The Fall of Ireland

1990sman

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

dxhound2005

George W put it better. "This sucker might go down".

1990sman

well its not lookin good.

Rothko

It's grand

McGinniesta

We're screwed. We'll be living on borrowed money for years if not decades.

At least we had the celtic tiger the last time we all lived on borrowed money.

This time we'll have nothing to show for it but the economic car crash that resulted from our reaction to this corona virus.

Gregor Samsa

I hate these Americanisms.

It’s autumn.

Snotty

Would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?

For Forks Sake

Snotty wrote: »

Would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?

Yes I would Kent

dxhound2005

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I hate these Americanisms.

It’s autumn.

Autumn vs. fall
Fall and autumn are both accepted and widely used terms for the season that comes between summer and winter. Some who consider British English the only true English regard fall as an American barbarism, but this attitude is not well founded. Fall is in fact an old term for the season, originating in English in the 16th century or earlier. It was originally short for fall of the year or fall of the leaf, but it commonly took the one-word form by the 17th century, long before the development of American English. So while the term is now widely used in the U.S., it is not exclusively American, nor is it American in origin.



Anyway it will be grand, and there won't be a word about it this time next year.

punisher5112

Matt Damon

looksee

Season of mists smokes and mellow fruitfulness.

Is that what the OP is on about?

punisher5112

looksee wrote: »

Season of mists smokes and mellow fruitfulness.

Is that what the OP is on about?

Matt BLEEDIN Damon

1990sman

1990sman

The (Down)Fall of Ireland

gently rolling hills of dislocating shoulders
chirping charlatans in the trees
all the lakes are cancelled
for imaginary disease


*thank you

Church on Tuesday

1990sman wrote: »

The (Down)Fall of Ireland

gently rolling hills of dislocating shoulders
chirping charlatans in the trees
all the lakes are cancelled
for imaginary disease


*thank you

:rolleyes:

TuringBot47

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

Only the under educated lower classes are going down, the rest of us will continue just fine.

I caught an RTE news item saying there was only a drop of 2% in income tax takings recently. So anyone on Covid payment probably wasn't contributing anything significant to society anyway.

So from some peoples perspective and their social circles, their limited world is falling down.

This is it

McGinniesta wrote: »

We're screwed. We'll be living on borrowed money for years if not decades.

So no different than previous years and decades... Grand so.

1990sman

ah the illness that tells u u dont have it

classic

Your Face

As long as I get to kill someone.

El_Duderino 09

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Only the under educated lower classes are going down, the rest of us will continue just fine.

I caught an RTE news item saying there was only a drop of 2% in income tax takings recently. So anyone on Covid payment probably wasn't contributing anything significant to society anyway.

So from some peoples perspective and their social circles, their limited world is falling down.

Those people probably weren't paying much tax but that's not the same as contributing to society. I don't even know if it's the main way to contribute to society.

If a person's social circle and their "limited world" is falling down, that's pretty significant for them.

If the poor part of town has loads of people made redundant, that's not good for anyone. Even from a selfish point of view, that's not good. That's the perfect breeding ground for social problems in the longer term. The choices are to either help those areas get back on their feet or deal with the increased social problems, worklessness, drugs etc. further down the line.

Montage of Feck

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

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

punisher5112

Where

IAMAMORON

I think we need a rebrand personally.

bnt

Compared to the UK or the USA, Ireland is looking like a beacon of relative stability in the world right now. The problems with immigrants here are small beer compared to France or Germany, and Central Europe has much higher COVID-19 infection rates. There is so much more that could be going wrong here that isn’t.

Danzy

McGinniesta wrote: »

We're screwed. We'll be living on borrowed money for years if not decades.

At least we had the celtic tiger the last time we all lived on borrowed money.

This time we'll have nothing to show for it but the economic car crash that resulted from our reaction to this corona virus.

That's not true though.

1990sman

very little support for us amongst our own, all sold out, not looking great tbh.

Snotty

1990sman wrote: »

all sold out, not looking great tbh.

Don't worry new stock will be in just in time for Christmas!

Kylta

This must be were all the pessimists come to post. Well all except the guy who wants to eat brains, at least he's optimistic about his food source. Actually although of topic. If you ate an optimistic brain you get good ideas from it, where if you ate a pessimistic brain you couldn't be arsed about anything!

Limerick Native

If you get the soup you will be grand.....

JasonStatham

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

I'm doing great.

Kylta

JasonStatham wrote: »

I'm doing great.

To be truthful so am I

Annasopra

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

Looks like you smoked a lot yesterday

1990sman

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Looks like you smoked a lot yesterday

nay

Jim2007

McGinniesta wrote: »

We're screwed. We'll be living on borrowed money for years if not decades.

That would be like all the debt we were going to be lumbered with for generations in 2007... the same debt we almost halved in 12 years.... from 124% per capita to 58%! Ranking us right up there with the likes of Germany.

And this should not come as a surprise, we’ve been a net exporter for over 30 years and as one of my Swiss colleagues keeps pointing out - if you are continuously selling more that you are buying you will eventually work yourself out of any financial difficulties.

Ireland does not have an insolvency problem, it’s got a liquidity problem and a decade after this is over we’ll have worked our way out of it.

fillup

Dang, I tought this was going to be a thread about an Irish Mark E Smith tribute band.

AlphaDelta1

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Only the under educated lower classes are going down, the rest of us will continue just fine.

I caught an RTE news item saying there was only a drop of 2% in income tax takings recently. So anyone on Covid payment probably wasn't contributing anything significant to society anyway.

So from some peoples perspective and their social circles, their limited world is falling down.

Those people in the lower classes wipe your mothers and fathers arses in nursing homes, they clean your schools, they drive your buses, they clean your streets, they work for a pittance minding your kids in creche.

If you are going to insult them by saying they don't contribute to society at the very least they and sound intelligent in the process.

stoneill

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

Not at 50c a pack more

Wanderer78

stoneill wrote:

Not at 50c a pack more

You may need to consider changing your 'supplier'!

1990sman

1990sman wrote: »

we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

Ah, the post oral sex smoke. Great thread and the women of Ireland thank you.