Things you thought you'd never see!

Biggins · 30-01-2009 3:20pm #1

Seeing in the news today that British people are marching for "British jobs for British Workers" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131708/Stop-stealing-jobs-Thousands-oil-workers-Britain-walk-row-influx-foreign-labour.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7859968.stm), I thought I'd never see such an occurrence on such a mass scale.

Is there anything I am wondering that others here thought they'd never see but have come to pass that have shocked them?

The_Minister · 30-01-2009 3:30pm

so UNITE = BNP now?

Geri Boyle · 30-01-2009 3:31pm

The irony of the guy in the pic with the Manchester United hat on. How many of his beloved players are non British nationals?! :rolleyes:

30-01-2009 3:34pm

Biggins wrote: »

Seeing in the news today that British people are marching for "British jobs for British Workers" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131708/Stop-stealing-jobs-Thousands-oil-workers-Britain-walk-row-influx-foreign-labour.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7859968.stm), I thought I'd never see such an occurrence on such a mass scale.

Is there anything I am wondering that others here thought they'd never see but have come to pass that have shocked them?

I'm genuinely surprised they haven't done it before now.

phasers · 30-01-2009 3:35pm

Ever notice that foreign workers don't strike and just get on with their work?

Biggins · 30-01-2009 3:35pm

I don't want this thread to be about race. It will get locked in a flash (and probably rightly so).
Its about things that have some to pass that has shocked you.

Like I never thought I'd see the day when our government quickly in days, creates a law so that they don't have to pay back pensioners and the money they had taken from them in the wrong (it was a hospice/home issue).

I never thought I'd see the day when I have to queue over night on our streets to just try and gain a place for my child in a basic school!

Dancor · 30-01-2009 3:36pm

Lousy Imigants

Tom65 · 30-01-2009 3:41pm

Return to the bad old days (economically). Not that I never thought I'd see it, more that I never thought it would happen so quickly, so soon.

Biggins wrote: »

I don't want this thread to be about race. It will get locked in a flash (and probably rightly so).
Its about things that have some to pass that has shocked you.

Racist.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 3:46pm

The greens in government and Dublin bus/public transport reduced.

Cookie_Monster · 30-01-2009 3:47pm

This

justsomebloke · 30-01-2009 3:49pm

phasers wrote: »

Ever notice that foreign workers don't strike and just get on with their work?

yes cause countries like france never have strikies

Biggins · 30-01-2009 3:49pm

Tom65 wrote: »

Racist.

Ya Fenian!

I never thought I'd see ALL our essential services and hard working staff stiffed, cut and doled off!

Naos · 30-01-2009 3:50pm

Why would he go to all the bother of printing out an A4 (Impressive!) banner and write 1st instead of first?

chin_grin · 30-01-2009 3:51pm

Me mickey, <sucks in gut>. Oh wait there it is, crisis over. As you were.

funk-you · 30-01-2009 3:54pm

Someone from Offaly running the country.

-Funk

MagicMarker · 30-01-2009 3:55pm

A black President.

minidazzler · 30-01-2009 3:55pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

A black President.

Mugabe??? He's been President for years.

MagicMarker · 30-01-2009 3:57pm

minidazzler wrote: »

Mugabe??? He's been President for years.

Quiet you.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 4:04pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

This

Alternative Link

Cookie_Monster · 30-01-2009 4:09pm

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Alternative Link

Scumbag detector, I've seen them before

RATM · 30-01-2009 4:19pm

Things that I thought I'd never see ?

Biggins reading the Daily Mail, he's got more sense than that:D

No really if there was one thing I thought Id never see it was two planes flying into two skyscrapers. You just couldn't have made that sh1t up.

Another is women's boxing. It feels normal now but at the time I thought it would never happen.

Yet another was the smoking ban, before it came in I thought 'Ah shure that'll never happen in a pub going culture like Ireland' yet here we are years later with smokefree workplaces.

tony 2 tone · 30-01-2009 4:21pm

Joe the Santa wrote: »

yes cause countries like france never have strikies

They don't count as foreign in their own country :P

Biggins · 30-01-2009 4:23pm

RATM wrote: »

Things that I thought I'd never see ?

Biggins reading the Daily Mail, he's got more sense than that

LOL - I have to keep track of the lunatic fringe.
(Besides - I like reading comics!)

MIN2511 · 30-01-2009 4:24pm

Saw that in the news earlier, tbh i am not suprised there will be loads more of that going on....

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 4:25pm

I never thought I'd see the day that the Elephant Man would be running the country.

truecrippler · 30-01-2009 4:27pm

2 Girls 1 Cup.

Caoimhín · 30-01-2009 4:27pm

I honestly never thought I would see the Daily Mail for sale all over Ireland.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 4:31pm

RATM wrote: »

Another is women's boxing. It feels normal now but at the time I thought it would never happen.

Just hang a "80% off all stock" sign outside a shoe shop for the laugh and you'll see that.

dsmythy · 30-01-2009 4:38pm

tony 2 tone wrote: »

They don't count as foreign in their own country :P

I'd imagine there was plenty of non-French workers striking yesterday in France too.

