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summerskin · 18-11-2011 03:08PM

Seanchai wrote: »

Yes, all of them. Well done. :rolleyes:

as a broad cross-reference, compared to people of the UK, France, Switzerland, USA, Germany etc that I have lived in.

Should have included you on the list perhaps too, as rabid republicans are just as bad.

Celly Smunt · 18-11-2011 03:08PM

students are ****.

Leftist · 18-11-2011 03:11PM

Seanchai wrote: »

1) Yes, I can see why cultural diversity in Ireland would horrify somebody with your evident limitations and fear of difference.

2) Yes, because Ireland would be so much better if Ireland were as culturally English as Sussex or Kent with the Irish language obliterated from public life.

Full marks on the cultural intolerance front.

I couldn't give two farts about irish language. It's a second language, preserved entirely for the sake of cultural celebration. Deal with it.

A rural republican crusade will never truely fill the gap in your life and you are so far past sell by with your attitude that you will just serve as an embarrassment.

Fishooks12 · 18-11-2011 03:13PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

students are ****.

Bitter much eh?

foxyboxer · 18-11-2011 03:14PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

students are ****.

It's safe to say a lot of them masturbate yes.

:pac:

Celly Smunt · 18-11-2011 03:14PM

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Bitter much eh?

as said,might be unpopular but it's the truth,when you leave college you'll think the same,"students weren't like that back then",now they're just ****.

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:14PM

summerskin wrote: »

as a broad cross-reference, compared to people of the UK, France, Switzerland, USA, Germany etc that I have lived in.

Should have included you on the list perhaps too, as rabid republicans are just as bad.

There's just something about your posts to date that give the impression that "broad cross-references" are not something that sit well with the narrowness of your views on, it seems, every topic.

summerskin · 18-11-2011 03:16PM

Seanchai wrote: »

There's just something about your posts to date that give the impression that "broad cross-references" are not something that sit well with the narrowness of your views on, it seems, every topic.

hmm as opposed to yourself, who only seems to possess one view in life, and one topic of conversation, at all.

keep fighting the fight, son. hope it fulfills you while the rest of us get on with more serious matters.

Leftist · 18-11-2011 03:18PM

Seanchai wrote: »

There's just something about your posts to date that give the impression that "broad cross-references" are not something that sit well with the narrowness of your views on, it seems, every topic.

Wait a minute, he's lived in those countries, you can't even efficiently describe the capital of your own country. How in the right mind can you honestly compare your opinion to his?

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:18PM

Leftist wrote: »

I couldn't give two farts about irish language. It's a second language, preserved entirely for the sake of cultural celebration. Deal with it.

A rural republican crusade will never truely fill the gap in your life and you are so far past sell by with your attitude that you will just serve as an embarrassment.

It's truly. If you're going to get presumptuous with me about how awful Irish is and how great English is, at least learn to master English. But isn't that the problem: English is clearly hard enough for you to master, so of course you're going to feel intimidated by Irish and use it as a scapegoat for your own failures. Loser psychology 101. :rolleyes:

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:23PM

summerskin wrote: »

hmm as opposed to yourself, who only seems to possess one view in life, and one topic of conversation, at all.

keep fighting the fight, son. hope it fulfills you while the rest of us get on with more serious matters.

As opposed to most people; you know, people who don't write stupid intolerant things demeaning old people or weak people or anybody who doesn't subscribe to your narrow cultural outlook.

cruiser178 · 18-11-2011 03:23PM

BlimpyBoy wrote: »

Pepsi is better than Coke. A lot better

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

^ we have a winner

No we don't, Pepsi is pure piss that's why its far less popular in this country than coke. The yanks love it but shur their all mental :pac:

Leftist · 18-11-2011 03:24PM

Seanchai wrote: »

It's truly. If you're going to get presumptuous with me about how awful Irish is and how great English is, at least learn to master English. But isn't that the problem: English is clearly hard enough for you to master, so of course you're going to feel intimidated by Irish and use it as a scapegoat for your own failures. Loser psychology 101. :rolleyes:

I'd rather spell a word wrong than dedicate my life to 1950s gaa republicanism. Everything you believe in so deeply is irrelevant. How does that feel?

