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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Sorry to quote myself, but I tuned into RTE today as the lottery numbers were being pulled. Guess what, a Johnny Foreigner presenting the show. Just like I said, the diversity Nazi's want it seen everywhere, like I said even in trivial areas such as weather forecasting, etc.

    Imagine you went to Pakistan and an Irishman was pulling the numbers for their version of the lotto. Or you went to China and a Spaniard was pulling the numbers.

    Any problem in itself? No. But the efforts RTE go to to pander to this diversity nonsense is unreal. The whole point is they went to the effort rather than it was ever a naturally occurring thing in the first place. No way did it come about naturally. No way.

    The chap from Limerick?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Sorry to quote myself, but I tuned into RTE today as the lottery numbers were being pulled. Guess what, a Johnny Foreigner presenting the show. Just like I said, the diversity Nazi's want it seen everywhere, like I said even in trivial areas such as weather forecasting, etc.

    Imagine you went to Pakistan and an Irishman was pulling the numbers for their version of the lotto. Or you went to China and a Spaniard was pulling the numbers.

    Any problem in itself? No. But the efforts RTE go to to pander to this diversity nonsense is unreal. The whole point is they went to the effort rather than it was ever a naturally occurring thing in the first place. No way did it come about naturally. No way.


    I am not sure why the term nazi can be bandied about liberally without it relating to the very ideology it was originally about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Sorry to quote myself, but I tuned into RTE today as the lottery numbers were being pulled. Guess what, a Johnny Foreigner presenting the show. Just like I said, the diversity Nazi's want it seen everywhere, like I said even in trivial areas such as weather forecasting, etc.

    Imagine you went to Pakistan and an Irishman was pulling the numbers for their version of the lotto. Or you went to China and a Spaniard was pulling the numbers.

    Any problem in itself? No. But the efforts RTE go to to pander to this diversity nonsense is unreal. The whole point is they went to the effort rather than it was ever a naturally occurring thing in the first place. No way did it come about naturally. No way.

    Poe's law again - honestly not sure if this is parody.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I am not sure why the term nazi can be bandied about liberally without it relating to the very ideology it was originally about.
    It happens all the time. "Grammar nazi" is the biggest leap :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Poe's law again - honestly not sure if this is parody.

    I can understand irritation and annoyance at some of the things described in the thread but this pearl clutching cause you see a foreign person on TV seems excessive and almost hysterical.

    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



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Sorry to quote myself, but I tuned into RTE today as the lottery numbers were being pulled. Guess what, a Johnny Foreigner presenting the show. Just like I said, the diversity Nazi's want it seen everywhere, like I said even in trivial areas such as weather forecasting, etc.

    Imagine you went to Pakistan and an Irishman was pulling the numbers for their version of the lotto. Or you went to China and a Spaniard was pulling the numbers.

    Any problem in itself? No. But the efforts RTE go to to pander to this diversity nonsense is unreal. The whole point is they went to the effort rather than it was ever a naturally occurring thing in the first place. No way did it come about naturally. No way.

    "Johnny foreigner" wtf. Have I been transported back to the 1970s and listening to some sh*te from Jim Davidson.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I can understand irritation and annoyance at some of the things described in the thread but this pearl clutching cause you see a foreign person on TV seems excessive and almost hysterical.

    Was it even a foreigner?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Could it have been Kamal Ibrahim, aka "Lotto Hotto"?
    Born in Limerick, Ireland to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Italian mother.

    Screen-Shot-2013-01-10-at-09-41-19.jpg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    I think Nazi can be both a noun, verb and an adjective in the 3rd millenium?

    Like the noun being the definition of a physical person acting or dressing or being a Nazi - kind of self explanatory.

