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I may have complained about this before but the price of books in Ireland is ridiculous, buying English books on the continent is actually cheaper than buying them in English-speaking Ireland. 

E.g. I bought a copy of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ in a German book shop for €7, the same book at home would cost €12-€14 and the brick and mortar shops wonder why they’re struggling to get customers :/ .

There’s a reason why I read predominately classics, apart from their literary quality (I’m not a snob…I swear) they are also about €3-€4. Everything is overpriced, I mean good luck at finding a new hardback under €17!

Another pet peeve: People who leave doors open, what were ye born in fields? 

Post #2 in a row because I can do what I want:

I’m listening to sample Irish orals and the people who have learnt every-single-thing-off are really annoying the hell out of me. You can tell that they’re trying to remember what their notes said “ah, ah, ah”- I was amused as one of the robots was asked a question about bullying and she hadn’t it prepared: (Translation from English to Irish)

” Well ah I think there might be ah ah ah but I don’t ah see it ah so there might be but ah no I don’t know ah”.

And she keeps on saying “mmm hum” (you know that agreement sound), it’s alright every now and again but after every single question. That and she said “sorry” in English twice, I hope she lost marks for that…. 

She also said “out of French” instead of “out of France”- serves you right robot! 

I’m a terrible person…

Although the girl before her didn’t have a clue what she was being asked and I felt really sorry for her so I amn’t that bad. Am I?

And georgiewood posted before me- I’m thinking of getting a Kindle for Christmas but I’m not sure which one to get. I’m also quite a fan of physical books, I can’t read a book on the computer/phone because of how strange it feels so the thought of wasting a good chunk of money on a Kindle is a worrying thought.

Edit #3: Oh there’s a girl on who doesn’t understand anything the examiner is saying. I always feel really sad for them as it’s a shame how the education system failed them  

I am far too freaking sentimental. However the examiner has a lovely accent  I’m kind of annoyed at him though as he wasn’t helping her in the beginning even though it was obvious she was struggling, he did finally cop on and realized he should help her with saying how much money she earned for babysitting.

Edit #4: Oh God , there’s another one. He sounds as if he is from Limerick- I mean he didn’t even understand the name of the poem he was meant to be reading. Poor fella. He hasn’t learnt his picture sequences either, it’s just really long silences- ay-ay-ay. You think you would go in having looked over them at least once, he just appears to have stumbled into the exam not really knowing what he was there to do. Really bad preparation on his and his teacher’s part, although fair play to the examiner who keeps on saying “good, good” “now describe the next picture to me”.

Edit #5: She’s alright but she has a cold, “they *sniff* are going *sniff*”- would drive me mad if I were an examiner. Blow your bloody nose before you go in….

I realize nobody cares about this but meh.

Ah it’s quite expensive £66- phew. 

Sorry to detract from real books vs. ebooks.

But the girl just said her favourite singer was “Billy Joel”, that’s great But then she said she enjoys David Guetta’s music so she got turned off *sniff*.

Unnecessary use of the “Stay on Topic” smiley. Some people use it far too often!

Silly Girl said
Thought of another pet peeve: 

Beards. 

Nuff said. 

Like mmm said – not bad.