This is what the BBC think of Ireland

Namlub · 02-10-2009 11:46PM

Can't have everyone knowing Ireland still has gingers, those mythical creatures...

Terry · 03-10-2009 12:07AM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I wonder if the Irish are the most easily offended nation in the world?

English people are the biggest **** to ever have walked the earth.

/me checks reported posts.

ScumLord · 03-10-2009 12:13AM

Terry wrote: »

/me checks reported posts.

Why don't you just ignore them anyway.

*hopes*

The_Kew_Tour · 03-10-2009 02:48AM

ascanbe wrote: »

Pretty sure that's Israel.
We're up there, though.

Christ you could put any Muslim country in there too.

Been to few places and they get in rage over thing slightest thing

Poland is up there too

Kalashnikov_Kid · 03-10-2009 03:21AM

adrian280582 wrote: »

Christ you could put any Muslim country in there too.

Been to few places and they get in rage over thing slightest thing

Poland is up there too

And France, USA...

tech77 · 03-10-2009 04:41AM

My name is URL wrote: »

It's all very Twin Peaks :pac:

Looks like a David Lynch-directed Father Ted tbh

03-10-2009 04:48AM

Where's the pot of gold? Oh... the Brits took it with them when they left the Republic.

Terrontress · 03-10-2009 10:00AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Where's the pot of gold? Oh... the Brits took it with them when they left the Republic.

Which Republic was this that the Brits left?

mike65 · 03-10-2009 10:04AM

Jebus here we go again....:rolleyes:

DarkJager · 03-10-2009 10:05AM

The Garda in that times online pic is just thinking to himself "If you play that ****ing Rick Astley song once more, I'll batter ya"

Elliemental · 03-10-2009 10:07AM

asdasd wrote: »

The real bigots in the UK - towards Ireland - have always been the liberals.

This is the funniest post I`ve ever read, in my life.

Warfi · 03-10-2009 10:18AM

I think BBC means Bring Back our Colonies. I always knew the smarmy, upper-class accented gits had an agenda

robinph · 03-10-2009 10:20AM

I doubt they went to the bother of photo shopping those pictures in order to make them fit some stereotype.

Are there ginger people in Ireland?
Are there nuns in Ireland, and are they allowed to vote?
Part of Biffo's job is to have photos taken of him voting.
It was a picture of an election poster that happened to be on a bus.
Gerry Adams just has to get himself into any story he can about Ireland on the BBC.

Now the Times picture was just comedy gold, you can't deny them the chance to print that shot if the photographer is lucky enough to see it.

I'm sure that there will be the chance for RTE to get a picture of some Morris Dancers voting next year to even things up a bit. Oh, and that one eyed Scottish idiot.

Abi · 03-10-2009 10:25AM

I'm not offended by the pictures, I don't see why I should be. You'd have an incredibly small world to see something offensive in those pictures imo.

Agricola wrote: »

Whats intrinsically Irish about a double decker bus?

Ah, national sterotypes, ya got to love em!

Nothing. It's about the advertisement on the side of it.

Latchy · 03-10-2009 12:06PM

Strange how a few pics from the BBC website has the potential to let the thread become another the brits are this /that / or the other .

You would really have to have a big chip on your shoulder to be offended in any way by those pictures

orourkeda · 03-10-2009 12:22PM

They're right. We're a nation of backward hillbillies.

Kalashnikov_Kid · 03-10-2009 12:25PM

I was reading the English Independent this morning and, OMG like, there was a picture of Biffo and a butch-looking woman and a nun - the cheek of those durty English feckers :rolleyes:

robinph · 03-10-2009 12:34PM

How dare they take a picture of a countries leader voting, it's just plane rude.

Obama Merkel etc ...

Google Image search for "blair voting" shows some odd pictures though.

joseph brand · 03-10-2009 12:41PM

It seems that some posters are taking the OP's post too serious. And at the same time, wondering why HE is taking his post so serious. Funny that.

I found it a slightly humorous post. Something to add to, not attack.

There should have been a photo of some old men, (toothless Micks if you will) with eyebrows on their cheeks and walkin sticks. Eating sods of turf and drinkin Guinn. . . stout.

Photographers obviously not doing their jobs.

dodgyme · 03-10-2009 12:51PM

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

everytime there is something happening in ireland the bbc show a priest or a nun. Something I noticed also for number of years. ?????

rte dont show a picture of morris dancers every time they have an equivalent

Latchy · 03-10-2009 01:04PM

There has being a tendency by the british media to use picture of nuns and priests in their reports which might be because the Republic of Ireland is still viewd in many parst as a small catholic country .

I watched the BBC/ITN news reports on the Voting in Ireland and both imo gave a very balanced view , interviewing people from a cross section of the community in middle and working class areas .

blinding · 03-10-2009 01:14PM

Gerry Adams looks like a modern day Jesus in that photo.

Míshásta · 03-10-2009 01:41PM

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

I thought the nuns in traditional garb were as extinct as the loprechauns. Fair play to the Beeb for informing me otherwise.

And I suppose its no harm to give a bit of publicity to a politician (who was never a terrorist by the way) as irrelevant as Grizzley.

I'm not offended by the way....I swear I'm not. Don't ya dare call me prickly or I'll soon show ya me Oirish temper.

Huh!

Dudess · 03-10-2009 02:37PM

Terry wrote: »

English people are the biggest **** to ever have walked the earth.

/me checks reported posts.

Fratton Fred makes a fair point - there seems to be a disproportionate amount of sensitivity and defensiveness, sometimes to the point of hysteria, prevalent in Ireland's national psyche... particularly when it comes to what "the English" think of us.
Plus, the BBC is one of the most PC organisations ever - so again, this just looks like an example of trying to find offence in something an English organisation has done in relation to Ireland.

Fratton Fred · 03-10-2009 03:23PM

Terry wrote: »

English people are the biggest **** to ever have walked the earth.

/me checks reported posts.

"Knock it back, ave another one, drinking and modding is so much fun"

grenache · 03-10-2009 04:53PM

Dudess wrote: »

Fratton Fred makes a fair point - there seems to be a disproportionate amount of sensitivity and defensiveness, sometimes to the point of hysteria, prevalent in Ireland's national psyche... particularly when it comes to what "the English" think of us.
Plus, the BBC is one of the most PC organisations ever - so again, this just looks like an example of trying to find offence in something an English organisation has done in relation to Ireland.

The nuns and red heads with freckles was stereotyping though. You could search the length and breadth of the country for veil wearing nuns and would be a long time looking. Yet the BBC manage to find two. How convenient.

Latchy · 03-10-2009 05:26PM

grenache wrote: »

The nuns and red heads with freckles was stereotyping though. .

Every country in the world gets sterotyped but their is nothing worng with the image of nuns or young red headed Irish girl with freckles .

SwanV · 03-10-2009 06:00PM

These are great photographs. Why what subjects would you suggest in their place?
No matter what pictures were chosen you'd prob still take issue with them.
Chip???

Namlub · 03-10-2009 06:11PM

grenache wrote: »

The nuns and red heads with freckles was stereotyping though. You could search the length and breadth of the country for veil wearing nuns and would be a long time looking. Yet the BBC manage to find two. How convenient.

*bangs head against wall* Ginger people exist in Ireland. Rather a lot of them. I fail to see why you think this is somehow negative stereotyping on the BBC's part. Should they have deliberately avoided photographing gingers? Because obviously, red-haired people mean Ireland isn't developed and cosmopolitan, and we can't have The English thinking that...

This is what the BBC think of Ireland

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