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The Fall of Ireland

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    #32
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,815 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    1990sman wrote: »
    we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

    Looks like you smoked a lot yesterday

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #33
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Looks like you smoked a lot yesterday


    nay


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    #34
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,001 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #35
    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭fillup


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


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    #36
    AlphaDelta1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭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.


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    #37
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    1990sman wrote: »
    we're goin down lads, smoke em if ya got em!

    Not at 50c a pack more


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    #38
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,806 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    stoneill wrote:
    Not at 50c a pack more

    You may need to consider changing your 'supplier'!


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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