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I've just turned off the radio in absolute anger

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Dj Ciara Kelly was one of them.

    :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    Donal55 wrote: »
    Dj Ciara Kelly was one of them.

    :P

    shock horror


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    The Neediness of the travelling Irish football fans with their attention-seeking tripe is mortifying, I must say... just once, I wish once of em would throw a wheelie bin through a shop window or something.

    That being said - the woman in the video didn't give a f*ck. The woman on the radio has an agenda and will shout it at the top of her voice at every given opportunity.

    Like videos of Irish football fan eejitry, she's best ignored...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    The Neediness of the travelling Irish football fans with their attention-seeking tripe is mortifying, I must say... just once, I wish once of em would throw a wheelie bin through a shop window or something.

    That being said - the woman in the video didn't give a f*ck. The woman on the radio has an agenda and will shout it at the top of her voice at every given opportunity.

    Like videos of Irish football fan eejitry, she's best ignored...

    Couldn't agree more.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Look, I don't think this incident is worthy of outrage. My only objection to it really is that many people are not comfortable with lots of attention being on them, male or female. This lady took it well, but they didn't know beforehand that she would. And it was posted to Youtube. Did she get a say in that? (I have a big problem with people's faces being plastered on other people's social media and places like Youtube without their permission. Maybe she gave permission. But I bet she didn't.)

    Plus, it's a tad juvenile.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    The Neediness of the travelling Irish football fans with their attention-seeking tripe is mortifying, I must say... just once, I wish once of em would throw a wheelie bin through a shop window or something.

    That being said - the woman in the video didn't give a f*ck. The woman on the radio has an agenda and will shout it at the top of her voice at every given opportunity.

    Like videos of Irish football fan eejitry, she's best ignored...

    God be with the days when you could go to away matches, get hammered on the pitch and off it and no one never had any inclination of fixing punctures or helping old ladies with bags etc.

    'The past is a foreign country,.....'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Look, I don't think this incident is worthy of outrage. My only objection to it really is that many people are not comfortable with lots of attention being on them, male or female. This lady took it well, but they didn't know beforehand that she would. And it was posted to Youtube. Did she get a say in that? (I have a big problem with people's faces being plastered on other people's social media and places like Youtube without their permission. Maybe she gave permission. But I bet she didn't.)

    Plus, it's a tad juvenile.

    Exactly, I'm no fan of outrage for outrage's sake but these fans are an embarrassment to the country. It's something I would expect from a group of teenagers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Fun is outlawed now chaps and girls. I'd just kindly like to tell this woman on the radio, this offense seeker, to kindly fcuk the fcuk off.

    Ah it's not but it had the potential to go pear shaped on them, you have to admit. The lady took it well. If a bunch of lads did that in Dublin, the feminazis would be outraged. Elaine on TV3 would run with the story for a week and Leo would have to make a speech in the Dail about it.
    pat ticket wrote: »
    But! Some Ireland fans are right numpties and I cringe at some of their antics such as the above (I'm a LOI and Ireland ST holder)

    Yeah, friend of mine was showing me a thread on the RoI football supporters forum and some of the them didn't cover themselves in glory over there, as reported by other Irish fans.


  • Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say yer one in the video (coming out of the shop) is probably great fun to be around. She seemed to embrace it as the bit of a laugh that it was intended as. She definitely seems confident.


    At the same time.. a bunch of adults (Irish or otherwise) making their way to an Ann Summers in a crowd and cheering people on is all just a bit too embarrassing for me, personally. If they were 8 year old boys fascinated at the thoughts of seeing a bra you might understand. But a swarm of fully grown men... can't help but feel a little sense of desperation and 'look @ d sex lolz' going on there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Barlett wrote: »
    The only downside of potentially qualifying for the World Cup next year in my opinion will be the flooding of the internet of Irish fans looking to outdo each other in the 'look how sound Irish fans are' video stakes.

    I have to admit that I too will absolutely dread this. During the Euros, I actually found these videos difficult to avoid, and I was really trying to avoid them.

    And you know it's just a minority of eejits looking for attention. I have no problem at all with Irish fans having the craic, cutting loose, getting drunk. And many will be family men and women enjoying a well-deserved mini-break. It's just this neediness in a small portion of the fans that lets the side down. Something of the Jester about them.
    At the same time.. a bunch of adults (Irish or otherwise) making their way to an Ann Summers in a crowd and cheering people on is all just a bit too embarrassing for me, personally.

    Apparently the shop is right beside an Irish bar. Because, that completely justifies it. They had to do something, right? :pac:

    LOL, bras and knickers.


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Had to change the channel on my way home from work while they were ****ing on. Then iRadio were on about yet another suicide/mental health hotline. It was a pleasant spin from then. Have to admit I'm impressed just how smooth the modern 1.8 diesel engine actually is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,700 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Forget trees falling in the forest, do the best fans in the world even exist if Joe.ie isn't around to show videos of them shouting "wahay" outside pubs?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Didn't hear much of this outrage from Ciara et al when those German women were assaulted in Cologne and other cities last Christmas by certain religious groups.

    Drunken Irish acting the clown however and its open season here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    But a swarm of fully grown men... can't help but feel a little sense of desperation and 'look @ d sex lolz' going on there.