summerskin · 18-11-2011 03:26PM

Seanchai wrote: »

As opposed to most people; you know, people who don't write stupid intolerant things demeaning old people or weak people or anybody who doesn't subscribe to your narrow cultural outlook.

this from the person who said all loyalists are "knuckle draggers" as they have a different opinion to him! (for the record i am republican, but it's republicans like you who make me wonder why)

having lived in 7 countries, i would hardly call it a narrow cultural outlook.

where have you ever lived other than ireland?

it's not demeaning them for being old or weak, it's pointing out that in my opinion, older irish people are ruder than those of any other country I have lived in.

cruiser178 · 18-11-2011 03:27PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

as said,might be unpopular but it's the truth,when you leave college you'll think the same,"students weren't like that back then",now they're just ****.

Tough but very fair.

LeeHoffmann · 18-11-2011 03:30PM

No we don't, Pepsi is pure piss that's why its far less popular in this country than coke

the name of the game is unpopular opinions. Therefore if this is the least popular opinion - we do indeed have a winner :P

cruiser178 · 18-11-2011 03:32PM

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

the name of the game is unpopular opinions. Therefore if this is the least popular opinion - we do indeed have a winner :P

Jaxxy · 18-11-2011 03:33PM

Leftist wrote: »

Seanchai wrote: »

It's truly. If you're going to get presumptuous with me about how awful Irish is and how great English is, at least learn to master English. But isn't that the problem: English is clearly hard enough for you to master, so of course you're going to feel intimidated by Irish and use it as a scapegoat for your own failures. Loser psychology 101. :rolleyes:

I'd rather spell a word wrong than dedicate my life to 1950s gaa republicanism. Everything you believe in so deeply is irrelevant. How does that feel?

Excuse me, but since when was a person's beliefs deeply irrelevant!? They might not be relevant to you but that doesn't make them irrelevant. I just can't understand some of the attitudes here, so intolerant, so narrowminded.

If you don't like Irish and don't see the merit inherent in using it then don't. That doesn't mean someone who enjoys the language is stuck in rural 1950's. And yours isn't an opinion shared by the majority of Dubs either; over half of my extended circle of friends are fluent Irish speakers and there's nothing wrong with it.

Paparazzo · 18-11-2011 03:38PM

Seanchai wrote: »

1) Yes, I can see why cultural diversity in Ireland would horrify somebody with your evident limitations and fear of difference.

2) Yes, because Ireland would be so much better if Ireland were as culturally English as Sussex or Kent with the Irish language obliterated from public life.

Full marks on the cultural intolerance front.

Hold on, he said the irish language, not all irish culture. Using his examples, the only one you see in every day life is on roadsigns and thing like that. You think if we remove the irish from roadsigns, we'll be culturally the same as Sussex or Kent!

Thank god there's a lot more to irish culture than a language that almost no one speaks!

Leftist · 18-11-2011 03:39PM

actually jaxxxy, I base my opinion on a little more than that.

Seanchai wrote: »

Sweet Jesus. The garrison game hasn't even got its own stadium here in Dublin, let alone the organisation and popular support which the GAA has in Dublin. Like all its marginalised pikey followers, it's merely a tenant. The only place where soccer is possibly stronger than football in Dublin is in marginalised underclass areas where the residents haven't got the space to play football because it's such a tight squeeze in between the junkies, drug dealers, dole office, offy, bookies, shootings and shoot-ups in the flats. You know, the sort of people who think anybody who is not as marginalised as they are is a snob worthy of being robbed, the sort of people who call Irish sports like football "bogball", and who follow British soccer as if they were their local teams. Complete saps, in other words.

Give me "bogball" any day over the game of the British crown forces of occupation in Ireland, and its marginalised tracksuit-wearing Dublin knacker followers.

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:50PM

Leftist wrote: »

I'd rather spell a word wrong than dedicate my life to 1950s gaa republicanism. Everything you believe in so deeply is irrelevant. How does that feel?

You say that as if you had a choice in the matter. You didn't. You simply aren't intellectually capable of holding a serious discussion without reverting to obtuse dichotomies using stereotypes and clichés which more discerning posters would be embarrassed to resort to. Pitiful, really.

