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Sacred Cows (people no one dares criticise)

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    #32
    branie2
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    Ryanair nowadays


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    #33
    Roger Hassenforder
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    househero wrote: »
    Sexton.

    He fails us every single time we need him. Stupidly easy kicks. But the media lick the chocolate from his cheeks

    That you Rog?


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    #34
    Wang King
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    That you Rog?

    Nah, its MadDog


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    #35
    Cold War Kid
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    Wang King wrote: »
    People with disabilities..
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    Some of them can be proper cnuts
    Like my neighbour. He's a cuntt and we all agree he is. But his disability isn't the reason for him being a cuntt.
    Is it really deemed out of line to criticise a disabled person for their personality, which is separate to their disability? I wouldn't have thought so.


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    #36
    NomadicGray
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    There was a a great thread a month or so back, dont recall the topic, where some one was having it pointed out to them that Mother Theresa was far from a saint. They just couldnt accept, wouldnt read any of the links, head straight in the sand.


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    #37
    mikemac1
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    Martin Luther King

    A preacher, married man and a man of God and he could have made Tiger Woods jealous with the amount of women he had.


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    #38
    2cool4school
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    special olympians


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    #39
    Tigger
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    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    Brian O' Driscoll

    yup the speed that he put on and has now lost muscle is indicative of either very good natural genetics or peds
    there was a radio show discussing peds in rugby and it was mentioned that brian was tested once in god knows how many games and the interviewer went mad
    #all yer man had been saying was that to check that bod had really good genetics and wasn't being fed the good stuff by his parents/doctors wouldn't be the worst idea ever


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    #40
    One eyed Jack
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    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    I think the OP means individuals who are fawned over and it seems totally against the grain to criticise them.

    I would have said this was the case with Stephen Fry before, but I think people are seeing what he can be like now.


    I'd always thought Stephen Fry had been roundly criticised and held up for the pseudo-intellectual albeit articulate windbag he is.

    Mother Teresa came as a bit of a surprise though upon her death. Never heard a bad word about her when she was alive, but soon as she popped her clogs, all the critics came out of hiding.


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    #41
    Tigger
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Martin Luther King

    A preacher, married man and a man of God and he could have made Tiger Woods blush with the amount of women he had.

    how would you know he was blushing

    also

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRV5RLp6L1Q


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    #42
    Chloris
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    That eurovision twat


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    #43
    mikemac1
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    Tigger wrote: »
    how would you know he was blushing

    Hah, you got me there :pac:


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    #44
    Cold War Kid
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    Chloris wrote: »
    That eurovision twat
    Which one?


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    #45
    Sam Kade
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    Wang King wrote: »
    People with disabilities..
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    Some of them can be proper cnuts
    Especially a certain young one who talks sh1te and everyone puts her on a pedestal, you know who I mean don't you?


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    #46
    Chloris
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    All of them. Particularly the one for this year? She's a teenager. The song is even more unlistenable than your usual Eurovision bilge and any time I hear anything about her it's "Oh isn't she fab, so young to be representing us!"

    It's irritating because we're a country teeming with unrecognised musical genius and because of the XFactor culture, we're sending that crap.

    I don't care one iota about the competition but it feels like a poor representation of something we're good at.


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    #47
    zeffabelli
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    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Like my neighbour. He's a cuntt and we all agree he is. But his disability isn't the reason for him being a cuntt.
    Is it really deemed out of line to criticise a disabled person for their personality, which is separate to their disability? I wouldn't have thought so.

    Depends on the disability.

    Aspergers for example. You can't criticise it when the behaviour gets pinned in the disability.

    Or even depression.

    Always wondered how do you know when it's the illness or when someone's just being a jerk?


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    #48
    Cold War Kid
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    Erra people tear Eurovision performers to shreds all the time, pay no heed and just focus on the good stuff!


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    Matta Harri
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    Wang King wrote: »
    People with disabilities..
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    Some of them can be proper cnuts

    Completely agree. I work with people with physical and sensory disabilities and find a disproportionate amount to be pricks.

    They have been shielded and spoiled all their lives that they now hold a huge belief of self entitlement.

    This is usually if they were born with the disability more so than having developed the disability.


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    #50
    blackcard
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    Gene Kerrigan
    Shane Ross
    Eddie Hobbs


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    #51
    wp_rathead
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    Che Guevara.. was a pretty homophobic guy tbh


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    #52
    branie2
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    Michael Collins


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    #53
    RayM
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    deseil wrote: »
    Nelson Mandela

    That reminds me of something the comedian Jerry Sadowitz once said. Back in the 1980s, when the stand-up comedy circuit was very 'right-on', another comedian dared him to slag Nelson Mandela off. So he walked on stage and began his routine by saying: "Nelson Mandela, what a cunt."

    The next night, he thought of a punchline: "You lend some people a fiver and you never hear from them again."


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    #54
    Sam Kade
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    blackcard wrote: »
    Gene Kerrigan
    Shane Ross
    Eddie Hobbs
    I met Eddie snobbs but who are the other two?


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    Cold War Kid
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    blackcard wrote: »
    Gene Kerrigan
    Shane Ross
    Eddie Hobbs
    Eddie Hobbs gets slated. Haven't noticed any real adulation for Shane Ross or Gene Kerrigan.


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    #56
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    I wonder will this thread end up being reams and reams of people who are constantly criticised? Yes. Yes I think it will.

    It already has.
    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    I think the OP means individuals who are fawned over and it seems totally against the grain to criticise them.

    I did mean that, but people just like to bitch about the same tired topics and people over again. I thought this thread might be a chance for some originality.


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    #57
    Chloris
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    Yeah, I can't say I agree with the disabilities one.

    As somebody who works with children and adults who have physical and cognitive difficulties, they all differ hugely in terms of personality and to say "they" as a group, can be horrible people is to make a completely unfair sweeping generalisation...

    Then again, that is the point of the thread. However, maybe you should consider a change of career if somebody who has had to endure physical or mental pain and anguish every day of their life, who is in your care, for money, strikes you as a real c*nt. Just a thought.


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    #58
    RayM
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    In fairness, Gene Kerrigan's tendency to 'nail it' every week in the Sunday Independent has made him a bit of a sacred cow. Although I can't think of anything critical to say about him.

    Eddie Hobbs, on the other hand, seems like a bit of a bollocks.


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    blackcard
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    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Eddie Hobbs gets slated. Haven't noticed any real adulation for Shane Ross or Gene Kerrigan.

    Agreed. But they constantly criticise others and have never done anything positive themselves to


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    #60
    MakeEmLaugh
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    RayM wrote: »
    That reminds me of something the comedian Jerry Sadowitz once said. Back in the 1980s, when the stand-up comedy circuit was very 'right-on', another comedian dared him to slag Nelson Mandela off. So he walked on stage and began his routine by saying: "Nelson Mandela, what a cunt."

    The next night, he thought of a punchline: "You lend some people a fiver and you never hear from them again."

    How is that a punchline? A punchline complements a feed line, creating a joke.

    See this example, from Les Dawson.

    Feed line: "There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero."

    + Punchline: "Is nothing sacred?"

    = Joke



    Sadowitz's line is not a punchline. It's just a sentence.


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    nullzero
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    ****


    Scumbags...
















    In the eyes of easily swayed judges; "Poor Rashers never stood a chance in life, coming as he did from a long line of scumbags who forcefully inducted him against his will into the fraternity of the scumbag, none of his crimes have been his fault. Twenty minutes community service you loveable little rascal".


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