Brian Cowen spotted at Chinese Embassy

veryangryman · 13-10-2018 9:15am #1

Other day while sorting out Visa for an upcomong visit this past week, i encountered Biffo walking upto the premesis.

He went ahead of queue upto the counter, asked if he could go ahead as he is the former taoiseach. I didnt hear what they said to him but he gave his usual awkward shuffle and rushed off like a bee bit his backside.

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Harry Palmr · 13-10-2018 9:17am

He look like man who know fine takeaway

Mrcaramelchoc · 13-10-2018 9:18am

I hope he's moving there and taking that gob****e Bertie with him.

aaakev · 13-10-2018 9:23am

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

I hope he's moving there and taking that gob****e Bertie with him.

Bertie Ahern is a saint!

TheBully · 13-10-2018 9:24am

We all had good times and plenty of dosh when Bertie was in charge

McMurphy · 13-10-2018 9:34am

TheBully wrote: »

We all had good times and plenty of dosh when Bertie was in charge

Great bunch of lads. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYfHW5wu8Q

B0jangles · 13-10-2018 9:46am

He wanted to jump the queue because he used to be Taoiseach, so he used to be very busy and important, not like these other plebs?

Man of the People.

_Brian · 13-10-2018 9:49am

In fairness I’ve stood in that queue for hours, of saying ANYTHING for me to skip to the top I would without hesitation do it.

Did he mention he was the worst Taoiseach ever ??

RobbingBandit · 13-10-2018 9:52am

Harry Palmr wrote: »

He look like man who know fine takeaway

He probably thought it was a fine takeaway gime 700 3 in one and a bucket of egg fried rice

TheValeyard · 13-10-2018 9:53am

Maybe the Chinese will abduct him like the Interpol fella.

Shower Doctor · 13-10-2018 9:53am

Was he looking for a three in one?

Agricola · 13-10-2018 10:02am

Far queue, Mr Cowan! Far queue!

meath4sam · 13-10-2018 10:07am

Did he have a few pints on him and may have mistaken it for a real Chinese.

mad muffin · 13-10-2018 10:07am

Holy fook! :eek:

Shower Doctor · 13-10-2018 10:11am

Maybe he fancies the Chinese lady, covered in hoisin sauce perharps.

uck51js9zml2yt · 13-10-2018 10:14am

Bertie and Brian can't be compared.
Brian gave us a debt of 60bn. Bertie gave us the little book of bertie-isms and the cupboard TV ad.

Heebie · 13-10-2018 10:14am

TheBully wrote:

We all had good times and plenty of dosh when Bertie was in charge

and Bertie left as soon as he realised what was coming, leaving everyone else to deal with the poopstorm he helped create.

RustyNut · 13-10-2018 10:14am

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Maybe the Chinese will abduct him like the Interpol fella.

How much should we charge to take him back?

kneemos · 13-10-2018 10:19am

Very egalitarian in fairness. Would have thought they'd have a VIP service.

RustyNut · 13-10-2018 10:25am

kneemos wrote: »

Very egalitarian in fairness. Would have thought they'd have a VIP service.

They do but it's only for VIP's

TheValeyard · 13-10-2018 10:29am

RustyNut wrote: »

How much should we charge to take him back?

How much that bailout cost again?

Fighting Tao · 13-10-2018 10:33am

Should we all start threads on what ex-politician we see where?

Sunny Disposition · 13-10-2018 10:35am

Cowan was lucky he didn’t get a clip around the ear. No way he deserves to be skipping queues in the Chinese embassy.

Ulysses Gaze · 13-10-2018 10:47am

SeaFields · 13-10-2018 10:48am

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Should we all start threads on what ex-politician we see where?

I saw Joan Burton on Thurs.

TheValeyard · 13-10-2018 10:54am

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Should we all start threads on what ex-politician we see where?

I saw Leo on Friday

Riesen_Meal · 13-10-2018 11:06am

One day I was standing outside the Sugar Club back when I used to smoke when a taxi pulled up, Cowen hopped out, and took a few photos of a pile of black binbags piled up on the street, hopped back in the taxi and that was that...

Edgware · 13-10-2018 11:09am

SeaFields wrote: »

I saw Joan Burton on Thurs.

I saw Howlin in Lr Abbey St drinking a cup of coffee. He looks like a twat in real life too. I thought that was only the telly image

Odhinn · 13-10-2018 12:03pm

SeaFields wrote: »

I saw Joan Burton on Thurs.

not good, but better than having heard her.

thebaz · 13-10-2018 12:09pm

hope he is not going to China to give them economic advice - my advice to them if so , listen and do the opposite.

TCM · 13-10-2018 12:12pm

TheBully wrote:

We all had good times and plenty of dosh when Bertie was in charge

No lots of people had good time which I paid for.

kneemos · 13-10-2018 12:17pm

TCM wrote: »

No lots of people had good time which I paid for.

