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Apollinaris

JimmyVik wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/lords-and-ladies-of-the-realm-gathered-for-geralds-deliciously-decadent-50th-26327902.html

How much cocaine was sniffed in the process I can only wonder.

Rodney Bathgate

lulublue22 wrote: »

As far as I remember they were from Waterford but it happened in a house in Kinsale. I remember being really annoyed at the time - there was so much fuss made of Katy French’s death with calls for whoever gave her the drugs to be prosecuted etc . It was like she had no personal responsibility for her actions yet the two brothers got a brief mention and then nada. It was as if they or their familes grief didn’t matter.

None of the 3 individuals should have gotten any positive / fawning media coverage. They were not victims, they died as a consequence of their own ill advised actions.

buried

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

None of the 3 individuals should have gotten any positive / fawning media coverage. They were not victims, they died as a consequence of their own ill advised actions.

Yeah you are right, but at the same time you have to remember, most of the media hoors were well on that stuff at the same time, still are probably. I was in a place the height of the shyster tiger and I seen a well known, obnoxious, media moralising, sycophantic pisswallet burst out of a toilet cubicle looking like he french kissed a frying pan of talcum powder

Motivator

lulublue22 wrote: »

As far as I remember they were from Waterford but it happened in a house in Kinsale. I remember being really annoyed at the time - there was so much fuss made of Katy French’s death with calls for whoever gave her the drugs to be prosecuted etc . It was like she had no personal responsibility for her actions yet the two brothers got a brief mention and then nada. It was as if they or their familes grief didn’t matter.

No it happened in a house down the road from my parents. Drugs were bought by a family member for one of the guys that died as a birthday present as far as I can remember. One of the poor lads that died wasn’t even meant to be there, didn’t hang around with any of those that were at the session but got offered to go to a party when he was in town and tagged along. Very sad story.

Electric Sheep

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Big time. Whatever else died with the tiger, wedding wanker still lives on strong. Attention seeking *****.

I hope the Corona virus finally kills off the Irish love affair with trying to have the wedding that outdoes all others. **** inviting every Tom Dick and Harry with whom they have a nodding acquaintance in the hope of making enough in presents to fund the extravaganza.

gmisk

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There a 21st after party at roughly same time in waterford where lads eat damp coke and 2 died (rip)

.....a lad in works brother was at it,and by all.accounts it was like a scene from exercist with lads lurching/jerking out of control,puking blood/out of nose etc.....story was enough to stop.me from ever trying it

Forgive my ignorance but what is "damp" coke?

anplaya27

gmisk wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance but what is "damp" coke?

Happened in the housing estate of Ballybeg in Waterford City in 2007. Damp coke is cocaine that got wet basically. It was hidden in the ground and got dug up. Was put away and stored for the party. Was too damp to snort so it was eaten. 11 people were rushed to hospital and two guys ( not brothers) died from overdoses. The guy that supplied it got 6 years I think.

lulublue22

Motivator wrote: »

No it happened in a house down the road from my parents. Drugs were bought by a family member for one of the guys that died as a birthday present as far as I can remember. One of the poor lads that died wasn’t even meant to be there, didn’t hang around with any of those that were at the session but got offered to go to a party when he was in town and tagged along. Very sad story.

Thanks - I googled to see if I had remembered correctly but couldnt find anything.

L1011

anplaya27 wrote: »

Happened in the housing estate of Ballybeg in Waterford City in 2007. Damp coke is cocaine that got wet basically. It was hidden in the ground and got dug up. Was put away and stored for the party. Was too damp to snort so it was eaten. 11 people were rushed to hospital and two guys ( not brothers) died from overdoses. The guy that supplied it got 6 years I think.

Was it not meant to be from the bales that washed off that boat in Cork, basically many, many times purer than normal and the regular uses that took large lines massively ODed as a result.

buried

L1011 wrote: »

Was it not meant to be from the bales that washed off that boat in Cork, basically many, many times purer than normal and the regular uses that took large lines massively ODed as a result.

