Irish granny moans about no snow on Santa trip

klaaaz · 28-11-2018 07:14PM #1

This is an example of the wealthy entitled brigade who have €6.5k to spare to splash out on a snow holiday and yet rings that eejit Duffy to complain about the lack of snow.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-snow-in-lapland-irish-nana-sold-short-after-spending-65k-on-trip-to-see-santa-888565.html

Mary said that she bought the trip for her grandkids as their Christmas present and they were "going off to see Santy."

She feels she is being sold short and is going to go anyway as otherwise, she will lose her money regardless.

She feels "the shine has gone off it".

Toughshivsky, alot of poor kids living in poverty can only dream of Santa giving them food parcels to help them get through a hungry Xmas.

ted1 · 28-11-2018 07:18PM

klaaaz wrote: »

This is an example of the wealthy entitled brigade who have €6.5k to spare to splash out on a snow holiday and yet rings that eejit Duffy to complain about the lack of snow.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-snow-in-lapland-irish-nana-sold-short-after-spending-65k-on-trip-to-see-santa-888565.html

Toughshivsky, alot of poor kids living in poverty can only dream of Santa giving them food parcels to help them get through a hungry Xmas.

Do you expect people to apologise fir having money.?
No matter what happens in the workd there will always be those that have and those that don’t

The real narrative is granny who flies around the world with kids complains about global warming!!

Gimme A Pound · 28-11-2018 07:20PM

Goes on Joe Duffy to complain about the weather.

Mother of god, now that's an example of apt cause to call someone a snowflake.

A grown woman who is at least middle aged. There is a good bit of infantilisation going on in this society.

Raheem Euro · 28-11-2018 07:21PM

The joe duffy thread today was hilarious reading.

whisky_galore · 28-11-2018 07:25PM

Will she sue when she finds out Santy doesn't really exist?

Gimme A Pound · 28-11-2018 07:25PM

ted1 wrote: »

Do you expect people to apologise fir having money.?
No matter what happens in the workd there will always be those that have and those that don’t

The real narrative is granny who flies around the world with kids complains about global warming!!

That poster is always complaining about people who have the audacity to work hard and do well financially.

However they have a point about the whiny behaviour for a ridiculous reason - and actually going on a national radio show about it! Mortifying.

The show's team are nearly as bad for entertaining it - although they probably just did so for the laugh.

CinemaGuy45 · 28-11-2018 07:26PM

Joe Stuffy is being well paid at our expense to host this cr*p the granny is probably a plant.

Don't need Joe Scruffy or Pat Scrubty or any other of the high paid Montrose brigade that we are forced to pay for setting my talking points.

darlett · 28-11-2018 07:26PM

ted1 wrote: »

Do you expect people to apologise fir having money.?
No matter what happens in the workd there will always be those that have and those that don’t

The real narrative is granny who flies around the world with kids complains about global warming!!

If she paid for the holiday with her chump change or coupons this story would still be about her having more money/coupons than cop-on.

Gimme A Pound · 28-11-2018 07:28PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Joe Stuffy is being well paid at our expense to host this cr*p the granny is probably a plant.

Yeah was thinking that could be the case - although wouldn't be surprised if she was for real.

AllForIt · 28-11-2018 07:29PM

Sorry what? 6.5K on a santa vacation. Erm, do they actually get to meet the real Santa?

CinemaGuy45 · 28-11-2018 07:31PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Sorry what? 6.5K on a santa vacation. Erm, do they actually get to meet the real Santa?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 28-11-2018 07:33PM

Totally stupid thing to ring Liveline about (well, that’s what Liveline is for, complaining about stupid things).

But, in fairness, it is hard luck that there’s a lack of snow in Lapland coming into December. You’d kinda bank on it.

Edgware · 28-11-2018 07:33PM

klaaaz wrote: »

This is an example of the wealthy entitled brigade who have €6.5k to spare to splash out on a snow holiday and yet rings that eejit Duffy to complain about the lack of snow.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-snow-in-lapland-irish-nana-sold-short-after-spending-65k-on-trip-to-see-santa-888565.html

Toughshivsky, alot of poor kids living in poverty can only dream of Santa giving them food parcels to help them get through a hungry Xmas.

The point to note of course that it is not only the wealthy entitled brigade that do this trip. Plenty of the usual welfare heads manage to do it " for the kids"
Reminds me of the spongers who used being queuing up on Christmas day outside travel agencies to avail of so called bargain trips to Benidorm.

The Satanist · 28-11-2018 07:34PM

If I owned a strip club, I'd make it Christmas- themed and call it Lapland.

Moany Mary would not be welcomed there either.

