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Isn't multiculturalism great...

[Deleted User]

...today I brought my daughter to the playground to meet Slovakian friends with their kids. Also met my cousin and his African partner and their little daughter. After that, I went to my Turkish Muslim barber and to her delight he produced a lollipop.

And I thought, she'll grow up experiencing diversity and cultures that I could only dream of when I was a child in white Catholic Ireland in the late '70s and '80s. And it felt good.

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punisher5112

marcus001 wrote: »

Wow you've made them out to be real model citizens.

Some seem to think the sun shines outa their arses.

Spider Web

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Muslims are people's pet hates at the moment. 15 or 20 years ago it was the Polish, till we saw the fine ladies they brought with them. It takes awhile for people to actually meet some Muslim people. Not just see them out the car Windows but actually meet them. When they do they'll realize that they are not monsters. Of course this would happen faster if more Muslims went to the pub

I have never known anyone to be hate filled towards Polish people - and wouldn't want to know anyone who is vapid enough to hate them and then suddenly like them because a lot of Polish women are very attractive.

It's dishonest to say Muslims are people's pet hate at the moment and to compare this to a (largely imagined I'm guessing) hatred of Polish people, as of animosity towards Islam comes from nowhere.
I really don't wish for peaceful muslims - just ordinary people - to be facing hostility, but concern about the significant threat from the extremists who practise islam is just not unreasonable. No matter how much people twist it and whatabout.

[Deleted User]

JimmyMcGill wrote: »

He's close on a troll, might be a gentleman.

I'd say he doesn't get out much, just needs friends sometimes.

Baiting is his game. Pity, he's obviously intellectual.

Nothing says bitter as much as the ad hominem post.

Had a very enjoyable day. Sorry if that annoys you. But deal with the points I made, not me.

Donal55

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The motivation was that I had a good day with my daughter, with people from different backgrounds and different cultures, something that I didn't experience in the 1970s.

Thought the OP set that out. Should I rephrase it? If so, how?

You only met them all today.
You should get out more often.

punisher5112

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The motivation was that I had a good day with my daughter, with people from different backgrounds and different cultures, something that I didn't experience in the 1970s.

Thought the OP set that out. Should I rephrase it? If so, how?

70s there was a mix its just not as much now.

Difference now is cheap air travel and our excellent welfare/healthcare services which attracted many non workers and the economic migrants.

I'm all for diversity but I have one big issue and that's those that come to abuse our system and our hospitality.

Barry Badrinath

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The motivation was that I had a good day with my daughter, with people from different backgrounds and different cultures, something that I didn't experience in the 1970s.

Thought the OP set that out. Should I rephrase it? If so, how?

You set it out alright...but not the innocent way you would like us to believe.

We know what you are at.

punisher5112

White lives matter much??¿

JimmyMcGill

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Nothing says bitter as much as the ad hominem post.

Had a very enjoyable day. Sorry if that annoys you. But deal with the points I made, not me.

I'm not annoyed at all, carpe diem.
Hide behind the rules all you want, as another poster said, you showed your colours tonight.

On a serious note, does your daughter understand you?

99nsr125

Irish people are not pleasant
Never have been
Think of a classic Irish stereotype
It's a stereotype for a reason

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

If anything the opening post is a load of patronizing nonsense and is exactly the type of ****e that pisses people off about supposed "diversity". Praising someone who happens to be different for doing nothing more than the average born and raised irishman would do i.e be pleasant.

tomwaterford

marcus001 wrote: »

Wow you've made them out to be real model citizens.

My point being that someone who doesn't do drugs /drink much....they'd most likely fit in better in Ireland than me

Except they not liked hurling....fcuking weirdos

LaChatteGitane

Autochange wrote: »

Love multiculturalism? how about take the wife and kids on a trip to beautiful Molenbeek In Belgium.
Immerse yourself in the riots while you explore ghettoized neighborhoods. And if you are lucky you may even run into some radicalized jihadist groups and hear them tell tales about raging suicide attacks on innocent Europeans as seen recently in France, Britain, Spain and Italy.

Fantastic

Have you been to Molenbeek ?

smurgen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Presume he gets banned because he spits vitriol with every rereg.

It's hardly admirable either way. But his determination to keep crawling back in is delightful.

Your passive aggressive posts are as blatant as his out and out aggression.i'd bet you had a great day to start and then something went wrong.you came to wind people up as a cheap attemp to feel better.anyway,hope ya feel better !:)

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

Wins would have been in the corner, getting sick...:)

"Wins"? Spellcheck error, or Freudian slip, or acknowledgement of what's going on barely under the surface. *Big Brother voiceover*; you decide.

Autochange

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

Have you been to Molenbeek ?

Have you?

yenom

Meh, it's grand, you just wouldn't want it to turn out like Seven Kings in London.

