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    #122
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    Ososlo wrote: »
    yeah but it did offend some people
    Lets face it, some people are very easily offended. How these people manage to get through life is beyond me, must have had very sheltered upbringing.
    Nothing on this thread has caused offense to the people it was aimed at. If some people had to listen to some of the stuff I hear day-to-day they be having kittens.


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    #123
    Gavlor
    Registered Users Posts: 6,179 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    Why the frick does this joke of a conversation have to happen whilst I'm abroad with no wifi. FFS


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    #124
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    Gavlor wrote: »
    Why the frick does this joke of a conversation have to happen whilst I'm abroad with no wifi. FFS
    Well go somewhere civilized in future. Where were you - Cork?


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    #125
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    pconn062 wrote: »
    Maybe let's not go there again, can we agree to move on and let it lie?
    Fcuk off and mind your own business:pac:


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    #126
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    gerard_65 wrote: »
    Fcuk off and mind your own business:pac:


    Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the Spat thread.





    Wait, that's not right.


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    #127
    JohnDozer
    Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭JohnDozer


    I would suggest it's only handbags but that may be considered disrespectful to those who are more prone to using handbags...


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    #128
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    davedanon wrote: »
    Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the Spat thread.





    Wait, that's not right.

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


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    #129
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Some of you might remember this "unintended offence" episode, which actually IS a good example of "political correctness gone mad"...

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/jan99/district27.htm


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    #130
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    pconn062 wrote: »
    Maybe let's not go there again, can we agree to move on and let it lie?

    Congratulations on your first mod-hat post :pac:


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    #131
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    pa4 wrote: »
    Congratulations on your first mod-hat post :pac:

    wait, who let that bearded track fairy (wait is this offending anyone?) bollox become a mod!


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    #132
    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    TRR wrote: »
    wait, who let that bearded track fairy (wait is this offending anyone?) bollox become a mod!

    I have a beard. Can I be offended ?


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    #133
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    Pacing Mule wrote: »
    I have a beard. Can I be offended ?
    If you are offended by having a beard just shave it off.


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    #134
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    Pacing Mule wrote: »
    I have a beard. Can I be offended ?

    depends, does it look as ridiculous as pconn062's?


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    #135
    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    TRR wrote: »
    depends, does it look as ridiculous as pconn062's?

    Probably :)


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    #136
    pconn062
    Registered Users Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    TRR wrote: »
    wait, who let that bearded track fairy (wait is this offending anyone?) bollox become a mod!

    The track fairy part I can take, but don't dare comment on the awesomeness of the beard! :pac:


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    #137
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    pconn062 wrote: »
    The track fairy part I can take, but don't dare comment on the awesomeness of the beard! :pac:

    have you mirrors in your house?


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    #138
    pconn062
    Registered Users Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    TRR wrote: »
    have you mirrors in your house?

    Course I do, what sort of a kip do you think I'm from, Tallaght?!


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    #139
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    pconn062 wrote: »
    Course I do, what sort of a kip do you think I'm from, Tallaght?!

    ha ha, no just that the awful north eastern accent has been known to crack mirrors. Was just wondering were your's still in tact!


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    #140
    digger2d2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭digger2d2


    Can't believe I missed all the agro about the Grass-Trackers ;)


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    #141
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,137 ✭✭✭rom


    Dublin city, why would anyone want to live their by choice rather than necessity? The inner city is a cesspit. To add some sort of character they added a Spire/Needle (Mecca for all the junkies)

    Some nice places in county Dublin but the city has as much charm as a bag of steaming hot sh*t.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJHPk5y6gM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXDwIM7OqI


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    #142
    RayCun
    Registered Users Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    rom wrote: »
    Dublin city, why would anyone want to live their by choice rather than necessity? The inner city is a cesspit. To add some sort of character they added a Spire/Needle (Mecca for all the junkies)

    Some nice places in county Dublin but the city has as much charm as a bag of steaming hot sh*t.

    To paraphrase Churchill - Dublin is the worst place in Ireland, except for all the places that aren't Dublin


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    #143
    HelenAnne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭HelenAnne


    gerard_65 wrote: »
    Lets face it, some people are very easily offended. How these people manage to get through life is beyond me, must have had very sheltered upbringing.
    Nothing on this thread has caused offense to the people it was aimed at. If some people had to listen to some of the stuff I hear day-to-day they be having kittens.

    I think, just as a general point, that familiarity with something shouldn't make people stop pointing out that certain things are offensive.

    Maybe the problem is with the word 'offensive' / 'offended' - it seems to conjure up images of people fainting with shock etc. When I said upthread that I was 'offended', I meant I noticed the joke, I thought it was sexist, and I gave out about it a bit. I still managed to get through life :). And I hear sexist things / racist / classist / ageist things all the time, both in the media, in daily discourse etc. I don't think I'm particularly sheltered, but I think it would be wrong of me to stop standing up and saying I think things are wrong / mean etc just because I'm familiar with them or have heard them before.

    I'm not particularly shocked by things people say -- as I said, I've heard them before -- and it's not like I never offend people or that I'm sensitive to people's feelings all the time myself, and I don't think people who say things that offend me are bad people, I just think that it's worth pointing out if you don't like something.

    I don't want to be the person who laughs along with the racist joke etc just because I don't want to seem like I'm no fun.

    And for the record, I don't like the word 'knacker' either, in any context (except maybe 'horse renderer', but it's not often used in that context these days :)).


