The best thing about the coming recession is..

Run_to_da_hills · 10-07-2008 02:16AM

Out of work.....the Dole......Medical card and Free Dentistry

Free Doctors Visits

Free Butter

:)

j1smithy · 10-07-2008 02:30AM

The thing I'm looking forward to the most are good irish bands (we write great songs when we have nothing better to do!), The death of the D4 mentality and the end of boasting of people spending ridiculous amounts of money on frivolous things like €500 shoes!!

Sherifu · 10-07-2008 07:30AM

More people cycling. Hmmm, maybe not.

judas101 · 10-07-2008 07:47AM

freeloading immigrants getting the hell out of here.

huzzah for the recession!

super_furry · 10-07-2008 08:02AM

Jaysus we might even get a decent snowfall this winter!

DO0GLE · 10-07-2008 09:21AM

Tradesmen ringing you back to see if you still want that work done that you got quoted for

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 09:28AM

j1smithy wrote: »

The thing I'm looking forward to the most are good irish bands (we write great songs when we have nothing better to do!), The death of the D4 mentality and the end of boasting of people spending ridiculous amounts of money on frivolous things like €500 shoes!!

+infinity...

My thoughts exactly!

LouOB · 10-07-2008 09:31AM

That just because you can bulid a wall does not mean you should have a salary to rival a well paid CEO.

IvaBigWun · 10-07-2008 09:38AM

FOGOFUNK wrote: »

Off topic but hey....

A recession is when your neighbour loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours.

-Ronald Reagan

Classic

Brilliant

Although Reaganomics didnt do America any favours.

Relevant · 10-07-2008 09:42AM

Emigration, repossession of peoples homes, people unable to provide a good standard of living for their kids...

People in Ireland seem to be talking the country into a recession!

dr.bollocko · 10-07-2008 09:46AM

People won't be able to refill their chelsea tractors anymore and will be forced to walk to work on the famine roads, barefeet, uphill both ways, stopping only to drain blood from a cow.
4 people on a scooter will be great fun.

The coffin ships have a MC. Donalds now.

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 09:47AM

forgot to mention earlier... BUTTER VOUCHERS!!! and as tommy tiernan said, you wont be able to find a job if you look for one and everyone will secretly be delighted!!!

Neamhshuntasach · 10-07-2008 09:50AM

We all might become a bit nationalistic again and renew the war against the Brits. And also a socialist revolution. I can see it all just over the horizon.

Relevant · 10-07-2008 09:52AM

Oh I just thought of a benefit... Nobody will be able to afford to go see Tommy Tiernan live or buy his DVD so he'll go broke and maybe we won't have to listen to the pr*ck anymore!!

Kashkai · 10-07-2008 09:52AM

Did any of you peeps leave school like I did in the mid 80's (yeah I'm old) when the best you could hope for was a job stacking shelves in Dunnes?

This isn't a bloody recession, its just a climb down from the airy fairy heights that people have been living in for years. So the celtic tiger cubs have gotten a dose of reality, perhaps they'll stop with their mid Atlantic accents (e.g. like, oh my god, loser, etc), stop blowing all their cash on sh!te and start growing up. There's still jobs out there, unemployment is 5% when in the 80's it was 17%. Interest rates are 6%, they were 10 - 14% in the late 80's/early 90's.

And maybe, just maybe, the Irish will rediscover their natural friendly, unpretencious character and we'll finally get our selfish heads out of our collective a$$es.

And yes, the music was better in the 80's, bands like westlife would have been tarred and feathered. Its not too late you know;):D:D

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 09:55AM

Also, we might win the Eurovision again...

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 10-07-2008 09:58AM

Butter vouchers!

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 10-07-2008 09:59AM

Steve_o wrote: »

forgot to mention earlier... BUTTER VOUCHERS!!!

Damn... Beat me to it...

dr.bollocko · 10-07-2008 10:00AM

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Did any of you peeps leave school like I did in the mid 80's (yeah I'm old) when the best you could hope for was a job stacking shelves in Dunnes?

This isn't a bloody recession, its just a climb down from the airy fairy heights that people have been living in for years. So the celtic tiger cubs have gotten a dose of reality, perhaps they'll stop with their mid Atlantic accents (e.g. like, oh my god, loser, etc), stop blowing all their cash on sh!te and start growing up. There's still jobs out there, unemployment is 5% when in the 80's it was 17%. Interest rates are 6%, they were 10 - 14% in the late 80's/early 90's.