If they came out of the sea off the west Atlantic in winter they were probably fairly damp too though

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

Was it not meant to be from the bales that washed off that boat in Cork, basically many, many times purer than normal and the regular uses that took large lines massively ODed as a result.

To best my knowledge it was damp/clumped together and lads scooped it.with finger and ate it


Kinda like speed (which was popular locally at the time)?

anplaya27

L1011 wrote: »

Was it not meant to be from the bales that washed off that boat in Cork, basically many, many times purer than normal and the regular uses that took large lines massively ODed as a result.

Was 'supposed' to have been buried in the ground by someone. Dug up by the person who supplied it at the party six months later. Google it, plenty of articles about it online.

L1011

Deleted User wrote: »

To best my knowledge it was damp/clumped together and lads scooped it.with finger and ate it


Kinda like speed (which was popular locally at the time)?

Well, if it had been in a bale in the sea, I'd expect it to be clumped.

anplaya27 wrote: »

Was 'supposed' to have been buried in the ground by someone. Dug up by someone who saw them putting it there six months later.

Only going on what I heard, which did involve one Waterford person but nobody actually involved with it.

anplaya27

L1011 wrote: »

Well, if it had been in a bale in the sea, I'd expect it to be clumped.



Only going on what I heard, which did involve one Waterford person but nobody actually involved with it.

It's all online. Just google it. Am from Waterford city, was huge news at the time.

L1011

anplaya27 wrote: »

It's all online. Just google it. Am from Waterford city, was huge news at the time.

That's no use, as both theories come up equally

JupiterKid

The coke casualties were sort of like the horrible comedown after the party was winding down, Katy French and Gerry Ryan’s deaths can be seen as a metaphor of the crash and burn after the property/credit bubble.

I am a recovering alcoholic and dabbled in quite a few recreational drugs over the years - cannabis, LSD, mushrooms, E and speed once or twice. I still smoke a bit of the happy baccy now and then, but the one drug I steered well clear of over the years was cocaine.

I had many, many chances to take it at parties, knew the right people to get it from if I wanted and some friends were into it - but I always felt it would not be a great idea to get into coke.

Glad I never tried it, in hindsight...

The J Stands for Jay

PhilOssophy wrote: »

They were capped though, so it wasn't unlimited. I think it was capped around 25k but can't remember.

Capped at E254 a month.

The chan chan man

I drove a 3 series at the time and paid monthly repayments to AIB. When the new model came out a guy from AIB phoned me asking if I’d seen it and fancied upgrading my car loan!!

(I felt so cool...but didn’t do it...)

The chan chan man

buried wrote: »

Yeah you are right, but at the same time you have to remember, most of the media hoors were well on that stuff at the same time, still are probably. I was in a place the height of the shyster tiger and I seen a well known, obnoxious, media moralising, sycophantic pisswallet burst out of a toilet cubicle looking like he french kissed a frying pan of talcum powder

Ahhh Lillies...

John_Rambo

JupiterKid wrote: »

The coke casualties were sort of like the horrible comedown after the party was winding down, Katy French and Gerry Ryan’s deaths can be seen as a metaphor of the crash and burn after the property/credit bubble.

I am a recovering alcoholic and dabbled in quite a few recreational drugs over the years - cannabis, LSD, mushrooms, E and speed once or twice. I still smoke a bit of the happy baccy now and then, but the one drug I steered well clear of over the years was cocaine.

I had many, many chances to take it at parties, knew the right people to get it from if I wanted and some friends were into it - but I always felt it would not be a great idea to get into coke.

Glad I never tried it, in hindsight...

So true, excellent observation. I've said it before, I reckon Gerry Ryan's death was a wake up call for a lot of men in his situation and in his bad state of health.

The J Stands for Jay

John_Rambo wrote: »

So true, excellent observation. I've said it before, I reckon Gerry Ryan's death was a wake up call for a lot of men in his situation and in his bad state of health.

It was always strange seeing him doing the Operation Translation weigh ins.

