Bishop of hope wrote: » Not in shock horror Faux outrage about it, it's funny yes. I cant see how anybody can be outraged by it frankly and it shows a clear lack of anything else to whinge about or else whinge about everything.It's hardly the same as using the N word or up da ra like, is it?
McMurphy wrote: » Using the movie quote in the same speech Leo mentioned the thousands dead and hundreds of thousands out of work was not the time and the place for it, that doesn't mean I'm "outraged by it" faux or genuine. Time and a place bishop, time and a place.
Mortelaro wrote: » You do appear to have niche opinions, like a lot of the twittersphere Thanks for sharing ,you won't mind if I share my more mainstream one. Nobody gives a sh1te,much less notice the mean girls reference
McMurphy wrote: » Lol. :pac:https://www.google.ie/search?safe=off&sxsrf=ALeKk01e8AwlzMiy3h0DTBClzUvPw_Qixw:1592819597748&source=hp&ei=jX_wXs_TK-Cj1fAP86SfwA8&q=mean+girls+leo+Varadkar&oq=mean+girls+leo+Varadkar&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBADOgcIIxDqAhAnOgcILhAnEJMCOgQIIxAnOgUILhCRAjoFCC4QgwE6BQgAELEDOgUIABCRAjoFCAAQgwE6AggAOgIILjoFCC4QsQM6BggAEBYQHlDpEViJOGClO2gFcAB4AoABkgGIAcALkgEEMjAuMZgBAKABAbABDw&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp
Mortelaro wrote: » LoL is right but I was talking about opinions We know it was reported on Nobody gives a sh1te,twittersphere and your niche outrage excepted
Thanks for sharing ,you won't mind if I share my more mainstream one. Nobody gives a sh1te,much less notice the mean girls reference
McMurphy wrote: » Hate to be the one to have to break this to you, but what you actually said was no one noticed the mean girls quote. From your post. Not much point trying to shift the auld goalposts now Morty, the mean girls quote was noticed by a wide section of various media outlets. You were 100% wrong on that one chief.
FrancieBrady wrote: » What you said, 'that nobody noticed' was either a lie or evidence that you aren't very aware of what is going on in the media you profess to know about.
Mortelaro wrote: » I was of course,not that you're going to pretend you knew, referring to the general public versus the niche twittersphere Boy ye are angry
FrancieBrady wrote: » Not angry enough to handwave away desperately like you have been doing tbh.
smurgen wrote: » The use of smiles is a sure giveaway of anger in my experience. Total passive aggressive. That's when ya know they're pissed.
christy c wrote: » I think its rather childish to include these quotes, a one off would be understandable because the speech writer may have liked the sound of it. But I don't understand why he'd do it repeatedly, maybe it's to generate publicity but I'm not sure how good that tactic is.
Mortelaro wrote: » That doesn't fit in with Vradakar's initial reaction to the result,the willingness to go into opposition Normally it's the people in denial that go on and on and on about how they should be in government when they're only a quarter of the electorate
smurgen wrote: » Christ. Lieo with the verbal diarrhoea once again. He's worse than his good old buddy Trump for the hyperbole.https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1274039765562728454?s=19
FrancieBrady wrote: » Did he get down and funky with the kidz this time? Or did he stick in an auld Heaney quote?
Loafing Oaf wrote: » Did he ever, quoting Mean Girls this time:cool:
McMurphy wrote: » Seems last one was for a fifty euro bet.Leo Varadkar wins bet with Mean Girls quote Not worth being outraged by it, but "in jokes" when making statement's about thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands out of work, isn't the time nor the place to do so. There will be thousands of families with dead relatives who most likely won't get the humour or light hearted banter.
blanch152 wrote: » Some people need to get over themselves. What sort of preciousness do they carry around in real life if they are getting excited by quotes from movies in speeches by the Taoiseach?They really need to get a grip. Would they prefer Johnson or Trump? It is a level of silly pettiness beyond anything seen before. Next they will be complaining about his choice of beer or t-shirt. Pathetic drivel, but we are on boards.
