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Gemma not taking enforced retirement too well

  • 21-06-2019 2:25pm
    #1
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    She's permanently on twitter now tweeting links to wacky stories from a few years ago and every single conspiracy theory she can get her hands on

    Should all posts mentioning Gemma O'Doherty be banned on Boards? 844 votes

    Yes
    72% 611 votes
    No
    27% 233 votes


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  • #2
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Someone able to ring Dundrum Mental Asylumn let em know they got an escapee? :D


  • #3
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it


  • #4
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    Well unfortunately Gemma and her ilk are the very worst people to talk about it, as they're totally dishonest and hysterical, not to mention the craziness associated with the conspiracy theories


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    which people

    are you people

    are people being stopped talking about it

    this sounds serious


  • #6
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,986 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Even loons can be right about some things.

    Problem is, they are wrong about most things, and they can belittle a serious topic or debate when they get involved.


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  • #7
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Yea.
    I don’t follow her on Twitter but look in an odd time.
    She retweets “the onion” as if it’s a legitimate media source. 😂

    Her Twitter is like a huge spot on someone’s chin, you know it’s horrible, yet somehow it’s hard not to look ☹️


  • #8
    Walter Bishop
    Registered Users Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Walter Bishop


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it


    Hardly a surprise Stephen, as like her, you're a racist.

    Mod: Please stop reporting this post. Stephen15 has admitted he is a racist.


  • #9
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,986 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Well that escalated quickly.


  • #10
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Walter Bishop wrote: »
    Hardly a surprise Stephen, as like her, you're a racist.


    Racist is such a term used so so much it actually has no meaning anymore.....

    I have travellers telling me I'm racist on numerous occasions....


  • #11
    Boxing.Fan
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Boxing.Fan


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Racist is such a term used so so much it actually has no meaning anymore.....

    I have travellers telling me I'm racist on numerous occasions....

    Being called a racist these days is a badge of honour.


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  • #12
    Walter Bishop
    Registered Users Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Walter Bishop


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Racist is such a term used so so much it actually has no meaning anymore.....

    I have travellers telling me I'm racist on numerous occasions....


    It still has meaning: the person is prejudiced against people of other skin colours to them.


    Just because some may perceived it over-used, it doesn't lose it's meaning, nor does it mean anyone who is called one is in fact one. A trawl through Stephen's post history however provides plenty of information on his outlook.


    As for Gemma, one has to assume that she has had some sort of mental break in the last few years as her Twitter feed is a prime example of someone who believes every possible conspiracy theory and also throws a hefty lump of racism in there too, plus Soros nonsense etc. etc.


    If you see anything on her feed that breaks Twitter's TOS, report her, I did that for the Longford children pic she tweeted recently and actually got a positive response from Twitter on it.


  • #13
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Boxing.Fan wrote: »
    Being called a racist these days is a badge of honour.

    I here you're a racist now father......


  • #14
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Boxing.Fan wrote: »
    Being called a racist these days is a badge of honour.

    If racist means loving your family and by extension to that your country and wanting to defend both as well the western way of life then I'm a racist and proud. In order to do that I believe your borders should be shut as the saying goes you don't lock your door because you hate the people outside you do because you love the people inside.

    Same concept here close the borders to defend our country it's culture, heritage and values.


  • #15
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,692 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Compared to Rowan Croft, who seems to be more organised and driven by monetising his stuff through manipulating the gullible, Gemma just comes across as having something wrong with her.

    There's a desperate need for validation or something.


  • #16
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,692 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Problem is, they are wrong about most things, and they can belittle a serious topic or debate when they get involved.
    This is it, the way she behaves means she's not credible at all and she's not somebody you want to be 'on the same side' with, even if you might agree with some things she says.


  • #17
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Place is crawling with Nazis


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    If racist means loving your family and by extension to that your country and wanting to defend both as well the western way of life then I'm a racist and proud. In order to do that I believe your borders should be shut as the saying goes you don't lock your door because you hate the people outside you do because you love the people inside.

    Same concept here close the borders to defend our country it's culture, heritage and values.

    stephen ive not gone through your post history man im just goin by this post and im pretty worried you might be a little actual racist, no scare quotes no "anything is racist now" racist just yknow actual racist


  • #19
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    Place is crawling with Nazis

    Them pesky Nazis.....


  • #20
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    stephen ive not gone through your post history man im just goin by this post and im pretty worried you might be a little actual racist, no scare quotes no "anything is racist now" racist just yknow actual racist

    Watch the door doesn't hit you on the way out...

    Hold your head in shame... Nothing on here posted as of yet is far from racist or maybe your one of them that is offended for another feeling offended when they in fact were never offended..


  • #21
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Nothing on here posted as of yet is far from racist.

    My head hurts.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gemma who?

