How bad can things possibly get here?

coup1917 · 22-04-2011 12:44PM

Confab wrote: »

We're apathetic as a country.

:mad::mad:

Dwellingdweller · 22-04-2011 12:48PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Worst case scenario is the garda, army, social welfare and all civil servants will go unpaid. The people will get out onto the streets and riot and with no garda or army around, carnage will ensue, feeding into the hands of loons like Joe Higgin and Sinn Fein to start an unelected socialist country.

Sure Germany would never allow that :rolleyes:

22-04-2011 12:56PM

Confab wrote: »

Put it like this... three months ago 100 of us were hired and now we're told our jobs can easily be transferred to Manila.

Trust me when I say you'll have a better lifestyle on the dole in Ireland than being the Filipino working your call centre job in Manila.

TheZohanS · 22-04-2011 01:05PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Trust me when I say you'll have a better lifestyle on the dole in Ireland than being the Filipino working your call centre job in Manila.

Yeah but that doesn't help the people here that lose their jobs. 11850 directory enquiries let off most of their Irish staff a few years ago and transferred all their jobs over to Manila...11890 on the other-hand are committed to keeping jobs in Ireland.

Just shows what you can do when your company cares about it's workers.

molequidgallus · 22-04-2011 01:16PM

Anarchy, the state will plunder into anarchy. The people will govern themselves, as there wont be enough numbers of gardai to patrol everywhere & keep a lid on the crime[there aren't at the moment]. They're not gonna listen to the cops & politicians if it comes to anarchy. I'd say if what you typed regarding the banks going bust, social being cut off altogether, people wont just sit back & wait for Kenny & company to sort it out. They'll go out and get their bread and butter by whatever means necessary. It will be inevitable, you wouldn't sit around and watch your children starve or be deprived of the simple necessities of life, would you? I know I wouldn't & I'd do whatever it takes to provide for my daughter if it became that bad. The ordinary honest decent civilian will be forced to a crime if everything went bust.

molequidgallus · 22-04-2011 01:18PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

But with Mary Harney as Minster for Sex.

Priceless:D She'd have some job at that. Her poor husband:eek:

Dwellingdweller · 22-04-2011 01:23PM

molequidgallus wrote: »

Priceless:D She'd have some job at that. Her poor husband:eek:

Sure there's plenty of her to go around

molequidgallus · 22-04-2011 01:23PM

Solnskaya wrote: »

we can just do what the govt has done for the last ten years, and burn money to keep them warm(at least I think they were burning it, sure how else could you get rid of so much in so short a time?)-

Not really a problem if you've got bertie ahern & charlie haughey at the helm of the ship. They take it for themselves & families to maintain their high life style. Wouldn't surprise me if bertie ran away to nigeria, I cannot believe the nigerians are turning to him for advice on how to run a country. I would soil myself with laughter if history repeated itself over there. Only the wouldn't let him away with it, he would be exterminated over there for what he did here.

molequidgallus · 22-04-2011 01:38PM

robtri wrote: »

why the NCT doesnt Ban older cars.....

You mean ban s#1t heaps. Not older cars, we couldn't forget about old cars, the Model T, Porsche 924 turbo, Chrysler Turbine, E- type Jag. It would be crazy to get rid of 'older cars' we'd have no classics, vintage's to look back at. An the closest thing our kids would every see would be pictures. Ban unroad worthy sh#1t heap junkers yes, but not all the good ones.

electrobanana · 22-04-2011 01:47PM

WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK THE CHILDREN:eek:

whiteonion · 22-04-2011 01:49PM

I came across some visionaries and their visions for the future of Ireland is grim indeed. I dare you to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaqZJANa0Jk

Agent J · 22-04-2011 01:52PM

Go pick up a book on the famine during the 1840s.

People need (myself included at times) a sense of historical perpective.

This country will fall futher but we will still have it much better than previous generations.

jakdelad · 22-04-2011 01:56PM

molequidgallus wrote: »

Anarchy, the state will plunder into anarchy. The people will govern themselves, as there wont be enough numbers of gardai to patrol everywhere & keep a lid on the crime[there aren't at the moment]. They're not gonna listen to the cops & politicians if it comes to anarchy. I'd say if what you typed regarding the banks going bust, social being cut off altogether, people wont just sit back & wait for Kenny & company to sort it out. They'll go out and get their bread and butter by whatever means necessary. It will be inevitable, you wouldn't sit around and watch your children starve or be deprived of the simple necessities of life, would you? I know I wouldn't & I'd do whatever it takes to provide for my daughter if it became that bad. The ordinary honest decent civilian will be forced to a crime if everything went bust.

it will be like mad max
only with turnips

super_furry · 22-04-2011 02:01PM

electrobanana wrote: »

WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK THE CHILDREN:eek:

Things are bad enough without bringing the Church into this.

