Sacred Cows (people no one dares criticise)

MakeEmLaugh · 02-05-2015 8:46pm #1

What are some examples of sacred cows? That is, people who no one seems to want to criticise.

Our President, Michael D. Higgins, is one (apart from the protesters who called him a "midget parasite").

Who are some other examples?

Nib · 02-05-2015 8:48pm

OAPs.

Going around in their 151 Toyota Yaris' at 40kph holding up half the bloody country.

Sheep Lover · 02-05-2015 8:49pm

Kids with a disability

RayM · 02-05-2015 8:50pm

The Irish rugby team.

When the Sun Hits · 02-05-2015 8:51pm

Actual cows, if you're a Hindu.

MRnotlob606 · 02-05-2015 8:51pm

Brian O' Driscoll

MakeEmLaugh · 02-05-2015 8:53pm

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Brian O' Driscoll

Good example.

And just to be clear, you can say "kids with a disability" or "OAPs" if you want, but I was referring to specific people e.g. Michael D. Higgins.

razorblunt · 02-05-2015 8:54pm

I thought that poor kid Walsh who lost his battle with cancer got away with some pretty idiotic attitudes towards suicide/depression just before he passed away.

catallus · 02-05-2015 8:56pm

Why would anyone want to criticise BoD?

househero · 02-05-2015 8:57pm

Sexton.

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

johnny osbourne · 02-05-2015 8:57pm

the landlady in the local

Lyaiera · 02-05-2015 8:58pm

razorblunt wrote: »

I thought that poor kid Walsh who lost his battle with cancer got away with some pretty idiotic attitudes towards suicide/depression just before he passed away.

I don't blame him for that. It was ignorance by the media, just looking for a story that gave him the soapbox.

MRnotlob606 · 02-05-2015 9:00pm

Vincent Browne .

castletownman · 02-05-2015 9:00pm

That bollox of an Obama

MakeEmLaugh · 02-05-2015 9:01pm

castletownman wrote: »

That bollox of an Obama

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

02-05-2015 9:02pm

The OP.

I think he's a right eejit.

microsim · 02-05-2015 9:03pm

The mccanns.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-05-2015 9:03pm

Higgins is routinely slagged in the Irish media. No politician or public official in Ireland is off limits.

The Diabolical Monocle · 02-05-2015 9:03pm

Yes side.

*breaks glass, pulls cord ... pssst .... whump .... weeeeeeee

microsim · 02-05-2015 9:05pm

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.

We brought him drinking when he visited ireland.

Duckworth_Luas · 02-05-2015 9:06pm

Liam Neeson.

He's a terrible actor.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-05-2015 9:06pm

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.

not in this country

whiskeyman · 02-05-2015 9:07pm

Mary Robinson
Mary McAleese
John Hume
Adi Roche
John O'Shea (from Goal)
Padraig Harrington
Ken Doherty

Riddle101 · 02-05-2015 9:07pm

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.

bnt · 02-05-2015 9:07pm

Naomi Klein.

deseil · 02-05-2015 9:08pm

Nelson Mandela

One eyed Jack · 02-05-2015 9:09pm

Rory O' Neill (Panto Bliss)

NomadicGray · 02-05-2015 9:13pm

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Yes side.

*breaks glass, pulls cord ... pssst .... whump .... weeeeeeee

This, a million times this.

Cold War Kid · 02-05-2015 9:13pm

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Vincent Browne .

castletownman wrote: »

That bollox of an Obama

microsim wrote: »

The mccanns.

Constantly being criticised - the McCanns to the point of being regularly accused, not just suspected of but accused, of murder, with zero concrete evidence.

I wonder will this thread end up being reams and reams of people who are constantly criticised? Yes. Yes I think it will.
Travellers and muslims and gay people and black people will obviously be included but they're all regularly criticised.

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.

MRnotlob606 · 02-05-2015 9:14pm

Although I am a fan of Noam Chomsky, the man has been giving an almost god-like status by some of his followers like as if he was like some sort of infallible demi-god sent from heaven to cure the world of injustice.

Wang King · 02-05-2015 9:15pm

People with disabilities..
.
Some of them can be proper cnuts

branie2 · 02-05-2015 9:15pm

Ryanair nowadays

Roger Hassenforder · 02-05-2015 9:15pm

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?

Wang King · 02-05-2015 9:16pm

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

That you Rog?

Nah, its MadDog

Cold War Kid · 02-05-2015 9:17pm

Wang King wrote: »

People with disabilities..
.
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.

NomadicGray · 02-05-2015 9:19pm

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.

mikemac1 · 02-05-2015 9:19pm

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.

2cool4school · 02-05-2015 9:20pm

special olympians

Tigger · 02-05-2015 9:20pm

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

One eyed Jack · 02-05-2015 9:22pm

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.

Tigger · 02-05-2015 9:22pm

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

Chloris · 02-05-2015 9:24pm

That eurovision twat

mikemac1 · 02-05-2015 9:25pm

Tigger wrote: »

how would you know he was blushing

Hah, you got me there :pac:

Cold War Kid · 02-05-2015 9:26pm

Chloris wrote: »

That eurovision twat

Which one?

Sam Kade · 02-05-2015 9:28pm

Wang King wrote: »

People with disabilities..
.
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?

Chloris · 02-05-2015 9:29pm

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.

zeffabelli · 02-05-2015 9:30pm

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?

Cold War Kid · 02-05-2015 9:30pm

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

Matta Harri · 02-05-2015 9:32pm

Wang King wrote: »

People with disabilities..
.
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.

blackcard · 02-05-2015 9:36pm

Gene Kerrigan
Shane Ross
Eddie Hobbs

wp_rathead · 02-05-2015 9:37pm

Che Guevara.. was a pretty homophobic guy tbh

Sacred Cows (people no one dares criticise)

Comments