best thing about our new found poverty

destroyer

OK ,money is scarce ,billions in cuts , the party is well and
truly over.
I reckon there has to be an upside.

What annoyed you most about the boom times?
What particular excess got up your nose?
What are you looking forward to seeing no more??

For me it has to be the hope we've seen the end of
girls arriving at the church for First Communion in stretch
limos wearing dresses costing several hundred Euro, hair,
make-up etc. costing a few hundred more.

I thought this was so over the top , so grotesque it
always made me cringe, and think "some people should
just never have money"
So come on, tell us what you hope died along
with the tiger.

Latchy

Everybody , and I mean everybody , should expierence some sort of poverty in their life and maybe this would be the best time of all to do so .

The arrogance will never die ,I dont think so , no .

Abi

/stabs thread in the face

ejmaztec

destroyer wrote: »

OK ,money is scarce ,billions in cuts , the party is well and
truly over.
I reckon there has to be an upside.

What annoyed you most about the boom times?
What particular excess got up your nose?
What are you looking forward to seeing no more??

For me it has to be the hope we've seen the end of
girls arriving at the church for First Communion in stretch
limos wearing dresses costing several hundred Euro, hair,
make-up etc. costing a few hundred more.

I thought this was so over the top , so grotesque it
always made me cringe, and think "some people should
just never have money"
So come on, tell us what you hope died along
with the tiger.

The government.

Latchy

Abigayle wrote: »

/stabs thread in the face

he he ,wouldnt take it to serious now .

( your the best at making me laugh on this forum abie ,honestly )

00112984

I like that the 22 year old prick I used to work with who bought 8 houses and apartments in Dublin to rent out is probably spending most of his evenings hanging around the Phoenix Park "talking" to old fellas walking their dogs while he wear crotchless knickers on backwards.

Morlar

latchyco wrote: »

Everybody , and I mean everybody , should expierence some sort of poverty in their life and maybe this would be the best time of all to do so .

The arrogance will never die ,I dont think so , no .

A lot of people already have and know how bad things can get. They tended to be the ones getting shot down whenever they brought up the subject of HSE budgets going astronomical, welfare migration, asylum fraud etc on the basis that we 'can (could) afford it'.

Professey Chin

00112984 wrote: »

I like that the 22 year old prick I used to work with who bought 8 houses and apartments in Dublin to rent out is probably spending most of his evenings hanging around the Phoenix Park "talking" to old fellas walking their dogs while he wear crotchless knickers on backwards.

Least he has plenty of addresses to offer services in

Latchy

Morlar wrote: »

A lot of people already have and know how bad things can get. They tended to be the ones getting shot down whenever they brought up the subject of HSE budgets going astronomical, welfare migration, asylum fraud etc on the basis that we 'can (could) afford it'.

Just like the guy in 1922 who tried to warn everybody of the impending wall street crash , only to be called a party pooper .His was one one of the few lone voices crying wolf,except in this case he was right ,the wolf did come along and devour everything up .

Abi

latchyco wrote: »

he he ,wouldnt take it to serious now .

/bows

Ah I dont take it seriousleh. Im just happy to stick my head in sand till its all over though

Latchy

Abigayle wrote: »

/bows

Ah I dont take it seriousleh. Im just happy to stick my head in sand till its all over though

Aye ,I know, which is why i was in knots ,and like everything else it will blow over .







And you still are they funniest (female) poster on this forum and probably the most clued in to

Nolanger

People won't be as politically correct anymore - that was the one thing that annoyed me about the last decade. Now we complain about young single mothers skiving off the taxpayer without being accused of being insensitive. Everyone should start listening to the best recession band ever - The Specials - "ain't he cute? no he aint', he's just another burden on the welfare state".

utick

latchyco wrote: »

Just like the guy in 1922 who tried to warn everybody of the impending wall street crash , only to be called a party pooper .His was one one of the few lone voices crying wolf,except in this case he was right ,the wolf did come along and devour everything up .

there were a quite a lot of people crying wolf this time around, but they werent called party poopers, this time they were told to go commit suicide by the taoseach bertie ahern, still cant beleive he said that.

Latchy

utick wrote: »

there were a quite a lot of people crying wolf this time around, but they werent called party poopers, this time they were told to go commit suicide by the taoseach bertie ahern, still cant beleive he said that.

Well it's like the global warning thing ,like who do we listen to or do we listern to anybody at all .? And sadly ,it's seems to be an every man for himself type sceanrio world we live in now .

Did Bertie really say that to people , go commit suicide ?

deleriumtremens

To be honest, the general attitude in this country had got up my nose by the about this time last year.

