Chavez-mania

bobo26b

From what I here from most people outside Ireland, Hugo Chavez is a bit of a dictator but in Ireland people are very quick to defend him. It happened last night in the pub with a few lads on a rant about how great he is and how Ireland could do with someone like him.

So my question is this why the obsession with him here??

(To the moderators I didn't put this into the politics forum, looking for a bit of humor and some less serious answers )

for the laugh I will put up a poll

Hippies!

bobo26b wrote: »

for the laugh I will put up a poll

Put a flag on it.

biko

We just like chavs

galwayrush

No idea why there should be a fuss about him here, never noticed myself.

dodderangler

Cant be any worse than what we have already

galwayrush

Now there's a poll, guess he couldn't do any worse as Taoiseach.

Immaculate Pasta

Please tell me OP how you got from a few lads in the pub having a favourable view of Hugo Chavez and equating that to an Irish national obsession.

penzo

tbh, I don't know too much about him and most people I know might not even know of him.

bobo26b

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Please tell me OP how you got from a few lads in the pub having a favourable view of Hugo Chavez and equating that to an Irish national obsession.

noticed an article about his health on the Journal.ie and a lot of comments underneath it in support of him. Not saying that its fact that Ireland love him but just noticed recently a lot of support for him in Ireland say compared to people I've talked to in the UK.

kowloon

In before anyone mentions our gas and oil.

RADIUS

I have never heard anyone defend Hugo Chavez ever. However Irish people do seem to have a fixation with che guevara tee-shirts. Which are in themselves ironic considering his politics clashed with the idea of consumer merchandise. Anyway,did you see the guy in the audience on the late late? He like totally looked at the camera like.

dxhound2005

dodderangler wrote: »

Cant be any worse than what we have already

At least Enda doesn't turn up on RTE for 7 hours every Sunday telling us how good he is.

mikemac1

Better dead then red

ascanbe

I try to steer the conversation towards the weather, but nothing will do Irish people but to talk about Hugo Chavez.

franktheplank

Liverpool need to get at least one more striker in January, can't keep relying on this guy.

Brilliant nd all as he is.

yermandan

Never heard of this, the OP is a load of me bollix

dxhound2005

franktheplank wrote: »

Liverpool need to get at least one more striker in January, can't keep relying on this guy.

Brilliant nd all as he is.

You're thinking of Fidel Castro

Scruffles

biko wrote: »

We just like chavs

take all of ours then please.:D
-chavez mania sounds like a wrongly spelled group of chavs with bipolar-in the manic phase,as if these disadvantaged innocent clever kindhearted honest exceptional admireable dedicated soldiers of society dont have enough to put up with in life already [hmmm,thanks thesaurus.com for helping out back there].:D

Where To

Was having a drink with a Venezuelan helicopter pilot a couple of weeks ago, he didn't think much of his dear leader.

El Guapo!

I'm guessing the OP got mixed up and meant to say Che Guevera.

Fun fact: The iconic image of Che that's plastered all over t-shirts and posters everywhere was originally created by an Irish man.
And he never copyrighted the image, so he never made a penny from it.