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Stories from the Celtic Tiger Years *Mod Warning in OP PLEASE READ*

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    #482
    Randy Archer
    Registered Users Posts: 859 ✭✭✭Randy Archer


    Akabusi wrote: »
    I know a guy who set up a pluming business and thought he was billy big balls, had the nice cars and bought several properties, that was all grand but he relished in telling people how rich he was and what he was spending his money on. One of his last big projects was to buy land in the local area and build a mansion on it. The crash came and it never got finished, he owed a lot to local suppliers and they got stung badly, Anyone who could came and stripped the house to get back their items windows, gutters etc. were taken back. It was eventually sold by the bank and got bulldozed. He works in a phone shop now.

    Ha losers like him should never be allowed to forget how he behaved himself and always reminded that he is and always will be a failure


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    #483
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    Randy Archer wrote:
    Ha losers like him should never be allowed to forget how he behaved himself and always reminded that he is and always will be a failure


    Wasnt he on the late late with his then fiancee showing off her engagement ring and him bragging about how much he paid for it.

    A couple of weeks later their house was broken into and it was robbed.

    Oh how i laughed!!!!


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    #484
    Randy Archer
    Registered Users Posts: 859 ✭✭✭Randy Archer


    Akabusi wrote: »
    I know a guy who set up a pluming business and thought he was billy big balls, had the nice cars and bought several properties, that was all grand but he relished in telling people how rich he was and what he was spending his money on. One of his last big projects was to buy land in the local area and build a mansion on it. The crash came and it never got finished, he owed a lot to local suppliers and they got stung badly, Anyone who could came and stripped the house to get back their items windows, gutters etc. were taken back. It was eventually sold by the bank and got bulldozed. He works in a phone shop now.
    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Wasnt he on the late late with his then fiancee showing off her engagement ring and him bragging about how much he paid for it.

    A couple of weeks later their house was broken into and it was robbed.

    Oh how i laughed!!!!

    He’d have fan boys like Barry Egan (a pathetic waste of space , very punchable ) declaring that we are all begrudgers

    Nope, we just don’t think being flash and arrogant is smart. Work hard and earn money legally and honestly , best of luck , but nuveau Riche are ghastly people. Don’t see old money folk boast or remind the world that they are fabulously wealthy

    The odd thing about many of those who got wealth , whether real or borrowed, many came across as extremely TACKY !! They didn’t know how to act like wealthy people


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    #485
    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Randy Archer wrote: »
    They didn’t know how to act like wealthy people

    We need a thread on how to act like the wealthy.


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    #486
    Sunny Disposition
    Registered Users Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    I don't know Kean, but saw him on TV a few times and he did seem like mighty craic tbh. But people don't like flash.


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    #487
    whippet
    Registered Users Posts: 7,674 ✭✭✭whippet


    It was regular enough that as a bunch of lads not being able to get taxis home from the city centre we had a couple of hotels who would be more than willing to let us have a lock in until 6/7am - and it would be bottle after bottle of champagne.

    One or two of the lads were 'developers' - in reality builders with massive banking debts; driving range rovers at 25 years of age - they always footed the bill.

    Some great nights but the absolute waste of money was unreal


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    #488
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,859 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Wasnt he on the late late with his then fiancee showing off her engagement ring and him bragging about how much he paid for it.

    A couple of weeks later their house was broken into and it was robbed.

    Oh how i laughed!!!!

    Was it yourself? :pac:


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    #489
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Wasnt he on the late late with his then fiancee showing off her engagement ring and him bragging about how much he paid for it.

    A couple of weeks later their house was broken into and it was robbed.

    Oh how i laughed!!!!

    Karma?


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    #490
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,904 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Wonder what he's doing now?

    3 to 5 for dealing.


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    #491
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    Zebra3 wrote:
    Was it yourself?


    Ssssssh


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    #492
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,904 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    There was that time Amanda Brunker scorched her f@nny in a champagne bath at The Clarence.

    Gerald Kean, John Maguire and Weddings by Franc played rock, paper, scissors with a loaded revolver to decide who would put cream on it.


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    #493
    Motivator
    Registered Users Posts: 2,760 ✭✭✭Motivator


    Sunny Disposition wrote: »
    I don't know Kean, but saw him on TV a few times and he did seem like mighty craic tbh. But people don't like flash.

    I saw him walking along by Stephens Green one day and he was getting wicked abuse off a group of young lads over the state of his shoes. It was absolutely hilarious watching the big scaldy head on him squirming as he tried to quicken up and get away from them.


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    #494
    lisasimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭lisasimpson


    Remember hearing on the radio back then about parents making deals with their daughter over their Leaving cert result. If she bought her grades from a C to A they would pay for her implants to go from an A to a C.


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    #495
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Anyone who becomes the subject of a Barry Egan article would want to take a long hard look at what they are actually doing in life.


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    #496
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,366 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I live in a county town and I mainly remember some families living beyond there means basically a new Avensis or Passat every year and a holiday and a few breaks during the year. Some of the stuff wouldn't have been flash, flash but simply beyond there means!


