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Sacred Cows (people no one dares criticise)

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    #92
    Matta Harri
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭Matta Harri


    PowerToWait wrote: »
    Jayzis. Why not throw out bitter and chippy while you're there. Your attitude towards the people you 'work with' is beyond shìt.

    But you're in good company in AH. Where people with disabilities, a group as heterogeneous as the larger population, are the evergreen pariah.

    I have never once seen a post on AH that was ever seriously discrimstory towards persons with a disability. And if you read my previous post, you'll see that I would be fairly alert to it.


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    #93
    Chloris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Chloris


    Matta Harri wrote:
    Yeah I have a disability. I'm in a wheelchair myself from my spine being broken from a car crash that I was a passenger in. I know all about 'physical pain and anguish', more than I'd wish on my worst enemy, so go easy on the passive agreesiveness.
    Alright, I'll accept in that case that you certainly have more grounds than most to pass judgement.

    Matta Harri wrote:
    I still stand by (excuse the pun) my statement that a disproportionate amount of people with disabilities are selfish and self centred. They can't help it, they've had people making excuses for them all their lives so they eventually buy into it and come to expect special treatment.
    I was at a course with some colleagues today and a girl down the back said that a client she works with had a history of going off on the employees. The lady is paralysed, elderly and infirmed but God does she have a mouth on her. I've worked with her and I can kind of understand where the girl was coming from, but any time the lady started getting cantankerous and nasty with me, I'd distract her and throw her off course rather than let myself get messed up in her crankiness. She actually asks for me from the other carers, because she spends way less time being resentful and nasty when I'm around, thus probably enjoying things more as a result.

    What I'm saying is, as somebody who doesn't have a physical disability, I don't have her or possibly your insights as to how difficult it is. So I have a lot more patience for somebody who is confined to a wheelchair than some shouty complainy person who can just get up and punch someone in the face and run away in literally any situation.

    To get back to the sacred cows, I personally loathe George Hook and everyone who even attempts to defend him. He makes me furious to the point of insanity if I get so much as a whiff of him. I would sh1t on his wife's face just because she's married to him.


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    #94
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Chloris wrote: »
    I would sh1t on his wife's face just because she's married to him.

    now that is one a hell of a sentence..


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    #95
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,882 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Des Cahill
    Bill O'Herlihy
    Hurricane Fly


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    #96
    Matta Harri
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭Matta Harri


    Chloris wrote: »
    Alright, I'll accept in that case that you certainly have more grounds than most to pass judgement.

    I was at a course with some colleagues today and a girl down the back said that a client she works with had a history of going off on the employees. The lady is paralysed, elderly and infirmed but God does she have a mouth on her. I've worked with her and I can kind of understand where the girl was coming from, but any time the lady started getting cantankerous and nasty with me, I'd distract her and throw her off course rather than let myself get messed up in her crankiness. She actually asks for me from the other carers, because she spends way less time being resentful and nasty when I'm around, thus probably enjoying things more as a result.

    What I'm saying is, as somebody who doesn't have a physical disability, I don't have her or possibly your insights as to how difficult it is. So I have a lot more patience for somebody who is confined to a wheelchair than some shouty complainy person who can just get up and punch someone in the face and run away in literally any situation.

    I know what you're saying and perhaps I'm harder on people with disabilities, especially physical ones like myself because I try so hard to be independent, so hard to be treated the same as everyone else that when I see something 'milking' their disability for something and getting snotty if everything doesn't go their way, it's drives me mad!

    I was recently at a convention for wheelchair users. All ages, all shapes and sizes, all different causes of them being wheelchair users. The self entitlement that some of them had was unreal. It's genuinely shocked me. I think that older people who have had a disability for years are probably the worse. I think this is because they had to fight for everything all along, PA hours, accessibility, independent living, that now they have it they can't get out of the habit and keep fighting!

    They strived to be treated the same as everyone else, and now they have it, they don't know what to do but keep going!


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    #97
    When the Sun Hits
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭When the Sun Hits


    Nelson Mandela.

    Obviously did a lot of good, but he is indirectly responsible for the murders of many innocent civilians.

    He did plead guilty to over 150 acts of public violence. Many people seem to forget about that. Innocent people, including women and children, killed by Mandela’s MK terrorists. Mandela saw no issue with the planting of bombs in public areas.

    Here is a list of some of MK's attacks:

    -Church Street West, Pretoria, on the 20 May 1983
    -Amanzimtoti Shopping complex KZN, 23 December 1985
    -Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court, 17 March 1988
    -Durban Pick ‘n Pay shopping complex, 1 September 1986
    -Pretoria Sterland movie complex 16 April 1988 – limpet mine killed ANC terrorist M O Maponya instead
    -Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, 20 May 1987
    -Roodepoort Standard Bank 3 June, 1988


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    #98
    Chloris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Chloris


    Yeah, and you even have the extra insight of having lived for a time without your injury so yours is definitely a perspective worth considering.