Thanks T.

Fighting Tao · 13-10-2018 12:49pm

SeaFields wrote: »

I saw Joan Burton on Thurs.

Stop trying to steal the OPs thunder and start your own thread!

Odhinn · 13-10-2018 1:00pm

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Stop trying to steal the OPs thunder and start your own thread!

Easy now, he's probably traumatised enough as it is.

KevinCavan · 13-10-2018 1:05pm

Spotted at Chinese restaurant in Offaly more like.

Atoms for Peace · 13-10-2018 1:05pm

Explains everything OP! Obviously Clowen was a Chinese mole all along, placed in the government to bring down the Irish economy and via the domino effect the entire EU.
But of course the Chinese plans were thwarted, as the never figured in the fact that the Irish were such good boys that they'll take the full burden of the banks themselves. :pac:

Zorya · 13-10-2018 2:07pm

That queue at the Chinese Embassy is madness. It is far better to pay one of the visa companies that few extra bob to get your visa for you and post it to you. Faster, no traveling into the city, no mistakes on the form, best value for a few quid extra ever. Surprised Cowen did not do that.

I have haphazardly met some 'famous' people. For example Mary McAleese rolled down the window and shouted hellooooooo and waved cheerily to me as her limo drove slowly past on her way to the Patrick's Day Parade one year, and I skulking down a side street completely on my own with my gob wrapped awkwardly around a messy coleslaw sandwich. I said ''Gnnfffyayhe, Mawy'' back to her trying to be polite and waved with my elbow.

SeaFields · 13-10-2018 2:30pm

Odhinn wrote: »

Easy now, he's probably traumatised enough as it is.

Still posting via the fetal position

Zebra3 · 13-10-2018 4:59pm

Any chance Biffo and Bertie might partake of a visit to a Saudi embassy?

13-10-2018 5:03pm

In other news, Martin Callinan was stricken by conscience.

Odhinn · 13-10-2018 5:04pm

Deleted User wrote: »

In other news, Martin Callinan was stricken by conscience.

Worried there was another life he didn't successfully ruin?

AllGunsBlazing · 13-10-2018 6:42pm

Chinese Embassy?! Hmm.. sounds like he's abandoning ship.

Bailout 2, here we come!

NewbridgeIR · 13-10-2018 6:44pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHZ6ed_eco

5uspect · 13-10-2018 6:57pm

Several years ago, summer 2012, I was flying from Heathrow to San Francisco. I saw Brian Cowen walking through the terminal and it turned out he was on my flight and was sitting just behind me in economy.

Anyway we eventually landed and had to go through emigration. There was a long serpentine queue and he was a good bit behind me but our paths would meet as the queue moved. Anyhow as soon as we came face to face I delivered as cold and as unfriendly, “Mr Cowan” greeting as I could. He mumbled something like “Howya lads” even though I was travelling on my own.

The airport was busy and the queue was long. It turned out that they had run out of those little emigration forms. I was given one by the lady at the Virgin check in desk back in London. People were starting to murmur and you could see staff starting to realise what was going on and people without forms began to exit the queue. The queue continued and as Cowan and I came face to face again he asked me if I knew where to get a form. I replied something about picking up one in London but to this day I regret saying something cutting like, “oh Mr Taoieseach, I planned ahead.”

Turns out he was attending some leadership course in Stanford. I was also there for a workshop. I had all my camera gear with me, could have traded the academic life for a pap.

Working class heroes · 13-10-2018 7:32pm

Was he....”going forward “

DEFTLEFTHAND · 13-10-2018 8:26pm

He reminds me a lot of Baker Mayfield.

imme · 14-10-2018 9:12am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He reminds me a lot of Baker Mayfield.

The 6'1" brown eyed 23 year old bearded American footballer?

Richard Hillman · 14-10-2018 9:33am

"Is this the embassy grill?"
"No, it's the Chinese Embassy"
"Can I get a bag of chips, battered sausage and can of coke"
"No, this is the Chinese Embassy"
"Oh ok. Can I get Cantonese Chicken, fried rice and a can of coke".

Sgt Hartman · 14-10-2018 9:42am

Not a politician but I was standing behind Brendan O'Connor in the queue in The Wooden Whisk in Talbot Street a couple of years ago. He was wearing a huge set of earphones attached to his phone. He pointed at a cake and asked how much it was. When the guy behind the counter told him the price he just stormed out of the shop like a bullet.

skooterblue2 · 14-10-2018 11:02am

Shower Doctor wrote: »

Was he looking for a three in one?

Thread of the Day!!! More Likely a 6 in bucket with wontons on the side.

Sunny Disposition · 14-10-2018 11:53am

Really was a terrible time when Cowennwas Taoiseach, what an insufferable, useless bollocks.

Brian Cowen spotted at Chinese Embassy

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