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Jaysus de aul 'scorty thread hasn't changed a bit:D:D
Brooklyn..
The attitudes in town haven't changed much either since I went to the Mercy Convent in the 60s/70's.
Bigotry, begrudgery and downright ignorance have kept the town from progressing. It make me sad to see the state of the place and to see people who do their best to make the place look clean, get attacked for it. 0 -
I see things got interesting again here today.
As the one who was probably the main contributor to the GAA discussion (which was primarily about the history of the different clubs in the town), here's my input now.The poster in question asked a question and he got attacked by several posters, instead of being given a civilised answer.
The question he asked was could we not start a separate thread for GAA matters. To be honest, I found that a bit rich. As I said at the time, the thread is titled simply "Enniscorthy", and we were simply discussing Enniscorthy-related matters that were of interest to at least some people here.
I thought myself at the time that I could ask the same of him: that he start a separate thread for photos taken on walks through the town, for instance. Was debating to myself whether or not to actually say it, when somebody else went ahead and said it anyway.
But also as I said at the time, if somebody's not actually interested in a GAA-related discussion (for example), then just ignore it and contribute to the parts of the conversation that you're interested in instead. For instance, a random browse back to page 435 shows discussion last April of people sending the free postcards that An Post distributed during the early days of the first lockdown, and talk of people's walking routes around the town for exercise. I've no great interest myself in either, but I didn't ask for them to be moved to a separate thread.
My view was and remains that the GAA talk was a valid conversation here. It was Enniscorthy-related, somebody started it with a question, I put up an answer, there was a bit of interest in it, and I then threw up some more info as well. If somebody wanted to get in a huff over it because it steered the conversation away from his own observations and views, well then, that's that somebody's own business.
But at the end of the day, things have indeed become so quiet here that maybe his prediction is coming true that the thread would disappear up its own arse.
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Uncle Pierre wrote: »I see things got interesting again here today.
As the one who was probably the main contributor to the GAA discussion (which was primarily about the history of the different clubs in the town), here's my input now.
The question he asked was could we not start a separate thread for GAA matters. To be honest, I found that a bit rich. As I said at the time, the thread is titled simply "Enniscorthy", and we were simply discussing Enniscorthy-related matters that were of interest to at least some people here.
I thought myself at the time that I could ask the same of him: that he start a separate thread for photos taken on walks through the town, for instance. Was debating to myself whether or not to actually say it, when somebody else went ahead and said it anyway.
But also as I said at the time, if somebody's not actually interested in a GAA-related discussion (for example), then just ignore it and contribute to the parts of the conversation that you're interested in instead. For instance, a random browse back to page 435 shows discussion last April of people sending the free postcards that An Post distributed during the early days of the first lockdown, and talk of people's walking routes around the town for exercise. I've no great interest myself in either, but I didn't ask for them to be moved to a separate thread.
My view was and remains that the GAA talk was a valid conversation here. It was Enniscorthy-related, somebody started it with a question, I put up an answer, there was a bit of interest in it, and I then threw up some more info as well. If somebody wanted to get in a huff over it because it steered the conversation away from his own observations and views, well then, that's that somebody's own business.
But at the end of the day, things have indeed become so quiet here that maybe his prediction is coming true that the thread would disappear up its own arse.
Theres nothing interesting about this thread. I hope you don't mind me asking but do you write many novels ? 0 -
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The attitudes in town haven't changed much either since I went to the Mercy Convent in the 60s/70's. Bigotry, begrudgery and downright ignorance have kept the town from progressing. It make me sad to see the state of the place and to see people who do their best to make the place look clean, get attacked for it.
Yet it’s ok to tell others discussing the town what they can and cant talk about simply because they know nothing about a subject and don’t want to know?
It’s actually people not opening their minds a little to live and let live that have held the town back, people who just want more of the same, nothing different for discussion, a prime example being shop owners who would rather see shops and streets boarded up “because they dont want to know” about other business and interests etc, just go elsewhere?
Sound familiar ?0 -
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