Yikes!
Richard O’Rourke in Oklahoma writes:
The City of Oklahoma are introducing fines for “overwatering”, which are a lot higher than the total yearly cost of water in general for people at home. Add to that the fact that our water charges are already higher than in Ireland. Just a bit of perspective….
Water fight!
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Dear Richard…we already pay. i get the feeling he thinks we don’t pay at all
Let’s swap water rates so!
Oh…and also we’ll also swap in your US federal and state tax rates — so you’ll be paying our PAYE, PRSI, USC, bin tax, property tax, insurance levy, pension levy, VAT at 23 percent, fuel tax, duty on drink and cigarettes, VRT,DIRT…
Where are you going..? Come back home! Oh…you’re gone…
Motor Tax, RTE Tax, BIK, etc
But the point is we don’t have a water crisis in Ireland. We have a pipe crisis.
Our biggest problem with water after our Victorian pipes to bring the water to homes is the Georgian pipes that take our sewerage away and dump it, often untreated, into our rivers and lakes.
Let’s borrow €10-20Billions and put people of the calibre of John Tierney and Hubert Kearns to sort it out then!
Then write off all debt and sell it to… Probably not the highest bidder.
Frilly, don’t forget we’re having a conversation over here: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/11/19/reasonable-force-for-reasonable-people/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=web&utm_content=popular_posts
There’s a couple of questions I’d genuinely like to see you address.
I haven’t even posted on that thread
Is that your game know. Stalking n following me around the t’internet.
N’ who the ück are you t’be telling me what thread I’m t’go t’next and what I’m to write there.
Unctuous pr1ck.
I post what I like
Where I like
‘N I’ll peruse this site and any other site
And open what ever thread I want
‘N read any post I want
And in whatever order I fancy
Sometimes I’ll get into it on a thread.
Most times I don’t
Actually
So I don’t know who the ück you think you deserve answers from
I don’t even know who the ück you think you are. But I know you’re a phoney.
Get off my arse. Stalker
Frilly, please don’t be upset. I’m sorry to have annoyed you. I genuinely didn’t mean to.
As to stalking, I think you know that’s not true. In fact, I’ve felt a bit rude about not engaging with your last few direct addresses. We can count them if you like, though that would seem a little childish, but certainly you’ve been addressing me a lot more than vice versa.
I’ve tried to be straightforward with your response to my post about Pasolini (which didn’t involve you until you joined in) but I genuinely can’t make any sense of your position there. If you want me to just drop it, that might be kinder. Otherwise I’m happy to keep having that conversation where that conversation is happening.
Oh, hang on, I may owe you an apology. I’m having a conversation on that other thread with someone called “Nawfil Musty Bang a Frilly”, and I thought that was you. I still don’t see why you’re quite so angry, and you don’t make it easy to discern, but it is obviously aggravating to be misrepresented. As I know only too well.
If that person isn’t you, you should seriously ask Broadsheet to force a name-change, because he/she is embarrassingly stupid, but enough like you in his/her style to perpetuate the confusion.
Alfred,
Have you been at the sherry this evening?
Sadly not. They don’t allow sherry in here.
But genuinely, what do you mean? I don’t think it’s particularly culpable to confuse two posters with “Frilly” in their name.
Probably doesn’t go well with the medicine
Wtf
Diddums. I don’t read most of the stuff here. Rarely in threads of more than 30 posts.
Don’t take it personally.
I don’t open You May Like This,
Trailer Parks, Gigs of the Week either
Your in good company
So you don’t need attention from me
And I have no clue what I’m supposed t have said to or about Pasolini . N’ I not going t’ start drilling down thru posts looking for it.
3 new Good Wife episodes to deal with .
Find someone else to fixate on
.
You don’t? Really?
What about now Alf
Well, it’s plain that I’m not fixated on you, and that’s rather a silly suggestion. As to “drilling through posts”, no-one is asking you to become the first Broadsheet archaeologist. It’s a simple question of following a link which is laid out for your convenience. Or don’t, of course, but try not to get into a paroxysm about it.
But you’ve made things confusing. Can we go back to simples? There is someone on another thread called “A Nawfil Bang of Frilly”. Is that you?
Does it look like me?
Is it you or not? You’ve allowed yourself a Twink-like knicker-twist about it. Why not answer the question?
Jesus you’re thick
Look at the avatar?
