The HSE is set to announce further cutbacks after a meeting today. Already €85m in deficit in the first 3 months of the years some of the suggestions are to include recruitment restrictions and closure of beds during the summer months.
Yes, because people don’t get sick in the summer. And it’s not like we’re not already short of beds. But then if you don’t have enough nurses or doctors, rather lots of highly paid consultants, does it make any difference if you have all the beds in the world?
What a fucking joke the HSE is. If they want cutbacks start with the admin staff. The thousands of pencil pushing beaurocrats whose only function is to tell people there’s no bed for them. Then take their wages and hire some more doctors and nurses and buy some new equipment, equipment that actually works. Open some of the centres that have been promised to people.
And those revisionist cunts who love to talk about how great Bertie was and how much he did for the country and how he lived to serve the people, you can all go fuck yourselves. With an AIDS cock. He talked at the weekend about how his biggest regret was that he didn’t get a football stadium built. A fucking football stadium that no doubt he would have opened with his precious Manchester United, the unspeakable cunts.
I bet he wanted to get kitted out and play the first 5 minutes of a friendly against Ireland or something. His lifelong dream, not to bring peace to Ireland, not to provide a health service that functioned properly, but to build his own stadium. Maybe there might have been a statue of him outside it too, like Billy Bremner at Elland Road.
I’m telling you, if anyone ever builds a statue of Bertie I’m going to the blow the fucking thing up.
And another thing, a friend of mine just came back from America and gave me some Hershey’s chocolate. I don’t know why but what I do know is that there’s an aftertaste of sick when you eat some of it. Why would anyone make chocolate that tastes of vomit?
Hersheys chocolate is shite, all varieties are equally
awful, and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. If you want a truly vomitous confectionary experience from America try Reeses peanut butter cups.
Will anyone dare defend Bertie for his comment about the football stadium whilst the Health Service is in such a fucking mess and the economy is declining, and will your new Spitting Image character have the balls to sack Harney?
Would your bad mood this morning have anything to do with the mighty Liverpool dumping you out of the Champions league last night???
It’s all our fault for getting sick – The hse would be a super handy number for all the cack eyed civil servents if they did’nt have to deal with sickly people.
Who cares, Liverpool won last night.
The whole Health Service could do with Michael O’Leary taking it over. But he is a clever cunt not a stupid cunt.
I didn’t play in the Champions League last night. I know the Tuesday night Astro league is top, top quality but that’s pushing it too far.
Arsenal supporter? You must be over forty like the rest of them! And that Nick Hornby bloke who wrote a completely shite book about growing up being an Arsenal fan. He inaptly named it Fever Pitch the fucking anorak.
True, LiiiiiiiiivvvvvvVVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRPOOOooolllll,
LIIIIIII-verpool.
The HSE are a shower of wasters.
Spent €600k transporting people from the midlands to Dublin for kidney dialysis when they had 5 suitable machines lying idle in Tullamore Midlands Regional Hospital but wouldn’t fucking employee anybody to actually operate them.
The trick is to call an ambulance and you get seen to straight away. Headache? Call an ambulance. Ingrown toe-nail? 999 baby. What’s that? You think you might have something in your eye? Fuck it, call a bee-baw. This is all well and good but what really hotrocks my couch is the fact that the Minister for Health sure as bejaysus wont be sitting in any waiting rooms for fuckin hours when she gets sick.
The fat bitch should be forcefed Hershey’s Chocolate whilst having to sit through hours of Liverpool’s finest, undeserving, lucky gloating cunts yakking in her ear about “Gerrard this…” and Torres that…” That’ll learn her. Learn her good n proper.
Liverpool Fans: Stop listening to the Levellers and get a job you fucking thieving dole monkeys
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it Minister of State gets priviliges.
That’s a shocker and is surely the root of ALL problems in the Health Service
By the way did any Liverpool players get burgled last night?
TinyGiant: The Minister for Health wouldn’t fit into any waiting rooms
Scouse cunts.
Bertie wanted the fitba’ stadium because he admired the taliban and his critics wuld have been tken there, made to shag Harney and then shot.
Fitba? Are we Scottish?
bureaucrat is a fucker of a word to spell.
America doesn’t do chocolate or beer.
Hmm I suspect people are going to add to that list shortly….
we?