    I don't care who you're after as long as I can have a go at the Greeks.


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    #99
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Clint Eastwood, legend, The Man With No Name, composer and Oscar winning film director.

    He can have a monologue with an empty chair and people will still respect him.

    This is what he did to Sondra Locke, the actress who made six films with him:
    Former longtime companion Sondra Locke blasted Eastwood in her autobiography, "The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly," writing that he persuaded her to have two abortions and a tubal ligation under false pretenses, sabotaged her directorial career after they split up, and secretly fathered two children with another woman during the last three years of their relationship.

    Sondra Locke filed a palimony lawsuit against him in 1989, after he changed the locks on their Bel-Air home and had her possessions placed in storage while she was directing the film Impulse (1990). Locke dropped the suit in 1990 in exchange for a multiyear development-directing pact at Warner Bros. According to Locke, the deal was a sham, and she discovered that Eastwood was compensating the studio to keep her out of work by rejecting any and all projects she pitched. In 1995, Locke sued Eastwood a second time, for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. In 1996, just minutes before a jury was to render a verdict in Locke's favor, the two parties agreed to settle for an undisclosed amount.

    Not exactly the stand-up guy he plays in his films.


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    #100
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Aidan o Brien horse trainer
    Jimmy McGee
    Larry Gogan


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    #101
    lulu1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Gay Byrne

    Can't stand that man


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    #102
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    Clint Eastwood, legend, The Man With No Name, composer and Oscar winning film director.

    He can have a monologue with an empty chair and people will still respect him.

    This is what he did to Sondra Locke, the actress who made six films with him:


    Not exactly the stand-up guy he plays in his films.

    I don't know what circles you hang around with, but Eastwood was torn to pieces on all social media I saw after endorsing Mitt Romney in 2012.

    Not what I'd call a sacred cow.

    Clueless people still regularly cite him as a "right-wing nut", when he is to the left of most people on most issues.

    He is pro-gun control, pro-choice, pro-marijuana legislation, pro-same sex marriage and was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Did he treat Sondra Locke badly? Yes.


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    #103
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Graham Norton. I mean i've never heard anything bad about him, and he seems like a pretty sound bloke. One of the best talk show hosts going today.

    Why would people criticise him then.


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    #104
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    That Hawking fella that talks through a computer, talks through his arse more like. The amount of glorification that man gets beggars belief.


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    #105
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    lulu1 wrote: »
    Gay Byrne

    Can't stand that man

    He's criticised all the time. Unfairly I think.


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    #106
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Trad music songs.


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    #107
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    The GAA.


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    #108
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    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.

    He had a wet dream.


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    #109
    percy glendening
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭percy glendening


    Adolf Hitler


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    #110
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    I don't know what circles you hang around with, but Eastwood was torn to pieces on all social media I saw after endorsing Mitt Romney in 2012.

    The old man talking to a chair incident was mentioned. Clint was mocked for making an eejit out of himself. Surely that's not what you mean by being 'torn to pieces'?


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    #111
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    RayM wrote: »
    The GAA.
    Robbing b@stards yet the sheeple keep contributing to them :mad:


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    #112
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    father ted


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    #113
    bob50
    Registered Users Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Obama is the exact opposite of a sacred cow. Go on social media and it's nothing but people tearing him to shreds.

    I cant understand the irish medias love for this man I dont think any other country in the world is besotted with Obama even his own country America


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    #114
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Chuck fcuking Norris.

    Christ, just stop it already with all the Internet adulation :rolleyes:


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    #115
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    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.
    Sounds like you take comedy too seriously.


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    #116
    Chloris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Chloris


    Magico Gonzalez wrote:
    father ted
    Do you actually dislike it or are you just using it as an example?

    I'm interested to hear some criticisms!


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    #117
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,882 ✭✭✭blackcard


    RayM wrote: »
    The GAA.

    You must be joking. Loads of people have a go at the GAA


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    #118
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    The old man talking to a chair incident was mentioned. Clint was mocked for making an eejit out of himself. Surely that's not what you mean by being 'torn to pieces'?

    I know it was mentioned. That's why I responded to it. No one gave him a pass for it. You said people "still respect[ed] him" afterward.

    I saw several people on Twitter and Facebook mock him and say he had dementia because of that incident.

    If he were a sacred cow that wouldn't have happened.


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    #119
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

    N

    He is pro-gun control, pro-choice, pro-marijuana legislation, pro-same sex marriage and was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Did he treat Sondra Locke badly? Yes.

    Best to ignore those that critisise him


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    #120
    lulu1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    He's criticised all the time. Unfairly I think.

    Is he?

    I definetly must get out more :)


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    #121
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Irreverence is our only sacred cow.


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