JimmyMcGill

Wibbs wrote: »

"Wins"? Spellcheck error, or Freudian slip, or acknowledgement of what's going on barely under the surface. *Big Brother voiceover*; you decide.

I'd opt for the third. A modern day Peig.

LaChatteGitane

Autochange wrote: »

Have you?

Err..Yes. I am from Belgium.

Autochange

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

Err..Yes. I am from Belgium.

I i bring the wife and kids will you give us the tour?

[Deleted User]

marcus001 wrote:

Or if they took those black sacks off their women.

I'm not keen on those either

Spider Web wrote:

I have never known anyone to be hate filled towards Polish people - and wouldn't want to know anyone who is vapid enough to hate them and then suddenly like them because a lot of Polish women are very attractive.

Spider Web wrote:

It's dishonest to say Muslims are people's pet hate at the moment and to compare this to a (largely imagined I'm guessing) hatred of Polish people, as of animosity towards Islam comes from nowhere. I really don't wish for peaceful muslims - just ordinary people - to be facing hostility, but concern about the significant threat from the extremists who practise islam is just not unreasonable. No matter how much people twist it and whatabout.

There was a lot hatred towards Polish people in Dublin when they first arrived. Reference to their pretty ladies was my attempt to say light hearted that they weren't as bad as we feared and we got used to them.
The whole Muslim thing I find very weird. Some Irish people have very short memories. Around the time I the English pub bombings we were outraged at the thought of British police and customs thinking that we were all terrorists. George Hook is in the bad books today but there was another comment from him that no one picked up on. He suggested that getting rid of Islam would get rid of terrorism. It shows how narrow minded he really is

JimmyMcGill

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I'm not keen on those either

There was a lot hatred towards Polish people in Dublin when they first arrived. Reference to their pretty ladies was my attempt to say light hearted that they weren't as bad as we feared and we got used to them.
The whole Muslim thing I find very weird. Some Irish people have very short memories. Around the time I the English pub bombings we were outraged at the thought of British police and customs thinking that we were all terrorists. George Hook is in the bad books today but there was another comment from him that no one picked up on. He suggested that getting rid of Islam would get rid of terrorism. It shows how narrow minded he really is

Or how conditioned they want us to be.

Spider Web

99nsr125 wrote: »

Irish people are not pleasant
Never have been
Think of a classic Irish stereotype
It's a stereotype for a reason

No Irish person ever has been or is pleasant.

Come on, think stuff through before blurting.

What nationality are you?

LaChatteGitane

Autochange wrote: »

I i bring the wife and kids will you give us the tour?

It is perfectly safe for you to wander through without any guidance. It is a pleasant part of Brussels, whatever you might have read in miss-informed( or should that be miss-informing) tabloids.

[Deleted User]

Wibbs wrote: »

"Wins"? Spellcheck error, or Freudian slip, or acknowledgement of what's going on barely under the surface. *Big Brother voiceover*; you decide.

Was meant to be "Wibbs".

It'll be as analysed as my emoticon in an earlier post! The simple message is I had a great day with my daughter in an environment and with people that I would not have met when I was a child. This seems to annoy you and others.

[Deleted User]

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

You set it out alright...but not the innocent way you would like us to believe.

We know what you are at.

Do you now? Is that the royal "we"? One appreciates it.

gitzy16v

Deleted User wrote: »

Was meant to be "Wibbs".

It'll be as analysed as my emoticon in an earlier post! The simple message is I had a great day with my daughter in an environment and with people that I would not have met when I was a child. This seems to annoy you and others.

Im not sure it annoys people as much as you'd like it too.

ThisRegard

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Muslims are people's pet hates at the moment. 15 or 20 years ago it was the Polish, till we saw the fine ladies they brought with them.

That, and the fact they lost their appetite for our swans.

spoonerhead wrote: »

Mainly because religion is cancer.

I was sure the lyrics were "I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer", but I may be mistaken as the early 90s were a long and fuzzy time ago.

JimmyMcGill

ThisRegard wrote: »

That, and the fact they lost their appetite for our swans.

You saying swans aren't as tasty as they used be

#imnotatastyswanpleasedontroastme#

Sweetemotion

Deleted User wrote: »

Was meant to be "Wibbs".

It'll be as analysed as my emoticon in an earlier post! The simple message is I had a great day with my daughter in an environment and with people that I would not have met when I was a child. This seems to annoy you and others.

There we go.:rolleyes:

Sweetemotion

Are you back drinking again Conor?

Mutant z

If it means importing far more people with an incompatible culture to ours making any kind of integration impossible and different groups forming their own separate communities in the cities creating ghettoisation in the neighbourhoods, women completely covered head to toe, welfare tourism, islamic extremism and terrorism not to mention illegal immigration than no multiculturalism is anything but good, its disgraceful the way we are forced to take in all these refugees when right beside them there's countries with the same religion and culture as them who refuse to take any, instead us being the big soft touch we are open the gates to those with an incompatible way of life it's a bloody joke.