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Sacred Cows (people no one dares criticise)

  • 02-05-2015 08:46PM
    #1
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭


    What are some examples of sacred cows? That is, people who no one seems to want to criticise.

    Our President, Michael D. Higgins, is one (apart from the protesters who called him a "midget parasite").

    Who are some other examples?


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Comments

  • #2
    Nib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    OAPs.

    Going around in their 151 Toyota Yaris' at 40kph holding up half the bloody country.


  • #3
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Kids with a disability


  • #4
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    The Irish rugby team.


  • #5
    When the Sun Hits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭When the Sun Hits


    Actual cows, if you're a Hindu.


  • #6
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Brian O' Driscoll


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  • #7
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    Brian O' Driscoll

    Good example.

    And just to be clear, you can say "kids with a disability" or "OAPs" if you want, but I was referring to specific people e.g. Michael D. Higgins.


  • #8
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I thought that poor kid Walsh who lost his battle with cancer got away with some pretty idiotic attitudes towards suicide/depression just before he passed away.


  • #9
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Why would anyone want to criticise BoD?


  • #10
    househero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭househero


    Sexton.

    He fails us every single time we need him. Stupidly easy kicks. But the media lick the chocolate from his cheeks


  • #11
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    the landlady in the local


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  • #12
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    razorblunt wrote: »
    I thought that poor kid Walsh who lost his battle with cancer got away with some pretty idiotic attitudes towards suicide/depression just before he passed away.

    I don't blame him for that. It was ignorance by the media, just looking for a story that gave him the soapbox.


  • #13
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Vincent Browne .


  • #14
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    That bollox of an Obama


  • #15
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    castletownman wrote: »
    That bollox of an Obama

    Obama is the exact opposite of a sacred cow. Go on social media and it's nothing but people tearing him to shreds.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The OP.

    I think he's a right eejit.


  • #17
    microsim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭microsim


    The mccanns.


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Higgins is routinely slagged in the Irish media. No politician or public official in Ireland is off limits.


  • #19
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Yes side.




    *breaks glass, pulls cord ... pssst .... whump .... weeeeeeee


  • #20
    microsim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭microsim


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Obama is the exact opposite of a sacred cow. Go on social media and it's nothing but people tearing him to shreds.

    We brought him drinking when he visited ireland.


  • #21
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Liam Neeson.

    He's a terrible actor.


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  • #22
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Obama is the exact opposite of a sacred cow. Go on social media and it's nothing but people tearing him to shreds.

    not in this country


  • #23
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Mary Robinson
    Mary McAleese
    John Hume
    Adi Roche
    John O'Shea (from Goal)
    Padraig Harrington
    Ken Doherty


  • #24
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Graham Norton. I mean i've never heard anything bad about him, and he seems like a pretty sound bloke. One of the best talk show hosts going today.


  • #25
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Naomi Klein.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #26
    deseil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭deseil


    Nelson Mandela


  • #27
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Rory O' Neill (Panto Bliss)


  • #28
    NomadicGray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »
    Yes side.




    *breaks glass, pulls cord ... pssst .... whump .... weeeeeeee

    This, a million times this.


  • #29
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    Vincent Browne .
    castletownman wrote: »
    That bollox of an Obama
    microsim wrote: »
    The mccanns.
    Constantly being criticised - the McCanns to the point of being regularly accused, not just suspected of but accused, of murder, with zero concrete evidence.

    I wonder will this thread end up being reams and reams of people who are constantly criticised? Yes. Yes I think it will.
    Travellers and muslims and gay people and black people will obviously be included but they're all regularly criticised.

    I think the OP means individuals who are fawned over and it seems totally against the grain to criticise them.
    I would have said this was the case with Stephen Fry before, but I think people are seeing what he can be like now.


  • #30
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Although I am a fan of Noam Chomsky, the man has been giving an almost god-like status by some of his followers like as if he was like some sort of infallible demi-god sent from heaven to cure the world of injustice.


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  • #31
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    People with disabilities..
    .
    Some of them can be proper cnuts


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