Leo and his working of movie lines into his speeches

ShineOn7

The (for now) leader of Ireland ladies and gentlemen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEJdJ0bf0w

He has to be doing this for a bet with mates and close work colleagues right?

Is this one still to come?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QXk-xbRgSg

dzsfah2xoynme9

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Ddsx2vdn7gpY&ved=2ahUKEwi62cjaiY_qAhVTtHEKHekwB_EQwqsBMAB6BAgDEAQ&usg=AOvVaw2mcE3WAAwt9W_mWmv6Pbe3

ShineOn7

Gabriella Greasy Tick wrote: »

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Ddsx2vdn7gpY&ved=2ahUKEwi62cjaiY_qAhVTtHEKHekwB_EQwqsBMAB6BAgDEAQ&usg=AOvVaw2mcE3WAAwt9W_mWmv6Pbe3

Hopefully, for all of us, he never has to use that

StupidLikeAFox

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

ShineOn7

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

1700 mortalities, all of our trump cards as an island lost, a complete and utter balls made of nursing homes

And he's having a laugh during speeches?

deisedevil

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

If one of my closest loved ones had passed away from Covid, I wouldn't be finding much comfort in seeing the leader of our country throwing in some movie quotes to his speeches to boost his image. He's pathetic. Real leaders could settle people's nerves with words of their own making. This lad is trying to be cool and get his speeches go viral. I've never once felt like he he genuinely cared about the people of this country. Leo cares about Leo.

ShineOn7

deisedevil wrote: »

This lad is trying to be cool and get his speeches go viral. I've never once felt like he he genuinely cared about the people of this country. Leo cares about Leo.

I was a fan of his at the start of this, but starting to think the above more and more

Probably rather see him not making light of the whole thing yet. A fair few people are dead.

Neddyusa

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

Harmless if it was done once for a gag....but
The fact that its repeated, it's so obvious that it's a spin-doctor designed publicity stunt.
The only aim of it is to boost his "hits" on social media - nothing else.
It's pure cynical politicking for the millennial generation.

ShineOn7

Neddyusa wrote: »

Harmless if it was done once for a gag....but
The fact that its repeated, it's so obvious that it's a spin-doctor designed publicity stunt.
The only aim of it is to boost his "hits" on social media - nothing else.
It's pure cynical politicking for the millennial generation.

Nailed it

His PR team looking for that elusive mention on an American TV "Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel" type show I think

It's the kind of thing the producers of these shows absolutely lap up

"Ireland's Prime Minister has been working famous film quotes ..... into his speeches


Have a look .... "

Deeper Blue

If he did this during some throwaway speech it'd be fine, bit of a laugh etc. But considering there have been 1700 unnecessary deaths in this country he should cop the fúck on

s1ippy

Not funny and in sh!t taste. God forbid he say something useful or original instead of sloppily thrown-together rehashed bilge. What a waster.

ShineOn7

NDWC wrote: »

If he did this during some throwaway speech it'd be fine, bit of a laugh etc. But considering there have been 1700 unnecessary deaths in this country he should cop the fúck on

He should

Boards is, unfortunately, not a medium where complaints about him doing this will matter a single bit to him

Now Twtter though: If a #ShutUpLeo or similar hashtag trended

That is something he'd have to listen to

s1ippy

ShineOn7 wrote: »

He should

Boards is, unfortunately, not a medium where complaints about him doing this will matter a single bit to him

Now Twtter though: If a #ShutUpLeo or similar hashtag trended

That is something he'd have to listen to

#notmytaoiseach already exists, go mad with it any time he's in the media.

bobbysands81

It’s pathetic. So many people have died, hundreds of thousands lost jobs, businesses closing, we’re facing a recession with pay cuts and raised taxes and Leo is having a laugh with his “in crowd” pals by putting quotes into his speeches.

****in eejitry.

ShineOn7

s1ippy wrote: »

#notmytaoiseach already exists, go mad with it any time he's in the media.

Needs to be more specific to his movie quoting I think

Irish journalists don't give a hoot about ideas from Boards for material (some of them kinda did in the 2000s), but Twitter is different

They live on Twitter and would pick up on a hashtag specific to his cheesy movie silliness

road_high

He’s PR’d to death at this stage with the result to me he’s (a FG voter) just a scripted cliche. He doesn’t seem capable of just fcukin talking to people like a normal person would, offering words of genuine hope and empathic comfort.
Very disappointing Taoiseach overall. He’s typical sanitised virtue signaller material for the likes of the Un or other global bodies. They all think he’s wonderful because he’s cut for the same PC cloth

s1ippy

Wow this thread is not what I expected. Very refreshing. These posters are probably not his cohort of loyal supporters "who get up early in the morning". And remember, "welfare cheats cheat us all". He's well able to create memorable quotes, just of a certain... bourgeois... variety.

