Ran The Fianna Failer from the Door...hope he's not elected.

stevejr · 11-02-2011 01:57AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

It appears you have difficulty separating the person from the organisation. Telling a canvasser to **** off says more about you really. What was wrong with politely telling the caller that you didn't want to be disturbed and you wouldn't be voting FF? It would have the same effect, but you wouldn't look like a gob****e.

I've no difficulty doing that at all...and if this chap had called to my door with his Joe-Citizen hat on to discuss...oh let's say the weather...then I would have been perfectly polite. But this person called to my door representing this party...therefore there is no distinction...do you understand now...or will I further dumb it down for you Oppenheimer.

Doc · 11-02-2011 01:57AM

Why are so many people attacking the OP? He put a sign on his door telling Fianna Fail Candidates that they were not welcome. One knocked despite the sign and he told him to fuck off. If I put a sign on my door saying I specifically didn’t want someone to knock on my door and then they did then I would tell them the same.

we'llallhavetea_old · 11-02-2011 01:58AM

stevejr wrote: »

No I did not speak to him like that to feel better about myself. Please don't presume to know me on the basis of my OP...it's beneath you, who as a poster I previously respected.

The reason I reacted that way is that:

A) This person represents an organisation who have condemned this country to many years of hardship and deserves my disdain.

Its my property, when somebody has been told that there not welcome and knocks on my door, F*** OFF is a well measured response.

C) How a person treats another person is based on how they are treated by the other person, Fianna Fail have shat all over this country and I think my response will be one of the milder ones their candidates will receive.

i still vote wankerish behavior.

Sticky_Fingers · 11-02-2011 02:01AM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i still vote wankerish behavior.

Agreed, on the part of the stupid canvasser who refused to heed the OP's clearly displayed warning.

theboss80 · 11-02-2011 02:05AM

Doc wrote: »

Why are so many people attacking the OP? He put a sign on his door telling Fianna Fail Candidates that they were not welcome. One knocked despite the sign and he told him to fuck off. If I put a sing on my door saying I specifically didn’t want someone to knock on my door and then they did then I would tell them the same.

Hope you spell checked it:D

Doc · 11-02-2011 02:07AM

theboss80 wrote: »

Hope you spell checked it:D

I hate when I do that (and I do it a lot)

.same. · 11-02-2011 02:13AM

stevejr wrote: »

Since all this election business started I've been adamant that I would never vote Fianna Fail ever again...also because I did not want to hear from any of their candidates I put a large sign up on my front door saying:

NO Fianna Fail Candidates or election material welcome

Had this young Fianna Fail candidate come to door earlier...I pointed to the sign and told him to fuck off and closed the door....Fingers crossed he's not elected. Anyone else give them some well-deserved feedback.

So who will you vote for?

I tell all candidates I'll giv'em da No.1 for sure that way If ever I need a favour I can count on my local TD to help me out, seeing as I got them elected,Its great crack altogether.but really I only ever vote FF.

So I think the long term future is looking bright cos even if the next government lasts the full term, in about 3 years time, talk of another general election will be afoot.In this election I would be confident that FF will gain an overall majority and rule the country once again. Yaahooo.
Not only this but the very people who are on here talking complete ****e night in night out about their hatred for FF will be the very people voting for FF next time round.
Think about it, unless Enda has 15billion in his arse pocket, in six months time either FG or FG/Lab will be the worst in the world and what ya wonna do then!
I'll tell ya what- VOTE FOR FF

I'll bump this post in about 12 months time so we can see how accurate my prediction is and you can tells us what kinda signs you're making then.

stevejr · 11-02-2011 02:24AM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i still vote wankerish behavior.

So your admitting to being a Fianna Fail voter

stevejr · 11-02-2011 02:32AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

OP, it's likely there are over 50,000 voters in your constituency.
Did you think the candidate even cares about your reaction?

It's 01:10am, do you think they are remembering you?
No, they forgot you 5 seconds after they closed your gate and marked you down on their list.

