Anyone wanna chip in for an aircraft carrier?

BKtje

Im only about $10.79million short. Anyone wanna chip in?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26432&item=2450501898

Mossy Monk

for some reason the Shipping and payment details link made me laugh

rymus

I'll throw a tenner into the pot

sharkman

Yeah , I'll throw a tenner in . It could come in handy some day ..

Raphael

I'll stick in a fiver, but i want to park my illegal terrorist bombers on it

mike65

We'd get thrown in jail for having a boat bigger than any the government owns!

Mike.

bizmark

I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mind you the goverment would be pissed if you came home in a fully decked out aircarft carrier......you would be more powerful that the army/navy/airforce put together lol

100 euro and not a penny more!

Edit--

But that is not all, the navigation instruments and satellite guidance system and other great instruments cost hundreds of millions of dollars when they were new. You can easily get a lot of money from selling the instruments. Now for a tiny fraction of the original price (which maybe over $ 5 billion US dollars) you can have this wonderful property all for yourself

Thats a compleat piss take though a brand new nimitzs class super carrier costs around 1,3 billion dollors you can bet your ass a 18,000 ton 30-50 year old angle decked carrier wouldnt cost ANYTHING near that

pigeonbutler

If we Get about €11 from every man woman and child in the Republic of Ireland we can afford it. At the current price of $50,000,100: about 40 million yo-yos.
I say it'd be a better investment than a spaghetti--mad-cow-junction/roundabout.

Exit

If we raid Bertie's bank account, we'd probably be able to afford it too.

Capt'n Midnight

Strange - now at $50m - but I seem to remember it was on sale at about a tenth of this price earlier in the year.

also IIRC the price of scrap steel here is only about €10 per tonne.

uRbaN

wouldnt even fit up the liffey :P
I pledge Euro 2.99...worth every cent

bizmark

its only 80 foot wide and 639 feet long ....it isnt that big i say we keep it in cork city though ! :dunno:

Gummy Panda

Originally posted by bizmark
its only 80 foot wide and 639 feet long ....it isnt that big i say we keep it in cork city though ! :dunno:

Yeah, cork is a bit rough. It could do with a military presence .

Wat would it be named?

BKtje

Pride of Boards or sommet is what i suggest

was worth just under 11million when i posted it but now worth over 50million.

We gonna need more people to chip in

bizmark

Yeah, cork is a bit rough. It could do with a military presence .

Na thats Limrick

we shall call it

LE.Switerland beat us in the world cup and we will bomb your ass back to the stone age

It has meaning to it!

Capt'n Midnight

Eh, what use is an Aircraft carrier against Switzerland ?
esp when our Air Corps doesnt have any modern aircraft .

bizmark

shut up you!

we can bomb them while in ireland Theirfore takeing out landsdown road as well (2 birds with but one stone)

we have to make up some type of excuse why the irish team has to leave early though

Capt'n Midnight

Found it - HMS VENGEANCE
As previously for sale here - for $4.5m http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12
c.f.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99606&

More images http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/images.asp?File_Number=BOP12

These guys are also trying to buy it.
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/

Raphael

Just have the irish team not show up, like scotland vs estonia

bizmark

yes but Estonia is **** doing what they did would just be embarrassing

flogen

ok, Il give €20, but i want it on mondays, fridays, tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays, wednsdays and every second sunday.

Flogen

passive

count me in for e20. can it be used to invade small counties?

eg: louth?

tinkerbell

I'll throw in the 49m!

(Not that I have 49m but if I did, I'd throw it in! lol)

Why doesn't someone jus bat their eyelashes at some really foolish and rich old dude and convince him to transfer his billions into their bank a/c and then we could buy the thing! Woohoo!!

pigeonbutler

Finally we've found something good for Ireland for Rosanna Davison to do!

passive

you're making her captain!!??

Sarky

You'd never be able to afford the insurance in this country for it.

Big Ears

ya the carrier would cost 50 million and the insurance would be 850 times that number at least.

mike65

Right, I've added up the pledges so far and I think we really should be looking at something more like this -



With some filler and a paint job she'll look just fine!

Mike.

Sarky

Isn't that the Orla?

passive

we can still invade louth though, right?

bizmark

hey dont take the piss out of our small navy ships!

hmmmmmmmm

i guess with a bit of paint and a tiny totaly useless deck gun it could be one of ours lol

Sarky

Originally posted by bizmark
hey dont take the piss out of our small navy ships!