    Current Affairs thread (not AH) and it just starts like “ Gemma not taking to enforced retirement well “
    Did I a miss a link ....... or a few pages ?

    Gemma, Gemma the F##K is Gemma ?


  • #23
    TheRepentent
    Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it


    Do you believe in chemtrails?

    Wanna support genocide?Cheer on the murder of women and children?The Ruzzians aren't rapey enough for you? Morally bankrupt cockroaches and islamaphobes , Israel needs your help NOW!!

    http://tinyurl.com/2ksb4ejk


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes

    https://www.btselem.org/



  • #24
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,102 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    I thought you agreed with her on Chemtrails?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #25
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I thought you agreed with her on Chemtrails?

    I said don't know enough about the subject to make a judgement in it. I honestly never heard of chemtrails until recently.


  • #26
    reg114
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭reg114


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    I'll talk about it. Whats your point? Some stats for you: Poles make up the largest grouping of non-nationals in Ireland at 22 per cent (or 118,042), followed by British 21 per cent (115,658); Lithuanians 7 per cent (35, 617) and Latvians (20, 086) and Nigerians (19, 727) 4 per cent each.

    Ireland's current unemployment rate is 5.3% technically we are at 'full employment'. Now the economy is booming and even if we could mobilise the long term unemployed (those who cannot or will never get a job regardless of economic prosperity) we would still need workers to come to Ireland from abroad to fill vacant positions.
    Its a simple fact that 'immigrants' are much more keen to do the menial jobs that some Irish people think is beneath them.
    You also have a situation say with teachers and nurses qualifying and then having to leave the country to get work. Nurses in particular are appalling poorly paid and would rather not leave but feel they have no choice. At the same time you have nurses entering the country from south east asia who work all the hours they can and live ten in a house to earn substantially more than theyd earn back home in the Philippines, indeed much of their income leaves the country via bank transfers home. We are talking about hard working immigrants filling vacancies that the Irish government have created because Irish graduate nurses are forced to leave the country to get a job worth their financial while.
    You then have a cohort of Indians , Pakistanis and Brazilians who are admitted to Ireland under short term 'student visas', where by they are allowed to work a limited number of hours while 'studying'. Ultimately these nationalities are filling positions that Irish people simply do not want.
    Multiculturalism as you call it, is an inevitable consequence of economic prosperity indeed it is an economic imperative without which Ireland would be in serious trouble.


  • #27
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    stephen ive not gone through your post history man im just goin by this post and im pretty worried you might be a little actual racist, no scare quotes no "anything is racist now" racist just yknow actual racist

    I don't care if you if you think I'm racist. I know I'm not and anyone who's ever met me and that includes people who are from other countries and includes people I've worked with and gone to college and school with would tell you the same. Some of the forgeiners I've met are just as what you would describe as racist as me as they agree with the likes of Trump, want to close the borders etc.

    Racist is often just a term used used by people on the left side of the coin as they don't have any other valid argument and instead of debating just scream racist.


  • #28
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,132 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I don't care if you if you think I'm racist. I know I'm not and anyone who's ever met me and that includes people who are from other countries and includes people I've worked with and gone to college and school with would tell you the same. Some of the forgeiners I've met are just as what you would describe as racist as me as they agree with the likes of Trump, want to close the borders etc.

    Racist is often just a term used used by people on the left side of the coin as they don't have any other valid argument and instead of debating just scream racist.

    Kind like how you guys call everything that triggers you "left".


  • #29
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,861 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    reg114 wrote: »
    we would still need workers to come to Ireland from abroad to fill vacant positions.
    Its a simple fact that 'immigrants' are much more keen to do the menial jobs that some Irish people think is beneath them.

    I don't buy this for a second. How many more unskilled people do we need here? How many floors need swept or deliveroo lads are needed? It's an employers wet dream to get these people on minimum wage and zero contract hours. Where are they going to live because the last time I looked there seemed to be a housing crisis. Sure that's great....Just stuff another 8 bunk beds in a small room and take advantage that their English isn't great and they can't complain.
    I've seen it first hand in construction where Eastern European lads are "told" they're working long hours and weekends. Unfortunately their English isn't great so it's difficult for them to look for new employers who might treat them better. Talking to a Romanian labourer today who worked 65 hours last week and needs at least that many hours to cover his food, rent and travel costs. But yeah we need more like him. Really?


  • #30
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,568 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Same concept here close the borders to defend our country it's culture, heritage and values.

    Sorry did I miss a meeting, how is or Culture and Heritage been eroded by not having a closed border?

    Also our Values?

    I'm not that actually that old but a lot of our values were fúcking terrible when I was growing up.


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  • #31
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    reg114 wrote: »
    Nurses in particular are appalling poorly paid...


    Agree with the substance of your point, but nurses aren't "appalling poorly paid" - sure, they earn more money over in Qatar, but that's not really the same thing as being "appalling poorly paid".


