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"They can't even grow potatoes!..."

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  • #32
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #33
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    What a bs rant, the guy's obviously got deeper issues.


  • #34
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭blinding


    An acquaintance once told me that a nickname that some aussies have for the Irish is :

    Potato N*gg*rs (I mean no offence to anyone with this)

    I wonder if others can corroborate if this is true or not ?


  • #35
    irishmover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭irishmover


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    When you have spent time there and then having to deal with their diaspora that has settled in the motherland it becomes clear.

    I am sure they are not all like that, but sadly the majority I have dealt with via my line of work are.

    Well that's a bit different. I thought we were discussing the generalisation that the majority of Australians agree with this mans comments about Ireland and the Irish. Not about the indigoneous population.


  • #36
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭blinding


    Links234 wrote: »
    Ah, it's Australia, racism is a national passtime for that lot :p

    Here, laugh at some Australians:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4Q7nQV0fY
    Fook it that was funny !


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  • #37
    irishmover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭irishmover


    blinding wrote: »
    An acquaintance once told me that a nickname that some aussies have for the Irish is :

    Potato N*gg*rs (I mean no offence to anyone with this)

    I wonder if others can corroborate if this is true or not ?

    Wow have never heard that one before but I'm sure someone has said it. Even the roughest rednecks I've worked with have never said anything remotely close to that.


  • #38
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    “..these are people who can’t grow potatoes,
    they’ve got a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol
    they can’t verbalise the difference between tree and the number three..."
    He has a point though


  • #39
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    “I love the Irish… but these are people who can’t grow potatoes,” he said while discussing the issue on Sky News.

    Jesus IT WAS JUST THAT ONE TIME!


  • #40
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Hey Grahame Morris,


  • #41
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Wasn't there an Aussie government advisor on the news recently saying that climate change was a UN hoax designed to establish a new world order... Yeah, let's just let them off. Not the full shilling like.


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  • #42
    Reiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 782 ✭✭✭Reiver


    These bloody things are everywhere. They're in the lift, in the lorry, in the bond wizard, and all over the malonga gilderchuck.


  • #43
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,777 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Sky King wrote: »
    Anyone else see the irony in a thread full of negative comments generalising about the xenophobia / bigotry of Australians?

    Relax and stick another shrimp on the barbie.


  • #44
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    This guy's just an idiot.

    I doubt he speaks for all Australians....just the low-iq ones.


  • #45
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,777 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    they’ve got a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol

    Never knew the Harp was a lawn weed. Of course the Aussies are famous for their botanical knowledge.


  • #46
    Reiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 782 ✭✭✭Reiver


    Egginacup wrote: »
    This guy's just an idiot.

    I doubt he speaks for all Australians....just the low-iq ones.

    Mr. Simpson, shush! Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!


  • #47
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    blinding wrote: »
    An acquaintance once told me that a nickname that some aussies have for the Irish is :

    Potato N*gg*rs (I mean no offence to anyone with this)

    I wonder if others can corroborate if this is true or not ?


    Dunno if it's an Aussie insult or not, but yeah, I've heard of potato n*ggers and white n*ggers relating to Irish people.


  • #48
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭blinding


    Samaris wrote: »
    Dunno if it's an Aussie insult or not, but yeah, I've heard of potato n*ggers and white n*ggers relating to Irish people.
    Kinda of forgot about the "white n*ggers" one myself. I am getting "careless" as I get older.

    Does Elvis Costello have something about that in a song?


  • #49
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    It was quite amusing how the French incident went down on some French media outlets though.
    If there's one country that can analyse something to death and academically critique, it's France!

    There were debates about whether French culture was becoming similar to this horrific Australian incident and what France could do to avoid becoming an uncultured place like Australia and the odd in depth analysis of how Australian xenophobia may have come about ... Perhaps a sense of inadequacy due to their colonial past as a penal colony and so on...

    If you were Aussi and understood French .. Ouch!

    France is *far* from perfect itself but they will openly admit that. It was very much used as an illustration of how minorities in France itself might feel under pressure from racism.

    What annoys me about the attitude coming across from Australian media is that there's a sort of glorification of ignorance going on.

    If someone said something like that on Sky News UK they'd be shredded alive by the British press this morning. That's unlikely in Australia.

    If there are any Aussis or Irish in oz reading this maybe they might link where this has been critiqued by other Australian media? I'd like to see both sides.


  • #50
    MajorMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭MajorMax


    He's right, I haven't a clue how to grow potatoes


  • #51
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,937 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Samaris wrote: »
    Dunno if it's an Aussie insult or not, but yeah, I've heard of potato n*ggers and white n*ggers relating to Irish people.

    Damn naggers. I hate them too.


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  • #52
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    If ever you meet an arrogant Australian

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW-WX77zjY


    From the era when Australia took itself less seriously and was fun!


  • #53
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Egginacup wrote: »
    I doubt he speaks for all Australians....just the low-iq ones.

    He's a member of a right-wing party, so... yeah.


  • #54
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭Daith


    Just goes to show no matter how crap The Simpsons is these days when it was on form it was on form.


  • #55
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    If that's the level of debate the Australian's are comfortable with from their government regarding a serious matter then good luck to them.

    "Don't allow gay marriage, the Irish did and after all few hundred years ago they had a potato famine there"

    Sterling work. One of the great minds of the century at work right there.


  • #56
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    He said our national plant is a weed. Their plant is called the wattle. I wonder if he knows that's something that's made from dung.


  • #57
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    OZ........ Cultural capital of the world.
    No wonder Clive James opted for the UK.


  • #58
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Wouldn’t it be funny if we can get the Irish in Australia to send lots of potatoes to his office? haha


  • #59
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The opinion of a nation that ethnically cleansed its native inhabitants and imposed an apartheid system on them. Does not and will never concern me.


  • #60
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Sciprio wrote: »
    Wouldn’t it be funny if we can get the Irish in Australia to send lots of potatoes to his office? haha
    No t'would not


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  • #61
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    snubbleste wrote: »
    No t'would not

    Ah it would.:D


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