Off Topic Thread too point uh

Podge_irl · 10-05-2016 12:31PM

awec wrote: »

Boobs!

Boobs covered in water.

That Emmet has paid for.

I completely agree with him

Felix Jones is God · 10-05-2016 12:31PM

awec wrote: »

Very serious discussion here chaps.

Boobs!

Yeah....but we have to pay for them too!
Down with boob charges!....... And bras too

wp_rathead · 10-05-2016 12:36PM

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

Yeah....but we have to pay for them too!
Down with boob charges!....... And bras too

"Up With Mini-Skirts"

molloyjh · 10-05-2016 12:51PM

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.

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 12:52PM

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.

It's alright it's been long enough now so everyone has forgotten. We can borrow it from the Germans

Teferi · 10-05-2016 01:04PM

awec wrote: »

Very serious discussion here chaps.

Boobs!

The pink tax is a disgrace.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-05-2016 01:11PM

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 · 10-05-2016 01:13PM

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.

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 · 10-05-2016 01:17PM

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.

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.

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 01:21PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's just funny because in the UK "middle class" refers to people like Kate Middleton.

No it doesn't!

b.gud · 10-05-2016 01:21PM

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.

Based on the way some people were talking about here in the run up to the wedding I thought Kate Middleton was a commoner

Podge_irl · 10-05-2016 01:25PM

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.

Ah the class system in the UK is a bit bonkers and isn't really based on financials either.

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 01:28PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Ah the class system in the UK is a bit bonkers and isn't really based on financials either.

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 · 10-05-2016 01:34PM

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...

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.

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 01:37PM

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.

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

Yeah_Right · 10-05-2016 01:38PM

Do us colonials have any class?

OldRio · 10-05-2016 01:47PM

Well in the normal world I've taken a couple of days off and managed to spread fertiliser. Move stock. Fix fencing and just about finished breaking a young horse.
Great what you can do when the weather is good.

Back to work tomorrow. For a rest.

Sorry about that. It's just I'M FECKING SICK OF POLITICS.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-05-2016 01:49PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Do us colonials have any class?

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.

Buer · 10-05-2016 01:56PM

Zzippy wrote: »

I don't think you really fit in here, and to be quite honest, you never will... there's a good chap.

I've been saying the same to Connacht fans all season.

Zzippy · 10-05-2016 02:02PM

Buer wrote: »

I've been saying the same to Connacht fans all season.

Ooh, that's a paddlin'!

Yeah_Right · 10-05-2016 02:35PM

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.

I wasn't being serious but thanks for that.

I know NZ and probably Aus do have a bit of class system based on schools. But any real class system would be down to money.

errlloyd · 10-05-2016 03:17PM

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.

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!

Podge_irl · 10-05-2016 03:41PM

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!

While they do indeed go a bit over the top, the name of something can actually have a surprisingly large impact on how people view it.

awec · 10-05-2016 03:46PM

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

So half your family are westies and the other half are nordies?

You must feel very aggrieved to have ended up a Dub?

Podge_irl · 10-05-2016 03:48PM

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?

Or extremely thankful he escaped either of the other two possibilities?

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 03:48PM

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?

I'm sorry, what did you call me?

awec · 10-05-2016 03:50PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I'm sorry, what did you call me?

You're a Dub, no?

irishbucsfan · 10-05-2016 03:50PM

awec wrote: »

You're a Dub, no?

God no, could you not tell by my coherent sentence structure?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-05-2016 03:52PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

God no, could you not tell by my coherent sentence structure?

Here, what's that about bud, dya know like, c'mere teh me, go on.

awec · 10-05-2016 03:52PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

God no, could you not tell by my coherent sentence structure?

emmet said you were a dub with a howaya accent.

Where are you actually from? Kildare? Either way, you must feel aggrieved to have missed out on both nordie and westie status?

Off Topic Thread too point uh

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