Eoghan McDermott wants Fairytale of New York Censored - Mod warning post 1

maxwell smart

I see that the righteous warrior of the oppressed has asked the 2 gay members of his 'team' if they find the term 'FAGOT' in the Fairytale of New York song offensive.
One of them thinks it should be 'beeped' out while another thinks it should be banned altogether.

Regardless of the fact the song annoys the cohones off me, exactly who does this chap think he is?

Should we send him and his 'team' a dictionary so they understand what the word FAGOT means? 'A contemptible or dislikable person' is the original meaning, regardless of it being hijacked as a disparaging term when referencing homosexuals.

Get off your high horse Eoghan you SJW!!

https://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/debate-rages-on-social-media-in-face-of-calls-for-fairytale-of-new-york-to-be-censored-890258.html

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Plumbthedepths

Imagine if people like this put their time to more constructive uses.

NIMAN

Keeping himself relevant and in the news.

Fann Linn

More importantly, I wait with baited breath to see which station pays heed to his call.

AGC

The same fella who is promoting whetus teenage dirtbag being translated into Irish has an issue with Fagot being in a song.

****

chalkitdown1

maxwell smart wrote: »

Should we send him and his 'team' a dictionary so they understand what the word FAGOT means? 'A contemptible or dislikable person' is the original meaning, regardless of it being hijacked as a disparaging term when referencing homosexuals.

I don't agree with banning old songs because of troublesome lyrics in any way but are you seriously deluding yourself that you think a song written in 1986 with the word 'fággot' in it atually meant the original meaning of the word?

Come on, now. He calls her a slut then she calls him gay. The intention behind it is pretty damn clear especially for the 80's.

Ursus Horribilis

He and his annoying sister are a collective SJW echo chamber. This is a cynical attempt to hop on the outrage bandwagon.

GottaGetGatt

Is there not a version where he says “maggot” instead ?

vicwatson

He needs a serious dose of cop on

ewc78

Who is Eoghan McDermott?

HeidiHeidi

Who's Eoghan McDermott?


Or his sister, for that matter?

SortingYouOut

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

Is there not a version where he says “maggot” instead ?

Maggot is used prior to Fagot in the song. Ya Scumbag, Ya Maggot, Ya cheap lousy ******.

Edit: Seems that Boards finds the word offensive anyway

Utopia Parkway

Sadly was only a matter of time until Fairytale came under the beady eye of the permanently offended and outraged.

EPAndlee

How about they completely censor him instead

StreetLight

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

Is there not a version where he says “maggot” instead ?

Ronan Keating's version. Enough said.

Ursus Horribilis

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Who's Eoghan McDermott?


Or his sister, for that matter?

You're better off not knowing. Believe me.

NIMAN

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

Come on, now. He calls her a slut then she calls him gay. The intention behind it is pretty damn clear especially for the 80's.

Yeah back in the 80s, when people were sensible and weren't offended by everything on everyone's else behalf.

If it offends you Eoghan, don't play it. End of.

And if it offends you as a listener. Turn over when it's on.

It had regularly been voted in the top Xmas songs of all time, so countless more multiples of people aren't offended by it.

Pelvis

I've no issue with censoring that particular word from the song when played on the radio/tv before the watershed.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

Persiancowboy

Let the prat play the appalling Ronan Keating cover version with the "offending" word bleeped out.

Plumbthedepths

StreetLight wrote:

Ronan Keating's version. Enough said.

Keating should be banned.

HeidiHeidi

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

You're better off not knowing. Believe me.

I'll take your word for it.


But if his campaign results in me never having to hear that bloody song ever again (never mind about 10 times a day the entire month before Christmas and 20 in the final week) then he'll get a thumbs up from me.


Hands off "Baby It's Cold Outside" though! (I hear that's also under attack :mad:) The Tom Jones/Cerys Matthews version is one of the best Christmas songs there is!

VeryTerry

The BBC briefly banned it 10 years ago. They changed their minds quickly enough.

My opinion is that it's a song telling a story about two drunks. It's not as if Shane McGowan is calling anyone a ****** himself in a gratuitous way. Much like Dire Straits use of the same word in Money for Nothing or Bob Dylan use of the "N" word in Hurricane.

If you decide to start banning offensive words in songs depicting stories and decided to apply that logic to film we would lose a huge amount of classics.

So it's all a load of bollox in my opinion.

Ursus Horribilis

She is a "journalist" who speaks with a fake American accent and guests on Matt Cooper's radio show. She comes across as an air headed blonde crossed with a social justice warrior.

I agree with you about being sick to death of the song though.

applehunter

2FM needs to be re-branded as Gay FM.

demanufactured

What a ******.

NIMAN

It's OK to find something offensive.

It'll not hurt you.

Get on with your life.

