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... My car got seized on the way to a gig. Tax was a week over the period of grace and this power crazy (insert insult) of a bean-garda decides to seize it. Had to get a cab to the gig and back so barely broke even of the damn thing.

End of rant.

Ireland win the grand slam, you lose your car. There's a price for everything - that's the way the universe works.

Hahaha. Yeah. I'm gonna get Drico for this!!!

Should've taxed your car on time, my young whippersnapper! Let that be a lesson to you.

Ireland must have changed since I lived there. The Gardai (Irish police) were like keystone cops. They NEVER enforced any laws unless they really had to. The most inefficient police force in the world. It was quite unbelievable.

I could write story after story about the Irish police and nobody would believe them. One of the best was when somebody got murdered in the Phoenix Park and nobody came to look at the body for a whole week. It was indeed reported to the police but they were too lazy to do anything about it.
They just left it there. Of course after a while they had to do something about it since it was beginning to stink the place up a bit.

I still remember the time they decided to make a bit of an effort and they raided a pub that was serving drinks after hours. The only problem is that when they entered the premises they found 8 illegal drinkers all together.
What did these 8 imbibers all do for a living?

They were all members of the Garda Siochana (Irish police force) of course...............

Oh it hasn't changed at all. Unfortunately the governments a little strapped for cash at the moment and so that means that the gardai sit in their cars on the roads and take it in turns to pull people over and find a reason to fine them, rather than just sit in the office.

I also live in a c*** (not the best) constituency for a Garda so they all try to get themselves promoted out of here by fecking their weight around for a few months.

When did you live here?

I lived in Ireland about 10 years or so leaving in 1992.

Very odd country indeed.

When they say "yes" they actually mean "no" and when they say "no" they actually mean "yes". However they never actually say "yes"or "no" in the first place.

If you say "do you have the time" they will say, "I have" instead of "yes"
Or if you say, "did you think that was a good movie?" they will say "it was"

They can't bring themselves to say "yes" or "no"

If you ask the way in Ireland they hate to tell you that they don't know so they will actually invent something so you end up on a wild goose chase.

Very odd country full of very odd people.

I once asked a local person why the police didn't try very hard to solve crime and why blind eyes were turned everywhere to thieving and wickedness. It truly is the most "bent" country I have ever lived in and believe it or not it is socially acceptable to indulge in shenanigans. In Canada where I now live they are very prim and proper and wouldn't stand for it.

Anyway the explanation I was given wasn't very convincing but I shall you it nevertheless. This chap blamed the Irish penchant for minor (and sometimes major) lawbreaking on the evil British. He told me that when the British ran Ireland everyone by nature felt it their duty to disobey British laws.
However when the British left they left behind perfectly good laws that stayed on the books. However the Irish had got into the habit of breaking all the laws so even when the British left they just carried on with the old habits.

Ireland gets a big part in my upcoming memoirs entitled "Lives of a Showman" published by Magicana.

mark lewis wrote:When they say "yes" they actually mean "no" and when they say "no" they actually mean "yes". However they never actually say "yes"or "no" in the first place.

If you say "do you have the time" they will say, "I have" instead of "yes"
Or if you say, "did you think that was a good movie?" they will say "it was"

They can't bring themselves to say "yes" or "no"

That's a throw back to the Irish language, there actually isn't a single word for yes or no in the same context as there would be in English.

If you ask the way in Ireland they hate to tell you that they don't know so they will actually invent something so you end up on a wild goose chase.

They could just be messing around with foreigners!!!

Very odd country full of very odd people

Everywhere is odd but Ireland certainly has some very odd people.

I once asked a local person why the police didn't try very hard to solve crime and why blind eyes were turned everywhere to thieving and wickedness. It truly is the most "bent" country I have ever lived in and believe it or not it is socially acceptable to indulge in shenanigans. In Canada where I now live they are very prim and proper and wouldn't stand for it.

Anyway the explanation I was given wasn't very convincing but I shall you it nevertheless. This chap blamed the Irish penchant for minor (and sometimes major) lawbreaking on the evil British. He told me that when the British ran Ireland everyone by nature felt it their duty to disobey British laws.
However when the British left they left behind perfectly good laws that stayed on the books. However the Irish had got into the habit of breaking all the laws so even when the British left they just carried on with the old habits.

Ah yes, the "800 Years" bit, if you can't think of an answer blame it on the brits! I think a lot of the petty crime has gotten better in the last 15 years with the ridiculous economic growth that happened here. However, there still is a lot of alcohol induced mischief.

Ireland gets a big part in my upcoming memoirs entitled "Lives of a Showman" published by Magicana.

I'll certainly pick up a copy, it's always funny reading other people's perspectives on Ireland.

Murray the escapologist told me that the Irish were all comedians but they didn't know they were funny to other people. Unconscious comedians.

Awful punctuality. Not unheard of for employees to show up 45 minutes late.

They once had a truly horrendous phone system. They actually had to bring in Bell Canada to fix it. Canada easily has the best phone system in the world so they picked the best people to sort it out.

I don't know what it is like now but when I was there the thieving kids were a nightmare. I have never seen so much blatant stealing by children in my life. And I have even seen the little devils do it right in front of the useless gardai's noses and the lazy keystone cops wouldn't even budge to stop it. When I complained they said the kids were under age so they couldn't really do anything. You would think they would at least scare the kids away so the victims didn't lose their property.

Mind you I used to sell 400 svengali decks a day in Ireland. One day I even sold 480 decks. I used to call the place my big green piggy bank I made so much money there.

As for the Irish language I never met anyone in Ireland who could actually speak it.

I see Mr Lewis is trying to get a rise out of someone...

Pogue mahone, Mr Lewis, pogue mahone

Ireland has it's faults, but Canada is quite possibly the most boring place I have ever visited!

I once met a nice moose in Canada.

Harry Guinness wrote:... My car got seized on the way to a gig. Tax was a week over the period of grace and this power crazy (insert insult) of a bean-garda decides to seize it. Had to get a cab to the gig and back so barely broke even of the damn thing.

End of rant.

so what your saying is you broke the law, and the police did their job.


nothing wrong here.It should happen more often.

daleshrimpton wrote:

Harry Guinness wrote:... My car got seized on the way to a gig. Tax was a week over the period of grace and this power crazy (insert insult) of a bean-garda decides to seize it. Had to get a cab to the gig and back so barely broke even of the damn thing.

End of rant.

so what your saying is you broke the law, and the police did their job.


nothing wrong here.It should happen more often.

To be honest - I agree with Dale .

A day over .... a week over ..... a month over - they are all the same in my opinion - your tax was out of date and you were driving an untaxed car. If your car had run out of insurance a week ago and you had an accident ..... you can see where this is going.
Okay, so no car tax is no-where near as serious as no insurance, but rules are rules (like them or not) and you broke the rules.

Sorry for sounding so harsh - I do kinda sympathise with you, but ........

Replicant wrote:Should've taxed your car on time, my young whippersnapper! Let that be a lesson to you.