Wihout boring you with the nitty gritty and details I was driving in my car. It's not quite a Jaguar. More a noisy shed with wheels.

Anythen, I was listening to the radio.

The DJ said an opposition spokesman MP / TD said today that the Wonkers, sorry masturbators, sorry, I mean bankers, I always get them confused. Anyway, the money feckers in Ireland should be locked up for subversion.

He also said they have done more damage to this country than the IRA did.

The DJ then said "A spokesman for the IRA said 'don't lump us in with them feckers'. "

I nearly crashed my shed while laughing.

Then Boyzone came on the radio and it started raining. Spoiled it completely.

Bring me the head of Ronan Keating.

Actually, just give him a good kick up the arse.

Thanks!

R ox

R ox

I suppose with all the lending banks did to people who couldn't afford to pay them back, it's their own fault they're failing. Banks should stop lending and save themselves a little money and then maybe they'll not have to be saved by the country.

JR,

These people in Ireland are not Madoff, the clue was in the surname.

Nobody here has really suffered for financial institutions bringing whole countries to the brink of collapse.

At least America locked BM up for ten million years.

Here they will get a promotion. In the Uk they will get a knighthood.

In my youth I had a friend called Paddy. Saint of a man, type of fella who'd give you a pound when you were skint.

He said this "there's one rule for the rich, then there's one rule for us"

By us he meant the poor. I always hoped he was wrong. Sadly he wasn't. I always paid him back too, which impressed him no end.

Told him you're better than the bank. Made him laugh till he coughed.

RIP Paddy. Better than the bank. All of them.

R ox

Quoted from rendevous JR, These people in Ireland are not Madoff, the clue was in the surname. Nobody here has really suffered for financial institutions bringing whole countries to the brink of collapse. At least America locked BM up for ten million years. Here they will get a promotion. In the Uk they will get a knighthood. In my youth I had a friend called Paddy. Saint of a man, type of fella who'd give you a pound when you were skint. He said this "there's one rule for the rich, then there's one rule for us" By us he meant the poor. I always hoped he was wrong. Sadly he wasn't. I always paid him back too, which impressed him no end. Told him you're better than the bank. Made him laugh till he coughed. RIP Paddy. Better than the bank. All of them. R ox

Should stick that in a script, made me quite tearful.

Madoff was not a banker. He didn't work for a bank, own a bank or run his business like a bank. He was in investments. Crooked investments but still, not the person you go to see if you want to borrow a quid from. I'm guessing you're lumping him in with the bankers world retrospectively as it's all one and the same?

There are businesses where you can borrow without so much trouble to obtain money. They're call loan sharks.

He wasn't a banker, he was in investments.

I'm not a labourer but I do own and use a shovel.

I'm not a writer but I have a keyboard.

He took money from people, some very famous, invested it, ahem, with a guaranteed rate of ten per cent year on year.

The only difference between him and a bank is that he didn't have a branch in every fucking city or spend millions changing his fecking logos every year.

I'm lumping him in because he was a financial con man and he's in jail.

I can't name bankers that have gone to jail as there aren't any.

If they weren't rich and powerful bankers with many friends they would have been locked up years ago.

Love and cash,

R ox

Yeah, pyramid investing is always dodgy as proved by the man.

Two examples you can use is the chap who brought down barrings bank, and the French dude that almost destroyed general societe (can't quite spell it). Both for banks via investing in the stock Market.

I see a theme here.

His name was Nick Leeson. At it was Barings bank, one so posh they didn't have to even advertise, that type.

He invested in a triple x account to cover mistakes by his staff. He did the wrong thing by trying to save someone's job by covering their investment errors. He did it so well no one knew. Until the money eventually ran out.

Unlike the rest of them who laugh that the taxpayer is funding their extravagances and they get a pay rise and a bonus. Paid for by you, the taxpayer.

The Irish govt has pumped fifty billion euro into a developer's bank.

They could have spent that on schools, hospitals, employment training.

They should have. They didn't. And won't. I barely have enough to drink myself through this crisis.

Denmark here I come. I believe they have cheap booze so I don't have to cry myself to sleep every night. I may bring Hugh with me.

Does anybody wanna buy a good dog?

On a happier note, T3 has just been submitted.

Anyone who wants a peek should PM me. I'll send you a link. It's very very good. Even if I say so myself.



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I believe the politican who made the appauling association was Leo Varadkar - a very common Irish name around the midlands - he was named around the same time in history as Tiger Woods - a popular trend at that time was to call the child most likely to expell discharge from either head after the Felidae family order carnivora. Fact.

Eoin, as per is correct. I believe LV is a Fine Gael (pronounced Feena Gwael round here, but it varies from county to county) TD, the Irish version of a member of parliament.

What is this, Irish school?

Sorry.

Point is, is what a stupid fucking thing to say.

LV has a good point, just a really bad idea of how to phrase it.

You don't mention IRA in the present tense, or on the news, as they have disbanded. And practically everyone in Eire and elsewhere want this fine land to return to one of saints and scholars.

It is sad to think FF have flushed it all down the toilet. This country was rolling in money for years. It's all gone.

It's also sad to think Leo and his friends will more than likely form the next government. This country is banjaxed.

Sadly Eoin, my countryman, this place is buggered for at least five more years, maybe more. I ain't gonna think about coming back until 2020.

However, the way things are going I'll be joining Freddie, Janis, Bon and Jimi with Tony Wilson at the big rock party in heaven way before then. Ho hum.

You'll all manage fine without me.

Denmark, here I come. Can't be any worse than here.

Excuse Miss Dane, please can I have a job? Any job will do...

R xo

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Anyone who wants a peek should PM me. I'll send you a link. It's very very good. Even if I say so myself.
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I'd like to read it but I've caught an infection in my ear that's making my ear ring and I can't concentrate. Maybe after monday when I go to the docs.

Also, the ira are still around and will never die out. Members come & go, names might change but the bastards still kill like last month in Belfast.

The ira are scum plus the protestant factions. Both are twats.

The fact is the IRA has disarmed.

Dissident groups, such as the Real IRA etc still exist.

Your post is mistaken.

And us Irish lads don't like Londoners telling us how it is.

Maybe something to do with seven hundred years of fucking Brits trying to rule us.

No offence, but you're way off the mark, J. Stick to Wimbledon and Chelsea, Brit boy.

Love and kisses,

R ox

Being that I grew up there, family still there, and the south know barely anything that goes on in the north, I'm surprised at your pigeon knowledge.  Have you heard of the INLA?  The UDA, UVF etc...  The IRA still exist.  I've lived in N.Ireland till I was 18, and you've taken holidays in ireland or lived as toddler, I'd rather stick with my fam & mates than the press over here.  My irish mates don't even care about the north, so why do you?

C'mon guys.... Let's not argue. There's been enough of that lately. It turns people off...

This thread needs to cool down or it's gonna disappear.