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What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

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  • 14-02-2021 3:48pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭Ruggabugga101


    Bank bail outs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Stay off Facepuke.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Irish Water.
    New Children's Hospital.


  • Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Millennium Clock -voting machines -iodine tablets-COVID tracker app and prob in a few years that kayak water thing that’s being pushed forward in Dublin.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    E mac wrote: »
    Millennium Clock -voting machines -iodine tablets-COVID tracker app and prob in a few years that kayak water thing that’s being pushed forward in Dublin.

    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.

    How has it proved value for money ? If it was working it would still be promoted by powers that be instead it seems forgotten about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭jmlad2020


    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.

    Covid Tracker App doesn't work in Northern Ireland. Considering Donegal shares 95% of it's border with Northern Ireland, (and not to mention the other border counties-where cases where highest) contact tracing went to the dogs in these regions.

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.


  • Registered Users Posts: 150 ✭✭Bill G


    The Seanad


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Social Housing.

    Burning the money would be more beneficial to society.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    jmlad2020 wrote: »

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.

    Stephen was great to tell us how many people downloaded but he never really mentions how many people actively uses it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    NGOs


  • Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Stephen was great to tell us how many people downloaded but he never really mentions how many people actively uses it.

    To be fair New Zealand is the only country that’s seems to have a working successful app.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,238 ✭✭✭Esse85


    Harry McGuire


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,327 ✭✭✭✭fits


    There’s a page on Instagram called ugly Irish houses. It’s amazing what some spend money on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Children's hospital
    National broadband scheme


  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this

    There are limits but some just ignore them it seems


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this

    I think it depends on the graveyard!


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Fernando Torres to Chelsea back in the day


  • Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Fernando Torres to Chelsea back in the day

    Or anywhere he went after Liverpool....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    Esse85 wrote: »
    Harry McGuire

    I'm going to wait a few minutes before I agree...


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I've been looking at websites of wedding decor suppliers and my God, the amount of tacky rubbish some people spend their money on. Flower walls, bird cages, fake trees, bikes, photobooths, doughnut walls.

    All rotten looking.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    jmlad2020 wrote: »
    Covid Tracker App doesn't work in Northern Ireland. Considering Donegal shares 95% of it's border with Northern Ireland, (and not to mention the other border counties-where cases where highest) contact tracing went to the dogs in these regions.

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.
    Firstly, the Irish and NI tracker apps are compatible with each other as far as I know, they were developed by the same Irish company (who also developed apps for several other countries and US states). Secondly, almost 110,000 used the app today alone which seems to be a fairly consistent figure.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been looking at websites of wedding decor suppliers and my God, the amount of tacky rubbish some people spend their money on. Flower walls, bird cages, fake trees, bikes, photobooths, doughnut walls.

    All rotten looking.


    Both of your examples seem alright to me, in the grand scheme.. although I do agree with your general sentiment about weddings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    RTE


  • Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    Esse85 wrote: »
    Harry McGuire
    SnazzyPig wrote: »
    I'm going to wait a few minutes before I agree...
    I agree.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,835 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    E mac wrote: »
    How has it proved value for money ? If it was working it would still be promoted by powers that be instead it seems forgotten about.

    So it's a waste of money because they didn't spend even more money on promoting it?

    You know how many other places have taken the Irish app and re-used it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,374 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Buying coffee/ tea and lunch every day at work instead of taking your lunch with you 3-4 days a week. Cigarettes as well. Both are within your personal scope to not waste money on

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

    That's pretty cool.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭piplip87


    I've a mate, earns good money but he blows thousands on FIFA points every year. More often than not I end up with a better team than him. I mean it's an addiction at this stage for him.


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