    An adjective - when I am trying to lose weight for an upcoming role I tend to adopt an extreme diet, I end up eating like a Nazi.

    a verb - " If those kids don't clean their bedroom by tonight I am going to Nazi the phuck out of them until they do!!! "

    Interestingly in Germany you need to be very careful when using it in casual terminology - it is still illegal to be a Nazi in Germany, you can be sent to prison for acting like one. This may raise a few eyebrows in Western Europe, but I can remember attending a rave in East Berlin in the mid 90's and the place was full of white skinheads, littered with tatts, off their barneys and literally dressed like soccer hooligans - they exist, particularly in the former East Germany. The German Democratic Republic formed in 1949 never disincentivised its' citizens from forming political socialist communes - this was in essence tolerating the continuation of both far right and far left forms of communism in East Germany - the lines literally become blurred. But there is still many Nazi's in cities like Magdeburg, Dresden and obviously Berlin.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    biko wrote: »
    Could it have been Kamal Ibrahim, aka "Lotto Hotto"?
    Born in Limerick, Ireland to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Italian mother.

    Screen-Shot-2013-01-10-at-09-41-19.jpg

    Thought as much.

    Hence my question regarding our being a joke post initially.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    biko wrote: »
    Could it have been Kamal Ibrahim, aka "Lotto Hotto"?
    Born in Limerick, Ireland to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Italian mother.

    Screen-Shot-2013-01-10-at-09-41-19.jpg

    Scandal-Clutch-the.jpg

    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    biko wrote: »
    Could it have been Kamal Ibrahim, aka "Lotto Hotto"?
    Born in Limerick, Ireland to a Nigerian father and an Irish-Italian mother.

    Screen-Shot-2013-01-10-at-09-41-19.jpg

    Can you get s as anymore Irish than mr Ireland?

    He has Limerick accent ffs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    RTE is being prepped for sale to some international media company. I'd bet money on it.

    The first sign of this is staff trying to out-woke rach other, in a desperate bid to save their jobs when the new overlords arrive. Extra points if you manage to throw a ' racist ' colleague under the bus.

    Executives trying to outdo each other with their right-on nonsense trickles down to manifest itself in peculiar ways, such as that utterly cringe-worthy scene in Fair City about the proles spitting on foreigners.

    On top of the extremely tedious compassion-p**n from the likes of Turgidy and Talk to Joe, RTE is fast becoming a farce.

    But as the saying goes....go woke, go broke.


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    Biker79 wrote: »
    But as the saying goes....go woke, go broke.

    They're state funded. RTE won't go broke, regardless of how woke they become.. and it's highly unlikely that they'd be sold off.. at least not unless we enter a particularly nasty recession, with the govt in desperate need of funds.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Biker79 wrote: »
    On top of the extremely tedious compassion-p**n from the likes of Turgidy and Talk to Joe, RTE is fast becoming a farce.

    Man, this pisses me off..


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Can you get s as anymore Irish than mr Ireland?

    He has Limerick accent ffs

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    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



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    They're state funded. RTE won't go broke, regardless of how woke they become.. and it's highly unlikely that they'd be sold off.. at least not unless we enter a particularly nasty recession, with the govt in desperate need of funds.

    It's a failing entity propped up by the government.

    Selling off the high-value D4 land for redevelopment leaving a smaller, leaner organisation that would ultimately broadcast solely on Youtube, would make a lot of business sense.

    And it could position Ireland as a forward-thinking hub, in term of 21st-century communications/ entertainment.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Biker79 wrote: »
    RTE is being prepped for sale to some international media company. I'd bet money on it.

    The first sign of this is staff trying to out-woke rach other, in a desperate bid to save their jobs when the new overlords arrive. Extra points if you manage to throw a ' racist ' colleague under the bus.

    Executives trying to outdo each other with their right-on nonsense trickles down to manifest itself in peculiar ways, such as that utterly cringe-worthy scene in Fair City about the proles spitting on foreigners.

    On top of the extremely tedious compassion-p**n from the likes of Turgidy and Talk to Joe, RTE is fast becoming a farce.

    But as the saying goes....go woke, go broke.

    Would depend on who the buyer is. Sometime looking for a new venture in **** all business sense.

    Trumo?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Lads, I was only guessing it was Kamal, it has not been confirmed.

    De-clutch the clutch-the-pearls pearls until we have confirmation :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    biko wrote: »
    Lads, I was only guessing it was Kamal, it has not been confirmed.

