What the hell is going on?

buynow

I haven't been in the country for a year,.

I have been reading the papers and places like this and the impressions I am getting is that the level of begrudging seems to have gone through the roof.

So are people now eying each other in pubs and tut tuting when someone orders a more expensive drink or what? Do rumors circulate about workers in some factory getting free tea?

So what is the current zeitgeist really like this or is it a media invention?

timmywex

Here's a summary of what you missed;


Fianna Fail focked the country up

Swampy

Ireland Rocks!!!

Enough nay saying!

ScumLord

And everyone's delighted! We can all mount our high horses and proclaim to the entire nation that we told you so. Then smugly crack open another tin of baked beans and try and make it last till dole day.

tba

run!!!! theres still time!

badabinbadaboom

I saw a 2009 Mercedes today and took a big steaming dump on the bonnet.

Professey Chin

badabinbadaboom wrote: »

I saw a 2009 Mercedes today and took a big steaming dump on the bonnet.

Heyyyyyyyy:mad:
I robbed that car:(

dollybird09

buynow wrote: »

So are people now eying each other in pubs and tut tuting when someone orders a more expensive drink or what? Do rumors circulate about workers in some factory getting free tea?

yep begrudgery is spiralling... i bought a v expensive watch recently, some jewellery and a cpl of pairs of designer high heels and oh my god friends nearly had a heart attack.... 'Don't you know its a RECESSION?' they wailed!!

that type of attitude is crazy...yeah things are tough but there is no point hoarding our money under our mattress... I wouldn't go recklessly spending money but seriously, i think everyone should relax... I'm sure someone is going to make reference to how those recently made redundant can't relax...


if we don't spend we're really screwed! I'm just helping to fix the mess!

so in answer to yr question...Ireland's begrudgery has worsened, and looking like we're facing civil unrest... Public v Private sector... ladies and gentlemen place your bets!

Ebonyellie

my son (whos 9) only this morning spotted a '09 car and said "oh look mammy, he must be a drug dealer" - i thought it was funny, thats what we used to say 12 years ago when anybody had a mobile phone

whiskeyman

oooh, look at you with your fancy new thread...


*shakes fist

Puddleduck

Wait a minute....

You were gone a year, it hasnt changed that much, only now people who are unemployed are jealous of those that work.

FlutterinBantam

badabinbadaboom wrote: »

I saw a 2009 Mercedes today and took a big steaming dump on the bonnet.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


You baxtard!!!

I hate you.

blinkey 101

ScumLord wrote: »

And everyone's delighted! We can all mount our high horses and proclaim to the entire nation that we told you so. Then smugly crack open another tin of baked beans and try and make it last till dole day.

tin of beans in aldi 29 cent:D

Professey Chin

dollybird09 wrote: »

yep begrudgery is spiralling... i bought a v expensive watch recently, some jewellery and a cpl of pairs of designer high heels and oh my god friends nearly had a heart attack.... 'Don't you know its a RECESSION?' they wailed!!

that type of attitude is crazy...yeah things are tough but there is no point hoarding our money under our mattress... I wouldn't go recklessly spending money but seriously, i think everyone should relax... I'm sure someone is going to make reference to how those recently made redundant can't relax...


if we don't spend we're really screwed! I'm just helping to fix the mess!

so in answer to yr question...Ireland's begrudgery has worsened, and looking like we're facing civil unrest... Public v Private sector... ladies and gentlemen place your bets!

Says the student:rolleyes::P

buynow

Puddleduck wrote: »

Wait a minute....

You were gone a year, it hasnt changed that much, only now people who are unemployed are jealous of those that work.

I has only been a year, so yes it shouldn't have changed at all really but the impression I get from the media and threads here is an eruption of people questioning "why they should get that?" or "they don't deserve this!"

I am pretty sure that wasn't around a year ago (or to this extent anyway).

Ireland is one of the better places in the planet, so, Be nice to each other!

Puddleduck

Thats the meedja for you. Theres a lot of anger out there, a lot of people dont understand why they have to suffer a recession when we could have weathered it better, and of course the government is pointing the finger at anyone they can and proclaiming its 'all your fault!' and hearing it enough times, the public believe it.

dollybird09

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Says the student:rolleyes::P

shhhhush!!! nobody else knew that!!!

us students have it tough ill have you know!!!

*gags Ultimate Chin*

Latchy

Bregrudery has always being around in Ireland and what I find amusing is that it was usually the guy who had everything begrudging the guy who had nothing or little , his foot on the ladder .It used to be the keep them down mentality of the Irish pysche .Perhaps it's returned only this time with a vengeance.

Darragh29

Funny you say that, my other half got a new company car the other day, it's not "hers" or "mine", the company she works for owns the car. I'm insured to drive it under my own policy so I went down to the shops in it the other day and when I got my bits & pieces and went to get back into the car, this woman waiting for the space I was pulling out of, cuts me in two with a filthy look, as if to say, "it's fookers like you in your fooking 09 car that has this country in bits!". I thought she was just some auld c*nt having a bad day until I went down to another shop down the road later on that evening and the same thing happened with a man down there. Weird...

LeahBaby

I just bought steak for dinner

Jealous?

Jip

buynow wrote: »

So are people now eying each other in pubs and tut tuting when someone orders a more expensive drink or what?

Not at all, although I wish they would as it may call a halt to my wifes penchant for Bellinis.

All those people above who say it's happening are either paranoid or are just wishing it happens so they know people notice what they've spent money on.

Professey Chin

dollybird09 wrote: »

shhhhush!!! nobody else knew that!!!

us students have it tough ill have you know!!!

*gags Ultimate Chin*

Sorry
*runs like hell*



hmmmmm gag eh?;)

Dyr

Why is the OP called buy now? Is he made of money or something?? :mad:

Professey Chin

LeahBaby wrote: »

I just bought steak for dinner

Jealous?

