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Daley Thompson and his racist slur

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  • #52
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    So he thinks the Irish are bad spelllers? I'm totaly ofended by dis.


  • #53
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Lumbo wrote: »
    Tis actually.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Thompson_(footballer)

    :eek:

    You wouldn't think...it just sounds so stereotypically English!


  • #54
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    chin_grin wrote: »
    :eek:

    You wouldn't think...it just sounds so stereotypically English!
    RACIST!!!


  • #55
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    RACIST!!!

    Not sure if joking...but...Ha! See what you did there!


  • #56
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    So he thinks the Irish are bad spelllers? I'm totaly ofended by dis.

    I'm surprised to find out that the Irish are a race.

    Much ado about nothing, methinks.


  • #57
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Not sure if joking...but...Ha! See what you did there!
    Are you talking about me typing the word in bold to make it blacker??????? Pot calling the kettle black there!!! Or something. :confused:


  • #58
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    Are you talking about me typing the word in bold to make it blacker??????? Pot calling the kettle black there!!! Or something. :confused:

    :confused:

    Nope!


  • #59
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    He's a charming guy is old Daly
    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/the-champion-that-time-forgot-why-do-we-find-it-so-hard-to-love-daley-thompson-876424.html


  • #60
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I'm surprised to find out that the Irish are a race.
    You'd think Daley would know a bit more about races...



    ...being an athlete and all.


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  • #61
    Lumbo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    chin_grin wrote: »
    :eek:

    You wouldn't think...it just sounds so stereotypically English!

    I'd say it was a name picked up by the slaves pre emancipation.


  • #62
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    chin_grin wrote: »
    :confused:

    Nope!
    Some low level trolling there. I hate those trolls. Pack of bastards. Nearly as bad as the Irish.


  • #63
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Constantly seeing Irish people talking about paddies in a derogatory sense on sites like politics.ie....

    No one stops them from doing it. Why is this any different?


  • #64
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    Who cares? He made a joke....laugh it off. Whoever complained is uptight.

    Ive never even heard of this guy, so when I read racist slur, I assumed he called someone the N word or something. Then opened the link...

    Well to me its not all that bad, its just something stupid...

    But god forbid a white person was to say...

    "Ah that tattoo must have been done by a black"

    Or used the N word, they're be out rage...

    No equality in it, its pretty much the same thing


  • #65
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    You'd think Daley would know a bit more about races...



    ...being an athlete and all.

    Did Daley mention the word race? Nope. That's people like the OP, just dying to be offended on behalf of their "race".


  • #66
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    I'm certainly not offended but I think it's a fairly odd comment/joke to come out with. :confused: If they had mentioned Ireland or the Irish somewhere in the conversation prior to this comment it would be one thing but to just come out with 'it must have been written by an Irish person' is a bit weird. :confused: Why pick on us? :p


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  • #67
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    Well to me its not all that bad, its just something stupid...

    But god forbid a white person was to say...

    "Ah that tattoo must have been done by a black"

    Or used the N word, they're be out rage...

    No equality in it, its pretty much the same thing

    It was a joke, the tattoo was spelt 'Oylimpic', say that out loud. Sounds like someone saying Olympic in a stereotypical 'begorrah' accent


  • #68
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    Highly offended Joe, now if this tattoo artist turns out to be from Ballyfermot or Coolock; then he was of course correct.


  • #69
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    You'd think Daley would know a bit more about races...



    ...being an athlete and all.

    Did Daley mention the word race? Nope. That's people like the OP, just dying to be offended on behalf of their "race".
    No, he was just stereotyping us in a constructive manner.

    Shure everyone knows we're great craic. It'll be grand. Hup!! Hup!!


  • #70
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Thomson is just part of the ' Hype' surrounding the Olympics of which I'm sick of seeing and hearing about on tv and radio so roll on the actual games ,the Athletes involved and sod off all the has-beens


  • #71
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    Who cares? He made a joke....laugh it off. Whoever complained is uptight.

    Ive never even heard of this guy, so when I read racist slur, I assumed he called someone the N word or something. Then opened the link...

    He's the guy who got us all into Lucozade :pac:

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


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  • #72
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,358 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Pot-Kettle

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #73
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭mitosis


    davet82 wrote: »
    he was born in London to Nigerian and Scotish parents seems abit unfair to send him to Jamaica

    So how come he's English? Bradley Wiggins born in Belgium and not Belgian because his parents weren't. Surely Thompson is Nigerian. Or Scottish. Oh, or successful.


  • #74
    AEDIC
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭AEDIC


    mitosis wrote: »
    So how come he's English? Bradley Wiggins born in Belgium and not Belgian because his parents weren't. Surely Thompson is Nigerian. Or Scottish. Oh, or successful.

    Well I would imagine that if Thompson had have wanted to compete for Nigeria or Scotland he could have done...same as many of the footballers can and seem to do.....


  • #75
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Maybe if we all stood up and sang the fields of Athenry they (English) could tussle our hair and pinch our cheek.


  • #76
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9418536/London-2012-Daley-Thompson-accused-of-racism-after-Irish-gag-on-One-Show.html

    A slur that's all too common in the UK from my experience. Disappointing that it's trotted out so easily and I hope he regrets the idiocy of the remark.

    And not a single fuck was given that day.


  • #77
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    So how come he's English? Bradley Wiggins born in Belgium and not Belgian
    because his parents weren't. Surely Thompson is Nigerian. Or Scottish. Oh, or
    successful.

    He grew up in Killburn which makes him at least half irish:rolleyes:.


