Bad Beat/Moaning/Venting - pray for Lazare

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[Raoul Duke III]

Where do you think the FDI going to go? .

France's business-friendly environment and legendary streamlined bureaucracy will see it leap to the top of the queue for inward FDI.

One thing's for sure, if all tax factors were the same across the EU, nobody would actively choose to set up here.

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[TheJiggaman]

Irish government owed 13 billion from Apple and they don't want it.

There's me then paying my few bob in taxes and haven't the price of a pot noodle and a twix at the end of the month.

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[Raoul Duke III]

#lolcork

This brightspark is the Lord Mayor of Cork

Des Cahill gets about.

[Raoul Duke III]

What country is better do you think? Obv only talking about services here, not some old-school heavy industry.

If I was Tim Cook? Slovenia.

[Raoul Duke III]

I expect great productivity at North Korean meetings henceforth.

Ri was said to have been executed for falling asleep during a meeting chaired by Kim.

Fair enough imo, bet they're not dicking around on IPB in their meetings.

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[eamonhonda]

Wife just texted me to remind me that we're 14 years married today.

Oops. Some grovelling to do tonight.

Always forget you're old as fuck m8.

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[shrapnel]

Hi Mum Lazare, i'm home!! Just wanted to let you know dem pesky terrrrists didn't blow up my planes or my hotels!

As an aside, don't ever , ever...EVER!!!! travel with Pegasus airlines

Was looking at this French school in Dublin as very possible we'll have to move back to Dublin in maybe two years due to the wife's work and the innanity of tax in France after you pass over about €100k family income (we're not there yet, but should be when the wife's work takes off). Nice to see the school is run along proper French lines with childcare available in the school until half six in the evening, and absolutely oblivious to the fact that religion exists based on the application form.

Think that should fully break the link with religion in the family chain, as we just won't tell the elder one she was baptised, and the younger one will obviously not set foot in a church absent the unfortunate demise of the elder generation.

that's where my kids went to school so PM me for any info. If you can, apply early as possible as it's very in demand, and can have a big waiting list.

[balfejohn]

Ryder cup 2016

Irish golf on the decline
1st Ryder cup team in a number of years to have no Irishman
You can take Rory out of that picture of Irishman as he nailed his allegiance to the queen long ago
Bring back Phillip Walton and flaming eamon Darcy

[NewApproach]

Irish golf on the decline
1st Ryder cup team in a number of years to have no Irishman
You can take Rory out of that picture of Irishman as he nailed his allegiance to the queen long ago
Bring back Phillip Walton and flaming eamon Darcy

Who cares

[Silver-Tiger]

Irishtimes Paywall still coming up on Incognito for me in work. Is there something else i must do to get around it?

[Ed]

that's where my kids went to school so PM me for any info. If you can, apply early as possible as it's very in demand, and can have a big waiting list.

It's been on the go a long time. I went to the national school beside it. Never saw anyone come in or go out of the french school. Probably witches.

[shrapnel]

It's been on the go a long time. I went to the national school beside it. Never saw anyone come in or go out of the french school. Probably witches.

holly park?

plenty of hot French moms doing the pick ups should you care to visit for old times sakes!

[Ed]

Yup, and noted

[Raoul Duke III]

yes, slovenia, of course, thats the crown jewel in internationalisation

It's all about the cost base.

As someone once described Slovenia to me "in terms of competence they're German but in terms of cost they're Czech. Win\win."

[Strewelpeter]

[Raoul Duke III]

Aren't most of those North Korean stories we hear fake? E.g. the one about the Kimster feeding his uncle to dogs was a story taken from an Asian equivalent of Waterford Whisperer.

Even if someone were to go the trouble of making up stories about North Korea, they couldn't be anywhere near as bizarre as the reality.

Reuters and everyone else have this anyway. Gotta hand it to Fat Kim: executing lads with anti-aircraft guns shows a certain flair.

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[Lord Sir Banter]

jesus. glad your bud is ok Dice.
Did he take bad or accident or something?
Just mad that you can drop off the grid for days on end in this day and age.

Thought the answer was in the op? He went for drinks with dice on Thursday.

