Celtic Tiger must-have items

eth0

Besides the regular overpriced house(s) and cars that everyone had to have what other fads do you remember from the Tiger do you remember?

One I remember is Patio heaters. Ah sure only 30 euros for a drum of gas, lets piss it away on heating the outdoors, we'll buy 100 of those drums and add them to the morkesh!

Jet Ski's another one, the place I live has about 4 of them in the garage gathering dust.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Kids

It was like people were collecting them....and naming them impossible posh Irish names that people never heard of. Poor "Sorcha lir" now has to have copybooks made out of loo roll stapled together.

TeddyTedson

Decking, it was all about decking and feckin' downlighters.

Birneybau

Negative equity...

No, wait...

Gummy Panda

Breakfast rolls

Not as popular now

punchdrunk

an Ansbacher account...

Sky King

A 325 beemer on tick.

bbam

Outdoor jacuzzi
I see some on DD going for a song now

Tazio

A 105% mortgage...

Eathrin

Conservatories.
Fúck knows why, anybody I know who built one never went into the place.

whatlliwear

Houses, houses and more houses!

54kroc

Guns & Whores.

Arnold Layne

1. A big fcuk-off SUV for the missus who didn't know how to drive or park it between 2 white lines in a car park.

2. Coke .......... back to the white lines again.

3. Access to the FF Tent at the Galway Races

4. Brown Envelopes. See point 3.

Kidchameleon

Margarita makers

celticcrash

A portfolio.

bradolf pittler

Jet-ski......and drive 45 mins to the ocean to use it

DEFTLEFTHAND

Everyone seemed to be driving 5 series beemers at one point.

jd007

coke and hookers

Red Hand

Even if you live in a house with a tiny garden, you need to flake down the decking. An unused barbeque will usually go with this as standard.

Seomra Mushie

Ski holiday photos
Various NY shopping trip loot
EE girlfriend
Share in a "racehorse" - for racehorse read nag.
A shrivelled liver
A beer belly or whatever is the female alcohol-fat equivalent

I'm out for now.

Mr. Rager

A housing estate or two.

Sunnyisland

Didn't see any of it as I wasn't here ;-)

youreadthis

Superiority complex

dvcireland

1) a hard hat and hi-viz on in the SUV, to give the impression you were a "developer"

2) ride-on lawn mowers

3) gaffs in Alicante , Bulgaria and Wexford

dvcireland

Seomra Mushie wrote: »

Ski holiday photos
Various NY shopping trip loot
EE girlfriend
Share in a "racehorse" - for racehorse read nag.
A shrivelled liver
A beer belly or whatever is the female alcohol-fat equivalent

I'm out for now.

coming back from New York with an American accent and they were only there for the day

bitemybanger

Snickers workwear

krd

People giving up their jobs to become full time property speculators - ah sure why work. Work is just for fools.

Same people going on super luxury all around the world trips, paid for by the 20% off the top of their 120% mortgages.

Same people now not paying their mortgages, and living on rent from tenants, that is meant to be used to pay for the mortgages.

19 year-old school drops out, earning 70k a year doing dodgy building work, and being hailed as geniuses.

Same arseholes flashing the cash around.

Banks falling over themselves to give the same arseholes mortgages for multiple properties and pubs, when they couldn't event calculate compound interest.



Does anyone else have the urge to run out and kill someone?

Mickey Dazzler

Coke and hookers

Homer

My ivory backscratcher

themadchef

Fake tan, false nails and hair extensions.

..and that's just for your Holy communion...

Beyonce Charmaine Migeuelle O Doherty shall have the best.

Highway SixtyOne

Those fécking porch conversions that make a house look like the GPO.

The pillars suit the GPO and many other monumental buildings, not your 3 bed terraced house in Coolock.

44leto

Leasing cars, what the hell was that about, you get a mew car every 3 years but you pay a second mortgage.

razorblunt

Music by Keane.

mikemac1

I'm happy to be corrected but I believe there was some American called Abercromie and Fitch

Something like that anyway

And it could only be bought in the USA so if you had the clothes, well a fair chance you had a weekend shopping trip in NY.

If you had it, well you had something most Irish people didn't.

Oh and helicopter trips to Ballybrit racecourse.
I worked as a barman out there and it was like living on an airforce base. Helicopters everywhere and over east Galway city
It got so busy for raceweek the racecourse hired in a full time air traffic control crew.
Far less busy nowadays, any Galwegians would confirm

micropig

Fake grass in your garden:rolleyes:

bradolf pittler

paying 4000 on membership of a golf club in a country that pisses rain every summer.
plus i was and still am ****e at golf

FinnLizzy

The never-ending plans for new shopping centres in small regional towns.

micropig

Jumbo breakfast roll

Grayson

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Breakfast rolls

Not as popular now

They were called breakfast panini's then.

micropig

Grayson wrote: »

They were called breakfast panini's then.

Lovely with a coffee, or is it a latte now:rolleyes::D

micropig

FinnLizzy wrote: »

The never-ending plans for new shopping centres in small regional towns.

And massive housing estates in Cavan etc...only 30 minutes from Dublin:D

Grayson

micropig wrote: »

Lovely with a coffee, or is it a latte now:rolleyes::D

Just call it a flat white

micropig

Grayson wrote: »

Just call it a flat white

Or an Americana:D

mikemac1

Plently bought those Kevin Sharkey paintings for several hundred euro as an "investment"
Slaps of paint and a mess.
A junior infant class could have done that.

The Internet Explorer

Another vote for breakfast rolls here. I'm keepin' it real though. I eat breakfast rolls like it's 2006.

Big shout out to Hash Brown and Brother Jambon also.

Roll for Life.

xzanti

Foie Gras

Grayson

Gym memberships you never used.

and a €50 note. As in when I went out I used to bring £20. That was 3-4 pints and chips on the way home. At some point it morphed into a €50 note I needed.

IM0

the monies

micropig

IM0 wrote: »

the monies

& the poweries:D

Dob74

An apartment in Turkey or Bulguria or Dubai only 200k and just 7 hours by plane.
Massive 80k SUV, just top up the mortgage

mikemac1

IM0 wrote: »

the monies

micropig wrote: »

& the poweries:D

and the wimmins :cool: