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Non GAA Discussion => General discussion => Topic started by: rrhf on May 08, 2018, 10:10:34 PM
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Won’t be beat. Best chance in 30 years.
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Marty’s breaking out the Baileys early he says.
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Didnt see that coming.
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It’s a good tune well song. Time for a ballad. Ireland always done well with ballads - not too rock not too pop. In fact I think they should enter next year with “The ballad of Johnny Logan”lovely tune.
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Hooorah
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It’s a good tune well song. Time for a ballad. Ireland always done well with ballads - not too rock not too pop. In fact I think they should enter next year with “The ballad of Johnny Logan”lovely tune.
Thought it was a shite song and was poorly sang. What was the two lads dancing around for? to win the gay vote from other countries? if so it worked.
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Oddschecker gives Ireland’s odds as ranging from 50/1 out to 300/1...
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Before big jack took the country down Stuttgart way
And long Before the gpa cried about pay for play
After the pope came to Ireland and boy did we pray
There was one Johnny Logan a man of his day
With Haughey in charge and the country in disarray
There was no Brexit plans and no Theresa may
There was no prospect of a Taoiseach enlightened and gay
Yet there was one Jonny Logan a man of his day.
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My sister reckoned it would be a travesty if he didn't get through. Fair play to him.
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It’s a good tune well song. Time for a ballad. Ireland always done well with ballads - not too rock not too pop. In fact I think they should enter next year with “The ballad of Johnny Logan”lovely tune.
Thought it was a shite song and was poorly sang. What was the two lads dancing around for? to win the gay vote from other countries? if so it worked.
Only heard it for first time last night, not my bag but I thought a reasonable ballad and the lad is able to sing. I think it shows that the trick is you send a decent song rather than gurning about regional voting. It is the best we have sent in a long time. Admittedly choosing gay dancers to tell the story is a tad cynical but it's not the worst thing in the world.
My kids are big into Eurovision and having some skin the game adds to the excitement for Saturday. Irlande douze points!
/Jim.
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Not my type of music and I thought the pitch was a bit too high but best of luck to the lad. Don't think it has much of a chance of winning. My daughters are big into Eurovision and it's a bit of a novelty for them to have Ireland in the final. God be with the days when we used to win it every other year!
What's all this "we can't vote for ourselves" bollocks?? Should RTE not be encouraging Northerners to vote for Ireland?? ;) Both my girls did! Oh yeah, and f**k the UK out of it after Brexit!
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Was Dick Byrne shafted again?
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We were in Lisbon at the weekend and visited the Eurovision Village, great craic - live music on the stage, beers and sangria in the sun, and a few sponsor stands to visit (including one with two Teslas that you could sit in). Police absolutely everywhere.
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Ireland have gone from no hopers in the betting to one of the favourites after the Chinese broadcasters didn't show the Irish performance because of the gay dancers. Eurovision have barred the Chinese channel from showing the event.
That gay dance routine was an absolute stroke of genius.
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Ireland have gone from no hopers in the betting to one of the favourites after the Chinese broadcasters didn't show the Irish performance because of the gay dancers. Eurovision have barred the Chinese channel from showing the event.
That gay dance routine was an absolute stroke of genius.
Imagine if the rainbow vote is enough to get Ireland over the line...
Catholic Ireland where have you gone? ;D
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Fair play to them.
Can't believe I'm saying this but the song is actually growing on me!
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We are 3rd favourites with the bookies now. It could happen.
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Fair play to them.
Can't believe I'm saying this but the song is actually growing on me!
Not growing on me anyway. Even Mickey Hartes song "We've Got the World" was more of a catchy tune.
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We are 3rd favourites with the bookies now. It could happen.
All the trendy folk who think Eurovision is naff are all turned on by a whiff of perversion.
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Fair play to them.
Can't believe I'm saying this but the song is actually growing on me!
It’s a grower not a show’er? I’ll get my coat
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We are 3rd favourites with the bookies now. It could happen.
All the trendy folk who think Eurovision is naff are all turned on by a whiff of perversion.
Bring back fascism eh?
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We are 3rd favourites with the bookies now. It could happen.
All the trendy folk who think Eurovision is naff are all turned on by a whiff of perversion.
Bring back fascism eh?
Marching tunes were more their thing
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Ireland have gone from no hopers in the betting to one of the favourites after the Chinese broadcasters didn't show the Irish performance because of the gay dancers. Eurovision have barred the Chinese channel from showing the event.
That gay dance routine was an absolute stroke of genius.
Imagine if the rainbow vote is enough to get Ireland over the line...
Catholic Ireland where have you gone? ;D
Sure it takes all kinds of everything
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It’s gonna take as big a pink vote as possible macdanger so vote early and vote often and get your friends voting as well.
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Ireland have gone from no hopers in the betting to one of the favourites after the Chinese broadcasters didn't show the Irish performance because of the gay dancers. Eurovision have barred the Chinese channel from showing the event.
That gay dance routine was an absolute stroke of genius.
Imagine if the rainbow vote is enough to get Ireland over the line...
Catholic Ireland where have you gone? ;D
Sure it takes all kinds of everything
And sure what's another year even if they don't win it.
