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Celtic Tiger must-have items

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    #212
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    omahaid wrote: »
    Similar to hi viz jackets - id badges around the neck! For some reason people didn't take them off when away from work, even in the pub sometimes

    This reminded me of being nearly hit in the face by one when its owner bent forward to shake my hand when sympathising with me at a family funeral recently.

    I'm happy to see less SUVs on the road these days, but there are still loads of those stupid looking twunts with the sunglasses perched on their head.

    Also, breakfast rolls! Haven't had one in years!


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    #213
    naughtysmurf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,242 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    Trophy wife :D

    runs for cover


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    #214
    coonecb1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭coonecb1


    Must say I don't remember seeing high-viz jackets in any pubs or clubs :confused:

    (Apart from at Halloween)


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    #215
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users Posts: 16,387 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    For awhile, every blocklayer just out of school seemed to be driving a BMW 3 series. Typically a Paddy-spec model with no extras and a crappy 1.6 litre engine.


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    #216
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users Posts: 16,387 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    superblu wrote: »
    Oakley sunglasses
    D&G sunglasses :cool:


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    #217
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Underfloor heating :confused:
    Next people will be saying a kettle is a luxury of the celtic tiger. Why can't we just heat a pot of water over the fire? Nooooo, we thought we were above that and got fancy electric kettles.

    Underfloor heating isn't common at all. I've never been in a house that had it. Why the confusion?


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    #218
    Kaner2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Kaner2004


    A begrudging attitude.
    Oh wait. Thats a must have if you are Irish at any time :)
    More gloating nowadays though.


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    #219
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    A fancy electric kettle:p


    Wedding lists from BT's or cash only minimum €500 pp on the invite

    People getting helicopters everywhere


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    #220
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Kaner2004 wrote: »
    A begrudging attitude.
    Oh wait. Thats a must have if you are Irish at any time :)
    More gloating nowadays though.

    One thing I hate from the Celtic Tiger era is the rise of the term 'begrudger'. You can't hate something/someone anymore without being called one.


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    #221
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    jack presley wrote: »
    One thing I hate from the Celtic Tiger era is the rise of the term 'begrudger'. You can't hate something/someone anymore without being called one.

    You're a begrudger:p


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    #222
    paky
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭paky


    ha ha best thread ever.

    i can remember staying at home from college watching the Big Bite by David McWilliams. he predicted this would happen. he even went on the late late or tubridy tonight, and evrybody started laughing at him.

    ha ha ha ha


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    #223
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    A framed picture of yoursef with Brian Cowan in the Galway tent.:D:D:D


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    #224
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    A fascination with buying property in Bulgaria, even Bob in Fair City had some:D


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    #225
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭Jarren


    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o0oRYIvOux8/TKWeHuzoOII/AAAAAAAAALQ/TukJ0xh-oLE/s1600/celtic-tiger-copy-12.jpg


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    #226
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Farmers selling mucky fields as prime development sites. After the crash it was farmers buying the same sites back as agricultural land for a fraction of the price.
    They made millions by playing the market the exact opposite way as all those oh so smart developers. Sell when the price is high and buy back when it's crashed into the ground.
    They're just waiting for the next building boom to make more millions.

    Also: Semi D's in Rathmines for something like E10 million that are worth E750k right now. And the "poor" bastards that are stuck with them, ah hell no, if someone goes to an auction for a semi D and pays something like three times the inflated list price for it, you deserve it. Even a fool like me could see that those house never where worth that and never again will be worth that.


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    #227
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Most couples I know had a young Vietnamese or Thai girl to help out in the bedroom with a bit of his n' hers oral playtime. When they broke down or got ripped they simply smothered them with a pillow, tied the body to a jetski and let it race out into the Atlantic until it ran out of petrol and sank.

    Then they simply ordered another one and it all began again.


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    #228
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    gubbie wrote: »
    It's not like they were filled with Helium. They were cheap €1 a pack air filled, tied with string to show parents where the party with hand made rice krispie squares and pass-the-parcel was on

    DVD's and CD's costing €20. I can't believe I wasted so much money on them

    Pass the parcel:eek: I though it was all bouncing castles, clowns, entertainers, beyonce etc in those days?

    and I hope those rice crispy squares where gourmet, hand made in the Alps with gold dust and mineral spring water, flown in especially for the little princess:p


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    #229
    risteard7
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    I miss the Celtic Tiger :(
    I certainly dont delighted its over. Everybody trying to out do the next person and so on. Ireland will be a far better place without it. Id rather have pride and f all money and be who i am and not some fake deluded moron like a lot of people were


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    #230
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    skylight1987 wrote: »
    Hold on a sec people i have a range oven and granite worktops and solid wooden floors. All bought and paid for. These items have nothing to do with the celtic tiger and every thing to with good taste . I saved my money up and i bought quality and dam all you begruders. Oh and i didnt buy them in the boom i bought them in the recession . So there

