Does anyone miss the recession ?

Jobs OXO · 24-12-2017 12:01AM #1

Boom time is back. Hordes of people speanding money like water. Crowds everywhere. Can't get dinner reservations. Shoddy service from staff who don't care. People property or bitcoin obsessed. I miss the recession.....

tomwaterford · 24-12-2017 12:03AM

I do miss the 3 euro recession sessions in masons

All drinks 3 euro....crowds rough and rowdy af....but worth it for the savings

Harry Palmr · 24-12-2017 12:05AM

Bitcoin is the new Bulgarian resort property.

Jobs OXO · 24-12-2017 12:05AM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Bitcoin is the new Bulgarian resort property.

It actually is

Ulysses Gaze · 24-12-2017 12:06AM

Jobs OXO wrote: »

Boom time is back. Hordes of people speanding money like water. Crowds everywhere. Can't get dinner reservations. Shoddy service from staff who don't care. People property or bitcoin obsessed. I miss the recession.....

Bitcoin is Fool's Gold.

Snotty · 24-12-2017 12:09AM

Yeah I do miss it a bit, it brought a lot of stuck up pricks back down to earth, but they're all away again, with their white jeeps and "active ware"

leggo · 24-12-2017 12:17AM

I miss being able to impress women by virtue of just having a job.

I don't miss every unemployable knob I know posting daily Facebook advice about working out because they did a couple week course to be a personal trainer.

scwazrh · 24-12-2017 12:18AM

Its amazing how quick people have forgotten what it was like to be skint.A few yrs ago a 6 or 7 yr old car paid for in cash was a sensible buy, now nothing but a new german car on pcp is good enough.

Solomon Pleasant · 24-12-2017 12:41AM

Noticed an interesting contrast between this thread and the usual one which crops up.

Usually, people are berating the high cost of living and how wages haven’t increased to match that cost of living. Rent, running a car and various methods of discretionary expenditure are constantly being cited on this site as ways in which people are struggling.

This thread is quite the contrast. Apparently, the Celtic tiger is back and buying Bitcoin is seen as fashionable and wise (which it isn’t).

bazz26 · 24-12-2017 12:41AM

Don't worry I'm sure it will make a return again.

listermint · 24-12-2017 12:44AM

bazz26 wrote: »

Don't worry I'm sure it will make a return again.

Make a return?

Flagrant spending.

Top of the allowable mortgages.

New cars.

New watches

Trips the the states a few times a year.

Eating out every week.

Boom is back baby .

There are many never learned.

JimmyMcGill · 24-12-2017 12:47AM

I never miss a session. Last one I was on was a funeral on Friday got home the Monday.
Turns out it was a "procession afterwards" they said.

bear1 · 24-12-2017 12:54AM

Well I can't see how anyone would miss such a depressing event.
Usc introduced, troika down the government's back all the time, the start of the water charges fiasco, no investments in well anything really.
Massive unemployment and emigration.
Crippling debt placed on us all for the banking guarantee.
People worrying from one day to the next if their jobs would be still there and long queues for the dole office.
Yeah miss that to bits.

B.A._Baracus · 24-12-2017 12:58AM

Honestly it's not a boom period yet.
Still hard to get jobs. Not like before recession where a lot of places were crying for staff.

JupiterKid · 24-12-2017 01:00AM

I was in Dundrum Town Centre this evening and judging from all the recently bought shiny 161, 162, 171 and 172 reg cars and the amount of shopping bags people were carrying, the "good times" are well and truly back.

Cold comfort to the homeless families who are living in hotel rooms or B&Bs.

dasdog · 24-12-2017 01:06AM

Budgets being dictated outside of Leinster House and the influence of Unions. I miss that aspect of overlord IMF control. And the empty shopping centres. And Tarquin and wife talking about their home in Cape Verde suddenly finding themselves massively in debt. Michael Noonan, the minister for AIB and Bank of Ireland has retired. Job done.

wakka12 · 24-12-2017 01:06AM

I hate that society doesn't seem to be any more careful with money. its turned back into the exact same shallow money obsessed privileged society it was in the celtic tiger. The years of hardship every sector of society suffered and complained about daily is forgotten, completely business as usual, just crazy!

server down · 24-12-2017 01:06AM

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Noticed an interesting contrast between this thread and the usual one which crops up.

