O'Donovan brothers humour do ya get it?

klose · 03-09-2016 09:12AM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

They seem like nice lads and all but they only won silver in a sport nobody really gives a shoite about if we are tbh. Come back when ye win Gold then we all will be cheering on ye gombeens...

Well that's a terrible attitude, they won Ireland's first medal in rowing but it's "only" a silver, yet in past olympics bar Katie Taylor's triumph people were going bat**** over out medal haul of bronze and silver in boxing.

Fair play to em in any case and as someone who did rowing for years as a teenager I hope it raises the profile of the sport and it pushes on as there are some great stretches of water in the country and very good athletes at junior who never quite make the jump like these lads did.

mansize · 03-09-2016 09:19AM

They have charm, charisma and personality.

Something I think isn't in great abundance here.

timthumbni · 03-09-2016 09:21AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

What I would find pathetic is calling q group of people to be the bottom of a genetic pool and what's equally pathetic is thanking that post.

I thought that was a joke. You know like saying its a great year to beat da Brits.

Do jokes only work one way around here?????

Btw I've no idea if cork ones are bottom of the gene pool. I've never been and am very unlikely ever to be near it. They would be going some to beat the oul Derry WANs to the bottom though.......

Surreptitious · 03-09-2016 09:26AM

timthumbni wrote: »

I thought that was a joke. You know like saying its a great year to beat da Brits.

Do jokes only work one way around here?????

Btw I've no idea if cork ones are bottom of the gene pool. I've never been and am very unlikely ever to be near it. They would be going some to beat the oul Derry WANs to the bottom though.......

Do you find any of your ill educated comments to be redeemable?

Balmed Out · 03-09-2016 09:28AM

timthumbni wrote:

I thought that was a joke. You know like saying its a great year to beat da Brits.

timthumbni wrote:

Do jokes only work one way around here?????

timthumbni wrote:

Btw I've no idea if cork ones are bottom of the gene pool. I've never been and am very unlikely ever to be near it. They would be going some to beat the oul Derry WANs to the bottom though.......

I doubt it but whatever. Can't see how it could be construed as in any way funny given it was presented in writing. Seems to me the post of someone who would if it weren't for modern sensibilities and site rules possibly enjoy making racist jokes about people who are black, Jewish etc.

gramar · 03-09-2016 09:34AM

It was grand until they said Schkibbereen on the Late late show.

everlast75 · 03-09-2016 09:37AM

gramar wrote: »

It was grand until they said Schkibbereen on the Late late show.

or grand until the reported story of "tubs" taking them to Coppers after the Late Late... f*cking cringe level 10!

Stealthfins · 03-09-2016 09:40AM

mansize wrote:

They have charm, charisma and personality.

mansize wrote:

Something I think isn't in great abundance here.

Exactly,they are themselves.

They're not talking with marbles in their mouths or any of that lawdy dah claptrap some people go on with.

Middle classes knocking decent honest people again is rife here.

Give me old money society or working classes any day,they're themselves.

The ones in the middle have no charisma or class.

I'm probably rowing my way up **** creek here but it's my opinion ðŸ˜

timthumbni · 03-09-2016 09:41AM

Surreptitious wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

I thought that was a joke. You know like saying its a great year to beat da Brits.

Do jokes only work one way around here?????

Btw I've no idea if cork ones are bottom of the gene pool. I've never been and am very unlikely ever to be near it. They would be going some to beat the oul Derry WANs to the bottom though.......

Do you find any of your ill educated comments to be redeemable?

I didn't make the original comment and I'm from Londonderry (the county) so stop being so precious...

YFlyer · 03-09-2016 10:49AM

timthumbni wrote: »

I didn't make the original comment and I'm from Londonderry (the county) so stop being so precious...

Derry.

Zxclnic · 03-09-2016 10:54AM

timthumbni wrote: »

I didn't make the original comment and I'm from Londonderry (the county) so stop being so precious...

YFlyer wrote: »

Derry.

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off....

Augme · 03-09-2016 10:56AM

They sound like normal lads. Quoting father ted, talking about beating the brits etc. I'd argue this is common way for most 20 something lads to joke about(it certainly was for groups I've come across around with). No doubt there'll be a few special snowflakes on boards.ie to chime in about how they aren't like that, fantastic, well done.

Chuchote · 03-09-2016 11:02AM

Tipperary beats Kilkenny - all Tipperary people ever: "Yay, it's great to bate the Cats". Belgium beats France - all Belgians ever: "Yay, it's great to bate the Frogs". It's not a major world event, it's a joke.

YFlyer · 03-09-2016 11:03AM

Zxclnic wrote: »

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off....

I'm Irish.

Zxclnic · 03-09-2016 11:05AM

YFlyer wrote: »

I'm Irish.

Oh....fair enough.

Wigglepuppy · 03-09-2016 11:06AM

The guy talking about the bottom of the gene pool was just stirring for a reaction - and got what he wanted.

