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Am I the only one who does not find this funny??

  • 03-06-2013 8:02pm
    #1
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Did anyone hear about this guy called Robert from Kilkenny who filmed his mother who was giving out to him about his Irish oral and put it up on Youtube?

    I mean people were either laughing about it, or saying "Poor woman, it's really frustating when teens don't study" but no one seems to be commenting on the fact that this guy filmed a private family matter and exposed it on the internet for the whole world to see?! And it annoys me to find that the s**t still has not took it down because it's still around on Youtube.

    I mean me and a relative of mine were arguing over something the other day, and a cousin of mine was in the other room laughing and was on her phone, and then my relative asked her what she was laughing at and asked her for her phone because she actually thought that she might have been recording us fighting. She said she wasn't, but I am still worried about that because I was on the computer at her house and came across a video recording of a VERY private family matter and it still disgusts me that she could film it. Not sure if she put it on the internet or not, but I deleted it anyway just in case, because she is not exactly miss innocence after what I have seen.

    But this is what I mean, that she become very paranoid when she had that phone on her because of this Irish Oral video.


    But is this what is had come to? Where a parent can't argue with their child without them recording it and putting it on the internet to have their five seconds of fame, and at the same time humilating them forever? I mean it's bad enough when bullies film their victims or people film eccentric things that happen in public, but to film your own family members is just low altogether.


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  • #2
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    He strikes me as a useless wee fûcker


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    People have recorded things since the dawn of humanity, from cave art to smartphones.


  • #4
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    People have recorded things since the dawn of humanity, from cave art to smartphones.

    Tbf though, the cave art recording wasn't great. Mono sound too. Eeeeewwwww.


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    SamHall wrote: »
    Tbf though, the cave art recording wasn't great. Mono sound too. Eeeeewwwww.
    Well, they just worked with what they had. If they had youtube we would be inundated with videos of Hagar shagging a brontosaurus, and the cries of how his civil liberties were breached too.


  • #6
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    This one ?



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  • #7
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Thought he was a little s-h-it to be honest.

    But a video can travel a lot quicker on the internet, and you can't really tackle privacy concerns :confused:


  • #8
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    The secret is to remember it's happening to other people.


  • #9
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Nowadays if it kicks it gets youtubed.


  • #10
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I approve of this. For a start, it's lulzy. For another thing, the possibility that you might be being recorded encourages a culture in which being a complete knob carries its risks. She strikes me as immensely annoying, and just as in the case of the KPMG incident, anything which encourages people to think about how ridiculous they look/sound before they act is a welcome change.

    If this was applied to boardrooms and cabinet offices around the world we'd have far less neglect and corruption.


  • #11
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,618 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Poor poor woman, although she is a little over the top, he should not have done it. I would be mortified if someone has recoded some of the rows I use to have with my youngest daughter when she was a teenage.

    I use to get great satisfaction thinking that one day, please god she will have a teenager of her own and then I will have my revenge!


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  • #12
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #13
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Teenager in being a little c*nt shocker.


  • #14
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    People have recorded things since the dawn of humanity, from cave art to smartphones.

    Only difference though you can wipe away cave art or any type of hand-made art if you wanted to. Smartphones...once recorded and up online it is there forever. I feel for the woman, she could could be walking down the street, feeling that people on the street who saw the video are laughing at her behind her back, over something that is none of their business to begin with. If a family member did that to me, I'd never speak to them again.


  • #15
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    So he was on Facebook, yet you can be gauranteed he's not paying for the broadband connection. A right little príck for posting that.


  • #16
    mad turnip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭mad turnip


    I don't think he has the intelligence to remove it as demonstrated in the video.


  • #17
    Meangadh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    rox5 wrote: »
    Did anyone hear about this guy called Robert from Kilkenny who filmed his mother who was giving out to him about his Irish oral and put it up on Youtube?

    How is it possible that people still haven't seen or heard about this video? It was everywhere.


  • #18
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Basically the problem here is..immature people who thinks it's funny to put videos of other people online.

    This was always going to be a problem anyway, since the invention of the camera or even since people started painting private affairs or family matters. And there's nothing we can do really, once it goes online, it's everywhere. Eejits have always existed.

