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Michael Collins - 'Langer'

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  • #2
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    He was from Cork.

    He couldn't help being a langer.


  • #3
    minidazzler
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    Well, langer is also slang for a willy, so, I presume he'd get it if he lived in contemporary cork and wouldn't take it as an insult.


  • #4
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Hitchens wrote: »
    would the Big Fella see the joke? :D

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/apology-issued-after-collins-s-gender-listed-as-langer-1.1546195

    I'd hope so. I laughed anyway. :D


  • #5
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Apparently his family were "appalled". Everyone's appalled at everything these days. Christ, take a joke lads. The man's deified enough as it is, we should be able to take some humour from him too.


  • #6
    forgotten password
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    ya know your man down da road dere, he's only a langer


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  • #7
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    enda1 wrote: »
    Apparently his family were "appalled". Everyone's appalled at everything these days. Christ, take a joke lads. The man's deified enough as it is, we should be able to take some humour from him too.

    I'd say his "family" are mostly his family's descendants as anyone alive who actually remembers him must have been just a child at the time, and probably knew nothing of his humour. All we know is he didn't like surprises. :D


  • #8
    Hitchens
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    Lapin wrote: »
    He was from Cork.

    He couldn't help being a langer.
    can a Cork woman be called a langer, or would it be going too far? :)


  • #9
    Czarcasm
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    They didn't call him "The Big Fella" for nothing!


  • #10
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    I was listening to 96fm this morning with them having a chat about this and i swear one of the complaints said with a serious tone that it might of been a British secret service plot to discredit him!.Every one knows "Langer" is a completely subjective word its all about the use and tone it can be playful or it can be a mild insult common sense would indicate this was just playful THE cork man being described by the most cork slang for his sex.

    Get over it I have zero clue why there such an uproar about this.


  • #11
    Elbaston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


    enda1 wrote: »
    Apparently his family were "appalled". Everyone's appalled at everything these days. Christ, take a joke lads. The man's deified enough as it is, we should be able to take some humour from him too.

    I think the reason everyones appalled' these days is to do with sensationalist w4nker writers.
    His family probably said 'oh yeah..well you know'.

    Whatever - A bystander

    They were appalled I tell you, tears floooowed, agast, oh grand pappy how we wail - A writer.


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