Things from the Celtic tiger you don't see anymore

Chop Chop

What things from the Celtic tiger things don't you see anymore? One of the odd things I saw a few times during those years was people throwing their small change away after getting something in a shop :pac: I kid you not, literally throwing it into the bin outside the shop.:eek:

Another was a mate telling me I was nuts for not re-mortgaging my house to buy a BMW. He did it, and doesn't have the BMW anymore, but still has the monthly repayment....nuts!!!

Anyone else?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Money

December2012

My career.

Dwork

non olive-green helicopters. And queues to buy Phase 1 off plan. And anyone mentioning Bulgaria as "the next big thing". And Twink.

G Power

the little trickle down of monies from those who have it all at the very top of the pyramid

omahaid

A sea of men in hi-viz jackets buying breakfast rolls in front of me as I try to pay for my petrol

Big Davey

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeky I made a post very similar almost at the same time !

hfallada

People not thinking it was usual to fly to NYC for a few days shopping. Most Americans dont ever leave their state but about about a third of irish people have gone to the US.

galwayrush

The sky over Galway doesn't resemble the retreat from Saigon anymore during the races.

BillyMitchel

Double D hookers in four poster beds in 5 star hotels on the other side of the world

Pawwed Rig

Eddie Hobbs trying to flog apartments in Cape Verde.


People threw their change into the bin??? I have never seen that

1. Tracker Mortgages.
2. That guy who doesn't know what tracker mortgages are.

mikemac1

You couldn't turn on the radio without some shyster wanting your SSIA money.

Investing in Kevin Sharkey paintings or wine and or some flat in the arse end of Bulgaria

I doubt anyone made a profit on those paintings!

ScumLord

Chop Chop wrote: »

What things from the Celtic tiger things don't you see anymore? One of the odd things I saw a few times during those years was people throwing their small change away after getting something in a shop :pac: I kid you not, literally throwing it into the bin outside the shop.:eek:

I hope you slapped them, celtic tiger or no celtic tiger.

I don't know that Irish people changed all that much. If anything it's just fashionable to say you've got no money now. There are people with money that just don't want to be seen spending it.

humbert

Dumb people with lots of money.

Phill Ewinn

Early houses full of people in suits. Back in track suits now they are. Rightly so.

17larsson

Every pub in my town jammed on a bank holiday sunday and most of the atm machines empty from the Saturday

michael999999

Bertie aherns P.A. in tears in front of tribunals because of the fianna fail crooks forcing her to give evidence.

DazMarz

€500 notes. Every builder in the land used to have a wad of these on hand at all times during the boom. Now, they're literally things that exist only in fairy tales.

galwayrush

humbert wrote: »

Dumb people with lots of money.credit

Fixed that for you.

mikemac1

Boyracers, seem to have died a death

Where are the Glanzas and Starlets and also the left hand drive death traps blaring techno ****e that used to tear around the place gone?

Pilotdude5

People buying expensive gas Barbecues.

galwayrush

mikemac1 wrote: »

Boyracers, seem to have died a death

Where are the Glanzas and Starlets and also the left hand drive death traps blaring techno ****e that used to tear around the place gone?

Plenty of the retards still around Galway.

monkeypants

Dwork wrote: »

And Twink.

And all it took was the economy collapsing, banks going insolvent, 450,000 out of work, an IMF/EU/ECB bailout, a general election and thousands of euros of debt loaded onto both people alive right now and future generations.

Bargain!

Will it take the apocalypse to get rid of Gaybo? :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Peer pressure to take out a mortgage.

twistyj

Friendliness and respect

Doom

Brand new Campervans outside a forklift drivers house....

Wanderer2010

Jobs

Dwork

twistyj wrote: »

Friendliness and respect

Noo, it's "things from the celtic tiger you don't see anymore". That's "Celtic Tiger", not "Little house on the Prairie".

"Buy Now Pay Next Year" ads from retail stores.

Gyalist

Dwork wrote: »

non olive-green helicopters. And queues to buy Phase 1 off plan. And anyone mentioning Bulgaria as "the next big thing". And Twink.

I remember sitting in a taxi and the very nice female driver telling me about the lovely house she'd bought in the Cape Verde. That was my first inkling that things were way out of control.

Grayson

Bebo.

mccarthy37

Small builders driving big fcuk off jeeps pulling stainless steel trailers. Loads a money and people generally smiling all things of the past.
Signs outside unfinished building sites "Last house remaining"

Chop Chop

ScumLord wrote: »

I hope you slapped them, celtic tiger or no celtic tiger.

Yeah I could have never understand it? There was always this smug look on their faces when they were doing it. I new women who changed their accents into posh accents when they got a mortgage

It was all pretending to be wealthy shíte, mad stuff!!

Chop Chop

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

Early houses full of people in suits. Back in track suits now they are. Rightly so.

I saw this before the celtic tiger, I was in an early house called the white horse after my debs in 1996 and saw these business types coming in for a pint and a chaser on the way to work.

Finnt

Tower cranes
Bill Cullen

cookiedough 1

There was a Celtic tiger???? Musta missed that.

King of Kings

free cocaine at parties.

feargale

Letters from a bank manager stating " you are under-borrowed."

DonkeyStyle \o/

Do people still use the phrase "property ladder"?

Chop Chop

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Do people still use the phrase "property ladder"?

It's called the "property toilet" these days.

zef

Jet Skis and cocaine sum up the tiger years for me.

Fox_In_Socks

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Double D hookers in four poster beds in 5 star hotels on the other side of the world

Speak for yourself...erm...I mean, yeah, you don't see that anymore.

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The amount of new gigantic 4X4's to be seen has halved in my experience. Eddie Hobbs trying to flog property in some foreign place, before rebranding himself as a soothsayer, apparantly forseeing the crash bang years before it happened.

Odats

Trying to avoid the Mummy's dropping their little darling outside the school in their brand new X5's or Range Rovers on the way to work.

Now it's in Micras and Yaris'.

Grayson

Chop Chop wrote: »

It's called the "property toilet" these days.

Property seesaw

solas111

Local politicians changing town boundaries to take in a building site recently acquired by their friend who wants to build another housing scheme against the wishes of local residents.

Chop Chop

Finnt wrote: »

Bill Cullen

Did ya see him on the late late last week? He's changed his tune, I thought he was going to cry at one point. Remember him telling everyone they should work for free a few years back?

aphex™

Outdoor hot tubs

The woman in my office moving to Termonfeckin, buying a place in Bulgaria from the Mafia then leaving for a job in AIB.

krudler

Empty taxi ranks on a saturday night and people desperately trying to flag ones down on the road at 3.30am

Finnt

Chop Chop wrote: »

Did ya see him on the late late last week? He's changed his tune, I thought he was going to cry at one point. Remember him telling everyone they should work for free a few years back?

Just seen him for a minute he looked fair shook!

kyote00

I miss the days when Carlow was only 40mins from Dublin