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    #4592
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Big time. AC/DC are one of the best bands of all time

    Yer man can't even sing :L


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    #4593
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,262 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Yer man can't even sing :L
    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 :D


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    #4594
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    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 :D

    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


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    #4595
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Yiz all forgoy yhat I'm great!

    21/25



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    #4596
    mightdomighty
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭mightdomighty


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    'Our'... Referring to who exactly?


    YOU.


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    #4597
    mightdomighty
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭mightdomighty


    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.


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    #4598
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    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.


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    #4599
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    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!


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    #4600
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


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


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    #4601
    Mr_Spaceman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


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

    (In an ideal world, obviously)


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    #4602
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    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


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    #4603
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I'd sleep wth my best friends sister


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    #4604
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    I'd sleep wth my best friends sister

    Would anyone else?


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    #4605
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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    #4606
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,326 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    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.


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    #4607
    mightdomighty
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭mightdomighty


    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 :D


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    #4608
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    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.


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    #4609
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Napper Hawkins wrote: »
    Would anyone else?

    I'm sure they would


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    #4610
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


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


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    #4611
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    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


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    #4612
    OMARS_COMING_
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭OMARS_COMING_


    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.


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    #4613
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    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


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    #4614
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    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.


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    #4615
    Overflow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Overflow


    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 !

    :D


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    #4616
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    mightdomighty wrote: »
    I disagree. But this is the nature of the thread I guess :D

    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


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    #4617
    OMARS_COMING_
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭OMARS_COMING_


    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.


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    #4618
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »
    The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

    Which is why I bought the boxset.


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    #4619
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »
    The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

    Not a patch on Rosemary & Thyme, mind


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    #4620
    mightdomighty
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭mightdomighty


    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


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    #4621
    komodosp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    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.


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