Celtic Tiger must-have items

Squ

gubbie wrote: »

Electric gates

First my kitchen, then my spot lamps, then my sky sports, now my gates?
Whats wrong with €800 electric gates!!??

We'll all be living like students before the end!

ShaneMc2012

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

What I've seen a lot here in Clare:
You have to build a MASSIVE house with absolutely no design features whatsoever. Well, maybe the fake greek colums. Just a big, square box, only about a third bigger than a regular house.
This house HAS to be as close to the road as anyhow possible, so it can be seen. So that it can be seen even better, you must not have anything obscuring it, like trees, bushes or walls.
The you get at least 4 high powered spotlights and aim the from the garden at the house.
Result? A ghastly celtic tiger castle that is being lit up so you can see it from space, so even aliens flying by know how much money you have.
Range Rover, trampolin, patio heater on the one acre of decking and jet-skis go without saying.
It must be horrible living in a house like that, it must be like being under siege from the cops and they have the spotlights on you.
What kind of sick mind...

Sounds like Cratloe so... :P

johnwest288

Squ wrote: »

First my kitchen, then my spot lamps, then my sky sports, now my gates?
Whats wrong with €800 electric gates!!??

We'll all be living like students before the end!

Spot lights ha ha ha ha ha what a tosser!!!!! Spose you have dimmers too?
You really got above your station didnt ya !

red sean

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

What I've seen a lot here in Clare:
You have to build a MASSIVE house with absolutely no design features whatsoever. Well, maybe the fake greek colums. Just a big, square box, only about a third bigger than a regular house.
This house HAS to be as close to the road as anyhow possible, so it can be seen. So that it can be seen even better, you must not have anything obscuring it, like trees, bushes or walls.
The you get at least 4 high powered spotlights and aim the from the garden at the house.
Result? A ghastly celtic tiger castle that is being lit up so you can see it from space, so even aliens flying by know how much money you have.
Range Rover, trampolin, patio heater on the one acre of decking and jet-skis go without saying.
It must be horrible living in a house like that, it must be like being under siege from the cops and they have the spotlights on you.
What kind of sick mind...

And totally incomplete without a hot tub on the decking!

gubbie

Squ wrote: »

First my kitchen, then my spot lamps, then my sky sports, now my gates?
Whats wrong with €800 electric gates!!??

We'll all be living like students before the end!

I personally always found them standoffish and never liked having to wait in the rain while someone goes to open them

Also a 00 reg.

Squ

gubbie wrote: »

I personally always found them standoffish and never liked having to wait in the rain while someone goes to open them

Mine are for security, as I'm so far out the country that the only people who'll be coming to my house unannounced are knackers looking to steal my jetskis and deck heaters

So different strokes..

ShaneMc2012

johnwest288 wrote: »

Spot lights ha ha ha ha ha what a tosser!!!!! Spose you have dimmers too?
You really got above your station didnt ya !

Why the hatred of spot lights? :P I have spot lights and some dimmers around my house and they look better than dangling bulbs at least!

jack presley

ShaneMc2012 wrote: »

Why the hatred of spot lights? :P I have spot lights and some dimmers around my house and they look better than dangling bulbs at least!

I bet you have a colour television as well you show-off!

Squ

jack presley wrote: »

I bet you have a colour television as well you show-off!

Probably has one of those machines that washes your clothes for you!!
I dunno how these bankers sleep at night.

To precious to go down to the river and wash your clothes by hand eh?

eyescreamcone

I know a guy who had a button put in his new 07 Audi TT convertible that would open his electric gates
€450 option
He never used it as his gates were stuck open haha

R.D. aka MR.D

johnwest288 wrote: »

Spot lights ha ha ha ha ha what a tosser!!!!! Spose you have dimmers too?
You really got above your station didnt ya !

My parents have dimmers since 1986!!!

AlmightyCushion

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

My parents have dimmers since 1986!!!

Well oh-lah-dee-dah. Were they made of gold and encrusted with diamonds too.

micropig

gubbie wrote: »

I personally always found them standoffish and never liked having to wait in the rain while someone goes to open them

Also a 00 reg.

Wait in rain at the intercom, while they watch you on their security camera:rolleyes:

I thought we left reg snobbery back in the days when the tiger was roaring:p

Squ

micropig wrote: »

I thought we left reg snobbery back in the days when the tiger was roaring:p

Begrudgery is the new snobbery..

wonderfulname

A ghastly sense of entitlement.

The keeping up with the Joneses element was far funnier between farmers, two neighbours of mine were one upping each other for a good five years, every time one bought something the other would have a slightly higher spec version within the month. Nothing like seeing a fat chubby balding culchie looking smugly at his rival out the back window of his shiny new Goliath of a Massy Ferguson, whilst bouncing up the excuse for a road - too small for the tractor I should add - that despite all the money in the country only got worse as the years progressed. Funny what was prioritised.