    You must be a farmer who made a killing selling the land to the developer and buying it back at 1/12000 the price:D:p


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    #231
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    micropig wrote: »
    You must be a farmer who made a killing selling the land to the developer and buying it back at 1/12000 the price:D:p

    I thought he must be on the dole!:p


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    #232
    haminka
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭haminka


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    Underfloor heating isn't common at all. I've never been in a house that had it. Why the confusion?
    i've been to lots. not in ireland though. i always thought it's the norm till i came to ireland


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    #233
    D1stant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    risteard7 wrote: »
    I certainly dont delighted its over. Everybody trying to out do the next person and so on. Ireland will be a far better place without it. Id rather have pride and f all money and be who i am and not some fake deluded moron like a lot of people were

    This is a myth.

    There were a certain percentage of tossers who spent needlessly beyond their means, and another percentage of tossers who spent needlessly within their means

    If you add the 2 together its still < 20% IMHO


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    #234
    blueyedson
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭blueyedson


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Most couples I know had a young Vietnamese or Thai girl to help out in the bedroom with a bit of his n' hers oral playtime. When they broke down or got ripped they simply smothered them with a pillow, tied the body to a jetski and let it race out into the Atlantic until it ran out of petrol and sank.

    Then they simply ordered another one and it all began again.

    Must say wheather thats a joke or a kind of exagerated reality,its a distastful paragraph you put together there, in my opinion.


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    #235
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    blueyedson wrote: »
    Must say wheather thats a joke or a kind of exajerated reality,its a distastful paragraph you put together there in my opinion.

    And that, good sir, looks like it was written by a drunk child.


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    #236
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    blueyedson wrote: »
    Must say wheather thats a joke or a kind of exagerated reality,its a distastful paragraph you put together there, in my opinion.

    I cracked up truth be told:D
    Why just one to do the oral for both? Pffff!


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    #237
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    staker wrote: »
    I cracked up truth be told:D
    Why just one to do the oral for both? Pffff!

    Because the traders don't take credit cards:eek:


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    #238
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Because the traders don't take credit cards:eek:

    Just tie two self addressed bags onto the next jetski:pac:


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    #239
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    D1stant wrote: »
    This is a myth.

    There were a certain percentage of tossers who spent needlessly beyond their means, and another percentage of tossers who spent needlessly within their means

    If you add the 2 together its still < 20% IMHO

    You're absolutely deluded. Every single person (hundreds? A thousand, or two?) I spoke to over a seven year period (when I used to socialise) thought I was gone well beyond batshït insane to not buy a house.
    Constantly. From everybody at every table I sat at. These are/were all working to middle-class people.
    Actually, I lie, I know three people who also knew the rest of the country was chasing it's own tail. This isn't gloating, or begrudging... It's just looking at the facts, seeing a situation for what it is, and not making a twat of yourself while potentially ruining your life and making the guiltless of this country bear the burden.

    I'd put the tosser total around the 60-70% mark, taking into account the elderly and the council estate dwellers..


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    #240
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Because the traders don't take credit cards:eek:

    Ah yes, next item:
    Receiving letters stating that the limit on your card has been raised without asking and receiving pre-approved loans and mortgages in the post.
    I wanted to see if I could get my credit card limit beyond E10k, only managed 8!

    On ranges and wooden flooring and such like:
    It's called taste and style, it's for people who do not put laminate or nylon carpet on the floor of their crappy estate house and then furnish it from the Argos catalog.
    Coming from Germany I am used to a certain solidity in houses and their furnishings.
    Coming here I was aghast at the three inch thick walls, the ghastly white veneer MDF furniture, the plastic roof-tiles, the doors that would look flimsy on a barbie playhouse, the way everything seemed to be made as small as possible, as cheap as possible, as nasty as possible.
    True, putting good finishing on a nasty, celtic-tiger era estate house is a bit like blinging and pimping out your Hyundai Accent, but it still beats that flimsy, chaep shyte that a lot of houses where furnished with.
    If I where to do up my house, I'd still get the best I can afford. For some people cheap crap will do, because that's all they know, but people in the know will always think "That poor bastard!"

    But the number one Celtic Tiger Accessory:
    The Breezeblock!
    The nastiest, cheapest, ugliest, most inefficient piece of sh*t to build houses with, naturally wildly popular here.
    A celtic tiger monument would only need one of those on a plinth, all explained in one item.


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    #241
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    haminka wrote: »
    i've been to lots. not in ireland though. i always thought it's the norm till i came to ireland

    Yeah, I think it's seen as extravagant here because it apparently pushes up the heating bills a lot and is costly to maintain.


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