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Thread: AA Roadwatch report major traffic jams in Newry as public sector workers go shopping.

  1. 24th November 2009, 01:36 PM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gimpanzee View Post
    What do we want?
    Stuff for the house!

    When do we want it?
    Now!
    LOL - so right
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  3. 24th November 2009, 01:41 PM #32
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    This just really sums up the attitude problems that alot of the people in this country seem to have.

    We really are a ridiculous people.
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  4. 24th November 2009, 01:45 PM #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stakhanov View Post
    This just really sums up the attitude problems that alot of the people in this country seem to have.

    We really are a ridiculous people.
    What do you mean? How do we stop Ireland from going bankrupt?
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  5. 24th November 2009, 01:47 PM #34
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    Quote Originally Posted by libertarian-right View Post
    What do you mean? How do we stop Ireland from going bankrupt?
    Cut spending by any draconian measures we can take. Concentrate what money we have left on health, education and communications and pray.
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  6. 24th November 2009, 01:53 PM #35
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    They say cutbacks
    We say tailbacks
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  7. 24th November 2009, 01:53 PM #36
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    Quote Originally Posted by White Horse View Post
    Actually, it was their second item on the one o'clock news. The reporter also mentioned interviewing shoppers who were on the picket line this morning and went shopping afterwards.

    In addition, I heard from someone who works in Newry that RTE have an outside broadcast truck in town today.
    This was actually predicted on last night's Drivetime on Radio 1: a public sector worker texted in to say that all the chat in her office was how great it would be to get a day out doing the Christmas shopping, and that shopping centres should get in extra staff because they would be needing them. She failed to anticipate that they would all go to Newry though!

    1 hour 42 into the show

    http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-r...on-Monday.smil
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  8. 24th November 2009, 01:56 PM #37
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    It's well for the PS strikers that they can take a day off work to try and hold the Republic of Ireland to ransom, whilst they drive up to Northern Ireland, in their nice new cars, to spend all this money that they do not have on nice new stuff to play with. They should stay up there!
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  9. 24th November 2009, 01:57 PM #38
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    This was just covered on BBC NI news at lunchtime

    Mentioned a huge spike in southern traffic at the end of the strike coverage piece.
    Newsreporter gave a kind of nudge nudge wink wink gesture
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  10. 24th November 2009, 01:59 PM #39
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    Taxi driver on Joe saying last night was like New Year's Eve in Dublin city centre: one nightclub had to be closed by the Gardai because the queue to get in was so long!

    Struggling to make ends meet my a%$e...
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  11. 24th November 2009, 02:01 PM #40
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    Today' strike has divided the PS workers into two groups: super overpaid and just overpaid.

    The super overpaid can afford a shopping spree in Dundrum, while the plain overpaid can afford the spree in Newry.
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