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Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v 4.0 (08/07/14 to date)
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grey_so_what wrote: »God, I'm an awful grinch, Halloween is an awful pain in the posterior....
It was good, back in the day, when we'd cut a few holes for arms and head in a black refuse sack and put on a hard unbreathable plastic mask that cost about 10p in the local shop, and you'd hope you got money or chocolate from the neighbours instead of nuts or apples.
Nowadays we're getting the repackaged Americanised Halloween, which is ironic, seeing as the Irish invented Halloween in the first place.0 -
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You kids had it easy. We had to sew our own bags from turnip leaves, and had to catch our own monkey, and then do the castration ourselvesgrey_so_what wrote: »Haha Harry, you were very posh with your refuse sack....we got a sack cloth and an old penny for your troubles.....:p You kids.....:D:D:D...I'm sure we kicked cabbages at some stage too.....;):pac: and as for the luxury of monkey nuts???......:eek:...That was for the very "well-to-do" children!!!:o
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You kids had it easy. We had to sew our own bags from turnip leaves, and had to catch our own monkey, and then do the castration ourselves
I bow before the Master.
I couldn't beat that one.
Tell me all about the castration on Saturday after our march.....:D:D:D
I'm all ears....:p
Actually - edit - I'm wearing a hat if you have the shears handy.....0 -
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While I wouldn’t say I’m delighted water charges are being brought in, I certainly don't have a problem of paying for a good water service piped directly to my house and waste water drained away to be treated properly.
I've paid for it in the past when I lived abroad and fully realise that its an essential service treating and supplying a resource that is getting more and more scarce and needs to be paid for.
However - I utterly detest the idea that a portion of my income is going to fund an organisation that, right from day one has become a byline for cack handed incompetence and shown a total shambolic inability to undertake the task they have been given. And I don't just mean the current government.
To begin with, Irish Water are headed up by a failed city manager whose money burning legacy my in own home town included leaving us with a bill that overran into millions for the Eyre Square redevelopment that was eventually completed over 18 months late. As a reward he was promoted to Dublin City manager where he pissed away a mere €100 million over the Poolbeg incinerator fuckup.
And now we're paying him €200K a year with bonuses (along with 28 others on over €100K with bonuses) to do what he does best. Cock things up. And so far he's doing a pretty good job at that even if we never get to see or hear him. The man wouldn't survive till lunchtime in the private sector.
As well as the balls up over they way they handled billing before a single bill was ever sent out, their demand for our PPS numbers, the confusion over allowances, the exorbitant call out charges for repairs, their appalling customer service (or lack of it), and staff who don't know what their job is, it is also the government's lack of intervention and feet shuffling that make my blood boil.
Its never too late to do the right thing. Irish Water should be wound up immediately, management and board removed without recompense, and start the whole bloody thing again from the beginning using people with a track record for doing things right. Even Basil Fawlty, Frank Spencer and our own Father Dougal would do a better job.
It makes me sick to the pits of my stomach to see a public utility for an essential service being treated like a box of goodies by our government and divided up among their cronies at our expense no matter how incompetent those cronies are at the job. I have absolutely zero confidence in Irish Water.
And that my friends, is why, for the first time since the old farts in the IRFU tried to obliterate Connacht from Irish Rugby, I am taking to the streets on Saturday to kick up a racket. :mad:
+100.
Listening to Pat Kenny shilling for IW today was stomach churning!
He truly is in Denis O'Brien's pocket.0 -
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