Any chance of another blast of the celtic tiger?

Sh1tbag OToole

Im well and truly sick of being miserable for the past 5 years and was in college while everyone else was earning mad money on building sites so I'm wondering could they bring it back for a few years? Could we convince those teatowel wearing boys in the middle east to lend us a load of money we never pay back?

Things i'm really looking forward to include:
Building a house mainly out of Polyfilla, selling it for 400k
Seeing Bertie's evil grin at the Fianna Fail tent
Going from nail hitter to civil engineer in the space of a year.
Buy a Golf GTI on my first day at work, a Padjero 6 months later and a Mercedes CLS AMG 6 months after that
Jet ski.
Breakfast roll every morning with the lads then mad night out costing 200e or more
Ducking into a piss poor quality overpriced jaccuzi with a few packs of Heino

We could make this happen as long as we pile all the debt onto the one bank set up just for the purpose. And none of this "paying back" codology when it all goes titsup. who's with me?

kneemos

That's what happened.

Fr_Dougal

Not this crap again.

major bill

I'd happily welcome back the Celtic Tiger if we can leave the selfish snobby arseholes that came with the last one behind!!

Karl Stein

Only if we can enshrine in our constitution that the Govt. needs to go to referendum when seeking to bail out 'private' enterprises.

Fox_In_Socks

Off to New York for de messages!

Phill Ewinn

College yeah? Your own fault so.

Knob Longman

Just play the waiting game, Kid...If any country is sure to repeat the past Its this one..

wendell borton

Blast the bastard with a shotgun.

Duckworth_Luas

I'm certain that the country has learned the hard lessons of the past from the past and won't made the same mistake next time.

So no fcuking eggs in the Celtic Tiger II breakfast rolls then!

Sh1tbag OToole

Knob Longman wrote: »

Just play the waiting game, Kid...If any country is sure to repeat the past Its this one..

Ill have to be careful not to miss it. I didnt notice much of the first tiger except things kept going up in price. I thought drinking bulmers from a bottle instead of draught was normal, the student pubs being jammers was normal. Didnt see much else of the tiger besides houses being sold for a fortune. Next time I have to be standing there ready with the shovel for when the housing boom kicks off again

B_Rabbit

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I'm certain that the country has learned the hard lessons of the past from the past and won't made the same mistake next time.

So no fcuking eggs in the Celtic Tiger II breakfast rolls then!

It's not a proper breakfast roll without eggs.

123balltv

It will never happen again

Rabelais

Some serious opportunities out there to start a business at the moment. Very easy to start a company in this country, with lots of support from Government agencies if the idea is a runner.

We survived the worst, and we didn't have to lynch people, burn down the Dáil or leave the Euro. Hugely optimistic.

Mint Aero

Guaranteed everyone in this thread who is optimistic about CTII will be rich in 5 years time I can smell it

Sh1tbag OToole

Rabelais wrote: »

Some serious opportunities out there to start a business at the moment. Very easy to start a company in this country, with lots of support from Government agencies if the idea is a runner.

We survived the worst, and we didn't have to lynch people, burn down the Dáil or leave the Euro. Hugely optimistic.

I'm still up for burning down the Dail if you want

Setting up a business takes time and effort and brains. No getting 2,000e a week for layering on polyfilla. People buying houses and selling them, making money was pretty much effortless for those involved. With the death of the tiger the low hanging fruit is gone.

Rabelais

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I'm still up for burning down the Dail if you want

Setting up a business takes time and effort and brains. No getting 2,000e a week for layering on polyfilla. People buying houses and selling them, making money was pretty much effortless for those involved. With the death of the tiger the low hanging fruit is gone.

Nah. I'd rather not. I like the building. It would serve no purpose.

Loads of opportunities to start or work for businesses involved in artisan food production, agribusiness for export markets, value-added services for cloud and mobile computing, tourism, renewable energy and electronic engineering. All of these will be actively supported by Enterprise Ireland or regional development boards. Loads of advice and support available.

kyote00

what the F is cloud ?

Rabelais wrote: »

bla bla.... value-added services for cloud and mobile computing....

Sh1tbag OToole

Rabelais wrote: »

Nah. I'd rather not. I like the building. It would serve no purpose.

Loads of opportunities to start or work for businesses involved in artisan food production, agribusiness for export markets, value-added services for cloud and mobile computing, tourism, renewable energy and electronic engineering. All of these will be actively supported by Enterprise Ireland or regional development boards. Loads of advice and support available.

The building can be rebuilt, the politicians inside it hopefully not.

Still no 2,000e a week dos job out in the fresh air for me. also going down to the beach with my new jetski after i make a killing from this electronic engineering business wont be much fun, neither will eating a breakfast roll by myself or going to the pub by myself and worrying about the impending collapse of my business if i mess things up any bit at all. therefore a return of the celtic tiger is needed

Rabelais

kyote00 wrote: »

what the F is cloud ?

I'd suggest you spend a little bit of time doing some reading if you don't understand the concept. It might make a refreshing change from being in a state of perpetual faux-outrage. You might actually learn something.

Irish Steve

Cloud is vapour that disappears when it gets warmer, and if I'm honest, that's what's going to happen to some computer clouds too, when things start getting hot.

Don't trust them, new fancy name for an old technology called bureau processing that's been tweaked a little, but there are huge risks for business if the homework is not done with due diligence. The number of ways it can fail, spectacularly, are many and complex, and cloud can be a lot more dangerous than in house computing, especially for small companies that don't understand the very real risks that could go as far as taking the company down

Personally, I don't want to see the Celtic tiger again any time soon, the only thing most people got from it the last time it appeared was a damn good mauling that left some nasty scars that will take a long time to heal.

Trouble is, some people have got very short memories.

BillyMitchel

Rabelais wrote: »

Some serious opportunities out there to start a business at the moment. Very easy to start a company in this country, with lots of support from Government agencies if the idea is a runner.

We survived the worst, and we didn't have to lynch people, burn down the Dáil or leave the Euro. Hugely optimistic.

Can't highlight on my phone but aimed at your "we survived the worst"

A lot didn't though. Families broken due to husbands/kids leaving to earn a living. Families now living in poverty. People have lost their homes. Still huge unemployment. Increase in suicide I could go on.

Stop being so naive.

kyote00

Was hoping you might explain it to me ? Looks like I won't be able to learn much from you.

mobile cloud -> often leads to rain.

Rabelais wrote: »

I'd suggest you spend a little bit of time doing some reading if you don't understand the concept. It might make a refreshing change from being in a state of perpetual faux-outrage. You might actually learn something.

Sh1tbag OToole

This cloud computing malarky involves thinking and sitting in an office and not making piles of money unless you invent the next snapchat and don't foolishly turn down an offer of 3bn.

I want to be out on a building site, doing easy repetitive tasks like layering on polyfilla while chatting to the lads, don't think too much, no worries except from having a job lined up for after the building industry goes titsup again. In many ways getting 1500 a week doing 'simple' jobs and shoddy workmanship with the lads on a site in the fresh air would be better than getting 10k a week in a high-stress office environment working on the next big cloud thing.