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Petition to privatise Thatcher's funeral

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  • #32
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    RichieC wrote: »
    As much as i dislike thatchers politics I think this is a bit below the belt.

    If Thatcher's funeral was put out to tender it would be in keeping with her values though.

    Consistency and all that.


  • #33
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Wattle wrote: »
    And lets not forget the Falklands War.

    AKA the Falklands PR/re-election stunt.


  • #34
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    I just dont understand, with all the tyrant politicians we have, including our own, why she is singled out as a hate figure. I think it's because she's a woman and it makes people's masculinity uncomfortable to be honest, this is probably the root cause.


  • #35
    Seanchai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Seanchai


    Wattle wrote: »
    And lets not forget the Falklands War.

    Or the Malvinas.


  • #36
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I just dont understand, with all the tyrant politicians we have, including our own, why she is singled out as a hate figure. I think it's because she's a woman and it makes people's masculinity uncomfortable to be honest, this is probably the root cause.

    That's just Freudian bollocks. Mammy tried to cut off my penis and all that*.

    No offence.

    *May not be Freudian analysis.


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  • #37
    Batsy
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    She should be given a state funeral just like Churchill did.


  • #38
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    That's just Freudian bollocks.

    No offence.

    Oh why can't I thank this 20 times!

    Post of the year :D


  • #39
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    That's just Freudian bollocks.

    No offence.

    I don't think it is, I think the idea of a stern strong woman in power frightens men and seems to start all this chest beating and rabbling that goes on when she's mentioned.


  • #40
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    :p:p Margaret Thatcher has been admitted to hospital.
    She is not expected to live - her condition is described as satisfactory :D;);)


  • #41
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Cos she was a cunt.

    And it's hatred.

    I would have thought that, with the hostility towards the occupy movements and anyone with a non-capitalism leaning, she would have been more popular.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #42
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I just dont understand, with all the tyrant politicians we have, including our own, why she is singled out as a hate figure.

    In what way is he singled out? I would say her contemporary of the time president Regan probably gets more overall hatred. Or maybe gorbachov?

    There's plenty of world leaders who have been hated more than maggie before her time, during, and after.

    I just dont understand why you think she's been singled out and making it a gender issue is nonsense.


  • #43
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Fear Uladh wrote: »
    Amazing that some Irish people glorify her.

    The only people that hated her more than the Irish were the English.

    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.


  • #44
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    RichieC wrote: »
    As much as i dislike thatchers politics I think this is a bit below the belt.

    If Thatcher's funeral was put out to tender it would be in keeping with her values though.

    Consistency and all that.

    shes not dead, though...


  • #45
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I don't think it is, I think the idea of a stern strong woman in power frightens men and seems to start all this chest beating and rabbling that goes on when she's mentioned.




    :D:D No No No :D:D:D


  • #46
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I don't think it is, I think the idea of a stern strong woman in power frightens men and seems to start all this chest beating and rabbling that goes on when she's mentioned.

    Na.

    Men pay for that kinda shit usually.

    She wasn't exactly womanly anyway was she?


  • #47
    number10a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Is she dead? :confused:

    Not yet.


  • #48
    Sunnyisland
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    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.


    Was in Huddersfield last year and they still hate her with a passion,I know thats not all of England but still.


  • #49
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    That's just Freudian bollocks. Mammy tried to cut off my penis and all that*.

    No offence.

    *May not be Freudian analysis.

    Brilliant. :D


  • #50
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.

    .....getting, as a best ever result, the support of 42% of the electorate. What a resounding fucking mandate.


  • #51
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    RichieC wrote: »
    shes not dead, though...

    Yeah but surely she'd be looking for maximum value for the tax-payer so leaving it until she's dead might cost the tax-payer too much.

    Just sayin.

    Ronald Reagan planned his multi-million dollar funeral meticulously AFAIK. Why couldn't she?


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  • #52
    number10a
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    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.

    Yeah, because we've never had a hated individual in this country win three general elections.......... :rolleyes:


  • #53
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    realies wrote: »
    Was in Huddersfield last year and they still hate her with a passion,I know thats not all of England but still.

    The English as a whole couldn't have hated her, otherwise she wouldn't have won three general elections.


  • #54
    Batsy
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    number10a wrote: »
    Yeah, because we've never had a hated individual in this country win three general elections.......... :rolleyes:

    That's Ireland, though. Thatcher was the PM of the United Kingdom. It's usually rare for a hated person in the UK to win three elections on the trot.


  • #55
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I would like a Thatcher style politican to revisit the Croke Park Agreement


  • #56
    Chuck Stone
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    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.

    George Bush won two, got the US into a war based on lies, will have cost the US trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives by the time the dust settles.

    Majorities don't always make good decisions.


  • #57
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.

    I know an awful lot of English people who did, and quite a few of them were staunch Tories.

    I bet she's still fondly remembered in the towns and cities that became unemployment blackspots thanks to her.


  • #58
    number10a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    Batsy wrote: »
    That's Ireland, though. Thatcher was the PM of the United Kingdom. It's usually rare for a hated person in the UK to win three elections on the trot.

    Isn't it usually rare anywhere? :confused: But, like you said, that's Ireland! :D The land where logic is defied on a daily basis.


  • #59
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I just dont understand, with all the tyrant politicians we have, including our own, why she is singled out as a hate figure. I think it's because she's a woman and it makes people's masculinity uncomfortable to be honest, this is probably the root cause.

    Or is it because she backed homophobic legislation, refused to enact sanctions against apartheid south africa, caused needless hardship, was a cheerleader for Reagan when the US was funding brutal regimes across latin America, the dismissive arrogance, the flagwaving cockology.....


  • #60
    Seanchai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Seanchai


    Batsy wrote: »
    She should be given a state funeral just like Churchill did.

    Yeah, but you're a British nationalist of the most rightwing John Bull type so that's not surprising in fairness.

    She should be dragged in front of a war crimes tribunal for many things, such as authorising a shoot-to-kill policy against the native Irish forces of resistance in the occupied Six Counties (John Stalker, anybody?), supporting and arming the Indonesian genocide of the East Timorese, fully supporting the apartheid régime in South Africa (members of which gave her Tory Party millions in funding around the time she referred to Mandela as a "terrorist"), supporting child-murdering dictators like Pinochet while lecturing others about "terrorism" and "human rights", and so much else.

    Only the most backward, blinkered and undereducated British nationalist could admire this murdering hypocritical wench.


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  • #61
    Fear Uladh
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    Batsy wrote: »
    The English didn't hate her. If they did she wouldn't have won three general elections.

    The highest she ever got was 42%, not exactly setting England alight.

    I can see she is still very much loved, what with the cabinet wanting to privatise her funeral.

    The irony is like a fine steak, ****ing delicious.


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