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Throwing a Paddy?

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  • #92
    BrookieD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭BrookieD


    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:


    Agreed 100%


  • #93
    mick_jt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭mick_jt


    Precious flower wrote: »
    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.

    We dont have f**king bad tempers so dont go around saying that. Sometimes its people like you that cause these stereotypes so keep your mouth shut in future.

    /Shakes fist vigorously.:D


  • #94
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    mick_jt wrote: »
    We dont have f**king bad tempers so dont go around saying that. Sometimes its people like you that cause these stereotypes so keep your mouth shut in future.

    /Shakes fist vigorously.:D

    I'm Irish.................:( *cry cry* :D I Suppose not since I'm crying though haha
    If the British called the Irish men Paddies I wonder what they called the women or did they just call them the same? Curious. :)


  • #95
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Throwing up after all this Paddywhackery.


  • #96
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    ITV called Jim Beglin British:rolleyes:


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  • #97
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Roland Elegant Scar wrote: »

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

    Actually, AFAIK the phrase came about as so many of the police officers over there were of Irish descent.


  • #98
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    sensibleken wrote: »
    I thought we were supposed to have a sense of humour

    Same here.

    Joke;

    Q; What language do Irish gay's speak?....

    A; Gay-lick :p


  • #99
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    ITV called Jim Beglin British:rolleyes:

    Quick, tell rebelheart, that way there'll be two people who give a ѕhit.


  • #100
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Quick, tell rebelheart, that way there'll be two people who give a ѕhit.

    :rolleyes:
    I didnt post it for west-brits like you.


  • #101
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Roland Elegant Scar wrote: »
    Same here.

    Joke;

    Q; What language do Irish gay's speak?....

    A; Gay-lick :p

    boards.ie mod in anti-Irish joke shocker


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  • #102
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    boards.ie mod in anti-Irish joke shocker

    I have one about Israeli gays speaking He-blew, but I'll leave it for another time :p

    Two Irish gays... Simon Fitzpatrick, and Patrick Fitzsimon :p


  • #103
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dear Kev_ps3,

    You have reached your quota of usages of 'west-brit' for today. Please try again tomorrow. In the meantime, why not sample our extended range of proto-nationalist insults, including such delights as 'cawtholic', 'shoneen', 'little Irelander' or 'sourface'.

    Best regards
    Boards.ie
    ..


  • #104
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    ^^^

    Somethings gone right over my head hasn't it?.


  • #105
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Roland Elegant Scar wrote: »
    ^^^

    Somethings gone right over my head hasn't it?.

    From the football section
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66657303&postcount=58


  • #106
    moonpurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭moonpurple


    the nation that have inflicted david beckham and thin spice on us do not get to call anybody anything:eek:


  • #107
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    I have heard the word Irish used as stoopid. As in "thats very Irish of you". By a CEO in fact.

    Poor chap looked mortified, afterwards.


  • #108
    Redjeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭Redjeep!


    The original comment was stupid, but not nearly as blatantly racist and bigotted as many of the comments on this thread.

    How can these comments be acceptable on a post complaining about perceived racism ?


  • #109
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    How can these comments be acceptable on a post complaining about perceived racism ?

    What? There has been some childish name calling. West Brit etc. But where is the racism?


  • #110
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    anyway fucit I just worked out after close to 1000 posts that the text can be enlarged. So I wanna say to ITV

    THIS IS AN OUTRAGE


  • #111
    Redjeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭Redjeep!


    stovelid wrote: »
    DIRTY IRISH-HATING BRIT BASTARDS

    How about this ? Reckon that's a bit more racist than the original comment.


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  • #112
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    How about this ? Reckon that's a bit more racist than the original comment.

    Well except for the dirty, i dont see it. He is claiming the Brits are racist for using the word paddy to mean volatile. If the word wop, or wog was used = throwing a wog etc. ( to mean angry) opinion on this forum would be different and we the thread would be 90% the content of that one man PC army Nodin.

    My feeling is that the statement is historically racist, but is not now seen as that. So we should all just get along. I would feel th same about people getting angry about phrases which were other once ethnic slurs,but not now.


  • #113
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    But remember did a minister in Ireland not get in trouble for using the phrase "working like a black" which is hardly derrogatory.


  • #114
    Redjeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭Redjeep!


    Pittens wrote: »
    Well except for the dirty, i dont see it. He is claiming the Brits are racist for using the word paddy to mean volatile. If the word wop, or wog was used = throwing a wog etc. ( to mean angry) opinion on this forum would be different and we the thread would be 90% the content of that one man PC army Nodin.

    My feeling is that the statement is historically racist, but is not now seen as that. So we should all just get along. I would feel th same about people getting angry about phrases which were other once ethnic slurs,but not now.

    I agree with most of what you say, but I'd read that he feels all Brits are dirty Irish hating bastards and this comment from the sports dude is just further proof. I'd find this more racist and offensive than the original comment.

    But maybe I'm wrong.


  • #115
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    I notice that FIFA have yet to make an official statement on whether or not the paddy was in fact thrown.


  • #116
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    I notice that FIFA have yet to make an official statement on whether or not the paddy was in fact thrown.

    lol


  • #117
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    I notice that FIFA have yet to make an official statement on whether or not the paddy was in fact thrown.

    Paddy wasn't thrown. He was leap Frogged...


  • #118
    Karl Hungus
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    How many Irishmen does it take to change a lightbulb?

    Two. One to hold the bulb, and one to drink until the room starts spinning.


  • #119
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    to be honest,i have heard the words,he has gone off in a paddy,or he is in a paddy,but not throwing a paddy,maybe we talk different in lancashire,but i myself never connected it with the irish ,


  • #120
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Koloman wrote: »
    And who was sitting beside Clive? None other than our own Jim Beglin! Jim said nothing though!
    Agricola wrote: »
    :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Jim the basterd. RTE wasnt big enough for him. He left George on his arsé to head across the water to become a Brit stooge!

    and how about the other 5 million+ irish living & working in the uk are they brit stooges as well:rolleyes:


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  • #121
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Redjeep! wrote: »
    Reckon that's a bit more racist than the original comment.

    A lot more, one would hope.


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