And the culchie version of stripy shirts tucked into blue jeans - the brightly coloured Tommy Hilfiger jumper, no Irishman should ever own anything in lime green.

fishy fishy

grindle wrote: »

FYP, just because I know a shocking number of students paying back unbelievable credit card debts right now, or who had to drop out due to them (got the card pre-college, kept spending). You deserve the honorary badge of "Not Thick".
I'm sure loads of people didn't get sucked in.
Most did. I did in small ways (money-wasting/alcomohawl), but I forced a limit on my potential losses early on, so I'd never screw myself over to the point of crippling myself or others.
All of my family were the worst of the worst for the Tiger-scat-binging, but my father was lucky to cash out of his house early in 2007 (he sold it for €500,000, he built it for €80,000 including the land, and it went up for sale again two years later for €350,000! Ouch.)
Take a read through threads here or on the Politics.ie forum circa '05-'06. An unwieldy amount of believers in the upwards spiral.
I dunno, maybe my 60-70% is harsh?


I wasn't a student; and they knew it would go up for the first couple of years, after that EVERYONE was guessing and hoping and praying.

yes it is quite harsh to be honest. There were plenty of people in Ireland that never believed in the celtic tiger myth. Hell, you only had to think about it for five minutes to realise it was never true. People had the foresight NOT to believe what they were told by the govt. They are called cynics. The people that get slated for "not buying" by the people who bought using 100 percent mortgage whose houses are going for a dime now, or whose houses are falling apart due to the way they were put up (with superglue and icing sugar). Give credit to the people who just never believed the myth - they are out there and they are the lucky ones now. They are the ones you will see flying off for sun holidays while the "I'm so much better than you as I "own" a house" are busy trying to pay off debts.

Snowie

Own a boxer common one of the celtic tiger

dvcireland

I heard about this service yesterday:

"Hire an interior designer for a day - €350 + VAT."

Snowie

Tvs in the back of the cars for the kids

johnwest288

Snowie wrote: »

Tvs in the back of the cars for the kids

LOL yeah ha ha ha Oh how i Scoof when i see them. The view from the moving car or reading the beano aint good enough... want to be horse whipped......

Squ

Snowie wrote: »

Tvs in the back of the cars for the kids

The poverty in this tread knows no bounds, cant afford €60 for a couple of screens to keep the kids happy?

Are we to forgo all technology that became popular anytime from 1999-2007?

Back to dial up so ye fancy feckers with your decadent broad band.

micropig

Squ wrote: »

The poverty in this tread knows no bounds, cant afford €60 for a couple of screens to keep the kids happy?

Are we to forgo all technology that became popular anytime from 1999-2007?

Back to dial up so ye fancy feckers with your decadent broad band.

*Posted from my swarovski encrusted Blackberry, from a beach in Bulgaria


:D

johnwest288

Did anyone mention that twat that couldnt drink beer on draught but needed to be seen slurping on the red or green bottle..,,, Even thou you got half as much and paid virtually the same.
Oh yeah sorry it tastes extra tasty from the bottle i guess :rolleyes:

He he he.. What ya drinkin now rich boiiiiiiiiii:rolleyes:

hidinginthebush

johnwest288 wrote: »

Did anyone mention that twat that couldnt drink beer on draught but needed to be seen slurping on the red or green bottle..,,, Even thou you got half as much and paid virtually the same.
Oh yeah sorry it tastes extra tasty from the bottle i guess :rolleyes:

He he he.. What ya drinkin now rich boiiiiiiiiii:rolleyes:

You go drinking in pubs? Well laaaa-di-dah!

Kaner2004

Squ wrote: »

Begrudgery is the new snobbery..

Gloatery (I made up a new word), is the new begrudgery.

And the one-upmanship has changed from "I have a bigger car than him", to "He thought he was better than me but now he is suffering, but me, I saw it coming. I'm better than him. Ha."

foxyboxer

Brown Thomas bags. The bigger, the better and preferably in both hands.

pc7

God I miss those days

micropig

Kaner2004 wrote: »

Gloatery (I made up a new word), is the new begrudgery.

And the one-upmanship has changed from "I have a bigger car than him", to "He thought he was better than me but now he is suffering, but me, I saw it coming. I'm better than him. Ha."

Definition of Gloatery: Superiority complex Irish people developed for being thrifty /poor during the Celtic tiger


For example: Ha, Ha, all those people who bought trousers and electric kettles during the celtic tiger...what morons:D. I wore the same trousers for the whole time and drank water from a jam jar, and look at them now, they're as broke as I am:rolleyes::D

Kaner2004

micropig wrote: »

Definition of Gloatery: Superiority complex Irish people developed for being thrifty /poor during the Celtic tiger


For example: Ha, Ha, all those people who bought trousers and electric kettles during the celtic tiger...what morons:D. I wore the same trousers for the whole time and drank water from a jam jar, and look at them now, they're as broke as I am:rolleyes::D

I really thought I made that word up. Sh1t.

foxyboxer

micropig wrote: »

Definition of Gloatery: Superiority complex Irish people developed for being thrifty /poor during the Celtic tiger


For example: Ha, Ha, all those people who bought trousers and electric kettles during the celtic tiger...what morons:D. I wore the same trousers for the whole time and drank water from a jam jar, and look at them now, they're as broke as I am:rolleyes::D

FIGJAM

Fcuk I'm grand, Just ask me!