You don't become a candidate unless you are tough skinned. And they've dismissed you as a crank

So why knock on the door in the first place, fellingstressed?

And why do you think that? Because of the language or the sentiment? And if you had read through my OP you would see that I was a fianna fail voter.

Why would I give a flying f*ck what this guy thought of me? What was important to me was to make it clear what I thought of him.

Fianna Fail will encounter a lot of cranks over the coming days I think.

Unpossible · 11-02-2011 02:38AM

.same. wrote: »

I tell all candidates I'll giv'em da No.1 for sure that way If ever I need a favour I can count on my local TD to help me out, seeing as I got them elected,Its great crack altogether

lol, pretty good but will they really remember you?

.same. wrote: »

So I think the long term future is looking bright cos even if the next government lasts the full term, in about 3 years time, talk of another general election will be afoot.In this election I would be confident that FF will gain an overall majority and rule the country once again. Yaahooo.
Not only this but the very people who are on here talking complete ****e night in night out about their hatred for FF will be the very people voting for FF next time round.
Think about it, unless Enda has 15billion in his arse pocket, in six months time either FG or FG/Lab will be the worst in the world and what ya wonna do then!

Unfortunatly I think you're right, people live in the here and now, when in 4-5 years time the economy has been fixed and is starting up again people will vote in FF again and FF will try to convince everyone that the healthy economy is their work.

Edit: of course if there is tighter fiscal and economic union in the EU by then, then at least it will be harder for FF to f**k it up next time.

stevejr · 11-02-2011 02:39AM

.same. wrote: »

So who will you vote for?

I tell all candidates I'll giv'em da No.1 for sure that way If ever I need a favour I can count on my local TD to help me out, seeing as I got them elected,Its great crack altogether.but really I only ever vote FF.

So I think the long term future is looking bright cos even if the next government lasts the full term, in about 3 years time, talk of another general election will be afoot.In this election I would be confident that FF will gain an overall majority and rule the country once again. Yaahooo.
Not only this but the very people who are on here talking complete ****e night in night out about their hatred for FF will be the very people voting for FF next time round.
Think about it, unless Enda has 15billion in his arse pocket, in six months time either FG or FG/Lab will be the worst in the world and what ya wonna do then!
I'll tell ya what- VOTE FOR FF

I'll bump this post in about 12 months time so we can see how accurate my prediction is and you can tells us what kinda signs you're making then.

Spoken like a true apathetic sheep...By all means bump this post in a year and see how wrong you were.

Johro · 11-02-2011 02:42AM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i still vote wankerish behavior.

Don't we have that already?:p No doubt we'll have more after the election. Another wankerish government. From looking at the polls anyway.

Debthree · 11-02-2011 02:50AM

Jaysus there's a ferocious amount of wusses on this thread. And that's with the security of anonymity that the internet offers. I can't imagine how pathetically humble and insanely inassertive ye are in real life. Chr*st no wonder the FF b*stards were able to screw us over so badly.

You did good OP. Well done.

Unpossible · 11-02-2011 02:54AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

You voted for them for years, now you've changed your tune, told a young candidate to **** off, a party you supported before. And now decided to post your story on Ireland's busiest message board. What reaction exactly where you hoping for? You were a loyal party voter before and now you deserted your party, what does that make you?

Step1: Stop voting FF and chase them from your door
Step2: post about acomplishments online
Step3: ???
Step4: profit

stevejr · 11-02-2011 03:07AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Not my username

You voted for them for years, now you've changed your tune, told a young candidate to **** off, a party you supported before. And now decided to post your story on Ireland's busiest message board. What reaction exactly where you hoping for?

Quit being pedantic but apologies for the name mistake:o

Like so many others, i voted for them for years..yes of that I'm guilty. Why?

I voted for them because they were running the country and things were going well...

