Things from the Celtic tiger you don't see anymore

efb · 16-03-2013 10:09PM

I dont pay much attention to others in lidl- not bothered. But there is one really lovely checkout girl that so friendly

mikemac1 · 16-03-2013 10:12PM

You have plenty of time to look at her since Lidl refuse to open new tills when there is a queue :mad:

Chop Chop · 16-03-2013 10:13PM

efb wrote: »

I dont pay much attention to others in lidl- not bothered. But there is one really lovely checkout girl that so friendly

There was woman that pretty much told everyone in the que, that she never shops here normally, I knew her, It was an image thing. She's full of shít and materialistic and currently riding her boss who is nearly 70 for a cut of his business.

FixdePitchmark · 16-03-2013 10:15PM

Meals for 2 costing over 300 Euro.
**** restaurants full.
Limos for Communions.
Queues at car washes.
1 hour M50 traffic jams.
Weekend city Breaks.
House Cleaners.
1000 Euro Irish hotel weekend breaks.
Eating out because it is Monday.
The 10 Bag shopping woman.
Queues at ATMs.
Stags in Las Vegas.
New York at xmas.
Car Service at main dealer.
Hummers.
In House catering or tent for a party.
A DJ for a party.
BBQs with 50 people.
Music festivals costing 600 - 700 euro for weekend

Chop Chop · 16-03-2013 10:17PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Meals for 2 costing over 300 Euro.
**** restaurants full.
Limos for Communions.
Queues at car washes.
1 hour M50 traffic jams.
Weekend city Breaks.
House Cleaners.
1000 Euro Irish hotel weekend breaks.
Eating out because it is Monday.
The 10 Bag shopping woman.
Queues at ATMs.
Stags in Las Vegas.
New York at xmas.
Car Service at main dealer.
Hummers.
In House catering or tent for a party.
A DJ for a party.
BBQs with 50 people.
Music festivals costing 600 - 700 euro for weekend

Spray tanned kids at communions. My nephew made 5 grand on his confirmation back in 2005:eek:

Defiler Of The Coffin · 16-03-2013 10:17PM

Rural pubs that do good business

Fox_In_Socks · 16-03-2013 10:23PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Meals for 2 costing over 300 Euro.
**** restaurants full.
Limos for Communions.
Queues at car washes.
1 hour M50 traffic jams.
Weekend city Breaks.
House Cleaners.
1000 Euro Irish hotel weekend breaks.
Eating out because it is Monday.
The 10 Bag shopping woman.
Queues at ATMs.
Stags in Las Vegas.
New York at xmas.
Car Service at main dealer.
Hummers.
In House catering or tent for a party.
A DJ for a party.
BBQs with 50 people.
Music festivals costing 600 - 700 euro for weekend

RTE need to update their montage clips, where you see the well dressed middle aged woman, with her 10 shopping bags on her arm, clicking her fingers for a taxi and the grey haired man with glasses in the restaurant doing his pretentious "writing on his hand" shtick looking for the bill.

That and the "high powered executive" with his sunglasses on his head beckoning his frustration at a farmer who is blocking the road cause he is moving his sheep to a different field.

****ters, the lot of them.:P

Sergeant · 16-03-2013 10:24PM

The exuberant and breathless journalistic musings of Barry Egan. Tales of Gerald Kean renting a yacht off Roman Abramovich and bringing everyone who was anyone in South Dublin to the Med for a month. Gossip from the FF tent at the Galway Races; the heart of power in Ireland. Bertie Ahern standing in his wellies helping 'da peepel from me constitsutency'.

Great days.

FixdePitchmark · 16-03-2013 10:28PM

I have to put my hand up and say , I did most of the stuff on the list

:o.

But never spent money , I had not got in my pocket or had not earned. Knew it was all a load of balls - but , hard to be the sado in the corner going. I'm not going to the races - against my principles. :rolleyes:

FixdePitchmark · 16-03-2013 10:30PM

Sergeant wrote: »

The exuberant and breathless journalistic musings of Barry Egan. Tales of Gerald Kean renting a yacht off Roman Abramovich and bringing everyone who was anyone in South Dublin to the Med for a month. Gossip from the FF tent at the Galway Races; the heart of power in Ireland. Bertie Ahern standing in his wellies helping 'da peepel from me constitsutency'.

Great days.

The sick part of all the stories - are that they went out of their way to tell everyone. Or, bring Barry or some other mouth along.

Grayson · 16-03-2013 10:36PM

Chop Chop wrote: »

Spray tanned kids at communions. My nephew made 5 grand on his confirmation back in 2005:eek:

Holy ****. I made £60.

Dwork · 16-03-2013 10:44PM

Grayson wrote: »

Holy ****. I made £60.

It's ok, your mum collected the rest of it. She's "minding" it for you.:D

BrianD3 · 16-03-2013 10:44PM

Even though shopping in LIDL/ALDI has been mentioned as a sign of the recession it was also a sign of the boom. If there were tools on special offer (which there were very often) they'd sell out quickly, people would be queueing up before the shop opened etc. I don't see this now.

COYVB · 16-03-2013 10:50PM

Me, in Ireland.

King of Kings · 16-03-2013 11:08PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Once Lidl was for poor people and immigrants

No longer

still for the poor and immigrants.

It's just the ranks of the poor have swelled.

Sergeant · 16-03-2013 11:11PM

King of Kings wrote: »

still for the poor and immigrants.

It's just the ranks of the poor have swelled.

They buy frozen lobsters out of the place. And suits for their court appearances.

Dwork · 16-03-2013 11:11PM

King of Kings wrote: »

still for the poor and immigrants.

It's just the ranks of the poor have swelled.

