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Why are the returning officers such dry sheits?

  • 29-02-2016 8:48am
    #1
    guylikeme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭


    Always wondered that - the whole place errupting with excitement and they stand there like they have 2 heads or something as if questioning what the fuss is about? Can they not have a smile or something?


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  • #2
    Ice Maiden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Ice Maiden


    Being dour is essential for ageing civil servants.


  • #3
    tuisginideach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭tuisginideach


    Because they have to read to a formula. Because they have to be totally impartial. Because they have (generally) seen all this hullabaloo many times before and they know that X's shouts of triumphalism today will be Y's shouts in the next election so basically it's just same ol', same ol'


  • #4
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its not their business to have an opinion on the election, if they were doing 'delighted and congratulations' as they announced the results there would be mutterings of bias and tampering with the results.


  • #5
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Well paid dry $hites.


  • #6
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I have a question:
    Why is this thread so crap?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Your Face wrote: »
    I have a question:
    Why is this thread so crap?

    Yeah, needs more newly elected public representatives being hoisted on people's shoulders whooping and hollering.


  • #8
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    guylikeme wrote: »
    Always wondered that - the whole place errupting with excitement and they stand there like they have 2 heads or something as if questioning what the fuss is about? Can they not have a smile or something?

    I'm just waiting for the day that someone reads out the results as a rap.


  • #9
    mackerski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭mackerski


    guylikeme wrote: »
    Always wondered that - the whole place errupting with excitement and they stand there like they have 2 heads or something as if questioning what the fuss is about? Can they not have a smile or something?

    They are trying to concentrate on remembering the Irishy bit.


  • #10
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    mackerski wrote: »
    They are trying to concentrate on remembering the Irishy bit.

    There was one guy last night who was all, "Cead mile, eh do, em dha, and, eh... And fifty."


  • #11
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'm pretty sure the returning officer in Kerry around 11am yesterday morning started his announcement by saying "Good evening ladies and gentlemen", so they're probably sick of it by the time it gets past the 3rd count.


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  • #12
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭screamer


    Why are they even needed bring in an electronic noticeboard. Just as impartial stationary and lifeless. Difference is you'd not have to listen to the robotic speak and look at the dry ****es. Probably be cheaper too.


  • #13
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    guylikeme wrote: »
    Always wondered that - the whole place errupting with excitement and they stand there like they have 2 heads or something as if questioning what the fuss is about? Can they not have a smile or something?

    You've obviously never worked with any of them on a count!


  • #14
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #15
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    What now - returning officers are all Muslim

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #16
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    They tolerate way too much cheering. I refuse to believe that grown adults are incapable of shutting the fuck up until after all the results have been read out.


  • #17
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I think the OP wants returning officers to announce like this

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


  • #18
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Or when they lose the League Cup....:pac:


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


    They're hired for their ability to oversee several counts of thousands of votes using a complex electoral system.

    People that are goog at that kind of thing aren't usually known for their gregarious personalities.


  • #20
    stefan.kuntz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 91 ✭✭stefan.kuntz


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    They can't all be United supporters?


  • #21
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    stefan.kuntz wrote: »
    They can't all be United supporters?

    Don't bet on it.


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  • #22
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yeah, needs more newly elected public representatives being hoisted on people's shoulders whooping and hollering.

    Needs more passion like Alan Kelly! :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdKI9Ei1Ks


  • #23
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What now - returning officers are all Muslim

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  • #24
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Ruu wrote: »
    Needs more passion like Alan Kelly! :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdKI9Ei1Ks

    My fix! My fix! Buzzzzzzzzzing.


  • #25
    stefan.kuntz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 91 ✭✭stefan.kuntz


    Aidric wrote: »
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