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Do you know anyone that still spends they’re living in the boom?

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  • #32
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Candie wrote: »
    Probably those copious child benefits, bountiful perks, and that lavish single parent allowance. :)

    Makes my blood boil!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    Makes my blood boil!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

    No recession in those houses ;)

    :)


  • #34
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Which Boom?

    A lot of people moved on to the next boom and have pretty good lives.

    Follow the money.


  • #35
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Didn't have it to spend in the boom & don't have it now either so yeah spending the same


  • #36
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Candie wrote: »
    Probably those copious child benefits, bountiful perks, and that lavish single parent allowance. :)

    Dripping with money those people. I've never such elaborate wealth as a single mother on benefits. Three hundred euros a week Joe, sure the president of America doesn't make half that. .


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    Dripping with money those people. I've never such elaborate wealth as a single mother on benefits. Three hundred euros a week Joe, sure the president of America doesn't make half that. .

    And every single penny that doesn't go on new cars and foreign holidays goes on DRINK Joe! The childer are starving! Shoeless! Starkers!

    Hussies!

    There's unemployed people beside me who keep themselves in MINK COATS with nixers!


  • #38
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    They spent that €100 communiformation grant on a brand new Audi and the most expensive sky telly package Joe.

    We really need to hand over the department of finance to the mythical Irish single mother who can live the lifestyle of Paris Hilton on a fifty euro note. We'll be flying it.


  • #39
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Spending the same as I always have both of us in government jobs never seen the amazing times but then again never seen the bad
    Nothing changed for me except you now get a bit more bang for your buck


  • #40
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    They spent that €100 communiformation grant on a brand new Audi and the most expensive sky telly package Joe.

    We really need to hand over the department of finance to the mythical Irish single mother who can live the lifestyle of Paris Hilton on a fifty euro note. We'll be flying it.
    Not all mothers on the welfare are bad, but some of them definitely are. My aunt had 5 kids, so she was likely getting a decent amount of money from the welfare. I'm telling you, this woman would spend the absolute least on her kids possible. She fed them dinner and breakfast, hungry outside of those times? Too bad. Want a second bowl of coco pops? Too bad. Their dinner multiple times a week was the absolute cheapest Tesco brand pizza that she could buy, usually served with the cheapest frozen chips she could buy. While some people could argue this is what they have to do to make ends meet, this definitely wasn't. She always had the best things, smoked 20 a day, everything on Sky except the sports, which she didn't want. When giant TVs became main stream, she bought herself a 50 inch TV. Remodels her home every year or so. And at the same time, to show how much money she has for herself. She has the most expensive bill phone plan, just so she could get a "free" smart phone. While I'm not saying every mother who's on the welfare is exploiting them, there are some like this sick woman that do.


  • #41
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Eamon Gilmore.


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  • #42
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    BetterThanThou wrote: »
    Not all mothers on the welfare are bad, but some of them definitely are. My aunt...

    Not all members of your family are bad, but some of them definitely are. Your aunt...


  • #43
    TheShizz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭TheShizz


    There's no recession for me. I work from home, for an English website and I pay my taxes to the queen.

    God save her.


  • #44
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Kylee Whispering Lockout wrote: »
    I'm still spending as much as I did during the boom. Does that make me a bad person?

    As long as you wring your hands and scream "won't somebody think of the children" as you drink your moet from your hookers Waterford crystal goblet, then you're fine!


  • #45
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    BetterThanThou wrote: »
    and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music. QUOTE]

    Was it just for the craic of trying to get tickets online or for the craic of seeing a singer you don't like after paying a s***load of money?:confused:
    Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.


  • #46
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Which Boom?

    A lot of people moved on to the next boom and have pretty good lives.

    Follow the money.

    Everyone is saying follow the money, but if I do follow the money, I bump into a securicor van or a bank. Then after I have followed the money to these places I am locked out, I can't get to the fecking money. So what is the point in following the money ?.


  • #47
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    I paying more in tax and spending less due to being taxed more for a pension that I may well not live to claim as the working age will probably be 80 when it's time for me to retire.


  • #48
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    thegreatgonzo wrote: »
    BetterThanThou wrote: »
    and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music. QUOTE]

    Was it just for the craic of trying to get tickets online or for the craic of seeing a singer you don't like after paying a s***load of money?:confused:
    Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.
    No one playing a concert during the summer interests me, but I wanted to go to one, so I figured I'd try see Garth Brooks.


  • #49
    ZzubZzub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    [QUOTE=thegreatgonzo;89029459
    Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.[/QUOTE]

    So off topic, but that's one of the greatest pieces of art ever.

    OT, I have relatives who I am sure are ****ting money. 2 years and 4 months after building their "dream" 7 bedroom house (6 kids) they moved to Oz cause uncles wage dropped €1000 per annum.


  • #50
    sawdoubters
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭sawdoubters


    I laugh at poor people


  • #51
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,043 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    OP during the boom not everybody was going out blowing money every 5 minutes to keep up with the neighbours buying property like there was no tomorrow when the intelligent people could see a pin coming to burst the bubble. If people used there heads instead of the hands at the ATM half the people wouldn't be poor now. I guess money talks for most of the population over brains.

    One thing I will agree with is that wedding was way ott and while I could do the same I wouldn't in a million years.

    I'm probably speeding more now than ever as I can afford it now but as already said being taxed a lot more to.
    I laugh at poor people

    Nobody likes an p****


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  • #52
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    sawdoubters wrote: »
    I laugh at poor people

    Why do you laugh at poor people ?. Have you seen a place outside of your own enclosed life ?. Your comment stinks of self-loathing


  • #53
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »

    Anyway, what's it to you? Who cares how other people live.

    Begrudgery much?

    Yeah, people borrowing money they can't pay back, how could that possibly affect the rest of us?


  • #54
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I see we have an opening post, a reply and then a closed account from the original poster all in the space of 15 minutes.

    Is it just me, or does anyone else get a bit suspicious when this happens?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #55
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    I see we have an opening post, a reply and then a closed account from the original poster all in the space of 15 minutes.

    Is it just me, or does anyone else get a bit suspicious when this happens?

    It's just another ****ty meaningless thread on an internet forum. So no, not suspicious at all.


  • #56
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    zenno wrote: »
    Your comment stinks of self-loathing

    More likely stinks of booze.


  • #57
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    TheShizz wrote: »
    There's no recession for me. I work from home, for an English website and I pay my taxes to the queen.

    God save her.

    Not so sure the Revenue Commisionars would take very kindly to you looking after Her Majesty before them.
    I'd be very wary of a future audit if I was you,they tend not to fup around the way other government departments do.


  • #58
    ronjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭ronjo


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    I see we have an opening post, a reply and then a closed account from the original poster all in the space of 15 minutes.

    Is it just me, or does anyone else get a bit suspicious when this happens?

    Her name probably is Lily Mc and the couple she was bitching about figured out it was her :pac:


  • #59
    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Keeping up with the Jone's......that's all it is!!

    Who is Jone?


  • #60
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    scwazrh wrote: »
    What a load of shi*e!

    So the developers are all tradesmen now?

    The local "developers" were tradesmen aka as chancers.


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  • #61
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    We need a curtain twitcher forum for these threads.


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