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  • Registered Users Posts: 4 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Music by Keane.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Fake grass in your garden:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭FinnLizzy


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Jumbo breakfast roll :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Breakfast rolls

    Not as popular now


    They were called breakfast panini's then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Grayson wrote: »
    They were called breakfast panini's then.

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


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

    Just call it a flat white ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Grayson wrote: »
    Just call it a flat white ;)

    Or an Americana:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Foie Gras


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    the monies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    IM0 wrote: »
    the monies

    & the poweries:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    IM0 wrote: »
    the monies
    micropig wrote: »
    & the poweries:D

    and the wimmins :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Plently bought those Fergal Sharkey paintings for several hundred euro as an "investment"
    Slaps of paint and a mess.
    A junior infant class could have done that.
    He of the Undertones? Think you mean Kevin Sharkey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Derry, Donegal

    Easy mistake :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭kojack


    A bathroom in every room of the house, I have even seen a bathroom in someone's garage


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


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

    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone, hats off to that salesman!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    Double sided American fridges and only 2 living in the house. They had to buy half of tesco's to fill it up and when most of it went off into the bin it went.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Double sided American fridges and only 2 living in the house. They had to buy half of tesco's to fill it up and when most of it went off into the bin it went.

    15 bedroom house for a couple:D
    Who have since spilt up:D



    €40 million for a wedding


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Prospects of advancement and lots of manageable debts.

    Now those with a job are in a holding position and saving every spare penny, which acerbates the recession.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone

    You know that big blue wobbly thing in the middle of Athlone with lots of huge lakes off it?
    Decking, it was all about decking and feckin' downlighters.

    Winner.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Accents.


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