Things people did during the "Celtic Tiger Days"

Big Davey

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

The Backwards Man

Talked faux francais

ejmaztec

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

Those coins were probably jammed in the trollies, and people were too embarrassed to use a tyre wrench on them to get their money back, because they didn't want to be seen as paupers.

It took me 20 minutes to get my coin out once, I've no shame.

galwayrush

I know a builder who organised his own 'surprise' 40th birthday party.

omahaid

Glitch in the matrix?

darragh16

They spelled "Tiger" correctly anyway

Big Davey

ejmaztec wrote: »

Those coins were probably jammed in the trollies, and people were too embarrassed to use a tyre wrench on them to get their money back, because they didn't want to be seen as paupers.

It took me 20 minutes to get my coin out once, I've no shame.

Should have used a snipe nosed pliers it only takes 30 seconds :-)

omahaid

I posted this in the other thread but I don't know which one is going to be locked so


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

Dwork

re-mortgaged their house to buy BMWs and then wafted around looking down their noses at me in my banger. Ahh, but I waited in the long grass, and soon as the bimmers were re-posessed I nipped out and bought two big jeeps, a his n hers. I now waft around looking down my nose at them. Someday I'll have enough for a house, then that'll show em. The kids hate living in this long grass in fairness.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Hi,

I'm Bob, I have 3 houses, 2 apartments, 3 cars, an armchair fridge full of beer and a helicopter.

Also......15 maxed out credit cards.

galwayrush

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Hi,

I'm Bob, I have 3 houses, 2 apartments, 3 cars, an armchair fridge full of beer and a helicopter.

Also......15 maxed out credit cards.

Careful now, you might end up locked in an underground bunker for 8 months,:D

Big Davey

darragh16 wrote: »

They spelled "Tiger" correctly anyway

Lol !

homeless student

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

why would that pi$$ you off?

Having a social life would be one of them, I'd imagine.

Dwork

homeless student wrote: »

why would that pi$$ you off?

or even pi€€ you off? I used to go around collecting all the abandoned euros, look at me now. I have €12.

twistyj

Have offspring that are just as ignorant and disrespectful as they are

I Luv Crysis

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

Grayson

twistyj wrote: »

Have offspring that are just as ignorant and disrespectful as they are

called Sorcha, Fiachra and uachtar reoite

homeless student

I Luv Crysis wrote: »

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

ya that really pi$$es me off 2. how dare people be sound enough to buy rounds of shots:p

Grayson

I Luv Crysis wrote: »

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

jesus, that was me. Of course I'd be eating noodles for a week, but just give me a few drinks and my pitiful little wallet becomes community property.

ejmaztec

Auctioneers only getting out of bed for a 750K sale.

byhookorbycrook

Went shopping to New York

RGDATA!

cocaine

keithsfleet

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

Done a stint in security at a very big well known Southside shopping center that the "higher class" flocked to in their thousands.
Most I ever collected was a little over 60 euro one night.
Usually always walked away at the end of my shift with 20-40 euro in change.

Oh how I miss being employed to do a job I didn't do in the slightest.

maxfresh

Threw their change in the bin

Super-Rush

Made going out for Sunday lunch a nightmare.

Table after table of Marys and Paddys with their litter of little bastards wrecking the place.

Paddy roaring down his phone about the massive job he's just taken on.

Mary pretending to know what a bottle of Chablis was.

Big Bottom

Sunday lunch?

I think only pretentious twats go to 'Sunday lunch' what a waste!

Cienciano

Wánkers telling people how much their house has gone up as if they were real estate experts.
Although, we have similar wánkers now that never bought (usually because they were too young or didn't want to be tied down with a mortgage or were in australia) that pretend they're real estate experts cos they rented and aren't in negative equity now.

Rasheed

Every second eeijit bought a racehorse and became experts on racing overnight.

I used to hear this one builder name dropping all the time in the pub.

"I was there in the ring with Aidan O'Brien and Jamie Spencer talking about our chances. We were confidant, the ground was good to soft so, I threw 10k at 5/1 on the nags head. Easy money when you know the form."

Knob.

Irish Guitarist

Used €50 notes when they ran out of toilet paper.

When their butler made a mistake they would shoot him and get a new one. The new butlers first job would be to dispose of the old butlers body.

Dwork

I remember one (formerly dog rough)lad who made it big in property was showing me a place he'd bought. On the way in there was a tiny bit of dirt on the stonework and he took out a pocket handkerchief from his immaculate suit and cleaned it off, tutting.

He subsequently lost his hole in a spectacular way, dominating the papers for a fair while with tales of just how screwed he was.(:D sorry, but in fairness).

