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Westlife call for Irish 'positivity'

  • 20-11-2010 9:11am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭


    Just when you thought you couldn't hate these fukkers any more
    the economist Nicky Byrne tells us to be positive:



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Poly wrote: »
    Just when you thought you couldn't hate these fukkers any more
    the economist Nicky Byrne tells us to be positive:



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271

    He's related by marriage to that lying scumbag Ahern.

    And what the hell is Byrne being quoted on the BBC Business site for?

    Wouldn't listen to a word the clown says.


  • Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭salutations


    He's related by marriage to that lying scumbag Ahern.

    And what the hell is Byrne being quoted on the BBC Business site for?

    Wouldn't listen to a word the clown says.

    What ****in planet are these guys on, millionaire popstars giving economic advice. It almost seems like theyve got a little world of their own.

    Apologies, i'll get my coat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    What ****in planet are these guys on, millionaire popstars giving economic advice. It almost seems like theyve got a little world of their own.

    Apologies, i'll get my coat.

    The more I read it, the more it sounds like something Ahern would say.

    Glib, with with little substance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Easy to be positive when you've a million euro rolling into your bank every month....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Irish call for Westlife 'idiots' to be culled.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    I just sent a complaint to the BBC


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Westlife can fuck off.


  • Moderators Posts: 51,859 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Poly wrote: »
    Just when you thought you couldn't hate these fukkers any more
    the economist Nicky Byrne tells us to be positive:



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271

    why don't they do their bit for a positive state of mind?
    They could start by not releasing any more of their sh*t music.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Fcuking pr1cks! They have MILLIONS of reasons to be positive. Sure wouldn't everyone be positive if they hadn't a financial care in the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    Next it'll be Bono.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Fcuking pr1cks! They have MILLIONS of reasons to be positive. Sure wouldn't everyone be positive if they hadn't a financial care in the world.

    And thanks to FF have artists exomptiom from paying tax in this country. The day our government announces an election I will start to think positive, until then I will stay in full negativity about the chancers running our country.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Well i for one feel much better now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭James T Kirk


    Don't fight Westlife! Water is more powerful than you'll EVER be!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    Hmmm, some selected quotes are now economic advise? People need to see what's actually being said here, as opposed to what a journalist is writing or what the stereotype in them blurts out.

    Cop on ffs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Westlife for Teeshock!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 uwala


    Shut the fukc up you vain little sh1t.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    no!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Rabble Rabble Rabble. Someone is telling us to remain calm. They're rich. I'm not. Rabble Rabble Rabble. Get out the torches and pitchforks. Rabble Rabble Rabble.

    Man. I love After Hours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Rabble Rabble Rabble. Someone is telling us to remain calm. They're rich. I'm not. Rabble Rabble Rabble. Get out the torches and pitchforks. Rabble Rabble Rabble.

    Man. I love After Hours.

    you're defending this


    *points and laughs*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    It is important that we deal with Westlife firmly and swiftly to allay any market fears of contagion throughout the members of Boyzone.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Next it'll be Bono.

    No way is Bono gonna get involved as all his tax dodging will come to light.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    The band admitted that their latest single, Safe - whose lyrics pledge "If you lost your way I will keep you safe" - is "quite ironic" given the seemingly inevitable help and protection their homeland is going to need from Europe and beyond.
    "That wasn't involved in the single choice, let me assure you," says Shane Filan.
    No need to assure me. Knob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    Poly wrote: »
    Just when you thought you couldn't hate these fukkers any more
    the economist Nicky Byrne tells us to be positive:



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271

    I don't hate them, whats to hate about them they seem like a decent bunch of lads.

    He's as entitled to an opinion on the economy as you are, only difference bbc business would have no interest in asking you ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭proon4


    One of the members of Westlife Shane Filan and his brother have built houses in ghosts estates all around Sligo and Dromahair in Leitrim. And of course Nick Byrne is married to that traitor Bertie Aherne 's daughter. Im sure thtas another wee golden circle.. Be positive about Ireland , yea right. We will when all those traitors are behind bars....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Id see the positive side aswell if I was a multi-millionaire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    So a band composed of Berties' son in law and the lads who didnt get into Boyzone have seen fit to give us advice.

    Easy to do when you're minted as a result of selling cover versions of songs that were crap the first time round to nine year old girls.

    I hope there's a Mark Chapman type out there for each of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    Poly wrote: »
    Just when you thought you couldn't hate these fukkers any more
    the economist Nicky Byrne tells us to be positive:



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271

    Much like voting for FF , who goes to these fukkers concerts? They are packed out for nights on end. So maybe a general cull is in order


  • Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭ShadowGal


    Tell him to pass on a message to his father in law for us..

    "we never thought we'd end up here either Bertie !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭30txsbzmcu2k9w


    When have these guys ever given the impression that they haven't been positive. About everything. All part of the masterplan to sell more records.

