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John Connors is a bit of a wanker

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  • #1142
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If it had happened with settled people, it would be the top story.

    In fairness, it would be news worthy if it was not travellers... while, this is just 'normal'


  • #1143
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,869 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    briany wrote: »
    Such fights are usually a pretty sad spectacle. Ostensibly, these fights were supposed to be about settling feuds between different Traveller families, but it turns out that they're just an arena for illegal gambling.

    These feuds never seem to end anyway.


  • #1144
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,712 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "We are aware of tensions between individuals who were in attendance at the funeral and I am appealing to anyone with influence to help bring about a calm resolution to the current issues."

    Sort yourselves out lads.
    What a fcuked up subculture, I've never heard of any other group trying have a go at one other in a place of worship or funeral. You have to wonder what goes through someone's head bringing weapons to a funeral, like it's completely normal.


  • #1145
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    You have to wonder what goes through someone's head bringing weapons to a funeral, like it's completely normal.

    All shiny and new too. Must have stopped off to rob them on the way!


  • #1146
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    There is a kind of 'outside of society' feel to 'travellers' in Ireland.

    Bringing weapons with the intention of wounding people is not something that goes on in mainstream society.

    Gangland is similar in the way it operates 'outside of society'.

    I am not making gangland out to be the same as 'travellers'. Just that they bear similar characteristics.


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  • #1147
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    imme wrote: »
    I am not making gangland out to be the same as 'travellers'. Just that they bear similar characteristics.

    Theres a fair crossover there though


  • #1148
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,690 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Big Joes generation were nothing but big bellies and flabby arms but some of the sons look to be in decent shape, they might have even been good boxers ir they didn't decide to waste their time flaking each other in carparks and backroads.

    There was a video going around of a traveller wedding or christening or something with music and all the blokes have their tops off dancing etc. Every one of them is overweight, like badly overweight. What's up with that? I suppose they probably just eat sh*t food as those in the lower rungs of society tend to do.


  • #1149
    Icsics
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Icsics


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    There was a video going around of a traveller wedding or christening or something with music and all the blokes have their tops off dancing etc. Every one of them is overweight, like badly overweight. What's up with that? I suppose they probably just eat sh*t food as those in the lower rungs of society tend to do.
    Most middle aged travellers tend to be overweight, a combination of a poor diet & not working to blame


  • #1150
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    The racists won't give them vegetable vouchers.


  • #1151
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,246 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    There was a video going around of a traveller wedding or christening or something with music and all the blokes have their tops off dancing etc. Every one of them is overweight, like badly overweight. What's up with that? I suppose they probably just eat sh*t food as those in the lower rungs of society tend to do.

    Saw a couple of videos of fights and the boys were fairly solid but from hearing them talk I think they were pikeys from England over to fight the Irish lads.


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  • #1152
    Sandor Clegane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    In the history of mankind I don't think there has ever been a more useless people than travellers.

    A group of people who offer nothing positive to society what so ever.


  • #1153
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Icsics wrote: »
    Most middle aged travellers tend to be overweight, a combination of a poor diet & not working to blame

    I think its a misconception amongst knackers that they think muscle is the same as fat, therefore fat = big and strong


  • #1154
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Sandor Clegane wrote: »
    In the history of mankind I don't think there has ever been a more useless people than travellers.

    A group of people who offer nothing positive to society what so ever.

    They are worse than useless. They actually do harm.


  • #1155
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,724 ✭✭✭893bet


    boombang wrote: »
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    Three men arrested. Seems a lot of weapons for three men alone. Culture wars.

    I was looking around at other threads on this ethnic group, but so many have been shut down.

    The orange black axe is the travellers number choice for feuding. Won axe of the year 3 years running.


  • #1156
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    Can we get Arnie walking into a funeral john is attending just once before it kicks off with the hatchets and Arnie goes

    https://giphy.com/gifs/transparent-reaction-dFwlTdxrFV1o4


  • #1157
    gary550
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭gary550


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    I’m not a fan of Connors but it’s disappointing to see that people can’t criticise him without being able to resist having a go at the entire Travelling community itself.

