nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

People you respect

A Battered Mars Bar

Johnny Vegas.

Fat f*ck. You have to Google him everytime you think of him to see if he's dead yet. Drinks, smokes and has the bants. Doesn't give a sh*t and he's dead right.

Total inspiration.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

dar100

Absolutely fukin no one

MadDog76

Ron Jeremy

Dr Crayfish

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Johnny Vegas.

Fat f*ck. You have to Google him everytime you think of him to see if he's dead yet. Drinks, smokes and has the bants. Doesn't give a sh*t and he's dead right.

Total inspiration.

Can't look at him without feeling queasy. He is just gross. I saw him once in Bowes, he's a lot smaller than you'd think, just a load of fat on a tiny frame. He looks like he was melted down and poured generously into his clothes. His wife is a total ar*ehole as well. Maia Dunphy. Imagine having Johnny Vegas getting up on you every night, ewwwww.

padd b1975

Brother Kevin and everyone involved with The Capuchin Day Centre.

The quite manner of how he and his volunteers have gone about their business really shows up the grandstanding of Ogle and his gullible hangers on for what it is.

FTA69

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Can't look at him without feeling queasy. He is just gross. I saw him once in Bowes, he's a lot smaller than you'd think, just a load of fat on a tiny frame. He looks like he was melted down and poured generously into his clothes. His wife is a total ar*ehole as well. Maia Dunphy. Imagine having Johnny Vegas getting up on you every night, ewwwww.

I was having a pint once in London and in walked Johnny Vegas; I was sitting at the bar and asked him did he enjoy Cork etc. Next thing I know he came back with a stool and we ended up on the rip roaring p*ss until 4am.

I never liked his standup but in person he's the funniest man you'd ever meet. He's actually sound as a pound.

milehip

FTA69 wrote: »

I was having a pint once in London and in walked Johnny Vegas; I was sitting at the bar and asked him did he enjoy Cork etc. Next thing I know he came back with a stool and we ended up on the rip roaring p*ss until 4am.

I never liked his standup but in person he's the funniest man you'd ever meet. He's actually sound as a pound.

Cool story Brah!!!

Actually it is for once, If say he'd be great company on the sauce.

take everything

I respect few people really.
Most people are assholes and/or morons if you scratch deep enough.

Anyway, few and far between in Ireland:
Off the top of my head:
Father Peter McVerry.
Adi Roche.
Edit: Another vote for Brother Kevin from the Capuchins.
Trying to think who from the world of celebrity:
Someone like Stewart Lee maybe- very intellectually honest and decent.
Edit: Another vote for Sam Harris: again intellectual honesty in spades.

Fleawuss

One fewer now : TK Whitaker.

dr.fuzzenstein

Parchment wrote: »

Ernest Shackleton - put the lives of his men before his own ego.

Amazing guy. And Tom Crean.

[Deleted User]

John Hume. Enormously. Too many reasons. A giant of modern Irish political life. He understood power better than anybody else in Ireland and how little of it his community had. He worked ceaselessly to advance their power by making alliances with far more powerful people in the US and Dublin. He touched all the right pc points that the political game requires - equality, power sharing, peace, non-violence. He was very hard to demonise, even though the consequence of equality etc is of course a decline in unionist power.

While the mob in Independent Newspapers attacked him Sunday after Sunday in the early 90s for talking to Gerry Adams he followed his judgement and kept reassuring his key supporters that he would be proven correct. He was. He risked his life's work on that judgement.

More than anybody else Hume's influence in shaping the GFA, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and, I would argue, Sunningdale is extraordinary.

MRnotlob606

Rick Harrison, because he never really knows thats going to come through those doors

lulu1

Michael J Fox so brave for facing the media in raising awareness for parkinson's

arayess

big hero of mine of matt o'connor the founder of fathers4justice.
for years he was mocked and ridiculed for his antics but kept on going.

[Deleted User]

My Mam and Dad.
As has already been mentioned John Hume. He dedicated his life to bringing peace where deep divisions existed and unfortunately still do.
Aung San Suu Kii.
The White Helmets in Syria.
Christopher Hitchens.
Medicin Sans Fontiere.
Father Kevin.

People who are brave enough to paddle their own canoe. Fearless in putting their heads above the parapet.

Most especially though it is the ordinary people who battle everyday. Those with a terminal or life long illness where the easy option would be to give up. I'm faced with people's pain on a regular basis. They keep going putting one foot in front of the other. The human spirit is incredible and I have nothing but respect for it

Spanish Eyes

A+E staff.

They put up with such shyte every day, yet will never show how frustrated they feel.

Legends.

sbsquarepants

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Can't look at him without feeling queasy. He is just gross. I saw him once in Bowes, he's a lot smaller than you'd think, just a load of fat on a tiny frame. He looks like he was melted down and poured generously into his clothes. His wife is a total ar*ehole as well. Maia Dunphy. Imagine having Johnny Vegas getting up on you every night, ewwwww.

