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Celtic Tiger must-have items

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    #92
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    xzanti wrote: »
    Foie Gras
    Going on RTE's The Restaurant as a diner/punter and thinking your AA Gill (Restaurant critic) when criticising the dinner made by the "star".

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #93
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    funnights74 wrote: »
    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone, hats off to that salesman!!
    are there no lakes near Athlone?

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #94
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    bbam wrote: »
    Having a cleaner in a few times a week cos you were too busy living it up and working.
    the office cleaner slagging you off for not having a gaff abroad.
    ".....I won't be here next week, I'm off to Alicante, see ya....."

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #95
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    dvcireland wrote: »
    are there no lakes near Athlone?

    There used to be but they built houses on them in the boom:p


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    #96
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭s8n


    Massive garden trampolines -no matter how small the garden was !!!

    Bounced on once and then left to rot


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    #97
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    spending €145,000 on a turf bucket like St Patricks Athletic owner Garret Kelleher was reported to have done:

    "I'd say Kelleher is eating humble pie right now," says a former Dublin business associate. "If there's anybody who encapsulated the Celtic Tiger it was him. Private jets here, private jets there. He thought nothing of spending thousands on a turf bucket (he reportedly paid €145,000 for the Georgian peat pail at Adam auctioneers, Dublin in 2005. It had been expected to go for €20,000.)"

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #98
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    s8n wrote: »
    Massive garden trampolines -no matter how small the garden was !!!

    Bounced on once and then left to rot
    We still have ours and it's more of a garden decoration at this stage. However, when we have visitors their children love bouncing on it so I guess it still has it's uses!

    The €2500 Prada and Gucci handbags, so small you couldn't fit a purse and mobile phone together into them! Were these women crazy?

    And paying shedloads of money for pure bred dogs - you'll get as much enjoyment out of a well-trained mongrel.


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    #99
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Spending €1000 on a pup because nobody else had heard of the breed.
    Building stables and buying a pony for your kids who now have to wipe their snot on the sleeve of their uniforms.
    Upgrading your engagement ring in Dubai or New York and telling everyone that jewellers couldn't value it here.


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    #100
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Not sure if there are any other bikers on here but checking in to two or even three bike rallies in one day was not uncommon.


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    #101
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Melted wrote: »
    DR DRE beats biggets waste of money...

    Were they even around 5 years ago or are you just nameing stuff you see in shops now?


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    #102
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Babysitters charging €10 per child per hour, because they could! Despite the children being asleep the whole time while they were babysitting.


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    #103
    Drake66
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭Drake66


    Those horrible Porsche Cayennes and the muppets that drove them


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    #104
    tonyangelino
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭tonyangelino


    R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »
    Renting isn't good enough you HAVE to have a house


    The great expression - you're "only" renting?
    and to be made feel like a peasant if you weren't buying for the "investment"


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    #105
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    Agree. Well, I like carpet, but vinyl is awful stuff, glad to see the back of it. And wooden floors have some advantages over carpet, just as carpet has over wood. Both are grand.

    The problem wasn't vinyl. It was the designs on it. The stuff itself is biodegradable, cheap and tough. If they only made it look nicer and stopped trying to put tile designs on it.

    But yeah, those porsche cayennes were horrible.


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    #106
    Grayson
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    dvcireland wrote: »
    spending €145,000 on a turf bucket like St Patricks Athletic owner Garret Kelleher was reported to have done:

    "I'd say Kelleher is eating humble pie right now," says a former Dublin business associate. "If there's anybody who encapsulated the Celtic Tiger it was him. Private jets here, private jets there. He thought nothing of spending thousands on a turf bucket (he reportedly paid €145,000 for the Georgian peat pail at Adam auctioneers, Dublin in 2005. It had been expected to go for €20,000.)"

    I've just googles Turf Bucket. It's a big machine for cutting turf?


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    #107
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    A boxer dog on a leash out walking at evening time,while wearing sunglasses even if was dull, while wearing a Munster/Leinster rugby shirt hanging outside the expensive jeans.
    The dog pounds are full of thse dogs now.;)


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    #108
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Grayson wrote: »
    I've just googles Turf Bucket. It's a big machine for cutting turf?

    :D


    I think it was just a bucket to keep the turf in by the fireside


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    #109
    tonyangelino
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭tonyangelino


    The muppets especially in Gibney's pub malahide with suit and tie who stand at the door when you walk in on a Friday after a "killer" week taking up half the bloody floor acting like a scene from Wall street.

    GO home and get changed or at least take your fckin ties off!!!

    and yes you have small willies:p


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    #110
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Drinking Latte Coffee and doughnuts at every service station you pull into.


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    #111
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    tonyangelino wrote: »
    The muppets especially in Gibney's pub malahide with suit and tie who stand at the door when you walk in on a Friday after a "killer" week taking up half the bloody floor acting like a scene from Wall street.

    GO home and get changed or at least take your fckin ties off!!!

    and yes you have small willies:p

    Moving forward, were they trying to smash through the glass ceiling?:D


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    #112
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Drinking Latte Coffee and doughnuts at every service station you pull into.

    Buying sandwiches in O'Briens for €7, every day for lunch:eek:


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    #113
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    8 pages in & I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Granite Worktops yet.


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    #114
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    mate of mine did work once for a couple who had a seperate bathroom built in their new house, for their dog. i kid you not.
    House has since been sold, they've moved to Canada,leaving a massive trail of debts here.


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    #115
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Stained Class wrote: »
    8 pages in & I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Granite Worktops yet.

    Marble worktops too:D


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    #116
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    i can remember seeing specialist companies going around commercial districts of Dublin offering door mat cleaning / replacement services. I would say al lot of these would be long gone.

    Another company use to offer office flower pot / plant maintenance.


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    #117
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

    Another company use to offer office plant and flower pot maintenance.

    Was it Bill & Ben, the flower pot men - They're still going strong I believe:D


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    #118
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Piss ups in Galway.
    Ye'd arrive down here in ye're SUVs jetskies and copters by the thousands.
    Don't see ye at all now. Place is like Tombstone.
    Bliss!!!


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    #119
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    A passport. :D


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    #120
    kevohmsford
    Registered Users Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭kevohmsford


    Expensive gym and golf membership


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    #121
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    fergiesfolly wrote: »
    Piss ups in Galway.
    Ye'd arrive down here in ye're SUVs jetskies and copters by the thousands.
    Don't see ye at all now. Place is like Tombstone.
    Bliss!!!

    did you not hear???
    that lot have been voted out of power.!!
    doing it all abroad now with their retirement packages.
    their replacements will be back with you shortly though,when they've finally fooled enough people into thinking they've "sorted the mess previously created"


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