    De-clutch the clutch-the-pearls pearls until we have confirmation :D

    Pearls are a symbol of feminism and not an inclusively appropriate icon with which to portray an emotion.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    biko wrote: »
    Lads, I was only guessing it was Kamal, it has not been confirmed.

    De-clutch the clutch-the-pearls pearls until we have confirmation :D

    Confirmation of what though?

    "omg a forrin black man on rte, how very dare they" deserves the absolute piss taken out of it

    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Pearls are a symbol of feminism and not an inclusively appropriate icon with which to portray an emotion.

    Nah. Pearls are an opressive symbol of rich white feminism.

    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



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Biker79 wrote: »
    It's a failing entity propped up by the government.

    Selling off the high-value D4 land for redevelopment leaving a smaller, leaner organisation that would ultimately broadcast solely on Youtube, would make a lot of business sense.

    And it could position Ireland as a forward-thinking hub, in term of 21st-century communications/ entertainment.

    That's nice, but it's not what you originally stated. There's a big difference between becoming a leaner organisation...... and being sold-off, or end due to "go woke, go broke"

    All media firms become leaner over time due to advances in technology, and the ability to outsource unnecessary services. RTE will be no different. I don't see RTE disappearing any time soon..


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Confirmation of what though?
    If AllForIt meant the man I posted and you quoted.
    "omg a forrin black man on rte, how very dare they" deserves the absolute piss taken out of it
    AllForIt didn't say anything about skin colour, he said Johnny Foreigner.
    You are assuming.

    We'll see once it's confirmed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,570 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Youve done this before Emmet, where is the 'woke' ...

    You should be more clear in what youre getting at, for example this tweet...

    https://twitter.com/nward905/status/1346904566449795077

    #StayWoke

    Sorry, Q, I was putting “forward” the example of the woke leftie liberal calling for an end to the violence by the Trumpist insurgents.

    Was there anything more “woke” in there? I hadn’t seen anything about the Movement at the time.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,115 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    biko wrote: »
    If AllForIt meant the man I posted and you quoted.


    AllForIt didn't say anything about skin colour, he said Johnny Foreigner.
    You are assuming.

    We'll see once it's confirmed.

    I doubt Allforit is going to confirm or deny one way or the other.
    Sorry, Q, I was putting “forward” the example of the woke leftie liberal calling for an end to the violence by the Trumpist insurgents.

    Was there anything more “woke” in there? I hadn’t seen anything about the Movement at the time.

    Yeah, damn leftie liberal Congress urging a mildly moderate President to end the violence. All hippies and commies over there!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    biko wrote: »
    If AllForIt meant the man I posted and you quoted.


    AllForIt didn't say anything about skin colour, he said Johnny Foreigner.
    You are assuming.

    We'll see once it's confirmed.

    Doesnt matter what he meant. His post is still deserving of an absolute pisstake.

    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



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    That's nice, but it's not what you originally stated. There's a big difference between becoming a leaner organisation...... and being sold-off, or end due to "go woke, go broke"

    All media firms become leaner over time due to advances in technology, and the ability to outsource unnecessary services. RTE will be no different. I don't see RTE disappearing any time soon..

    Sold off because other companies will be in a better position to repurpose RTE into something new. Those companies are in a better position than the state.

    They won't disappear nor should they. They should be overhauled and if the state is willing to outsource the provision of housing and Telecomms to outside entities, they can do the same with RTE, with an equally positive outcome. (IMHO)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    This just shows you how out of touch these woke , leftie , spoilt idiots that are in these universities. What upset the president of the stupid union so much ? It's was a mural of men from the University who died in ww1, but they weren't any type of men , they are white men in the painting . Turns out the woman in question was born quiet privileged with the silver spoon up her bum. What makes these idiots so out of touch with reality ???

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1047828/southampton-university-student-union-president-emily-dawes-world-war-one-mural-ww1-twitter/amp&ved=2ahUKEwjI5OvzroruAhW_UBUIHUOyDPAQFjADegQICBAL&usg=AOvVaw0W2DJZkHkiU_xr9fqwKOrG&ampcf=1&cshid=1610041324396


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 285 ✭✭Hellokitty1212


    *mod snip*

    Wouldn’t using “pretty dope” be classed as cultural appropriation???


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