    Those sanitised vacuous nobheads Westlife and moronic Jedward are a national disgrace. I genuinely mean that.

    Louis Walsh is hellbent on setting us back to the days of paddy Irishman jokes. And it will happen.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭donna.s


    Next Berties son in law will be running in the next elections..what would they know about this, of course they can be positive when they have millions of euro and nice houses


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭figarofigaro


    What a goon. He must be absolutely delusional if he thinks people value his opinion on something like this. Fucking climp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭eamon234


    Quote from Graham Linehan: "Every time I see Westlife I feel sad thinking of all the cars they could have fixed.":D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,345 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    This thread could only be better if the op had replaced westilife with the pope


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    So stop watching the x-factor and the other ****e that produces these clowns. Ye are only giving them an audience. Sick of people saying how much they cant stand this music and secretly watch it all the time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Nicky Byrne from Westlife economic cure: "Things are very bad," he says. "But when things are bad you need to dig deep and pull together. We're a good enough nation to do that."

    taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11802271

    So for families/people that are badly off, he reckons they should pool all of nothing that have. Then if other families/people pool all their nothingness together and then they all come together. Then we'll have a massive pooled resource of nothingness, fcuk,wow, I need to lie down.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭johnn


    Cheers Nicky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Is Nicky Bertie's Goebbels??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    eamon234 wrote: »
    Quote from Graham Linehan: "Every time I see Westlife I feel sad thinking of all the cars they could have fixed burgers they could have sold.":D

    I think Graham Linehan gave them far too much credit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    So a band composed of Berties' son in law and the lads who didnt get into Boyzone have seen fit to give us advice.

    Easy to do when you're minted as a result of selling cover versions of songs that were crap the first time round to nine year old girls.

    I hope there's a Mark Chapman type out there for each of them.

    Jesus Christ, that's a bit extreme. The amount of vitriolic hatred in AH is pretty astounding at times. He was asked a few questions, and he answered them. He gave his opinon. Is he not entitled to do so? And what on earth does his wife have to do with it? You think that she should be tarred because of Bertie's disastarous reign? That he shouldn't have fallen in love with her because of who her dad is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Crosáidí wrote: »
    Is Nicky Bertie's Goebbels??

    From the reaction here you'd swear he was Bertie's Dr Mengele.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Why would i hate westlife?

    I dont know them personally, and none of them have done anything to me.

    "Hate"

    Some of ye need to cop the fcuk on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    They are a pack of ##### fill in the rest yourself I'd wish they would fall in to a black hole and disappear and let decent bands who would not get the recognition


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Jealousy and bitterness isn't a reason to "hate" anyone. He was asked for an opinion and he gave one. The same as anyone on boards would give their opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    gcgirl wrote: »
    They are a pack of ##### fill in the rest yourself I'd wish they would fall in to a black hole and disappear and let decent bands who would not get the recognition

    Westlife aren't respnsible for the fact that people don't happen to buy the albums of those bands you might consider more deserving of recognition. Blame the fans for that, not the band.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Jealousy and bitterness isn't a reason to "hate" anyone. He was asked for an opinion and he gave one. The same as anyone on boards would give their opinion.

    The difference being that we know everything about everything - fact!








    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 uwala


    Einhard wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, that's a bit extreme. The amount of vitriolic hatred in AH is pretty astounding at times. He was asked a few questions, and he answered them. He gave his opinon. Is he not entitled to do so? And what on earth does his wife have to do with it? You think that she should be tarred because of Bertie's disastarous reign? That he shouldn't have fallen in love with her because of who her dad is?

    Why are you defending those knobjockeys? You should be ashamed of yourself. Sell-out boy-band vain little delusional gimps deserve no respect from anyone except 9 year old girls.

    Love? lol. Yeah right. And how could anyone marry someone that resembles Bertie? *shudder*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Crosáidí wrote: »
    Is Nicky Bertie's Goebbels??

    No thats Ryan Tubridy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Westlife and Fianna Fail are the same thing anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    uwala wrote: »
    Why are you defending those knobjockeys? You should be ashamed of yourself. Sell-out boy-band vain little delusional gimps deserve no respect from anyone except 9 year old girls.

    Love? lol. Yeah right. And how could anyone marry someone that resembles Bertie? *shudder*
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Einhard wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, that's a bit extreme. The amount of vitriolic hatred in AH is pretty astounding at times. He was asked a few questions, and he answered them. He gave his opinon. Is he not entitled to do so? And what on earth does his wife have to do with it? You think that she should be tarred because of Bertie's disastarous reign? That he shouldn't have fallen in love with her because of who her dad is?

    His opinion to me is worthless, as is his so-called music, and also the worthless family of gombeens he married into as a convenient nest egg for when the fans stop buying his CD's because they've hit puberty.


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