Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

RabbleRouser2k · 11-09-2018 12:06am

Noel Fielding is harmless, really. Totally harmless.

But I just don't like him. It's bizarre.

the purple tin · 11-09-2018 12:12am

Jo Wiley
Fern Cotton
Davina McCall
Zoe Ball
Carol McGiffin from loose women

jippo nolan · 11-09-2018 9:38am

the purple tin wrote: »

Jo Wiley
Fern Cotton
Davina McCall
Zoe Ball
Carol McGiffin from loose women

All the Ferns!

the purple tin · 11-09-2018 9:48am

jippo nolan wrote: »

All the Ferns!

Are ther any nice ones?
For some reasons I've never met a Paul that I liked. Jasons as well.

PlaneSpeeking · 11-09-2018 10:08am

Fans of Rafa Nadal.

He's a f**king pox too but his fans, Jesus - let's just hope no other tennis players have bunnies - that bugger is in the pot.

PlaneSpeeking · 11-09-2018 10:08am

the purple tin wrote: »

Are ther any nice ones?
For some reasons I've never met a Paul that I liked. Jasons as well.

Ah yer one out of Friday Thirteenth was better than most ?

Amalgam · 11-09-2018 12:08pm

I loathe presidential candidate, Sean Gallagher. I don't really know why.*

(*I probably do.. but libel etc..)

My brain goes into a state, like Frank Grimes, flailing his little arms, at the sight of him.

Just why.. would you want him as a president, what has he got to say, about anything.

F_ck off.

RabbleRouser2k · 11-09-2018 12:49pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Are ther any nice ones?
For some reasons I've never met a Paul that I liked. Jasons as well.

Fern Brady's kinda cute. A Scottish comedienne in case you don't know her.

mistersifter · 11-09-2018 1:17pm

Amalgam wrote: »

I loathe presidential candidate, Sean Gallagher. I don't really know why.*

(*I probably do.. but libel etc..)

My brain goes into a state, like Frank Grimes, flailing his little arms, at the sight of him.

Just why.. would you want him as a president, what has he got to say, about anything.

F_ck off.

don't think I've ever been able to identify with a boards post more than this one. Nail on the head!!!!

mbradso2003 · 11-09-2018 1:21pm

George Lee. Sure i'll try politics for a year and head back to RTE if it doesn't work out

ERG89 · 11-09-2018 1:24pm

The people who go to snooker and say "Come on Ronnie" at Ronnie O'Sullivan after he makes a pot. I'd say the only one who hates them more is Ronnie himself.

alaimacerc · 11-09-2018 3:53pm

Amalgam wrote: »

I loathe presidential candidate, Sean Gallagher. I don't really know why.*

(*I probably do.. but libel etc..)

My brain goes into a state, like Frank Grimes, flailing his little arms, at the sight of him.

Just why.. would you want him as a president, what has he got to say, about anything.

F_ck off.

I think precisely because he's so little to say. Management-consultant-speak from the Border Region.

He's a "dragon", so appeals to the centre-right crony capitalist vote. But "does a lot for charidee", so deniably so.

He's from the FF gene pool, so appeals to that segment of the electorate... but isn't "official", so again, entirely deniable.

He's "himself off the telly", but it's not quite Love Island, so his being effectively the gameshow candidate is again, vaguely deniable. Worked for Trump, right?

It was an odd enough phenomenon the first time out. Have to keep pinching myself that it's really actually happening again.

RabbleRouser2k · 11-09-2018 4:02pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

I think precisely because he's so little to say. Management-consultant-speak from the Border Region.

He's a "dragon", so appeals to the centre-right crony capitalist vote. But "does a lot for charidee", so deniably so.

He's from the FF gene pool, so appeals to that segment of the electorate... but isn't "official", so again, entirely deniable.

He's "himself off the telly", but it's not quite Love Island, so his being effectively the gameshow candidate is again, vaguely deniable. Worked for Trump, right?

It was an odd enough phenomenon the first time out. Have to keep pinching myself that it's really actually happening again.

Also a reality TV contestant-he 'won' that Charity boxing thing RTE did years ago (that was a load of sh!te). I say 'won' because those who could actually box were asked to leave because 'they were too good'.

Plus it was absolutely terrible.

blingrhino · 11-09-2018 4:04pm

Roy Keane- but i can understand it !

PlaneSpeeking · 11-09-2018 4:14pm

blingrhino wrote: »

Roy Keane- but i can understand it !

We're going for Saipan II here - already had a mate go "you like that ***er don't you ?....."

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-09-2018 4:15pm

ERG89 wrote: »

The people who go to snooker and say "Come on Ronnie" at Ronnie O'Sullivan after he makes a pot. I'd say the only one who hates them more is Ronnie himself.

He seems to attract a certain rough London element.

Probably a holdover from the life his Dad led.