Barna77

Some people have too much spare time to worry about things like this FFS

SEPT 23 1989

Pelvis wrote: »

I've no issue with censoring that particular word from the song when played on the radio/tv before the watershed.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

You sold more records with that sticker on the cover

Slattsy

Eh who?

Cantona's Collars

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

She is a "journalist" who speaks with a fake American accent and guests on Matt Cooper's radio show. She comes across as an air headed blonde crossed with a social justice warrior.

I agree with you about being sick to death of the song though.

Is she the one who's offended by The Inbetweeners not being inclusive as there's no minorities in the lads gang?

DJIMI TRARORE

Well I've asked all the members of my team and 100% if them find EMD offensive

Sir Oxman

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

I don't agree with banning old songs because of troublesome lyrics in any way but are you seriously deluding yourself that you think a song written in 1986 with the word 'fággot' in it atually meant the original meaning of the word?

Come on, now. He calls her a slut then she calls him gay. The intention behind it is pretty damn clear especially for the 80's.

The lyrics "Sinatra was swinging" and "cars as big as bars" seem to place the song in the late 1940s"

A2LUE42

Sure Peta will probably want it banned for using maggot as a disparaging term..

buckfasterer

Did anyone catch Tracy Clifford going off earlier? I only caught the end of it and she signed off with Snowflake Clifford and played Last Christmas. Did she stick up for this bellend?

Mrcaramelchoc

Id pay more attention to eoin mclove.

lawred2

I don't care about any of this

However I detest that crap song so much - I'll don my Machiavellian cloak and insist that I am gravely offended by such lyrics

Cantona's Collars

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Is she the one who's offended by The Inbetweeners not being inclusive as there's no minorities in the lads gang?

shes offended by everything...I wonder who spawned these two sjw's, I bet their parents are disappointed by them

fxotoole

applehunter wrote: »

2FM needs to be re-branded as Gay Fagg*t FM.

FYP

fxotoole

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

You sold more records with that sticker on the cover

Exactly. Barbara Streisand effect.

tayto lover

I truthfully never heard of mc Dermott.
From reading the article I am eternally glad.

backspin.

Yeah ban fairytale but continue to play rap songs that glorify gangsterism. That's the times we live in I suppose.

Fr Tod Umptious

Just listed back to Dire Straits Brothers in Arms this afternoon for the first time in years.

From the 2nd track 'Money for nothing'

'The little ****** with the ear ring and the makeup, yea that's his own hair'

'The little ****** got his own jet airplane, the little ****** he's a millionaire'

Oh the humanity

Fann Linn

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Just listed back to Dire Straits Brothers in Arms this afternoon for the first time in years.

From the 2nd track 'Money for nothing'

'The little ****** with the ear ring and the makeup, yea that's his own hair'

'The little ****** got his own jet airplane, the little ****** he's a millionaire'

Oh the humanity

And from the same band: '
Les Boys do cabaret,.....

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

I truthfully never heard of mc Dermott.
From reading the article I am eternally glad.

His sisters worse....this reeks of him attention seeking

Good to see facebook/twitter calling him out on him and a lot find him a sjw wanker

tritriagain

McDermott had 2 women on this evening who were defending millennials who won't accept political incorrectness.. they did however did sign off by saying that no one has a right not to be offended. Eoghan obviously thinks different. What's next ban great films like American history x or boyz the hood. How can someone seriously get offended by a word.

swarlb

Could we ban 'BOARDS.IE' It contains vast amounts of material offensive to thousands...

ford fiesta

This ban was attempted 10 years ago on BBC Radio 1.

F**k off McDermott and Byrne to your parents South Dublin houses.

mr_edge_to_you

Now that my wife went behind my back and paid our TV licence, I demand that Eoghan McDermott shut up and play the song in full and up loud.

Jesus - the world is changing by the hour and its a going in a shi€tty direction.

I love Fairytale of New York, I love belting it out with friends when we’re in the pub. Not one of us is homophobic. It’s a line from a Christmas song FFS. I suspect there was no malice intended when it was written.

Why no go out all out in the interest of gender balance they should consider changing the lyrics to “the men, women, transgendered people of NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay”?

Atoms for Peace

Sickining that TV licence money goes to pay such insufferable drones.

tritriagain

He really is insufferable. I started a thread on him about a month ago. I have to listen to him in work. He really is one of these people who goes out of his way to be politically correct. Trump bashing, feminist loving , transgender friend, homosexual campaigning. He does it all. All these things are good but when someone consistently does it to be cool it wears very thin.especially when it's done on the national airwaves (at no inconsiderable cost).

10pennymixup

I always thought in the context of this song only, that the word ****** referred to a near rancid or offensive piece of meat only fit for animal consumtion.

In England in the 20's/ 30's(??) butchers used to sell minced up offal made into a type of meatball for dogs, but some less fortunate humans had to eat them also. For any dog owner out there they're the lumps of "beef" in gravy you find in a can of dog food nowadays.