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Ireland is a real Sh!thole

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    #122
    TomBeckett
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭TomBeckett


    Palmerstown_guy wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, what do you plan to do, work wise, in Thailand?

    Myself and my gf are going partnership in a resturant.. there is no sign of a resession out there so we shall try make a go of it and see what happens:)


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    #123
    TomBeckett
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭TomBeckett


    amacachi wrote: »
    Women? Jesus that sounds amazing.
    I can get bottles of Heineken for less than that without going to the other side of the world. It's all about what people are willing to pay.

    Looking forward to a thread in PI soon about someone gettin with a chick, realising it was a ladyboy, doing it anyway then being concerned about flames coming out of their member.

    JESUS:eek:
    He must have been blind!! to be honest you would cop the ladyboys a mile away!! Thai Women are quite small normally 5ft 1 or 2 and are usually very peitte so if there as tall as you and there hands are large HE is a ladyboy!!:P


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    #124
    Palmerstown_guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Palmerstown_guy


    "Myself and my gf are going partnership in a resturant.. there is no sign of a resession out there so we shall try make a go of it and see what happens"

    Very cool. The very best of luck with it, sincerely!:)


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    #125
    pyramuid man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭pyramuid man


    Its not that bad.

    I think Ireland, while it has its bad parts, at least its not UKeland. That would be worse.


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    #126
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


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    #127
    Chocoholic84
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Chocoholic84


    Yeah, it's pretty crap...

    Still love it though! Home is where the heart is.


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    #128
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Ireland is a great country because we do have great people in it. All our problems boil down to our own laziness and the completely useless government we have. Everything that's bad can be traced back to inept government.


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    #129
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Ireland is a great country because we do have great people in it. All our problems boil down to our own laziness and the completely useless government we have. Everything that's bad can be traced back to inept government and the people that elect it.

    FYP


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    #130
    seraphimvc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    Roro4Brit wrote: »
    The main flaw I find with this country is the people in it who feel that the world owes them something. Get up off your arse, stop feeling sorry for yourself and go make your like exactly how you want it...including finding a country that makes you happy...

    i agree to many posters above but i think what you said there probably is the biggest issue of this country.

    whenever people is facing a problem/issue, they will just back off and say,ah comon ,take it easy.and when they fail they will just blame that on something/someone or maybe they will admit the mistake they made and they will let it go/forget it very quickly:confused:

    exactly this kind of attitude holding this country back - you can see there are many many unresolved problems existed in this country and never get improved after all these years. eg,try to submit a document/application to any type of agencies in this country.fecking fecking fecking take ages to wait for the reply/job done.

    people just simply dont have the perseverance and the ability to handle pressure well.and people never learn from mistakes - if you remind them their mistake,they feel angry and upset:confused::confused:

    the laid back attitude is cool ,only if you are steadily and 'awesomely' enough to do so.

    and,i have never seen anyone like that working in the office before - people basically cant wait for thursday and friday to come TO jump into pubs for drinks:confused::confused:and get locked....

    efficiency is the last thing you can expect from people here.you'd be surprise when you go Germany or Japan when you see how people take things seriously and work their ass of it and then they will have the rest later.I am using germany and japan as examples since you know Ireland has this celtic tiger moment which kinda in the same direction that these countries take.

    i love ireland,very few discrimination happens to us foreigners - they just dont give a sh!t of wherever/what you are:D and some nice and kind people i have met,i can never thank them enough for their big help and kindness.irish are good people deep down.

    huge generalization made above and what i said are purely based on what i have seen for the past 4 years.ireland is improving,but very very very slow.

    /rant
    /procrastination:p


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    #131
    DigiGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭DigiGal


    TheZohan wrote: »
    NYC is in the US davyjose.
    Oh you are american....

    oh i see now


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    #132
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    This time 18 months ago most of us were oblivious. We thought we lived in Gods own country. Free education, everyone with degrees, dont bother with a job just head off and find yourself for a year and you'll walk into a great job when you come back, easy credit, nice (big) houses, flash cars, at least one big foreign holiday a year and try to fit in 1 or 2 city-breaks aswell just to de-stress..............etc etc........yada yada yada.

    The rug has been well and truly pulled out from under us. Its one hell a fúckin crazy world. Our success was all an illusion.

    Oh well, maybe we'll do it right next time. Im very cynical as you know though Ted.


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    #133
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    no its not


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    #134
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    I like Ireland and the people of Ireland, but I think that we, as a country, are rapidly losing our heritage. I hope to God this D4 phase dies down...


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    #135
    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,968 ✭✭✭furiousox


    lt's probably no better or worse (apart from the climate of course, that is sh1t!) than most other countries to live in.
    l've lived abroad for years but l always felt l would end up back here someday no matter what.
    And most foreign people living here stick it out and seem to like it too so it can't be that bad.

    You'll find political scandal, crime, corruption etc in every country if you look deep enough.

    The way l see it, you take the good and leave the bad...make it work.

    CPL 593H



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    #136
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,440 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Agricola wrote: »
    This time 18 months ago most of us were oblivious. We thought we lived in Gods own country. Free education, everyone with degrees, dont bother with a job just head off and find yourself for a year and you'll walk into a great job when you come back, easy credit, nice (big) houses, flash cars, at least one big foreign holiday a year and try to fit in 1 or 2 city-breaks aswell just to de-stress..............etc etc........yada yada yada.

    The rug has been well and truly pulled out from under us. Its one hell a fúckin crazy world. Our success was all an illusion.

