awec wrote: » Boobs!
awec wrote: » Very serious discussion here chaps. Boobs!
Felix Jones is God wrote: » Yeah....but we have to pay for them too! Down with boob charges!....... And bras too
molloyjh wrote: » What I want to know is how are we going to make up the shortfall now with no water charges and reduced income tax. Other departments/services will have to be hit. And you can be sure the same people who are clapping themselves on the back for this "victory" will be whinging about any cuts that come about as a result.
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: » I didn't realise we had such a class system in Ireland. I always thought there were the scroungers and people who actually work and then a few super rich banker types and Bono. None of this middle class, lower class stuff.
irishbucsfan wrote: » There's a pretty sizeable middle class I'd say. And now we're banding together under the banner of Emmet's new "We are the 27%!" campaign.
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: » It's just funny because in the UK "middle class" refers to people like Kate Middleton.
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: » It's just funny because in the UK "middle class" refers to people like Kate Middleton. I suppose most people here are in the same bracket, working and just about getting by, there's a few below that and a few above it. And Bono.
Podge_irl wrote: » Ah the class system in the UK is a bit bonkers and isn't really based on financials either.
irishbucsfan wrote: » Listen mate I haven't spent the last 5 years trying to break into the club to have you p*ss all over it...
Zzippy wrote: » Listen, old chap. Would you mind awfully just buggering off to one of those other threads? I don't think you really fit in here, and to be quite honest, you never will... there's a good chap.
Yeah_Right wrote: » Do us colonials have any class?
Zzippy wrote: » I don't think you really fit in here, and to be quite honest, you never will... there's a good chap.
Buer wrote: » I've been saying the same to Connacht fans all season.
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: » You're probably not really asking but..... Don't know about New Zealand but I was watching a thing about Australia recently and they were talking to all these, what I would call, mid to upper class people and they were all priding themselves on how Australia has no class system but then they also refused to talk about it beyond saying it doesn't exist. The program was tracing ancestors of Victorian poor people who had been transported and they were looking at the story of two sisters. One of the sisters had been sent to NSW and after serving her time found it very hard to work her way into any sort of decent life, basically because the British settlers, non convicts, had brought their class system with them. The other sister had been transported to Tasmania and because at that time it was purely a penal colony once prisoners had served their time they were able to work their way into all manner of jobs and public positions. Her descendants were all judges and lawyers and mayors and what have you. The family in NSW were just working class average Joes.
Deleted User wrote: » errlloyd wrote: » Jaysus Emmet. I posted that I fully agreed with the charges. All I was demonstrating is why the "sure we're just gonna pay for it anyway" argument needs more analysis. errlloyd wrote: » The difference between usc and water chargers is one is a flat rate and one is a percentage of income. Michael O Leary and I pay the same water tax. We pay vastly different USC. errlloyd wrote: » I agree completely. It should be metered, that's the point. Even if it was though it'd still be a tax that his low income earners harder (proportionally) than usc. . It's not a water tax. There's never been a water tax. There won't be a water tax.
errlloyd wrote: » Jaysus Emmet. I posted that I fully agreed with the charges. All I was demonstrating is why the "sure we're just gonna pay for it anyway" argument needs more analysis.
errlloyd wrote: » The difference between usc and water chargers is one is a flat rate and one is a percentage of income. Michael O Leary and I pay the same water tax. We pay vastly different USC.
errlloyd wrote: » I agree completely. It should be metered, that's the point. Even if it was though it'd still be a tax that his low income earners harder (proportionally) than usc. .
errlloyd wrote: » Yes it is technically a charge, I used a colloquial name for it. You're like those lads on the cycling thread who go nuts every time someone says "Road tax" instead of "Motor tax". It still quite clearly says I agree with metering water!
irishbucsfan wrote: » Half family are from Sligo so being talked down to by a Galway snob in this way hits a little bit too close to home
awec wrote: » So half your family are westies and the other half are nordies? You must feel very aggrieved to have ended up a Dub?
irishbucsfan wrote: » I'm sorry, what did you call me?
awec wrote: » You're a Dub, no?
irishbucsfan wrote: » God no, could you not tell by my coherent sentence structure?
