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Funny People who fecked up in the boom analogies

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  • #32
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Its lidl, not lidle.


  • #33
    Jesus Shaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    It's Leedil


  • #34
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    emo72 wrote: »
    i know that hurt. bought a 50 inch panny plasma. next thing ya know their all banging on about 3D, and im going, theres no ****ing way im wearing those glasses watching emmerdale. **** them in happy in 2D land.

    Not surprised tbh. That feckin Sky 3D channel was showing the Royal Wedding and the Ryder Cup in 3D......wassthefeckinpoint??!!!


  • #35
    bamboozle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Im tired of people whinging about negative equity and blaming the government and the bankers and the builders on their bad investment.
    People bought a house at the wrong time, bragged about how they were really intelligent for not paying dead money rent and bored everyone to death with property ladder talk and dead money speak .
    Now they are in trouble .
    If a business man bought a million bottles of Coke and then couldnt sell them could he blame the government ?
    If I bet on man city winning the premier league a few months ago should I be able to be re couped by the government if their bad form holds up?
    If I got all my savings and put them in shares in Dunnes Stores only to find out aldi and lidle were rolling into town should the government pay for that?
    Im all for feeling sorry for someone who made a bad investment but for jaysus sake man up and pay your debts and get on with it.
    Did you honestly never have an inkling that your 500 000 apartment in north dublin might drop in value. ?
    If the price suddenly rose again would you be willing to give the profit you made to the government or property developer that sold too cheap. ?
    Peope say I bought this house to live in now Im in negative equity . Why do you care so , you agreed to pay x amount for it , you will live there untill you die who cares what it resells for?
    Lets all be honest here everyone that bought a house during the boom thought it was a good investment and realised it wasnt then blames the government for their stupidity.
    Its like if in Jack and the beanstalk he had of just bought beans . Should he blame the government.
    Id love this thread to turn into a funny after hours one with examples of silliness but I bet itll end up with talk of OH IM SO HARD DONE BY I AGREED TO BUY A HOUSE NOW I CANT AFFORD IT I SHOULD BE ALLOWED JUST GIVE THE HOUSE BACK TO THE BANKERS BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING BONUSES ****E.

    to be rephrased as 'I didnt buy a house or apartment during the boom and i'm enjoying sitting in my ivory tower looking down at everyone who did'


  • #36
    bamboozle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    Father Damo wrote: »
    The funniest is when people say things like "Bertie/ Cowen/ the bankers should be put on trial/ should be in prison"

    For what, exactly? Gross negligence is, AFAIK, only a crime when it contributes to death or serious injury. It doesnt cover Bertie and the banks failing to educate muppets that investment properties in Bulgaria and a new car every year when you are working in a call centre are pie in the sky investments.

    Despite his shady 90s dealings there is not one suggestion that Bertie did anything illegal whilst in office.

    Nor Cowen.

    The banks lent unwisely, but last time I checked stupidity wasnt a crime. If it was the people who took out the loans should be the first in the dock.

    i'm not sure where you've been for the last 10 years but the mahon tribunal might beg to differ.

    Oh and there's the small matter of bertie failing to provide a tax clearance certificate since around 2005..which is meant to be provided by all public representatives.


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  • #37
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I like watching people's lives shatter before them on Deal or No Deal.


  • #38
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    I just get a buzz off the economic obsession thread heads


  • #39
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Father Damo wrote: »
    Despite his shady 90s dealings there is not one suggestion that Bertie did anything illegal whilst in office.

    Care to share that leaked Mahon Tribunal report with the class?
    Or... perhaps you are only presuming that El Berto did nothing illegal?


  • #40
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Babybuff wrote: »
    know I'm going to regret asking it but what do men like?

    Nobody goes down faster than a Portuguese winger.


  • #41
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Its lidl, not lidle.

    No I think you will find I spelt it lidle . Its my post.
    bamboozle wrote: »
    to be rephrased as 'I didnt buy a house or apartment during the boom and i'm enjoying sitting in my ivory tower looking down at everyone who did'

    No I am enjoying property prices crashing because now I can buy a nice house. I waited until they were reasonably priced. If everyone was given debt forgiveness they would all run out to buy another one like a gang of gambling addicts looking to win back the 20 euro they stole on their son. This would lead to the prices skyrocketing again .
    It would also lead to more bailouts for the banks who were good enough to lend these people money but are now being called all sorts of names for this.
    The banks are being called all sorts of names for not lending at the minute. They just cant win.


