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Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:59 pm
by Seán
Jared wrote:^^ no, I can appreciate your predicament, Sean.

I've just been reading an article on world debt..

apparently, Ireland has the largest Gross private sector foreign owned debt as % of GDP in the world... 900%.. Malta are 2nd with 481%, then Singapore 465%, then Britain are 4th with 364% of GDP... man, I thought we were in a tight corner!!
Yeah, we're banjaxed!

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:08 pm
by Jared
Seán wrote:Yeah, we're banjaxed!
well, that is more than our war reparations loan we took out with the US in 1946, and we paid the final installment in 2006...

however if all you Tir Na boys bought your music locally rather than through Amazon (who only pay nominal tax to Luxembourg), then you might be able to revive the economy!

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:17 pm
by fergus
This arrived yesterday and I am currently working my way through it....


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Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:31 pm
by Jared
fergus wrote:This arrived yesterday and I am currently working my way through it....


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one of the very first box sets I ever owned, Fergus... am very happy with it.

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:26 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:This arrived yesterday and I am currently working my way through it....


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I will be very interested to learn what you make of it Fergus as I have started listening to that Beethoven cycle too and to Abbado's Schubert cycle. I'll say nothing lest you consider me biased.

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:36 am
by Jose Echenique
< I'll say nothing lest you consider me biased.>

I´m almost sure our dear friend Fergus KNOWS that we are biased to Abbado, and I don´t mind to declare myself a fan :-)

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:39 am
by Seán
This set arrived this morning.
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Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:40 pm
by Diapason
Sean, you prompted me to check the post box, and sure enough mine is there too. Most excellent.

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:13 pm
by Seán
Diapason wrote:Sean, you prompted me to check the post box, and sure enough mine is there too. Most excellent.
That's good, now all I need is the time to listen to them. ;)

Re: Recent Purchases

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:45 pm
by fergus
You have some serious and wonderful music there gentlemen which should keep you both out of trouble for a few hours. Enjoy it!