Its the poor people!!!

Scráib · 05-07-2010 05:05PM

Methinks if you're of the stereotypical 'Foxrock Daddy-drives-a-lexus' stripe of person you'd qualify anyone who doesn't earn as much as your parents as being poor which is, y'know, wrong.

indough · 05-07-2010 05:16PM

post leaving cert holidays? i could consider myself lucky if my parents paid for my schoolbooks

anyway who cares what these idiots have to say, theyve barely lived at all yet and have little to no grasp on reality

super_furry · 05-07-2010 05:20PM

Antamojo wrote: »

Stuck up c*nts

Sounds like they were alright, stuck right up them. Still had to pay for it though.

K-9 · 05-07-2010 05:37PM

The_Joker. wrote: »

In the paper today,an article about students from blackrock college , and st marys rathmines, highlighted that these leaving cert students were getting pissed and having sex with hookers in the costa del sol last week.

Class is priceless.

df1985 · 05-07-2010 06:31PM

It is true though, Irish people begrudge other people having anything.

I wouldnt call myself rich in the multi-millionaire sense but my family isnt stuck for money and my friends know this.Anytime I buy myself anything even slightly expensive, I get the usual shake of the heads from the mates and comments saying "you have too much money."

does my head in!

El Siglo · 05-07-2010 07:13PM

I'm sick to my balls, fucking sick. If I read the word "begrudge" one more time I'm going to fucking lose it. This word should be expunged from the fucking dictionary, it's such a retarded, lazy argument worse than Godwin's law, it should be call "ad begrudgem".
Just on the topic of this, people aren't really annoyed that these little shits go on holidays, act like fools and catch an STD*, what people are more annoyed about is reading about these cunts in the first place. People are sick of reading of rich, stuck up, retarded little bastards talk about their pathetic leaving cert and even more pathetic holiday. There's always been rich people, and there will always be. But that doesn't mean their opinions are any more valid than the rest of us, it's just they seem to get more air time than the rest of us.
To be honest I'd rather read about a west-brit explorer shooting tigers in Bengal than these trumped up little cunts.

*The fuck am I going to call something an infection if your mickey can fall off.

Celly Smunt · 05-07-2010 07:24PM

El Siglo wrote: »

I'm sick to my balls, fucking sick. If I read the word "begrudge" one more time I'm going to fucking lose it. This word should be expunged from the fucking dictionary, it's such a retarded, lazy argument worse than Godwin's law, it should be call "ad begrudgem".
Just on the topic of this, people aren't really annoyed that these little shits go on holidays, act like fools and catch an STD*, what people are more annoyed about is reading about these cunts in the first place. People are sick of reading of rich, stuck up, retarded little bastards talk about their pathetic leaving cert and even more pathetic holiday. There's always been rich people, and there will always be. But that doesn't mean their opinions are any more valid than the rest of us, it's just they seem to get more air time than the rest of us.
To be honest I'd rather read about a west-brit explorer shooting tigers in Bengal than these trumped up little cunts.

*The fuck am I going to call something an infection if your mickey can fall off.

stop begrudging the begrudger's will ya

fonecrusher1 · 05-07-2010 07:59PM

I hate poor people.

Now excuse me, i must finish my dinner.

Mmmm....pot noodle.

sock puppet · 05-07-2010 08:23PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Most parents do pay for their kids post leaving cert holidays. Mine didnt but a load of people i know did and i hardly went to a school of privilege :pac:

The indo are just trying to create a class war because thats what seems to be "in" at the moment.

Article was in the Daily Mail I believe. It was great stuff.

The quote in the OP could well be a joke. It's the ****ing Daily Mail. Is anyone being interviewed really going to care what they say?

Pauleta · 05-07-2010 08:26PM

sock puppet wrote: »

Article was in the Daily Mail I believe. It was great stuff.

The quote in the OP could well be a joke. It's the ****ing Daily Mail. Is anyone being interviewed really going to care what they say?

My mistake. When i hear of a rubbish story in a newspaper i automatically think of the Irish independent

starbelgrade · 05-07-2010 09:31PM

The_Joker. wrote: »

So rich people don't like poor people because they have a heightened sense of smell , due to their noses pointing in a 60 degree angle towards the moon, and the vinegar smell burns their nostrils.

And poor people don't get a whiff of the money because some of their noses are smashed flat parallel to their face like a boxers nose.

Oh yes

That's a very snobbish take on things.

Pittens · 06-07-2010 11:44AM

I blame We As A Society.

bonerm · 06-07-2010 06:41PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

I hate poor people.

Now excuse me, i must finish my dinner.

Mmmm....pot noodle.