Gwynplaine · 11-09-2018 4:29pm

Nicky Button, Ray D'Arcy

mistersifter · 11-09-2018 10:26pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

I think precisely because he's so little to say. Management-consultant-speak from the Border Region.

this is it for me. The management-consultantese. Look at how good of an orator , how well-read and cultured Higgins comes across when he represents Ireland.
Would be an awful shame to replace this with mind-numbing corporate cliches (theres enough of that in the Dail)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AnoCNarQQ

iamwhoiam · 15-09-2018 9:26am

Ruth Negga . Never happy .

alaimacerc · 15-09-2018 11:05am

mistersifter wrote: »

Would be an awful shame to replace this with mind-numbing corporate cliches (theres enough of that in the Dail)

Or pretty much every post-match Gaa interview, these days!

mistersifter · 15-09-2018 12:22pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

Or pretty much every post-match Gaa interview, these days!

exactly. Rugby isn't much better in that respect. It has infected almost every inch of Irish society. I can't even have a regular informal conversation with some people I know these days without them coming out with meaningless corpo jargon! It would be great if we could at least keep it out of Aras :pac:

alaimacerc · 15-09-2018 1:44pm

mistersifter wrote: »

exactly. Rugby isn't much better in that respect.

Possibly worse. I'm just less sensitised to that because the rugby-playing classes are the ones you expect to be chattering away in management-speak anyway.

trashcan · 15-09-2018 7:00pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

I think precisely because he's so little to say. Management-consultant-speak from the Border Region.

He's a "dragon", so appeals to the centre-right crony capitalist vote. But "does a lot for charidee", so deniably so.

He's from the FF gene pool, so appeals to that segment of the electorate... but isn't "official", so again, entirely deniable.

He's "himself off the telly", but it's not quite Love Island, so his being effectively the gameshow candidate is again, vaguely deniable. Worked for Trump, right?

It was an odd enough phenomenon the first time out. Have to keep pinching myself that it's really actually happening again.

What's worse is that he genuinely seems to feel that he was cheated out of his birthright or some such last time around, and is here to "put it right" this time. Also hate that there are now, what, three of them ? From that programme running now. F&#% off the lot of ye.

alaimacerc · 15-09-2018 7:11pm

trashcan wrote: »

What's worse is that he genuinely seems to feel that he was cheated out of his birthright or some such last time around, and is here to "put it right" this time. Also hate that there are now, what, three of them ? From that programme running now. F&#% off the lot of ye.

Peter Casey is notionally going for it too, but AFAIK has no nominations, and no prospects of any nomination.

To paraphrase the old song:

He's running now... but he won't be running long.

I concur with your general thoughts. The very people cheering on SG right now will be the first to be so-very-disgusted when some gameshow candidacy that doesn't fit their political prejudices so well happens along.

15-09-2018 8:28pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

Peter Casey is notionally going for it too, but AFAIK has no nominations, and no prospects of any nomination.

I feel a bit sorry for Peter Casey, tbh.

He's a terrible choice for candidacy, to be sure to be sure, but is he any worse than the other Dragons?

At least he has previously run for the Seanad, unlike the other two self-publicists.

alaimacerc · 15-09-2018 8:48pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

He's a terrible choice for candidacy, to be sure to be sure, but is he any worse than the other Dragons?

Not sure. I'm still struggling with very mixed feelings about their numerosity. Would three of them have formed an unstoppable flying wedge? Like the fabled PD "run three, get one" election strategy that worked... ...once, ever? Or would it have been so risible, it'd have sobered almost everyone up enough to vote for a slightly more credible candidate, instead?

littelady · 15-09-2018 9:00pm

Brian ormond

15-09-2018 9:03pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

Not sure. I'm still struggling with very mixed feelings about their numerosity. Would three of them have formed an unstoppable flying wedge? Like the fabled PD "run three, get one" election strategy that worked... ...once, ever? Or would it have been so risible, it'd have sobered almost everyone up enough to vote for a slightly more credible candidate, instead?

I'd have assumed that the Dragons (hate calling them that, makes them sound far more exciting than they are) were hyper-competitive towards one another. But you're right, this does strongly resemble that old 'sweeper' strategy, where minor candidates sweep up support for the Big baldy Cheese.

Quoth Ray D'arcy, if that fcuker wins, I'm emigrating.

The Lost Sheep · 15-09-2018 10:10pm

mistersifter wrote: »

exactly. Rugby isn't much better in that respect. It has infected almost every inch of Irish society. I can't even have a regular informal conversation with some people I know these days without them coming out with meaningless corpo jargon! It would be great if we could at least keep it out of Aras :pac:

Infected? Rugby was always popular just since 1999/2000 the provinces have started playing more often and more importantly the provinces and national side have actually won some things.

alaimacerc wrote: »

Possibly worse. I'm just less sensitised to that because the rugby-playing classes are the ones you expect to be chattering away in management-speak anyway.

Rugby playing classes? So people from every class and group in society then?

harry Bailey esq · 15-09-2018 11:46pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Is there anyone out there that you just don't like and you just can't explain it? Someone who you just can't stand but they've never really done anything to make you feel that way.

For example, I have an irrational dislike of Emma Watson. I've never really seen any of her films or interviews but if I look something up and she's in it, I'm subconsciously voting against it. When she showed up in This Is The End I sighed and I'm not quite sure why. Can't explain it. Feel similarly towards Anne Hathaway.

Who's yours?

I don't like some like IPS of a certain age. Fresh into the jail. Takes them a while to understand the dynamics of the place.. I know that's what gig you're at, but would you probably agree with me that they are more than a hinder than help for at least a few months

Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

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