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Throwing a Paddy?

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  • #62
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Pittens wrote: »
    He is being thrown around by the manager.


    Keep up!

    two touch


    have to keep those balls up


  • #63
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    Why does every single thread always come back to the subject of Ray Darcy's balls?

    Why?


  • #64
    Celly Smunt
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    Pittens wrote: »
    Why does every single thread always come back to the subject of Ray Darcy's balls?

    Why?

    because he's already one big díck


  • #65
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    Anyway, back on topic.

    Clearly - historically - a racist statement, although I think people use it unknowingly - as in Street Arab, or works like a black etc.


  • #66
    Koloman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Pittens wrote: »
    Anyway, back on topic.

    Clearly - historically - a racist statement, although I think people use it unknowingly - as in Street Arab, or works like a black etc.

    Agreed. Although this is the same station that got Ron Atkinson sacked when he said something racist against a black French player when he thought the microphone was off.


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  • #67
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    :mad::mad::mad: The fing english are hated around the world and they think they can insult Irish people, ive travelled quiet a bit and the Irish are loved and the english hated no matter where i went, **** them:mad:


  • #68
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    :mad::mad::mad: The fing english are hated around the world and they think they can insult Irish people, ive travelled quiet a bit and the Irish are loved and the english hated no matter where i went, **** them:mad:

    i've been to london,they think differently there


  • #69
    Pauleta
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    People really go out of their way to get offended now a days. I bet ITV get a ton of complaints from people who spend their lives being offended with a raging inferiority complex. These people are not just embarrassing themselves, they are embarrassing the country.


  • #70
    JerryHandbag
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    Our equivalent phrase would be..."throwing a John Smith"?


  • #71
    Clay Gifted Checkbook
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    ive travelled quiet
    Maybe you could keep that up so


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  • #72
    JONJO THE MISER
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Maybe you could keep that up so

    No maybe you can, are u Irish? And if so how can u but not be offended by this, and if not shut up.


  • #73
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Quit the sniping please.


  • #74
    Gran Hermano
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    No maybe you can, are u Irish? And if so how can u but not be offended by this, and if not shut up.


    If you overheard a group of 15 year olds discussing how they spent their weekend 'knacker drinking' would your initial thought be that they were out to offend travellers or just discussing how they had a few bevs al fresco?


  • #75
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    If you overheard a group of 15 year olds discussing how they spent their weekend 'knacker drinking' would your initial thought be that they were out to offend travellers or just discussing how they had a few bevs al fresco?
    fúck that travellers are scary


  • #76
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    rubadub wrote: »
    Its just as meaningless, I never heard of any likeliness of Irish being short tempered.

    really, take a look at this........:D
    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    :mad::mad::mad: The fing english are hated around the world and they think they can insult Irish people, ive travelled quiet a bit and the Irish are loved and the english hated no matter where i went, **** them:mad:


  • #77
    Bob the Seducer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bob the Seducer


    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    Our equivalent phrase would be..."throwing a John Smith"?

    I've always been partial to throwing a right royal strop myself!


  • #78
    ICE HOUSE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭ICE HOUSE


    Koloman wrote: »
    Just watching ITV there during the Brazil v Chile game and the commentator (Clive Tyldesley I think) said just before half time that the manager was going to "throw a Paddy" when he got his team in!

    Maybe I'm naive but I have never heard this expression before! Thoughts?

    Are ye sure he didnt say Party? :D


  • #79
    Koloman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    ICE HOUSE wrote: »
    Are ye sure he didnt say Party? :D

    Maybe with that result! No, it was definitely "Paddy".


  • #80
    falan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    Jeez, I can't understand why people have taken offence to this. I lived in the north of England for years and "throwing a paddy" was commonplace. It means "having a hissy fit/tantrum/strop or whatever. It has nothing to do with the Irish and even if it did it never dawned on me. Some people in this country need to get that massive chip off their shoulder and lighten the fcuk up!!!

