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People you admired

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  • 09-04-2021 12:35am
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    ElisaAtWar
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    Just watching a Freddie Mercury documentary and thinking back to watching him in Slane. And God knows I was in Slane every year as a kid. He was amazing and an inspiration. He was different but his difference is what made him so unique. He was and is a person I respect so much for saying who he was and his music, well it was astounding


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Vladimir Putin, takes no ****, and doesn't pander to the politically correct brigade

    21/25



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    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    uch wrote: »
    Vladimir Putin, takes no ****, and doesn't pander to the politically correct brigade

    Can you ever imagine Putin calling other leaders childish names?


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    Real Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Anyone who doesn't bow to all this woke nonsense that we are constantly bombarded with.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Muammar Gaddafi, took no **** from protesters and used artillery on them in the streets.

    Northern Ireland could do with an artillery barrage .

    Also he was one of fanciest dressed dictators going.


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    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,853 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    uch wrote:
    Vladimir Putin, takes no ****, and doesn't pander to the politically correct brigade

    corner of hells wrote:
    Muammar Gaddafi, took no **** from protesters and used artillery on them in the streets.

    Be some Craic living under such arseholes, wouldn't it!


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    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Godzilla didn't stand around doin' nuthin'. He ate half of Tokyo, and that's a lot. Great all around stand up guy.


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    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Admired, past tense then ..

    I admired Christopher Reeve for his determination to try and recover from his accident, not that he did, but my God he tried his best. Endless list really, from John Hume to David Bellamy to Sean Connery, Keith Floyd (chef), Rick Wright (Pink Floyd), to loads more ...


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    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Diogenes of Sinope

    Told Alexander The Great to "stand a little out of my sun" when the great Emperor, who admired the philosopher, stood in front of him and asked him if he wanted anything. Took the piss out of Plato. Wanked in public, and when called out on it said "if only it was as easy to appease hunger by rubbing my belly".

    He was probably the biggest prick ever to actually be around, but his dedication to his philosophy, which was one of virtue, was unrelenting.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Nelson Mandela. How he was able to be so conciliatory when the natural impulse must have been for revenge. Amazing.


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    kildare lad
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Be some Craic living under such arseholes, wouldn't it!


    Ah sure Libya's such a great place to live , now that they got rid of him


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    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,853 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    kildare lad wrote: »
    Ah sure Libya's such a great place to live , now that they got rid of him

    yup, we ve made it much much worse


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    kildare lad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    I admire the men from 1916 and the likes of Tom Barry ,Dan Breen and the rest of the men who took on the British empire. I also have a lot of admiration for the hunger strikers that died in 1981 . I wouldn't be a supporter of the provo's , they done a lot of terrible things but to willing give up your life for a cause they believe in took a lot courage . They had more backbone in their little finger than the self serving muppets we have running this country now .


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    Gregor Samsa
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    kildare lad wrote: »
    I also have a lot of admiration for the hunger strikers that died in 1981 . I wouldn't be a supporter of the provo's , they done a lot of terrible things but to willing give up your life for a cause they believe in took a lot courage.

    But would you say the same for Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers? The act of giving up your life in itself isn't something I'd have any admiration for. And I know there's a big difference between killing yourself on hunger strike and killing other people in a suicide bomb, but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's the notion that the "courage" to give up your life for a cause is in itself an admirable quality.


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    Wallet Inspector
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    Hmmmm, wouldn't be one for admiring dictators, even if somewhere is in even worse shape without them.

    - A nun who stood in front of Burmese soldiers recently, begging them to shoot her instead of at children.

    - Gordon Wilson R.I.P.

    - Nelson Mandela as mentioned.

    - Maximilian Kolbe.
    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    yup, we ve made it much much worse
    "We"?


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    kildare lad
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    But would you say the same for Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers? The act of giving up your life in itself isn't something I'd have any admiration for.

    Not to derail the tread but the IRA just wanted the brits out of Ireland . ISIS want the end of western civilization .


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    [Deleted User]
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    Nelson Mandela. How he was able to be so conciliatory when the natural impulse must have been for revenge. Amazing.

    I remember making this exact point to a south african before and how was it that here in Ireland, the IRA was bombing shops while, at worst, the ANC targeted infrastructure like bridges. He maintained that rather than being more humane, racism was so embedded by apartheid in south africa that black people – even activists — didn't perceive themselves as equal, whatever they said in public. Some kind of colonial Stockholm Syndrome made them more reluctant towards violence.

