Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

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How will you celebrate the most important date in Irish history since 1014 or 1916?
The 28th of September 2008 was the day your life changed forever, the culmination of a series of policies that, taken together, were very bad ideas. We need to move beyond the moaning alright, but somehow we do need to remember not to forget the ideology that got us in a mess.
It would be good to have just one day to thumb our noses when there is no justice above a certain pay grade.

We need a day to celebrate the crooked thinking that got us here where 'we are where we are', stuck between Boston and Berlin, where economic policy is to forget Britain is our major trading partner.
To celebrate the justice system where big cheats get tribunals where nothing happens except thick reports.
To celebrate the banking guarantee that nationalised debt and will privatise our only assets.
To celebrate bombed-out housing estates and economic damage that usually comes with war.
To celebrate saddling a nation with Third World debt that usually comes with the lifestyle of an African dictator.
To celebrate 250,000 golf balls.

The 28th of September is our Leprechaun Day, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that was more Leprechaun the horror film.

Any suggestions for commemorating this day?


Footnote: This is from the Irish Times property supplement on 16/09/2004, which I could not find in their archives; none of it is made up:
Around the Block:
AIB Flies Builders Out to Ryder Cup
AIB has been having its corporate problems in recent times but thank God there have been no cutbacks in corporate entertaining. The bank yesterday flew a whole posse of the leading housebuilders directly from Dublin to Dallas to get the flavour of the Ryder Cup which runs until next Sunday evening. Not surprisingly the builders were happy to accept the invitation, surely one of the most generous in the corporate calendar. The boys will be entertained lavishly all week and why not, given that they have helped to bump up the enormous profits of the bank during the long running property boom of the last eight or nine years. And it is not over yet because AIB is pushing hard to strengthen its hold on the property market despite tough competition for business from Anglo Irish, Irish Nationwide, Bank of Ireland and Bank of Scotland.
The word on the street is that the banks are keeping a closer eye on the planning permissions as they come through than even the builders, so that they can offer their services in double quick time. And these days too, builders are seen as the most successful entrepreneurs who can do no wrong. Long may it continue!

Property supplement just gets bigger and...
In case it's escaped anyone's attention, we are now experiencing the busiest property week in two decades. Today's 50-page supplement is the largest published by The Irish Times in that time with a huge selection of second-hand properties and new developments. What's clear is that the supply of new homes is matching demand, and in some areas exceeding it. With investors standing back in a lot of cases, it will take more than the usual weekend campaign to sell out schemes - something that the builders and agents had gotten used to in recent years. There is plenty of choice too in the second-hand market, where the main agents are fighting a battle for market share by showing off all their wares. With so much available, house hunters can pick and choose where they want to live and how much they want to pay, though first-timers are finding it difficult to break into the second-hand market. Overall, prices seem to have stabilised for all but the most desirable family homes, though the rush to get settled before Christmas will make for some premium prices before the year is over.

Novel Place to Launch Property Bodice Ripper
Fitting that novelist Fiona O'Brien chose 32 Burlington Square, the opulent Ballsbridge townhouse of Treasury Holdings boss Johnny Ronan, to launch her new novel Sold. The Ballsbridge-based bodice-ripper is all about the goings-on in the property set and the party at Burlington Road on September 22nd is likely to have some of the real players in attendance. Just how far the characters in the book - for example, Chris Carroll, the ''rapacious property developer and asset stripper'' who will stop at nothing to get the most spectacular property on the embassy belt - were inspired by the real thing we don't know. Still, the launch should be a colourful event with the backdrop of Ronan's blue-columned faux-renaissance villa with its specially commissioned murals by Michael Dillon and friezes by Orla Kaminski. Whatever about the venue, the book should do well as it's been given prime location in bookshops around the country and in D4.

Saila

by buying houses!

Slydice

To Martha!:D

Superbus

Doesn't read like the Times.

ChunkyLover_53

Slydice wrote: »

To Martha!:D

To NAMA!

Dionysus

"soft landing day" - brilliant, inspired. It would stand as a reminder of how utterly sheeplike the vast majority of Ireland's adult population was and how consensus should not be tolerated by future generations.

squod

Erect a gallows on that day every year. First one should be put up in Clara, Offally.

Adamantium

micro_dot wrote: »

How will you celebrate the most important date in Irish history since 1014 or 1916?
The 28th of September 2008 was the day your life changed forever, the culmination of a series of policies that, taken together, were very bad ideas. We need to move beyond the moaning alright, but somehow we do need to remember not to forget the ideology that got us in a mess.
It would be good to have just one day to thumb our noses when there is no justice above a certain pay grade.

We need a day to celebrate the crooked thinking that got us here where 'we are where we are', stuck between Boston and Berlin, where economic policy is to forget Britain is our major trading partner.
To celebrate the justice system where big cheats get tribunals where nothing happens except thick reports.
To celebrate the banking guarantee that nationalised debt and will privatise our only assets.
To celebrate bombed-out housing estates and economic damage that usually comes with war.
To celebrate saddling a nation with Third World debt that usually comes with the lifestyle of an African dictator.
To celebrate 250,000 golf balls.

