Bertie is back. The Good times are back.

McDook

So.
If you could go back in time to 1990 and you knew what was all ahead.

Would you try to change things for the betterment of everyone and warn Bertie about what he was about to do while he was young and impressionable and persuade him to mend his ways?

Or would take advantage of a situation you knew was coming and start getting remortgage after remortgage after remortgage and then sell the whole lot to some suckers around 2007. Not to mention buying and selling tech shares before the .com bust as well.

Okay, lets say you forgot all of the results of sports games and lottery numbers etc.
Your only 2 choices are to stop Bertie and the gang and remain an ordinary person. Or let it all go ahead and you can become a billionaire.
You could even foresee the banking crisis so you wouldnt lose it all in the banks.

Really the question is, if you were to be able to get rich out the misery that is to come after 2007, would you let it carry on?

Artful_Badger

McDook wrote: »

So.
If you could go back in time to 1990 and you knew what was all ahead..

I'd be a billionaire.

Filibuster

McDook wrote: »

So.
If you could go back in time to 1990 and you knew what was all ahead..

I'd be a billionaire.

Sir Arthur Daley

Id be a trillionaire.

brevity

McDook wrote: »

So.
If you could go back in time to 1990 and you knew what was all ahead.

Would you try to change things for the betterment of everyone and warn Bertie about what he was about to do while he was young and impressionable and persuade him to mend his ways?

Or would take advantage of a situation you knew was coming and start getting remortgage after remortgage after remortgage and then sell the whole lot to some suckers around 2007. Not to mention buying and selling tech shares before the .com bust as well.

People did try to warn him and he told them to hang themselves.

michael999999

I'd join Fianna fail and get rich like the rest of them crooks!

McDook

brevity wrote: »

People did try to warn him and he told them to hang themselves.

But they werent time travellers.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Svlad Cjelli wrote: »

I'd be a billionaire.

Filibuster wrote: »

I'd be a billionaire.

WikiHow wrote: »

Id be a trillionaire.

I'd be a millionaire. :cool:

Don't hate da playa, hate da muth****in' game yo.

ButtersSuki

Can't I do both?

Become a multi-millionaire and expose Bertie for the lying, thieving crook he is......allegedly. Or actually he's been proven to be thus so I don't need to say "allegedly" anymore. Allegedly.

wendell borton

I'd be a googolonaire.

xXxkorixXx

id still be a nilionairre

rwg

nother Bertie bashing - I'll have no part in this


... and also if you can go back to 1990 just bring the lottery numbers with you, remortgage after remortgage is overkill :rolleyes:

McDook

Okay, lets say you forgot all of the results of sports games and lottery numbers etc.
Your only 2 choices are to stop Bertie and the gang and remain an ordinary person. Or let it all go ahead and you can become a billionaire.
You could even foresee the banking crisis so you wouldnt lose it all in the banks.

Really the question is, if you were to be able to get rich out the misery that is to come after 2007, would you let it carry on?

crazygeryy

i would lull bertie into thinking he had it made and then id put a plan into action to make the **** homeless.

Conmaicne Mara

Someone air mail him to North Korea so he can be run over by a tank or something else equally fitting.

Artful_Badger

McDook wrote: »

Okay, lets say you forgot all of the results of sports games and lottery numbers etc.
Your only 2 choices are to stop Bertie and the gang and remain an ordinary person. Or let it all go ahead and you can become a billionaire.
You could even foresee the banking crisis so you wouldnt lose it all in the banks.

Really the question is, if you were to be able to get rich out the misery that is to come after 2007, would you let it carry on?

You couldnt stop it anyway. House prices would rise and people would be making money hand over fist and Bertie would be top man. There is no way in hell anyone would listen to ya. Best thing you could do would be cash in on your knowledge of whats going to happen, buy up the half price bonds when the banks collapsed and then pump the money back into the country after the clowns pay ya back in full. Keeping a lil something for ones self of course.

Win win.

McDook

crazygeryy wrote: »

i would lull bertie into thinking he had it made and then id put a plan into action to make the **** homeless.

