You are not a f*cking DJ. You’re an overpaid, untalented, cake-throwing c*nt.

Android 666

Anyone here going to LCD Soundsystem? Due to a display of fraternal love it looks like I'll be tipping along on Sunday.

Scubadevils

I work in a job that has nobody looking over my shoulder here in Ireland - if I want to take the p1ss and spend some time on the web during the day I can, but I have to make up the time later in the evening or early the next day as my workload is bloody huge most of the time and if not completed I don't hit targets, if I don't hit targets I may not have a job, or at very least not meet full earning potential... the run up to Christmas is (or should be!) my busiest time so the current economic situation and looming budget/potential IMF bailout etc doesn't help in terms of low consumer confidence and keeping their hands tightly in their pockets.

Without doubt, I am working considerably harder and longer hours over the last 2 years or so than ever before, and all down to how the economy has changed and the need to adapt to a very different market. Sink or swim very fast basically.

I really hope we sort out our country soon or at least pave some sort of manageable path to recovery. We had become a generally very greedy nation and that had to change - sure this is a serious shock to the system for many but it couldn't continue the way it was.

Anyway, I try reserve this serious stuff for office hours :P

Scubadevils

electrogrimey wrote: »

Ah who closed the Deadmau5 thread, that could have been good craic. Haven't had one of those threads in a while.

Twas me I'm afraid Mr Grimey. It just had to be done.

Scubadevils

Ooh, anyone notice the new coffee shop area upstairs in Tower? I was walking past yesterday evening and noticed from outside chairs etc through the window and some mention of coffee/cafe or something on the window - I knew this was the plan for upstairs but didn't know it was done... they had also been thinking of adding a 2nd hand music section, hope this has happened too. It was after 9pm when I passed so they were closed but look forward to a nose over the next few days.

ianuss

joker77 wrote: »

Picked up the tickets, in the neutral section - Upper East. Looking forward to seeing this new stadium.

Well, 120 minutes and 10 penalties and a final score of 2 nil isn't a great advert for soccer. I'm just so glad that Sligo won as they played all the football and Shamrock Rovers were so, so poor. Joseph N'Do was class.

Great stadium. And what about the attendance - 36,000+! Interesting too that the only empty seats were the expensive ones and the corporate boxes. IRFU & FAI take note.

Android 666

I want to try this out!

jonnny68

Scubadevils wrote: »

I work in a job that has nobody looking over my shoulder here in Ireland - if I want to take the p1ss and spend some time on the web during the day I can, but I have to make up the time later in the evening or early the next day as my workload is bloody huge most of the time and if not completed I don't hit targets, if I don't hit targets I may not have a job, or at very least not meet full earning potential... the run up to Christmas is (or should be!) my busiest time so the current economic situation and looming budget/potential IMF bailout etc doesn't help in terms of low consumer confidence and keeping their hands tightly in their pockets.

Without doubt, I am working considerably harder and longer hours over the last 2 years or so than ever before, and all down to how the economy has changed and the need to adapt to a very different market. Sink or swim very fast basically.

I really hope we sort out our country soon or at least pave some sort of manageable path to recovery. We had become a generally very greedy nation and that had to change - sure this is a serious shock to the system for many but it couldn't continue the way it was.

Anyway, I try reserve this serious stuff for office hours :P

think your right mate Ireland had become greedy, at one time i was earning so much more money than what i should've been earning (in an office job that is for any smart ar*es:P)temping and i was single at the time and living a grand life,travelling,etc,the good times don't last forever though!!!

Ireland is fuc*ed for a couple of years im afraid to say there is no easy out of this financial hole we are in, we can start by removing this sham of a Government the worst there has ever been,take the EU bailout Biffo you fat alcoholic fuc*er, it aint great here in England but it's a damn site better than Ireland as regards the economy,etc i would like to be able to have the option for me and my missus and kid to move back knowing we could both get jobs, a gaff,,etc,etc,etc but that is just not gonna happen any time soon so im staying put, what i pay for my 2 bed roomed gaff here every month you would be lucky to get a small bedsit in Dublin for!!!

Is mise le key

jonnny68 wrote: »

,take the EU bailout Biffo you fat alcoholic fuc*er, !!!

:eek::eek::eek: WHAT!!!!!