Roll on to 2008, the economy goes into freefall. Now, I always foolishly believed that Ireland did well because Fianna Fail was in power but all the scandals that surfaced then changed my mind to the extent that I believed that the country did well despite FF being in power.

So is it ok with you that I exercise my constitutional right to vote differently this time?

What reaction was I expecting?...you ask.

Precisely the one I've got...

happyoutscan · 11-02-2011 03:13AM

Fair play OP. If he was ignorant enough to ignore your civil instructions you had posted on your door then he's an ignoramus anyway. Just like the f*cking party he represents.

skelliser · 11-02-2011 03:24AM

its par of the course coming up to election day.

i fully expect the masters in montrose to unleash their monkeys soon enough to spread the maFFia apologist guff.

this thread is proof of that.

goose2005 · 11-02-2011 03:31AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You've been a dandy highwayman?

The difference is, FF want your money AND your life.

Einhard · 11-02-2011 03:31AM

stevejr wrote: »

Like so many others, i voted for them for years..yes of that I'm guilty. Why?

I voted for them because they were running the country and things were going well...

Roll on to 2008, the economy goes into freefall. Now, I always foolishly believed that Ireland did well because Fianna Fail was in power but all the scandals that surfaced then changed my mind to the extent that I believed that the country did well despite FF being in power.

In other words, you allowed yourself to fall for the typical FF tactics at throwing money at every problem and hoping they'd go away. Things weren't going well; there was a huge exercise in papering over the cracks, and buying off the electorate. No offence, but perhaps if people like you had paid a little bit more attention up to 2007, and been a little bit more discerning in what you actually expected from a government, then we wouldn;t be in such a mess.

Frankly, I wish I could tell everyone who voted for FF in 2002 and 2007 to F**k off.

sdanseo · 11-02-2011 03:37AM

We all know that the adult way to deal with this issue is to hear them out politely, then politely inform them you would almost certainly not be voting FF but are still weighing up your options (before cursing them behind their back), then voting FG on the 25th.

Well that's what I did anyway :P

Rabble Rabble · 11-02-2011 12:12PM

I think the OP represents a lot of the kind of anti-FF types around these days. The zeal of the converts. However, let me say this.

If you voted for them last time the responsibility is yours.

Rabble Rabble · 11-02-2011 12:15PM

TBH, I dont get the value of canvassing anyway - is a mind ever changed? Much better for a new candidate to appear on local TV and radio.

Interceptor · 11-02-2011 12:15PM

stevejr wrote: »

I would never vote Fianna Fail ever again....

So you voted for them at some point in the past? This makes you as guilty as any of them. Well done on the old witchburning there.

stevejr wrote: »

I voted for them because they were running the country and things were going well...

Roll on to 2008, the economy goes into freefall. Now, I always foolishly believed that Ireland did well because Fianna Fail was in power ...

Good grief - so you had your head in the trough too and couldn't see over the edges? I had these clowns spotted in the early 80's - I wasn't alone but to pretend you didn't notice or claim ignorance of the facts over the last two decades suggests you aren't smart enough to be allowed a vote.

'cptr

squod · 11-02-2011 12:20PM

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

I think the OP represents a lot of the kind of anti-FF types around these days. The zeal of the converts. However, let me say this.

If you voted for them last time the responsibility is yours.

What's surprising is that people are now converting to FG. The same shower who so supported FFs acts of treason from the start of of the bail-out fraud.

RichieC · 11-02-2011 12:21PM

My god can we just get FF 'thread of hate' to put a lid on these endless fking threads please?

Interceptor · 11-02-2011 12:23PM

RichieC wrote: »

My god can we just get FF 'thread of hate' to put a lid on these endless fking threads please?

I don't think all the hate will fit in just one thread...

'cptr

booooonzo · 11-02-2011 12:33PM

you're not a gobs**te like some have said and don't mind that "you look like the fool for not being polite" rubbish!
That's the problem with us as a nation, we've no balls and get walked all over!