[careca]

Anyone see the O'Donovan lads on the 9oc news last night. Really are a breath of fresh air.

First off yer man says to Eileen Dunne "well Eileen, how's the form?"
Then she asks him how many turned out to welcome them home and he says (straight out of Father Ted) "I'm not good at judging crowds but I reckon there was a million there" and bursts his hole laughing

[hotspur]

Obvious differences surely? One concerns people trying to hang on to as much of their own money as possible. Other concerns people trying to get their hands on as much of other peoples money as possible.

I find this a bizarre comment.

[Hatedajacks]

Irish golf on the decline
1st Ryder cup team in a number of years to have no Irishman
You can take Rory out of that picture of Irishman as he nailed his allegiance to the queen long ago
Bring back Phillip Walton and flaming eamon Darcy

Cheer yourself up by googling Sian walton( Philips daughter) and going through her images and/or Videos. Your welcome.

[hotspur]

Have you got logs from the crash?
You can open the event viewer here
Open the Start Menu, type eventvwr.msc, and press Enter

Might give you a better idea where the fault is

Or try repair system files;
Start -->CMD-->sfc /scannow

Just looked at event viewer, was a Mywinlocker issue, deleted it and it worked. I actually didn't know how to view event log, if I did it would have saved me time and effort. Cheers, and to others who replied.

[cardshark202]

I find this a bizarre comment.

I think Lplated's comment would hold more weight if everyone was born with equal opportunities. As it is, the whole economy is set up to benefit the people who fund the politicians to ensure their needs are met.

We will often hear politicians spout about how the rich need to pay their fair share, but the rich get richer, the income gap widens.

Something like 8% of the world's population has over 80% of the total wealth.

Many of us who have grown up in relative comfort, possibly been private schooled or send our kids there seem to have a very hard time even showing a modicum of empathy for those who were born with next to nothing or whose circumstances led them to a position of extreme poverty.

[hotspur]

I think Lplated's comment would hold more weight if everyone was born with equal opportunities. As it is, the whole economy is set up to benefit the people who fund the politicians to ensure their needs are met.

We will often hear politicians spout about how the rich need to pay their fair share, but the rich get richer, the income gap widens.

Something like 8% of the world's population has over 80% of the total wealth.

Many who have grown up in relative comfort, possibly been private schooled or send our kids there seem to have a very hard time even showing a modicum of empathy for those who were born with next to nothing or whose circumstances led them to a position of extreme poverty.

Oh sure, all of that. But it was more simply the comment that the pension-talking guys were okay because they were trying to hang on to "their" money, but that woman was not because she was trying to get "other people's" money. As if the pension folk grew their money in their back gardens as opposed to acquired it from other people.

Anyway here is a photo of Sian Walton to add to the pantheon of blue dress girl, ballet girl, FAS girl, blonde dancing in car girl:

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[Strewelpeter]

We will often hear politicians spout about how the rich need to pay their fair share, but the rich get richer, the income gap widens.

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Facts beg to differ.
The most widely used measureof income inequality, the Gini coefficient has been showing a small trend back towards more equal societies in the developed and developing worlds since the big negative shift that happened during the Regan Thatcher years.
If you compare top and bottom 10% there is a marked improvement. Where things are really getting out of kilter is between the top 1% and the rest of the top 10% who are being destroyed by stagflation.

[Jibzzzz]

Would people recommend New Zealand for a 12 month working holiday or just a place to go and see for a few weeks?

[balfejohn]

Who cares

Your dead right
Well noticed

[darwinatemyhamster]

If you compare top and bottom 10% there is a marked improvement. Where things are really getting out of kilter is between the top 1% and the rest of the top 10% who are being destroyed by stagflation

Is this what happened to yer man on the bike in the Phoenix park at the weekend?

[Raoul Duke III]

Oh sure, all of that. But it was more simply the comment that the pension-talking guys were okay because they were trying to hang on to "their" money, but that woman was not because she was trying to get "other people's" money. As if the pension folk grew their money in their back gardens as opposed to acquired it from other people.

It's not a zero-sum game. Creating wealth for yourself <> 'taking wealth from others'.