  • #32
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    Sounds like you're willing to talk about it.

    So is Gemma.

    What's the problem?


  • #33
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    lawred2 wrote: »

    What's the problem?

    This, apparently.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxrerv-MNpc


  • #34
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,136 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    She's been tweeting in support of Ken Ham now....no hope at all for her at this stage.


  • #35
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

    The reason most normal people are not talking about immigration is that it's not an issue, quite the opposite in fact, immigrants enrich our society.

    Its only the likes of Gemma and her fellow traveller wing nuts that have an issue with it. But sure there's always a few outliers.


  • #36
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,436 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I said don't know enough about the subject to make a judgement in it. I honestly never heard of chemtrails until recently.
    Do you think it's likely that there is a massive industrial secret conspiracy to pump chemicals into the population from planes? Just take 60 seconds to think about how many people would have to be involved in the 'secret' to make this happen.


    Now tell us again if you believe in chemtrails?


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  • #37
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    defend our country it's culture, heritage and values.

    Which ones? The comely maidens dancing at crossroads? The institutionalised abuse of women and children? The imported hornpipes we call Trad music? The English Premier league that everyone is obsessed with? The BBC, ITV, C4, HBO, SKY, Netflix, Pixar, Hollywood? The notion that history started in 1916 and there was NO development in Ireland before that? The values that enacted the 8th Amendment or the values that repealed it?

    Between the GAA, Rugby and soccer supporters, the workers and the long term unemployed, the haves and the have nots, the Jackeens and the Culchies, the Gaeilgeoiri and the strictly English only, the moral and the righteous, the people who love a good steak, the wasters who cremate them and the vegetarians who cry either way, we are and always were multicultural before anybody immigrated.

    Long may it last, we are better for it.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Between the GAA, Rugby and soccer supporters, the workers and the long term unemployed, the haves and the have nots, the Jackeens and the Culchies, the Gaeilgeoiri and the strictly English only, the moral and the righteous, the people who love a good steak, the wasters who cremate them and the vegetarians who cry either way, we are and always were multicultural before anybody immigrated.

    Long may it last, we are better for it.

    Eh, what? What a load of old rubbish.

    I’m not saying immigration is a bad thing in itself, just that your post is nonsense.


  • #39
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    JayZeus wrote: »
    Eh, what? What a load of old rubbish.

    I’m not saying immigration is a bad thing in itself, just that your post is nonsense.

    You have expanded the discussion with erudite eloquence. Not.


  • #40
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    There was a point where O'Dohertys conspiracy theorising was amusing, but it has gone so extreme and fantastical I've stopped taking any kind of schadenfreude from her prattling; it seems to me like she has some mental health issues and may need intervention & help. Gawking and trash talking her can't be helping, and I wonder if her friends and family might struggle how to get her help.

    I've seen a few threads around Boards about her and it just seems like were laughing and pointing at someone perhaps having a nervous breakdown online.

    As for protecting "our culture", let's call a spade a spade here, it's just pretty euphemism for "white", in the best traditions of "I'm not a racist, but..." rationalisations. Man U. replica shirts and UK pop culture are fine, smiling black kids in Methodist schools apparently give pause to defend "our culture". Sure.


  • #41
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Which ones? The comely maidens dancing at crossroads? The institutionalised abuse of women and children? The imported hornpipes we call Trad music? The English Premier league that everyone is obsessed with? The BBC, ITV, C4, HBO, SKY, Netflix, Pixar, Hollywood? The notion that history started in 1916 and there was NO development in Ireland before that? The values that enacted the 8th Amendment or the values that repealed it?

    Between the GAA, Rugby and soccer supporters, the workers and the long term unemployed, the haves and the have nots, the Jackeens and the Culchies, the Gaeilgeoiri and the strictly English only, the moral and the righteous, the people who love a good steak, the wasters who cremate them and the vegetarians who cry either way, we are and always were multicultural before anybody immigrated.

    Long may it last, we are better for it.

    You were going so well until you advocated not cooking a steak.


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  • #42
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    You were going so well until you advocated not cooking a steak.

    Different strokes for different folks.


  • #43
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Her "walk arounds" various towns and decrying the "foreign" food shops and take aways is puzzling, especially as she includes Italian chippers in her target group.
    She arrived here locally to Longford, and entered a shop selling rice, spices and other Eastern style foodstuffs.
    Then complained about there being no Irish produced stock.
    I know it rains a good bit here, but we still dont grow rice!
    She should go into a Dunnes Stores clothes section and try and find ANYTHING made in Ireland..

    As a woman who met and married a man who was the son of Italian immigrants to the UK, and who came to Ireland as am immigrant to work, Mrs Corvosso's sense of irony is very under developed..