Dyslexia is also hard to spell.
My server is broke in work and I have fuck all else to do for the minute. Its kinda like my days in public service.
Staying on Topic: Twenty, you’re right, too many chiefs and not enough indians.
In addition, I used to do management accounts for a supplier of x-ray tubes to hospitals, they were charging three times as much as they did in the UK, for one simple reason; “They Could”
Morgor – if you are ever in San Francisco visit Ghiradelli square and try Ghiradelli chocolate – it’s superb
“I know the Tuesday night Astro league is top, top quality but that’s pushing it too far.”
Watch out Twenty, your dreams are China in your hand
Speaking of football, can I just lower the tone a wee bit by re-posting the link I just posted on the previous thread. (Just in case y’all miss it.)
It’s so nice, you just gotta watch it twice.
http://tinyurl.com/yp3zmm
Yes , good idea with Michael O’leary taking over the Health Service . Ryanhosp , €2 to use the toilet, €10 change of bed linen , visitors €5 a pop ,extra pillow €3 ,it would make people think twice before getting sick.
San Francisco, isn’t that the gay capital of the world?
And I’ll point out again that MB’s link is not safe for work…
Yanks add wax to herschey’s chocolate to stop it from melting during the ridiculously long truck journeys involved in shipping it to fat yanks. Hence the crappy taste.
In fairness there are far fewer admissions to hospitals during the summer months – a large proportion of medical admissions are chest infections. The idea of closing beds in the current situation where fewer admissions means “slightly less fucked service” versus “entirely fucked” is laughable. If capacity was sorted, you could well close some beds in summer. If Ireland had summers.
Liiiiiiiiiverpoooooooool.
Yeah, it invovles gratuitous tits & vadge shots…
Stop corrupting us MB!
Vadge shots, brilliant. LOL out loud.
So who is Cowen putting into Angola? Or hasn’t Mary fucked it up enough yet?
I’m telling you, if anyone ever builds a statue of Bertie I’m going to the blow the fucking thing up.
Actually, I was planning on spending the summer selling balloon models of Biffo’s lips on O’Connell Bridge. Will you help me to blow them up?
I pity the fool who calls Hershey’s chocolate. It’s not chocolate.
I was sent a bag of Ghiradelli’s white chocolate chips, and they were crap. Full of hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Ah yes, Bertie Bowl. Perhaps he was going to fill it with WWW1 style canvas hospital beds.
I once made a comment about the disgustingness of a rich country like us having the sort of health and educatin problems we do – my husband corrected me – we got to be a rich country by refusing to spend money on health and education.
What about the electronic voting machines which will never be used and are being left to rot in storage for €700,000 a year?
Firstly Comon the POOL
They’re going to win Europe again and fuck the begrudgers especially PP
Now, on topic, espically for snookertony the stupid cunt. Obivously no one would suggest building a stadium now as there is a bit of a slow down. But it could easily have been afforded 5 or 6 years ago. Actually it was the much maligned Harney, the fat cunt, that prevented it.
Hersheys… *SHUDDER* Awful stuff and Americans think it’s the bees knees. You can even go to the town and it’s like Willy Wonka’s or something… fuck me. No.
A stadium eh? Could we fit some hospital beds in it?
and yeah, I know my spelling isn’t great, I’m rushing so fuck off
Peadar, will you ever stop copying my life you cunt. Get your own.
€ 700K is waste but its fuck all compared to what is thrown away overall.
Ineffeciency, lack of accountability, slovenliness and lack of professionality govern our public and civil service.
Ask any public servant how many working hours they do per year and how many of those hours they do any work for and compare it to your own and you will get an effiency rating that is embarrasing.
Its time we went out on a limb and paid some captains of industry a fuckin shitload of money to run the Health System. Benchmark the cunt too and open a Bertie Bowl to shoot any cunts who strike for “changing conditions”
And another thing Stadia are important as they reflect our national pride and encourage athletes to strive.
It may be costly but At least we know it would be used. If we flung € 300M at Health it would get us fuck all so stop fucking expecting every penny of my tax to be fucking fired at a Hospital run by dirty lazy cunts.
San Francisco, isn’t that the gay capital of the world?
Not any more – God sent a bug to cull them.
