Arab Spring – a novel elastic form of democracy, originally developed in North Africa. It’ll never work in Ireland due to scattered showers and sunny spells.
Bailout – letting perpetrators get away while asking for more. Cf. dig-out, whip-around.
Billion – something you have never had but that you now have to pay to someone you don’t owe.
Bonus – an absurd amount of money paid to laid-off politicians, bankers, quango board members and higher civil servants in return for amnesia.
Crisis – what politicians and bankers experience when realising that their goal (making themselves richer) is not congruent with the goals of the general public.
Deficit – the current measure of trust in authority.
Haircut – a bald move, if succesful.
Household charge – the amount of electricity it takes to charge a mobile phone.
NAMA – an Irish nonsense word (cf. Bla bla bla), used for explaining all unmentionable things, avoiding truth (a.k.a. lying) and as a motivation for all kinds of unreasonable an irrational political decisions.
Occupation – reclaiming what is already ours.
Trolley – a major attraction in Irish hospitals. To be placed on a trolley makes you realise you’ve been taken for a ride, for years.
…to be continued…
Mikael Fernstrom 