    There is but it's a window into the mindset of a section of Irish society. One of the most popular and richest, I would think, comedians in this country, Brendan O' Carroll, made his name and career off the back of knickers and bra related gags. There stands his audience. It's infantile, immature but it's harmless, once the recipient doesn't take offence, of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    I suppose the issue is what if she wasn't into it? She didn't get much choice, it just happened.

    Exactly. She really had no choice but to go along with it.

    For me it reminded me of the numerous cringey and uncomfortable moments in my life where you just go along with this type of 'fun' as its just whats expected. Personally, I find nothing unfunnier than this type of lads 'banter' and would have died in that shop before having to walk through that front door. I think I have a pretty good sense of humor but I really fail to see how hilariously fun this is :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭milehip


    elefant wrote: »
    I think most women I know would have been fairly mortified to have a huge group of pissed men shouting at them coming out of shop after buying underwear.

    I'm more mortified, however, for how simple you'd have to be to be a part of the group. Absolute LADS!

    I think any women who would have been mortified by that scenario
    wouldn't have gone within an asses roar of the shop in the first place.

    You're right on how simple 'da lads' are tho.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    panda100 wrote: »
    Exactly. She really had no choice but to go along with it.

    For me it reminded me of the numerous cringey and uncomfortable moments in my life where you just go along with this type of 'fun' as its just whats expected.

    Exactly. As a teenager, that stuff can happen fairly frequently and you go along with it because you don't want to be seen as square. But these are adults.

    Oh my god, I've just plugged my mother into this scenario and thought of how she would react if it was her. She'd be mortified. She'd be really upset actually, I think. She hates attention.

    People have said on-thread that if you wouldn't enjoy this, it signifies a lack of a sense of humour. Hardly. Different people find different things funny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    panda100 wrote: »
    I think I have a pretty good sense of humor but I really fail to see how hilariously fun this is :confused:

    whatever about being there at the time and absolutely pissed (where anything can be hilarious) the comments on social media beat all. jeez some people are embarrasingly easily amused

    Extra points for "I'm from x but I would love the Irish to qualify cos they've the best fans in the world" comments. CRINGE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 310 ✭✭OnDraught


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    The Neediness of the travelling Irish football fans with their attention-seeking tripe is mortifying, I must say... just once, I wish once of em would throw a wheelie bin through a shop window or something.

    There is context to the way the Irish fans behave abroad. In the days leading up to the Euros when the Irish fans were due to travel the English were clashing with the French police, French teenagers, Russian hooligans. So this cringey being extra nice craic is designed to wind up the English. It’s quite funny when you’re there and everybody has their tounge firmly in cheek. It doesn’t carry properly in the videos but that’s what it’s about.

    These saps outside the undies shop are a bit wide of the mark though. Similarly with the lads that think it’s great to sing the Toure song at every black lad that walks by.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    OnDraught wrote: »
    It’s quite funny when you’re there and everybody has their tounge firmly in cheek. It doesn’t carry properly in the videos but that’s what it’s about.

    These saps outside the undies shop are a bit wide of the mark though. Similarly with the lads that think it’s great to sing the Toure song at every black lad that walks by.

    Yeah exactly this!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    milehip wrote: »
    I think any women who would have been mortified by that scenario
    wouldn't have gone within an asses roar of the shop in the first place.

    :confused::confused::confused:

    It's a lingerie shop. Pretty much every woman wears a bra.

    Someone said it's an Ann Summers. It's not, it's just an underwear shop.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    OnDraught wrote: »
    In the days leading up to when the Irish fans were due to travel the English were clashing with the French police, French teenagers, Russian hooligans. So this cringey being extra nice craic is designed to wind up the English. It’s quite funny when you’re there and everybody has their tounge firmly in cheek. It doesn’t carry properly in the videos but that’s what it’s about.

    Sorry, I don't buy it. They are crying out for attention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Clearly nothing to take exception to from a sexist or intimidation angle, but jeez Irish football fans are needy fcukers altogether.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    OnDraught wrote: »
    There is context to the way the Irish fans behave abroad. In the days leading up to the Euros when the Irish fans were due to travel the English were clashing with the French police, French teenagers, Russian hooligans. So this cringey being extra nice craic is designed to wind up the English. It’s quite funny when you’re there and everybody has their tounge firmly in cheek. It doesn’t carry properly in the videos but that’s what it’s about.

    I dunno. Euro 2012 was where it all started with the videos and the "best fans in the world" stuff and I don't recall that there was trouble from English and Russian fans at that tournament. Was there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 310 ✭✭OnDraught


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    I dunno. Euro 2012 was where it all started with the videos and the "best fans in the world" stuff and I don't recall that there was trouble from English and Russian fans at that tournament. Was there?

    The Polish hooligans and police were well able for the English and Russians. There was clashes.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    _Dara_ wrote:
    Someone said it's an Ann Summers. It's not, it's just an underwear shop.


    Victoria's Secrets I think. As you say an underwear shop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Clearly nothing to take exception to from a sexist or intimidation angle

    It's a bit intimidating. Not in a threatening way, but it would very overwhelming to many people to be ambushed like that whilst going about their daily business.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Vela


    It a bit of a craic and I thought it was pretty funny! The amount of people getting their knickers in a twist over a pair of knickers is just as hilarious. A girl I know posted it online, and it only took a few minutes for comments like "I don't get it" to start rolling in.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    I wonder what she thought of the lad sucking a Diddy during the last World Cup?


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