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Celtic Tiger must-have items

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    #122
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    A TV bigger than your room


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    #123
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    Grayson wrote: »
    I've just googles Turf Bucket. It's a big machine for cutting turf?
    I see what you mean.
    The one this fella bought was definetley not a machine, it was a fireside item. The buyer was Garrett Kelleher who wanted to develop the now cancelled Chicago Spire

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #124
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    micropig wrote: »
    A TV bigger than your room
    getting rid of curtains, so everyone could see your big TV

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #125
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    demanufactured wrote: »
    4x4s that NEVER saw dirt.

    Glad to see that's stopped.
    Oh wait....


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    #126
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    Kids I babysat always had tv in their rooms. Whatever happened to a book at bedtime? Bah!


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    #127
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,072 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Everyone seemed to be driving 5 series beemers at one point.
    ......... with the obligatory dyed blonde in the passenger seat doing her make up in the mirror while talking (about shoes) on the phone at the same time....


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    #128
    Cunning Stunt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭Cunning Stunt


    Arnold Layne wrote: »
    1. A big fcuk-off SUV for the missus who didn't know how to drive or park it between 2 white lines in a car park.

    This.
    I know someone who was a typical 'keeping up with the Jones' type. I remember her giving out about the mothers in their big SUVs blocking the roads at the schools. Low and behold the next time she turned up at my house, she was driving a big monstrosity of a yoke herself- and she only had one kid at the time! She said the husband had bought it for her 'as a present' (the hubby was of course working in the construction industry). I'd say she tormented him for it :rolleyes:

    Aaanyway another one I can think of is electric showers. Nobody cared how much they cost when the going was good...not the same story now though...


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    #129
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Why hasn't anybody mentioned paying €50,000 for a car space for your €500,000 apartment in the Docklands?


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    #130
    Jess16
    Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    tonyangelino wrote: »
    The great expression - you're "only" renting?
    and to be made feel like a peasant if you weren't buying for the "investment"

    He who laughs last, laughs longest :)


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    #131
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Kids called Josh.


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    #132
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    Fools buying bottles of champagne in their local to celebrate an English or Scottish teams success.
    Women wearing too much make up driving mini coopers yapping on the phone.
    Pigs on a spit.
    Bald men in Porche boxters with a sexy foreign girlfriend who works in his shop.
    Double vodka/whiskey/jagermeister and red bull


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    #133
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Cunning Stunt wrote: »
    This.
    I know someone who was a typical 'keeping up with the Jones' type. I remember her giving out about the mothers in their big SUVs blocking the roads at the schools. Low and behold the next time she turned up at my house, she was driving a big monstrosity of a yoke herself- and she only had one kid at the time! She said the husband had bought it for her 'as a present' (the hubby was of course working in the construction industry). I'd say she tormented him for it :rolleyes:

    Aaanyway another one I can think of is electric showers. Nobody cared how much they cost when the going was good...not the same story now though...

    +1 This keeping up with the jones thing really annoyed me. One kid to be brought to school every morning and this gas guzzling monstrosity was used. A lot of the time the drivers men or women didnt have the first clue how to drive it!


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    #134
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    I miss the Celtic Tiger :(

    Bit of a soggy kitten theses days :(


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    #135
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Cunning Stunt wrote: »
    Arnold Layne wrote: »
    1. A big fcuk-off SUV for the missus who didn't know how to drive or park it between 2 white lines in a car park.

    This.
    I know someone who was a typical 'keeping up with the Jones' type. I remember her giving out about the mothers in their big SUVs blocking the roads at the schools. Low and behold the next time she turned up at my house, she was driving a big monstrosity of a yoke herself- and she only had one kid at the time! She said the husband had bought it for her 'as a present' (the hubby was of course working in the construction industry). I'd say she tormented him for it :rolleyes:

    Aaanyway another one I can think of is electric showers. Nobody cared how much they cost when the going was good...not the same story now though...

    Nothing wrong with electric showers, a lot cheaper to use than heating a full tank when you only need a quick splash


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    #136
    GEasy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭GEasy


    Hand cooked Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar Crisps.


    Tayto? Please......


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    #137
    Melted
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Melted


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Were they even around 5 years ago or are you just nameing stuff you see in shops now?

    some people are still stuck in the celtic tiger!:pac:


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    #138
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    2 to 3 Sun holidays in the year

    Taking a long weekend in Bulgaria/Hungary to get your teeth done & then go to a property expo.


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    #139
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    LakesKeane wrote: »
    Hand cooked Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar Crisps.


    Tayto? Please......

    Ah c'mon, they're both amazing.


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    #140
    Feeona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    yoghurts made with 'hand picked strawberries' because strawberries taste more organic if they're picked by hand :rolleyes:

    I call shenanigans though. Aren't all strawberries hand picked? Like labelling eggs 'specially incubated in hens'


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    #141
    ShaneMc2012
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭ShaneMc2012


    Garden lights that lit up your 'sweeping driveway'... When you lived in a semi in Cabinteely...


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    #142
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,636 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    Kids called Josh.

    Kids called Josh in Avoca Handweavers with their mother.

    "....do you want green or red pesto on your paninni Josh?....."

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #143
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    ShaneMc2012 wrote: »
    Garden lights that lit up your 'sweeping driveway'... When you lived in a semi in Cabinteely...
    Tacky solar powered garden lamps are still available in 2 Euro shops.


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    #144
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Balloons tied to gates advertising to poor people that the little prince / princess was celebrating. Usually guests were those met at "activities" like ballet, piano, modern dance, soccer, swimming.


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    #145
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    A ridiculously overpriced golf club subscription, the ability to be obnoxious, a posh accent, loadsa credit cards, friends with big exciting careers in property / banking, the kids in poncy faux gaelscoileanna, some horses out the back and crap like waterpurifiers, coffee makers and dehumidifiers. A boat too if possible and food soured from m and s, household stuff for huge prices from avoka and brown thomas clothes all the way.. Also useless qualifications like a b.a. In yoga / oriental civilization for 50% of college entrants


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    #146
    lividduck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭lividduck


    An intolerant, greedy and superior attitute!


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    #147
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Pet donkeys (owned by donkeys :))


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    #148
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    brown shoes white shirts and blue jeans with a really crappy naff belt.... stupid hair cuts and you'd see about 60 of these all in 1 night club drinking ****ty champaign trying with all there might to be somebody while snorting the ****est quality of cocaine youle ever get your hands on :pac:


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    #149
    The_fever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭The_fever


    Sunderland Fans


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    #150
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Strawberry jelly for a brain


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    #151
    retroactive
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭retroactive


    Real Ugg boots - but not the generic brown ones (€300) but the ones not available in Ireland - pink or green.

    Apartments in Bulgaria.

    The apres leaving cert holiday in cabo for 2 months.

    The Institute of Education.

    Professional photographers for every event.

    Decking.

    A piano.

    O' Briens sandwiches for every lunch.

    Inter-railing, substituting trains for airplanes.

    Buying your son a Z3 for his 17th

    Lunch time cosmetic surgery.


    .... I miss it.


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