Prepare to welcome your new IMF overlords

[Appendage]

@sid waddell

My shirt is far from blue unless you are talking about GAA but yeah I heard Noonan alright. It’s becoming a self pulfilling prophecy but I strongly believe that AIB anyway and possibly BOI is toast.

The situation is far worse here IMO. Europe and the Euro complicates things enormously and as I’ve said several times gives us no manouevreing room whatsoever. It effectively condemns Ireland to years of being a slave to debt servicing. The whole European financial system is built on sand and the Euro will have to go in the long run.

Did you learn that in school today m8?

[Sidney]

@Appendage

Did you learn that in school today m8?

:rolleyes:

[The_Runt]

We may as well get at least one good riot out of this

[Bandage]

@The Runt

We may as well get at least one good riot out of this

PM me if you need to borrow a Celtic jersey for the riot. It might be a little loose fitting though.

[KIB_man]

@Rocko

It’s not a great state of affairs alright but I think you’re running away with yourself a bit there. UK were in the same situation in the 70’s and took a bailout from the IMF.

There’s no doubt that the government (and most of the opposition to be fair) grossly mishandled the boom years but it takes a particularly odd sort of self-loathing Irishman
to see us as a unique example of a country that can’t manage its own independence.

Never said that we were a unique example but that we are an example at all is sufficiently bad. We were on the brink of an IMF bailout in the 1980s and less than 20 years later back in the situation again. Ireland could be a superb country - 5 hour flight to NY and Moscow, English speaking, young educated mobile workforce, enough natural resources to be energy sufficient but it is a perpetual shambles. Again as you put it thousands are suffering the humiliation of emigration, a lovely phrase that sums up your bigotted view of the diaspora, but we haven’t learned our lessons. The Irish economy and country continues to fail spectacularly and while it may not be unique it still is a matter of shame.

[KIB_man]

@turfcutter

Well sid,
I hear your shirt is blue but did you hear Michael Noonan on slaughtering into the government this evening and saying the people were worried about the banks he spoke much better than an FFer over the last couple of days, I’m telling ye lads get the biscuit tins ready

While I hope my bit of money is safe in the bank will ye ever give Kenny the road and bring back Noonan

Mate look up the Brigid McCole case. Michael Noonan is poison and that he is still involved in politics in Ireland says it all really. He was a hopeless leader of FG and will be a useless minister aswell.

[KinvarasPassion]

Everybody is making this up as they along, including the EU heads.

Pawns.

[Julio_Geordio]

We’ve got the EU just where we want them now.
Our demands are simple:

1. We want 150bn euro no strings attached. We may pay it back. We may not.
2. We want the south coast of Portugal for a Gibraltar like Irish zone.
   3 & 4. We want automatic qualification for Euro 2012 & we want to host Euro 2016.
3. A Casino in Two-Mile Borris.

Any other demands?

[The_Runt]

6. The Effile Tower to replace the spire.

[cluaindiuic]

@The Runt

6. The Effile Tower to replace the spire.

Easily done I’d say. Depending on what tower that is and where it is located at present.

[The_Runt]

@cluaindiuic

Easily done I’d say. Depending on what tower that is and where it is located at present.

7. Cluaindiuic to be executed

[treaty_exile]

@Rocko

It’s not a great state of affairs alright but I think you’re running away with yourself a bit there. UK were in the same situation in the 70’s and took a bailout from the IMF.

There’s no doubt that the government (and most of the opposition to be fair) grossly mishandled the boom years but it takes a particularly odd sort of self-loathing Irishman to see us as a unique example of a country that can’t manage its own independence.

being a bit harsh on your favourite mong there?
we can’t devalue.
and we have form in the national bankruptcy stakes.
the UK are far from healthy, but if they have to they’ll print another mountain of notes and inflate the problem away.

sid summed it up pretty well.

[Sidney]

@The Runt

6. The Effile Tower to replace the spire.

Ohhhhhh Eiffel Tower

You used to be French but you’re Irish now

[Julio_Geordio]

Eif-fel Tow-er take us to Ukraine

[The_Runt]

@sid waddell

Ohhhhhh Eiffel Tower

You used to be French but you’re Irish now

And in a few weeks I’ll be German.

[Sidney]

@The Runt

And in a few weeks I’ll be German.

Herman Von Runty.

[Sidney]

Biffo is to make a statement to te Dail at 5pm.

But the EU Finance Ministers’ meeting is only due to start at 4pm.

3 scenarios:
i) Ireland has already folded spectacularly
ii) Cowen will just waffle spectacularly
iii)There will be a general election

Any takers for Option iii)?

[The_Runt]

http://cghs.dadeschools.net/holocaust2/ss_in_poland.jpg

[Bandage]

Time for the two Brians to show what they’re made of.

Not a bullet - not an ounce.

Ole, ole, ole, ole. Ireland. Ireland.

[myboyblue]

It was a cracking ride while it lasted.

Heil.