  • #78
    AEDIC
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭AEDIC


    buck65 wrote: »
    Maybe if we all stood up and sang the fields of Athenry they (English) could tussle our hair and pinch our cheek.

    What...all of them (that would be a sore cheek) or just Thompson?


  • #79
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Its game ball in the UK to slag off the French, Irish and the Poles. Mention any ethnic minority and you are in big trouble. Strange.


  • #80
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    What an incredibly stupid thing for people to get offended by.

    For feck sake, grow up.


  • #81
    AEDIC
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭AEDIC


    IrishAm wrote: »
    Its game ball in the UK to slag off the French, Irish and the Poles. Mention any ethnic minority and you are in big trouble. Strange.

    Strange why?


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  • #82
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Ah sure the Oirish, we can't splel!

    This is the joke that people didn't get.

    Olympic was mis-spelled as Oy-lmpic as in Oy-rish.

    It wasn't exactly the best joke ever but it was not racist at all.


  • #83
    CodyJarrett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Damn, was hoping there was a typo in the OP and Daley had a pet slug that kept racial abusing him - now that would be cool.


  • #84
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sounds like an obnoxious prick.


  • #85
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    So a black Freddie mercury offends the Irish. .

    Now that's news.


  • #86
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    AEDIC wrote: »
    Strange why?

    Why British media personalities get away with slagging off certain nationalities and ethnicities but not others.


  • #87
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    What an incredibly stupid thing for people to get offended by.

    For feck sake, grow up.

    KOOOLLLL


  • #88
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    mitosis wrote: »
    So how come he's English? Bradley Wiggins born in Belgium and not Belgian because his parents weren't. Surely Thompson is Nigerian. Or Scottish. Oh, or successful.

    Your point doesn't make sense. Bradley Wiggins is English and successful yet has always been referred to as British. Surely if those nasty English wanted to keep all the success for themselves then he would be referred to as the first English winner of the TDF and have the Cross of St George paraded round with him as opposed to being hailed as the first British winner with the Union Flag following him round anywhere he goes?

    This thing about "British when successful, Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish when not" is painful to have to listen to nowadays!


  • #89
    LowOdour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    I am outraged by this. I will be writing a strongly worded letter to Daley looking for an apology. Now, best make sure spell checker is working correctly...


  • #90
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Pimmy_Jage wrote: »
    So he thinks the Irish are bad spelllers? I'm totaly ofended by dis.

    I'm surprised to find out that the Irish are a race.

    Much ado about nothing, methinks.

    Theres no such thing as a race technically anyway.


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  • #91
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Tabnabs wrote: »




    Thompson made the gaffe during last Thursday's show when he was shown a photo of a torch bearer with 'Oylmpic torch bearer' tattooed on her arm.

    The Decathlon gold-medalist quipped that the tattooer must have been Irish.

    *Throws bannana banana at TV screen*


  • #92
    NinjaK
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    biko wrote: »
    meh

    standard west brit boards.ie reply, let them insult us all they want, but if it was the other way around - an Irish man insulting an English man then lets rip into him calling him all the names we can think of, joke


  • #93
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    chin_grin wrote: »
    If that's the case wouldn't it be "O'Lympic"?

    <gets coat>

    ... of the Ballydehob O'Lympics, would they be?

    <gets goat>


  • #94
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    to hell with dem:mad: we'll have our own o'lympics begorr

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJSrVNKnr0


  • #95
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    who_me wrote: »
    ... of the Ballydehob O'Lympics, would they be?

    <gets goat>

    A goat? And well for them that has them!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #96
    Wicklowrider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭Wicklowrider


    Every time I hear an Irish joke or slur I remember a headline from the '80's.
    " did you hear the one about the Irishman...."

    Went on to tell the story about a trial in london. A big builder built 8 magnificent houses. Poshest of the posh, every detail modern and perfect. Obviously aimed for the middle rich market. Remember things in London were flying then.Then things stalled just as the houses went to market. Builder thinks of plan. He offers to pay first year of mortgage for any buyer. Along comes Irish man. He somehow comes up with a one year mortgage and buys house. He then presents builder with papers requiring builder to pay. Judge rules in favour of Irishman and Irishman gets posh home for free.
    and that is how it always seemed to me - for every thick Irishman theres a dozen playing the eejit.


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  • #97
    COYW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    NinjaK wrote: »
    standard west brit boards.ie reply, let them insult us all they want, but if it was the other way around - an Irish man insulting an English man then lets rip into him calling him all the names we can think of, joke

    Pfft, nationalists never ever poke fun at west brits or anyone else, of course. :rolleyes: It was a bit of a joke, get over it.


  • #98
    geneyuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭geneyuss


    Lumbo wrote: »
    Anyone else notice the spelling mistakes/typo's in the Telegraph's report?

    Must be an Oirish journo :pac:
    ha yeah, noticed that, he maybe even a black Irishman/woman :rolleyes:


  • #99
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9418536/London-2012-Daley-Thompson-accused-of-racism-after-Irish-gag-on-One-Show.html

    A slur that's all too common in the UK from my experience. Disappointing that it's trotted out so easily and I hope he regrets the idiocy of the remark.

    What's the slur? That Irish people are stupid? Is this seriously common in the UK. :eek:


  • #100
    geneyuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭geneyuss


    davet82 wrote: »
    he was born in London to Nigerian and Scotish parents seems abit unfair to send him to Jamaica
    really??? and he's slagging us off,,,,be jaysus, i could have a field day slagging of his dolly mixture genetics


  • #101
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Decathletes, a great bunch of lads


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