Did you see the guy on The Panel, mmm, Gerry Roninson maybe? Basiacally a management consultant who went in and sorted the Yorkshire Health Service with what he said was depressing ease. It does all come down to basic management. He got the paeditricians doing a couple more hours a week, and sorted out waiting lists. Simple stuff.
Yes, we need proper industry standards in the health service. Check out this depressing little story that illustrates that point:
http://forninepounds.blogspot.com/2008/03/draw-your-own-conclusions.html
our national pride and encourage athletes to strive.
National Pride???
I hate Athletes – ego-tripping,glory-hungry, anti-smoking, money-grabbing cunts!
Maggot:
You forgot “hormone imbibing”
That goes without saying PP.
Cunts, all of them.
May their hamstrings fester.
“fuck the begrudgers especially PP”
Don’t begrudge them football results(especially against the arse), just hate the whinging,self pitying cunts with a huge “victim” mentality who seem to inhabit that shitehole Liverpool.
Lay off the City of Culture.
Well said PP – The Sun called the fuckers right.
Our football team is in total fucking free fall, the GAA have their own “crib” to play stick-ball in, the IRFU are building a new stadium for the regular ” 15-men-a-side hugging competition” they parade in front of us before they all retreat to shove their thumbs up each others bums. Bertie was thinking of the BIG PICTURE here, Westlife gigs, Man Utd wallet-raping their Oirish fans in pre-season tournaments, Special Olympic opening ceremonies, breakfast receptacle for Harney…national pride never came into it.
By the way, PP, I think peanut butter cups are heaven in a confectionary. I think hating/loving peanut butter is one of those genetic things, it’s not the same as denouncing Hershey’s as hidouesly inferior chocolate.
Have you had the Peanut Butter KitKat Chunky? Makes every other chocolate (with the exception of Toblerone) pale into insignificance.
I’m still in a state of shock at your comments yesterday Jo.
National pride and sport is always sinister. Think Hitler and the Olympics, Think Skinhead English Football Fans, Think Tailteann games. Cunts.
Is anyone else thinking that Bertie’s resignation wasn’t really due to what’s already gone on at the tribunal, but more to do with what he knows is going to come in the near future?
I still cling desperately to the hope that they lock him up, and that some big hairy gorilla cellmate rides the arse off him, day-in, day-out for the rest of his miserable life.
Is it really too much to ask for?
Peadar, will you ever stop copying my life you cunt. Get your own.
J5, I’m not gay and I don’t want to suck twenty off
Sinister is right. I once saw a bloke at the Community Games in Santry Stadium with one hand down his trousers and the other in a bag of half eaten Murray Mints.
Well said PP – The Sun called the fuckers right.
Maggot, you’re a total bollocks
What, TG, he’d eaten half of each mint & put it back in the bag?
Yeah, thats what I meant to convey, Tinman18. And also what I typed.
I’ve been in Liverpool, I’ve seen scousers in action Peadar – and I’ve seen Liverpool FC fans in action. Dirtbags.
Every city has dirtbags. Maybe been one you attract them
Liverpool FC certainly attracts them!
not anymore than any other english club
I’ve been in Liverpool, I’ve seen scousers in action Peadar – and I’ve seen Liverpool FC fans in action. Dirtbags.
Not like that lovely bunch up in Manchester, eh? Them fellas is the salt of de earth so dey are.
What have the other club’s followers got to with whether or not scousers and Liverpool FC supporters are scum ?
I was just adding a bit of balance, you tit.
Liverpool, victim mentality? take a look at this map..
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article925726.ece
its the rest of the country outside of the dismal north-west that are the victims..
Even when the usual moronic Sun Journo hyperbole, hypocrisy and antagonism has been filtered out, conclusions can easily be made as to whether so many people are really so ill, and so unemployable in that one specific region of the UK..
Rhyl West is a great example – its definitely not in Liverpool but it is where they send the skaggheads to sign on and yup its number 2!
There’s an acceptable amount of rat shit allowed to go into chocolate in the U.S.
They don’t put that on the label but it’s true.
maggot, em, yep, me too. A moment of madness…
there needs to be more girls round here.
Peanut butter Kit Kat Chunky rules, indeed.
See, more talk about chocoalte, less about football, you know you like it!
football is for queers anyway.