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:50PM

summerskin wrote: »

this from the person who said all loyalists are "knuckle draggers" as they have a different opinion to him!

Interesting. Considering I've never used that term in my life, you'll be able to give a reference for this?

The fact that you've made this allegation without bothering to do a basic check says much about the thought you put into your ideas and your flippant "if you throw enough muck some of it will stick" disposition towards posters here. Lazy and angry.

summerskin wrote: »

where have you ever lived other than ireland?

This is, of course, totally irrelevant because I have lived in so many non-anglophone countries that it's absolutely no big deal. Your line of reasoning is, however, ironic given that I'm the one defending cultural diversity in Ireland and you and he are opposing it.

Seanchai · 18-11-2011 03:58PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

Hold on, he said the irish language, not all irish culture. Using his examples, the only one you see in every day life is on roadsigns and thing like that. You think if we remove the irish from roadsigns, we'll be culturally the same as Sussex or Kent!

Thank god there's a lot more to irish culture than a language that almost no one speaks!

Well, I must have been speaking to several "almost no ones" this morning. That you're in denial about the place of the language in Ireland's culture and history is really not something I'm going to waste my time challenging. But that you are petty and intolerant enough to want to remove it from bilingual signs says enough about your hostility to aspects of Irish culture which are not variations on English culture. Thus, supporting Irish soccer is an acceptable display of Irish culture, but supporting the Irish language isn't. And so on.

summerskin · 18-11-2011 04:00PM

Seanchai wrote: »

summerskin wrote: »

this from the person who said all loyalists are "knuckle draggers" as they have a different opinion to him!

Interesting. Considering I've never used that term in my life, you'll be able to give a reference for this?

The fact that you've made this allegation without bothering to do a basic check says much about the thought you put into your ideas and your flippant "if you throw enough muck some of it will stick" disposition towards posters here. Lazy and angry.

summerskin wrote: »

where have you ever lived other than ireland?

This is, of course, totally irrelevant because I have lived in so many non-anglophone countries that it's absolutely no big deal. Your line of reasoning is, however, ironic given that I'm the one defending cultural diversity in Ireland and you and he are opposing it.

Apologies, it was a different poster who used that term.

And how exactly am I opposing cultural diversity? I just gave my opinion that older Irish people are rather rude.

Leftist · 18-11-2011 04:02PM

Seanchai wrote: »

You say that as if you had a choice in the matter. You didn't. You simply aren't intellectually capable of holding a serious discussion without reverting to obtuse dichotomies using stereotypes and clichés which more discerning posters would be embarrassed to resort to. Pitiful, really.

Cliches?
you use terms like the garrison game and british crown forces of occupation in Ireland.

You have no self awareness at all do you?

Fishooks12 · 18-11-2011 04:02PM

summerskin wrote: »

Apologies, it was a different poster who used that term.

And how exactly am I opposing cultural diversity? I just gave my opinion that older Irish people are rather rude.

I find older Irish people a lot more kind and mannerly than our own generation

Evil_Clown · 18-11-2011 04:19PM

realies wrote: »

I don't like the saw doctors.

I don't like pat short.

I don't like killinaskully.

I don't like hardy bucks.

To balance the books

I don't like Aslan
I don't like Brendan O'Carroll
I don't like Mrs Browns Boys
I don't like Fair City

Snakeblood · 18-11-2011 04:21PM

I don't like the saw doctors.
I don't like pat short.
I don't like killinaskully.
I don't like hardy bucks.
I don't like Aslan
I don't like Brendan O'Carroll
I don't like Mrs Browns Boys
I don't like Fair City

THIS IS HOW I FEEL.

pragmatic1 · 18-11-2011 06:42PM

Leftist wrote: »

It's 2011. While your attitude may have been horrifying even as recently as 15 years ago it is entirely laughable now. Your kind are irrelevant or dying off and ireland is becoming a better place because of it.

One of the dumber comments I've read on this site.

CorsetIsTight · 18-11-2011 07:03PM

amacachi wrote: »

Travellers are not a fcuking race.

The size of their families would suggest the contrary.

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