Are you ashamed of Ireland post 'celtic tiger'?

I find it positive the the price of asshats has fallen since the crash

Before those Christmas shopping trips to NY during the boom, I had no idea what an asshat was, never mind how to put one on! O.M.G! the state of us then!. I bought mine in Macy's 5th Avenue in 2005, when did you get yours OP?

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

What a pathetic place it has turned into. The rot started during the celtic tiger years when a lot of people put their asshats on, got obsessed with materialism, became extremely vacuous and up themselves. I have noticed that attitude still lingers in some.

A celtic tiger hangover, a malevolent government that blatantly lords over us, a downtrodden people, and asshats. It is very hard to find anything to like about the place these days.

Other than the scenery can you think of anything positive?

The use of the word "asshat" has increased exponentially, which is something I suppose.

But I'm not ashamed of Ireland because I'm not responsible for the way it is, and I don't think it's very different from other developed countries. Like them, there are good, bad and average things about it.

Couldn't give a toss anymore. I was a broke student in college and now I've a fairly well paid job. My recession is over hopefully. Ha ha. I'm going to get a house with two mortgages now and lord it over you OP. These good times for me will never end:cool:

I love this country and will stay as long as it takes to put it right for the next generation. You cannot dwell on the past but live for the future and rebuild tgis great nation until it sits at the top table. Then people from other lands will look up to us and truly say "You WILL never beat the Irish"
May god help us all.

UCDVet wrote: »

We're much more humble AND prouder?

It's our catholic heritage,humble is better,suffering is good.

I'm ashamed that we're taking it up the ass both from our own elites and from Europe. We should be following the French example and publicly executing them.

Exaggeration, but we could at least follow Iceland and actually make corruption a full on criminal offense, and try both the former government and anyone even remotely connected to Anglo's "golden circle", and if convicted lock them up and throw the keys away. The fact that they're still walking the streets and in many cases have kept most of the money they milked out of the taxpayer is one of the most disgusting injustices I have ever had the misfortune to live through.

People focus too much on a country's economy has a judge of whether it's a good place to live or not. During the CT, teachers were always telling me to study hard so I could get a good job because "the economy was good". I'm one of those weird people who wanted to get the hell out of Ireland when I was still in 3rd year because, despite the money, I didn't really think it was a nice place to live. I'm not try to put down Ireland, I'm just saying it's not my cup of tea, but growing up people told me to look for work in Ireland because of the economy. Even if Ireland was still rolling in money I'd still have left.

Eastern Germany's not doing too great at the moment either, but there's still proper transport, infrastructure, more to do etc. I'd pick that over a cash-rich delapidated country any day. While a good or even stable economy is important, other things are as well. The Irish government should've used the money to invest properly and turn Ireland into a place on par with even England in terms of infrastructure. The money would've run out but at least there would've had something to show for it, and something to use for decades to come, recession or no recession. Instead, people just decide to build random houses in the middle of f*cking nowhere which are no use to anyone.

Why is there so much begrudgery towards the times when the country was doing well? Yes, people had a lot of money and were purchasing lots of nice things. Is that a bad thing? Some circles developed a money culture but I think the extent of this is horribly exaggerated.

It's almost like people hated wealth. So happy to see prosperity come to an end. Why? Classic catholic self-hatred