And maybe, just maybe, the Irish will rediscover their natural friendly, unpretencious character and we'll finally get our selfish heads out of our collective a$$es.

And yes, the music was better in the 80's, bands like westlife would have been tarred and feathered. Its not too late you know;):D:D

Thats easy for you to say. You're prosperous!
I'm pre-prosperous which makes your views seem preposterous!

IvaBigWun · 10-07-2008 11:42AM

Maybe we need a mod to do a mega merge with the "I for one welcome the 80's thread". Basically the same thing no?

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 11:45AM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Maybe we need a mod to do a mega merge with the "I for one welcome the 80's thread". Basically the same thing no?

I don't think the 80's are coming back, but then again the young folk seem to know something we dont, mullets are back!!! so maybe the 80's are coming back...

/runs to the boat...

boogle · 10-07-2008 11:53AM

This recession is good for me. I'm building a house at the moment, and the tradesmen are falling over themselves to quote me for the job. Undercutting each other and everything. I'm glad to see the end of ignorant, jumped-up, unskilled chancers passing themselves off as tradesmen.

But seriously, my Granny always said "Fools and their money are easily parted". So eejits who were overpaid for doing **** all the last few years are the ones who blew all their money on ****e and now are up to their ears in debt and getting P45s. Good old Grandma...

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 11:54AM

boogle wrote: »

This recession is good for me. I'm building a house at the moment, and the tradesmen are falling over themselves to quote me for the job. Undercutting each other and everything. I'm glad to see the end of ignorant, jumped-up, unskilled chancers passing themselves off as tradesmen.

But seriously, my Granny always said "Fools and their money are easily parted". So eejits who were overpaid for doing **** all the last few years are the ones who blew all their money on ****e and now are up to their ears in debt and getting P45s. Good old Grandma...

Granny knows best...

Piste · 10-07-2008 11:55AM

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

This isn't a bloody recession, its just a climb down from the airy fairy heights that people have been living in for years. So the celtic tiger cubs have gotten a dose of reality, perhaps they'll stop with their mid Atlantic accents (e.g. like, oh my god, loser, etc), stop blowing all their cash on sh!te and start growing up.

Actually, for most of the "celtic tiger cubs" the Celtic Tiger IS our reality, I have never known an Ireland unlike the prosperous economy he have(had?) and I'd be perfectly happy to stay up here in my "airy fairy heights".

But by all means work in Dunnes if you'd like.

Steve_o · 10-07-2008 12:04PM

Piste wrote: »

I'd be perfectly happy to stay up here in my "airy fairy heights".

But by all means work in Dunnes if you'd like.

See this is what annoys me, you are NOT immune to a recession, as much as you'd like to stay up in your "Airy Fairy heights" you will feel it like everybody else...

And the comment about working in Dunnes is trolling imo...

crazy angel · 10-07-2008 12:13PM

oooh better musics and the replacement of juicy couture by flannel.

Piste · 10-07-2008 12:18PM

Steve_o wrote: »

See this is what annoys me, you are NOT immune to a recession, as much as you'd like to stay up in your "Airy Fairy heights" you will feel it like everybody else...

And the comment about working in Dunnes is trolling imo...

I never said I was immune to a recession! I'm aware that I'll have to tighten my belt, but I don't have to be happy about it. I can't even say "things were so much worse in the 80s" cos I wasn't around then, this impending recession will probably be the worst I've ever seen the country. Why shouldn't I prefer to live in a prosperous economy?

The comment about Dunnes was meant to be lighthearted. The poster said back in the 80s he left school and the best he could hope for was a job in Dunnes. I wouldn't be happy with that. I've grown up in a country where young people are encouraged to aim as high as possible, go on to 3rd level education etc. I will fully admit I would be very unhappy with dropping out of school and working in Dunnes.

teck-x5 · 10-07-2008 01:05PM

Less Traffic!

Howard the Duck · 10-07-2008 01:15PM

Self Aid 2

IvaBigWun · 10-07-2008 01:18PM

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Self Aid 2

lmao

The best thing about the coming recession is..

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