City v Country ... bah!

Why do city folk have to pay all the bills in this country?

Any type of charge suggested against our country bumpkin cousins is met with howls of derision. A measly €50 charge to keep their own sh1te out of the water system and there is an outcry. Now its a fiver and they want someone to pay to fix for the broken ones. Memo to self: Ring local authority tomorrow to see if they will pay for a new bathroom suite for the house - old one has a crack.

These are the people who have been most silent over the last few years. Things are going well, subvention and headage still coming in the door, kids still getting the grants, small farmer payments still hitting the mat, taxman still as realistic to these folk as Santa Claus. Say fook all lads - no running sheep down Kildare St or blocking up town with the Massey Fergusons now!

Meanwhile in Metropolisville, the urban dweller is crotch kicked at every turn - tax, pensions, paye, USC, bins, - with no escape. Urban man is busy getting his nuts squeezed trying to keep the EU happy while in a not so delicious irony our yokel folkels continue to draw down the Brussels largesse - whistling all the way to the co-op. Money to grow, more money to not grow, money to rear cattle, more money not to rear cattle, drawing down on non-existent animals etc. Exports through the roof - but tax take static - at nil. Throw in the well documented (on here) wink wink nudge nudge blackish economy and the self sufficiency and you have a real tale of two communities.

I'm buying a farm .....

Parouisa wrote:Why do city folk have to pay all the bills in this country?

Because you have all the services. Hospitals, schools and public transport to name a few. Allied to that you have more fly-tipping of rubbish, more calls on emergency services because of night time brawls, greater use of Garda resources to quell internecine disturbances and ask yourself this.....

Q:Who caused this whole economic meltdown?
A: Them fookers above in Dublin gets the 10 points.





Don't be short of a sack of spuds or a couple of bags of turf if you're that badly stuck..Are there no fish in the Liffey...

One other issue is the whole area of VRT - car tax etc.
I left the house this morning at 8.51 - dropped wains at school 8.54 and was parked at work at 8.58
so I used our road network for 7 minutes ( or 5.5 minutes)if you deduct the 1.5 mins I was parked at the school gate which may not even be a public roadway.

Metro-poles who try the same in an urban setting may spend 60 minutes or more on the public highway
- I think its grossly unfair that I pay the same car tax and VRT when I only get a fraction of the benefit.

But you let the tax run for 6 months and then get the local garda to sign her as off the road for the duration .....

Parouisa wrote:But you let the tax run for 6 months and then get the local garda to sign her as off the road for the duration .....

Those, of course, are the lucky ones. The less lucky countryfolk will take said car to the City to watch the football (for I can scarely think of another reason for going there), only to:

a) have the vehicle stolen by one of the natives; or
b) be forced to pay a 'tax' of €10 to one of the natives, who will kindly help the countryman align his car to the kerb and push in the wing-mirror. This will insure that, upon return, the car will miraculously have been neither stolen nor damaged.

Parouisa wrote:But you let the tax run for 6 months and then get the local garda to sign her as off the road for the duration .....

Around there parts the standard rural vehicle only needs to be taxed for the 3 months of Summer (May, June and July). This enables the impoverished rustic to follow his county's fortunes to far flung venues such as the Hyde, or God forbid Castlebar, with an aisy mind.

Why would you think lads are dropping 1ltr bottles of Hennessy (sourced doubtless in Asda) at the Sergeant's door on Xmas week..



must have left Payo's rubbish on the road again....

A gallon of petrol and a barrell does the trick just as well.....psst...wait till dark tho'...

Next thing you someone will be telling us we have to have a licence for the pack of hounds

More of this cockology. Sheriff's agent, Pat Dunne (former Laois corner back of the 1980's) fails in his bid to execute warrant against Laois peasants....
Harrassing poor country folk with court orders and eviction papers is just not on....

The Revolution is nigh......

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Brilliant. Fair play to you Ben Gilroy.Where are our spineless politicians? I hope this video is a help to others.

Parouisa wrote:Why do city folk have to pay all the bills in this country?


I'm buying a farm .....

The next thing you need to buy yourself JC is a gallon of Leo Yellow - tis a great job for sorting out scour in calves sir