Come on now, did you not read the article francois posted........

http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-are-bond-holders-we-are-bailing-out.html

Its simply for covering the losses of a private company to bigger private companies but it will now be repaid by the population of this country instead of the private company that borrowed it in the first place, ultimatley,

A Socialist solution (all of the people pay) to a capitalist problem (private company failure to cover losses)

Android 666

Is mise le key wrote: »

A Socialist solution (all of the people pay) to a capitalist problem (private company failure to cover losses)

Wow, so Bertie really was a socialist in the end. Who knew?

jtsuited

jonnny68 wrote: »

i would like to be able to have the option for me and my missus and kid to move back knowing we could both get jobs, a gaff,,etc,etc,etc

eh what? so you're an economic migrant?
jonny, you constantly harp on about how great is in Leeds and how terrible everything is in Ireland, yet if you had a good job and a gaff, you'd be back in a second?

That's not moaning about the country. That's moaning about being too poor to live in the country.

francois

Android 666 wrote: »

Wow, so Bertie really was a socialist in the end. Who knew?

Sure didn't he say so himself after his inchydoney "think-in", Joe Higgins ripped the p1ss out of him in the Dail about it

jimi_t2

Peep Show starting up again on Friday week, literally can't wait

Android 666

jimi_t2 wrote: »

Peep Show starting up again on Friday week, literally can't wait

Why, are you going to die?

jtsuited

francois wrote: »

Sure didn't he say so himself after his inchydoney "think-in", Joe Higgins ripped the p1ss out of him in the Dail about it

Jesus will you ever forget that???

A mate of mine's family member is a FF TD and when they were canvassing for said TD, I said 'well, obviously with my lefty leanings I won't be voting for her.'

He genuinely tried to convince me that FF were a socialist party. We've all read some pretty weak arguments on here, but let me tell you, this was an argument so lacking in any weight I'm fairly sure it blew away immediately.

Android 666

francois wrote: »

Sure didn't he say so himself after his inchydoney "think-in", Joe Higgins ripped the p1ss out of him in the Dail about it

You know what? I always feel at one with the people after a good back massage and exfoliation too.

Android 666

Seriously though, back to the fire extinguisher. Would you not all be a bit tempted to try that out in the Luas.

old gregg

I'm more than a little tempted by this:
http://www.week-end-berlin.de/news/show/40

How many pills would you need to keep partying from start to finish?

... was planning on skipping out to do more Berlin field recordings so just maybe if I can convince 'er indoors that it's in the interests of national security.

VinylJunkie

That looks great id love to go! Who is heading to Sandwell District on Saturday?

ED E

Would you be completely thick to try and use open backs live?

Android 666

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Would you be completely thick to try and use open backs live?

Well if you have the figure to pull off an open back dress I say go for it sailor!

jonnny68

jtsuited wrote: »

eh what? so you're an economic migrant?
jonny, you constantly harp on about how great is in Leeds and how terrible everything is in Ireland, yet if you had a good job and a gaff, you'd be back in a second?

That's not moaning about the country. That's moaning about being too poor to live in the country.

It is terrible in Ireland at present no one can deny that, the only thing i may mention which is great here is the club scene which wipes the floor with Ireland, it is considerably cheaper too but that's not to say i don't miss my family and friends in Dublin and don't wanna come back but i have no choice but to stay here, you've little or no chance of getting a job in Dublin whereas here whilst not great but you will get a job a lot quicker!!!

jonnny68

Is mise le key wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: WHAT!!!!!

Come on now, did you not read the article francois posted........

http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-are-bond-holders-we-are-bailing-out.html

Its simply for covering the losses of a private company to bigger private companies but it will now be repaid by the population of this country instead of the private company that borrowed it in the first place, ultimatley,

A Socialist solution (all of the people pay) to a capitalist problem (private company failure to cover losses)

Interesting article puts a different slant on it alright

Is mise le key

jonnny68 wrote: »

Interesting article puts a different slant on it alright

It does that alright but more imortantly is that the outcome was not by accident, having a country in the grip of national debt at an interest rate for 10 - 20 years is far more profitable than any return a bank would have given on 'money' borrowed, so you see the eventual end game of the capitalist model is privatisation of countrys, continents & if successful the globe.......sound outlandish????? Very frequently used word in business,

Globalisation.

So the population of the world will now toil to make the lenders/bond holders wealthy.......modern day Slavery (the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another) is what it is really.

