will ireland be a real basket case again? (1 Viewer)

[broken arm]

eh?

 

[Gambra]

In what context...

 

[broken arm]

In what context...

fucking students....

** only messing"! **

in the european context.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Stephen Ireland?

 

[flashback]

twill be grand sure, no matter how bad it gets you'll always have Cork.
Unless Cork is serious about seceding from the Republic.

Oh Jesus. That was a joke, right lads??

RIGHT??

 

[Cryptid]

twill be grand sure, no matter how bad it gets you'll always have Cork.
Unless Cork is serious about seceding from the Republic.

Oh Jesus. That was a joke, right lads??

RIGHT??

Cork is the nagging wife to the rest of the country. A nagging wife who can play a mean game of hurling.

I think Ireland will say yes to Lisbon this time around and thereby shake off the unfair 'basket case' tag which Broken Arm shackled us with in an internet post.

 

[Gambra]

The European & local elections will be interesting to see how the parties shape up I suppose.. When's this Budget coming? It's been ages in the making.

Hopefully Sinn Fein will get into power sometime and turn Ireland into the real basket case.

 

[classic seanc]

Basket case, shmasket case.
We're no worse off than Spain. We just need to rationalise our shit.

 

[cephalopod]

We're proper fucked

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Recession: the bad luck of the Irish


I read that article on Sunday and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Enjoy.

 

[flashback]

Christ. Nouriel Roubini's on our case now too?

Great. This is the one of the lads that predicted the shit storm in the US a good while before things started to smell a bit iffy.

I no one ever uses the word "luck" and "Irish" in the same sentence again I would be quite happy. Patronising as fuck so it is.

 

[plug]

the suck of the irish.

 

[classic seanc]

Recession: the bad luck of the Irish


I read that article on Sunday and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Enjoy.

Is there a factory in Dublin 4 or somewhere that produces drunken, arrogant, smarmy millionaire pricks for use in interviews? Who are these assholes. Seriously, I've never met them. And yet they seem to be everywhere.

 

[broken arm]

Recession: the bad luck of the Irish


I read that article on Sunday and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Enjoy.

one of the many articles I have read over the last few weeks that prompted this thread.

 

[billygannon]

http://www.irisheconomy.ie/

This is a good blog.

 

[flashback]

if you are interested in this sort of thing, you can watch The Charlie Rose show online, and he duz be having your Roubinis and your Krugmans and your Feldsteins and all manner of economics types on a regilar basis.


I watch it. Its deadly. Its like watching a chess match with Kasparov commentating for you. Ah yes, knight to h3, protecting both the queen and bishops rank... of course. And for about 37 seconds you are thinking, that's not so hard. I get that.
Until you turn down the volume, and you think ehhhhh, yeah. Chessss, nice one. Emm.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Anyone want to buy a single teabag?

 

[Cryptid]

I think the first thing to do is rename the country to Western Pixie Land.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Anyone want to buy a single teabag?

hould on till i change me pyjamas, the old ones got burned when I was torching my neighbours kids...

in fairness though, although that article had more than a little overdramatic shadden-wotsit, the basic take home message is correct. ireland=fucked.

 

[egg_]

I looked up "basket case", and it originated as a term for quadruple amputees during WWI