Right, sorry, that's all that holds them together.

bizmark

na its a good deal of luck and gaffa tape

The_Bullman

Originally posted by passive
we can still invade louth though, right?

What's wrong with Louth? Couldn't you pick a worse spot.. somewhere out west surely

Sarky

West Louth?

Gummy Panda

Lets invade the Aran islands!!

Big Ears

if were going west lets attack clare.thats what we'll do on our way up the shannon to claim limerick from those gangsters. we'll control all of munster by sea except tipp cause its an inland county and the best county of them all.

bus77

Im in:)

Dont really mind who we invade, but can we do a bit of fishin aswell?
I really do like a bit of fishin

Lump

Who the **** is this nut job Dazultra that bid US $68,675,957.90 I hope he gets landed with it, and e-bay make him pay WWOWOWOWW



John

flogen

can you actually be 'made' pay?
i mean, even if they have your cc details, that wont help because you wouldnt have that kind of limit.
Im guessing all they can say is 'pay for it or your not banned from e-bay......ahahahahahahahahaha, your life is ruined', or something.

Flogen

AL][EN

Originally posted by flogen
can you actually be 'made' pay?
i mean, even if they have your cc details, that wont help because you wouldnt have that kind of limit.
Im guessing all they can say is 'pay for it or your not banned from e-bay......ahahahahahahahahaha, your life is ruined', or something.

Flogen

yea its in the small print of the terms and conditions of Ebay, all bids must be paid for or you forfit your soul, land and first born son (or daughter) to the ebay corp.

If its not too late i'll throw in 10,000 i was gonna buy a car with the money but instead i'll just take one of the F-14 jets to work instead i'll never have to worry about traffic jams again!

Capt'n Midnight

Some problems with F14 commuting.

Planes not included in carrie price
Parking at work
Costs about €3,000 to fill the tanks
You'll fail the NCT if you use the afterburners

echomadman

One of these would be better, a lot easier to park.

][cEMAN**

www.iwoot.com had an f16 (think that's right) plane for sale. They soon sold out though :P

I think the price was about £250,000 or there abouts. Could have chipped in for that easily enough. Someone to fly the plane and someone to sit in the back with drink trying to hold it down while they do barrel rolls

Exit

Can we bait it up da dualler?

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by echomadman
One of these would be better, a lot easier to park. [/B]

And they are free with 11,000,000 pepsi tokens

Walter Ego

Newsflash!!!

The L.E. Orla was in collision today with a curragh off the coast of Galway. However the quick acting curragh owner was able to rescue all the crewmembers.

AL][EN

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Some problems with F14 commuting.

Planes not included in carrie price
Parking at work
Costs about €3,000 to fill the tanks
You'll fail the NCT if you use the afterburners

Yea i didnt think of that! i could always just go for a blackhawk helicopter instead instead of a car pool we could have a chopper pool everyone that chips into buying the aircraft carrier* gets a lift to work in the blackhawk from the roof of there house! shouldnt be too hard to find parking for the aircraft carrier ooooo say dublin bay maybe!


*unless of course you live in russia or cuba

Capt'n Midnight

Maybe the Harrier ain't such a good ides

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1214harrier14.html

The Harrier, renowned for its ability to take off and land vertically like a helicopter, has amassed the highest major accident rate of any military plane now in service. Forty-five Marines have died in 148 non-combat accidents. More than a third of the fleet of 397 has been lost to accidents in the 32-year history of the single-seat jet.


PS. Actually it was only 7,000,000 coupons
http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/bam/k2001/pepsi.html
At this point, the following message appears at the bottom of the screen: "Offer not available in all areas. See details on specially marked packages."

mike65

Maybe the Harrier ain't such a good ides

The Harrier, renowned for its ability to take off and land vertically like a helicopter, has amassed the highest major accident rate of any military plane now in service. Forty-five Marines have died in 148 non-combat accidents. More than a third of the fleet of 397 has been lost to accidents in the 32-year history of the single-seat jet

They're all US spec Harriers - in other words too much burger ballast!

Mike.

halenger

Originally posted by ][cEMAN**
www.iwoot.com had an f16 (think that's right) plane for sale. They soon sold out though :P

I think the price was about £250,000 or there abouts. Could have chipped in for that easily enough. Someone to fly the plane and someone to sit in the back with drink trying to hold it down while they do barrel rolls

Nope... It's a Russian L39 Jet and they're not sold out. They're been selling them for years. £200,000... Was £150,000 a year or two ago.

L39 Jet

Enjoy