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  • #2
    whatduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭whatduck


    poindexter wrote: »
    what will you do the day she pops it??

    I'll probably just you know carry on with my life.


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    poindexter wrote: »
    still in hospital. hope whatever time you have left hurts like hell you b!tch, coz thats' where you'll be going.





    what will you do the day she pops it?? soon as i hear, am outta work and off to the pub to celebrate. sooner the better
    Not very nice is it?


  • #4
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Who?
    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Not very nice is it?

    Hi, this is After Hours.


  • #5
    well horse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭well horse


    Margaret Thatcher is generally considered to have been on of the greatest British Prime Ministers of the last 100 years. She did what needed to be done at the time to fix Britain's economy. I'm sure that's no consolation to the people who ended up unemployed but as a community Britain needed her to set things right.

    And I'm Irish btw.


  • #6
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Margaret Thatcher the greatest political leader of the late 20th century in Europe, alongside Ronald Reagan she is a legend and had the world followed their examples more we might not be in the current mess we are in now.


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  • #7
    CCCP^
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    well horse wrote: »
    Margaret Thatcher is generally considered to have been on of the greatest British Prime Ministers of the last 100 years. She did what needed to be done at the time to fix Britain's economy. I'm sure that's no consolation to the people who ended up unemployed but as a community Britain needed her to set things right.

    And I'm Irish btw.

    She absolutely wrecked Britain, turn her national assets into the hands of private companies and destroyed working-class spirit. Poll tax anyone? If it hadn't of been for the Argies invading the Falklands, she wouldn't have been in power for as long as she was.


  • #8
    Captain-America
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭Captain-America


    poindexter wrote: »
    still in hospital. hope whatever time you have left hurts like hell you b!tch, coz thats' where you'll be going.





    what will you do the day she pops it?? soon as i hear, am outta work and off to the pub to celebrate. sooner the better


    Cheer up buttercup. The sun is shining.


  • #9
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    the area i grew up in was left in tatters, aswell as that family members who for years worked in the shipyards which were destroyed by her.


    hope it hurts maggie, hurts like hell


  • #10
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    although if we'd followed reagan's example we'd have blown our money on psychic hotlines instead.


  • #11
    builttospill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    poindexter wrote: »
    still in hospital. hope whatever time you have left hurts like hell you b!tch, coz thats' where you'll be going.





    what will you do the day she pops it?? soon as i hear, am outta work and off to the pub to celebrate. sooner the better

    You sound to me like a guy that wears an Anarchy in the UK t-shirt having never listened to the sex pistols who attends those reclaim the streets rallies just so you can punch parked cars.


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  • #12
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    poindexter wrote: »
    the area i grew up in was left in tatters, aswell as that family members who for years worked in the shipyards which were destroyed by her.


    hope it hurts maggie, hurts like hell

    then why didn't you move?


  • #13
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    Margaret Thatcher the greatest political leader of the late 20th century in Europe, alongside Ronald Reagan she is a legend and had the world followed their examples more we might not be in the current mess we are in now.
    Ireland neeeds someone like her to get the country back on its feet.


  • #14
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    Captain Mords Spiced Bum wrote: »
    then why didn't you move?
    i was 5 when she came to power, maybe that had something to do with it. meant my Da having to work away from home as there was little or no options left in the west of Scotland.

    the bitch also took our free milk in primary school:mad::o.


  • #15
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    'Here's Maggie Thatcher, throw her up 'n' catcher. Squish squash, squish squash and there's Maggie Thatcher'.


  • #16
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    poindexter wrote: »
    the area i grew up in was left in tatters, aswell as that family members who for years worked in the shipyards which were destroyed by her.


    hope it hurts maggie, hurts like hell

    That bitterness will eat you right up...
    Get out and enjoy life.....and don't vote for anyone like her in future....:)


  • #17
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    That bitterness will eat you right up...
    Get out and enjoy life.....and don't vote for anyone like her in future....:)
    cheers uncle tom. i'm actually a fairly down to earth easy going guy, just hearing she's in hospital and the reality that she doesnt' have long to go makes me smile. she helped to devastate the communities of myself, family and friends. i came out of it eventually but some of that pain is still there and places have never recovered. like i say, i hope she is hurting, real bad.


  • #18
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    If she was so bad, why was she in power for 11 years and won 3 elections? She must have been doing something right?


  • #19
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    If she was so bad, why was she in power for 11 years and won 3 elections? She must have been doing something right?
    so must fianna fail, george dubya, castro, chavez, mugabi etc etc etc


    they all do good in someone's eyes, and not so good in anothers. in my eyes, she was no good.


  • #20
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    poindexter wrote: »
    still in hospital. hope whatever time you have left hurts like hell you b!tch, coz thats' where you'll be going.


    She wasn't the worse leader that was Prime Minister. She has her weakness and her strengths as leader.
    poindexter wrote: »
    what will you do the day she pops it?? soon as i hear, am outta work and off to the pub to celebrate. sooner the better
    I'm won't be doing anything different than I normally do.


  • #21
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Elvis said it best
    Well I hope I don't die too soon
    I pray the Lord my soul to save
    Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave
    Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live
    long enough to savour
    That's when they finally put you in the ground
    I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down


    There's a great program on BBC Radio if anyone is interested in the music that was inspired by her.


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  • #22
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    I hardly think an update of her status deserves time on sky news. It was even in the 'breaking news' scrolling banner along the bottom ffs

    I guess the segment on the 'flush puppy' was hardly news either


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    poindexter wrote: »
    i was 5 when she came to power, maybe that had something to do with it. meant my Da having to work away from home as there was little or no options left in the west of Scotland.

    the bitch also took our free milk in primary school:mad::o.

    How old were you in 1971 ??? I was 10!

    It was actually the labour government in 1968 that started the process. ;)


  • #24
    CCCP^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Ireland neeeds someone like her to get the country back on its feet.

    **** right off, are you completely mad? It's exactly the kind of economics that Margaret Thatcher preached that got us into this ungodly mess.


  • #25
    CCCP^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    If she was so bad, why was she in power for 11 years and won 3 elections? She must have been doing something right?

    If it hadn't of been for the Falklands war she wouldn't have gotten through, also PR system in Britain is pants.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CCCP^ wrote: »
    If it hadn't of been for the Falklands war she wouldn't have gotten through, also PR system in Britain is pants.
    It's "first past the post" there.


  • #27
    CCCP^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's "first past the post" there.

    Ack, that's right, sorry.


  • #28
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    thought all this anti British inferiority complex rubbish had died out with birth of the Celtic Tiger


  • #29
    Clown Shoes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Clown Shoes


    The song by Morrissey, oh when will you die.

    She was a leader, no doubt about that. Did she and her government improve the lives of the british public while she was in power, probably not.

    Did she improve the well being of a select few areas and individuals? most definitely.

    How did she stay in power? The malvinas set her up in 83, gerrymandering did the rest in 87.

    Did she abuse her power to break up certain groups not aligned with Conservative thinking? Yes, as the unions and coal miners found out.


  • #30
    mike65
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    CCCP^ wrote: »
    She absolutely wrecked Britain, turn her national assets into the hands of private companies and destroyed working-class spirit. Poll tax anyone? If it hadn't of been for the Argies invading the Falklands, she wouldn't have been in power for as long as she was.

    I dont recall many of those national assets being much of an asset back then tbh. Union run feifdoms for the most part. The likes of Red Robbo/Scargill of course were her best ally so stupid were they.

    Churchill was the greatest PM of the 20th century of course.


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  • #31
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Her condition has absolutely no effect on me whatsoever. I just though I'd let you know


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