Zascar

Offs, this perpetual moaning about how crap Ireland is p1sses me off. Yes we have high unemployment and we're crazy in debt as a country, but for most people who still have the same job, things are not really all that bad. You may be a few quid out of pocket due to levies etc - but on the other side a lot of things are cheaper and better deals are to be had in the market etc. It's not like the recession of the past where people literally have trouble putting food on the table. It is horrible for anyone out of wrk who can't find a job but there are plenty of people who are on the scratcher but still have an acceptable standard of living in the grand scheme of things. I know plenty of people on the Dole and they seem to still be able to have a social life and enjoy themselves - its not like they are imprisoned by dire poverty.

People always seem to moan about Ireland - be it the horrible recession or even back in the midst of the Celtic Tiger years. If you don't like Ireland - Fcuking Leave!!! I have had several opportunities to take good jobs overseas, but Ireland is my home, I like it here, I have built my life and my friends here, and for the moment I'm happy to stay. I find you are a happier person if you try to ignore the media and all the doom and gloom and just get on with your own life.

Android 666

Zascar, I think you should head down to Inchydoney Island and get one of those back massages that Bertie got. You'll feel an awful lot more socialist then…

jtsuited

Well said Zascar. This whole 'we're all fcuked, everything is ruined' mentality pisses me off no end.
I do bits and bobs here and there part time, and I'm able to make ends meet no problem thanks to the cost of living here coming down (3 years ago I wouldn't have been able to rent anywhere that wasn't a sh1thole).

Unskilled and semi-skilled labour is virtually useless to us now, so those who decided to go get crappy jobs after school as opposed to an education, can fcuk right off if they think they're entitled to hang around moaning about how 'de celtic tiger made everdybody gereedy'.
Now I know lots of educated people are hurting too, and that's unfortunate, but when you hear manual labourers moan at length about how their lives are ruined etc., it gets bloody monotonous.

When I was a broke student and went down my local, I'd see all the lads from school drinkin away like there was no tomorrow, talking about getting deposits on houses, taking out loans on SUVs etc. Nearly every one of them was in construction of some sort.
I knew there was something wrong when a plumber we got to come and fix a radiator showed up with a deep natural tan in January. Of course he was only dying to tell us about the apartment he had bought in Turkey, and how much it had gone up in value since he got the 90% mortgage on it. that was in 2002.

You can't have an economy where tradesmen can buy second investment properties. It just doesn't work. They'll either be undercut by economic migrants who'll do the same job twice as fast for half the price, or else there's a bubble about to burst in a major way.

Zascar

Yeah absolutely. It's like the old story of how people knew the crash was coming when Taxi drivers in New York were asking the stockbrokers they pick up for advice on their investment portfolio.....

jtsuited

and btw, every single year for the past 5 years, Ireland has been rated as one of the countries with the highest standard of living. I know our public transport is rubbish, our politicians are cúnts, our closing hours are ridiculous and everything else, BUT, and it's a big BUT, I still like living here.

I could be up and gone to anywhere in the EU tomorrow with relatively little hassle (and if sh1t hit the fan I probably would), but I still choose to live here. Basically because I like it here. And it's not just because it's home.

jtsuited

jonnny68 wrote: »

you've little or no chance of getting a job in Dublin

http://jobs.ie/
took a random gamble on putting the terms 'jobs' and '.ie' in the address bar and my God there are jobs there.
I know a good few people who have got jobs over the past year. Yeah it's tougher and unemployment is relatively high, BUT to say there's little or no chance of getting a job in Dublin is just incorrect unless you're referring to jobs that require no education or specific skills.

Android 666

Lads, liking the positivity, it's looking good on you. Very slimming. They only worry I have is the amount of people who went out straight from school and became unskilled labourers on the sites - they are fooked - long term unemployed that will be a serious drain on the fecking resources and a major source of anti-social problems (They won't hang out with anyone!).

But I like living here like JT says. I just wish there was less moaning and more gallows humour. Turn that recession induced frown upside down!

And lads, last time, riding a fire extinguisher is frigging awesome. Why can't anyone see that. I don't know what's wrong with ye. You'll take enough drugs to anesthetize a large elephant but turn your nose up a riding a fire extinguisher on a Luas. I don't know what the world is coming to.