    In this country, you had one group of white people oppressing another group of white people for an accident of history. There wasn't the same ingrained self-doubt as was created by apartheid. People believed in their liberty so strongly they were willing to die for it.

    The cruel efficiency of apartheid seems to have meant that black South Africans didn't have these convictions. Otherwise, they'd have gone into the white suburbs seeking blood. Nelson Mandela didn't appoint himself. It was black south africans they who chose a temperate leader to install change in a very restrained way, all conciliatory to the whites, and this stems from a colonial self-doubt.

    I don't know to what degree is this theory accurate. It has always perplexed me that black South Africans (mostly) abhorred violence and this answer was the closest thing to the truth I've heard.


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    Hangdogroad
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    Hitler or one of those mad fellas.


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    Wanderer78
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Hitler or one of those mad fellas.

    more fcuked up that mad


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    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Diogenes of Sinope

    Told Alexander The Great to "stand a little out of my sun" when the great Emperor, who admired the philosopher, stood in front of him and asked him if he wanted anything. Took the piss out of Plato. Wanked in public, and when called out on it said "if only it was as easy to appease hunger by rubbing my belly".

    He was probably the biggest prick ever to actually be around, but his dedication to his philosophy, which was one of virtue, was unrelenting.


    Wasn't he also the guy who married that reputed stunner; "Milk of Magnesia"?


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    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    Wasn't he also the guy who married that reputed stunner; "Milk of Magnesia"?

    No, that was Oil of Olay.


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    Amirani
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    yup, we ve made it much much worse

    What exactly have you been doing to Libya? The rest of us haven't been doing anything.


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    Zebra3
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    George Orwell.

    Pure genius.

    He'd be laughing at his former employer's propaganda today.


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    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    kildare lad wrote: »
    Not to derail the tread but the IRA just wanted the brits out of Ireland . ISIS want the end of western civilization .

    Isis. Yes. They have a ways to go before the extinction of the West. Heck, they have yet to wear a decent pair of pants.


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    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,090 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Bobby Sands. Moreso Sands than the rest of the Hunger Strikers due to his background. He grew up and lived side by side with Protestants, and his family were constantly discriminated in every day living, yet still held out the hand of friendship. It's easy to pontificate until you have to experience that every day. Went to work to better himself and his family yet finds a gun put to his head, his family home constantly burned out.

    It actually shows how decent a person he was that it took those extreme's to finally "radicalise" him, most would of been radicialised long before. I wouldn't even say he was radicialised, more of the view that the only thing these bullies understand is physical retaliation.

    If you read his poetry and diary you see how intelligent and humble he really was. A decent human who wanted peace and friendship, who's hand in life was forced. And when he led he did with great belief and courage, that he was doing the right thing by his family and people. Very few like him. A towering figure who should be remembered by all


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    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    No, that was Oil of Olay.

    Now, you need to tell me the difference btwn philosopher and philanderer.


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    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Celchick wrote: »

    - Maximilian Kolbe.

    There's a really nice mural for Maximilian Kolbe in the Church in Fairview Strand. An absolute saint to offer up his own life to the Nazis to save another person from death.


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    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 6,603 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    uch wrote: »
    Vladimir Putin, takes no ****, and doesn't pander to the politically correct brigade
    Real Donald Trump wrote: »
    Anyone who doesn't bow to all this woke nonsense that we are constantly bombarded with.

    The first and third responses in the thread respectively. Amazing.

    I can't imagine what it must be like to be so obsessed with this topic that every thread is an opportunity to bring it up.

    The only worse thing than the woke movement is the people constantly complaining about the woke movement. It's boring and is usually the exact same sentiment phrased in different ways.

    Ok. We get. Now can we get back to talking about '80s TV commercials, stupid movie cliches, funny place names or whatever the hell else people start threads about in After Hours?


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    [Deleted User]
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    A lot of beta males admire Putin.


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    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,842 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Anyone who uses the term "beta male" is a bit odd.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Rothko wrote: »
    Anyone who uses the term "beta male" is a bit odd.

    It’s shorter than ineffectual and underachieving men in their 30’s and 40’s who think everything is the fault of socialists, that everything is ‘woke’, that women are destroying the world with their notions, and who always like to blame someone else for their own shortcomings as men.

    So they admire a tinpot dictator who murders his political opponents for some reason.

    Beta.


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