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Unluckiest couple in Ireland.

  • 16-04-2012 10:14pm
    #1
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭


    Anyone watching Frontline? Guy approved by banks to buy a house. He goes on to explain that he and his partner (both public sector workers) have been trying to buy a house without success. They keep getting gazumpted. He goes on to say "We are the unluckiest couple in Ireland". I really feel sorry for them.:rolleyes:


    Dan O'Brien on the panel replied, "your far from the unluckiest couple in Ireland", to which there was an uneasy outburst of laughter.:pac:

    It says it all really.


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  • #2
    Kevwoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody


    I'd like to see how unlucky they would feel if they bought in the boom


  • #3
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    First PS world problems.


  • #4
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    So he has the money to buy a house, but people won't sell there houses to him?

    Poor bastard. We should start a collection...everyone throw in their spare houses to help sort this poor couple out.


  • #5
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Anyone watching Frontline?

    no, it'd rather be kicked in the balls repeatedly for an hour than watch that


  • #6
    slowmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭slowmoe


    So he and his partner both have public sector jobs and are mortgage approved during a recession with a flooded property market........

    ...ask him to trade places, i wouldn't mind knowing what it feels like to be that 'unlucky'...:rolleyes:


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  • #7
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭amacca


    IM0 wrote: »
    no, it'd rather be kicked in the balls repeatedly for an hour than watch that

    it used to be harder to organise a good ball kicking session than watch an hour of telly during the boom/bubble what with everyone so busy poring concrete, doing nixers and filling out mortgage applications etc

    but luckily for you (and now that I know your preference) ill drop over to yours next monday round 10ish with a couple of the lads and a few tins and our old workboots with the steel toecaps.


  • #8
    Mickey Dazzler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    I'm only just back from a ban so I will not repeat what I said about public sector workers but suffice to say that I was so vocal about my distain for them that I received a ban.


  • #9
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Mickey Dazzler wrote: »
    I'm only just back from a ban so I will not repeat what I said about public sector workers but suffice to say that I was so vocal about my distain for them that I received a ban.

    Ya rebel ya!


  • #10
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Aren't they great. Two of them complaining about not being able to buy in Lucan, the northside equivalent of Bray. Crazy b*stards.


  • #11
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Aren't they great. Two of them complaining about not being able to buy in Lucan, the northside equivalent of Bray. Crazy b*stards.

    :confused: whats the other side of the equivilant :confused:

    lucan is to the northside as bray is to ________ ??? :confused:


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  • #12
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Aren't they great. Two of them complaining about not being able to buy in Lucan, the northside equivalent of Bray. Crazy b*stards.

    Lucan is southside technically. Really westside.


  • #13
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    IM0 wrote: »
    :confused: whats the other side of the equivilant :confused:

    lucan is to the northside as bray is to ________ ??? :confused:
    Dublin?


  • #14
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Ah Public Sector Workers; The Untermenschen of Ireland.

    If only it was still the 1940s, it would be acceptable to mark their clothing so they could be easily identified and singled out by mobs.


  • #15
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Theres actually a lot more to it then it seems. If there was such a comment from the panel, it's fúcking stupid. The amount of shíte a mate of mine had to go through recently to buy a house once he got his mortgage approved was nuts. They kept on lowering the amount they were going to loan him as well...


  • #16
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Theres actually a lot more to it then it seems. If there was such a comment from the panel, it's fúcking stupid. The amount of shíte a mate of mine had to go through recently to buy a house once he got his mortgage approved was nuts. They kept on lowering the amount they were going to loan him as well...

    When ever did facts get in the way of an angry mob with torches and pitchforks?


  • #17
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    When ever did facts get in the way of an angry mob with torches and pitchforks?

    Never unfortunately.

    Dam mobs, once they have their torches lit and the pitchforks ready to prod there's no stopping'em.


  • #18
    Dubit10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Dubit10


    The divide between the have's and have not's is vast and growing by the day it seems.


  • #19
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Dublin?

    Bray is north Wicklow


  • #20
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Yeah, that was a real WTF moment. I was so shocked I nearly watched the rest of the programme.


  • #21
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    No I didn't see it.


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  • #22
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    biko wrote: »
    No I didn't see it.

    Neither did i, guess we didn't miss anything....


  • #23
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    He goes on to say "We are the unluckiest couple in Ireland". I really feel sorry for them.:rolleyes:



    Obviously they didnt hear about that pair last year who realised they were half siblings after she was already pregnant. Now that is bad luck :pac:


  • #24
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    They keep getting gazumpted.
    Sounds kinky.
    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Aren't they great. Two of them complaining about not being able to buy in Lucan, the northside equivalent of Bray. Crazy b*stards.
    You mean Shankill?


  • #25
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Aren't they great. Two of them complaining about not being able to buy in Lucan, the northside equivalent of Bray. Crazy b*stards.

    Is that a good or a bad thing? I have no idea what you mean, but lucan is southside:)


  • #26
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,595 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Bray is in South Dublin/North Wicklow

    Lucan is in West Dublin

    'Lucan, the northside equivalent of Laos, East Germany'


  • #27
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,159 ✭✭✭frag420


    IM0 wrote: »
    no, it'd rather be kicked in the balls repeatedly for an hour than watch that

    PM Sent......................


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Unluckiest couple my arse. They think they have problems - they should talk to Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
    A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. The following day, he returned to Nagasaki and, despite his wounds, also returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing.

    Yup, the guy survived a nuclear bomb, a freakin' nuclear bomb, and returned to work the next day, despite being pretty injured too. And then ended up surviving the second one.

    Now that's class.


  • #29
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,440 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    I didn't see it but to be fair, it probably just rolled off his tongue.. it's just a figure of speech isn't it?

    I doubt these people actually believe they're the unluckiest couple in this country.. That is a title which I, and I think many, would reserve for people with sick children or who have lost a child.. not for those with financial problems, however hard that must be for people..

    I guess it's a sign of the times that it has gotten peoples backs up so much.


  • #30
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    xzanti wrote: »
    I didn't see it but to be fair, it probably just rolled off his tongue.. it's just a figure of speech isn't it?

    I doubt these people actually believe they're the unluckiest couple in this country.. That is a title which I, and I think many, would reserve for people with sick children or who have lost a child.. not for those with financial problems, however hard that must be for people..

    I guess it's a sign of the times that it has gotten peoples backs up so much.

    But on After Hours all a public sector worker needs to do is say the wrong phrase for the mob to demand they're strung up by the balls. If this couple had any decency, they'd quit their jobs and save the state some cash.


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  • #31
    ElGrunt
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭ElGrunt


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Anyone watching Frontline? Guy approved by banks to buy a house. He goes on to explain that he and his partner (both public sector workers) have been trying to buy a house without success. They keep getting gazumpted. He goes on to say "We are the unluckiest couple in Ireland". I really feel sorry for them.:rolleyes:


    Dan O'Brien on the panel replied, "your far from the unluckiest couple in Ireland", to which there was an uneasy outburst of laughter.:pac:

    It says it all really.

    I think it was quite obvious that this comment was made in relation to the guys experience in the property market. I dont think he was literally saying he was the unluckiest couple in Ireland. A figure of speech is all it was.


  • #32
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    I think the poor lad was just a little nervous on the show and did not put much thought into this comment,they most certainly are not the unluckiest couple in Ireland both being overpaid public sector workers and I think they know that.


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