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    For all the people who defend the bankers, developers and the previous government(s), have you ever actually read into anything beyond the header of an article on Journal.ie? Jesus Christ some of the things that have gone down in this country in the last 25 years alone is stomach churning. Anyone who does feel like partaking in further reading, Matt Cooper's 'Who Really Runs Ireland?' is a good (horrifying) place to start. It gives a good (horrifying) picture of the elitist scene in our country, the kind of deals that were done along with all the back scratching. If at least 25% of the events he writes about bears 25% of truth, it really is shocking. If you are the kind of person who would be likely to climb a clock tower with a sniper rifle, it might not be the book for you.

    Me personally, I don't 'own' a house, I will rent for life. No matter what treachery went on behind the scenes, there are no known accounts of a banker putting a gun to a persons head and forcing them to take out a mortgage. But still, I won't start a thread telling the unfortunate people in negative equity to quit their moaning and just get over it when I don't know the first thing aboout it,i.e. you cloptrop, and then try to make a humorous thread out of it.

    However cloptrop, I may have laughed at your 'warehouse full of paragraphs' post, but I will never thank you, I made up my mind that you were a troll planted by Boards very early in your Boards career. Also please, for the love of God and all potential readers of your posts, will you learn how to use apostrophes, commas, quotation marks, full stops etc? Or if you do know how to use them and just don't bother, then please bother! See, now you've made a grammar nazi out of me! And just one more thing, your 'analogies' are not even in the same country of the ball park of the base subject. Troll on my wayward son!


  • #43
    splashthecash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭splashthecash


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Im tired of people whinging about negative equity and blaming the government and the bankers and the builders on their bad investment.
    People bought a house at the wrong time, bragged about how they were really intelligent for not paying dead money rent and bored everyone to death with property ladder talk and dead money speak .
    Now they are in trouble .
    If a business man bought a million bottles of Coke and then couldnt sell them could he blame the government ?
    If I bet on man city winning the premier league a few months ago should I be able to be re couped by the government if their bad form holds up?
    If I got all my savings and put them in shares in Dunnes Stores only to find out aldi and lidle were rolling into town should the government pay for that?
    Im all for feeling sorry for someone who made a bad investment but for jaysus sake man up and pay your debts and get on with it.
    Did you honestly never have an inkling that your 500 000 apartment in north dublin might drop in value. ?
    If the price suddenly rose again would you be willing to give the profit you made to the government or property developer that sold too cheap. ?
    Peope say I bought this house to live in now Im in negative equity . Why do you care so , you agreed to pay x amount for it , you will live there untill you die who cares what it resells for?
    Lets all be honest here everyone that bought a house during the boom thought it was a good investment and realised it wasnt then blames the government for their stupidity.
    Its like if in Jack and the beanstalk he had of just bought beans . Should he blame the government.
    Id love this thread to turn into a funny after hours one with examples of silliness but I bet itll end up with talk of OH IM SO HARD DONE BY I AGREED TO BUY A HOUSE NOW I CANT AFFORD IT I SHOULD BE ALLOWED JUST GIVE THE HOUSE BACK TO THE BANKERS BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING BONUSES ****E.

    I don't blame the government or the bankers for me buying a house during the boom...sure it was overpriced a bit but it was my decision. Hindsight is a great thing.


  • #44
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭grindle


    darokane wrote: »
    It's Leedil
    No, it's lyeedil, roll the 'L'.


  • #45
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    However cloptrop, I may have laughed at your 'warehouse full of paragraphs' post, but I will never thank you, I made up my mind that you were a troll planted by Boards very early in your Boards career. Also please, for the love of God and all potential readers of your posts, will you learn how to use apostrophes, commas, quotation marks, full stops etc? Or if you do know how to use them and just don't bother, then please bother! See, now you've made a grammar nazi out of me! And just one more thing, your 'analogies' are not even in the same country of the ball park of the base subject. Troll on my wayward son!
    This was priceless , I love how you think boards plant trolls . I have more infractions than an inmaths teacher.
    splashthecash wrote: »
    I don't blame the government or the bankers for me buying a house during the boom...sure it was overpriced a bit but it was my decision. Hindsight is a great thing.

    You could have atleast added a funny analogy , itll cheer you up a bit . The housing market was great for some but you know the old too good to be true saying .


  • #46
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,511 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    Lets ban any thread in AH which has Boom , Recession, Social welfare, Dole . in the title or subsequent statement.


  • #47
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Outkast_IRE wrote: »
    Lets ban any thread in AH which has Boom , Recession, Social welfare, Dole . in the title or subsequent statement.
    Lets not


  • #48
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    Babybuff wrote: »
    know I'm going to regret asking it but what do men like?
    Every man to be a box to box midfielder, solid in the tackle and clinical finisher.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    cloptrop wrote: »
    This was priceless , I love how you think boards plant trolls . I have more infractions than an inmaths teacher.