EDIT: Just realised non-French. Har har.

antodeco · 30-01-2009 4:42pm

Snyper marrying legally.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 4:46pm

antodeco wrote: »

Snyper marrying legally.

I believe his marriage vows were "You're my wife now".

Photo

antodeco · 30-01-2009 4:50pm

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I believe his marriage vows were "You're my wife now".

Photo

Hellooo Daaaaave! Legend that is Papa Lazarou

dsmythy · 30-01-2009 5:02pm

Caoimhín wrote: »

I honestly never thought I would see the Daily Mail for sale all over Ireland.

I never thought i'd see Joe Higgins with a column in it.

Cuddlesworth · 30-01-2009 5:08pm

a naked women,

then I got internet.

Fizman · 30-01-2009 5:15pm

Never imagined i'd see the day where I spent several hours a day reading through forums on the internet. Where did it all go wrong?

Professey Chin · 30-01-2009 5:19pm

truecrippler wrote: »

2 Girls 1 Cup.

Ill see your 2 Girls 1 Cup and raise you 4 Girls Finger Paint

truecrippler · 30-01-2009 5:20pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Ill see your 2 Girls 1 Cup and raise you 4 Girls Finger Paint

Deal!

Fizman · 30-01-2009 5:21pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Ill see your 2 Girls 1 Cup and raise you 4 Girls Finger Paint

I'll see your 4 Girls Finger Paint and raise you 3 Guys 1 Fleshlight.

Ally Dick · 30-01-2009 5:30pm

Biggins wrote: »

I don't want this thread to be about race.

Race is entirely relevant to the argument. We took too many people in. Now when the jobs are scarce, we cannot get work because of non-nationals

billy the squid · 30-01-2009 5:35pm

Ally Dick wrote: »

Race is entirely relevant to the argument. We took too many people in. Now when the jobs are scarce, we cannot get work because of non-nationals

The problem isn't the number of foreign natio als coming into the country, it is the ease at which employers will pay them below the going rate that is the problem. Oh, and they are not refugees, we didn't take anyone in, they came here of their own volition.

Biggins · 30-01-2009 5:35pm

Ally Dick wrote: »

Race is entirely relevant to the argument. We took too many people in. Now when the jobs are scarce, we cannot get work because of non-nationals

Let me correct my own words - I wouldn't like this thread to descend into just another slagging section against other nations.

Nationalities might be relevant to an argument but choosing a nationality as a means by a small few to have a go at culture/faith/etc is never advantageous to progressive discussion.

demakinz · 30-01-2009 5:39pm

funk-you wrote: »

Someone from Offaly running the country.

-Funk

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isnt he doin a great job...................................................................................................................................not

Ally Dick · 30-01-2009 5:49pm

demakinz wrote: »

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isnt he doin a great job...................................................................................................................................not

He's trying to clean up Bertie's mess

thelordofcheese · 30-01-2009 6:01pm

Ally Dick wrote: »

Race is entirely relevant to the argument. We took too many people in. Now when the jobs are scarce, we cannot get work because of non-nationals

Dey Durk ar Jawbs?

murrayp4 · 30-01-2009 6:04pm

A ladyboy carrying a monkey around in a Thai fishing village.

thelordofcheese · 30-01-2009 6:06pm

murrayp4 wrote: »

A ladyboy carrying a monkey around in a Thai fishing village.

Pics or GTFO.

murrayp4 · 30-01-2009 6:11pm

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Pics or GTFO.

Seriously, it was a few weeks ago, he/she was selling pics of himself with the monkey. Couldn't do it though, it took about an hour to compute in my head what I'd just come across

MIN2511 · 30-01-2009 6:12pm

Ally Dick wrote: »

Race is entirely relevant to the argument. We took too many people in. Now when the jobs are scarce, we cannot get work because of non-nationals

When you say race what exactly do you mean, non Irish(ie EU citizens) or non white people?

What do you propose the Goverment should do to this non nationals? Send them home?

Never forget that most of the companies in Ireland are American, so with the companies comes their people. If you think sending the foreigners home is going to solve the problem then my friend you are in for a shocker. The way this foreign companies came thats the same way they would leave, then what?

Tom65 · 30-01-2009 6:16pm

murrayp4 wrote: »

Seriously, it was a few weeks ago, he/she was selling pics of himself with the monkey. Couldn't do it though, it took about an hour to compute in my head what I'd just come across

Um...him and the monkey...doing what, exactly?

murrayp4 · 30-01-2009 6:19pm

Tom65 wrote: »

Um...him and the monkey...doing what, exactly?

Ah now, it was innocent enough actually, I think.
I really should have taken that photo. You just don't see that every day

Professey Chin · 30-01-2009 6:19pm

Domo230 wrote: »

Never thought id see a recession.

Seriously those things are so 80s.

Sure we all knew the 80s were comin back.
I blame 80s music as being the harbinger of death

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