Usually, people are berating the high cost of living and how wages haven’t increased to match that cost of living. Rent, running a car and various methods of discretionary expenditure are constantly being cited on this site as ways in which people are struggling.

This thread is quite the contrast. Apparently, the Celtic tiger is back and buying Bitcoin is seen as fashionable and wise (which it isn’t).

I dint see your point. Rent was cheaper in the recession for sure. I rented a two bed for 800. The last place I rented before I owned.

Solomon Pleasant · 24-12-2017 01:13AM

server down wrote: »

I dint see your point. Rent was cheaper in the recession for sure. I rented a two bed for 800. The last place I rented before I owned.

My point is that usually people are complaining of how tight things are, but this thread shows that perhaps that isn’t the case.

The Oort Cloud · 24-12-2017 01:40AM

This independent trader below does.

Another recession will hit eventually, and to be honest, if people refuse to accept this again this time then it is going to be a lot worse than the last one. The housing crisis we have now will be nothing compared to the next coming recession. The vultures will be everywhere sucking the last bit of fresh air from this country Ireland. I think they have sucked enough already.

I'm not looking forward myself to the next recession, but in saying this, I'm already making plans for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVguW9tin4

LadyMacBeth_ · 24-12-2017 01:40AM

The recession actually made it affordable for me to live in Dublin for a few years, once the recovery started I had to move back to Cork, couldn't afford the rising rents.

House prices are rising.

It's getting more difficult to get tradespeople to call you back or to stick to an appointment.

It's getting more difficult to get a taxi on a night out as places are busier again.

kerrylad1 · 24-12-2017 01:43AM

The early 80,s and mid 90,s in Limerick is something no one wants to see again.thousands lining the streets to sign on.****ing disgrace.

Idbatterim · 24-12-2017 02:45AM

wakka12 wrote: »

I hate that society doesn't seem to be any more careful with money. its turned back into the exact same shallow money obsessed privileged society it was in the celtic tiger. The years of hardship every sector of society suffered and complained about daily is forgotten, completely business as usual, just crazy!

Pensioners and the welfare lifers didn't suffer any / barely any hardship!

nilescraneo · 24-12-2017 03:01AM

Idbatterim wrote: »

Pensioners and the welfare lifers didn't suffer any / barely any hardship!

Ara fcuk off.

ahusband · 24-12-2017 03:22AM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Honestly it's not a boom period yet.
Still hard to get jobs. Not like before recession where a lot of places were crying for staff.

Its not hard for honest hardworking willing individuals to gain employment, there's a wasted generation out there that want top pay for f'all work.

diomed · 24-12-2017 03:42AM

You need a good auld recession to put manners on people.

21Savage · 24-12-2017 04:50AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

I was in Dundrum Town Centre this evening and judging from all the recently bought shiny 161, 162, 171 and 172 reg cars and the amount of shopping bags people were carrying, the "good times" are well and truly back.

Cold comfort to the homeless families who are living in hotel rooms or B&Bs.

It's Christmas. Would have been like that every Christmas in Dundrum over the past decade.

McCrack · 24-12-2017 06:16AM

Jobs OXO wrote: »

Boom time is back. Hordes of people speanding money like water. Crowds everywhere. Can't get dinner reservations. Shoddy service from staff who don't care. People property or bitcoin obsessed. I miss the recession.....

Recession my arse

Duckworth_Luas · 24-12-2017 06:27AM

Some entrepreneur should set up Recessionland theme park for the nostalgic types.

My go-to exhibit would be a mocked up RTE studio with a robotic Pat Kenny on stage (it's actually the real Plank) and some guy in the audience shouting "where's my NAMA?".

GhostyMcGhost · 24-12-2017 06:35AM

What could be better than a chopped every 200m?

I know! ... doughnuts!

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-12-2017 06:55AM

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Does anyone miss the recession ?

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