Queers who don’t like football are much more queer than queers who do…
“Not like that lovely bunch up in Manchester, eh?”
I take you are referring to City Fans , most Man U fans have never been to Manchester, and if asked to pick it out on a map would probably have a fit.
toblerone have a fruit and nut version out. i’m not sure what to make of it. i like toblerone and i like cadbury’s fruit and nut. i think i like it but i’m not sure. weird. ah well, still have a huge airport size bar of it to get through before i make up my mind.
i don’t like peanut butter kit kats but i think that is more the kit kat’s fault thean the pb…
“more talk about chocoalte”
I can assure you that the original post did not mention chocolate, it referred to that hersheys shite, which bears about as much taste resemblance to chocolate as my post guinness poo.
Medbh, the words “acceptable amount” and “rat shit” should never appear in the same sentence unless the words “there’s no such thing as” is in there somewhere as well.
Fruit and Nut toblerones are fantastic. Actually, all versions of Toblerones are great, with the exception of the dark chocolate ones. They raffled off a Toblerone the size of a fat child in my “place of employment” the other week and the cunt that won it donated it to charidee…
Green and Blacks chocolate is fuckin shite and only liberal Yah Yah housewives buy it. FACT.
isn’t one huge problem with the health services that they waste so much… one time when my father was in there they fucked up two times with some injection he was meant to get and threw them away, we checked the wholesale price of them online and found out they cost something like $1000 each.
bertie hasn’t got that statue premise, now that fascist image that enda kenny used for his posters last year would.
Hershey’s is the stuff thats like plastic?
Apparently Hershey bars taste of sick because they’re made with sour milk
I heard that Soilent Green is actually people.
You ain’t seen me, right?
Guinness and chocolate taste nicer in countries with shite health systems like Ireland and Jamaica.
I know that the US has a pretty poor one too but thats only for poor people and they love being sick and all that malarky.
Anyway governments try to find the opiate of the masses and as we are shite at sport they give us good chocky and Porter and like most things in life it all balances out nicely in the end.
I take you are referring to City Fans , most Man U fans have never been to Manchester, and if asked to pick it out on a map would probably have a fit.
I’m hardly in a position to play that card given that I’m a Liverpool fan in Dublin. I could find Liverpool on the map though. It’s East of Rhyl.
the only good thinhg I’ve ever heard about Liverpool is apparently you get great value for a fiver in a lapdancing club…
erratum : thing
Carla Lane, Ken Dodd, Paul McCartney, Cilla Black, Anne Robinson – Nuke the place.
What has 3 legs and doesn’t talk?
Paul McCartney and Heather mills.
Paul McCartney gave us more than any other human on earth, a valid reason to hate that silly cow. Leave him alone.
the only good thinhg I’ve ever heard about Liverpool is apparently you get great value for a fiver in a lapdancing club…
heh
So true.
‘I can assure you that the original post did not mention chocolate, it referred to that hersheys shite, which bears about as much taste resemblance to chocolate as my post guinness poo.’
I agree PP, though not necessarily in exactly those words – see comment 34.
Interesting chocolate/Guinness theory PtR.
What I think is sad is that Nestlé bought all the good chocolate. Yorkies don’t taste the same any more :(
That’s coz the makers of Yorkies decided they are not for girls, Jothe, so they’re now made out of check shirts and kebabs
Ah, no, they were always for truckers, weren’t they? But surely muscular outdoors types should demand dquality snack, no matter how manly?
Yorkies are fairly nice but you just cant beat a galaxy bar unless you have two galaxy bars.
I love em. They remind me of a nice warm wank.
comparing galaxy bars and wanking? PTR are you a girl?
Its Kit Kats they use – Four fingers of fun!
Twenty Major, would you ever give us a break on the fucking Health service… I mean fucking yawn…
But maybe there could be an opening for you in the Daily mail as a moaning bitching columnist…
How is come your all such right wing fuckers one minute and then worried about the state of the health service anyway??
and hersheys chocolate bars do taste of sick, are an abomination and confound me completely, especially when the sauce version in the bottle is totally yummy..
Mm, chocolate wanking…
Clearly PattheRat was brought up on Flake ads.
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat…
head & shoulders?
SAm, the reason we care about the Health Service is coz even right wing fuckers get sick.