McBain11

The lack of decorum Leo Varadkar is showing by putting ridiculous movie quotes into addresses to the nation as taoiseach, during a pandemic. Words fail me.

1700 or so mortalities, countless people ill, hundreds of thousands of jobs lost or struggling to come back, businesses galore down the drain, millions locked away from family and friends for months, and he thinks this is the time for sh*ts and giggles. That it is hilarious to sneak in a few movie quotes because his PR team think it will trend in the hashtag world.

There really aren't enough words to speak of how low this is. Taoiseach and a doctor, the lack of decorum is a sight to behold.

john123470

ShineOn7 wrote: »

The (for now) leader of Ireland ladies and gentlemen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEJdJ0bf0w

Very well made video. This should go straight to twitter. Folk have to be called out.

Leo, of Indian extract, says the civil service is "too white"
Sure it is, Leo

We are allowing enclaves to be built. One muslim who asked that muslims march and protest Isis atrocities abroad a few years back got his head kicked in .. in Clonskeagh mosque in Dublin ..

I'm good with giving folk shelter but, guaranteed, they or their 2nd / 3rd generation offspring will want a say in running the place Their way .. and, at the risk of being called a racist, you'll have to bow (kneel ?) to their demands

The trojan horse is already here ..

s1ippy

Ah what. How is that relevant?

john123470

s1ippy wrote: »

Ah what. How is that relevant?

You're right. It isn't. Sorry

Dank Janniels

But what about the homeless?

s1ippy

john123470 wrote: »

You're right. It isn't. Sorry

!

Fair dues!

ronivek

Ye have precious little to be worrying about that's for sure.

Hardly the smartest thing to be doing but put it into a little bit of context: it was during a speech on accelerating the opening of the country where he quoted a rather bland and inoffensive quote from a rather bland and inoffensive movie. After seemingly quoting two other movies in the two other speeches he made about accelerating the opening of the country. After he was dared to by an actor for a bit of a laugh.

But sure get the guillotine ready.

Ave Sodalis

At the risk of being pounced on here, I actually like his use of movie references. They're apt and used under similar circumstances in the movies he's quoting, but then the likes of LOTR has always been a source of comfort to me. It seems a very minor thing for people to be getting so offended by.

Ficheall

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

At the risk of being pounced on here, I actually like his use of movie references. They're apt and used under similar circumstances in the movies he's quoting, but then the likes of LOTR has always been a source of comfort to me. It seems a very minor thing for people to be getting so offended by.

I loved the bit in Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan's little dance made everyone forget about the hundreds of people who had died.

Ave Sodalis

Ficheall wrote:

I loved the bit in Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan's little dance made everyone forget about the hundreds of people who had died.

That particular quote was tacky, but it's a massive stretch to consider it offensive. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Varadkar. His effective PR policy of distract downward has caused the likes of me a lot of vitriol, especially on here. However, using the deaths of hundreds as an excuse to be angry at his use of movie quotes is every bit, if not more so, ridiculous than his use of a Mean Girls quote on a dare.

fits

Head of state must show absolutely zero sense of humour ever.

Duke of Url

Don’t have a issue with it.

I’m not a movie buff so wouldn’t recognise movie quotes within his speeches.

I don’t think a majority of the adult community in Ireland would recognise it either.

zerosugarbuzz

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

Probably because he’s supposed to be running the country and this behaviour would be more fitting of someone on their first job in McDonald’s. Totally disrespectful and condescending to the Irish people whom he clearly holds in very low regard.

fits

fits wrote: »

Head of state must show absolutely zero sense of humour ever.

When you’re talking about a situation we’ve been in then exactly, he shouldn’t.

But I’m sure someone who had to watch a parent die through a window and attend an empty funeral found it hilarious.


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IvoryTower

I love it , I'm surprised there hasn't been more froth all the same. Even my friends that despise him haven't said anything about it, yet

Wildsurfer

Has anyone checked the timeline of his speeches to check if that wasnt just a video spliced together to make it look like he used that Mean Girls quote as a dare?

rodders999

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I don't really care. Harmless more than anything else. Kind of cringey but can't see how people are getting so worked up over it

You know this is the internet right?

beggars_bush

A child in school would not be let away with plagiarism from the internet. Copy and paste

That's basically what he is doing

Duke of Url

I’m surprised so many people here remembers quotes from a 2004 girls teen movie. I never heard of it until I googled it.

