Irish women are obsessed with money.

b3t4 · 25-01-2006 02:13PM

Maybe some women are more "obssessed" as you like to put it as they are being paid less than their male colleagues.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=169828300&p=y698z9xx6

Quote from www.esri.ie
Degrees of Equality: Gender Pay Differentials Among Recent Graduates - this survey shows that women graduates three years after leaving college are earning 11% less than men but as they work fewer hours than male graduates there is no overall hourly pay gap. The public sector attracted 41% of female graduates compared to only 26% of males. In the private sector men are more likely than women to receive bonuses and the bonuses they receive are larger.

I, like a few other women on here, am sick and tired of seeing such threads on boards.ie.

A.

simu · 25-01-2006 02:14PM

Kiera wrote:

You forgot to mention that all Irish girls are whores too or will that be your next thread?

I'm sure it will. And what a great thread it will be too...

Mossy Monk · 25-01-2006 02:14PM

how is this thread still alive?

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 02:16PM

Kiera wrote:

You forgot to mention that all Irish girls are whores too or will that be your next thread?

why don't you provide some reasonable debate rather than trying to make wild assumptions on my character....who said anything about whores?

Kiera · 25-01-2006 02:18PM

Relax!

No one did! I was just reminding you that you forgot to mention it.

Just giving you hints for your next thread!

simu · 25-01-2006 02:19PM

toffeapple wrote:

why don't you provide some reasonable debate rather than trying to make wild assumptions on my character....who said anything about whores?

Well, maybe you should try to come up with a more convincing argument than your claims that Trinny and Susannah and Desperate Housewives are responsible for materialism in Ireland and that this materialism is only to be seen in women. Go on, you can do it.

TerrorFirmer · 25-01-2006 02:19PM

Is this the same guy who thought Women drivers should be tested more often then men or something equally if not more sexist?

And no, Irish women are not obsessed with money. I love money and I'd love more of it like any normal person would but I wouldn't see any decisive basis to prove Irish Male or females are obsessed with it. I'm male by the way, that made me sound somewhat feminine with the phrasing but anyway...

BoozyBabe · 25-01-2006 02:19PM

Is I said Toffeapple:- "in the other thread"!!

My comment was about the spate of negative comments about irish women threads that have popped up lately that I think are uncall for.

I just don't like generalisations when we all differ SO much.

I for one am not obsessed in any way by material things, but I do intend on being able to provide for myself instead of expecting my bf to be the one to provide the house etc, therefore I'm setting some money aside for my future.

If that makes me money obsessed, so be it.

Next you'll have a thread about women expecting men to pay for all!!!!!!
We just can't win

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 02:22PM

MobileInfantry wrote:

Is this the same guy who thought Women drivers should be tested more often then men or something equally if not more sexist?

And no, Irish women are not obsessed with money. I love money and I'd love more of it like any normal person would but I wouldn't see any decisive basis to prove Irish Male or females are obsessed with it. I'm male by the way, that made me sound somewhat feminine with the phrasing but anyway...

never said any such thing

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 02:29PM

simu wrote:

Well, maybe you should try to come up with a more convincing argument than your claims that Trinny and Susannah and Desperate Housewives are responsible for materialism in Ireland and that this materialism is only to be seen in women. Go on, you can do it.

would you disagree that prime time TV is geared towards women?
I dont think you will find many blokes who think 2 hours of soaps and shows about, what you eat what you wear what to buy for your house etc etc very entertaining do you?

LegacyUser · 25-01-2006 02:34PM

when i was a kid, around 10, there was this real cute girl in my estate, who i wanted to be my gf, unfortunatly my friend at the time, had the same idea.

when we told her, she wanted to know how our finances were.

i won her over with a toy watch, and 2 elastic bands.

think my mate only had a button or some crap.

true story.

it didn't work out by the way.

py2006 · 25-01-2006 02:40PM

Flex wrote:

Gotta agree with toffeapple. Im in my early 20's and Irish girls are extremely materialistic. I know a guy whos 22 and hes already decided hes never going to have an irish girlfriend again because he cant stand them.

Strange you say that. My friend never goes out with Irish girls because of that and the mind games etc

I guess its not fair to suggest they are all that way.

py2006 · 25-01-2006 02:43PM

simu wrote:

/goes off to make forum suggestion: whinging forum for bitter misogynistic Irish male boards users who couldn't score in a brothel.

That just made you sound 10 times worse!

fly_agaric · 25-01-2006 02:46PM

Alot of Irishwomen are obsessed with materialistic bull that men don't necessarily like or have any interest in.

Alot of Irishmen are are obsessed with materialistic bull that women don't necessarily like or have any interest in.

The women's stuff gets more exposure on the ****producingbox we know as the tv - but so what?

These are the great lessons of life we can learn from boards.ie after hours (work time-wasting)section

BoozyBabe · 25-01-2006 02:46PM

But again Toffeapple, not all women are the same, so stop implying that we are.