    If little Leonardo Da Vinci painted his parents fighting, everyone who seen it later would have known. There is no real solution to it.


  • #19
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Meangadh wrote: »
    How is it possible that people still haven't seen or heard about this video? It was everywhere.

    I'd never heard of it before, but then videos posted by idiotic teenagers are outside my area of interest.

    Which means that pretty soon I won't understand the internet at all.


  • #20
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    Meangadh wrote: »
    How is it possible that people still haven't seen or heard about this video? It was everywhere.

    Only heard it the other day. I actually didn't want to bring attention to it by starting this thread, but I had to ask if people were actually disgusted by it like I am, but people seem to think it's only a laugh. Also I am 20, it would have been two years since my LC and even then I had more cop on not to record anyone who gave out to me over my studies.


  • #21
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    rox5 wrote: »
    Only difference though you can wipe away cave art or any type of hand-made art if you wanted to. Smartphones...once recorded and up online it is there forever. I feel for the woman, she could could be walking down the street, feeling that people on the street who saw the video are laughing at her behind her back, over something that is none of their business to begin with. If a family member did that to me, I'd never speak to them again.
    Some cave paintings are up to 40,000 years old. Do you think that video will still be around in 40 years time, never mind 40,000?


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  • #22
    Meangadh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I'd never heard of it before, but then videos posted by idiotic teenagers are outside my area of interest.

    Which means that pretty soon I won't understand the internet at all.

    It was all over facebook, here on boards and was spoken about on at length on 2fm and the Ray D'arcy show- probably other places too. Just find it mad that people who use the internet still hadn't seen it! You're right though, he is an idiot. And his Mam was only doing everything any good mother would. He's a very lucky young man to have a mother like her, he should make more of an effort to appreciate that.


  • #23
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    I thought it was hilarious, she was a typical mammy and he was a typical moron.


  • #24
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Meangadh wrote: »
    It was all over facebook, here on boards and was spoken about on at length on 2fm and the Ray D'arcy show- probably other places too. Just find it mad that people who use the internet still hadn't seen it! You're right though, he is an idiot. And his Mam was only doing everything any good mother would. He's a very lucky young man to have a mother like her, he should make more of an effort to appreciate that.

    I never listen to the radio, have lost touch to a great extent with Boards, very rarely use facebook and none of my facebook friends would post a video like this.
    The above sentence may or may not be explained by me being 29, and not following most mainstream media.


  • #25
    bacon n eggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭bacon n eggs


    I can't believe no-one has mentioned the poster on his wall yet, if my boys put that up there would be stern words.


  • #26
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    My mammy wouldn't let me have a picture of boobies in my room.


  • #27
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    SamHall wrote: »
    Tbf though, the cave art recording wasn't great. Mono sound too. Eeeeewwwww.

    The pair of eyes on one side of the face were cool though, don't you think?


  • #28
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    rox5 wrote: »
    Did anyone hear about this guy called Robert from Kilkenny who filmed his mother who was giving out to him about his Irish oral and put it up on Youtube?

    I mean people were either laughing about it, or saying "Poor woman, it's really frustating when teens don't study" but no one seems to be commenting on the fact that this guy filmed a private family matter and exposed it on the internet for the whole world to see?! And it annoys me to find that the s**t still has not took it down because it's still around on Youtube.

    I mean me and a relative of mine were arguing over something the other day, and a cousin of mine was in the other room laughing and was on her phone, and then my relative asked her what she was laughing at and asked her for her phone because she actually thought that she might have been recording us fighting. She said she wasn't, but I am still worried about that because I was on the computer at her house and came across a video recording of a VERY private family matter and it still disgusts me that she could film it. Not sure if she put it on the internet or not, but I deleted it anyway just in case, because she is not exactly miss innocence after what I have seen.

    But this is what I mean, that she become very paranoid when she had that phone on her because of this Irish Oral video.


    But is this what is had come to? Where a parent can't argue with their child without them recording it and putting it on the internet to have their five seconds of fame, and at the same time humilating them forever? I mean it's bad enough when bullies film their victims or people film eccentric things that happen in public, but to film your own family members is just low altogether.

    Straying off a little but what gave you the right to delete it? Whatever about bringing it to someones attention but it wasn't yours to delete


  • #29
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    rox5 wrote: »
    Only heard it the other day. I actually didn't want to bring attention to it by starting this thread .....