“Green and Blacks chocolate is fuckin shite and only liberal Yah Yah housewives buy it. FACT.’
TinyGiant is right! Vile stuff, however Carbury’s Caramel is not shite, it is deeelicious.
I was in a pub in Glasgow over a year ago – the night Celtic beat Man Utd.
a bunch of Man Utd fans raided a pub (full of Celtic fans) chucked bottles at the celtic fans, and pulled a flat screen TV off the wall. cunts. then scarpered
what was surreal – and I’m not saying this cos of the obivous links historically between Celtic and Irish emigrants – but the only accent i heard from the Man Utd fans was an Irish one!!!
V Surreal.
Hopefully you’re just eating it, FMC, coz if you’re thinking along the same lines as Jothe then Cardbury’s Caramel would just be a big mess.
My godmother said the only hassle she ever sae when she was in Prague was two Irish guys fighting in an alley…
I don’t think the Irish abroad are great ambassadors…
Hey, not me, it was Pat the Rat. I was just remembering the Finger of Fudge jingle, it won’t go away.
woowoo, we’re on to chocolate and wanking now, and they’ve got the girls onto the conversation in a way that football just wasn’t doing. The words “Walnut Whip” will be along any second now.
That Caramel bunny, though… I still would
Sorry, Jothe, I’ve just read comment 96 again. I took “Mm, chocolate wanking” to read “Mmm, chocolate wanking” which you must admit gives a totally different impression.
Oh yeah, Tinman18, I’d forgotten about that. I did mean to include three ‘m’s. I still didn’t start it though :)
And just Jo is fine.
Supergrover you are a sick puppy, bestiality is illegal in most counties you know.
Tinman , I have heard of weirdos putting peanuts up there but never choclate candy covered peanuts.
Its a strange breed that comments on this site.
the first sign of madness is suggs in your driveway
post number 10 has the health service completely right, you should also see some of the routes they take people going from far side of longford to tullamore through.
Has PTR talking about wanking frightened everyone way?
No, I’m in a snot because nobody read my excellent post about hygeine standards :(
Not really, just making dinner and tending to children. Presumably everyone else is going home from their ‘jobs’ :)
Australian Cadbury’s chocolate is every bit as bad. But the mad fuckers seem to be resolute in defending it. So not only are they a bunch of criminals, they’re also a bunch of liars. Or their taste buds don’r work properly.
good things to come outta australia: nick cave, pj harvey, round the twist, that girl off home and away.
bad things: everything else.
I think Its a fucking excellent idea…sure my friends breast cancer is BOUND to improve in the sunny days between May and August.
They need to get rid of some beds and a couple of oncologists too…she’s only facing a Q of about five hours each day for her radium treatment and thats really not long enough for a mother of three.
Hey peadar, thanks for checking out the blog – did you think I meant that, though? Cause I actually meant the link in comment 42, which is a bit more relevant.
mosh, you could be right – everybody was raving about Australian Tim Tam biscuits, after their travels. They’re in Tesco now. I got some and they were crap.
Australia has the best animals (like the womabt and the numbat!)- and the worst.
The Health Service;
Sick Cunts, tended to by Dirty Cunts, administered by Lazy Cunts, whinged about by Right/Left/Chicken Wing Cunts, paid for by most of us cunts
The things one learns on Twenty’s blog! I always thought that Cadbury’s was English. If you stick your finger in the chocolate end, don’t stick it in your mouth, that’s disgusting. Ugh! Only the front end is suitable for that.
Be careful about knockin the health system Twenty: You’re getting to the age when you’ll be going into the hospital one fine day for a tune up and the things that they’ll do to you once they get their grippers into you aint fit to print. For openers, they will denut you as soon as they get you under and then they’ll shave your beard.
Hersey’s does suck and always did. As for sports, bring back the roman sports of 1 AD.
Cadburys here in the US is made under licence by Herscheys. It looks the same, same wrapper, tastes almost the same, but not quite, but is a lot better than that Herscheys shite. If someone has already written this excuse me, not going to wade thro 120 comments by 5 people who are unemployed or robbing their employers blind.
