What can you do to make a difference in 06?

faceman

Well the new year is upon us, and i was wondering what we can do in the new year to make a difference in this sometimes crappy rainy little island we live on.

Look what we have had this year:
Eddie Hobbs- teaching us to complain, demand more and the government are mean ole nasties! Was he just a fad? Did anyone listen?

Minister McDowell - tried to bring in a cafe bar license which was dropped for NO valid reason other than the pub owners/politicians (couple of hundred in this case) carry more clout than the public (millions of irish drinkers) do. Did anyone complain to their TD?

Banks ripping us off - blatant overcharging and customers shafted. Did anyone switch banks?

Just a sample but im curious to hear if anyone has taken this on the chin and reaslised that we as the good decent Irish population are getting shafted everywhere and our nice "top of the mornin" nature lets it carry on.

Will anyone out there try make a difference this year?

Binomate

Not me anyway.

Devon

Binomate wrote:

Not me anyway.

This seems to be everyone's attitude. As long as we all continue do nothing, the government will get away with ripping us off. The government relies on the Irish mentality of "one man can't make a difference", or the "couldn't be bothered" attitude.

Imagine if we, the Irish Republic, boycotted shopping for just 1 day, in protest of Rip Off Ireland. The problem wouldn't be organising it or spreading the word - the problem is the people, and will always be the people.

We deserve to be ripped off.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

we should just nuke the entire Ireland and start over in a couple of thousand years.

Sangre

Most people seem to forget we are one of the highest earning nations in the world. Of course its more expensive.

Although do you know how to not be ripped off? Don't buy it. Shop somewhere else or online. There is no magic one day protest solution. The government can't do anything about it, at all. It can't force cheaper prices.
If people are willing to pay then the service providers should charge as much as they can.

Atrocity

As long as we all continue do nothing, the government will get away with ripping us off

There isn't much we can do, not until the next election swings around. And even then, the opposition is laughable. Just because we all want change doesn't mean we should vote a bigger crowd of dumbasses in.

Binomate

jerryadams wrote:

This seems to be everyone's attitude. As long as we all continue do nothing, the government will get away with ripping us off. The government relies on the Irish mentality of "one man can't make a difference", or the "couldn't be bothered" attitude.

Imagine if we, the Irish Republic, boycotted shopping for just 1 day, in protest of Rip Off Ireland. The problem wouldn't be organising it or spreading the word - the problem is the people, and will always be the people.

We deserve to be ripped off.

Read my post again, there's not much in it. I never said anything about "one man can't make a difference".

gurramok

My difference is drink more beer and eat LESS choco as me teeth have suffered too much abuse each chrimbo

Kernel

50 good men with AK-47's storm Dail Eireann, occupy it and make a revolutionary stand/possibly overthrow the government in a publicly supported coup?

junkyard

I'm upping my prices anyway, I made no profits for the last six months with all these f*****g stealth taxes. At the rate things are going we're going to see a lot of small businesses go down the tubes next year. The main ripperoffers are the local town councils with charges for everything and doing f**k all only go on fact finding missions around the world and having piss-up for their cronies in the local town hall. It makes me sick the way they squander money and force small businesses to pay so much for all this.:mad:

faceman

Sangre wrote:

Although do you know how to not be ripped off? Don't buy it. Shop somewhere else or online. There is no magic one day protest solution. The government can't do anything about it, at all. It can't force cheaper prices.
If people are willing to pay then the service providers should charge as much as they can.

Thats the whole point, but (irish) ppl are accepted this. No one complains in this country.

A friend of mine's father owns a number of restaurants in ireland, england and scotland. He says Irish ppl never complain, in fact he cud get away with sloppy standards if he wanted.

ArphaRima

Thats the whole point, but (irish) ppl are accepted this. No one complains in this country.

Thats exactly where I have changed in the last year.

When I get poor service there is NO tip; and I explain why. When Im asked if I enjoyed my meal, and I didnt; I say it and why. If something is cheaper somewhere else I say im not buying it, why, and where I will be purchasing.

Prices are the way they are because people let them be. There is no point in earning 5 percent more next year if you have to pay 10 percent more for everything! Top that off with poor service and declining attitudes and Ireland is fast becoming a place I dont like to be.

faceman

fluffer wrote:

Thats exactly where I have changed in the last year.

When I get poor service there is NO tip; and I explain why. When Im asked if I enjoyed my meal, and I didnt; I say it and why. If something is cheaper somewhere else I say im not buying it, why, and where I will be purchasing.

Fair play to u! Anyone else out there do the same? Or more interestingly anyone fall in the category of just accepting it?

Altheus

We should continue to frown upon public flatulence and make a more concerted effort to discourage it wherever we can.

BrownFiend

We should invade Ingerland..


See how it goes. Worse case scenario, go home with the tail between the legs!!

Sparky

its true, we never complain at anything, now watch a yank complain, wow.

the_menace

In 2006 I'm likely to be exceedingly loaded from working my arse off the last few years. It's better than sitting about moaning about being ripped off while I spend half my life in a pub getting bolloxed drunk and wasting my money. As a previous poster said, it's the Irish people who are the problem. And not because they refuse to complain - because they seem to think that life owes them; which simply isn't the case.

Happy Yule to y'all.