I don't watch any soaps, hate Trinny & Suzannah & all that sh!te, I do watch the Jillian McKeith thing sometimes, but only to see how grose some people are, don't watch any of that singing / dancing cr@p, big brother, love island, jungle rubbish that 'SOME' girls are into.
I don't buy girlie mags, don't have 200 pairs of shoes with matching handbags, 10 wardrobes of clothes, 3 chest of drawers of makeup, the list goes on & on & on, but I can assure you I'm all woman.
I watch F1 religiously & go to them when I can afford to, rallying, love hurling, snooker, darts etc, etc, etc

One size definitely DOESN'T fit all, so it p!sses me off when you contiune to assume (from what I can imagine is your VERY limited experience) that it does

um7y1h83ge06nx · 25-01-2006 02:48PM

I don't mind the women who work hard, get educated, get a good career etc. and spend money. Fair play to them I say, if you work hard at something you deserve to reap the rewards.

It's the lazy so and so's that like to spend their partner's money while contributing nothing themselves financially that really annoy me.

Tobias Greeshman · 25-01-2006 02:49PM

py2006 wrote:

Strange you say that. My friend never goes out with Irish girls because of that and the mind games etc

I guess its not fair to suggest they are all that way.

I'm not tarring all irish girls with same tar brush here, but some of them are complete head ****s. Its impossible to tell what they want and I think half of the time they (girls) don't know either.

py2006 wrote:

That just made you sound 10 times worse!

How?? I nearly fell off my chair laughing at it, if anything its the best of a bunch of bad posts in a bad thread tbh.

Kiera · 25-01-2006 02:54PM

silas wrote:

I'm not tarring all irish girls with same tar brush here, but some of them are complete head ****s. Its impossible to tell what they want and I think half of the time they (girls) don't know either.

*note to self* scratch someone off msn list :rolleyes:

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 02:55PM

BoozyBabe wrote:

But again Toffeapple, not all women are the same, so stop implying that we are.

I don't watch any soaps, hate Trinny & Suzannah & all that sh!te, I do watch the Jillian McKeith thing sometimes, but only to see how grose some people are, don't watch any of that singing / dancing cr@p, big brother, love island, jungle rubbish that 'SOME' girls are into.
I don't buy girlie mags, don't have 200 pairs of shoes with matching handbags, 10 wardrobes of clothes, 3 chest of drawers of makeup, the list goes on & on & on, but I can assure you I'm all woman.
I watch F1 religiously & go to them when I can afford to, rallying, love hurling, snooker, darts etc, etc, etc

One size definitely DOESN'T fit all, so it p!sses me off when you contiune to assume (from what I can imagine is your VERY limited experience) that it does

ovbiously its generalization dont be so pedantic

BoozyBabe · 25-01-2006 02:58PM

Yes, but you shouldn't because we're human, therefore all completely individual, therefore you can't generalise.

Would it be fair to say that all Irishmen are thick as pigs sh!t & have tiny d!cks?
No, because how could I make such a generalisation! It's impossible

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 02:59PM

silas wrote:

How?? I nearly fell off my chair laughing at it, if anything its the best of a bunch of bad posts in a bad thread tbh.

of course its a bad thread...im completley bored today and thought i would wind some people up..i cant get called a "troll" or whatever it is if its my thread or can i?

Lux23 · 25-01-2006 02:59PM

Im obsessed with my own money but I couldn't care less about anyone elses.

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 03:01PM

BoozyBabe wrote:

Yes, but you shouldn't because we're human, therefore all completely individual, therefore you can't generalise.

Would it be fair to say that all Irishmen are thick as pigs sh!t & have tiny d!cks?
No, because how could I make such a generalisation! It's impossible

yeah but i can...

mickymg2003 · 25-01-2006 03:02PM

Arent women materialistic everywhere.....so are men.Get used to it.

Beruthiel · 25-01-2006 03:04PM

toffeapple wrote:

i cant get called a "troll" or whatever it is if its my thread or can i?

yes you can

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 03:29PM

Beruthiel wrote:

yes you can

Il crawl back into my cave so!

simu · 25-01-2006 03:36PM

toffeapple wrote:

would you disagree that prime time TV is geared towards women?
I dont think you will find many blokes who think 2 hours of soaps and shows about, what you eat what you wear what to buy for your house etc etc very entertaining do you?

I have no idea who watches what but you definitely need to learn to seperate TV from reality. TV != reality. Repeat 1000 times.

py2006 wrote:

That just made you sound 10 times worse!

Oh noes!!! Hitting too close to home?

toffeapple · 25-01-2006 03:41PM

Qoute from Simu "I have no idea who watches what but you definitely need to learn to seperate TV from reality. TV != reality. Repeat 1000 times."

Thats not what im talking about...im talking about advertising..ie more womens programmes more women to advertise too..you get it?

do some research tonight watch 1 ad break in prime time tv( i wouldnt request anyone sit through hours of sh!t) and see how many ads are geared at women and how many at men

Doctor Fell · 25-01-2006 03:45PM

simu wrote:

you definitely need to learn to seperate TV from reality. TV != reality. Repeat 1000 times.

I disagree, I definitely think TV shapes our reality.

BoozyBabe · 25-01-2006 03:46PM

toffeapple wrote:

Thats not what im talking about...im talking about advertising..ie more womens programmes more women to advertise too..you get it?

do some research tonight watch 1 ad break in prime time tv( i wouldnt request anyone sit through hours of sh!t) and see how many ads are geared at women and how many at men

No, that's not what you're talking about, you were talking about (looks at title of thread) "Irish women are obsessed with money"

How has advertising got anything to do with that?

Look, you've just created an idea for another useless thread!
God, you're getting good at this:rolleyes:

Irish women are obsessed with money.

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