Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-11-2014 02:17PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Ah you know the person? I was thinking maybe he is stuck in the ditch and needs help

No he's just a weirdo, he always does terrible weird stuff, like driving his tractor up and down the road when there's people moving cattle, just so he can Rev it up as the cattle pass him, to scare them and make them scatter. He's a jerk. Though even I was surprised he was out at 5:30

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 02:19PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No he's just a weirdo, he always does terrible weird stuff, like driving his tractor up and down the road when there's people moving cattle, just so he can Rev it up as the cattle pass him, to scare them and make them scatter. He's a jerk. Though even I was surprised he was out at 5:30

It should be legal to give these people a smack on the bake.

Graces7 · 28-11-2014 05:00PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No he's just a weirdo, he always does terrible weird stuff, like driving his tractor up and down the road when there's people moving cattle, just so he can Rev it up as the cattle pass him, to scare them and make them scatter. He's a jerk. Though even I was surprised he was out at 5:30

Ah you must live in Kerry! Got a lot of this kind around here..

Graces7 · 28-11-2014 05:02PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Heading for Olympic Gold for sneezing and runny nose.. Now I understand why they say drink plenty of fluids with a cold,,,, to replace what your leaking nose uses..made a huge pan of chicken and barley soup yesterday though..

Should be through the worst by Craft Fair on Sunday, and it is Killarney so the car knows its way there and there is usually help unloading etc.

..
Losing hope as much worse tonight.....have worked so hard getting ready for this..praying for a miracle

Graces7 · 28-11-2014 05:06PM

Jake1 wrote: »

and dont even get me started on the cost of Chrismas

BAH :mad::(;)

Ah I don;t do Christmas like that! Family and i do not give gifts...And I am waiting for Dunnes to be selling off fruit and vegetables at a few cents as they do every year.. watching the annual price war on Roses and Quality Street,, tesco was at E4.95 last week. And i have turkey in the freezer..

Mind you I do expect folk to do THEIR Christmas shopping at my craft fair stall.

Graces7 · 28-11-2014 05:28PM

Childproof bottle for vitamin that my old hands will not undo.. just taken the scissorsto a vitamin c container..:rolleyes: I now have a collection of spare containers that are simple to open and decant stuff..

efb · 28-11-2014 05:29PM

Moody bint in work aargh

Pumpkinseeds · 28-11-2014 07:15PM

The new Annie is black

I see all people as being equal, regardless of religion, colour etc, that being said Annie was not black so it's ridiculous to cast a black child in the role, regardless of how fcuking politically correct they think they're being. Jaysus, the world is going mad.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-11-2014 07:17PM

Whos Annie

Rubberlegs · 28-11-2014 07:24PM

Annie is a little red haired kid, its a musical. The sun'll come out tomorroooowwww , and all that !

Pumpkinseeds · 28-11-2014 07:26PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Whos Annie

Annie was a ginger haired, freckled white kid

The new Annie is black with an Afro.

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 07:38PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Annie was a ginger haired, freckled white kid

The new Annie is black with an Afro.

I don't see the issue. I'm sure she's been played by non red headed white actresses before.

Pumpkinseeds · 28-11-2014 08:20PM

danrua01 wrote: »

I don't see the issue. I'm sure she's been played by non red headed white actresses before.

No, she hasn't. A frizzy haired ginger, freckle faced white girl is the character. Not a dark haired, freckle free kid or a black kid or an Asian kid or an Irish kid. I really don't see the point of changing the characters skin colour for any reason other than to make yet another issue out of black versus white. It's weird and pointless.

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 08:24PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

No, she hasn't. A frizzy haired ginger, freckle faced white girl is the character. Not a dark haired, freckle free kid or a black kid or an Asian kid or an Irish kid. I really don't see the point of changing the characters skin colour for any reason other than to make yet another issue out of black versus white. It's weird and pointless.

But what if you're putting a play on in a predominantly black country? It makes zero difference, it's called acting because anyone can play the character.

Jesus is regularly played by a what seems to be a completely white European.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-11-2014 08:26PM

But imagine making a movie about Nelson Mandela and having the character cast as a white man

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 08:29PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

But imagine making a movie about Nelson Mandela and having the character cast as a white man

I'm gonna make it happen!

