Bertie's suicide comment

thrill wrote:

Jump off a cliff?

Very funny - considering the context.

I presume with all the pro-''good aul' man of the people Bertie'' comments that none of you have ever been touched by someone you know of taking their own life.... typical Irish.

Of course it was a poor choice or words but I've seen Ahern rant and rave too much to know that is the genuine mentality behind our beloved Taoiseach. He is a nasty vindicative man.

again Ahern is using outlandish comments to drown out the noises of our impending Economic disaster (oops I mentioned it, I better commit suicide now! :rolleyes: ). The man is attempting to make the Economists and anyone with some sense and rationale over the disgraceful manner in which our economy has been ''managed'' by good aul' Bertie's government as if they're a bunch of manic depressives awaiting with joy for the apocalypse. The reality is Ahern knows the game is up, his legacy of been the greatest taoiseach there ever was in the world will be down the toilet very soon with our property dependent economy and his only option left now is to cry and scream, rant and rave at the doom and gloomers in order to gain more sympathy and con more individuals into the greatest economic swindle there ever was... looks like too many of you have fallen for it.

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Cool! First post eh? I believe this is some sort of sinister brainwashing technique. I mean look at the username ffs!

Hey Jonny Arson just because ya didn't get the reaction ya wanted in your Politics thread doesn't mean ya have to drag your political views in here. This was relating to one comment not the state of the Irish economy. F**K off back to that forum.

Whatever the context was is irrelevant because people are getting upset about refering to suicide. It's complete political correctness not to be able to facetiously say 'how don't eejits like them who can't find any solutions not just kill themselves because they see all the problems and bitch and moan without trying and doing something themselves'. Oddly enough, it's those kind of losers who're the kind of people to complain at this comment.

The more substantive question here is why the Taoiseach believes that economic commentators are unpatriotic and worthy only of contempt if they express an opinion which doesn't tie in with the happy clappy school of politics. Do we want to try and build an economy entirely on smoke and mirrors or would we rather have an open debate about our economy and the direction it's heading in.

Acid_Violet wrote:

2. Fine Gael and Labour etc. are going to milk it, great.

no they are not. You know why? They are smarter than that.

why, what's been said?

Acid_Violet wrote:

*sighs* I'm not bothered to argue over the definition of 'milking it' with you. Bear in mind I said that they are 'going to milk it', future tense, so indeed we shall see.

no need for sighs, you said that they were already milking it, remember?

Acid_Violet wrote:

Um, they already have started doing so....

I would say that we won't hear anything more of this after today. No politician would jump on Bertie for a slip of the tongue, for the very simple reason that they all know the shoe could be on the other foot one day.

Suicidology? That's a word?

yeah - sounds like something from the Simpsons, I agree with you there.