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NegativeCreep · 25-07-2012 12:09AM

Cienciano wrote: »

Since when does being able to sing matter? Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and Rick Astley all can't sing. But music legends

Stick with the x-factor, leave the real music to the adults

Rick Astley? Ye must be joking :L
They all have nice qualities to their voice anyway. Yer man from AC/DC has no nice or enjoyable quality to his voice :L

uch · 25-07-2012 12:45AM

Yiz all forgoy yhat I'm great!

mightdomighty · 25-07-2012 08:30AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

'Our'... Referring to who exactly?

YOU.

mightdomighty · 25-07-2012 05:42PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

Seriously, there's always going to be a demand for money

Yes undoubtedly

kunst nugget wrote: »

it's up to the banks whether they choose to take the risk of giving their money to you.

I'd still argue It's more important for those signing off on their loan to make sure they can honour repayments or face the consequences. Citing ignorance is a lame excuse. Anything the Goverment or banks do is secondary with regards to the blame game.

kunst nugget · 25-07-2012 08:11PM

mightdomighty wrote: »

Yes undoubtedly

I'd still argue It's more important for those signing off on their loan to make sure they can honour repayments or face the consequences. Citing ignorance is a lame excuse. Anything the Goverment or banks do is secondary with regards to the blame game.

People will always be idiots and if they are freely given money without the traditional checks and balances put in place they are going to be even bigger idiots. The problems we are faced with now are because the banks and the people running them were even bigger idiots.

I'm not absolving people of blame here - if you wildly overspent and you're now stuck with an enormous debt: suck it up, that's your fault. The fact of the matter is that the banks gave out money and loans that they shouldn't have which is what has crippled this country and left us with a legacy of debt our grandchildren will probably still be paying off. We can go around shaking our heads at the fact that people lost the run of themselves and surely some did but lets not lose sight of the fact that the source of the problem was the reckless lending policies of the banks and the total lack of regulation on the part of the banks.

Paddy Cow · 25-07-2012 09:56PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

Demand that was also created by the banks. Banks set enormous sales targets every month for their staff and pre-approved massive loans for people on low incomes.

I wanted to get a small bank loan of €600. I went into the bank and was shocked to find out that I was pre-approved for €10,000 :eek: I was only earning €300 a week at the time. Needless to say I didn't take out that much!

stepbar · 25-07-2012 10:01PM

Sean Quinn is a crook (expressed as an opinion in a pub in Fermanagh / Cavan).

Mr_Spaceman · 26-07-2012 12:41AM

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 12:45AM

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

Yes. I'm a big supporter of the "good crack on the arse" approach to parenting

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 12:49AM

I'd sleep wth my best friends sister

Napper Hawkins · 26-07-2012 03:16AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'd sleep wth my best friends sister

Would anyone else?

26-07-2012 03:45AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Yes. I'm a big supporter of the "good crack on the arse" approach to parenting

The trouble with that approach to most people is that the people who use it don't use it properly. If used for the right reasons I see little problem with it but generally it's used for reasons such as some retarded parent letting a three year old run down the street, almost onto the road and the parent smacks them, it's the parent in the wrong there.

pickarooney · 26-07-2012 09:14AM

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

It'd be pretty miserable without all the hilarious **** kids say.

mightdomighty · 26-07-2012 09:20AM

kunst nugget wrote: »

the source of the problem was the reckless lending policies of the banks and the total lack of regulation on the part of the banks.

I disagree. But this is the nature of the thread I guess

krudler · 26-07-2012 09:29AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Rick Astley? Ye must be joking :L
They all have nice qualities to their voice anyway. Yer man from AC/DC has no nice or enjoyable quality to his voice :L

they're a rock group, not known for ballads but ear burstingly loud anthems, and they're fcuking great at it.

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 09:55AM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Would anyone else?

I'm sure they would

AnonoBoy · 26-07-2012 09:58AM

Anyone who buys a box-set of Top Gear will never contribute anything of meaning or significance to this world.

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 10:08AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Anyone who buys a box-set of Top Gear will never contribute anything of meaning or significance to this world.

Also anyone who buys a friends, lost, the office, glee or anything reality show related boxset is equally retarded

OMARS_COMING_ · 26-07-2012 10:16AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Also anyone who buys a friends, lost, the office, glee or anything reality show related boxset is equally retarded

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 10:25AM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

I bought the wire boxset.

S'all in the game yo

AnonoBoy · 26-07-2012 10:44AM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

You've missed the point of what we were both saying.

Overflow · 26-07-2012 10:58AM

talkinyite wrote: »

I think taxes should be cut rather than increased, and that Ireland should get reparations from England, Fianna Fáil and the Church.

Hmmm, lower taxes and handouts, you sir should be running the country !

kunst nugget · 26-07-2012 11:47AM

mightdomighty wrote: »

I disagree. But this is the nature of the thread I guess

Fair enough. We can blame the greed of the people and man, did people get greedy. And stupid. But let's see… how did people finance that greed and stupidity? Oh yeah, it was because the banks were completely reckless with their lending. And when the **** hit the fan for the banks who stepped in and recklessly tied the bank debt to the country? That would be the reckless economic policies of our politicians.

Here is a good overview of the Irish meltdown and the banks and government involvement in it, if you can ignore the gentle mocking of Irishness that runs through it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

OMARS_COMING_ · 26-07-2012 11:56AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

I bought the wire boxset.

S'all in the game yo

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Wacker The Attacker · 26-07-2012 11:57AM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Which is why I bought the boxset.

old hippy · 26-07-2012 11:59AM

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Not a patch on Rosemary & Thyme, mind

mightdomighty · 26-07-2012 04:14PM

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

pickarooney wrote: »

It'd be pretty miserable without all the hilarious **** kids say.

True, but some kids are c***s

komodosp · 27-07-2012 01:15PM

Religious people *should* be inflicting their beliefs on atheists. They're trying to save our souls, dammit! Not to do so is like letting a blind man walk out in front of oncoming traffic.

Also vegetarians (who are so for moral reasons) should be inflicting their beliefs on us meat-eaters. If not... well do they think meat is murder or don't they!? If they do but aren't trying to convince the rest of us the same, well they are nothing but lazy ... er what's the word? Blind-eye-turners, whatever they are really called. Just like those people in the clergy who knew about the priests doing the abuse but said nothing... Sure they don't eat meat themselves, but they do stand by watching the rest of us slaughter animal after animal all the time knowing humans are capable of surviving without meat.

Geekness1234 · 28-07-2012 02:48AM

It really annoys me that charities like the DSPCA get money.
There are far better charities that help people,not animals,that need money just as badly as does the DSPCA.

deisedave · 28-07-2012 03:26AM

Geekness1234 wrote: »

It really annoys me that charities like the DSPCA get money.
There are far better charities that help people,not animals,that need money just as badly as does the DSPCA.

Animals cant help themselves alot of people can, also people are what cause the animals suffering so I think we should do all we can to help them. I have raised money for the Waterford animal shelter in the past and I thought it was for a great cause.

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