We found some Gold

Browney7 · 02-02-2009 7:48pm #1

Bet the Somali pirates wish they found this http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090202/tuk-billion-dollar-wreck-discovered-6323e80.html

Senna · 02-02-2009 7:51pm

What do you mean WE?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-02-2009 7:53pm

This calls for a spot of Ballet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

Rhyme · 02-02-2009 7:53pm

...and that was the last we heard of the recession.

Turd Ferguson · 02-02-2009 7:57pm

Rhyme wrote: »

...and that was the last we heard of the recession.

It's legally owned by the Brits. And anyway even if it was ours who has the monies to buy it?

Calibos · 02-02-2009 8:03pm

Limerick OP must be a 'Way out West Brit'

Browney7 · 02-02-2009 8:05pm

Calibos wrote: »

Limerick OP must be a 'Way out West Brit'

Sh*t better scatter quick:D

ejmaztec · 02-02-2009 8:07pm

Browney7 wrote: »

Sh*t better scatter quick:D

Everybody's got a price, especially in Limerick.

galwayrush · 02-02-2009 8:08pm

I'm going digging in my back garden,

Cunny-Funt · 02-02-2009 8:54pm

Where the hell did you get we from? It not ours, it wasnt found in our territory , and it wasnt found by us...

wtf?

Anyway thats pretty cool, I remember something about them trying to find the hms victory a few years ago on tv.

Browney7 · 02-02-2009 9:01pm

It was an evil plan to raise peoples spirits and then when people read that the Brits had it they would come tumbling back down to earth:pac::o

Riddle101 · 02-02-2009 10:04pm

They really overreact in that article. You man's talking about how significant this historical thing is and proberly the biggest ship wreck ever.
Please If it's not Titanic it's worth s**t. The only thing that is important is the gold and the discover knows it. But with the Recession going on, i'm sure the British Government would like nothing more then to scoop up the loot and claim it for themselves. Although it is theirs legally and rightfully. I think if we act fast Ireland can salvage the wreck first and steal the gold. No one would ever know we took it, and if anyone asks. We just say some Somali Pirates took it

GirlInterrupted · 02-02-2009 11:25pm

Rhyme wrote: »

...and that was the last we heard of the recession.

It would take more than the discovery of some Gold to dispel the recession, I think. Its good stuff, but not magic!

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-02-2009 11:30pm

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Where the hell did you get we from?

*Snigger*

allabouteve · 03-02-2009 12:49pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

It would take more than the discovery of some Gold to dispel the recession, I think. Its good stuff, but not magic!

It would cheer everyone up if we all had some gold. It makes me feel better anyway, there's a reason its called precious. Nothing like it.

However this gold isn't Irish.

Tabnabs · 03-02-2009 12:54pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

I think if we act fast Ireland can salvage the wreck first and steal the gold. No one would ever know we took it, and if anyone asks. We just say some Somali Pirates took it

WTF? We can't even organise to get one of our own ships off the seabed and that only sank last year. You must be thinking of a different Ireland if you think we can act decisively?

road_2_damascus · 03-02-2009 12:54pm

Browney7 wrote: »

Bet the Somali pirates wish they found this http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090202/tuk-billion-dollar-wreck-discovered-6323e80.html

Yes, its glittery and nice... BUT... we have gold in this country, in the form of wind blowing across the land, and untapped hydro power at river outlets...and yet we continue to pay a bunch of suits to sit back and do NOTHING to harness this energy. ESB are getting away with murder

S.I.R · 03-02-2009 12:55pm

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

It's legally owned by the Brits. And anyway even if it was ours who has the monies to buy it?

can we not send some pikeys to sort it out....

distract them with cheap carpet offers,

then we're gone to las vegas... All of us !!

would be great... :rolleyes:

eVeNtInE · 03-02-2009 1:03pm

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Cookie_Monster · 03-02-2009 1:04pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

They really overreact in that article. You man's talking about how significant this historical thing is and proberly the biggest ship wreck ever.
Please If it's not Titanic it's worth s**t.

Why is the titanic so much more important?
1000 people died on this ship, it actually sank more than 60 miles from where they thought, for different reasons then commonly held belief and has 4 tonnes of gold on board.

Sounds a lot more important than the Titanic IMO

Cookie_Monster · 03-02-2009 1:06pm

Dyflin wrote: »

WTF? We can't even organise to get one of our own ships off the seabed and that only sank last year. You must be thinking of a different Ireland if you think we can act decisively?

But there's money (vast vast sums) involved this time;)

Send in the leprachauns, they'll know how to get the gold:D

Feelgood · 03-02-2009 1:09pm

Pfft, sure its only 3 months wages to boards moderators..

S.I.R · 03-02-2009 2:38pm

isnt their a finders keepers rule so they can keep it, donate some and scrap the rest ??

also if boards mods are onyl getting that much for 3 months wages...

why dont they strike with the taxi people out in the cold ??

An Ri rua · 10-02-2009 1:36am

S.I.R wrote: »

isnt their a finders keepers rule so they can keep it, donate some and scrap the rest ??

also if boards mods are onyl getting that much for 3 months wages...

Why dont they strike with the taxi people out in the cold ??

No, a military shipwreck doesn't fall under salvage rules. Its officially ye olde Treasury's. So they will have their hands full in contesting this one with the UK government. The excuses used will be more to do with the valuable brass cannons (last HMS flagship to have them you see) than with the 'ahem' gold on board. 1200 are reckoned to have died actually. Its a massive tragedy for those days, when you compare it to any other battleship. Even against the Titanic, it fares well in the mortality stakes.

Its only a matter of time before the salvage laws are changed. Spain didn't look fondly on the sunken gold feast that was about to walk away and, in these times, UK won't either. That gold is needed for the banker goodiebags at the Christmas parties 09. There'll be no money left to give them.

Now if Cowen can pull that trick with ex FF man Conroy, he could be onto something! Me personally, I'll take gold if its handed out at the post office with my weekly consultancy fees from Mary Hanafin.

An Ri rua · 10-02-2009 1:42am

Dyflin wrote: »

WTF? We can't even organise to get one of our own ships off the seabed and that only sank last year. You must be thinking of a different Ireland if you think we can act decisively?

If we were really crafty, we'd have found this treasure wreck, sank our ship close to it, then sent down a crew to load up ours, raise it up and off we go! Ireland 1-England 0. Hehe! Its a slightly more upmarket version of putting your foot on a tenner and then bending down to, ahem, tie yer shoelace. Probably something like the General or the IRA or a secondrate semi-retired Bond villain would do. A bit too advanced for our lads.......

We found some Gold

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