[Raoul Duke III]

Ah yes, that interesting day where you discover that the crotch area of your suit trousers consists solely of a few wispy threads. And then spend the afternoon wondering could anyone else feasibly have made the same discovery.

Surely you should expect to get more than 3 years wear out of a suit.

[Jibzzzz]

Cheer yourself up by googling Sian walton( Philips daughter) and going through her images and/or Videos. Your welcome.

Yes times 100!

Enjoyable Instagram account, never realised the connection.

[cardshark202]

Facts beg to differ.
The most widely used measureof income inequality, the Gini coefficient has been showing a small trend back towards more equal societies in the developed and developing worlds since the big negative shift that happened during the Regan Thatcher years.
If you compare top and bottom 10% there is a marked improvement. Where things are really getting out of kilter is between the top 1% and the rest of the top 10% who are being destroyed by stagflation.

Do you have any studies showing this trend? From what I am seeing there may be a minor shift but I do need to search more to confirm anything. In my brief search for gini index data, it was somewhat lacking.

[hotspur]

It's not a zero-sum game. Creating wealth for yourself <> 'taking wealth from others'.

I'll be back in my box if anyone needs me.

As if my post with that pic needed extraneous ramblings. A lesson for all of us there.

[Guest]

Hope this apple ruling isn't the beginning of the end for our multinational tax dodging.
Some idiot in the journal claiming we can end the homeless crisis with the 13 bill. We take that money and multinational companies scarper the homeless crisis is going to look like a very minor problem
Clearly some of these euroloons hate our guts. Time to say thanks for the all the loot go fuck yourselves.

[Opr]

Facts beg to differ.
The most widely used measureof income inequality, the Gini coefficient has been showing a small trend back towards more equal societies in the developed and developing worlds since the big negative shift that happened during the Regan Thatcher years.
If you compare top and bottom 10% there is a marked improvement. Where things are really getting out of kilter is between the top 1% and the rest of the top 10% who are being destroyed by stagflation.

Do you have any links to back this up?

The trend in the Gini coefficient before the economic collapse did show inequality slowly declining but since the recession that trend has reversed. Even at this small trend it is nothing considering the high levels reached.

Huge report here from OECD based heavily on the Gini coefficient which highlights huge widening of the poverty gap in key areas. Page 27 gives breakdown of countries and shows and average increase in the index of around 10% from the mid eighties to the last recorded data in 2013. You're right in that the surge in the top 1% has been one of the key areas widening but also the bottom 40% has seen very little in the way of real income increase over the last decade.

Edit - Your statement that things are considerably better between the top and bottom 10% also seems completely off. Accroding to that report the richest 10% currently earn 9.6 times the income of the bottom 10% today. That ratio was 7-1 in the 80's, 8-1 in the 90s, 9-1 in the 00's. How is there a marked improvement as that figure rises to almost 10-1?

Opr

[hotspur]

Surely you should expect to get more than 3 years wear out of a suit.

Depends what you're exposing your crotch to I suppose. Bill Clinton probably got a fortnight out of them.

[Raoul Duke III]

Depends what you're exposing your crotch to I suppose. Bill Clinton probably got a fortnight out of them.

Sadly enough, 'my chair' is probably the answer.

[shrapnel]

@hotspur:

Was stuck in Istanbul for a couple of days, and thought about Mustang (only film in turkish that i think i've seen (american express notwithstanding)), which led me to think of you and wondered if you'd watched it.

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[Jibzzzz]

In betting terms, what would Aguero be to get the 3 match ban?

1/5?

[DeadParrot]

Anyway here is a photo of Sian Walton to add to the pantheon of blue dress girl, ballet girl, FAS girl, blonde dancing in car girl:

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wow, that is exactly who i thought of also

[mdoug]

Best baby shower gift?

My best idea so far is an Ireland jersey but honestly no clue what to give at shit like this

[Strewelpeter]

Do you have any studies showing this trend? From what I am seeing there may be a minor shift but I do need to search more to confirm anything. In my brief search for gini index data, it was somewhat lacking.

