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What industry is dodgier than most people realize?

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  • #32
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Phone/repair shops are largely a front for drugs and prostitution I hear...


  • #33
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Re government/public sector contracts - no shock to learn that jobsireland is in the news again.

    http://www.google.ie/url?q=https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/0707/888417-recruitment-website-government/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiPqZjrqvfUAhVHL8AKHdf7DJAQqQIIEygAMAA&usg=AFQjCNEKCNCh-n7cA0qm6nxNEctHRdyskg


  • #34
    RedTie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭RedTie


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    The Game Console HARDWARE industry. Examples like the Atari Jaguar and Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 3D.
    Why has nobody replied to my thread here on the Ataribox? Why? :(
    Grrr...


    This is the second post in this thread regarding about the Gaming industry that doesnt tell us a whole lot at all.

    Care to elaborate?


  • #35
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Insurance


  • #36
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    The Game Console HARDWARE industry.

    This is simply planned obsolescence in a fast moving competitive industry.

    If your next console hasn't got 4k VR and 360 Atmos sound capabilities it will quickly loose it's value.


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  • #37
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Those stupid speakers that constantly record everything you say for 'convince'.

    If you feel the need to constantly add things to a shopping list, here's an idea: pen & notepaper.
    If you need to know the weather look out the window.


  • #38
    RedTie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭RedTie


    Francis Scary Southerner wrote: »
    This is simply planned obsolescence in a fast moving competitive industry.

    If your next console hasn't got 4k VR and 360 Atmos sound capabilities it will quickly loose it's value.


    Speaking of planned obsolescence. If you own an Apple device you should try hold out updating your iOS for as long as possible. Most updates completely fúck up older devices.

    Source: updated my Ipad 2 and it slowed it down, It's still usable but I'll never update an Apple device again.


  • #39
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Charities . .


  • #40
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Going by recent scandals and revelations I'd say the charity industry has a few skeletons in the closet.


  • #41
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Librarians - I've seen them snigger when paying overdue fees


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  • #42
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Drumpot wrote: »
    Charities . .

    Great minds think alike.
    Beat me to it by a minute.


  • #43
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    seanrambo87 wrote: »
    Agreed scumlord and conorhal, there is an obscene amount of money being washed down the drain. It's all done with a smile and a wink and it p1sses me off no end to watch how our tax money is being spent.

    While we're at it, the civil service in general is appalling, obscene money being spent on top tier wages and pensions and all off the back of the private sector workers. I do not include essential services in this I reckon they should be paid more, however this is probably not the right place to vent about it.

    Scraping along near the bottom....

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-civil-service-ranks-close-to-bottom-in-review-of-31-countries-796794.html


  • #44
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    Dodge ball bitches


  • #45
    gizmo81
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭gizmo81


    Rickshaw Driving

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/exclusive-rickshaw-drivers-selling-weed-cocaine-and-pills-while-working-in-city-centre-35232697.html

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/conviction-of-brazilian-rickshaw-driver-for-drug-dealing-prompts-warning-by-judge-796720.html

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057104504


  • #46
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Management Companies in apartment and housing complexes

    so many of them controlled by the original developer


  • #47
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Augeo wrote: »
    Apologies, 2nd hand car dealers in that area.
    Second-hand car dealers in general, never mind in that area.

    That's not to say they're all dodgy, but they amount of them that are fronts that launder drug money, that clock cars, that take in stolen vehicles, would blow your mind.

    Even the respectable ones are routinely involved in sales trickery around cash prices and trade-ins to hide income from the tax man. That's why the cash price is cheaper and why when you trade in your car, it'll appear for sale in some other dealership on the other side of the city next week.


  • #48
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Banking. Rotten to the core. Lies and embellishment left right and centre to get money from ya. Mortgage = death grip in Latin.

    Yeah but who doesn't realise that banking is dodgy?


  • #49
    223vmax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭223vmax


    Solicitors/Barristers.


  • #50
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    I'd say em lads that buy your old cloths are fairly dodge.


  • #51
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    RedTie wrote: »
    I'm sure certain chinese take-aways, certain restaurants etc must have some awful behind the scenes practices. I haven't ordered a chinese in years after the last one tasted like rubber covered in curry sauce.
    I was in my local Chinese takeaway in Stillorgan yesterday.
    Two food inspectors were getting into their paper overalls and caps before going into the kitchen.
    I'm sure all food businesses are inspected regularly. If they were not well run they would be closed.

    I've been a customer for 35 years and never had a problem.


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  • #52
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Financial advisers (including those in banks).
    They sign you up for long-term investments and take an up-front commission of about 15%, and probably a little each year.
    You are not buying expertise, you are buying reassurance.
    It will be years before you know what happened, if ever.


  • #53
    RedTie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭RedTie


    diomed wrote: »
    I was in my local Chinese takeaway in Stillorgan yesterday.
    Two food inspectors were getting into their paper overalls and caps before going into the kitchen.
    I'm sure all food businesses are inspected regularly. If they were not well run they would be closed.

    I've been a customer for 35 years and never had a problem.


    Chinese takeaways in general are not good for you regardless of them passing hygiene tests. It's the shíte that goes into them or the source of their "meat" (I use the term loosely) that you shouldn't put into your body.


  • #54
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    RedTie wrote: »
    Chinese takeaways in general are not good for you regardless of them passing hygiene tests. It's the shíte that goes into them or the source of their "meat" (I use the term loosely) that you shouldn't put into your body.
    I have not eaten red meat for the last forty years.
    Yesterday I bought a chicken meal. It was chicken. I could see it was chicken. It tasted like chicken.
    The other sh1te was rice, onion, and other vegetables.

    What is the source of you "information"?
    Have you bought and analysed some meals?


  • #55
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Hairdressing. The amount of tax fiddling that goes on...


  • #56
    draiochtanois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


    This post has been deleted.


  • #57
    oblivious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    gynecologist


  • #58
    mikeybrennan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    hot dog sales


  • #59
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    draiochtanois wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    These "urban myths" are childish.
    Where would you get a steady supply of rabbits, seagulls, crows, cats, or any of the other imaginary beasts?
    The first time I head this rubbish was from a country boy who was working in our office in the early 1970s in Dublin in his first job.
    I asked him had he ever eaten a Chinese meal. No. But he was an expert on the contents.


  • #60
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    The Game Console HARDWARE industry. Examples like the Atari Jaguar and Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 3D.
    Why has nobody replied to my thread here on the Ataribox? Why? :(
    Grrr...

    So that's what that is. Went completely over my head.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    RedTie wrote: »
    Chinese takeaways in general are not good for you regardless of them passing hygiene tests. It's the shíte that goes into them or the source of their "meat" (I use the term loosely) that you shouldn't put into your body.

    :rolleyes:


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