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Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Anyone wanna chip in for an aircraft carrier?

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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    for some reason the Shipping and payment details link made me laugh


  • #3
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    I'll throw a tenner into the pot :D


  • #4
    sharkman
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 6,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭sharkman


    Yeah , I'll throw a tenner in . It could come in handy some day ..


  • #5
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    I'll stick in a fiver, but i want to park my illegal terrorist bombers on it


  • #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    cb_1.JPG

    We'd get thrown in jail for having a boat bigger than any the government owns! :D

    Mike.


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  • #7
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    mind you the goverment would be pissed if you came home in a fully decked out aircarft carrier......you would be more powerful that the army/navy/airforce put together lol :D

    100 euro and not a penny more!

    Edit--
    But that is not all, the navigation instruments and satellite guidance system and other great instruments cost hundreds of millions of dollars when they were new. You can easily get a lot of money from selling the instruments. Now for a tiny fraction of the original price (which maybe over $ 5 billion US dollars) you can have this wonderful property all for yourself

    Thats a compleat piss take though a brand new nimitzs class super carrier costs around 1,3 billion dollors you can bet your ass a 18,000 ton 30-50 year old angle decked carrier wouldnt cost ANYTHING near that


  • #8
    pigeonbutler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭pigeonbutler


    If we Get about €11 from every man woman and child in the Republic of Ireland we can afford it. At the current price of $50,000,100: about 40 million yo-yos.
    I say it'd be a better investment than a spaghetti--mad-cow-junction/roundabout.


  • #9
    Exit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    If we raid Bertie's bank account, we'd probably be able to afford it too.


  • #10
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Strange - now at $50m - but I seem to remember it was on sale at about a tenth of this price earlier in the year.

    also IIRC the price of scrap steel here is only about €10 per tonne.


  • #11
    uRbaN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭uRbaN


    wouldnt even fit up the liffey :P
    I pledge Euro 2.99...worth every cent


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  • #12
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    its only 80 foot wide and 639 feet long ....it isnt that big i say we keep it in cork city though ! :dunno:


  • #13
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Originally posted by bizmark
    its only 80 foot wide and 639 feet long ....it isnt that big i say we keep it in cork city though ! :dunno:

    Yeah, cork is a bit rough. It could do with a military presence ;) .

    Wat would it be named?


  • #14
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭BKtje


    Pride of Boards or sommet is what i suggest :)

    was worth just under 11million when i posted it but now worth over 50million.

    We gonna need more people to chip in ;)


  • #15
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Yeah, cork is a bit rough. It could do with a military presence .


    Na thats Limrick :D

    we shall call it

    LE.Switerland beat us in the world cup and we will bomb your ass back to the stone age

    It has meaning to it!


  • #16
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Eh, what use is an Aircraft carrier against Switzerland ?
    esp when our Air Corps doesnt have any modern aircraft .


  • #17
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    shut up you! :p

    we can bomb them while in ireland Theirfore takeing out landsdown road as well (2 birds with but one stone) :D

    we have to make up some type of excuse why the irish team has to leave early though


  • #18
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Found it - HMS VENGEANCE
    As previously for sale here - for $4.5m http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12
    c.f.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99606&

    More images http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/images.asp?File_Number=BOP12

    These guys are also trying to buy it.
    http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/


  • #19
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Just have the irish team not show up, like scotland vs estonia


  • #20
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    yes but Estonia is **** doing what they did would just be embarrassing :p


  • #21
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    ok, Il give €20, but i want it on mondays, fridays, tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays, wednsdays and every second sunday.

    Flogen


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  • #22
    passive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    count me in for e20. can it be used to invade small counties?

    eg: louth?


  • #23
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    I'll throw in the 49m!

    (Not that I have 49m but if I did, I'd throw it in! lol)

    Why doesn't someone jus bat their eyelashes at some really foolish and rich old dude and convince him to transfer his billions into their bank a/c and then we could buy the thing! Woohoo!! :D


  • #24
    pigeonbutler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭pigeonbutler


    Finally we've found something good for Ireland for Rosanna Davison to do!


  • #25
    passive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    you're making her captain!!??


  • #26
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    You'd never be able to afford the insurance in this country for it.


  • #27
    Big Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,123 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    ya the carrier would cost 50 million and the insurance would be 850 times that number at least.


  • #28
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Right, I've added up the pledges so far and I think we really should be looking at something more like this -

    214251ORIG.JPG

    With some filler and a paint job she'll look just fine! :D

    Mike.


  • #29
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Isn't that the Orla?


  • #30
    passive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    we can still invade louth though, right?


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  • #31
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    hey dont take the piss out of our small navy ships! :D

    hmmmmmmmm

    i guess with a bit of paint and a tiny totaly useless deck gun it could be one of ours lol


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