    That part of my comment was said with tongue-in-cheek, fúck there are enough trolls on Boards without them planting some. You're a funny character cloptrop, 99% of your posts that I've read, to me are... is there another word for 'trolling'?? But I don't dislike you*, which is normally my reaction to potential trolls, I just think you are a full mad c*nt! And it's not that I'm giving you a pass because you are a fellow fan of a certain English Premiership team, most of the stuff you write in that forum is tripe too. I don't actually know why I haven't stopped reading your posts, you're the Boards equivalent of a car crash in that I know I'm going to regret what I'm looking at, but I just can't help it. I for one hope that you are around here for a long time to come, seriously!

    *'you' being a name on a screen to me, as we all are to each other.

    Back on topic, I was half hoping you'd come back at me with the dyslexia card when I mentioned your grammar, then I could join the fun and suggest you blame the government, for every I.Q. point you lack they could issue you with a new bond which could be cashed in at a bookshop. It just wasn't meant to be though.:(


  • #50
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Ah jeez not this shíte again.

    I don't understand people like you, you giving out about the thread topic, is actually bumping it and keeping the thread alive :)


  • #51
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    emo72 wrote: »
    OP'er.......the kids of that generation were rode solid. i know it may be getting boring to listen to the sob stories, but, and its a BIG BUT, it doesnt make it any less true. those people are hurting, sold a massive lie, and they will never get over it. cut them some slack.

    boohoo


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  • #52
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    I dont want people to like me I want them to feel sorry for me . It helps with my cancer and serious wind problems.
    I cant post in the football thread anymore because they dont like me, even my own supporters. I invested alot of time in that thread and now being banned its like all that time was wasted and Ill never get that time back . Its kind of like negative equity in a way.

    The housing problem is kind of like buying Dark side of the moon and voting that it was the best album ever . Then buying wish you were here and realising Dark side wasnt even pink floyds best album. You cant take your vote back . Your just stuck with it forever.


  • #53
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    I don't understand people like you, you giving out about the thread topic, is actually bumping it and keeping the thread alive :)
    Its called thanks whoring.


  • #54
    chocksaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭chocksaway


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Im tired of people whinging about negative equity and blaming the government and the bankers and the builders on their bad investment.
    People bought a house at the wrong time, bragged about how they were really intelligent for not paying dead money rent and bored everyone to death with property ladder talk and dead money speak .
    Now they are in trouble .
    If a business man bought a million bottles of Coke and then couldnt sell them could he blame the government ?
    If I bet on man city winning the premier league a few months ago should I be able to be re couped by the government if their bad form holds up?
    If I got all my savings and put them in shares in Dunnes Stores only to find out aldi and lidle were rolling into town should the government pay for that?
    Im all for feeling sorry for someone who made a bad investment but for jaysus sake man up and pay your debts and get on with it.
    Did you honestly never have an inkling that your 500 000 apartment in north dublin might drop in value. ?
    If the price suddenly rose again would you be willing to give the profit you made to the government or property developer that sold too cheap. ?
    Peope say I bought this house to live in now Im in negative equity . Why do you care so , you agreed to pay x amount for it , you will live there untill you die who cares what it resells for?
    Lets all be honest here everyone that bought a house during the boom thought it was a good investment and realised it wasnt then blames the government for their stupidity.
    Its like if in Jack and the beanstalk he had of just bought beans . Should he blame the government.
    Id love this thread to turn into a funny after hours one with examples of silliness but I bet itll end up with talk of OH IM SO HARD DONE BY I AGREED TO BUY A HOUSE NOW I CANT AFFORD IT I SHOULD BE ALLOWED JUST GIVE THE HOUSE BACK TO THE BANKERS BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING BONUSES ****E.

    couldnt agree with you more! Sure people couldn't even afford them when they bought them at the time! paying out hundreds of thousands for shacks you'd be fined if ya used them as cattle sheds! You hear people complaining 'oh but we had to buy a house'. NO YOU FECKIN WELL DID NOT!!! You wanted to buy a house cause Mary up the road bought one in the new housing estate in the village! Bought it off the plans as well she did! Fuppin morons!


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    cloptrop wrote: »

    The housing problem is kind of like buying Dark side of the moon and voting that it was the best album ever . Then buying wish you were here and realising Dark side wasnt even pink floyds best album. You cant take your vote back . Your just stuck with it forever.