Are you in the US, AS? That would mean it’s not you on Freecycle at all then…
For the record I work from home while looking after my kids, and I pop in and out when I get a chance to. It doesn’t take that long to check posts and write quickies…
Just kiddin’ Jo. Yeah, in ATL. I googled Freecycle to find out what it is. Looks cool. Alan Smithee is a character in Twenty’s book. Although really it is a name the directors of shite movies use when they don’t care to put their real name to it.
Hmm, there goes my idea for a statue for Bertie:
Smiling while his arse is pinned down on top of the spire. And while they’re up there they can also fix the lights.
Would the light not shine out of his arse?
The spire idea reminds me of grafitti I saw once, might apply to our Teflon Taoiseach – Soap Your Arse and Slide Up a Rainbow
Jo – I’m shocked!
What now maggot? If I’ve said soemthing shocking it’s in all innocence!
“Soap Your Arse and Slide Up a Rainbow” is what I would expect from johnny5 ! I hope this doesn’t enter the milk – or lord knows what Jo jnr’s first words will be!
Oh no maggot, I’m so innocent! I’ll have to go google it.
Except that it might be misunderstood I’d offer to meet and explain Jo.
Nope, I’m none the wiser.
It seems alarming that you know if it’s that bad :)
I’m laughing as I think a friend had it written on her pencil case or something when we were younger. Again, no filth intended. Hee.
so can you buy double deckers in america or not?
only in burger form
monkey balls you prick, will you warn when your links contain porn in future.
where could you be that porn wouldn’t be safe to watch at 2:36am?
Yes I wholeheartedly agree, hershey’s choclate is shite. Theres also reese’s pieces. they’re choclate & peanut butter. Thats just fucking wrong. Gimme good ol cheap reject cadbury’s fruit & nut bar thrown off the line simply cause the label was stuck on backwards.
….and oh yea, bertie was, is and always will be a cunt.
chocolate…*dough
SAm, I apologise for the link if it upset you, but a streaker at a football match hardly constitutes porn. It’s not my fault if you clicked other links on the site. I did try to download the video and make it viewable in isolation, but it wouldn’t work.
I won’t do it again.
MB don’t fucking apologise, if the cunt had read the thread he would have seen TM’s warning. He is only complaining because he didn’t have a sock handy.
Staying on track, thanks for the throw, Peadar, one of the best things to come out of Oz was Nick Fuckin’ Cave!!! (115) Are you fuckin’ jokin or what???
The best thing I can say about that talentless reject is at least he…
No.
There’s fuck all good things I can say about him. A waste of good space and a carbon footprint that needs burying.
Like Mr Ahearn. (getting back on track again quickly).
Oh, and Morgor the Grandiose, you reckoned it was too early in the day.
Jo, Soap Your Arse and Slide Backwards up a Rainbow was a song Rosaleen Linehan sang on the Late Late Show once, back in the the last century when Gay Byrne was running that programme instead on being Minister for Road Accidents.
Hey B, i’m not from Austrailia, I’m English!!
Hey snookertony – you may not like Nick Cave cos you have no taste but that doesn’t mean he is talentless, just that you’re a gimp.
I think I saw something in the current issue of Hot Press stating that Nick Cave was the most important living rock legend. Positive proof then that he’s a total waste of time.
Hot Press – whatEVER. Fuck all that legend crap. Good songs, good albums, great book.
jesus this thread is going on for fucking ages.
Did i miss anything?
bertie, chocolate, nick cave. no, you didn’t miss much
Sound. On to the next one so, i suppose.
“PJ Harvey” reads this blog!
Only the Australian one, who is a milkman from NSW. The real one from Somerset has better things to do with her time
Why does Hershey’s suck? It’s mass-produced on a scale that ensures the company goes for the cheapest beans possible and processes them as quickly and cheaply as they can. If you buy shit, you can load it with all the cream and sugar you want, but it’s still shit. I haven’t had a bar of Hershey’s that didn’t have a vinegary aftertaste and gritty texture. It’s Guylian’s or Lindt for me.
I dunno, I was in Vincents’ for an examination last week, and it was one of the best hospital experiences I’ve ever had. Everything clean, working, loads of staff, a bed, a room, and it was all on the HSE. This was in the new part of Vincents, mind.
Maybe I was one of the lucky ones though.
if you are lucky enough to be having fresh green and black, then only Green&Black will do! it has something to do with GENUINE cocoa butter,mass,and solids ect.