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    pyramuid man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭pyramuid man


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    At get-togethers and parties, people (including some acquaintances) bragging about their buy to let properties and investments in places like Bulgaria. I was a bit of a Cassandra at the time, explaining to them just why it was a credit-fueled property bubble not supported by economic fundamentals and would ultimately end in a huge crash and in tears. I must have seemed like a bit of a party pooper to some. Some of them listened to me, but most didn’t or didn’t want to.

    I did manage to persuade two good friends and a friend’s mother into not buying investment properties in Eastern Europe. During the crash, they thanked me.

    In the housing estate I was living in in South Dublin at that same time, many of the neighbours getting new cars and replacing them as often as possible - usually these cars were leased.

    Getting a letter from my bank telling me that I was pre-approved for a €75K loan for anything I wanted. It went straight into the bin.

    David McWilliams... Is that you?


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    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,904 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I live in a county town and I mainly remember some families living beyond there means basically a new Avensis or Passat every year and a holiday and a few breaks during the year. Some of the stuff wouldn't have been flash, flash but simply beyond there means!

    Wow, sounds like the last days if the Roman Empire.

    When they start doing coke through a clarinet off the arses of Maxi, Dick and Twink, let me know.


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    #499
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,046 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I live in a county town and I mainly remember some families living beyond there means basically a new Avensis or Passat every year and a holiday and a few breaks during the year. Some of the stuff wouldn't have been flash, flash but simply beyond there means!
    People trying to outdo their neighbors with bigger TV's, bigger cars and bigger tits.


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    #500
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Wow, sounds like the last days if the Roman Empire.

    When they start doing coke through a clarinet off the arses of Maxi, Dick and Twink, let me know.

    In its own way that sort of excess was as bad though. I knew of a couple out in Coolock who bought new Mondeos every year. Like what's the point? You're down all that money and you're still just in a newer repmobile (no offence meant to Mondeos, solid cars, just hardly dream machines).


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    #501
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Whatever happened Gerard Kean?


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    #502
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,366 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    In its own way that sort of excess was as bad though. I knew of a couple out in Coolock who bought new Mondeos every year. Like what's the point? You're down all that money and you're still just in a newer repmobile (no offence meant to Mondeos, solid cars, just hardly dream machines).

    It was generally the exact same colour and basic trim but it had a new plate!


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    #503
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    People trying to outdo their neighbors with bigger TV's, bigger cars and bigger tits.

    What's wrong with bigger tits?


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    #504
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Weddings by Franc. Did anything ever symbolise the waste of the Celtic Tiger more and the sh1te people did.


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    It was generally the exact same colour and basic trim but it had a new plate!

    My auld fella was one of these. He'd buy it in January, and start hinting at an upgrade over the summer. By November he'd be turning down the radio mid drive going "do you hear that? Something rattling, that's a sign it needs to be changed", then go again. He used cycle everywhere up to 1999, suddenly he was driving to the chipper across the road because he'd "to get petrol anyway".

    He did switch from a Focus ("best car on the road") to an Avensis ("them Fords are $hite") in 2003 which was the most exciting thing to happen in our house for a while. The Avensis came with a free toasted sandwich maker for some reason, and himself sat outside in a rage polishing the interior of a new car while we were all inside scalding our mouths with volcanic cheese. Good times


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    #506
    [Deleted User]
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Whatever happened Gerard Kean?

    the music stopped for poor auld Gerald.


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    #507
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    glasso wrote:
    the music stopped for poor auld Gerald.


    Still practising and coining it in no doubt.


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    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Still practising and coining it in no doubt.

    Could have sworn I read recently he was in financial difficulty, something about not being able to pay the commercial rent on his premises. I may be mistaken.

    I booked a seat on a charter flight to a Man Utd v Liverpool game back in 2010-ish and himself and the missus were on it. Didnt talk to him for long but he seemed pleasant enough.


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    #509
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,596 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Still practising and coining it in no doubt.

    I've met him (Gerald Kean) and he's a really nice, warm, personable guy. Seems to be a common theme with a lot of people that don't have a great public persona.


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    pyramuid man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭pyramuid man


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Thank god ay.

    Although I'm worried at the political parties asking for this to be relaxed.

    Politicians should not have any say in how banks conduct their business. In my opinion, they drove a lot of the excessive borrowing that caused the bubble in the first place.


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    #511
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »
    Could have sworn I read recently he was in financial difficulty, something about not being able to pay the commercial rent on his premises. I may be mistaken.

    I booked a seat on a charter flight to a Man Utd v Liverpool game back in 2010-ish and himself and the missus were on it. Didnt talk to him for long but he seemed pleasant enough.

    Yeah, he lost the premises. Lads like that who mix in high society circles will always get a few opportunities to bounce back unlike most of us if we were in a tricky spot.

    He will once again adorn the front page of Barry Egans Indo Christmas spread. I have no doubt about it.


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