I always mix her up with Lucy Kennedy, it's like they were separated at birth!

I like Johnny - not so much as I'd like him to get up on me every night, or in fact any night, but I would imagine he's good craic to have a scoop with.

Dexter Bip

MadDog76 wrote: »

Ron Jeremy

A great role model. Not that I've seen any of his work &#55357;&#56839;

Dexter Bip

Two people
Tony Connolly the Europe correspondent on RTE.
Read his book - Don't mention the wars. And was totally impressed by his knowledge and experience. You don't see it on the bulletins.

Actor James Stewart
Always thought he was just another 1940 to 1960s Hollywood actor. Rear window etc. Turns out he was a senior ranking military figure in WWII and Vietnam. Led air raids over Germany etc. Saw him as one of the people interviewed on the World at War documentary from the early 70's
Not Praising war but iT surprised me.

maryishere

Margaret Thatcher. Rose from humble beginnings (her father was a grocer) to become a research chemist before becoming a barrister...then becoming UK Prime Minister in a male dominated world, and winning 3 elections, increasing UK gdp, taking on and beating Argentinian aggression (who disappeared people in their own country), Libya (see how Ghadaffi finished up), helping to defeat (with the UK's special friend, the USA), the eastern block in the Cold war etc.

Goya

maryishere wrote: »

taking on and beating Argentinian aggression (who disappeared people in their own country)

Was there Argentine aggression of concern towards Britain? And the same was going on in Chile yet she was actually friendly with that country's dictator.

maryishere

Flimpson wrote: »

Was there Argentine aggression of concern towards Britain?

Towards people who considered themselves British / whose allegiance was to the UK : yes - the residents of the Falkland islands.

Flimpson wrote: »

And the same was going on in Chile yet she was actually friendly with that country's dictator.

Indeed without Chiles co-operation and help, it may have lost the war.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/10947350/Without-Chiles-help-we-would-have-lost-the-Falklands.html

Leaving aside her politics, you have to admire Thatchers drive, her determination and bravery.

Goya

maryishere wrote: »

Towards people who considered themselves British / whose allegiance was to the UK : yes - the residents of the Falkland islands.

Indeed without Chiles co-operation and help, it may have lost the war.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/10947350/Without-Chiles-help-we-would-have-lost-the-Falklands.html

Leaving aside her politics, you have to admire Thatchers drive, her determination and bravery.

There are things I admire about her but it's downright ludicrous of her (and you) to criticise one dictator disappearing people yet for her to be buddies with another.

dresden8

Deleted User wrote: »

John Hume. Enormously. Too many reasons. A giant of modern Irish political life. He understood power better than anybody else in Ireland and how little of it his community had. He worked ceaselessly to advance their power by making alliances with far more powerful people in the US and Dublin. He touched all the right pc points that the political game requires - equality, power sharing, peace, non-violence. He was very hard to demonise, even though the consequence of equality etc is of course a decline in unionist power.

While the mob in Independent Newspapers attacked him Sunday after Sunday in the early 90s for talking to Gerry Adams he followed his judgement and kept reassuring his key supporters that he would be proven correct. He was. He risked his life's work on that judgement.

More than anybody else Hume's influence in shaping the GFA, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and, I would argue, Sunningdale is extraordinary.

And he had huge hands look at the size of them.

But seriously, Hume, Adams, McGuinness, Ervine, Trimble. Every one of them could have gotten a bullet for what they did.

And more that I'd never think of until I'm reminded.

Edit: Reynolds and Major. They did the hard lifting when it was impossible to do so. The mass murderer Blair and the "won it on the horses" gambler Bertie came in at the end to claim the spoils.

Clonmel1000

gitzy16v wrote: »

Married an Irish girl too

So?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

John Connors

Wanderer78

maryishere wrote:

Margaret Thatcher. Rose from humble beginnings (her father was a grocer) to become a research chemist before becoming a barrister...then becoming UK Prime Minister in a male dominated world, and winning 3 elections, increasing UK gdp, taking on and beating Argentinian aggression (who disappeared people in their own country), Libya (see how Ghadaffi finished up), helping to defeat (with the UK's special friend, the USA), the eastern block in the Cold war etc.

Dreadful person, between Reagan and herself for almost single handily globalizing neoliberal values. The world truly didn't need either of these people.

Noam Chomsky gets my vote

gitzy16v

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

So?

Good taste

mansize

Angela Merkel after Gove/Trump shyte today times a million

The Backwards Man

John Hume for me, and his wife Pat too for her commitment to his dignity.

Not even a Nobel Prize is enough testament for the sacrifice that man made for this island.

andekwarhola

Definitely agree with John Hume. A brave man that always retained his principles in the inferno of the troubles. So sad to hear of his recent dementia.