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Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

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  • #1082
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Cool story brah.


  • #1083
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    Cool story brah.

    Why are you talking to this Sistah's underwear? :confused:


  • #1084
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    It's more real than her manufactured indignant self-righteous outrage at someone having the bare-faced cheek to consider the church less than perfect?

    There's probably a joke about arguments having support in there too, but I'm a busty busy chap...


  • #1085
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    It's more real than her manufactured indignant self-righteous outrage?

    This is true.


  • #1086
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Lorna Grady wrote: »
    but when the Blessed Virgin Mary is equated to an Iron age peasant I feel matters have gone too far.

    but the character was a peasant... from the iron age? :confused:


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  • #1087
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Lorna Grady wrote: »
    Interesting that such a book would get such a review. It’s a mean-spirited attack on everything that many people hold dear – their Faith. And what’s even worse, it attack our very Irishness, our very history and it maliciously derides those who led us to freedom. I have read it, and if the reviewer found it beautifully written, he may very well be right. But blasphemy is still a crime here – and if such an attack were to be made on Muslims I have no doubt that there would be a prosecution. I don’t favour banning books, but when the Blessed Virgin Mary is equated to an Iron age peasant I feel matters have gone too far.
    You don't support banning books but want a prosecution against an author? As bad as book burning to be blunt.


  • #1088
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,694 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Those invoking the word 'Irishness' are usually using it as a cover for petty-minded bigotry. Anyone different from themselves is somehow defined as 'less Irish' and therefore inferior.

    So if the book attacks that sort of 'Irishness', then good!

    Stay for a week

    in sunny Donaghmede

    with me



  • #1089
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Wait,when I gave up Catholicism did I inadvertently renounce my Irish citizenship? What about my children, are they Irish or what?


  • #1090
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    .....am I on the wrong thread here or wtf....


  • #1091
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Nodin wrote: »
    .....am I on the wrong thread here or wtf....

    That depends...are you Irish or Irish?


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  • #1092
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    That depends...are you Irish or Irish?


    Silence Corkonian. Your devilry will not confound me.


  • #1093
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Nodin wrote: »
    Silence Corkonian. Your devilry will not confound me.

    Silence plebian poster!


  • #1094
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lorna Grady wrote: »
    Interesting that such a book would get such a review. It’s a mean-spirited attack on everything that many people hold dear – their Faith. And what’s even worse, it attack our very Irishness, our very history and it maliciously derides those who led us to freedom. I have read it, and if the reviewer found it beautifully written, he may very well be right. But blasphemy is still a crime here – and if such an attack were to be made on Muslims I have no doubt that there would be a prosecution. I don’t favour banning books, but when the Blessed Virgin Mary is equated to an Iron age peasant I feel matters have gone too far.

    It would be nice if you made clearer what book you were on about....presumably its this one.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/you-gotta-have-faith-or-get-angry-with-god-1.1600070?page=1


  • #1095
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Jernal wrote: »
    Silence plebian poster!


    It's like that then..........well.....if that's the way ye want it.....


  • #1096
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Nodin wrote: »
    It's like that then..........well.....if that's the way ye want it.....

    It is yeah.



    :pac:


  • #1097
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Nodin wrote: »
    It's like that then..........well.....if that's the way ye want it.....

    Respect mahh authoritah!


  • #1098
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    It is yeah.



    :pac:

    Woman, who gave you permission to speak?


  • #1099
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Jernal wrote: »
    Woman, who gave you permission to speak?

    Some girl scouts selling cookies did.

    So There!

    *blows raspberry*


  • #1100
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,447 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Calm down, Jernal. Have a biscuit. :pac:

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1101
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Take a break,have a kit kat.


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  • #1102
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Calm down, Jernal. Have a biscuit. :pac:
    I eated all the biscuits. Someone stole all the biscuits. :( Care to donate more?


  • #1103
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Jernal wrote: »
    I eated all the biscuits. Someone stole all the biscuits. :( Care to donate more?

    Shall I call the lez-beans girl scouts back? - they have cookies.*

    *Cookies being apparently biscuits with a P.C. feminmist planned abortion ideology


  • #1104
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I thought cookie was a code word for meth.:confused:


  • #1105
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    You know, I'm kind of used to threads in this forum going completely off-topic, but this one too? :( Where will it end?!


  • #1106
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    You know, I'm kind of used to threads in this forum going completely off-topic, but this one too? :( Where will it end?!

    With the whole world gone cookoo for coco pops!


  • #1107
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    You know, I'm kind of used to threads in this forum going completely off-topic, but this one too? :( Where will it end?!

    Once John has said his latest pearl of wisdom this will be back on topic. :)


  • #1108
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Jernal wrote: »
    Once John has said his latest pearl of wisdom this will be back on topic. :)

    And I shall once again take my cookie and flee......


  • #1109
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Jernal wrote: »
    Once John has said his latest pearl of wisdom this will be back on topic. :)
    You can't make silken pearls out of a sow's ear.


  • #1110
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    robindch wrote: »
    You can't make silken pearls out of a sow's ear.

    We can't? But I thought we moddsies could do anything! Awss:(


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  • #1111
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,694 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    lazygal wrote: »
    Wait,when I gave up Catholicism

    You lucky, lucky bastard.

    Stay for a week

    in sunny Donaghmede

    with me



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