Ginger83

McGaggs wrote: »

Capped at E254 a month.

per account

Went on a date to a well known cafe bar with notions in Dublin in 2005 and went to the jacks only to find a socialite who has since dropped off the face of the earth - double barrel surname, first name rhymes with Wavin and second name like a young sheep - snorting the devil's dandruff off the toilet bowl. It was a wet Tuesday night, door wasn't locked and he wasn't even doing it off the cistern or the toilet roll holder. Yuck.

freshpopcorn

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Went on a date to a well known cafe bar with notions in Dublin in 2005 and went to the jacks only to find a socialite who has since dropped off the face of the earth - double barrel surname, first name rhymes with Wavin and second name like a young sheep - snorting the devil's dandruff off the toilet bowl. It was a wet Tuesday night, door wasn't locked and he wasn't even doing it off the cistern or the toilet roll holder. Yuck.

Going by my googling skills he doesn’t hide it!

For Forks Sake

Deleted User wrote: »

Went on a date to a well known cafe bar with notions in Dublin in 2005 and went to the jacks only to find a socialite who has since dropped off the face of the earth - double barrel surname, first name rhymes with Wavin and second name like a young sheep - snorting the devil's dandruff off the toilet bowl. It was a wet Tuesday night, door wasn't locked and he wasn't even doing it off the cistern or the toilet roll holder. Yuck.

Even wrote a book about it. Think he's living in Spain these days.

https://www.independent.ie/life/a-tigers-tale-party-boy-gavin-lambe-murphy-on-penning-tell-all-book-of-cocaine-fueled-party-years-34377853.html

PhilOssophy

I never heard of him (before my Google search!) but why the begrudgery? We all did stupid things when we were young. He learned from it. Good on him for turning his life around, no?

RasTa

This was posted an hour ago and is now sold out(40kg) so we are definitely back

https://twitter.com/higginsbutchers/status/1276868851158974464

One More Toy

RasTa wrote: »

This was posted an hour ago and is now sold out(40kg) so we are definitely back

https://twitter.com/higginsbutchers/status/1276868851158974464

Lord above...

L1011

To make it even worse, wagyu is not even vaguely worth it. Conspicuous consumption as I'd bet every one of those steaks will be photographed extensively for social media between cooking and eating.

One More Toy

L1011 wrote: »

To make it even worse, wagyu is not even vaguely worth it. Conspicuous consumption as I'd bet every one of those steaks will be photographed extensively for social media between cooking and eating.

Precisely

Just my opinion, but I think the boom is back for upper-middle classes. I'm seeing a lot of shiny new cars, including electric ones even teslas in Dublin with charging stations at their house.

I think people are seeing their property values increase and are feeling richer. Definitely more lending too I know a guy at work more senior than me got a loan to get his kitchen redone. And my bank and avant card are pushing loans on me hard, which I will probably acquire as I'm looking for a mortgage in the next year and want to leave a trail of good credit history

freshpopcorn

A 6th class went to Paris in my town in 2005 for a few days!

PhilOssophy

One More Toy wrote: »

And my bank and avant card are pushing loans on me hard, which I will probably acquire as I'm looking for a mortgage in the next year and want to leave a trail of good credit history

Don't believe that bs about a good credit history! This isn't the states - banks care about how much you are earning, how much of a deposit you have, how safe your job is and how much you are saving each month.

Don't take out any loan on the above belief, even if the banks tell you its not true!

One More Toy

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Don't believe that bs about a good credit history! This isn't the states - banks care about how much you are earning, how much of a deposit you have, how safe your job is and how much you are saving each month.

Don't take out any loan on the above belief, even if the banks tell you its not true!

My mate works in banking (so do I but in back office) , they check the central credit registrar to see if you were able to pay back a loan in the last 5 years. I'm aware we don't have credit scores like in the state or UK. But that's what he told me and he's pretty experienced. We're hoping to have the guts of the price of a house anyway so it'll only be a relatively tiny mortgage

Doctors room ghost

L1011 wrote: »

To make it even worse, wagyu is not even vaguely worth it. Conspicuous consumption as I'd bet every one of those steaks will be photographed extensively for social media between cooking and eating.

