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O'Leary joke about the Queen

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  • #2
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Link?

    Edit:

    Thanks for the source.


    Well MOL and RA have been very particular about individuals making comments in the past. Maybe the Queen will sue for defamation....


  • #3
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Addressing such an august body as this reminds me much of making love to the queen of England – you know it is a great honour, you're just not sure how much pleasure it is going to be."

    Meh. Some folk are just too touchy.

    It's not like Mrs Windsors even a GILF. :pac:


  • #4
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    What a FOOL.


  • #5
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    All publicity is good publicity....


  • #6
    The_Pretender
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭The_Pretender


    What a nob. I even cringed just reading what he said.

    However, anyone who asks you to 'withdraw your statement' is equally a nob. It reminds me of schoolyard stuff 'take it back!'


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  • #7
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I normally can't stand O' Leary but I did get a laugh out of that one.


  • #8
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I normally can't stand O' Leary but I did get a laugh out of that one.

    It's the way he tells 'em! :D


  • #9
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I bet The Queen's hubby Phil the Greek would have laughed the loudest if he was in the room.


  • #10
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    WITHDRAW


  • #11
    COYW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    force eleven wrote: »
    All publicity is good publicity....

    Another piece of free publicity for Ryanair. Will people ever learn?

    Note : Not having a stab at him personally, I think this country could do with more business people with the drive of MOL.


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  • #12
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    COYW wrote: »
    Another piece of free publicity for Ryanair. Will people ever learn?

    Note : Not having a stab at him personally, I think this country could do with more business people with the drive of MOL.

    We have - our government has already applied the economics.
    tax payers pay prsi, health levy, usc etc and still have to pay for their own health insurance or medical costs.....


  • #13
    A Primal Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    Thought it was funny, can't believe people are actually offended. And how do they become less offended if he withdraws it?

    The art of being offended is not something I've ever got my head around.


  • #14
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭mitosis


    Old, old joke. No harm. Anyone offended is faux offended, petty and small.


  • #15
    RayCon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,899 ✭✭✭RayCon


    Thought Mrs. Browns Boys was popular in Britain ... that joke should have been right up their street - it's ancient & it's "duuurrrrty"


  • #16
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    gozunda wrote: »
    We have - our government has already applied the economics.
    Tax payers pay prsi, health levy, usc and still have to pay for their own health insurance or medical costs.....

    That is completely the opposite of Ryanair economics. With Ryanair you pay €10 to go to A to B. If you want to bring a bag from A to B you pay €30. But the service is delivered. 99.5% of the time you get from A to B and your bag also.
    YGWYPF.

    With the government you pay for the service and 99.5% of the time it is not delivered.
    YDNGWYPF.

    And fair play to Mick for having the balls to say it and then apologize. Better than being a dry ****e and gratifying the politicians with ego massaging tripe.


  • #17
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    He's like the Irish business world equivalent of the kid in school that used to light his farts in the playground for attention and everybody egged him on secretly hoping he'd eventually harm himself.


  • #18
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    brandon_flowers wrote: »
    That is completely the opposite of Ryanair economics. With Ryanair you pay €10 to go to A to B. If you want to bring a bag from A to B you pay €30. But the service is delivered. 99.5% of the time you get from A to B and your bag also.
    YGWYPF.

    With the government you pay for the service and 99.5% of the time it is not delivered.
    YDNGWYPF.

    And fair play to Mick for having the balls to say it and then apologize. Better than being a dry ****e and gratifying the politicians with ego massaging tripe.

    Saw what you did there ;-). The point being that it where there was one cost - Now there are mulitiple costs. You pay, you pay again and then you pay again. Same school of economics. Death by a thousand cuts. Different application.

    Don't think mol is anything but a cute operator - the free publicity is a gift and he knows that.


  • #19
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    mitosis wrote: »
    Old, old joke. No harm. Anyone offended is faux offended, petty and small.

    It's not the joke that's offensive, just that he thought it was an appropriate forum at which to say it.

    If you're going to be risque, at least be original, otherwise it is being inappropriate for the sake of it, which is offensive.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Thought it was funny, can't believe people are actually offended. And how do they become less offended if he withdraws it?

    I think when its withdrawn, it automatically erases all your memories of it.
    Or something.


  • #21
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    So after messing about having sex with the Queen, Mick quickly withdrew.

    I hope she was satisfied after his speedy withdrawl.







    There are some images you just don't want in your head. :(


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  • #22
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Thought it was funny, can't believe people are actually offended. And how do they become less offended if he withdraws it?

    The art of being offended is not something I've ever got my head around.

    It's a ridiculous concept. "I'm offended!" ok then?


  • #23
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    It was a terrible joke, and by terrible I mean embarrassingly unfunny rather than offensive, which was made worse by the awkward way he read it. Asking him to withdraw it is ridiculous though. It was meant as a joke, not a factual statement.


  • #24
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    People seem to be missing the point. The main MO of Ryanair is to garner as much free publicity as possible by spouting random controversial ****e from time to time, so charging people to pee on board, their decision to conscientiously become touchy feely, shagging the Queen........blah blah blah. :rolleyes:




    And I'm merely perpetuating it by commenting on the thread :o


  • #25
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Manys a crumpet was dropped on that ghastly day.


  • #26
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    He's quoted in the journal.ie as saying:
    That normally is a joke that works quite well.

    If you're constantly surrounded by sycophants, maybe.

    Still, at least he didn't do the one about Lord Mountbatten's dandruff.


  • #27
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Thought it was funny, can't believe people are actually offended. And how do they become less offended if he withdraws it?

    The art of being offended is not something I've ever got my head around.

    As Stephen Fry once said...
    “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fùcking what?"


  • #28
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    brandon_flowers wrote: »
    That is completely the opposite of Ryanair economics. With Ryanair you pay €10 to go to A to B.

    I think you mean A to J and then a bus to B.


  • #29
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    that's are queen and culture he's sleging


  • #30
    Mr.McLovin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Mr.McLovin


    have this urge to book a Ryanair flight all of a sudden, weird...


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Not funny and not offensive

    Two muppets


  • #32
    Jimminism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭Jimminism


    Funny because it pissed people off.


  • #33
    Zed Bank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    WITHDRAW.YOUR.STATEMENT!


  • #34
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    The way he's fixing his pants at the beginning one wonders was he actually getting a royal gobble behind the lectorium.


  • #35
    barney4001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭barney4001


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    The rancher kindly nodded, apologized, and went about his chores. Moments later the rancher heard loud screams, he looked up and saw the DEA agent running for his life, being chased by the ranchers big Santa Gertrudis Bull...... With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it was likely that he'd sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified. The old rancher threw down his tools, ran as fast as he could to the fence, and yelled at the top of his lungs......
    "YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!"


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