Stealthfins wrote: »

Exactly,they are themselves.

They're not talking with marbles in their mouths or any of that lawdy dah claptrap some people go on with.

Middle classes knocking decent honest people again is rife here.

Give me old money society or working classes any day,they're themselves.

The ones in the middle have no charisma or class.

I'm probably rowing my way up **** creek here but it's my opinion ðŸ˜

But is your opinion based on fact? Because saying nobody in between working class (there's that patronising bigging up of the working class) and old money society (crazy to imply that that isn't rife with elitism) has charisma or class is a hell of a stretch.

The inverse snobbery of "Oh the scourge that is middle-class people" - seems like that kind of snobbery is fine to some folk. Much of it comes from middle-class people which is amusing.

And are those lads not middle-class? It's rowing like.

Bar the odd tedious wind-up merchant who should be ignored, I don't see anyone having a go at the lads' work ethic or decency. They're great sportsmen and obviously extremely dedicated and hardworking and ambitious - they're clearly lovely, down-to-earth lads also, and having a sense of humour is always hugely attractive.

The way the media keeps going to town on the "shteak" stuff is not everyone's cup of tea though, it's a bit silly - just an opinion.

I detest people putting on a snooty accent and an act also, people can dislike things simultaneously.

myshirt · 03-09-2016 11:14AM

Isn't Schull, just down the road from Skibbereen, known as 'The Toenail of Ireland'. These boys have done well to showcase the region.

West Cork is a lovely area. Why are we so tribal in this country. This stuck up your hole Dublin versus the rest of us has to stop lads. Bar Leitrim, parts of Cavan, and a bit of Tipperary, every county in this country has something to add.

Arcade_Tryer · 03-09-2016 11:19AM

I don't find any of it funny or entertaining at all.

Nor, like most people enamored with them, do I care one jot about rowing.

But it's easy to see the attraction for many. Two young lads from Cork who achieved success at the Olympics and now playing to the stereotype of our parent's generation and traditional Ireland. So while I understand it, I'm happy just to sit back and try my best to ignore it all. Easier said than done.

Chuchote · 03-09-2016 11:25AM

Why on earth is there all this hostility? High on happiness after years of striving, having won one of the very few medals our country won in the Olympics, they modestly default to a jokey attitude, and everyone's giving out! Would this make you likely to strive to win an Olympics medal? Not me!
And what's all this crap of sneering at other counties than your own? All counties have talented, intelligent, hard-working people.

LDN_Irish · 03-09-2016 11:42AM

Zxclnic wrote: »

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off....

I say Londonpotato.

Zxclnic · 03-09-2016 11:47AM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I say Londonpotato.

or....shpuds!

GerryDerpy · 03-09-2016 11:49AM

Anyone who criticises these two lads is officially a grade A cnut.

Arcade_Tryer · 03-09-2016 11:52AM

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Anyone who criticises these two lads is officially a grade A cnut.

You make a convincing argument, but I have to disagree.

Augme · 03-09-2016 11:53AM

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

I don't find any of it funny or entertaining at all.

Nor, like most people enamored with them, do I care one jot about rowing.

But it's easy to see the attraction for many. Two young lads from Cork who achieved success at the Olympics and now playing to the stereotype of our parent's generation and traditional Ireland. So while I understand it, I'm happy just to sit back and try my best to ignore it all. Easier said than done.

By posting in a thread about them :pac:

Wigglepuppy · 03-09-2016 11:54AM

Chuchote wrote: »

everyone's giving out!.

Most people love them. Criticism is more at the media cringefest.

Arcade_Tryer · 03-09-2016 11:55AM

Augme wrote: »

By posting in a thread about them :pac:

I like to put my thoughts into writing occasionally.

edit: And it's not exactly a thread specifically about them. Try reading the thread title

Augme · 03-09-2016 12:03PM

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

I like to put my thoughts into writing occasionally.

edit: And it's not exactly a thread specifically about them. Try reading the thread title

Yea, a thread about their humour is not specifically about them. Oooooooooookay.

Calahonda52 · 03-09-2016 12:14PM

Augme wrote: »

Yea, a thread about their humour is not specifically about them. Oooooooooookay.

Augme: easier and quicker:

User ID
Left Click
last option: add dickhead to ignore list: just helps shut off the oxygen that this trolls crave

The best bit
Are you sure you want to add Arcade_Tryer to your ignore list?... Yes Please.
Same for Giacomo McGubbin, mynamejeff

Just hope there is no system limit

timthumbni · 03-09-2016 12:24PM

YFlyer wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

I didn't make the original comment and I'm from Londonderry (the county) so stop being so precious...

Derry.

Oooffffffff. Shots fired. (Nothing unusual for doire though....,,)

maudgonner · 03-09-2016 12:35PM

timthumbni wrote: »

Oooffffffff. Shots fired. (Nothing unusual for doire though....,,)

Don't you mean Londaindoire? :pac::D:D

O'Donovan brothers humour do ya get it?

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