The roughest man in Ireland bought that place off the banks and set up a kip hole of a shop in it, absolutely wrecking the gaff. Last time I met hankie boy he was in Aldi buying a six-pack and he wandered out to his battered Astra. My inner cnut had a little giggle, tbh. I could live with all the other pretencious stuff he did, but jasus, a pocket handkerchief.

dd972

omahaid wrote: »

I posted this in the other thread but I don't know which one is going to be locked so


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

used to encounter these in the local Spar, bantering with the girls behind the counter all full of their ''I'm on €x amount a week'' brio and bullsh!t, people in the trades have always been smug, complacent f**kers, there was one interviewed recently about how he'd make $1500.00 dollars a week in Canada but that still wouldn't be as good as what he'd make in Celtic Tiger Ireland, boo hoo, try working behind a bar or in a call centre and see your pitiful earnings diminish until your sweating on the next pay cheque.

chimmy chonga

I remember in our local pub young electricians and carpenters coming in and ordering a pint and invariably paying with a 50 euro note. The barman would always have to remind them to ‘pick-up’ their change. One guy I remember took the notes and left the coins..’cos he ‘didn’t do change’. They don’t come in anymore.. wonder where they are now?:rolleyes:

The Big Lebowsky

Dwork wrote: »

re-mortgaged their house to buy BMWs and then wafted around looking down their noses at me in my banger. Ahh, but I waited in the long grass, and soon as the bimmers were re-posessed I nipped out and bought two big jeeps, a his n hers. I now waft around looking down my nose at them. Someday I'll have enough for a house, then that'll show em. The kids hate living in this long grass in fairness.

Love this post...I passed one of those guys while driving my banger recently. The poor fella was walking, and I don't think he was getting in some light exercise either.. How the mighty have fallen, it seems their dog sh1t empires were built on sand...:D

dub_skav

Being open about your begrudgery took a bit if a holiday, glad it's back stronger than ever

DEFTLEFTHAND

dub_skav wrote: »

Being open about your begrudgery took a bit if a holiday, glad it's back stronger than ever

Yes begrudgery a fascinating topic, The 'Irish condition' as it's called. Imo its to do with the collective inferiority complex, Paddy doesn't like to see anyone bettering themselves. He envies them and his only ammunition is to express cheap put downs.

Mr Benevolent

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yes begrudgery a fascinating topic, The 'Irish condition' as it's called. Imo its to do with the collective inferiority complex, Paddy doesn't like to see anyone bettering themselves. He envies them and his only ammunition is to express cheap put downs.

Looks like we need to invest in better put downs. Could have the country back on its feet by next Tuesday!

Dwork

Confab wrote: »

Looks like we need to invest in better put downs. Could have the country back on its feet by next Tuesday!

It might be possible to ressurect the County Enterprise Boards to give the thing a bit of structure. Could be called the IBA. We could export it to California, they seem to have a dreadful shortage.

Rasheed

dub_skav wrote: »

Being open about your begrudgery took a bit if a holiday, glad it's back stronger than ever

I think jealousy and trying to not just keep up with the Jones, but beat them with possessions took over from begrudgery.

Now begrudgery is back and the sense of delight some have when the 'big shots' fail.

Augmerson

dd972 wrote: »

used to encounter these in the local Spar, bantering with the girls behind the counter all full of their ''I'm on €x amount a week'' brio and bullsh!t, people in the trades have always been smug, complacent f**kers there was one interviewed recently about how he'd make $1500.00 dollars a week in Canada but that still wouldn't be as good as what he'd make in Celtic Tiger Ireland, boo hoo, try working behind a bar or in a call centre and see your pitiful earnings diminish until your sweating on the next pay cheque.

Really? I don't think so. I knew plenty of people who could see what was going on for the madness that it was and knew it wouldn't last. Plenty of older heads who told me when I was doing an Electrician apprenticeship to save, save and save because they'd see this sort of thing before. Men who'd had to go off to the UK or Europe or the US before in the 70's and 80's when we hadn't a pot to piss in.

There were people who let big wages go straight to their head during the Celtic Tiger - they were everywhere. But at least people doing trades, people who were building the houses that were fueling the whole joke, at least they were actually doing some work. Instead of those who thought they'd make endless amounts of money by buying and selling houses like they were Richard Gecko out of Wall Street.

stoneill

Ski trips.

WoollyRedHat

dub_skav wrote: »

Being open about your begrudgery took a bit if a holiday, glad it's back stronger than ever

Bloody hell, this begrudgery bull****, I swear the people who throw out the phrase are worse than the people who are supposed to begrudge.

Some of the stuff mentioned above isn't begrudgery at all, it's deriding the psyche that existed in our country back in the day of excessive waste and snobbery, just because some people couldn't and refused to see the day when the rainbow and endlesss pot of gold that they found ended up disappearing

There's a difference between mocking those who had wealth and were laissez-fair, and arrogant with it, thinking it made them better than others, and those who have wealth, respect it, and still can remain the same person and respect others irreguardless of money.
Class doesn't have to be what income bracket you full under, it's all about how you present yourself and treat others. Humility, some people have it, some don't.