Pumpkinseeds · 28-11-2014 08:37PM

danrua01 wrote: »

But what if you're putting a play on in a predominantly black country? It makes zero difference, it's called acting because anyone can play the character.

Jesus is regularly played by a what seems to be a completely white European.

It would be extremely patronising to black people to make the character black when she's white, simply because there were more black than white people in the country. Annie was supposed to be the kind of kid that was unlikely to be adopted because she wasn't pretty.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-11-2014 08:39PM

Kids boring their beady little eyes into me, while on the train. Very unnerving

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 08:41PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

It would be extremely patronising to black people to make the character black when she's white, simply because there were more black than white people in the country.

But if you were to cast a play, film etc. and went through whatever amount of actors for a part who were awful and wouldn't work to any degree, then came across one who didn't fit the physical description, but was great otherwise for the part, this actor wouldn't be cast?

I understand where you're coming from but I don't think characters should be constricted like that...Sure men played women til not too long ago!

In any case, two different opinions and that's that!

Pumpkinseeds · 28-11-2014 08:48PM

danrua01 wrote: »

But if you were to cast a play, film etc. and went through whatever amount of actors for a part who were awful and wouldn't work to any degree, then came across one who didn't fit the physical description, but was great otherwise for the part, this actor wouldn't be cast?

I understand where you're coming from but I don't think characters should be constricted like that...Sure men played women til not too long ago!

In any case, two different opinions and that's that!

NO, your opinion doesn't count.:P Casting a character that's the polar opposite of the original character is like making Mickey mouse a Cat. It's that different.:D

danrua01 · 28-11-2014 08:49PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

NO, your opinion doesn't count.:P Casting a character that's the polar opposite of the original character is like making Mickey mouse a Cat. It's that different.:D

I'd watch that film.... Imagine when Minnie came home!

Frigga_92 · 28-11-2014 09:03PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Kids boring their beady little eyes into me, while on the train. Very unnerving

I hate when they hang over their seat in front of you and stare at you.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-11-2014 09:06PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

I hate when they hang over their seat in front of you and stare at you.

That's what he was doing, in between fogging up the window with his breath and drawing pictures in it with his grubby little hands.

kfallon · 28-11-2014 09:12PM

Thick cúnts at the LUAS stop who can't work the ticket machine properly and then you end up missing the LUAS cos of them, happened to me yesterday and boy was I fúcking fuming.....geebag!

eisenberg1 · 28-11-2014 10:34PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

But imagine making a movie about Nelson Mandela and having the character cast as a white man

danrua01 wrote: »

I'm gonna make it happen!

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

It would be extremely patronising to black people to make the character black when she's white, simply because there were more black than white people in the country. Annie was supposed to be the kind of kid that was unlikely to be adopted because she wasn't pretty.

Back in the day there was a program called "The Black and White Minstrel Show":D

So bad it's funny.

Graces7 · 29-11-2014 09:16AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Back in the day there was a program called "The Black and White Minstrel Show":D

So bad it's funny.

Geee,, back in the day! They were the early TV stars and highly thought of ,, we werent forced to be PC in those days... each kid had a fancy dress costume we dragged out for any such events and mine was a gollywog. Black face and a beret knotted all over with black rug wool.. We collected gollies of Robertsons jams for eg a gollywog brooch...

Well, when Christmas and all the markets i over I am planning to work on a book re my childhood as it was so very different from now

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 29-11-2014 09:24AM

^ I literally understood none of that first paragraph, except for jam and being pc.

Graces7 · 29-11-2014 09:29AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

^ I literally understood none of that first paragraph, except for jam and being pc.

Just factual history from over sixty years ago.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 29-11-2014 09:35AM

Graces7 wrote: »

Just factual history from over sixty years ago.

What are gollys

Graces7 · 29-11-2014 10:01AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What are gollys

Golliwogs!

https://www.google.ie/search?q=robertsons+jam+gollies&rlz=1C1AVSX_enIE409IE409&oq=robertspns+gollies&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.13212j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Take your pick!

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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