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Before the Celtic Tiger...

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    #2
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Yes because most people could afford a house :)

    We didn't have SUV's. Jeeps and other monstrosities on the roads


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    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Palmerstown_guy wrote: »
    Was Ireland better off before the Celtic Tiger? :pac:



    Yes because if the celtic tiger didnt happen then you'd not of afforded a personal computer hence this thread would not exist.


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    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    is this a nostalgia thread?

    answer: in some ways yes
    in some ways no

    conditions for pensioners etc improved, we had full employment, we all had 2nd homes in Bulgaria, Dubai or Shanghai (well some of us did)

    and at the same time some of us developed very ugly natures, our society became very greedy, much more than can be good for a society


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    KungPao
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    The celtic tiger?

    lol, good one.

    There was never such a thing.


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    imme wrote: »
    is this a nostalgia thread?

    answer: in some ways yes
    in some ways no

    conditions for pensioners etc improved, we had full employment, we all had 2nd homes in Bulgaria, Dubai or Shanghai (well some of us did)

    and at the same time some of us developed very ugly natures, our society became very greedy, much more than can be good for a society

    Before


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    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    KungPao wrote: »
    Before
    the guy said "Was Ireland better off b4 the tiger"
    and I said yes & no
    ;)


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    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    The country went through a boom from about 1994-2000 with an influx of multinationals, that was the "celtic tiger", the economy slowed in 2001, but FF pushed the whole economy towards property development and investment, resulting in what everyone considers was the boom, but it was just a bubble.

    So to answer you question, yes people and the country were in much better shape before the bubble.


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    #9
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Yes because if the celtic tiger didnt happen then you'd not of afforded a personal computer hence this thread would not exist.
    I had a 486 DX 2 66. 200mb hdd 4meg ram 1 speed CD Rom and paid nearly £1600 for the fu*ing thing. :eek:

    No Boards but spent days on Doom 2. :)


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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    I remember being so excited as a kid getting a PC with a CD drive so I could use the CDs that came on the front of PC mags.


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    #11
    MizzLolly
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    Why must you start threads like this? Why???


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    #12
    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Why must you start threads like this? Why???

    Just to annoy the feck out of you:D


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    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    It's hard to say. How would Ireland be if the Celtic tiger hadn't happened?


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    #14
    Oranage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Oranage


    Lets be honest, there would still be lefty Boardsies moaning about fine fail and threads still will be made about how fat Mary Harney is.


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    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Oranage wrote: »
    Lets be honest, there would still be lefty Boardsies moaning about fine fail and threads still will be made about how fat Mary Harney is.


    She is pretty fat though.


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    #16
    murrayp4
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    Mary Harney is fat.


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    #17
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    banquo wrote: »
    I remember being so excited as a kid getting a PC with a CD drive so I could use the CDs that came on the front of PC mags.
    Those mag CD's would drive me mad, the best game demos would require at least 8 megs of ram and 4 meg SVGA graphics :mad:


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