I guess isolation has driven many here to watch anything to keep them occupied during lockdown.

Duke of Url

Duke of Url wrote: »

I’m surprised so many people here remembers quotes from a 2004 girls teen movie. I never heard of it until I googled it.

I guess isolation has driven many here to watch anything to keep them occupied during lockdown.

I doubt anyone does, but they can read a headline.

Laughable deflection.

Duke of Url

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I doubt anyone does, but they can read a headline.

Laughable deflection.

So people are triggered over a headline?

Duke of Url

Duke of Url wrote: »

So people are triggered over a headline?

That’s even more laughable deflection. Cut out the routine.

zerosugarbuzz

ronivek wrote: »

Ye have precious little to be worrying about that's for sure.

Hardly the smartest thing to be doing but put it into a little bit of context: it was during a speech on accelerating the opening of the country where he quoted a rather bland and inoffensive quote from a rather bland and inoffensive movie. After seemingly quoting two other movies in the two other speeches he made about accelerating the opening of the country. After he was dared to by an actor for a bit of a laugh.

But sure get the guillotine ready.

Actually many have plenty to be worrying about having lost their jobs and relatives in nursing homes due to this pandemic.
You might forgive them for expecting a little respect from someone who is supposed to be leading the country not auditioning for a boy band.
He is consistent though I’ll give him that.

maestroamado

beggars_bush wrote: »

A child in school would not be let away with plagiarism from the internet. Copy and paste

That's basically what he is doing

I wish he would move to Hollywood as he fit right in there.
He did complete U-turn on lock-down yesterday.
All of EU were lifting restrictions a few weeks ago and we going opposite direction.
Nest to go will be 2 week quarantine for travelers i be thinking...



LEADER???

Duke of Url

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

That’s even more laughable deflection. Cut out the routine.

Sounds like Leo grinds your gears lol

Duke of Url

Duke of Url wrote: »

Sounds like Leo grinds your gears lol

Must be time for your Nesquik. I didn’t think there was any more barrel to be scraped but you’ve just managed it there.

Maybe you will get the thanks you were chasing for your original post and you can go outside for the day.

Sofa King Great

There is a time and a place for humour and light heartedness and addressing the nation about a pandemic where hundreds have died and thousands have been left unemployed is certainly not it.

I didnt particularly mind the previous ones but the fact that this is done on the back of a "dare" makes it worse somehow.

phantasmagoria

I think he sounds very Bart's People...Joe and his ducks

Fair play to anyone,who still watches these

Ive a fair enough level of interest in current affairs,but have long since tuned out on these

eviltwin

I read somewhere that he was dared to find a Mean Girls quote to use in a speech. Not sure how true that is. I hope it’s not true. I lost two family members to COVID and missed a friends funeral because of restrictions, I would expect the leader of the country to have a bit more consideration for those who died and lost jobs that use a national address as a public game of dare.

eviltwin

eviltwin wrote: »

I read somewhere that he was dared to find a Mean Girls quote to use in a speech. Not sure how true that is. I hope it’s not true. I lost two family members to COVID and missed a friends funeral because of restrictions, I would expect the leader of the country to have a bit more consideration for those who died and lost jobs that use a national address as a public game of dare.

Lord Of The Rings and The Goonies star Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the Middle-earth trilogy, bet the Irish leader "50 quid" to quote Mean Girls in his next speech. The wager came in response to Mr Varadkar drawing upon a poignant Samwise quote during an earlier coronavirus briefing...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-taioseach-leo-varadkar-quotes-mean-girls-during-covid-19-briefing-12010663

fits

eviltwin wrote: »

I read somewhere that he was dared to find a Mean Girls quote to use in a speech. Not sure how true that is. I hope it’s not true. I lost two family members to COVID and missed a friends funeral because of restrictions, I would expect the leader of the country to have a bit more consideration for those who died and lost jobs that use a national address as a public game of dare.

He did an interview on 2fm a few weeks ago with Eoghan McDermott and Doireann Garrihy. They got the character who plays samwise in LOTR on to talk about Leo quoting the film. And he dared him to get mean girls in. Probably instigated by eoghan. Leo said he’d never watched mean girls and didn’t know anything about it and brushed it off.

The J Stands for Jay

I liked the movie quotes, they seemed relatively appropriate. But shoehorning in an quote to win a bet instigated by some radio arsehole doesn't sit right with me.

Also, here's a relevant Tumblr: https://meangirlsofleinsterhouse.tumblr.com/