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TV Shows with People having to move abroad because of the dirty R word.

  • 30-03-2011 09:49AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭


    So,

    Living out of Ireland over 3 years now. Have been watching the odd show on RTE and it all seems to be doom and gloom, but what really bugs me is the people moving to New Zealand, Australia, Canada etc.

    Usually it involves lots of crying, people moaning about there being no work (you'd swear we were back to butter voucher days)

    Then they go on to talk about some course they did in college and that there wasn't a job for them when they came out, New Zealand etc was their only option.

    Then there is lots of crying at the Airport terminal and the father/mother starts blaming the Government for sending his son/daughter so far away.

    I mean .. wtf .. theres the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France all within a 2 hour flight away.

    Wouldn't these people probably have went off to Australia, NZ, Canada anyway ?

    How is the government 'forcing' anyone to move to a gaff so far away when theres a whole market of jobs available very close to Ireland.

    Maybe Irish Ferries should start a Rosslare to Ellis Island route and someone playing a fiddle while the boat sales off into the sunset.

    Whats your opinion ?


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Rear-ending?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Reptiles? Paddy got rid of those snakes long time ago, boieh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Rear-ending?

    First thing that popped into your head ?

    Hmmm

    Filth


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Rectum is a dirty R word


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    ...Revolting?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Whats your opinion ?

    Closed mindedness, parochialism and being terrible at languages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    First thing that popped into your head ?

    Hmmm

    Filth

    You did say Dirty R word...

    hang on...

    Is this another recession thread?

    I call Shenanigans!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

    Wouldn't you need to speak the language to work there ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Spunge wrote: »
    Wouldn't you need to speak the language to work there ?

    Nah, theres thousands of people working in International Companies. Parts of Holland you'll have hassle getting someone to speak in Dutch to you :pac:

    Germany in the big International companies the language of business is English


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rigger?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭Wossack


    RTE isnt a word, its an acronym


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    Roipe. If you were a South African pronouncing rape.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Wossack wrote: »
    RTE isnt a word, its an acronym

    Anachronism surely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Rimjob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    roggering


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Roger Rabbit?

    I thought it was an alright movie, certainly nothing to leave Ireland for :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    Racism? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    rudolph the red nosed reindeer?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Roma's?

    Only joking, I know its Ryan Tubridy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    *Stops crying*

    Awww, I'm missing you already OP! Please come back! :(:(:(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIHMPc6ZCuI


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Saermegil


    It honestly perplexes me as well, I think that it seems too much for some people to go to a country that's more "foreign" i.e. big difference in culture. I don't get how it is then easier for them to go accross the world!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    What programs are you talking about? I want to watch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Elessar wrote: »
    What programs are you talking about? I want to watch!

    Some bollocks on RTE I think it was on a few weeks ago.

    The phrase "Ders just no jabs here ... no jabs .. have to go to new zeeeland ... all me tings in a case, i did a sevil engeunneering course, no jabs .. i put in me time ... i expected a jab out of it"

    The Dad was saying "Mee daugghter .. I blame the government"

    I'd love to go to New Zealand, or Australia, although they are dodgy about bringing sausages,rashers and lucozade there ... mmmm lucozade.

    Departure Day
    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/departure_day.html

    That was it I think .. what a load of sh*t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I think it's a remnant of the beginning of the recession. Back in 2007/2008 when the subprime crisis started to unravel, Australia, Canada and NZ were the last countries to succumb to it. Australia and Canada in particular continues to have an economic boom as the rest of the world crashed and burned economically, so in terms of prosperity they were the only places left.

    I doubt that's true today, the contagion has thoroughly spread throuhgout the world at this stage so I highly doubt there are any true booms going on right now. Every economy has slowed to some extent. So yes, in this day and age it's overdone. But 2 or 3 years ago it was perfectly reasonable.

    I know a group who went to Canada for the summer in '09 just when Ireland was starting to fall apart and the economy there was still thriving. The same couldn't have been said for the rest of Europe or the US at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Saermegil wrote: »
    It honestly perplexes me as well, I think that it seems too much for some people to go to a country that's more "foreign" i.e. big difference in culture. I don't get how it is then easier for them to go accross the world!


    It's hardly rocket science.

    You need to have at least a basic command of the native language if you want to go and live somewhere like France or Germany and, if you want a job that's not a piece of **** then getting yourself up to an intermediate level of conversation is a damn good idea or you're ****ed and I speak from experience.

    As for Canada and Australia (which is basically just a hot Ireland with Kangaroos) you just need English.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    It was never "The R word" here. It was "Stephen". <takes cap off, holds on heart> Ah how we remember Stephen (I'm pretty sure it was 'Stephen'......?).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭breadandjam


    (you'd swear we were back to butter voucher days)
    Ah butter vouchers-they were great you could use them as legal tender in a few shops where I lived in the 80s- buy anythinmg with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    It's hardly rocket science.

    You need to have at least a basic command of the native language if you want to go and live somewhere like France or Germany and, if you want a job that's not a piece of **** then getting yourself up to an intermediate level of conversation is a damn good idea or you're ****ed and I speak from experience.

    As for Canada and Australia (which is basically just a hot Ireland with Kangaroos) you just need English.

    http://www.toytowngermany.com/jobs/

    You what now ?
    Toytown Germany is the most popular source for English-speaking jobs in Germany. Whether you're resident in Germany and looking to change career, or wish to relocate to Germany, we can help you find professional jobs or casual work.

    5,425
    Jobs available

    Huge community of Expats working in Europe:
    http://www.expatica.com/

    And even then, pickup the Language, how many Foreigners do you see coming to Ireland and picking up English ? I have a Polish buddy who didnt speak a word of English, after 2 years he got a good job in a large multinational in Cork.

    Now he lives in Amsterdam working for another Multinational.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    its the L word :rolleyes:


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