Spoiled brats getting helicopters to their communion,

Sky digital and broadband internet taken for granted,

Schoolkids getting 7 quid a day tfrom their parents to stuff their fat faces on chicken baguettes and coke because either their parents were too lazy to make them a lucnch or because the child didnt like sandwiches,

Lads wearing armani suits and getting hummer limos to their debs, like they live in the f'uckin O.C or something,

10 year olds getting quad bikes for christmas and still being cheeky brats,

D4 bitches having money to burn and thinking they are little princesses,

Unsightly Tony Soprano type mansions springing up all over the countryside, occupied by obese buliders (f'uckin builders for god sake!!) who also drive big S.U.V's to further increase their sense of superiority over others,

People thinking nothing of blowing 100 quid on a night out and the publicans and nightclub owners rubbing their hands at the stupidity of these people,

The general attitude of throwing money around like confetti in a country that was used to living frugally

I must admit though that I say all this from the point of view of somebody who didnt get to indulge in the party while it was here and I am sure I would have got stupidly carried away with everyone else if I could have!! Dosent stop me looking back with annoyance.

utick

latchyco wrote: »

Did Bertie really say that to people , go commit suicide ?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/economy.html

'Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,'

MagicMarker

destroyer wrote: »

OK ,money is scarce ,billions in cuts , the party is well and
truly over.
I reckon there has to be an upside.

What annoyed you most about the boom times?
What particular excess got up your nose?
What are you looking forward to seeing no more??

For me it has to be the hope we've seen the end of
girls arriving at the church for First Communion in stretch
limos wearing dresses costing several hundred Euro, hair,
make-up etc. costing a few hundred more.

I thought this was so over the top , so grotesque it
always made me cringe, and think "some people should
just never have money"
So come on, tell us what you hope died along
with the tiger.

Unfortunately, your post is laid out like a poem, so I didn't read it.

old boy

i am glad to see a few people who were looking there noses at me and other unfortunates being brought down to my spending level

The Saint

Hopefully people will stop chefeuring their kids to and from school. The little fat bastards have legs and they should walk or cycle. Trafic congestion should reduce also.

Hopefully pubs will stop charging extortionate prices and the fancy superpubs where all the toffs drink will go tits up.

Latchy

utick wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/economy.html

'Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,'

Well fcuk me ,some people are in a better position to be able to motivate themselfs and changes things than others .

destroyer

MagicMarker wrote: »

Unfortunately, your post is laid out like a poem, so I didn't read it.

Jeez youre right. WTF.:eek: I wouldnt read it myself looking like that!
In my own defence i would like to point out that all similarities
between the post and poetry start and end with the layout,
the rest is just bad prose.:D

Abi

destroyer wrote: »

Jeez youre right. WTF.:eek: I wouldnt read it myself looking like that!
In my own defence i would like to point out that all similarities
between the post and poetry start and end with the layout,
the rest is just bad prose.:D

Ah dont mind him. Just point at him and tell him that you heard from a loada burds that the magics gone out of of his marker. He'll be comfort-suckling on his mama soon as he reads the pm.

Hazys

MagicMarker wrote: »

Unfortunately, your post is laid out like a poem, so I didn't read it.

How could it be a poem if it doesn't rhyme? or is it one of those fancy poems?

Jesus Juice

Orangemochafrappachino's.....

marcsignal

destroyer wrote: »

I thought this was so over the top , so grotesque it
always made me cringe, and think "some people should
just never have money"

i know just what you mean

I remember one sunny sunday afternoon in 2006 walking into my local beer garden to find it swarming with PROLES (loud slack jawed scumbags with little tashes and their peroxide blonde cackley bitches)

Nobody, (and I mean NOBODY) would sit near them as they were all shit faced and obnoxious.
As the afternoon progressed they started throwing food at people, and slagging off the chinese waitresses by imitating them. It was a revolting thing to witness on a sunday afternoon i can tell you.:mad:

The police were actually given a round of applause, by the other customers, when they came to remove them, and beat them back on to the nearest bus to knackeragua.:D

If the recession means i don't have to see anything like that again, bring it on

shenanigans1982

The Saint wrote: »

Hopefully people will stop chefeuring their kids to and from school. The little fat bastards have legs and they should walk or cycle.

This pretty annoying, on my parents road there is a school opposite them and from about an hour before the kids finish parents are parking on the road blocking it up. The parents then gather at the school gate equipped with rolls, crisps and sweets for their kids who must be starving after not having anything to eat in the hour or two since lunch.

When the kids emerge they grab them by the arm, dragging them to the car. Then the road really descends into chaos as the parents attempt to see who can get home first and pull out in front of each other, refuse to pull into an empty space and let a car coming the other way pass, attempt three point turns. Worst part is most of the kids live within 5 minutes walking distance.

Hopefully the best outcome will be people will go back to ordering normal rolls/sandwiches.

pipsqueak

Ill be glad to see the back of all the littly shytes in school bringing their luches in LUNCHBOXES!! Yup LUNCHBOXES! i tells ya!

When i went to school i had me ham sanger in the plastic wrapping off a loaf of bread!

Heroditas

One of the best things:

There's far far less skanger-bangers on the road.

KieranKennedy

An over abundance of money makes people soft, weak and arrogant. Being plunged into the abyss of poverty is just the kind of wake up some people in this country need to find out what it is like to have to work hard for something.