    I think a lot of people find it difficult not to criticise the travelling community because by and large they have a fairly good habit of living up to their own stereotypes.


  • #1158
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    https://i.imgur.com/L4wRtZm.png

    2 year anniversary of his Lidl tweet


  • #1159
    Michelinextra.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭Michelinextra.


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    https://i.imgur.com/L4wRtZm.png

    2 year anniversary of his Lidl tweet

    Hard to argue with the sentiment


  • #1160
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    They won't stop calling to the house, not only the bell but then bang the door down.....

    Sick of them plicks calling all the time.


  • #1161
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,943 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    Hard to argue with the sentiment

    Lidl are robbing us are they?

    What are you looking for, supermarkets to give food away?


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  • #1162
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    Hard to argue with the sentiment

    Exceptionally easy to. Unless it was agreed with, in which case there’d be no point in arguing with the sentiment.


  • #1163
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    https://i.imgur.com/L4wRtZm.png

    2 year anniversary of his Lidl tweet

    The response that they downloaded a pirate copy of his film as producers and studios were robbers was a great comeback


  • #1164
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    The gypsys and the Germans have a bit of history

    That is all

    Romani Gypsies and the Nazis sure do but there's no genetic connection between Irish Travellers and Romani Gypsies.

    As the Nazis killed a lot of people we could all be as connected as John Connors...even though I don't think that that was where JC was coming from.


  • #1165
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    The gypsys and the Germans have a bit of history

    That is all

    "That is all" is not an answer.


  • #1166
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    893bet wrote: »
    The orange black axe is the travellers number choice for feuding. Won axe of the year 3 years running.

    Can’t believe the classic slash hook has fallen out of fashion so much. Only 2 there vs 13 fancy hatchets. Times they are a changing.


  • #1167
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    humberklog wrote: »
    Romani Gypsies and the Nazis sure do but there's no genetic connection between Irish Travellers and Romani Gypsies.

    As the Nazis killed a lot of people we could all be as connected as John Connors...even though I don't think that that was where JC was coming from.
    I wouldn't engage. John Connors referred to supermarkets as "cuntts" because "they're robbing us every day" - and in the context of a news story about a supermarket whose prices are phenomenally low. A tweet so breathtakingly stupid that he even deleted it.

    Now we've got someone saying it's hard to argue with that woeful tweet. Why? Because of the Germans' (not the nazis' - the Germans') history with gypsies. Because of course Lidl is the nazis.


  • #1168
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,798 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Bio Mech wrote: »
    Can’t believe the classic slash hook has fallen out of fashion so much. Only 2 there vs 13 fancy hatchets. Times they are a changing.

    They eventually figured out that the slash hook, while it has a better area of attack and it's easier to inflict damage with, it could easily get stuck and as it's curved, the angle in which it got stuck made it difficult to pull back out. Now, not a problem for most you would think, the extra damage done on removal with a straight pull would be sufficient, but sometimes it gets stuck in bone, and that's a lot harder to pull straight through.

    When a hatchet was accidentally used by a young up 'n' comer, the observers noticed that even with his youth and vigor, he seemed to be able to insert and remove the smaller hatchet quicker than expected, and the damage, while not covering as great an area, was far more devastating, and the quickness of removal and re-insertion far outweighed the lack of area attack.


  • #1169
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    They eventually figured out that the slash hook, while it has a better area of attack and it's easier to inflict damage with, it could easily get stuck and as it's curved, the angle in which it got stuck made it difficult to pull back out. Now, not a problem for most you would think, the extra damage done on removal with a straight pull would be sufficient, but sometimes it gets stuck in bone, and that's a lot harder to pull straight through.

    When a hatchet was accidentally used by a young up 'n' comer, the observers noticed that even with his youth and vigor, he seemed to be able to insert and remove the smaller hatchet quicker than expected, and the damage, while not covering as great an area, was far more devastating, and the quickness of removal and re-insertion far outweighed the lack of area attack.

    It's the little things that make the difference


  • #1170
    Topgear on Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,519 ✭✭✭Topgear on Dave


    LOL


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  • #1171
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    Hard to argue with the sentiment

    Not really.

    I find it's usually quite easy to argue with anything that pikey fúckwit says.


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