    316,962 people have viewed that particular youtube page

    Of course it mutated and spawned stuff like :



    "Famous" for ever

    and there is always :

    http://twitter.com/irishmammies


  • #30
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Some cave paintings are up to 40,000 years old. Do you think that video will still be around in 40 years time, never mind 40,000?

    Didn't you hear? Youtube is being designated a UNESCO world heritage site, just like Lascaux. ;)


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  • #31
    le la rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


    While it was very wrong to do what he did it was still the funniest thing I have seen this year


  • #32
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »
    Straying off a little but what gave you the right to delete it? Whatever about bringing it to someones attention but it wasn't yours to delete

    Well the family matter in the video largely involved my father who has been going through a lot of problems so I had EVERY right to delete it. Don't care less if it was on her computer or not. What gives me the right to delete it? How about what gives HER the right to FILM it?

    Also I know her, if I did bring it to someone's attention, she would have been so angry at me. There is no reasoning with her, so was just easier to have deleted it to save my father humiliation.


  • #33
    The Aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    rox5 wrote: »
    Did anyone hear about this guy called Robert from Kilkenny who filmed his mother who was giving out to him about his Irish Oral and put it up on Youtube?


    Can't blame him to be honest.......

    Michael Douglas reckons it gave him Throat Cancer.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22751349


  • #34
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    The Aussie wrote: »
    Can't blame him to be honest.......

    Michael Douglas reckons it gave him Throat Cancer.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22751349

    *Exasperated sigh*


  • #35
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    I'm sure its some form of mental illness


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62861607&postcount=3

    "Irish mammy syndrome is short hand for the passive agressive manipulative manner in which some women control thier children even when those children are in thier 40s.

    It also tends to go hand in hand with the worship of their sons and handicapping them to be able to look after themsleves as they were never made pick up after themselves or cook or do any household chores for themsevles, while also putting down thier daughters and trying to stiffle their spirit as they may as well get used to the life of being a stay at home skivy rather then getting notions.

    It is a perverse type of self martyrdom. "


    http://www.oqps.ie/mammy-syndrome.htm

    Mothers who refuse to believe their sons have fathered illegitimate children are among the most popular users of DNA paternity test services, it has been revealed.

    A leading paternity testing company claimed its business has rocketed by 80% over the last year in no short measure because of the "great Irish mammy syndrome".
    Brian O'Dwyer, operations director of the Dublin-based Ormonde Quay Paternity Services (OQPS), said potential grandmothers contact the company in their droves to find out how to disprove allegations their son had casual sex. "It's the great Irish mammy syndrome. I have had an astonishing number of calls from mothers who believe the girl is not telling the truth," said O'Dwyer.
    Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2008, All Rights Reserved


  • #36
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    rox5 wrote: »
    .......... I was on the computer at her house and came across a video recording of a VERY private family matter and it still disgusts me that she could film it. Not sure if she put it on the internet or not, but I deleted it anyway .........

    How did you manage to delete it if she put it on the internet ?

    Do you know her password to Youtube or wherever ?

    Did you log in to her account on Youtube and delete it ?


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  • #37
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    gctest50 wrote: »
    How did you manage to delete it if she put it on the internet ?

    Do you know her password to Youtube or wherever ?

    Did you log in to her account on Youtube and delete it ?

    I never said she put it on the internet, I said I saw it on her computer and I am not sure if it is on the internet, as I have not seen anything, but I deleted anyway as it is too upsetting to know something like that is recorded or if my father ever discovered it. I know she has a Youtube account and I have not seen it on there. She does have a Tagged account and is very private about that so I am worried about what stuff could be on there.


  • #38
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    She could just download something like : http://www.piriform.com/recuva


  • #39
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I'd say this video being uploaded is simply because of how funny and typically 'Irish Mammy' it is.
    I don't think she came across bad, she was dead right to be honest but it's still quite funny.


    Anyway, camera phones have ruined everything. Can't do anything these days without someone whipping out their phone to get a picture or a video of it. Ugh.
    Concerts are the worst, here's an idea..enjoy the moment, put the camera away.


  • #40
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    gctest50 wrote: »
    This one ?