    I don't want to shoot myself in the foot as I said in an earlier post that I'd never thank you (I want to keep that going for at least the rest of the day!), but that was funny.

    Have they perma-banned you over in the football forum? They can get a little tetchy over there at times, the posters more than the mods. In fairness they do owe you the 15% deposit you put up yourself for the 50 post quota. Some football forums elsewhere on the web are giving out 100% for the admission quotas, you'll just have to shop around for the best deal. And now that the soccer threads industry is about to level out, now really is the time to get in. Maggie up the road from me opted into the football365 forum and I didn't think I'd be into it myself until I seen her move for it, I couldn't be the only one not doing it.

    Terms and Conditions apply.


  • #56
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    stankratz wrote: »
    I don't want to shoot myself in the foot as I said in an earlier post that I'd never thank you (I want to keep that going for at least the rest of the day!), but that was funny.

    Have they perma-banned you over in the football forum? They can get a little tetchy over there at times, the posters more than the mods. In fairness they do owe you the 15% deposit you put up yourself for the 50 post quota. Some football forums elsewhere on the web are giving out 100% for the admission quotas, you'll just have to shop around for the best deal. And now that the soccer threads industry is about to level out, now really is the time to get in. Maggie up the road from me opted into the football365 forum and I didn't think I'd be into it myself until I seen her move for it, I couldn't be the only one not doing it.

    Terms and Conditions apply.
    I am banned until I can appeal at start of next season. I cant join another forum because this one is in negative equity so I am stuck with it.
    Oh dont worry about thanking me , if it was thanks I was after Id try make posts that didnt get me accused of trolling.


  • #57
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    But ... but ... doesn't anyone remember the cry that went up, during the boom times : "this time is different"! It wasn't a "boom", it wasn't a "bubble", it was ... progress! Everyone can be a buy-to-let landlord, no-one needs to rent any more! Look at my growing property portfolio, each new property bought with the rent from the others! What do you mean, "who's going to pay this much rent?" ... :o

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #58
    Readyhed
    Site Banned Posts: 104 ✭✭Readyhed


    Anyone remember this one:

    If the market falls I'll just trow the keys into the bank and walk away!

    Anyone try it ?


  • #59
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Its lidl, not lidle.

    They were planning on opening an adult store called "Fidl".
    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    Not surprised tbh. That feckin Sky 3D channel was showing the Royal Wedding and the Ryder Cup in 3D......wassthefeckinpoint??!!!

    3 words:
    Kate - Middleton's - Arse


  • #60
    ItsNoAlias
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭ItsNoAlias


    In 2005 I went into the bank to complain about a drink link giving out property deeds instead of cash. There was a stick up goingt on in the branch.

    Bank manager put a gun to my head and said "If you dont buy I will blow your head off".

    True story :pac:


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  • #61
    pache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭pache


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Im tired of people whinging about negative equity and blaming the government and the bankers and the builders on their bad investment.
    People bought a house at the wrong time, bragged about how they were really intelligent for not paying dead money rent and bored everyone to death with property ladder talk and dead money speak .
    Now they are in trouble .
    If a business man bought a million bottles of Coke and then couldnt sell them could he blame the government ?
    If I bet on man city winning the premier league a few months ago should I be able to be re couped by the government if their bad form holds up?
    If I got all my savings and put them in shares in Dunnes Stores only to find out aldi and lidle were rolling into town should the government pay for that?
    Im all for feeling sorry for someone who made a bad investment but for jaysus sake man up and pay your debts and get on with it.
    Did you honestly never have an inkling that your 500 000 apartment in north dublin might drop in value. ?
    If the price suddenly rose again would you be willing to give the profit you made to the government or property developer that sold too cheap. ?
    Peope say I bought this house to live in now Im in negative equity . Why do you care so , you agreed to pay x amount for it , you will live there untill you die who cares what it resells for?
    Lets all be honest here everyone that bought a house during the boom thought it was a good investment and realised it wasnt then blames the government for their stupidity.
    Its like if in Jack and the beanstalk he had of just bought beans . Should he blame the government.
    Id love this thread to turn into a funny after hours one with examples of silliness but I bet itll end up with talk of OH IM SO HARD DONE BY I AGREED TO BUY A HOUSE NOW I CANT AFFORD IT I SHOULD BE ALLOWED JUST GIVE THE HOUSE BACK TO THE BANKERS BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING BONUSES ****E.

    Should the banks that lent billions and billions,bust the economy in the process,blame the goverment for their stupidity and expect them to pick up the tab also!!...no!...... wait a minute.....!!!!!

    Have you been in some far off distant galaxy all the while or what??


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