28-11-2018 07:36PM

Crazy money to spend going to Finland!
Sure you can get return flights for under 200 Euro.

kneemos · 28-11-2018 07:38PM

Six and a half grand for 36 hours should be what she's complaining about.

malinheader · 28-11-2018 07:40PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Sorry what? 6.5K on a santa vacation. Erm, do they actually get to meet the real Santa?

Worse than that it's only a 36 hour holiday for that price.

malinheader · 28-11-2018 07:44PM

bubblypop wrote: »

Crazy money to spend going to Finland!
Sure you can get return flights for under 200 Euro.

Another caller got return flights for herself her husband and 2 kids for 8 hundred or so by booking the trip herself and leaving out the middle man

Fann Linn · 28-11-2018 07:44PM

malinheader wrote: »

Worse than that it's only a 36 hour holiday for that price.

A gob****e of the highest order, but in mitigation, she works for a living and paid every week into the travel agent for her trip.
Whatever floats your boat.

Jeff2 · 28-11-2018 07:47PM

She said on the radio that the grandkids were listening into the show.

Later she said she wanted to take them while they still believed in Santa.

So now there's no snow and possibly kids that don't believe in Santa.

Edgware · 28-11-2018 07:48PM

Fann Linn wrote: »

A gob****e of the highest order, but in mitigation, she works for a living and paid every week into the travel agent for her trip.
Whatever floats your boat.

Deserves to be ripped off

Franz Von Peppercorn · 28-11-2018 07:49PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Will she sue when she finds out Santy doesn't really exist?

Spoiler please.

branie2 · 28-11-2018 07:51PM

Snow or not, I'd still go to Lapland, regardless.

dr.fuzzenstein · 28-11-2018 07:54PM

The Satanist wrote: »

If I owned a strip club, I'd make it Christmas- themed and call it Lapland.

Moany Mary would not be welcomed there either.

Bet she would if she spent over 6 grand on snow. Not to be sniffed at. Alt least she'd be guaranteed a good time.

28-11-2018 08:01PM

klaaaz wrote: »

This is an example of the wealthy entitled brigade who have €6.5k to spare to splash out on a snow holiday and yet rings that eejit Duffy to complain about the lack of snow.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-snow-in-lapland-irish-nana-sold-short-after-spending-65k-on-trip-to-see-santa-888565.html

Toughshivsky, alot of poor kids living in poverty can only dream of Santa giving them food parcels to help them get through a hungry Xmas.

Some people have their value system completely warped.

Idbatterim · 28-11-2018 08:17PM

kneemos wrote: »

Six and a half grand for 36 hours should be what she's complaining about.

you beat me to it! W! T! F?!!!!

mvl · 28-11-2018 08:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Some people have their value system completely warped.

It sounds like it.
In a way I get it: some ppl are into making all type of memories, at any cost. Actually, this is first year when I know someone going to Lapland - when they told us, I couldn't comment anything decent; but was so glad to hear my 10yo is not impressed.

There is something I wonder: does this granny story have any chance of beating Tullamore's "drop dead" coffee owner media storm ?

28-11-2018 08:45PM

She could easily have made up a little package for several nights to Swedish Lapland, with hotel and flights, eg https://www.expedia.ie/Hotel-Search?packageType=fh&searchProduct=hotel&c=bdb4ad87-d3fc-4cbd-8e0f-759656efed35&adults=1&children=1_10,1_8&originId=4347204&ftla=DUB&destination=Kiruna,+Sweden+(KRN)&destinationId=6029328&ttla=KRN&startDate=4/12/2018&endDate=8/12/2018&sort=recommended&tripType=ROUND_TRIP&misId=ec40a186-4fa0-421f-8545-48884dd1951f

Cheaper, and for several days. Of course there’s Santa etc to pay for on top of that, but Kiruna is a lot easier on the pocket than Rovaniemi, but it has all the same ingredients for a trip to Lapland.

Church on Tuesday · 28-11-2018 08:46PM

ted1 wrote: »

Do you expect people to apologise fir having money.?
No matter what happens in the workd there will always be those that have and those that don’t

The real narrative is granny who flies around the world with kids complains about global warming!!

Yeah but I find in most cases that these kinds of people lost grip with reality a long time ago.

One lad was on here about how it was perfectly normal for ordinary folk to go around in 800 euro jackets...

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-11-2018 08:48PM

He doesn't even live in Lapland ffs.

Those Finns are a bunch of con artists.

kneemos · 28-11-2018 08:50PM

Could have had a week in Disneyland for half the cost.

Irish granny moans about no snow on Santa trip

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