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    #32
    upandcumming
    Registered Users Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    I hate the arguement that we shouldn't grieve for dead celebs because thousands of people die every day. Bull****!!!!!!!!

    The average Joe Ryan from Wexford has no impact on my life whatsoever and odds are I won't care if he died.

    Public figures are different. We all knew Gerry Ryan and Steven Gately so they deserve to receive R.I.P threads.

    There is no ****ing comparisons.

    Nah.
    Micheal Jackson maybe. He affected everyone that has listened to music, and has changed music forever. Stephen Gately? I only found out his name when he died! Stephen Gately didn't affect anyone more that said Joe Ryan. Nor did Gerry Ryan! What did Gerry Ryan do to deserve all this? Nothing... people listened to him in the car or in the morning when getting their children ready for school: that was the height of it!
    No one knew him except the few people that actually knew him. Everyone else knew of him.


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    #33
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Well thank God for all the people telling me what to think about these issues.
    Without them I wouldn't be able to lace up my shoes in the morning.

    Wave two fingers at 'em and get yourself a pair of flip-flops.


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    #34
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Morkarleth wrote: »
    I'm curious to hear from those who maintain "either everything is fair game or nothing is". Will they continue to restrict this to their hated group coughmuslimscough, or will they follow their own argument?

    Everything is fair game, deciding not to make jokes about the Muslim religion is more to do with self-preservation than making excuses for them.


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    #35
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Everything is fair game, deciding not to make jokes about the Muslim religion is more to do with self-preservation than making excuses for them.

    Can you elaborate on this, brother?


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    #36
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    old hippy wrote: »
    Can you elaborate on this, brother?

    Fundamentalist Muslims tend to be lacking in the humour department, I'm sure I don't need to point to examples.


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    #37
    twinQuins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭twinQuins


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Everything is fair game, deciding not to make jokes about the Muslim religion is more to do with self-preservation than making excuses for them.

    But there are people who make jokes about Muslims, in general, and their defence is "either everything is fair game or nothing is"; or they otherwise object to others kowtowing.

    I am eager to see if they're the same people criticising others for making jokes about Gerry Ryan. Surely, following their logic, they should be defending these people.


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    #38
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Fundamentalist Muslims tend to be lacking in the humour department, I'm sure I don't need to point to examples.

    Ah, fundies. Sorry, I apologise - I thought you were inferring that all Muslims were humourless beings :D

    Tbh, there's humourless fundies in Christianity, too. Fred Phelps, Christian Voice, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, abortion clinic bombers etc...


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    #39
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,952 ✭✭✭Degag


    upandcumming wrote: »
    Nah.
    Micheal Jackson maybe. He affected everyone that has listened to music, and has changed music forever. Stephen Gately? I only found out his name when he died! Stephen Gately didn't affect anyone more that said Joe Ryan. Nor did Gerry Ryan! What did Gerry Ryan do to deserve all this? Nothing... people listened to him in the car or in the morning when getting their children ready for school: that was the height of it!
    No one knew him except the few people that actually knew him. Everyone else knew of him.

    Agreed about Gately tbh. Sickened me to see him on the nominations list of Irelands Greatest People.


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    #40
    Bodhisopha
    Registered Users Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    What do you do with a fundamentalist dog? Muslim (muzzle him).

    HA!


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    #41
    Deus Ex Machina
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    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Can anyone explain to me why some people feel the need to post sick jokes and make nasty comments about a person on the day that they die?

    Because the majority of people are not capable of coming up with genuinely amusing jokes about day to day things, so they seize on things like this as an easy way to get a reaction.

    However, when one combines genuine wit with something which is taboo, doesn't have to be joking about death it can be paedophilia or anything, there is where the real laughs are had.


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    #42
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    I've never seen so much blatant hypocrisy on these boards as I have in the last day or 2.


    I was chastised recently for criticising the amount of posters who were making jokes about a young girl who was murdered and then eaten. Of 4 pages, fully half the posts were puns and jokes.

    In fact it was mentioned to me also, that the Air France thread had jokes about that incident.

    Yet!!!

    One celebrity dies and its a united front of grief?

    Thats the real joke.


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    #43
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    old hippy wrote: »
    Ah, fundies. Sorry, I apologise - I thought you were inferring that all Muslims were humourless beings :D

    Tbh, there's humourless fundies in Christianity, too. Fred Phelps, Christian Voice, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, abortion clinic bombers etc...

    That's true, but they tend to ignore the senseless jokes and focus their idiocy on the gay community or abortionists. I wouldn't expect to receive a letter-bomb from Phelps for saying Jesus was a gay hippy. He'd probably just set up camp outside my door and wait for God to smite me.


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    #44
    twinQuins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭twinQuins


    Bodhisopha wrote: »
    What do you do with a fundamentalist dog? Muslim (muzzle him).

    For future reference.


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    #45
    opinion guy
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    old hippy wrote: »
    Can you elaborate on this, brother?

    Desmond ???


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    #46
    peanuthead
    Registered Users Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Everyone moaning on this thread should just go out tonight, have a few drinks, be glad they're still alive and stop going on about the whole thing.

    If people want to start condolences threads, let them. It annoys the hell out of me too but I just don't open them unless I feel I can handle it without going on a posting rampage.

    By moaning about the moaners you're no better. :p


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    #47
    drusk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭drusk


    upandcumming wrote: »
    What did Gerry Ryan do to deserve all this? Nothing... people listened to him in the car or in the morning when getting their children ready for school: that was the height of it!
    No one knew him except the few people that actually knew him. Everyone else knew of him.

    Open your eyes. Read some of the posts on here. Read the papers. Look at the comments on twitter and facebook. Open your eyes.


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    #48
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    I think it is a shock really, when Michael Jackson died I was surprised but not really because I felt something emotional towards him because I thought he would be around forever! When you look up to people for a long time, you find inspiration from them and enjoy there work it is an upset when they die because you're not going to be able to experience that anymore. I use to love listening to Gerry Ryan's radio show when I was in the car I looked forward to it on the mornings I knew there was a trip ahead because he was really funny and I feel a bit put out that I won't here it again.


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    #49
    peanuthead
    Registered Users Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Pocketfizz wrote: »
    I thought he would be around forever!

    I think thats it actually. That sort of describes the reaction I think most people have to these deaths. It's certainly the way I feel. You do sort of get a bit of a shock because you never imagine these figures not being around.

    Also for me, when public figures start to drop off, it's a real sign that I'm ageing myself!!


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    #50
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Desmond ???


    Mom?


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