Things people did during the "Celtic Tiger Days"

Big Davey · 16-03-2013 07:23PM #1

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

The Backwards Man · 16-03-2013 07:24PM

Talked faux francais

ejmaztec · 16-03-2013 07:26PM

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

Those coins were probably jammed in the trollies, and people were too embarrassed to use a tyre wrench on them to get their money back, because they didn't want to be seen as paupers.

It took me 20 minutes to get my coin out once, I've no shame.

galwayrush · 16-03-2013 07:27PM

I know a builder who organised his own 'surprise' 40th birthday party.

omahaid · 16-03-2013 07:27PM

Glitch in the matrix?

darragh16 · 16-03-2013 07:29PM

They spelled "Tiger" correctly anyway

Big Davey · 16-03-2013 07:29PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Those coins were probably jammed in the trollies, and people were too embarrassed to use a tyre wrench on them to get their money back, because they didn't want to be seen as paupers.

It took me 20 minutes to get my coin out once, I've no shame.

Should have used a snipe nosed pliers it only takes 30 seconds :-)

omahaid · 16-03-2013 07:30PM

I posted this in the other thread but I don't know which one is going to be locked so

A sea of men in hi-viz jackets buying breakfast rolls in front of me as I try to pay for my petrol

Dwork · 16-03-2013 07:32PM

re-mortgaged their house to buy BMWs and then wafted around looking down their noses at me in my banger. Ahh, but I waited in the long grass, and soon as the bimmers were re-posessed I nipped out and bought two big jeeps, a his n hers. I now waft around looking down my nose at them. Someday I'll have enough for a house, then that'll show em. The kids hate living in this long grass in fairness.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 16-03-2013 07:32PM

Hi,

I'm Bob, I have 3 houses, 2 apartments, 3 cars, an armchair fridge full of beer and a helicopter.

Also......15 maxed out credit cards.

galwayrush · 16-03-2013 07:34PM

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Hi,

I'm Bob, I have 3 houses, 2 apartments, 3 cars, an armchair fridge full of beer and a helicopter.

Also......15 maxed out credit cards.

Careful now, you might end up locked in an underground bunker for 8 months,:D

Big Davey · 16-03-2013 07:37PM

darragh16 wrote: »

They spelled "Tiger" correctly anyway

Lol !

homeless student · 16-03-2013 07:38PM

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

why would that pi$$ you off?

16-03-2013 07:41PM

Having a social life would be one of them, I'd imagine.

Dwork · 16-03-2013 07:41PM

homeless student wrote: »

why would that pi$$ you off?

or even pi€€ you off? I used to go around collecting all the abandoned euros, look at me now. I have €12.

twistyj · 16-03-2013 07:50PM

Have offspring that are just as ignorant and disrespectful as they are

I Luv Crysis · 16-03-2013 07:52PM

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

Grayson · 16-03-2013 07:58PM

twistyj wrote: »

Have offspring that are just as ignorant and disrespectful as they are

called Sorcha, Fiachra and uachtar reoite

homeless student · 16-03-2013 07:59PM

I Luv Crysis wrote: »

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

ya that really pi$$es me off 2. how dare people be sound enough to buy rounds of shots:p

Grayson · 16-03-2013 07:59PM

I Luv Crysis wrote: »

"Round of shots, I'll pay"

jesus, that was me. Of course I'd be eating noodles for a week, but just give me a few drinks and my pitiful little wallet becomes community property.

ejmaztec · 16-03-2013 08:44PM

Auctioneers only getting out of bed for a 750K sale.

byhookorbycrook · 16-03-2013 08:51PM

Went shopping to New York

RGDATA! · 16-03-2013 08:52PM

cocaine

keithsfleet · 16-03-2013 09:00PM

Big Davey wrote: »

that pissed you off.....................................
I will start the ball rolling.

1) people that left their €1 or €2 in the supermarket trolley not to walk a few feet to return it, it doesn't happen nowadays that's for sure.

Done a stint in security at a very big well known Southside shopping center that the "higher class" flocked to in their thousands.
Most I ever collected was a little over 60 euro one night.
Usually always walked away at the end of my shift with 20-40 euro in change.

Oh how I miss being employed to do a job I didn't do in the slightest.

maxfresh · 16-03-2013 09:32PM

Threw their change in the bin

Super-Rush · 16-03-2013 09:34PM

Made going out for Sunday lunch a nightmare.

Table after table of Marys and Paddys with their litter of little bastards wrecking the place.

Paddy roaring down his phone about the massive job he's just taken on.

Mary pretending to know what a bottle of Chablis was.

Big Bottom · 16-03-2013 09:39PM

Sunday lunch?

I think only pretentious twats go to 'Sunday lunch' what a waste!

Cienciano · 16-03-2013 09:44PM

Wánkers telling people how much their house has gone up as if they were real estate experts.
Although, we have similar wánkers now that never bought (usually because they were too young or didn't want to be tied down with a mortgage or were in australia) that pretend they're real estate experts cos they rented and aren't in negative equity now.

Rasheed · 16-03-2013 09:47PM

Every second eeijit bought a racehorse and became experts on racing overnight.

I used to hear this one builder name dropping all the time in the pub.

"I was there in the ring with Aidan O'Brien and Jamie Spencer talking about our chances. We were confidant, the ground was good to soft so, I threw 10k at 5/1 on the nags head. Easy money when you know the form."

Knob.

Irish Guitarist · 16-03-2013 09:49PM

Used €50 notes when they ran out of toilet paper.

When their butler made a mistake they would shoot him and get a new one. The new butlers first job would be to dispose of the old butlers body.

Dwork · 16-03-2013 10:05PM

I remember one (formerly dog rough)lad who made it big in property was showing me a place he'd bought. On the way in there was a tiny bit of dirt on the stonework and he took out a pocket handkerchief from his immaculate suit and cleaned it off, tutting.

He subsequently lost his hole in a spectacular way, dominating the papers for a fair while with tales of just how screwed he was.(:D sorry, but in fairness).

The roughest man in Ireland bought that place off the banks and set up a kip hole of a shop in it, absolutely wrecking the gaff. Last time I met hankie boy he was in Aldi buying a six-pack and he wandered out to his battered Astra. My inner cnut had a little giggle, tbh. I could live with all the other pretencious stuff he did, but jasus, a pocket handkerchief.

Things people did during the "Celtic Tiger Days"

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