UglyBolloxFace · 22-04-2011 02:03PM

paulieeye wrote: »

Hi folks...

I stopped reading at that. For some reason I hate when people use that phrase/opener and for the life of me I just cannot take them serious.

Schism · 22-04-2011 02:18PM

The next year or so will show us how bad things are going to get. I remain somewhat confident that a normal person can eek out a frugal existence while keeping the odd small luxury.

Now when I say luxury I mean going for a few pints on a Saturday not skiing in The Alps. People will just have to get used to living with less money.

Firefox11 · 22-04-2011 03:05PM

This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLA-4zZM0cI

blogga · 22-04-2011 03:11PM

jakdelad wrote: »

start digging the pit fill it with water n beans
start watching bear grylls
lock n load buy a good skinning knife
get some flares a radio lots of coffe [not the aldi sh1te]
loo rolls condoms[well you never know]
a buy n sell
sit tight suck a sweet and watch for movement
this is gonna get ugly ......

You forgot the truckload of alcohol you will need.

stovelid · 22-04-2011 03:33PM

What will happen is that most people between the age of 15 and 30 will go back to a lifestyle befitting a small country like ours - like everybody else had to before the mid 90s.

22-04-2011 03:54PM

TheZohan wrote: »

Yeah but that doesn't help the people here that lose their jobs. 11850 directory enquiries let off most of their Irish staff a few years ago and transferred all their jobs over to Manila...11890 on the other-hand are committed to keeping jobs in Ireland.

Just shows what you can do when your company cares about it's workers.

It's nothing personal against anyone but I'm still happy for the jobs to goto Manila or Cebu.. It's not patriotic but the job means infinitely more to them and their families than it does to anyone in Ireland.

And people in Ireland shouldn't worry.. It will never get as bad there as it is in the lowest 9/10's of the world.

RichieC · 22-04-2011 03:56PM

It will level out when the big boys get whatever it is they're after..

ascanbe · 22-04-2011 04:00PM

iamstop wrote: »

Bread rations,
Telescreens,
Big Brother,
Gin rations
Ministry for Educ?ation
Ministry for Sex
Double Speak
The bells of St. Clement's

Will Celebrity Big Brother still be on aswell?

Doublin · 22-04-2011 04:13PM

stovelid wrote: »

What will happen is that most people between the age of 15 and 30 will go back to a lifestyle befitting a small country like ours - like everybody else had to before the mid 90s.

A bit of an optimistic outlook at the moment when you take into account, for example, the massive levels of debt in this country bank debt/mortgage debt/personal debt & the high cost of raw materials.

So while our incomes will go down, our expenditure will remain very high (if not keep increasing) for basic commodities. I've have no problem going back to the early/mid-90's but cost of living was cheaper & the debt burden was a lot lower.

Monty Burnz · 22-04-2011 04:32PM

Shulgin wrote: »

Most people are still living pretty comfortably, Still living on the last remaining illusions of the 'celtic tiger', when that illusion fades away enough then so will the apathy. It is a ticking timebomb.

Plenty of those comfy people are in the semi-states. There's no recession for those lads tbh.

Monty Burnz · 22-04-2011 04:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Trust me when I say you'll have a better lifestyle on the dole in Ireland than being the Filipino working your call centre job in Manila.

This is a big part of the problem. Why work?

Naikon · 22-04-2011 04:35PM

Just wait until cannabalism sets in...

CrazyRabbit · 22-04-2011 05:09PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

There is no recession. It's just that the economy has returned to the way it was before the boom of the 90's.

TheZohan wrote: »

There are a couple of things wrong with that statement.

My attempt at humour. A recession, by definition is an economy shrinking back to a weaker state (i.e, before the 90's). So my statement was a contradiction. But at the same time it recognises that we are no worse off now than we were before that boom period.

jakdelad · 22-04-2011 08:44PM

the culchies will be selling skinned rabbits n turnips to the dublin d4 crowd
no more of your foie gras
it will be boar bacon n duck eggs.
all the dubs will have to come and work for the new rich
the farmers [they are keeping their heads down at the minute]
thats hoping brussell s dont go ar5e up
then we all shagged
butlins will be reopened just like the old days
your sunday outing will be to drogheda
just think of it
trapsing around drogheda sucking a sweet and gawking at oliver plunketts
decomposed skull in a glass case, wonderfull
no more golfing trips to thailand
just like dev said little homely fires dancing at the crossroads
they might even bring back the riordans
back to the good old days
when we hadent a pot to piss in

CrazyRabbit · 22-04-2011 10:24PM

jakdelad wrote: »

the culchies will be selling skinned rabbits n

There'll be nobody feckin' skinning this rabbit!

iamstop · 22-04-2011 10:30PM

super_furry wrote: »

Minsitry for Sex you say?

1984.

How bad can things possibly get here?

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