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    #144
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    pconn062 wrote: »
    Maybe let's not go there again, can we agree to move on and let it lie?

    As long as that rule applies to everyone. The below sustained attempts to trivialize legitimate concerns about widespread sexism and racism on this forum can hardly be described as "letting it go" can it? (welcome BTW!)
    gerard_65 wrote: »
    Lets face it, some people are very easily offended. How these people manage to get through life is beyond me, must have had very sheltered upbringing.
    JohnDozer wrote: »
    I would suggest it's only handbags but that may be considered disrespectful to those who are more prone to using handbags...
    TRR wrote: »
    wait, who let that bearded track fairy (wait is this offending anyone?) bollox become a mod!
    Pacing Mule wrote: »
    I have a beard. Can I be offended ?
    gerard_65 wrote: »
    If you are offended by having a beard just shave it off.


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    #145
    Clearlier
    Registered Users Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    HelenAnne wrote: »
    I think, just as a general point, that familiarity with something shouldn't make people stop pointing out that certain things are offensive.

    Maybe the problem is with the word 'offensive' / 'offended' - it seems to conjure up images of people fainting with shock etc. When I said upthread that I was 'offended', I meant I noticed the joke, I thought it was sexist, and I gave out about it a bit. I still managed to get through life :). And I hear sexist things / racist / classist / ageist things all the time, both in the media, in daily discourse etc. I don't think I'm particularly sheltered, but I think it would be wrong of me to stop standing up and saying I think things are wrong / mean etc just because I'm familiar with them or have heard them before.

    I'm not particularly shocked by things people say -- as I said, I've heard them before -- and it's not like I never offend people or that I'm sensitive to people's feelings all the time myself, and I don't think people who say things that offend me are bad people, I just think that it's worth pointing out if you don't like something.

    I don't want to be the person who laughs along with the racist joke etc just because I don't want to seem like I'm no fun.

    And for the record, I don't like the word 'knacker' either, in any context (except maybe 'horse renderer', but it's not often used in that context these days :)).


    I'm glad that you have stood up to say it. I still don't think that it's particularly offensive but I can respect that you and others do and I'd much prefer to know that.


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    #146
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,510 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    rom wrote: »
    Dublin city, why would anyone want to live their by choice rather than necessity? The inner city is a cesspit. To add some sort of character they added a Spire/Needle (Mecca for all the junkies)

    Some nice places in county Dublin but the city has as much charm as a bag of steaming hot sh*t.
    Ahh yes, the usual refrain from the envious poor cousins of the south. How do we improve the drug situation on the streets of Dublin? Turn them back at Heuston Station.


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    #147
    theboyblunder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭theboyblunder


    T runner wrote: »
    As long as that rule applies to everyone. The below sustained attempts to trivialize legitimate concerns about widespread sexism and racism on this forum can hardly be described as "letting it go" can it? (welcome BTW!)

    Maybe a list could be provided - approved terms we could use when slagging each other?

    Obviously this wouldnt be fully satisfactory because the degenerates would still be thinking the other things, but it would be a start until the denunciations and show trials could get organised.


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    #148
    theboyblunder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭theboyblunder


    rom wrote: »
    Dublin city, why would anyone want to live their by choice rather than necessity? The inner city is a cesspit. To add some sort of character they added a Spire/Needle (Mecca for all the junkies)

    Some nice places in county Dublin but the city has as much charm as a bag of steaming hot sh*t.


    Wow. Not much charm in any chipper, anywhere in the country on a friday night.


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    #149
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    theboyblunder wrote: »
    Maybe a list could be provided - approved terms we could use when slagging each other?

    Obviously this wouldnt be fully satisfactory because the degenerates would still be thinking the other things, but it would be a start until the denunciations and show trials could get organised.

    Great point: but be careful there are woodpeckers around today.

    My point was that "moving on" should apply to both sides and not just one. You seem to have proved this for me (unintentionally). Thanks.


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    #150
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    theboyblunder wrote: »
    Wow. Not much charm in any chipper, anywhere in the country on a friday night.


    Yes. the scene outside the local Supermacs in Ballyasshole at the weekend after chucking-out time is a sight to behold.


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    #151
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    HelenAnne wrote: »
    I think, just as a general point, that familiarity with something shouldn't make people stop pointing out that certain things are offensive.

    Maybe the problem is with the word 'offensive' / 'offended' - it seems to conjure up images of people fainting with shock etc. When I said upthread that I was 'offended', I meant I noticed the joke, I thought it was sexist, and I gave out about it a bit. I still managed to get through life :). And I hear sexist things / racist / classist / ageist things all the time, both in the media, in daily discourse etc. I don't think I'm particularly sheltered, but I think it would be wrong of me to stop standing up and saying I think things are wrong / mean etc just because I'm familiar with them or have heard them before.

    I'm not particularly shocked by things people say -- as I said, I've heard them before -- and it's not like I never offend people or that I'm sensitive to people's feelings all the time myself, and I don't think people who say things that offend me are bad people, I just think that it's worth pointing out if you don't like something.

    I don't want to be the person who laughs along with the racist joke etc just because I don't want to seem like I'm no fun.

    And for the record, I don't like the word 'knacker' either, in any context (except maybe 'horse renderer', but it's not often used in that context these days :)).

    I agree 100% with the above, which is exactly in line with my own thinking on this.


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