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Gemma not taking enforced retirement too well

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  • #32
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭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: 7,947 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 28,324 ✭✭✭✭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: 35,941 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 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭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 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: 35,941 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: 12,621 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: 12,621 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: 35,941 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.


  • #50
    King of Kings
    Registered Users 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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  • #52
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,396 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


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

    Do you believe ireland is a communist country?

    Do you believe 5G will make you sick?

    Do you believe in chemtrails?

    Donyou think children should not be vaccinated?


    Those are a few of Gemma's ludicrous claims. She doesn't have people "in a flap" she has people genuinely wondering how a once very intelligent person and award winning journalist could go totally over the edge and batshyt crazy.


  • #53
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,764 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    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. 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.

    So basically in your racist worldview anyone non white, european and christian is a savage rapist

    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



  • #54
    TheRepentent
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    So basically in your racist worldview anyone non white, european and christian is a savage rapist
    No wonder he stays in his room , hammering the keyboard:D


  • #55
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,065 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


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

    Have to say that I appreciate the honesty. No pretence of caring about anything except triggering people. It's odd seeing the amount of posts where anti-vaxxers pretend to care about children, anti-abortionists about the unborn and so on so the absence of pretence of any sort certainly is refreshing.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



  • #56
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,496 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    western values atm are the likes of the US with Trump

    Raw dogging porn stars behind your pregnant wifes back?

    Ah, Values.


  • #57
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,496 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Do you believe 5G will make you sick?

    Irish people worrying about 5g?

    Most of us are still waiting to worry about 4g.


  • #58
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    So basically in your racist worldview anyone non white, european and christian is a savage rapist

    Never said that and many white people have raped women which is a disgrace and they should be locked up for a life sentence and I mean the rest of their life behind bars not 20 or 25 years in jail and that would apply regardless of skin colour or religion.

    But there is a particular problem with Islam as it promotes the mistreatment of women and pedophilia. Look at Mohammed as a prime example he is according to Islam the perfect man who can do no wrong or evil but yet he married a 6 year old and shagged her when she was 9.


  • #59
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Look at the rapes of women by migrants in Sweden and Germany.

    Can you offer ANY poof of this trope. Aside from the usual right wing racist groups posting fictions online most of these "reports" have been debunked.

    It is true that migrants figure in all crime statistics, but they are not statistically over-represented. Unfortunately, Ireland (like the rest of Europe) has plenty of homegrown rapists and murderers.


  • #60
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,496 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Stephen15 wrote: »

    But there is a particular problem with Islam as it promotes the mistreatment of women and pedophilia.

    Sounds like the Catholic Church really.


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  • #61
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭francois


    Boggles wrote: »
    Sounds like the Catholic Church really.

    Touché. The alt right fanbois ( generally new or re-reg accounts) throwing red meat comment to each other is so fùcking obvious and tedious at this stage, it isn't worth engaging with them. Let them get priapic at their non existent yellow vest revolution, it ain't happening for the Torino losers.


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