    UNBELIEVABLE:rolleyes:


  • #81
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    falan wrote: »
    Jeez, I can't understand why people have taken offence to this. I lived in the north of England for years and "throwing a paddy" was commonplace. It means "having a hissy fit/tantrum/strop or whatever. It has nothing to do with the Irish and even if it did it never dawned on me. Some people in this country need to get that massive chip off their shoulder and lighten the fcuk up!!!

    UNBELIEVABLE:rolleyes:

    Just because a saying is common place does not mean a lot imo, It clearly has Irish undertones, whether or not the people saying it understand that is another thing. I have heard the expression many times and thought nothing of it, but I can see how it can be taken up as a slur.


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  • #82
    Cherrycola
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    Thats weird, i was only watching an episode of Jeremy Kyle the other day(dont ask, telly froze while skipping through the channels :p ), and some girl talking about her kid, said he would throw a paddy, and i had never heard it before either. Hmmmmmmmm......

    Anyway, carry on.....:D


  • #83
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Just because a saying is common place does not mean a lot imo, It clearly has Irish undertones, whether or not the people saying it understand that is another thing. I have heard the expression many times and thought nothing of it, but I can see how it can be taken up as a slur.

    I've heard it many times and it wasn't until my wife queried it that i thought it could be an irish slur. I don't use it (Not that I ever did much) just in case, in fact, I avoid all use of the word Paddy.

    It would help a great deal if someone could explain the PC way to describe where rice is grown though :D


  • #84
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    john-joe wrote: »
    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=659314

    And that thread links directly back here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055145155


  • #85
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Brilliant.

    Its a new one on me, can't wait to work it into a sentence today.

    What other 'Paddy' say's are out there to describe us as violent?.

    Didn't the Paddy wagon have something to do with loading drunken, fighting Irishmen into the police van's in American cities?.

    Anyone remember the anti-smoking TV advert from years back and the good guy fought off 'Nick O'Tine', the Irish lobby in the USA kicked up a stink over that one.


  • #86
    sensibleken
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    Roland Elegant Scar wrote: »
    Anyone remember the anti-smoking TV advert from years back and the good guy fought off 'Nick O'Tine', the Irish lobby in the USA kicked up a stink over that one.

    I thought we were supposed to have a sense of humour


  • #87
    Gyalist
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It would help a great deal if someone could explain the PC way to describe where rice is grown though :D

    I spent some years of my childhood in a country that is a major rice producer. Paddy is not only the flooded land where the rice is grown but is also the name of the unmilled rice. Rice grains come covered with a thick inedible husk - when it's in that unprocessed state it is called paddy. I've seen paddy thrown to feed chickens and pigs. The people there would find it risible that the Irish are claiming sole rights to the word.


  • #88
    pickarooney
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    I spent some years of my childhood in a country that is a major rice producer. Paddy is not only the flooded land where the rice is grown but is also the name of the unmilled rice. Rice grains come covered with a thick inedible husk - when it's in that unprocessed state it is called paddy. I've seen paddy thrown to feed chickens and pigs. The people there would find it risible that the Irish are claiming sole rights to the word.

    Nice pun, pity about the rest of the post.


  • #89
    moonpurple
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    Koloman wrote: »
    Just watching ITV there during the Brazil v Chile game and the commentator (Clive Tyldesley I think) said just before half time that the manager was going to "throw a Paddy" when he got his team in!

    Maybe I'm naive but I have never heard this expression before! Thoughts?

    i used to hear things like that when i lived in the uk

    one reason why I now live in eireann

    racist poison.. write and complain


  • #90
    Donkey Oaty
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    moonpurple wrote: »
    i used to hear things like that when i lived in the uk

    one reason why I now live in eireann

    racist poison.. write and complain

    I've already sent my complaint in to ITV. Feel free to use it as a template.

    Dear ITV,

    I am deeply shocked and appalled by a comment made on your station during the Brazil - Chile game. [Insert about 18 pages of general anti-British sentiment here, ensuring that the famine is mentioned at least three times]

    Yours faithfully

    Donkey Oaty

    PS: Please excuse the green crayon - they don't allow sharp objects in here.


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  • #91
    Precious flower
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    I just asked my mam about it and she said it mean throwing a tantrum and was a term used by the British as Irish people were know for their bad tempers.


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