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  • #32
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Leasing cars, what the hell was that about, you get a mew car every 3 years but you pay a second mortgage.


  • #33
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Music by Keane.


  • #34
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I'm happy to be corrected but I believe there was some American called Abercromie and Fitch

    Something like that anyway

    And it could only be bought in the USA so if you had the clothes, well a fair chance you had a weekend shopping trip in NY.

    If you had it, well you had something most Irish people didn't.

    Oh and helicopter trips to Ballybrit racecourse.
    I worked as a barman out there and it was like living on an airforce base. Helicopters everywhere and over east Galway city
    It got so busy for raceweek the racecourse hired in a full time air traffic control crew.
    Far less busy nowadays, any Galwegians would confirm


  • #35
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Fake grass in your garden:rolleyes:


  • #36
    bradolf pittler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭bradolf pittler


    paying 4000 on membership of a golf club in a country that pisses rain every summer.
    plus i was and still am ****e at golf


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  • #37
    FinnLizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭FinnLizzy


    The never-ending plans for new shopping centres in small regional towns.


  • #38
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Jumbo breakfast roll :D


  • #39
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Breakfast rolls

    Not as popular now


    They were called breakfast panini's then.


  • #40
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Grayson wrote: »
    They were called breakfast panini's then.

    Lovely with a coffee, or is it a latte now:rolleyes::D


  • #41
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    FinnLizzy wrote: »
    The never-ending plans for new shopping centres in small regional towns.

    And massive housing estates in Cavan etc...only 30 minutes from Dublin:D


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  • #42
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    micropig wrote: »
    Lovely with a coffee, or is it a latte now:rolleyes::D

    Just call it a flat white ;)


  • #43
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Grayson wrote: »
    Just call it a flat white ;)

    Or an Americana:D


  • #44
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Plently bought those Kevin Sharkey paintings for several hundred euro as an "investment"
    Slaps of paint and a mess.
    A junior infant class could have done that.


  • #45
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    Another vote for breakfast rolls here. I'm keepin' it real though. I eat breakfast rolls like it's 2006.

    Big shout out to Hash Brown and Brother Jambon also.

    Roll for Life.


  • #46
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,463 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Foie Gras


  • #47
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Gym memberships you never used.

    and a €50 note. As in when I went out I used to bring £20. That was 3-4 pints and chips on the way home. At some point it morphed into a €50 note I needed.


  • #48
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    the monies


  • #49
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    IM0 wrote: »
    the monies

    & the poweries:D


  • #50
    Dob74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dob74


    An apartment in Turkey or Bulguria or Dubai only 200k and just 7 hours by plane.
    Massive 80k SUV, just top up the mortgage


  • #51
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    IM0 wrote: »
    the monies
    micropig wrote: »
    & the poweries:D

    and the wimmins :cool:


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  • #52
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Plently bought those Fergal Sharkey paintings for several hundred euro as an "investment"
    Slaps of paint and a mess.
    A junior infant class could have done that.
    He of the Undertones? Think you mean Kevin Sharkey.


  • #53
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Derry, Donegal

    Easy mistake :o


  • #54
    kojack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭kojack


    A bathroom in every room of the house, I have even seen a bathroom in someone's garage


  • #55
    funnights74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    bradolf pittler wrote: »
    Jet-ski......and drive 45 mins to the ocean to use it

    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone, hats off to that salesman!!


  • #56
    funnights74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    Double sided American fridges and only 2 living in the house. They had to buy half of tesco's to fill it up and when most of it went off into the bin it went.


  • #57
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    funnights74 wrote: »
    Double sided American fridges and only 2 living in the house. They had to buy half of tesco's to fill it up and when most of it went off into the bin it went.

    15 bedroom house for a couple:D
    Who have since spilt up:D



    €40 million for a wedding


  • #58
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Prospects of advancement and lots of manageable debts.

    Now those with a job are in a holding position and saving every spare penny, which acerbates the recession.


  • #59
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    funnights74 wrote: »
    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone

    You know that big blue wobbly thing in the middle of Athlone with lots of huge lakes off it?
    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Decking, it was all about decking and feckin' downlighters.

    Winner.


  • #60
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Accents.


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  • #61
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    An original painting by an authentic irish artist ie J b Yeats, for the bathroom loike. Authenticity and originality not guaranteed. AIB seemed to have the same line of thinking, they ve loads


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