Dartmouth Square

[daltonr]

I agree that there are two types of people in the world

There will never be a better time for this joke, so here goes....
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand Binary, and those who don't. Given your black and white view of the world, you're definitiely the binary type.

Now back to our regularly scheduled viewing.

A Similar Case. If you thought 8K was a good deal, how about 100 Quid.
[broken link removed]

-Rd

 

[ludermor]

Class!!!

 

[gearoidmm]

No, I wouldn't think twice about capitalising on the idiotic county counci's mistake, and you're right Meccano, I DON'T believe you wouldn't either!

I kind of take issue with this. Not everyone views the world in terms of profit and 'capitalising'. There is no way that I would do what O'Gara has done. I just think that it is immoral. Not everything in life is about money and getting one over on your fellow man for profit. If my life ever comes to the point where I admire someone like him for his aucumen, that'll be a sad day.

I think that the guy who sold him the land probably thought that he was ripping O'Gara off. The land is essentially worthless as there is no way that anyone would ever get planning permission to build anything there. How do you put a price on that?

 

[daithi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are CPOs only supposed to be used to obtain land for infrastructural projects such as roads etc. rather than playing get-my-own-back as Dublin City council are engaged in at the moment?

I think its a shame that the Green Party are wasting time on this issue when there are much more important ones..sure, Noel o Gara gives the air of being a chancer,but he's no less entitled to his profits than any of Berties developer buddies who have ruined this country for the sake of a fast buck(AFAIK, he's no friend of FF)

D

 

[Meccano]

I envy you your simple world-view Meccano. For those of us who live in the real world things just aren't that black and white. How can you draw a parallel between a developer taking advantage of an incompetent county council and deforestation by subsistence farmers in poor equatorial countries? I say this because I’m sure you know that the root causes of this have more to do with lack of geo-political cohesion (which can be traced back to colonial political constructs and 15th century exploration), the increase in population in tropical Africa and Asia in the 15th to 17th century as a result of the introduction of South American root and cereal crops, the legacy of cold war client-ism, local corruption, reduction in infant mortality rates, increases in life expectancy, the collapse of commodity prices after the 1970’s oil crises and political corruption that allows corporate profiteering. Oh no, sorry; it’s just the last one…

Showing off your A Level Geography doesn't impress me. Neither does cut and paste punditry.

Tell you what though - it so happens I have been to Borneo.
Don't like to boast about it.

So, contrary to your Googled opinion, I have first hand experience - and the people ripping out the Borneo rain forest are not poor dumb subsistence farmers - but mega rich timber tycoons, every one of whom is either related to a politically powerful family, or who has bought and paid for politically powerful 'friends'.

I actually met a few of them in a Casino in Kuala Lumpur where they were over for their bi-monthly gambling trip. The croupiers let it drop that one of them had lost heavily the previous evening - he blew 5 Million Ringgit in a half-hour. Thats about a million yoyo's to you or me, give or take a hundred grand.
But he was back again to try his luck anew.

Yeats put it well.........

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

 

[daltonr]

Am I the only one who's noticed the irony of Meccano getting his name from a construction toy?
Ho hum purple, your cut and paste trick has been rumbled.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Which are you?

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

Apparently he was wrong, nothing was at hand, and don't call me Shirley.

Go on, be honest, did you type that in all by yourself, or did you cut and paste it?
The large font suggests someone's been messing with their clipboard.

I'm not sure visiting Borneo is necessarily something someone would boast about.
Mention it in passing perhaps, it's interesting, but it's hardly an achievement in this day and age.
Unless of course to protect the environment you walked there, then you should definitely boast.

-Rd

 

[Purple]

Showing off your A Level Geography doesn't impress me. Neither does cut and paste punditry.

Tell you what though - it so happens I have been to Borneo.
Don't like to boast about it.

I didn't do A levels (or geography for my leaving cert) and I've never been to Borneo (other tropical forests yes but I don't like to boast). I have also been in the sea but that doesn’t make me an expert on marine wild life. I have dived at the east African barrier reef but that doesn’t make me an expert on coral. I have however read a few books that attempt to but some of the world’s problems in context (and Africa’s in particular). Show me where I cut and pasted from or apologise.

If you are really that concerned about the planet and injustice why don’t you bang on about the 400’000 people that have been killed in Darfur? I’ll tell you what, why don’t you Google that?

 

[Meccano]

If you are really that concerned about the planet and injustice why don’t you bang on about the 400’000 people that have been killed in Darfur?

Because when anyone mentions muslim atrocities on this website the post gets deleted and they get banned.

I have also been in the sea but that doesn’t make me an expert on marine wild life.

Hmmm, but depending on what you did there and observed, you might have some more credibility about it than someone who just read a book or got their opinions from Google.

I'm not sure visiting Borneo is necessarily something someone would boast about.

Its actually a fascinating place. You don't know what you're missing. Then again, you're probably better to stick to bling bling Marbella - with the rest of the Capitalist poseurs.

Regarding Yeats - typed from memory actually.
It's one of my favourite poems.

 

[ubiquitous]

What has any of this got to do with Dartmouth Square?

When people start using perjorative terms (eg "poseurs") to describe other posters, its usually as good a sign as any that the thread has outlived its usefulness.

 

[CCOVICH]

Agreed on both counts.