ISME you gotta love em. They're usually the first out of the blocks howling @ the moon when there's a strike, especially in the public sector. Crying that the unions are "Holding the country to ransom" when there hasn't been a big fuck off strike in Ireland since the 1980's, thanks to Social Partnership. Anyway the point being let those ISME & IBEC fuckers start paying their taxes PROPERLY, none of this 12.5% rate of tax (actually if tax breaks and other incentives are taken into account business in Ireland only pays between 7 and 10% in tax. No wonder the NHS is fucked (as well a large dose of privatisation) , lets have them paying tax (for a start of 25%, which is the EU average). Can you imagine the screams out of them then!

If you're looking for drinks brewed by monks I'm the wrong guy... I'll defer you to my colleague who touched the face of god after a trappist beer and (I suspect) discovered the number of angels that will fit on a pinhead (4), the secret of the universe (47) and the price of the celestial teapot (£4-99 from Argos).

The vests are from Primark.

Kinz wrote:

Anyway the point being let those ISME & IBEC fuckers start paying their taxes PROPERLY, none of this 12.5% rate of tax (actually if tax breaks and other incentives are taken into account business in Ireland only pays between 7 and 10% in tax. No wonder the NHS is fucked (as well a large dose of privatisation) , lets have them paying tax (for a start of 25%, which is the EU average...

i read just recently the EU average was 29% AND (get this) : if the 300 richest people in ireland paid 10% more tax it would raise.....

1 POINT 7 BILLION-FEKKIN-EUROS! kaaaaaaahnts.......

then again i look around and often think: we get the government we deserve!

DIMITRI

btw: celestial teapots...... only €1 in "mary's of sligo", if anyone wants me to put in an order for 'em!

Mary of Sligos? I'll get me coat...

Udo Bukowski wrote:

If you're looking for drinks brewed by monks I'm the wrong guy... I'll defer you to my colleague who touched the face of god after a trappist beer and (I suspect) discovered the number of angels that will fit on a pinhead (4), the secret of the universe (47) and the price of the celestial teapot (£4-99 from Argos). The vests are from Primark.

'....price of everything and the value of nothing.....'
AND my internet bride isn't even out of the box yet, never mind fully inflated!

Can't wait for the Hamburg drinking session in August never mind the match!