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RocketRaccoon

Just stemming from a post in the McGregor thread. Is it just a matter of time until the above song is edited as it is now offensive? I know ronan keating covered it a few years ago and changed the word.

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jacksie66

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optogirl

I doubt it because the people in this song are characters.

kunst nugget

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Is that because of the word ******?

I'd imagine it's because it has become the seemingly only acceptable Christmas song for our radio stations because of its tenuous, national soccer team like, Irish connection so it ends up being played every hour on the hour for the month of December (and half of November) with an obligatory 'Ah, isn't that great to hear again…' sigh of contentment from whatever prick is just after playing it. It reaches Guantanamo Bay levels of repetitive noise torture.

It's up there with that fooking Barry's Tea 'Well, doesn't that beat Banagher' ad.

Outlaw Pete

I'm suing you for starting a thread based on one of my posts. Plagiarist!

elperello

kunst nugget wrote: »

I'd imagine it's because it has become the seemingly only acceptable Christmas song for our radio stations because of its tenuous, national soccer team like, Irish connection so it ends up being played every hour on the hour for the month of December (and half of November) with an obligatory 'Ah, isn't that great to hear again…' sigh of contentment from whatever prick is just after playing it. It reaches Guantanamo Bay levels of repetitive noise torture.

It's up there with that fooking Barry's Tea 'Well, doesn't that beat Banagher' ad.

Banagher is a grand place.

sligojoek

The BBC censored it back in the naughties. They reversed the decision after the Pogues gay guitarist Philip Chevron said it wasn't offensive to him or other gays

Wheety

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They should of banned Ronan Keating from singing that song outright....

*should have

RobbingBandit

Happy holidays.

elperello

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fag1.htm

seamus

And you're a bum, you're a punk. You're an aul hoor on junk.

Lying der on de drip, nearly dead in de bed....

Ye scumbag, ye maggot. Ye cheap, lousy ******. Happy Christmas me arse, oh I'd rather be dead.

And de buys from de enn-why-pee-dee choir were singin'. Galway Baayy.....

The_Valeyard

jacksie66 wrote: »

I don't see how these cause offence..

Well,

Put them standing up, add an axe to the middle and you have Fascist Italy.

The_Valeyard

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Louise O Neill was complaining about that last year saying it promoted rape. I'm sure she'll find something new to get offended about this Christmas.

Santas use of the words 'Ho, Ho, Ho'

Puts women down.

server down

We need something rhyming with maggot which is offensive. Let me suggest craggot.

Definition. As if someone is from craggy island (see Fr Jack) . Synonym: Stupid. Alcoholic. Dumb. Drunken Irishman (offensive). More often than not used for drunken Irishmen in a drunk tank, partic. on Christmas Eve.

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anna080 wrote: »

I hate this song with an inherent passion. It literally fills me with rage.

I hate it too but what I hate more is the fact that everyone else seems to love it.

Cordell

Listening to it at the moment. Great tune.
Lights already up in Limerick.
I've had my first mince pie 2 weeks ago.
Just 7 weeks until Christmas!!!!

Permabear

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valoren

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They should of banned Ronan Keating from singing that song outright....

I remember Bill Bailey on QI saying the someone posted a comment on youtube of the video for this that said "This is the worst thing that has ever happened". :pac:

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Permabear wrote: »

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Your beloved America is leading the way on modern de facto censorship. And of course, it banned books in its day.

topper75

The NYPD choir.

No such thing lads!!!! I mean absolutely never existed - like ever. Much less sang Galway Bay.

I know. I've ruined Christmas for all the children out there, progressive and otherwise.

Cordell

I know that they were some sort of amateur march band playing something else and they slowed down the footage to match the expected tempo. But they were NYPD. Right?

Permabear

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seamus

Cordell wrote: »

I know that they were some sort of amateur march band playing something else and they slowed down the footage to match the expected tempo. But they were NYPD. Right?

Yeah, apparently the NYPD have or had an Irish pipe band but not a choir.

I doubt MacGowan gave it much research and just stuck "NYPD choir" in the lyrics because it fit the tempo.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Was it used back in the day as a homophobic slur in the UK and Ireland though?

I thought that Americans were the ones who attached the gay connotations to the word.

WoollyRedHat

valoren wrote: »

I remember Bill Bailey on QI saying the someone posted a comment on youtube of the video for this that said "This is the worst thing that has ever happened". :pac:

I want to meet the person who o.k'd the cover and throw eggnog in his face.

danganabu

kunst nugget wrote: »

I'd imagine it's because it has become the seemingly only acceptable Christmas song for our radio stations because of its tenuous, national soccer team like, Irish connection.

Why is its Irish connection tenuous?

Cordell wrote: »

I know that they were some sort of amateur march band playing something else and they slowed down the footage to match the expected tempo. But they were NYPD. Right?

Correct they were the NYPD Pipe Band and they didn't know Galway Bay so they played the Mickey Mouse Club March instead and apparently were all very intoxicated when recording it, fittingly enough I guess.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Fixed your post.

You didn't fix it properly... :pac:

Beanntraigheach

Is this classic of English cuisine next to be banned? -

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Permabear wrote: »

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Well if the poet Robert Graves said it, it must be true. Look, we had laws on censorship like many other countries, unlike other countries we didnt really enforce them. If you wanted your sales to go up, get banned.

Like it or not, the United States has the most robust freedom of speech protections in the world. Ireland, with its anemic constitutional protection for free speech, does not come close.

You might want to have a word with Senator Feinstein who is warning FaceBook and Twitter that they must clean up their act on Russian interference ( read stuff what she doesn't like). In fact a lot of control in the US is via the private sector, the news organisations, the media, the universities and hollywood. You can say what you want but nobody is going to hear you as you are de-platformed. The internet is under threat there as nowhere else in the democratic world.

Permabear

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Atoms for Peace

anna080 wrote: »

I hate this song with an inherent passion. It literally fills me with rage.

Muhahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxpq5V7rjA