I bet you even use a fork with it , you rich bastard! :mad:

Mike 1972 · 06-07-2010 07:50PM

The_Joker. wrote: »

Most of us have wealthy parents and we are not ashamed of this, its the poor people who have to pay for their own hookers

Fixed your whatever

PeterIanStaker · 06-07-2010 08:23PM

Pauleta wrote: »

My mistake. When i hear of a rubbish story in a newspaper i automatically think of the Irish independent

As do I.

I still hope they come home with the gallopin' knobrot and spread it around the Wes. Now that's outsourcing.

v2 · 06-07-2010 09:48PM

I'd say the youngsters featured in that article are as middle class as they come. Still, the enraged working class readership love this kind of story precisely because it enrages them. The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday are selling more copies than ever. There's a new bunch of Trinity/UCD journos/sub-editors who know exactly how to press the buttons of the populace.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 06-07-2010 09:51PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Most parents do pay for their kids post leaving cert holidays. Mine didnt but a load of people i know did and i hardly went to a school of privilege :pac:

The indo are just trying to create a class war because thats what seems to be "in" at the moment.

I'm sorry, but what planet are you on?
I just sat my LC. I don't know a single person who got a penny off their parents for a holiday, or pretty much anything for that matter. I personally haven't been given a penny since I turned 17, and I know a good few in the same situation, and I don't exactly live in an area of poverty.

The only parents forking out cash to send their kids out to costa-del-whatever are the ****ers who brought up the likes of the kids quoted in the OP.

They're nearly as bad as pikeys, only they don't steal things. :pac:

v2 · 06-07-2010 09:56PM

Mason Silly Bellboy wrote: »

I'm sorry, but what planet are you on?
I just sat my LC. I don't know a single person who got a penny off their parents for a holiday, or pretty much anything for that matter. I personally haven't been given a penny since I turned 17, and I know a good few in the same situation, and I don't exactly live in an area of poverty.

The only parents forking out cash to send their kids out to costa-del-whatever are the ****ers who brought up the likes of the kids quoted in the OP.

They're nearly as bad as pikeys, only they don't steal things. :pac:

Irish class confusion: thinking you're a cut above everyone else when you get to spend 2 weeks of the year drinking cheap beer and wine in the Costa del Sol. These kids are middle class by all accounts.

FlutterinBantam · 06-07-2010 10:04PM

caseyann wrote: »

I love vinegar smell yum and with chips and cod

Is that why you don't change your jocks for three or four days?

Motley Crue · 06-07-2010 10:07PM

The_Joker. wrote: »

highlighted that these leaving cert students were getting pissed and having sex with hookers in the costa del sol last week.

If I was them I'd be doing that

Dudess · 06-07-2010 10:10PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Most parents do pay for their kids post leaving cert holidays. Mine didnt but a load of people i know did and i hardly went to a school of privilege :pac:

Is a post leaving cert holiday the norm nowadays (pains me to use that old person expression

)?
I went on a sun holiday with a gang of people all right after first year in college (1997) but I paid for it myself.

El Siglo wrote: »

I'm sick to my balls, fucking sick. If I read the word "begrudge" one more time I'm going to fucking lose it. This word should be expunged from the fucking dictionary, it's such a retarded, lazy argument worse than Godwin's law, it should be call "ad begrudgem".

Amen. And the rest...

Love how those who hate snobbery and accents that make their ears bleed and spoilt little sh1ts therefore hate rich people...

Pauleta · 06-07-2010 10:18PM

Mason Silly Bellboy wrote: »

I'm sorry, but what planet are you on?
I just sat my LC. I don't know a single person who got a penny off their parents for a holiday, or pretty much anything for that matter. I personally haven't been given a penny since I turned 17, and I know a good few in the same situation, and I don't exactly live in an area of poverty.

The only parents forking out cash to send their kids out to costa-del-whatever are the ****ers who brought up the likes of the kids quoted in the OP.

They're nearly as bad as pikeys, only they don't steal things. :pac:

Probably because when i was doing my Leaving Cert it was at the height of the economic boom and people were spending money like it was going out of fashion (which it turns out it was

) Most parents of my mates helped out with spending money or for the holiday itself.

Piste · 06-07-2010 10:39PM

GAAAAHHH, EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. This annoys me so much "blah blah blah privileged..." Rockford Manor is there...ROCKFORD ffs, that's about as public as public schools get. It's a good school by all accounts, a friend went there and got 600 points as well as turning out very happy and well-adjusted, and it's not fee paying at all. Clearly just because it's in Blackrock it's somehow "privileged"

This stuff goes on every weekend. People from "D4 schools" like to go out, we drink, we have fun and it's none of the Daily Mail's business.

I can't believe that rag actually sent a reporter over there to creep on a bunch of LC students. It's a worse reflection of the tabloid than it is on the people in it tbh.

"There are different rules out here anyway. We wouldn’t do it at home.’"- that's it TBH. They're just having fun, let them at it.

