hi Caoimhe - long time no chat? how are you?? just thinking that I never wrote back to you at xmas but thanks a mill for the card, you're too good!! Sheila, xx
-
Michaela Donaghy97 tygodni temuawk aye im not doin 2 bad.. bruises av all disappeared... n was gettin quite proud of them.. collarbone aint bad at all... onli painful th odd wee time... wich compared 2 the first few weeks is great.. tink i mite even get mi first wee nite out this weekend!!
aw caoimhe darling dont evn start, am ripin lik, and th ski trip 
!!!! n was tinkin u wudnt av any more few times... grrrrrrrrrr.... leme no if ya do,,, wont b able t come over after exams, cos i shal b havin mi 18ths.. n then a wee holiday wi th folks.. n then oxemagen..lol! hows tings wi u nehus?xxx
-
The Joke Page98 tygodni temujokes if ya would like ta join
-
Dolores McGonagle98 tygodni temu
heyyyong time no chats i lost your numbber!!! wats up with u?? craic ar bith??
-
102 tygodnie temu
-
Dolores McGonagle104 tygodnie temu
heyyy sorry never answered deleted all my nos will u txt me so i av urs agaain
-
Michaela Donaghy105 tygodni temu
heeeeeeeeeeeeeey sup? needa get seein ya again b4 i head off lol!..... wud give ur ur xmas present bt avnt had a chance t get it yet... hmmmm... its a work in progress!! lol.. so bein home any less borin yet? xxx
-
Naoimh Mcglone105 tygodni temu
aye rite enuf, its kinda mental how many of my uni mates no u!!! lol! purelove wee rachael n treasa to bits, swear til god think me n rach have spent that much tme together were morphin into the same person...we've decided to call ourselves reeve mcglonstal!! lol!! n aislings me wee social work mate, such a wee legend!! lol!!
awh was chattin til ur daddy in the shop...lucky uz!!! were only off there on fri!!! xoxo -
Naoimh Mcglone105 tygodni temu
hey hey young gun!?!?!?! i hear ur back on irish shores!!! how does it feel til be back!?!?! lol!!! were gonna have to get a reunion nite out at clubland r somethin....for old times sake!!! lol xoxox
-
Owen Denvir109 tygodni temuHey caoimhe! Cheers for the birthday comment! I've found out there's no such thing as drunk, an it's just an excuse for people to get away with things they shouldn't! Well, I'll say that until I've to come up with an excuse myself
Aye facebook melts my head a wee bit, all the superpoke stuff and that. What the buck! Not that I'm sayin I love bebo like but it appeals to simple people like me. Which is always nice.
hey hey! i couldnt help but notice you have a completly turd-less whiteboard, so thought id do a nice wee one for my favourite non-blood related sister! havnt talked to you in years, an its really annoyin cos my fones completly useless so msn an bebos pretty much the only way i can stay in conta...
Owen Denvir 0 odpowiedzi