Fair play to the op.
They need to know just how angry we all are and sometimes actually getting angry gets the point across better than politely telling someone!

Einhard · 11-02-2011 01:14PM

booooonzo wrote: »

Fair play to the op.
They need to know just how angry we all are and sometimes actually getting angry gets the point across better than politely telling someone!

Fair play to the OP my arse! I've been angry about the way FF have been running this country since 2002, and unlike the OP I did something about it- I didn't vote for them. Fat lot of good expletives at the door will do now. If people like the OP had actually thought in the previous few elections, instead of allowing themselves to be bought through taxation and other goodies, we wouldn't be in this mess now. This country has been run completely arseways for the past ten years, and it amazes me that people are only realising it now.

We had a streamlining of the health services in which not a single bureaucratic job was lost. While the government was espousing that centralisation, they were simultaneously embarking on a crazy scheme to send departments and agencies out across the country, and damn the consequences for effeciency. We had benchmarking which never countenanced a downward payment, never resulted in any efficencies and, in the word of one trade unionist, was basically a gigantic ATM for PS workers. On top of that, personal taxation was slashed to the bone, something which was always compleyely unsustainable, but which people are now treating as some major revelation. And that's only off the top of my head. We've been one of the most poorly run nations in the developed world over the past decade. And it was bloody obvious. But people went along with it because people had their noses in the trough.

So huzzah for the OP, and the fact that he has finally decided, after almost a decade of FF mismanagement and maladministration, that they had little to offer. Pity he didn't come to the realisation sooner.

The words "horse", "bolted", and "stable door" come to mind.

booooonzo · 11-02-2011 01:21PM

Einhard wrote: »

Fair play to the OP my arse! I've been angry about the way FF have been running this country since 2002, and unlike the OP I did something about it- I didn't vote for them. Fat lot of good expletives at the door will do now. If people like the OP had actually thought in the previous few elections, instead of allowing themselves to be bought through taxation and other goodies, we wouldn't be in this mess now. This country has been run completely arseways for the past ten years, and it amazes me that people are only realising it now.

We had a streamlining of the health services in which not a single bureaucratic job was lost. While the government was espousing that centralisation, they were simultaneously embarking on a crazy scheme to send departments and agencies out across the country, and damn the consequences for effeciency. We had benchmarking which never countenanced a downward payment, never resulted in any efficencies and, in the word of one trade unionist, was basically a gigantic ATM for PS workers. On top of that, personal taxation was slashed to the bone, something which was always compleyely unsustainable, but which people are now treating as some major revelation. And that's only off the top of my head. We've been one of the most poorly run nations in the developed world over the past decade. And it was bloody obvious. But people went along with it because people had their noses in the trough.

So huzzah for the OP, and the fact that he has finally decided, after almost a decade of FF mismanagement and maladministration, that they had little to offer. Pity he didn't come to the realisation sooner.

The words "horse", "bolted", and "stable door" come to mind.

All fair points but I was praising the fact that at least he is angry and showed that.
more people need to grow some in this country and stop getting walked all over. For the record I have never voted for them either.

Riddle101 · 11-02-2011 01:30PM

i'm not a Fianna Fail supporter by any chance, but I draw the line at what the OP did. There is such thing as common courtesy, no person deserves that type of tratement bar a few politicians. So the guy might be from Fianna Faíl, but he wasn't apart of the corruption of it. Also he might have ignored the sign, or he might not have seen it. But that's no reason for someone to start shouting f*ck off to someone like that. He was only doing his job at the end of the day, and I find it rude and inappropriate. The only people who deserve that type of abuse, is the actual politicians who ruined the country and the party.

Also it's kind've appalling to see so many people on this thread, referring to people who disagree with the OP as wusses or have no balls etc. Show some respect ffs, just because some people don't condone the OP's comments, dosen't mean that they get walked on or are cowards. Some people are just more respectful then others.

Ran The Fianna Failer from the Door...hope he's not elected.

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