El Siglo wrote: »

I'm sick to my balls, fucking sick. If I read the word "begrudge" one more time I'm going to fucking lose it. This word should be expunged from the fucking dictionary, it's such a retarded, lazy argument worse than Godwin's law, it should be call "ad begrudgem".
Just on the topic of this, people aren't really annoyed that these little shits go on holidays, act like fools and catch an STD*, what people are more annoyed about is reading about these cunts in the first place. People are sick of reading of rich, stuck up, retarded little bastards talk about their pathetic leaving cert and even more pathetic holiday. There's always been rich people, and there will always be. But that doesn't mean their opinions are any more valid than the rest of us, it's just they seem to get more air time than the rest of us.
To be honest I'd rather read about a west-brit explorer shooting tigers in Bengal than these trumped up little cunts.

Eh, what makes you think these kids so desperately want their opinion to be heard? They didn't seek out this "journalist" (scandal-monger more like), the writer of this piece specifically sought out the messiest, most drunken people they could find in order to write a completely over the top, sensationalist article. For all we know there could have been loads of people saying "yeah I'm having a great time, drinking a fair but but sure I'm always in control and haven't done anything stupid, I just want to unwind". "MIDDLE CLASS TEENS ENJOY SUN HOLIDAY" doesn't sell papers I'm afraid.

I think it's actually pretty creepy that a journalist (and I use that term in the loosest sense here) was actually standing around in the middle of the night, actively seeking out drunk kids and getting pictures taken of them.

upandcumming · 06-07-2010 10:44PM

I wouldn't mind it, the 'Indo' is a rag anyway.

v2 · 06-07-2010 10:47PM

Piste wrote: »

GAAAAHHH, EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. This annoys me so much "blah blah blah privileged..." Rockford Manor is there...ROCKFORD ffs, that's about as public as public schools get. It's a good school by all accounts, a friend went there and got 600 points as well as turning out very happy and well-adjusted, and it's not fee paying at all. Clearly just because it's in Blackrock it's somehow "privileged"

This stuff goes on every weekend. People from "D4 schools" like to go out, we drink, we have fun and it's none of the Daily Mail's business.

I can't believe that rag actually sent a reporter over there to creep on a bunch of LC students. It's a worse reflection of the tabloid than it is on the people in it tbh.

"There are different rules out here anyway. We wouldn’t do it at home.’"- that's it TBH. They're just having fun, let them at it.

Eh, what makes you think these kids so desperately want their opinion to be heard? They didn't seek out this "journalist" (scandal-monger more like), the writer of this piece specifically sought out the messiest, most drunken people they could find in order to write a completely over the top, sensationalist article. For all we know there could have been loads of people saying "yeah I'm having a great time, drinking a fair but but sure I'm always in control and haven't done anything stupid, I just want to unwind". "MIDDLE CLASS TEENS ENJOY SUN HOLIDAY" doesn't sell papers I'm afraid.

I think it's actually pretty creepy that a journalist (and I use that term in the loosest sense here) was actually standing around in the middle of the night, actively seeking out drunk kids and getting pictures taken of them.

Yeah, yeah. The important point is that psychological class war sells newspapers.

NoHornJan · 06-07-2010 10:48PM

Just come to think of it, these little monsters are going to have to spend the naxt 4 or 5 years heavy partying in college, so you would have to feel sorry for them. You shouldn't begrudge them their little starter pack, Costa del Sol junket.

Dudess · 06-07-2010 10:52PM

I don't have any issue with a bunch of teens having fun - and I understand them getting annoyed with people who whinge about them, but then I lose any sympathy when they claim this whingeing is wealth envy.

Piste · 06-07-2010 10:56PM

Yeah that guys sounds like a dick, but he's definitely in the minority. He was clearly only quoted saying that because the Daily Mail knew it tied in with their "look at the rich kids!" sensationalism.

Terry · 06-07-2010 11:05PM

Hasmunch wrote: »

Let them eat cake sh*t

If only we had the courage of the French public.

Scráib wrote: »

Methinks if you're of the stereotypical 'Foxrock Daddy-drives-a-lexus' stripe of person you'd qualify anyone who doesn't earn as much as your parents as being poor which is, y'know, wrong.

Lexus = wealth?
That's a new one to me. I see plenty of skangers driving Lexii (that's the plural, right?).

Dudess wrote: »

Is a post leaving cert holiday the norm nowadays (pains me to use that old person expression )?
I went on a sun holiday with a gang of people all right after first year in college (1997) but I paid for it myself.

Screw you and your ability to pay for a foreign holiday at the age of 17.
The rest of us were looking for jobs.

jam_mac_jam · 06-07-2010 11:08PM

Teenagers having sex and drinking. shock. horror

Its the poor people!!!

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