  • #44
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Deleted User wrote: »
    stephen ive not gone through your post history man im just goin by this post and im pretty worried you might be a little actual racist, no scare quotes no "anything is racist now" racist just yknow actual racist

    People aren’t born racist, there must have been something wrong that happened in his life that turned him

    And continues to do. you do realise with the increasing migration resentment is all the while growing right? ..making racists of people and although with the increasing misuse of the word in the media almost on par with rapist most are still unwilling to admit I can confirm it is here...just as much as immigration is very much here and it will duly increase. Worry not; man you will get your racists.


  • #45
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Cedrus wrote: »
    Which ones? The comely maidens dancing at crossroads? The institutionalised abuse of women and children? The imported hornpipes we call Trad music? The English Premier league that everyone is obsessed with? The BBC, ITV, C4, HBO, SKY, Netflix, Pixar, Hollywood? The notion that history started in 1916 and there was NO development in Ireland before that? The values that enacted the 8th Amendment or the values that repealed it?

    Between the GAA, Rugby and soccer supporters, the workers and the long term unemployed, the haves and the have nots, the Jackeens and the Culchies, the Gaeilgeoiri and the strictly English only, the moral and the righteous, the people who love a good steak, the wasters who cremate them and the vegetarians who cry either way, we are and always were multicultural before anybody immigrated.

    Long may it last, we are better for it.

    Irish culture and values are pretty much the same as all western values. Freedom of expression, safety, democracy etc. are all intergral parts of our culture. The west is the best and we should really be getting together with other countries to defend our western values but of course the only places standing up for western values atm are the likes of the US with Trump, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland.

    You mention abuse of women and children but more will come if mass immigration continues. Look at the rapes of women by migrants in Sweden and Germany and the child grooming gangs in the UK. Every country where there has been mass immigration from the third world it's been a disaster I would like to see Ireland learn from those countries and not repeat the same mistakes. But it appears we are going to repeat those mistakes.


  • #46
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Irish culture and values are pretty much the same as all western values. Freedom of expression, safety, democracy etc. are all intergral parts of our culture.

    Those are institutions, not a culture, democracy in this country is only < 100 years old and has no relationship with Irish "culture" in its historical form. And which culture do we pick? Brehon? Felt? Norman? Anglo-Scot?

    You state all these things like immigrants are trying to undermine "safety", whatever that means, yet it's precisely that stability of governance that attracts families to our shores in the first place. Ditto the freedom of expression part, which you seem to cherish. Yet you obviously infer a great deal when you see different skin colour, which, ain't a great look. Let's park the "r" word, but you're damn well being presumptuous, reductionist and scaremongering.


  • #47
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Freedom of expression is only fairly recent in ireland is it not? Not entirely sure it exists in some of the cited countries at the moment either, didn't Poland recently arrest a woman for making a art piece combining lgbt and religious themes?


  • #48
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    pixelburp wrote: »
    There was a point where O'Dohertys conspiracy theorising was amusing, but it has gone so extreme and fantastical I've stopped taking any kind of schadenfreude from her prattling; it seems to me like she has some mental health issues and may need intervention & help. Gawking and trash talking her can't be helping, and I wonder if her friends and family might struggle how to get her help.

    I've seen a few threads around Boards about her and it just seems like were laughing and pointing at someone perhaps having a nervous breakdown online.

    As for protecting "our culture", let's call a spade a spade here, it's just pretty euphemism for "white", in the best traditions of "I'm not a racist, but..." rationalisations. Man U. replica shirts and UK pop culture are fine, smiling black kids in Methodist schools apparently give pause to defend "our culture". Sure.
    She still managed around 10k votes including transfers, not bad for someone who is apparently having a mental breakdown.. and pretty dangerous for the rest of society


  • #49
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Freedom of expression is only fairly recent in ireland is it not? Not entirely sure it exists in some of the cited countries at the moment either, didn't Poland recently arrest a woman for making a art piece combining lgbt and religious themes?

    Correct, Poland has a law against "offending religious feelings", resulting in the arrest of a woman for making a LGBT artwork; so citing them as bastions of Western freedoms, just because they're keeping our the brown people, is hilariously selective and short sighted.

    Every democracy is a work in progress and even between countries there is no common denominator; freedom of expression in Ireland differs with that in Germany, for instance. The idea of "western" common culture is nonsense. And in few cases are they intrinsically tied into "culture". Culture itself is ever evolving and you'd think Ireland of all countries would understand that migration is a fact of life and an evolving culture.

    But again, it's all puffery to talk around the fact people get antsy about black folks walking down the street. Phil lynott and Paul McGrath presumably some apotheosis of this erosion of "culture", heavy on the air quotes.


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    King of Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    I love gemma cos she has all the do gooders in a flap.
    It pleases me to see this.


  • #51
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    King of Kings wrote: »
    I love gemma cos she has all the do gooders in a flap.
    It pleases me to see this.

    My granny used to say that it was easy to please the simple.


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