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Things from the Celtic tiger you don't see anymore

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  • #32
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Bebo.


  • #33
    mccarthy37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭mccarthy37


    Small builders driving big fcuk off jeeps pulling stainless steel trailers. Loads a money and people generally smiling all things of the past.
    Signs outside unfinished building sites "Last house remaining"


  • #34
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I hope you slapped them, celtic tiger or no celtic tiger.


    Yeah I could have never understand it? There was always this smug look on their faces when they were doing it. I new women who changed their accents into posh accents when they got a mortgage:confused:

    It was all pretending to be wealthy shíte, mad stuff!!


  • #35
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Early houses full of people in suits. Back in track suits now they are. Rightly so.

    I saw this before the celtic tiger, I was in an early house called the white horse after my debs in 1996 and saw these business types coming in for a pint and a chaser on the way to work.


  • #36
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    Tower cranes
    Bill Cullen


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  • #37
    cookiedough 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭cookiedough 1


    There was a Celtic tiger???? Musta missed that.


  • #38
    King of Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    free cocaine at parties. :(


  • #39
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Letters from a bank manager stating " you are under-borrowed."


  • #40
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Do people still use the phrase "property ladder"?


  • #41
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »
    Do people still use the phrase "property ladder"?

    It's called the "property toilet" these days.


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  • #42
    zef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭zef


    Jet Skis and cocaine sum up the tiger years for me.


  • #43
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Double D hookers in four poster beds in 5 star hotels on the other side of the world :(

    Speak for yourself...erm...I mean, yeah, you don't see that anymore.

    <<

    >>

    The amount of new gigantic 4X4's to be seen has halved in my experience. Eddie Hobbs trying to flog property in some foreign place, before rebranding himself as a soothsayer, apparantly forseeing the crash bang years before it happened.


  • #44
    Odats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭Odats


    Trying to avoid the Mummy's dropping their little darling outside the school in their brand new X5's or Range Rovers on the way to work.

    Now it's in Micras and Yaris'.


  • #45
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Chop Chop wrote: »
    It's called the "property toilet" these days.

    Property seesaw


  • #46
    solas111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭solas111


    Local politicians changing town boundaries to take in a building site recently acquired by their friend who wants to build another housing scheme against the wishes of local residents.


  • #47
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Finnt wrote: »
    Bill Cullen

    Did ya see him on the late late last week? He's changed his tune, I thought he was going to cry at one point. Remember him telling everyone they should work for free a few years back?


  • #48
    aphex™
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭aphex™


    Outdoor hot tubs

    The woman in my office moving to Termonfeckin, buying a place in Bulgaria from the Mafia then leaving for a job in AIB.


  • #49
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Empty taxi ranks on a saturday night and people desperately trying to flag ones down on the road at 3.30am


  • #50
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    Chop Chop wrote: »

    Did ya see him on the late late last week? He's changed his tune, I thought he was going to cry at one point. Remember him telling everyone they should work for free a few years back?

    Just seen him for a minute he looked fair shook!


  • #51
    kyote00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭kyote00


    I miss the days when Carlow was only 40mins from Dublin


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  • #52
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Finnt wrote: »
    Just seen him for a minute he looked fair shook!

    The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Remember in the apprentice he was apparently worth €110 million. All that money was mortgaged out on other stuff. So now he's worth nothing.

    Reality bites, I'd still ride his missus with the manky face though.


  • #53
    maxfresh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭maxfresh


    Decking and jetskis


  • #54
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    Chop Chop wrote: »
    Reality bites, I'd still ride his missus with the manky face though.

    Not if I'd a bag of mickeys would I give her one


  • #55
    Dwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Dwork


    maxfresh wrote: »
    Decking and jetskis
    Yeah, what happened Decking? Never hear much about it these days. At one stage people were getting the boots of their cars done out with decking.

    We had to lay a huge deck once, up on a penthouse roof overlooking dublin bay. Once it was down, the owner wandered in, announced that he wanted it taken up and re-done with hardwood decking as that softwood looked muck. OOkkaaayy, Deck-head.

    I bet he's bust now and would love that softwood decking, if only to keep the house warm burning in his fire. I know it kept all our houses warm for a fair long time anyway.:D


  • #56
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Dwork wrote: »
    Yeah, what happened Decking? Never hear much about it these days. At one stage people were getting the boots of their cars done out with decking.

    We had to lay a huge deck once, up on a penthouse roof overlooking dublin bay. Once it was down, the owner wandered in, announced that he wanted it taken up and re-done with hardwood decking as that softwood looked muck. OOkkaaayy, Deck-head.

    I bet he's bust now and would love that softwood decking, if only to keep the house warm burning in his fire. I know it kept all our houses warm for a fair long time anyway.:D

    I remember the days when "decking" meant having the teacher giving you a shlap!


  • #57
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Finnt wrote: »
    Not if I'd a bag of mickeys would I give her one

    The lips man, did you see the lips?? Ohh yeah!!


  • #58
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    maxfresh wrote: »
    Decking and jetskis

    The decking has gone slippy these days from the mold that the Irish weather brings, now it's a slipathon.


  • #59
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Once Lidl was for poor people and immigrants

    No longer :)


  • #60
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Hottubs


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  • #61
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Once Lidl was for poor people and immigrants

    No longer :)

    I noticed the people getting dressed up to go shopping in lidl. You still have these beamers showing up with people pretending to be looking for tools dressed up to the hilt saying " sure we will get a few bits while were here" Fúcking shams the lot of them..


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