blanch152 wrote: » Who really cares about quoting from Lord of the Rings? Nobody I know in real life, and apart from yourself, Francie and McMurphy, the permanently outraged as I sometimes think of you, nobody on here either. You are also right about the Trump tactic, it sometimes seems that posters on here search the deepest recesses of Twitter to find something critical of Varadkar and drag it out from under its rock as if it means something.
christy c wrote: » No I meant I'm not sure why he'd do it repeatedly as in what was his motivation, €50 hardly seems like much of an incentive. I'd guess it might be the publicity. But yeah I agree, a time and a place and this wasn't it.
blanch152 wrote: » Some people really have nothing left to complain about.
McMurphy wrote: » Not outraged in the slightest bishop, but when you read the tweet, thousands dead hundreds of thousands out of work etc, it's not the time and place for a piss take quote from a chickflick movie. I could imagine you getting your beige y-fronts in a right old twist had Mary Lou McDonald or someone else from the Shinners drop a movie line from the spice girls movie while speaking about the victim's of the troubles. But but but. Coming up.
Bowie wrote: » How well is Varadkar doing when you need to use Trump and Johnson as the 'dem others would be worse'? These comments are akin to elbowing your opponent in the face when you think the ref isn't looking. Anything to try come out on top. While people are dying Varadkar is lifting speech material from Lord of the Rings. This is disrespectful and shows a lack of compassion and integrity. IMO. I could use language you'd understand like, what kind of decent moral person would something something...but I'll not go down that path. Saying commenting on material the political leader of the nation gives in a national address is 'searching the deepest recesses of Twitter to find something critical of Varadkar and drag it out from under its rock', is just not credible. Using bile like 'silly pettiness beyond anything seen before' 'permanently outraged' 'pathetic drivel' proves my earlier point. I see you side stepped the Ireland's call farce and O'Leary admiring fascists again. Where you being permanently outraged when you were rightly critical of Holohan and his comments? But O'Leary never made your outrage o'meter tick?
Bowie wrote: » While people are dying Varadkar is lifting speech material from Lord of the Rings. This is disrespectful and shows a lack of compassion and integrity.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Lot of anger here today. A lot of anger.
blanch152 wrote: » Who should he quote from? Shakespeare? Jesus? the Bible? Dickens? Yeats? Politicians have always used quotes from fictional sources. Your gripe and others seem to be that Varadkar is using more contemporary sources. I will stand over it being "silly pettiness beyond anything seen before" and that it reflects the need of some posters to be "permanently outraged". Sad and pathetic.
blanch152 wrote: » This is beyond silly. What is the problem with the actual words? "Some have asked whether there is a limit to what we can achieve," Mr Varadkar said, before drawing upon a line from the hit movie: "My answer is that the limit does not exist." What is the actual issue? If there are y-fronts getting in a twist, I suggest that some people look in the mirror.
McMurphy wrote: » Tell me blanch, I dont think i ever heard your opinion on Eamon Ryan using the "N" word. I know you claimed the bearded one was a racist for using it, so I'd sure be interested on your opinion on Mr Ryan using it. As a green voter yourself, did you think it made Eamon a racist like you believed Adams was, and if so would you be ok with him going into Govt with FG?
Bowie wrote: » He should speak from the heart. Be a bit genuine. He could easily say, 'To quote...'. He lacks empathy and integrity. He could just have easily had his fun in some minor press release. Look if you are claiming 'what of it?' Fair play just don't insult the both of us by trying to dismiss it as an irrelevance or demean anyone critical of it. You lads really need to respect differing opinions without using the insults. Seems to me you had the complete opposite response to the Wolfe Tones 'come out you black and tans' becoming a hit over Flanagan's RIC/Tan tribute. Like your Holohan thread over an off colour stupid remark but silence on FG councilor O'Leary admiring the fascist blueshirts.