I’d rather an Irish lamb chop out of Aldi than any of that other sh1te

PhilOssophy

One More Toy wrote: »

My mate works in banking (so do I but in back office) , they check the central credit registrar to see if you were able to pay back a loan in the last 5 years. I'm aware we don't have credit scores like in the state or UK. But that's what he told me and he's pretty experienced. We're hoping to have the guts of the price of a house anyway so it'll only be a relatively tiny mortgage

Yeah but the won't turn you down if you haven't had a loan in the last 5 years either! Save your interest if you can at all!
Tiny mortgage = the dream scenario! Fair play.

Wildly Boaring

Harvey Norman this week!!

Sky King

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

If you have to pay for that per fortnight, you definitely shouldn't be buying it.

One More Toy

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

Oh dear lord christ all fúcking mighty in all that is holy

One More Toy

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Yeah but the won't turn you down if you haven't had a loan in the last 5 years either! Save your interest if you can at all!
Tiny mortgage = the dream scenario! Fair play.

Hmm I'll have to ask him is it really worthwhile

And yeah it took 12 years of hard saving. Buying the cheapest of everything, doing it the hard way scrimping and saving. Not following the herd. Dressing modestly. I could go on and on but it's off topic

LiquidZeb

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

I'll take 20.

Pinch Flat

Got a flyer through the post during the week. I see €5,000 odd tv's are a thing again. Probably a few spas buying them on credit cards.

afatbollix

I love this thread.


My brother is a farrier, The lad who comes and puts shoes on yer horse.

He was at a yard up north and the owner asked him to do a horse at his other land but my brother knew that was a hour away and he needed to get home to the kids, so he said Its a bit of a drive it's late I'll do it tomorrow as its an hour in the wrong direction for getting home.

Yer man says no problem we'll take the chopper. My brother was worried about the weight of the kit as its quite heavy but yer man was like its ok this thing can hold 8 people.

So he loaded all the kit into the chopper and it took 10 mins and landed in the field rounded up the horse and got some new shoes for it and he was back to the van in 30 mins and on the way home.

Rodney Bathgate

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

Tempting but I only use the existing kettle a couple of times a month at most so couldn’t justify that.

Mickiemcfist

One More Toy wrote: »

My mate works in banking (so do I but in back office) , they check the central credit registrar to see if you were able to pay back a loan in the last 5 years. I'm aware we don't have credit scores like in the state or UK. But that's what he told me and he's pretty experienced. We're hoping to have the guts of the price of a house anyway so it'll only be a relatively tiny mortgage

Just to back up PhilOssophy, whatever your mate does in banking, it ain't in giving good consumer advice. They check the register to see if you've been UNABLE to pay back a loan in the last 5 years. Being able to manage your finances without debt & build up savings is categorically the best way to prove you're able to repay a loan/mortgage.

However dont take either of our word for it, genuinely contact the banks mortgage department & ask, they wont tell you to take out a loan you don't need.

ChikiChiki

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

The absolute hack of that kettle. I wouldn't even let the thing be visible in my skip.

I'd love to know if they have sold any.

Ipso

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

Smeg, indeed.

PhilOssophy

PhilOssophy wrote: »

I never heard of him (before my Google search!) but why the begrudgery? We all did stupid things when we were young. He learned from it. Good on him for turning his life around, no?

Not sure I see too much begrudgery in any of the posts there but I suppose he got famous for doing nothing other than partying a lot after inheriting loads of money and is now in his 40s and has never had a job.

steves2

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Harvey Norman this week!!

If you pay 500 for a kettle then you really have nothing else to worry about. Smeg is such a terrible name isn't it.

Doctors room ghost

My brother is a farrier, The lad who comes and puts shoes on yer horse.






Thank goodness you explained to us simple minded gombeens what a farrier is.we would never have known.

The Undecided One

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

My brother is a farrier, The lad who comes and puts shoes on yer horse.






Thank goodness you explained to us simple minded gombeens what a farrier is.we would never have known.

Thank goodness he has, some of us (me) are not native speakers of the English language and appreciate a quick explanation of a word they have never seen or used before.