Jonathan Cribb on TimHarford's more or Less a few weeks ago

much more here
https://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profil...year_published[start]=&year_published[end]=&page=1&

It's not a zero-sum game. Creating wealth for yourself <> 'taking wealth from others'.

I don't completely agree with this, There are occasional cases where wealth is created out of nothing but in the main economics inasmuch as it is a science is just as subject to the laws of nature as anything else and although we don't always see it clearly for every profit there is an equal and opposite loss.
Unfortunately as I say most of these losses are invisible to us and are often environmental losses or losses felt by people far away and powerless to act.

[Guest]

Best baby shower gift?

My best idea so far is an Ireland jersey but honestly no clue what to give at shit like this

If the person is a bit of craic then this would be great imo. Book of comics about parenting that are eerily on the money:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fowl-Language-Parenting-Brian-Gordon/dp/1449479677/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456908496&sr=1-1&keywords=fowl+language

EG:

[6starpool]

@zuut - How much did the flying thing cost you overall in the end to get the licence? I know you don't have it yet but I assume you know the overall cost, assuming you pass first time, which I'm sure you will

[mdoug]

They're good craic, from brazil/czech and lived here for years but moving next year at some point hence why I was thinking jersey.

Shall purchase the above if it delivers on time(I left this last minute as usual!)

[Guest]

@zuut - How much did the flying thing cost you overall in the end to get the licence? I know you don't have it yet but I assume you know the overall cost, assuming you pass first time, which I'm sure you will

I don't really want to tot it up

I guess 12k but I did it quite intensively...you could probably add another thousand if you're doing it once or twice a week.

[Guest]

They're good craic, from brazil/czech and lived here for years but moving next year at some point hence why I was thinking jersey.

Shall purchase the above if it delivers on time(I left this last minute as usual!)

Not sure how the humour would translate but I'll live it to you to figure that one out.

[mdoug]

Not sure how the humour would translate but I'll live it to you to figure that one out.

Already purchased with express delivery as 3-5 days is a bit tight with it being on Sunday. Merci beaucoup!

[Raoul Duke III]

I don't completely agree with this, There are occasional cases where wealth is created out of nothing but in the main economics inasmuch as it is a science is just as subject to the laws of nature as anything else and although we don't always see it clearly for every profit there is an equal and opposite loss.
Unfortunately as I say most of these losses are invisible to us and are often environmental losses or losses felt by people far away and powerless to act.

You're confusing physics and capitalism.

Take the man who decides to manufacture, say, arseless trousers in Ballyferriter.

He goes to the bank, borrows a million.
He rents factory premises and machinery.
He employs ten local dimwits to cut the arses out of 100,000 pairs of trousers.
He sells the trousers to liberally-minded members of society at a healthy markup.
He pays back the bank.
The bank makes profit.
The landlord makes profit.
The local Healy-Rea hostelry makes fortunes.
He expands his business.
He employs more local halfwits to cut arses out of trousers and pays them decent wages
And so forth.

Where is the offsetting loss? Everyone is better off than previously.

[shano1888]

I don't think I have seen Mississippi Grind mentioned on here? Road movie about two guys heading towards a high stakes poker game playing along the route to gather money for the buy-in. It is certainly a cut above almost anything served up in the gambling genre over the last few years although it is slow and for the most part unrelenting grim.

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I wish they had lost the last roll on craps. It would have been far more in keeping with the film.

Opr

Watched this last night and very much enjoyed it. Cheers for the heads up.

Only dawned on me just now how directly it leans on California Split. Not in an annoying way though.

[AndyFatBastard]

You're confusing physics and capitalism.

Take the man who decides to manufacture, say, arseless trousers in Ballyferriter.

He goes to the bank, borrows a million.
He rents factory premises and machinery.
He employs ten local dimwits to cut the arses out of 100,000 pairs of trousers.
He sells the trousers to liberally-minded members of society at a healthy markup.
He pays back the bank.
The bank makes profit.
The landlord makes profit.
The local Healy-Rea hostelry makes fortunes.
He expands his business.
He employs more local halfwits to cut arses out of trousers and pays them decent wages
And so forth.

Where is the offsetting loss? Everyone is better off than previously.

What if the ass falls out of the market?