I alter “Frilly Keane” regularly. With BS permission
But the avatar stays the same.
Seriously lads. Did that really need t’be explained…
So, does it look like me?
Now that you mention it, there is some resemblance…
Can I play?
Is there any chance at all that you could have a conversation without insulting people? I asked a genuine question, and you could answer without being a dick.
I don’t keep track of your avatars, and it’s weird of you to expect that anyone would. You change your name regularly, but keep the word Frilly. Why are you so bizarrely thrown by the idea that someone identifies a poster called Frilly as you?
Well Al’fraud
Everyone else on the BS line up of regulars does
Open to correction lads. But isn’t “nawfil bang a frilly” sum’ting you wrote yourself
Please don’t start that crap again. You know it’s nothing but an insult, and you know it bothers me. It’s mean, and it feels like you’re doing it just to shut down a conversation.
And I still don’t know if your saying the Nawfil poster is another person, or if you’re just blowing smoke.
Check your meds, Alf. I don’t recall you being quite *this* boring before this evening.
Is it wrecking your head
It bothers me, as I’ve said. You can characterise that in a mocking way if you like.
Or now
alfhole
wow. that was a pretty epic waste of time.
I laughed.
No…. Don’t you see it….? Coming next to a water meter near you……
“Let’s lock into law the maximum fee for water consumption…. But monitor the crap out of it and issue ‘fines’ for what we deem excessive consumption” Fines can be made ‘law’ too…..
Richard what is Oklahoma’s average rainfall? because I can guarantee you that’s why there is a high cost on overwatering.
2 inches on average in November in Oklahoma City
2.87 inches on average in November in Dublin
whats it in july?
2.9 inches, as opposed to 2.2 in Dublin. Next?
If that’s the case how can you possibly “overwater” in Oklahoma unless you’re a nutcase?
I doubt that’s accurate. I’ve been in OKC in the summer and it’s like a dust bowl. Lawns are all brown.
Aren’t we still in November?
Country figures –
Rainfall in Ireland. Most of the eastern half of the country gets between 750 and 1000 (mm) of rainfall in the year. Rainfall in the west generally averages between 1000 and 1400 mm. In many mountainous districts rainfall exceeds 2000mm per year.
Are our rivers drying up or something? Where we source our water, ya know.
We’re in now way comparible to Oklahoma, eh, a landlocked state, directly above Texas.
For a bit more “perspective”, you might as well tell us about Ethiopia altogether.
$404, fine not found.
hah!
More perspective
“Oklahoma’s personal income tax system consists of seven brackets and a top rate of 5.25%. That rate ranks 22nd lowest among states levying an individual income tax. Oklahoma’s state and local income tax collections per person were $632 in 2011 which ranked 16th lowest nationally”
Plus 10-40% federal income tax (although its 25% or under for most people, admittedly), property taxes, plus eye-watering annual property tax ($3000 for what’s about €400 here), plus absolutely no healthcare system to fall back on unless you’re paying it, and so on.
You’ve already realised that direct comparisons on one rate aren’t valid, but comparing just two doesn’t wash either.
You’re living in OK by choice, Richard?
Okaayyy…
The day we start comparin’ the like o” this to the USA we’re fupped, hai !
*spits o’er deh wall*
We’ll leave the comparison makin’ with the neighbours now, thanks.
Clampers – You appear to have caught Frilly’s disease – I’d see a doctor ASAP. The same number of keystrokes are needed to write:
ing as for in’
o” as for of
over as for o’er
the as for deh and
ing as for of in’
Frilly’s spelling is just annoying, (as are most of her? comments)
Ireland – an island in the North Atlantic bordered on all sides by water. Oklahoma – a landlocked state bordered on 2 sides by desert
Bordered by sea water.
Every county in this country bordered by fresh water.
Ooops, already been said.
And don’t forget the Detroit Water story from the Daily Show on tuesday – where it turns out that they’re sueing poor people to make them pay but ignoring debts of millions from businesses.
So I guess we really are closer to Boston than Berlin….
‘Cept that they have water charges in Berlin, a damn sight more expensive than is being proposed here.
Ye but 40% of it isnt lost into the ground before it gets there in Berlin.
At least over there taxes get value for money.
Here it’s p!ssed away.
Yep.
Here’s the clip –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHUilxpwQU
We are actually closer to Pyongyang: RTE, NAMA, IBEC, the banks, etc.