    Oh well, maybe we'll do it right next time. Im very cynical as you know though Ted.

    Contradiction there. Success was NOT an illusion, it was hard workfed-for and well earnt. But then MOST OF US YOU thought it was going to go on forever. A fool and his money...

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



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    #137
    v240gltse
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭v240gltse


    This country is finished !


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    #138
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Hey Casey! ;)


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    #139
    mloc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭mloc


    Ireland is **** and always has been. Pretty much a pattern for the last thousand years; some country bails us out, we do ok for a short while, we **** it up, go through a ****storm, some other country bails us out, rinse and repeat. Can't wait to be out of the place.

    On an individual basis, Irish people are some of the best in the world. Serious potential, endless achievement. Together, culturally, we are a country of retards.


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    #140
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Could you explain how Ireland is **** as a place to live in? I've considered it in the context other countries, e.g. Burma, and I have to say, in general, life's pretty sweet for Irish people.


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    #141
    mloc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭mloc


    Typical Irish point of view; "ah sure look at burma/africa/3rd world country they have it much worse"...

    We have the potential to be one of the best countries in the world but instead we sit on our hands and engorge ourselves in mediocracy, with our "ah sure it'll be grand" mantra while the rest of the civilised world passes us by.

    Why do we let ourselves be the just behind-the-rest sheep when we have the ability to lead the pack?


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    #142
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    mloc wrote: »
    Typical Irish point of view; "ah sure look at burma/africa/3rd world country they have it much worse"
    :D
    Like "typical Irish begrudger" eh?
    We have the potential to be one of the best countries in the world but instead we sit on our hands and engorge ourselves in mediocracy, with our "ah sure it'll be grand" mantra while the rest of the civilised world passes us by.

    Why do we let ourselves be the just behind-the-rest sheep when we have the ability to lead the pack?
    Whatever. I'm referring to quality of life, which really is all that matters to the keyboard warriors here - it's damn good. This isn't a patriotism thing whatsoever, but I don't get the need for trying to make out we're living in a hellhole of a place. Even the phrase "banana republic" is bandied about, by people at their laptops, in their comfy chairs.


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    #143
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    IBTL

    Looks like ya got it wrong.

    Few days on and it's still going :P


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    #144
    OutlawPete
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    Dudess wrote: »
    I'm referring to quality of life - it's damn good. .

    I think it all depends on how much money you have.

    If you have a decent wage then life can be sweet in Ireland.

    If however you are broke and need to rely on public services of any, then it can be a Hell of a place to be.

    The poverty in Ireland is hidden away and over the past ten years while everyone was screaming 'Celtic Tiger, Celtic Tiger' there was a certain amount of the population being savagely left behind.

    Ireland is a great place and Ireland is a s**t place, it all depends on your circumstances.


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    #145
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    hey!! stop knockin ireland.....we have the best pervy clerics in the world


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    #146
    dsmythy
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    OutlawPete wrote: »

    Ireland is a great place and Ireland is a s**t place, it all depends on your circumstances.

    You pretty much covered every country in the world. Also you have spoken the truth.


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    #147
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Contradiction there. Success was NOT an illusion, it was hard workfed-for and well earnt. But then MOST OF US YOU thought it was going to go on forever. A fool and his money...

    :D If you knew me, you'd know I certainly didnt think it would last forever! When I said "most of us" I wasnt including myself. I was speaking collectively. Im one of those cynical types that doesnt jump on bandwagons and pretty much didnt buy into any of the things I listed in my post. But alot of other people did unfortuately.


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    #148
    dublin 16 lad
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭dublin 16 lad


    The grass is always greener....


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    #149
    hooradiation
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    mloc wrote: »
    Typical Irish point of view; "ah sure look at burma/africa/3rd world country they have it much worse"...

    Guy has a point, it's a bit trite to start dragging poverty ridden third world hell-holes and go "AHA - see, at least the water here doesn't make us **** blood. Well, ok, except in Galway, but still...."

    Yes they are far worse places to live than Ireland, but really, we're talking about places people would actually move, y'know first world countries.

    It's like watching your team getting beaten 15-nil at home and having someone go "could be worse, you could be supporting the scunthorpe United paraplegic womens reserves" and yes, it's true, that would be worse, but they're not even in the same league, your words are meaningless drivel.


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    #150
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    hooradiation wrote: »
    your words are meaningless drivel.
    Fair enough. What I consider "meaningless drivel" though is the rhetoric from a bunch of relatively privileged kids trying to find reason to compare Ireland to something of a hell on earth, talk of "revolutions" etc ("censorship" accusations make me LOL in particular). I don't usually do the "there's always someone worse off than you" thing but I think in these laughable cases, perspective is needed.

    Ireland isn't without its problems of course (yes, Fianna Fáil are crooks - always were though, funny how it's only being noticed now that things are bad; woeful health service, crap infrastructure, it's too expensive) and I fully agree there is a chasm between the haves and have-nots - particularly so during the boom... however, call me presumptuous, but I'm going to consider it a safe bet that people who whinge on a message-board, rather than being a bit more pro-active, aren't particularly affected.


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    #151
    Blazer
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    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Its only a **** hole if the general population refuse to take the steps that can bring the changes.

    We did it 100 years ago, why cant we do it again.

    We did fúckall...it was a selfless few who made the ultimate sacrifice in some cases...the rest of the populace didn't seem to care too much to join?

    As for today...much much worse...people are way too selfish and only thing of themselves..I can't see any of those rising up against our government?


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