Firstly let me just say that anyone who actually has the name ‘Chad’ is no friend of mine. It’s a rubbish name for a person, right up there with Colin.
Secondly, in this morning’s Irish Times it is revealed that the cost of Irish troops serving on a peace-keeping mission in the country of Chad has been €57m in the last 12 months.
Now, peace is all lovely and nice and fluffy and what have you, but is there some reason why the Irish taxpayer has paid €57m that we can’t really afford to keep the peace in an African country nobody gives a fish’s tit about? I mean, we can’t even keep the fucking peace here. Talk about running before you can walk.
We have 425 defence forces personnel doing work out there for some EU mission or other and does anybody really care?
Ask yourself, and be honest, do you really give the slightest shit about what goes on in Chad? I know I don’t. I don’t give a fuck what happens in Bray so Chad is definitely off my radar.
Maybe I’m being short-sighted. Maybe keeping the peace in Chad is very, very important. Maybe it’s worth it to spend €57m.
You just can’t help feeling we could waste that money so much better at home.
Sure what would we spend it on? e-voting?
FF councilor expenses?
May as well at least try to spend money doing something worthwhile.
Those Africans seem to have a fierce tough time not hacking each other to bits with machetes so may as well give them a hand.
Agreed, but probably wouldn’t get the EU support etc that we depend on so much without giving something back ourselves.
I don’t give a fuck what happens in Bray
Hoi! Fuck you! You’d better give a fuck…
that is all.
Yeah, what she said!
(Where the fuck is Bray?)
“I don’t give a fuck what happens in Bray.”
Bray is doing fine. Trafic bad as always. Nice weather. Sugar Loaf covered in snow looks nice.
Bray is nice.
How can you give a fuck about things happening in a place where nothing happens?
It’s the capital of Wicklow apparently. No, really.
Oo, I wouldn’t go that far.
How can you give a fuck about things happening in a place where nothing happens?
Ah, no, JJ Celery, you see the point is that I live there. As do you it seems. So it’s doubly important.
Twenty better watch out before Bray storms Major Towers, and empties his freezer of pies and prawns…
How’s about we keep the troops here and send them the e-voting machines. We can write that off as a substantial foreign aid contribution to promote democracy in Chad.
Doubtless they will then offer them for sale to Robert Mugabe who’ll be happy to pay $100m for them from his personal fortune… to promote democracy in Zimbabwe.
What are we spending storing them? 60o grand a year, was it?
Jo, something like that, paid in some cases to public officials who had the… ahem… foresight to tender for the contracts to store them.
Think of how many clocks we could put in the Liffey if we had 57 million. At least six, I’d say, and then use the change to clean the crud off every two weeks.
AND what sort of bathroom Mary Coughlan could upgrade to.
It can’t be too bad in Chad or the cowardly cunts wouldn’t be there, they usualy take flight the hosts smiles turn to snears!
At least when the fuckers are in Africa they are doing something.. What do you want? Maybe we’ll start a a war with someone?
For fear of sounding really boring, we have to fulfill our UN obligations and do our bit for peace keeping.
That was really boring wasn’t it?
That’ll be the UN obligation of standing by and watching countless massacres in Africa over the last 20 years?
Rwanda-Darfur-Congo…shall i go on..
UN stands for Useless Numtys..
That’ll be the UN obligation of standing by and watching countless massacres in Africa over the last 20 years?
Rwanda-Darfur-Congo…shall i go on..
UN stands for Useless Numptys..
That was really boring wasn’t it?
Oh God it really was.
Couldn’t use our defence forces and declare war on something intangible, like America does.
Instead of ‘War on Terror’ we could have a ‘War on Impure Thoughts’ or a ‘War on Shyness’.
Did they specify how much of that 57 million we would be spending on soldiers’ salaries regardless of where they are…
Still a colossal waste of money though.
A war on Sobriety?
We would totally pwn sobriety..
Awesome. We should make the war an easy one to win. We’d have that sewn up in hours.
War on Weather
Immediate loss on our part.
A war on Hindsight..
War on Want
War on slacks.
how about a war on, y’know, like, having to do stuff?
War on war.
“That’ll be the UN obligation of standing by and watching countless massacres in Africa over the last 20 years? Rwanda-Darfur-Congo”
It’s much the same in Chad, I was speaking to a guy who is just back. They had to stand by and watch as the rebels attacked villages and killed innocent civilians. It wasn’t in their mandate to protect the villagers, only refugees.
who was the guy used to comment on here from the leb or somewhere? he was in the army.
MacDara. Don’t think he was in teh army though.
He was Foreign Affairs I think.
War on peace.
War on Sweetcorn
War on cucumber.
Cucumber is part of the axis of evil along with beetroot and carrots. We should start we cucumber as it is more prevalent than the others
You can throw Sprouts in there too,for they are Lucifer’s vegetable…
celery is the devils poo
War on In Anyways
War on Beatty.
Haha
War on Beatty.
Class….
What with it being Ireland what about a War on Really Bad Guinness? Like pretty much all of it except the stronger versions.
L’homage a monsieur Morgor…
War on Buffet
He was Foreign Affairs I think
He was a cunt.
Not as big a cunt as gluestain, but a cunt.
I don’t even like puns but there’s a time and a place i suppose ….
Fuck war.Make peace. With a piece.