I shop in Lidl, always did. And I have many leather bound books, etc etc..

c_man · 16-03-2013 11:17PM

Things from the Celtic tiger you don't see anymore

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razorgil · 16-03-2013 11:26PM

Dwork wrote: »

It's ok, your mum collected the rest of it. She's "minding" it for you.:D

Yeah, its' just "resting" in her account!!

stateofflux · 16-03-2013 11:36PM

lines of ten to twenty mojitos on a bar ....bought by one person...by credit card....with people waiting ages behind them

LETS BE AVN IT · 16-03-2013 11:38PM

City center pubs being busy at 7pm now they woudnt get going till 10pm.

Merkin · 16-03-2013 11:39PM

Eddie Hobbs was all over the place like a cheap suit during the Ciltic Toiger, doling out utterly ****e and ill-informed advoice to the drooling fcukwits wanting a pad in Bulgaria.Glad he's been relegated to the scrap heap, place for him.

YellowFeather · 16-03-2013 11:40PM

People happy about budget day!

D'ya remember when it use to be a good thing? I'm starting to wonder if I dreamt it all at this point!

foxinsox · 16-03-2013 11:43PM

kyote00 wrote: »

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

The thing is back then my record was 48mins to the Red Cow roundabout,
yeah, the roundabout was still there, 5am on a dry summer morning driving way too fast!

Now the Celtic Tiger is over and there are no jobs for people to commute to, all the new motorway completed, it actually is now 40mins to Dublin.

Unfortunately now nobody can afford the fuel to drive to Dublin and are trapped in Carlow!

FixdePitchmark · 16-03-2013 11:46PM

foxinsox wrote: »

The thing is back then my record was 48mins to the Red Cow roundabout,
yeah, the roundabout was still there, 5am on a dry summer morning driving way too fast!

Now the Celtic Tiger is over and there are no jobs for people to commute to, all the new motorway completed, it actually is now 40mins to Dublin.

Unfortunately now nobody can afford the fuel to drive to Dublin and are trapped in Carlow!

40 to red cow and at 8 it was 1 hour more to city. All the white van dudes.

riclad · 16-03-2013 11:56PM

Articles in the papers, about women going to NYC for the weekend to buy clothes,jewelery etc
People waiting in line to buy apartments off the plan, before they were even built.
builders hiring a pop singer for 1000s of euros to sing at their daughters wedding.
Articles in papers saying emigration is over,ireland is one of the richest countrys in europe.
People buying houses 50 miles ,from dublin,
who work in dublin,
eg many people could only afford a house outside dublin.
People saying rent is dead money.
Sure i,ll pay 250k for a 1bed apartment,
property never goes down in value.
BANKS would send you letters ,begging you to borrow money.
IF you went in to the city centre, there was building cranes all over the place.
Builders were buying garages , to get a site to build more apartments on.
Many people invested all there savings in bank shares,
what could be safer than a bank.

People were actually coming to ireland to get a job , not leaving.
Young people who were in school,
just expected to get a job after they got the leaving cert.

The concept of negative equity did not exist.
People bought apartments,never thinking in 5 years time,
i , won,t be able to sell up, or move to a bigger place.
houses in the country were advertised,40 minutes from dublin.

yeah, if you leave at 7am.
Most pubs were busy, now pubs are closing down.
Budget day was not about just bringing new taxes,and reducing tax credits.
SOME taxes were actually reduced

AT this point it seems like another world, or were we all very naive.

Funny in the midst of the building boom, they never got round to fixing the schools,
many schools are still in bad condition,leaking roofs etc and portacabins for classrooms.

FUNNY how the nra built so many new motorways,
they forgot to build service stations, or places for people to stop.
You could get a 90,or 100 per cent mortgage,eg extra money to buy furniture etc

syklops · 17-03-2013 12:06AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

You have plenty of time to look at her since Lidl refuse to open new tills when there is a queue :mad:

There is something wrong with your Lidl.

Chop Chop · 17-03-2013 12:11AM

Sergeant wrote: »

They buy frozen lobsters out of the place. And suits for their court appearances.

I hate lobster, but I cannot understand how people thought it was a good idea to take out massive loans?

I have plenty of Celtic tiger mates that over indulged. I didn't buy the over priced house with the free decking, I didn't re-mortgage the house for a BMW, and I didn't go on two holidays a year, and I never fúcked my spare change in the bin. As a result I am now more than comfortable these days.

I have one mate that decided to become a landlord and owes 20 million on 40 properties.... the bank is chasing him and yet he believes it's their fault.:rolleyes:

FixdePitchmark · 17-03-2013 12:20AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

I hate lobster, but I cannot understand how people thought it was a good idea to take out massive loans?

I have plenty of Celtic tiger mates that over indulged. I didn't buy the over priced house with the free decking, I didn't re-mortgage the house for a BMW, and I didn't go on two holidays a year, and I never fúcked my spare change in the bin. As a result I am now more than comfortable these days.

I have one mate that decided to become a landlord and owes 20 million on 40 properties.... the bank is chasing him and yet he beluys ieves it's their fault.:rolleyes:

I never was a person who would take chances with money - But in the Indo and atmos around was that these guys are heroes. your a bit of a loser for not having the balls/liathroidi to take a chance. The funny thing is they don't give a **** about owing money - They still think they were great lads to take a chance. Half of them were dodging tax too.

riclad · 17-03-2013 12:32AM

I don,t remember the details, i think if a builder ,used the profits from
one estate ,to buy land ,or build another estate ,somewhere else,in ireland
HE could minimise the amount of tax paid on estate no 1.
This was legal ,not dodging tax.
of Course he,d still have to pay vat on materials and x amount per house to the local council.

Things from the Celtic tiger you don't see anymore

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