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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by Grayling
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Maybe racing if you are going....depends on the weather.
Where are you drinking? |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by the troubadour
(Post 9950545)
I know interest rates rob savers in the UK. Experience the same with the Euro. Make up for it a little in Australia with some 5.8%.. but even that has declined a little.
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by the troubadour
(Post 9950533)
Business in Ireland or UK at the moment?
The Japanese have been doing these carry trades. |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by Amazulu
(Post 9949924)
The fact is a fair majority of backpacker irish from the south are only experienced in block work and work a lot slower than the australian bricklayers . I even was racist towards my own and would never hire a brit , always excuses for not working ie cats dead , motor broke down etc etc . I had a full australian crew , they worked harder , they were used to heat and the quality of work was better . just my experience ,others may have had a different story . most of it was just down to the fact especially with the irish was they wernt up to speed on how the bricklaying industry works in WA , ie the guage is different , the heavy use of profiles , the ability to work gable pitches just given the width and angle of roofs without a carpenter having to cut a pattern , understanding that you just dont get a three quarter in a wall except up the side of a front door ,understanding that kitchens and bathrooms must be square and to size due to fact often they are designed around tile size too ,supplying your own building equipment and even scaffold at times , the list is endless . now im back workin in the uk , the mumbling and fumbling about can be frustrating but why interfere thats the way its always been done here . |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
There's something seriously wrong with the world's financial system when bondholders, those people and institutions who invested in the banks, are let off the hook. Talk about moral hazard.
Capitalism is supposed to be a system based on risk and reward. It seems that for investors there's guaranteed reward without risk and for taxpayers there's guaranteed risk without reward... If our (crony) capitalist system isn't fixed, this will happen again and again. |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Very good reason for the UK not adopting the euro currency.
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by king kong
(Post 9951195)
after 20 years living in perth and working building battleaxe block developments all over perth i can understand the rather racial advert and i infact myself used to start irish but inevitable had to either sack them or reduce them to labouring duties .
The fact is a fair majority of backpacker irish from the south are only experienced in block work and work a lot slower than the australian bricklayers . I even was racist towards my own and would never hire a brit , always excuses for not working ie cats dead , motor broke down etc etc . I had a full australian crew , they worked harder , they were used to heat and the quality of work was better . just my experience ,others may have had a different story . most of it was just down to the fact especially with the irish was they wernt up to speed on how the bricklaying industry works in WA , ie the guage is different , the heavy use of profiles , the ability to work gable pitches just given the width and angle of roofs without a carpenter having to cut a pattern , understanding that you just dont get a three quarter in a wall except up the side of a front door ,understanding that kitchens and bathrooms must be square and to size due to fact often they are designed around tile size too ,supplying your own building equipment and even scaffold at times , the list is endless . now im back workin in the uk , the mumbling and fumbling about can be frustrating but why interfere thats the way its always been done here . |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by king kong
(Post 9951195)
after 20 years living in perth and working building battleaxe block developments all over perth i can understand the rather racial advert and i infact myself used to start irish but inevitable had to either sack them or reduce them to labouring duties .
The fact is a fair majority of backpacker irish from the south are only experienced in block work and work a lot slower than the australian bricklayers . I even was racist towards my own and would never hire a brit , always excuses for not working ie cats dead , motor broke down etc etc . I had a full australian crew , they worked harder , they were used to heat and the quality of work was better . just my experience ,others may have had a different story . most of it was just down to the fact especially with the irish was they wernt up to speed on how the bricklaying industry works in WA , ie the guage is different , the heavy use of profiles , the ability to work gable pitches just given the width and angle of roofs without a carpenter having to cut a pattern , understanding that you just dont get a three quarter in a wall except up the side of a front door ,understanding that kitchens and bathrooms must be square and to size due to fact often they are designed around tile size too ,supplying your own building equipment and even scaffold at times , the list is endless . now im back workin in the uk , the mumbling and fumbling about can be frustrating but why interfere thats the way its always been done here . I can't argue with that as I'm not in the industry, but I'm sure you'll agree that posting 'No Irish' in your ad is a no no. Thats the only issue I have with this. It sends out a ridiculous message that the Irish are hopeless. |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
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Originally Posted by commonwealth
(Post 9951400)
Very good reason for the UK not adopting the euro currency.
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by Ballys
(Post 9953820)
I was just wondering what these two are now thinking about a united Ireland
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
(Post 9953951)
Well as Eire looks like it's utterly boned for generations, my guess is that they still want the North to be part of a united Ireland, but they will now be arguing that England should pay for it all.
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by Ballys
(Post 9953965)
How about a return to a united ireland under the control of London,not Brussels as Eire is at present;)
BernieBoy.......... come on down. :D |
Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
There is a big lesson for a potentially independent Scotland in what is happening to Ireland.
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by Ballys
(Post 9953820)
I was just wondering what these two are now thinking about a united Ireland
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Re: 4 Corners programme on Ireland
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
(Post 9953974)
I'm all for it. :D
BernieBoy.......... come on down. :D |
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