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Nothing but the same old story

  • 24-10-2017 03:56PM
    #1
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭


    A line from a great song by Paul Brady.
    My questions are -
    1. Current problems in Ireland are they just repeats of earlier times?
    E.g. Housing shortage/costs
    Health services
    Banks screwing customers among other things

    2. Do other countries have same or similar or worse?
    Rise of right wing in European countries
    Brexit debacle in UK
    Trump
    Catalonia

    I appreciate that some people think Brexit is good and ditto Trump


Comments

  • #2
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    So, this is the Megathread then?


  • #3
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭PMBC


    me_irl wrote: »
    So, this is the Megathread then?

    I don't know cos I don't know what a Megathread is.


  • #4
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Ditto yourself me oul' pal


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What has been is what will be,
    and has been done is what will be done;
    and there is nothing new under the sun....
    If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd, Which labouring for invention bear amiss The second burthen of a former child. Oh that record...

    And despite what many in the country seem to think, we are no better and no worse than most other countries.


  • #6
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    The more things change the more they stay the same!!

    A great line from a MachineHead song...


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  • #7
    fxotoole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    PMBC wrote: »
    A line from a great song by Paul Brady.
    My questions are -
    1. Current problems in Ireland are they just repeats of earlier times?
    E.g. Housing shortage/costs
    Health services
    Banks screwing customers among other things

    2. Do other countries have same or similar or worse?
    Rise of right wing in European countries
    Brexit debacle in UK
    Trump
    Catalonia

    I appreciate that some people think Brexit is good and ditto Trump

    No use in asking; the answer is nobody knows.


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