    Nice tits on the wall.


  • #41
    onthebrink
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭onthebrink


    He sounds like a right thicko all right, but Mum is not showing great motivation skills or example either. Having someone stand over you, Ff...ing and aggressive is not the best preparation for an exam.
    Robert seems very immature and shows it by putting that recording on Youtube, but how will Mum motivate him next year when he is away in college. (If he gets there!!)
    A parent has to encourage their kids for exams, and there is no point trying to bully someone into studying or learning, it just cannot be done.
    To all exam students I would say best of luck on Wednesday and I hope you are getting the support you deserve, all you can do is your best.


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  • #42
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    bacon n eggs wrote: »
    I can't believe no-one has mentioned the poster on his wall yet, if my boys put that up there would be stern words.

    Same here, shows a complete lack of respect for his home tbh.
    It used to be that would have been "hidden" in CASE it was found, now little spoilt f*ckers like him are hanging it on the wall in HER house(when he gets his own place he can hang whatever ****e he likes up).

    If any of mine ever posted anything like that about me on youtube etc(they'd have better sense ;)) they'd see what would happen, "No more internet for you sonny boy"


  • #43
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    rox5 wrote: »
    Well the family matter in the video largely involved my father who has been going through a lot of problems so I had EVERY right to delete it. Don't care less if it was on her computer or not. What gives me the right to delete it? How about what gives HER the right to FILM it?

    Also I know her, if I did bring it to someone's attention, she would have been so angry at me. There is no reasoning with her, so was just easier to have deleted it to save my father humiliation.

    Would it not be better to tell someone so they can explain to her what she's doing is wrong? At the moment she or your family are none the wiser and will just continue as they are, and she will probably continue recording things you feel she shouldn't be. At the very least they could keep an eye on her


  • #44
    FullblownRose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭FullblownRose


    Imo it's not funny at all and agree with the sentiment about posting these things for others to see, not on. He might be a teenager but I know adults on fb who post a lot of things that he wouldnt like if he was the subject of them. The idea is mocking and humiliation and its a bit mean.


  • #45
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    The Aussie wrote: »
    Can't blame him to be honest.......

    Michael Douglas reckons it gave him Throat Cancer.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22751349

    We literally made it 3 pages into the thread without this coming up. Why, why would you do that?


  • #46
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    le la rat wrote: »
    While it was very wrong to do what he did it was still the funniest thing I have seen this year
    .At best it's vaguely amusing, but if this is what's trending, meh!. Not sure it's even genuine but who cares?

    She should post videos of this frustrating genius.

    <Live webcam of our little Johnny wastudying>


  • #47
    SparkySpitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    https://www.facebook.com/pages/What-does-Robert-get-in-his-Irish-leaving-cert/563936400315250?hc_location=stream

    According to this page he got the C, well done Robert :P


  • #48
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    SparkySpitfire wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/What-does-Robert-get-in-his-Irish-leaving-cert/563936400315250?hc_location=stream

    According to this page he got the C, well done Robert :P

    Can't find that anywhere on the page. Where are you reading it from that he got a C?


  • #49
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    I just think it's sad that a legal adult (or soon to be) is forced to do a subject he has no interest in and sees no merit in doing. He quite obviously has great disdain for the subject. Yet he is forced by law, societal pressure and even his mother to put up with some sort of song and dance for a couple of months so he can get some arbitrary mark which is assessed over 3 days (oral & 2 papers) in a language he will probably never use again.


  • #50
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    thanks for the link.....i tried googling Mammy Oral.....BIG mistake


  • #51
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    bleg wrote: »
    I just think it's sad that a legal adult (or soon to be) is forced to do a subject he has no interest in and sees no merit in doing. He quite obviously has great disdain for the subject. Yet he is forced by law, societal pressure and even his mother to put up with some sort of song and dance for a couple of months so he can get some arbitrary mark which is assessed over 3 days (oral & 2 papers) in a language he will probably never use again.


    He's NOT a legal adult though, that's an important distinction. Other than that, he's hardly suffering, his problem was that he just couldn't be arsed.

    Meanwhile other students who worked hard have aspirations to work for NASA, become doctors and study medicine, while Robert is still pulling the plums off himself to his posters of Holly Hagan.


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