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Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v2.0

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    #8492
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rodin wrote: »
    A man in the audience, who owns TWO properties, is complaining about how hard done by he is.

    It's frankly laughable

    Slight exaggeration there.
    He bought the two houses to live in one and rent the other so that he could pay back the mortgages. He now has tenants in one home who are on rent allowance. Until the mortgages are totally paid back he owns nothing.


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    #8493
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    snails_pace wrote: »
    two major differences between here and sweeden

    low earners in sweeden pay four times as much tax as low earners here

    public servants in sweeden are lower paid than in ireland

    What services do the Swedes get for their taxes?


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    #8494
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    Oh the german woman is very annoying


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    #8495
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Ursula scares me.


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    #8496
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Interesting that he's living at home with his mother while his g/f has a baby and is presumably living in other accommodation..........

    anytime i see anyone whinging on telly about how hard they have it, it is very rare that I find any sympathy for any of them.

    ' I bought two houses. Property market went bust (AS IT ALWAYS DOES IN A BUBBLE). Woe is me'
    Get real. And quit crying.


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    #8497
    snails_pace
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭snails_pace


    tayto lover wrote: »
    What services do the Swedes get for their taxes?

    superior ones to here but in sweeden everyone pays a significant chunk of tax , here those earning below thirty thousand pay bugger all


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    #8498
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Interesting that he's living at home with his mother while his g/f has a baby and is presumably living in other accommodation..........
    I thought it was very funny when he said that he paid his mother and girlfriend a wage :eek:


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    #8499
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    What was that about someone dying ?


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    #8500
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rodin wrote: »
    anytime i see anyone whinging on telly about how hard they have it, it is very rare that I find any sympathy for any of them.

    ' I bought two houses. Property market went bust (AS IT ALWAYS DOES IN A BUBBLE). Woe is me'
    Get real. And quit crying.

    He also has MS and was trying to think ahead.
    He obviously knew that this was a very bad country in which to be ill.


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    #8501
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Slight exaggeration there.
    He bought the two houses to live in one and rent the other so that he could pay back the mortgages. He now has tenants in one home who are on rent allowance. Until the mortgages are totally paid back he owns nothing.

    He took out TWO mortgages. NEITHER of which he could pay out of his own pocket. And he's whinging when it goes pear shaped. No sympathy.


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    #8502
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    InReality wrote: »
    What was that about someone dying ?
    A German student was stabbed to death recently in Dublin.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/teens-mum-released-in-probe-into-german-student-murder-3312513.html


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    #8503
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Patricia Callan looks a bit like Nanci Griffith........ from a distance.


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    #8504
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rodin wrote: »
    He took out TWO mortgages. NEITHER of which he could pay out of his own pocket. And he's whinging when it goes pear shaped. No sympathy.

    Things were going ok for him until he became ill it seems.
    heaven forbid it would happen anyone now.


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    #8505
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Patricia Callan looks a bit like Nanci Griffith........ from a distance.

    Ah not another Gerri Hall moment :D
    Can Patricia sing?


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    #8506
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    So Patrica was caught out with her 50% of jobs from MNC, and just waffles on. I would have been embarrassed and stuttered to a halt right there.


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    #8507
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    No paper review tonight?


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    #8508
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Things were going ok for him until he became ill it seems.
    heaven forbid it would happen anyone now.

    He took out two mortgages. Neither of which he could afford himself.
    That is frankly reckless and irresponsible.


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    #8509
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    tayto lover wrote: »
    He also has MS and was trying to think ahead.
    He obviously knew that this was a very bad country in which to be ill.

    Hate this sh1te.....it's not Africa where you can die from a broken leg.


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    #8510
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    What's Ms Designer glasses crying about?


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    #8511
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,885 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Hate this sh1te.....it's not Africa where you can die from a broken leg.

    Or be let die in a hospital while pregnant:rolleyes:


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    #8512
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Hate this sh1te.....it's not Africa where you can die from a broken leg.

    Actually a fat embolus from a broken leg will kill ye pretty sharpish. No matter what country you're in.


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    #8513
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Patricia Callan looks a bit like Nanci Griffith........ from a distance.
    Good Lord Harry, Nanci is about 20 years older than Patricia :eek:


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    #8514
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Good Lord Harry, Nanci is about 20 years older than Patricia :eek:

    Ah, I mean when Nanci first became famous MrsD :D


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    #8515
    rude awakening
    Closed Accounts Posts: 621 ✭✭✭rude awakening


    Rodin wrote: »
    What's Ms Designer glasses crying about?
    Given up her house
    her child benefit and college allowance been cut


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    #8516
    Rodin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    rude awakening wrote: »
    Given up her house
    her child benefit and college allowance been cut

    I wish I got a college allowance.

    I've to pay for my own college tuition.


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    #8517
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Audience very skewed, seems to be only working class people on benefits and none with jobs or on the other side wealthier commentators, what about some working class people with regular jobs and middle class people with modest incomes to ie people I know or meet everyday? Very odd.


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    #8518
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Going off topic

    Question for you Rodin

    Did you get your username from Rodin, the sculptor?


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    #8519
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Rodin wrote: »
    I wish I got a college allowance.

    I've to pay for my own college tuition.

    Maybe your means are better and you don't have children that rely on you to provide for them?


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    #8520
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Technocentral wrote: »
    Audience very skewed, seems to be only working class people on benefits and none with jobs or wealthier commentators, what about some working class people with regular jobs and middle class people with modest incomes to ie people I know or meet everyday? Very odd.


    They'd be at home in bed because they have to get up for work in the morning :mad:


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    #8521
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Or be let die in a hospital while pregnant:rolleyes:
    Rodin wrote: »
    Actually a fat embolus from a broken leg will kill ye pretty sharpish. No matter what country you're in.

    Go to a country like Liberia where there are no hospitals to treat a broken le, that's my point.


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