The 28th of September is our Leprechaun Day, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that was more Leprechaun the horror film.

Any suggestions for commemorating this day?


Footnote: This is from the Irish Times property supplement on 16/09/2004, which I could not find in their archives; none of it is made up:
Around the Block:
AIB Flies Builders Out to Ryder Cup
AIB has been having its corporate problems in recent times but thank God there have been no cutbacks in corporate entertaining. The bank yesterday flew a whole posse of the leading housebuilders directly from Dublin to Dallas to get the flavour of the Ryder Cup which runs until next Sunday evening. Not surprisingly the builders were happy to accept the invitation, surely one of the most generous in the corporate calendar. The boys will be entertained lavishly all week and why not, given that they have helped to bump up the enormous profits of the bank during the long running property boom of the last eight or nine years. And it is not over yet because AIB is pushing hard to strengthen its hold on the property market despite tough competition for business from Anglo Irish, Irish Nationwide, Bank of Ireland and Bank of Scotland.
The word on the street is that the banks are keeping a closer eye on the planning permissions as they come through than even the builders, so that they can offer their services in double quick time. And these days too, builders are seen as the most successful entrepreneurs who can do no wrong. Long may it continue!

Property supplement just gets bigger and...
In case it's escaped anyone's attention, we are now experiencing the busiest property week in two decades. Today's 50-page supplement is the largest published by The Irish Times in that time with a huge selection of second-hand properties and new developments. What's clear is that the supply of new homes is matching demand, and in some areas exceeding it. With investors standing back in a lot of cases, it will take more than the usual weekend campaign to sell out schemes - something that the builders and agents had gotten used to in recent years. There is plenty of choice too in the second-hand market, where the main agents are fighting a battle for market share by showing off all their wares. With so much available, house hunters can pick and choose where they want to live and how much they want to pay, though first-timers are finding it difficult to break into the second-hand market. Overall, prices seem to have stabilised for all but the most desirable family homes, though the rush to get settled before Christmas will make for some premium prices before the year is over.

Novel Place to Launch Property Bodice Ripper
Fitting that novelist Fiona O'Brien chose 32 Burlington Square, the opulent Ballsbridge townhouse of Treasury Holdings boss Johnny Ronan, to launch her new novel Sold. The Ballsbridge-based bodice-ripper is all about the goings-on in the property set and the party at Burlington Road on September 22nd is likely to have some of the real players in attendance. Just how far the characters in the book - for example, Chris Carroll, the ''rapacious property developer and asset stripper'' who will stop at nothing to get the most spectacular property on the embassy belt - were inspired by the real thing we don't know. Still, the launch should be a colourful event with the backdrop of Ronan's blue-columned faux-renaissance villa with its specially commissioned murals by Michael Dillon and friezes by Orla Kaminski. Whatever about the venue, the book should do well as it's been given prime location in bookshops around the country and in D4.

looking at it now, it reads like satire

pbowenroe

bouncy castles

Liam Byrne

squod wrote: »

Erect a gallows on that day every year. First one should be put up in Clara, Offally.

That's the second one.

The first one should be in Drumcondra and the third one is no longer needed due to natural causes doing the job.

Zebra3

Dionysus wrote: »

"soft landing day" - brilliant, inspired. It would stand as a reminder of how utterly sheeplike the vast majority of Ireland's adult population was

When it came to the property market, most just wanted a roof over their heads.

Hal1

It's time to take the power back. Lets all squat in one of those ghost estate house's plotted all around the country. Squater's rights in 12 months afaik. That's only one problem solved but a big one .

micro_dot

The Germans fell for Nazism within a generation of the First World War. So on November 11 every year, at 11.11, they do carnival and go mental (for Germans). I'm not sure that if a new Bertie came along that we wouldn't fall for it all again, fed by that kind of tripe that came from all the media. Estate agents were interviewed as experts on the property market on the RTE news every other evening.
Those articles above do read like satire. We need a Fr Ted to do for Tiger hype what Dermot Morgan and co. did for Catholic hypocrisy.
I mean, we are about to sell the house to do the shopping.

I'd like to see just individual acts of defiance, tributes to craziness. Don't know what I will do, maybe keep silent all morning in mourning. It's a crazy world.

Absurdum

I'm going to make serious threats on the internet.

markesmith

Absurdum wrote: »

I'm going to make serious threats on the internet.

I'm going to belittle you for making threats from the safety of your own living room.

orourkeda

Slydice wrote: »

To Martha!:D

To martians

OPENROAD

Dionysus wrote: »

"soft landing day" - brilliant, inspired. It would stand as a reminder of how utterly sheeplike the vast majority of Ireland's adult population was and how consensus should not be tolerated by future generations.

oh I remember the threads well

Sonnenblumen

Slydice wrote: »

To Martha!:D

Same again?:)