I remember having lobster and steak for dinner before. I felt so rich
If only it were true:(

Turd Ferguson

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


You baxtard!!!

I hate you.

I think we know what Flutt drives

ScumLord

blinkey 101 wrote: »

tin of beans in aldi 29 cent:D

Their only 25c in Lidl.

ejmaztec

buynow wrote: »

Having that user name really is pushing the boundaries, because there's no "now" about buying anything.

Smart Bug

Bambi wrote: »

Why is the OP called buy now? Is he made of money or something?? :mad:

It's actually a misspelling. It should read Bi Now. He has decided not to withold his ministrations from either sex lest he be accused of begrudgery.

Though he may be accused of buggery.

livindadream

ScumLord wrote: »

Their only 25c in Lidl.

i thought we never run out of bacholars!?! everyone is just gonna have to get used to living like us students...we manage!

buynow

Bambi wrote: »

Why is the OP called buy now? Is he made of money or something?? :mad:

ejmaztec wrote: »

Having that user name really is pushing the boundaries, because there's no "now" about buying anything.

Hey, I am just trying to stimulate the economy!

Or maybe something else as Smart Bug implies

IronMan

After I leave my 14 hour a week public sector job there is nothing I like more than to get into my 09 Mercedes, and stop by my group of tenements and bedsits. I collect the rent, and then head to my palatial home. I pour myself a large glass of whiskey, light a fine Cuban with a €50 note, and rest my weary feet on the stooped back of one of the proletariat. Life is bliss.

themadchef

Buying a paper to read all about the doom. Paying a TV licence to watch all the "we're so screwed" stories in case you missed any in the papers.

Going to the pub to get raped for you bottle of Heineken while you talk about the economy.

Wish to fook some aliens would land or Jesus would throw in an appearance just to break the monotony.

MarkR

IronMan wrote: »

After I leave my 14 hour a week public sector job there is nothing I like more than to get into my 09 Mercedes, and stop by my group of tenements and bedsits. I collect the rent, and then head to my palatial home. I pour myself a large glass of whiskey, light a fine Cuban with a €50 note, and rest my weary feet on the stooped back of one of the proletariat. Life is bliss.

Sweet. So you got overtime too?

IronMan

MarkR wrote: »

Sweet. So you got overtime too?

Yes. I used the overtime, along with my enormous bonus to build my ivory tower.

Latchy

IronMan wrote: »

After I leave my 14 hour a week public sector job there is nothing I like more than to get into my 09 Mercedes, and stop by my group of tenements and bedsits. I collect the rent, and then head to my palatial home. I pour myself a large glass of whiskey, light a fine Cuban with a €50 note, and rest my weary feet on the stooped back of one of the proletariat. Life is bliss.

You've being reading Shakespeare from that book you borrowed from the libary right ? .You do know unreturned libary books incurr a fine ?

Biggins

buynow wrote: »

I haven't been in the country for a year...

I'd tell you to maybe try getting out again but right NOW all flights are cancelled! (http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/dublin-airport-closed-due-to-snow-1629501.html)

One question!
What in gods name brought you back!

buynow

Biggins wrote: »

I'd tell you to maybe try getting out again but right NOW all flights are cancelled! (http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/dublin-airport-closed-due-to-snow-1629501.html)

One question!
What in gods name brought you back!

Oh I am still not back, hence the question of what is really going on.

thebman

ScumLord wrote: »

Their only 25c in Lidl.

Neither of ye are supporting Irish jobs by doing that though :mad:


and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

Darragh29

buynow wrote: »

Oh I am still not back, hence the question of what is really going on.

I don't think people are any more begrudging than they were previously. People are extremely extremely p*ssed off thought I think, to the point where I can see it all flaring up any day now and a riot happening. The country is on it's t*ts and it's more of the same, thousands of people losing their jobs every single day, while the government is literally driving forklifts loaded with pallets of cash into the banks. None of this money seems to be making a blind bit of difference to the thousands of people who are still losing their jobs every day now, because their employers are running out of cash, even though the government are saying that they are bailing out the banks to protect jobs and save the economy, but every day, the economy seems to have slipped another few inches down the toilet. That's how I'm reading it right now anyway...

greatgoal

IronMan wrote: »

After I leave my 14 hour a week public sector job there is nothing I like more than to get into my 09 Mercedes, and stop by my group of tenements and bedsits. I collect the rent, and then head to my palatial home. I pour myself a large glass of whiskey, light a fine Cuban with a €50 note, and rest my weary feet on the stooped back of one of the proletariat. Life is bliss.

damn you binmen..

themadchef

themadchef wrote: »

Buying a paper to read all about the doom. Paying a TV licence to watch all the "we're so screwed" stories in case you missed any in the papers.

Going to the pub to get raped for you bottle of Heineken while you talk about the economy.

Wish to fook some aliens would land or Jesus would throw in an appearance just to break the monotony.

QFT. There's no escaping it. It's all people talk about!

themadchef

salonfire wrote: »

QFT. There's no escaping it. It's all people talk about!

If our heads are melted with it all ready, God help us, as it's only going to get worse.




Elvis, if you're reading this, now would be a really good time!

Latchy

Ladies and gerntlemen ..............Elvis has just left the building country

seanybiker

Jip wrote: »

All those people above who say it's happening are either paranoid or are just wishing it happens so they know people notice what they've spent money on.

Aint that the truth. Any excuse to bring up the fact they got something new. Hates that crap. Fair play to them and all but i dont care

zach morris

I wish people would spend more money.

Professey Chin

latchyco wrote: »

Ladies and gerntlemen ..............Elvis has just left the building country

And he thanks us very much