Lahvlahn Thread from 18/11/16 so to speak

TheHomeService

Here's an ideal subject for Joe to get his teeth into:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-removal-in-the-city-has-almost-completely-disappeared-the-death-of-the-removal-as-live-streams-bring-us-future-of-grief-35231572.html

He can set up callers remembering funeral processions of the past, replete with undertakers mutes, horses with black plumage and coddle served by barrow boys.

SEPT 23 1989

TheHomeService wrote: »

Here's an ideal subject for Joe to get his teeth into:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-removal-in-the-city-has-almost-completely-disappeared-the-death-of-the-removal-as-live-streams-bring-us-future-of-grief-35231572.html

He can set up callers remembering funeral processions of the past, replete with undertakers mutes, horses with black plumage and coddle served by barrow boys.

"The Future of Grief"

neris

Any one know what modrin means? Joe's talking to a woman who sold a modrin house to the corpo.

snubbleste

neris wrote: »

Any one know what modrin means? Joe's talking to a woman who sold a modrin house to the corpo.

Indoor plumbing and such

sligojoek

There's an outhouse in the house.

sligojoek

A woman with a son in the US, Illegally, so to speak.

He's either illegal or he's not.

snubbleste

Businesses are whores sez da Liveline
https://twitter.com/Liveline_RTE/status/799605861094195201

Hitchens

neris wrote: »

Any one know what modrin means? Joe's talking to a woman who sold a modrin house to the corpo.

Power shower and greasy decking

somesoldiers

neris wrote: »

Any one know what modrin means? Joe's talking to a woman who sold a modrin house to the corpo.

anything with big windows and a courtyard if Dermot Bannon is anything to go by

snubbleste

somesoldiers wrote: »

anything with big windows and a courtyard if Dermot Bannon is anything to go by

And what about mock pillars and two lions on the gate posts?

Dan Jaman

neris wrote: »

Any one know what modrin means? Joe's talking to a woman who sold a modrin house to the corpo.

"Modrin" was a style of house that was prevalent in the 1980s onwards.

All-Electric heating (so you can shiver when the power goes off, get all the candles out of the cupboard, and watch from the street when the house burns down, later).

Ultra-High Insulation Standard, but that was back in 1980, when High Insulation meant 2" of Aeroboard and if you were lucky, the builder's donkey actually took some care to place it properly. If you weren't that lucky, you were plagued with mysterious cold spots, draughts, and damp patches.

"Engineered Wood" in the roof trusses, so that the builders could use half the material an older house would use, and pocket the difference. If you're lucky, the roof is still straight and the tiles aren't falling off.

"Laminate Flooring" which means a cheap and nasty way of using up the sawdust from the floors of sawmills, whereby it is compressed into sheets and covered with a plastic PHOTOGRAPH of woodgrain and sealed with more resin.

The list goes on.

For this imitation of housing, people lined up in queues around the block, desperate to kill themselves paying off mortgages they had no hope of completing in their lifetime, such was the urgency and drive to get on the housing ladder before the prices went even higher.

somesoldiers

anything out of the Bungalow Bliss book is probably Modrin in Joe's eyes

PeterTheNinth

snubbleste wrote: »

Businesses are whores sez da Liveline
https://twitter.com/Liveline_RTE/status/799605861094195201

I've a better topic. Is #talktojoe1850 a parasite?

snubbleste

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I've a better topic. Is #talktojoe1850 a parasite?

Vital public service, caller.

snubbleste

"da simplest email in da wuuuurld"
joe @ rte.ie

TheHomeService

Margaret from Dublin joins us from the bottom of an enamel bucket.

snubbleste

Margaret sold her 3 bed house to DCC

Odyssey 2005

Nosey cow.

furiousox

Mmmm, seamless quickfire intro from the maestro.
What a pro.

Oops69

snubbleste wrote: »

"da simplest email in da wuuuurld"
joe @ rte.ie

For the simplest fool in the world

snubbleste

What colour is da house?

Fujitsu10

Send us a picture Joe,

TheHomeService

How much did you get for the house?

furiousox

F,,k me, how many coffees has he had?
Calm it down!

Dan Jaman

She's got her Posh Voice on for de rajo.

Lady Chatterton

AFAIK, the council or corporation tend to gut these houses and re-fit them to a particular specification.

Odyssey 2005

snubbleste wrote: »

What colour is da house?

Gold....it's like fort knox caller.

Atlantic Dawn

What colour were the white goods?

BPKS

Would it be better if the house was broken into and set on fire while the council were waiting to carry out the works caller?

snubbleste

"a welfare tenant"