I'd say, some Irish try very hard to be modern, and still - sometimes, they don't quite ... well... reach the standard. Nothing should ever be so modern that it makes your life too easy - that's their motto, you see? Take the photocopying machines in MIC as an example. Honestly, I'm glad they have them, it's so handy not to copy everything by hand, but how can you produce machines without a board for the freshly copied sheets to fall onto? So, what you do is you push the button, run to the left side of the machine, try to catch the sheet (or pick it up from the floor...), go back, push the button, run around the machine, catch the next sheet etcetcetc. I'm sure you agree that it is slightly tiring after the 50th page you copy. Some people have already moved whole tables and positioned them just next to the slot. But those are just lazy people or international students from places such as ehm Switzerland.
Over Christmas, our library decided to position futuristic barriers at the exit to prevent students from stealing. Now - the ingenious thing about this whole matter is that the former entrance is now the exit and the former exit is now the entrance. Yes, you got it. All students trying to enter the library bump into the barrier, and the alarm goes like BEEP BEEP BEEP and I should work on my thesis, BEEP BEEP BEEP, for heaven's sake, BEEP BEEP BEEP! Anyway, the good thing is: it keeps me awake.
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