Would you make a few bob on the houses yourself on the way though

Ten of Swords

Svlad Cjelli wrote: »

There is no way in hell anyone would listen to ya.

+1

On the topic of time travel and Bertie I dug this up! Point 2 is interesting.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=277217&postcount=47

Duckworth_Luas

I'd plant load of evidence that Bertie was part of a long term plot to destroy the WTC in 2001.

Later, when other time travellers alert the CIA and FBI to the real terrorist threat, Bertie would be implicated and the destruction of the Irish economy avoided.

thinks too much

I don/t know what a Tracker Mortgage is.

bodice ripper

I don't think I would be much use. I'd be ten.

YellowFeather

McDook wrote: »

Would you try to change things for the betterment of everyone...

I know it's a perfectly cromulent word, but all I can think of is

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."

kub

I would introduce both Bertie and Mc Creevey ( the finance Minister who gambled the economy), to the Mafia, God knows the Mafia would learn a lot from them.

McDook

thinks too much wrote: »

I don/t know what a Tracker Mortgage is.

ah but now you would

Annasopra

Deal with Haughey first.

It's 1990 and he's still in charge.

Cee-Jay-Cee

McDook wrote: »

So.

Really the question is, if you were to be able to get rich out the misery that is to come after 2007, would you let it carry on?

Too fcuking right I would!

kupus

kub wrote: »

I would introduce both Bertie and Mc Creevey ( the finance Minister who gambled the economy), to the Mafia, God knows the Mafia would learn a lot from them.

Dont insult the mafia like that... Mafia know how to run businesses. Bertie the bollox couldnt run a brothel in a goldmine

dxhound2005

kupus wrote: »

Dont insult the mafia like that... Mafia know how to run businesses. Bertie the bollox couldnt run a brothel in a goldmine

He was truly awful. But instead of going out protesting against what he was doing the people elected him three times and made him the second longest serving Taoiseach in the history of the State. Who to blame?

DainBramage

Bertie should be attached to the first Irish rocket attempt to the moon. That is a bunch of Calor kosangas cylinders with bales of briquettes attached launched over a bonfire in Ballymun at Halloween with bangers stuck on with pritstick

BillyMitchel

I'd start up a company called google and buy loads of lemon suits and sell them to Bertie for a million a piece

mikemac1

A man went on the late late show and said he was going to sell bottled water.

Bwahahah, sell water to Irish people. . Destined for failure, that would never work

Now he owns Ballgowan and is super rich

Noo

I wish I could remember the exact year but theres an episode of reeling in the years in the 90s showing a massive circus over the budget...in the black, cutting taxes, increasing welfare, giving out massive bank loans etc etc look at us with our amazing budget, Ireland is rich type cringey stuff. Then they show an interview with someone (a british economist i think, sorry my memory isnt great on who it was) pretty much saying that ireland better be careful with their new found wealth and that reckless budget choices now will only cause an economic collapse in years to come. Of course we all see it now but opinions like that wouldve been laughed at at the time.

Irish Halo

Ten of Swords wrote: »

On the topic of time travel and Bertie I dug this up! Point 2 is interesting.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=277217&postcount=47

I prefer point 4!

Ten of Swords

Noo wrote: »

I wish I could remember the exact year but theres an episode of reeling in the years in the 90s showing a massive circus over the budget...in the black, cutting taxes, increasing welfare, giving out massive bank loans etc etc look at us with our amazing budget, Ireland is rich type cringey stuff. Then they show an interview with someone (a british economist i think, sorry my memory isnt great on who it was) pretty much saying that ireland better be careful with their new found wealth and that reckless budget choices now will only cause an economic collapse in years to come. Of course we all see it now but opinions like that wouldve been laughed at at the time.

Year 2000.

The economist was Ray Barrell, the story starts at 9.18 in the below clip, Ray's sound bite is at 10.25

MadYaker

Id be a billionaire.

Littlehorny

If there's one thing i'v learned in my life is you can't change someone. A man like Bertie Ahern is always going to be a slimy sly cnut. It just took too long for the people to finally see his true colours.