What is wrong with us thicks?

[Rat Catcher]

Funny enough I know a few motorcycle couriers turned taxi drivers who are like that. One such bloke I know wouldn't even use a bank when he started taxi driving. I remember him taking out a mortgage through a broker and asking me if I thought the broker would notice that he's short 800 notes for the deposit... turned out that his interpretation of the broker asking to see evidence of his deposit was to stuff the used notes into a Dunnes Stores bag and bring it in to the office!

[Shallowhal]

Hal look at all the homeless who didnt borrow enough .The big developers who borrowed billions are still in business .

The majority of homeless people never borrowed and those normals that did borrow and possibly maybe could afford to pay at the time were fed to the vulture funds.

[Shallowhal]

Funny enough I know a few motorcycle couriers turned taxi drivers who are like that.

Maybe that's where it stems from!!

I'd say there's more dodgy P60's floating around lending institutions than there is politicians around Dail Eireann!!

[The Liffey Lip]

Could be the children of the Foxrock set buying the gaffs in Ballyer... Look, if O'Leary manipulated share prices for his and/or his shareholders' benefit Hippo would be telling us what a clever fellow he is... Govt do it and he's getting his knickers in a twist.

  Misfortunes to ourselves are always good fortune to others, and I'm not a Mick Ryanair fan either...today's peacock is tomorrow's featherduster as Monica said to Bill, on bended knee. and, as previously stated, Hippo is living with Jimmy Hoffa in Honduras waiting for Godot.

[Rat Catcher]

I was thinking there may be some connection. I know couriers could earn relatively good money back in the 90s (probably still can) but it was up to them to go out an earn it, maybe it just got in their heads that you need money to buy stuff and you need to work to get money...

Back in the good old days the banks worked with the paper never refused ink maxim, they never wanted to see anything that might contradict whatever chit the victim had - in my case a piece of paper signed by a union boss. Aaah things were much simpler then... getting back to the bloke with the bag of cash, it just so happened that the broker was friendly with a bank manager who solved his "problem" by creating some paperwork that made it appear that he was a regular saver with said institution!

[The Liffey Lip]

So PTSB have joined the fray with not paying tax for 21yrs

Apparantly the accounting priciple is something they are obliged to comply with....of course it is cos it works in their favour!!

There's a new banking disorder now?...post-traumatic stressful banking?

[Rat Catcher]

I don't think PTSB got much from NAMA, certainly not as much as AIB or BOI so it's carrying forward losses might not be as objectionable?

[Shallowhal]

I was thinking there may be some connection. I know couriers could earn relatively good money back in the 90s (probably still can) but it was up to them to go out an earn it, maybe it just got in their heads that you need money to buy stuff and you need to work to get money...

When i finished my apprenticeship in 84/85 there was fukall jobs really but my brothers best mate was a courier for Pony Express,the thought of driving my motorbike and getting paid to do it really appealed,didn't know my arse from my elbow getying around Dublin apart from getting the 19 or the 34 bus into town of a Satharday....but i learned quickly doin all the out of town/southside chit that the real couriers didn't want to be doin...and at 19/20 yrs of age i was making quite a few bob...and all cash!!

[The Liffey Lip]

Credit cards and apps can fuck a guy up.

[Rat Catcher]

Unsecured debt is relatively painless, mortgages are what's killing folk.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

Do you remember the default response from our gang of arseholes when their incompetency was brought under the spotlight - "this was a worldwide problem." In other words, the elite paying themselves billions and not having a fucking clue what they're doing is standard practise throughout the world. Swallowed hook, line by the peasants without a whimper. "Look, we are where we are"/"People went mad borrowing"/"We all partied" - i.e., Its your own fucking fault for believing we had a fucking clue what we were doing.

[Shallowhal]

Credit cards and apps can fuck a guy up.

Like gargle.....used in moderation!!

[Rat Catcher]

Do you remember the default response from our gang of arseholes when their incompetency was brought under the spotlight - "this was a worldwide problem." In other words, the elite paying themselves billions and not having a fucking clue what they're doing is standard practise throughout the world. Swallowed hook, line by the peasants without a whimper. "Look, we are where we are"/"People went mad borrowing"/"We all partied" - i.e., Its your own fucking fault for believing we had a fucking clue what we were doing.

... and if we had the chance to do it all again, tell me would we?

Say what ya like about the Paddies but we'll never learn from our mistakes.

[Shallowhal]

We've short memories for sure....how much is a gaff in Dublin again.....maybe Leitrim will get it's chance this time around.

[Bob Shillin]

I don't think PTSB got much from NAMA, certainly not as much as AIB or BOI so it's carrying forward losses might not be as objectionable?

The cnuts sold my pension loans to a VF for a discount of 30% +. The VF are offering me a discount of 6% to clear. Woulda had a lot more options if they had offered me the 30%+ discount.