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If we win, I can hear RTÉ executives scream "Why Me".
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If we win it is because we are the Rock and Roll kids.
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He's definitely not The Voice.
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He still deserves Congratulations for his Ceol an Ghrá.
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First time I heard the Irish song. Thought he did well fair play to him.
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Fair play to them.
Can't believe I'm saying this but the song is actually growing on me!
Growing on me too.
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What happened on the UK song did some try to stop it?
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Ireland were 5/1 before the song was sang tonight and now its 10/1..
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Ireland were 5/1 before the song was sang tonight and now its 10/1..
The second Great Irish Famine to continue? Still think it could be our year.
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Aye the stage invader has boosted the brits chances and pushed everyone else down the pecking order
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We'll get top 10.
Cyprus should have it, but I'm not sure that sort of booty shaking appeals to the average Eurovision voter.
Certianly appealed to me though.
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First three votes, null point hat trick.
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RTE accountants can breath a sigh of relief.
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The main thing was that we showed how cool we are with a couple of gobshites dancing together
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Ireland were 5/1 before the song was sang tonight and now its 10/1..
The second Great Irish Famine to continue? Still think it could be our year.
That's the sort of joke we've come to expect from Rangers fans. The famine should never be a laughing matter dude.
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No famine systematic starvation. Almost half of Britains 130 regiments 69 in total were stationed in Ireland and stole our food at gun point.
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Yer wan giving the Swiss results was some babe.
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Israel. Ha ha ha. Happy night in Tel Aviv
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The voting system is bigger joke than before. Poor song won it but then again most if not all songs were poor tonight.
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The voting system is bigger joke than before. Poor song won it but then again most if not all songs were poor tonight.
You’re seriously criticising song quaility at the Eurovision? Seriously?
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Ireland finished in the middle of the pack.
Stupid hostess gave away the final outcome before announcing the final vote.
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Jesus, what is that shite that won?
Sounds like I've walked into a henhouse.
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Jesus, what is that shite that won?
Sounds like I've walked into a henhouse.
Awful altogether.
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Ireland finished in the middle of the pack.
Stupid hostess gave away the final outcome before announcing the final vote.
No she didn't. Once the second last announced it was obvious who won.
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I can't believe I contributed to a forum about eurovision. Feck sake pre Cavan Donegal nerves.
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Ireland finished in the middle of the pack.
Stupid hostess gave away the final outcome before announcing the final vote.
No she didn't. Once the second last announced it was obvious who won.
She blew it. The aim was to build tension before the penultimate vote was announced. She said Cyprus were leading before announcing the actual vote. :'(
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Major congrats to Israel who achieved this key international victory without the need to murder any children. A first.
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Best song was from the UK!
Eurovision has had some decent winners in recent years despite the whining every year about block voting.
But the sh1te that won this year! Sh1te!
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Ireland finished in the middle of the pack.
Stupid hostess gave away the final outcome before announcing the final vote.
She did have a couple of good points though
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Major congrats to Israel who achieved this key international victory without the need to murder any children. A first.
The singer looks like she may have ate a few (as long as they were kosher)
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Major congrats to Israel who achieved this key international victory without the need to murder any children. A first.
You never know with that shower.
A big lads weekend in Jerusalem next year so.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
You never know with that shower.
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Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
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Best song won. Had a bit on Austria for top 5 too and public vote nearly jeopardised that.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
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The voting system is bigger joke than before. Poor song won it but then again most if not all songs were poor tonight.
Top quality songs this year. There were 8 worthy winners.
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Wouldn't disagree with that, but the song that won it was along the same lines as Dustins effort some years ago.
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Italy's anti-war song was no match for the might of the Israeli chicken song.
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The voting system is bigger joke than before. Poor song won it but then again most if not all songs were poor tonight.
Top quality songs this year. There were 8 worthy winners.
How much home brew were you knocking back while watching it?
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Awful.song to win it. Rotten
Thought Ireland's song was the best without being biased.
Eurovision is so unbelievably sh1t tbh
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What country did win?
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Awful.song to win it. Rotten
Thought Ireland's song was the best without being biased.
Eurovision is so unbelievably sh1t tbh
It was just another sachrine ballad. It is total biased to say it was in any way remarkably better than the best.
The Eurovision so great if you have enough humour to take it in the right spirit. If you can’t the question really is why were you watching it to begin with?
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What country did win?
Don't ask...
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Wouldn't disagree with that, but the song that won it was along the same lines as Dustins effort some years ago.
+1
No point trying better to send a joke entry seems to work every few years. Feel a bit sorry for the likes of Austria, Germany and Cyprus who made the effort and then some complete mess vomits up some random noises and wins. For the record Dustins tune was quite catchy.
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Some of the songs this year were quite good with the German entrant being excellent in my opinion. The winner though was very poor which says it all about Eurovision really
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I found that the majority of songs sounded exactly like somebody else. Germany = Ed Sheeran for example.
I though the Czech song was relatively original and quirky and would have been my pick. I thought Germany would win it. I thought the UK's was awful altogether. Ireland's was as bland a ballad as you could get. Marty Whelan is beyond unbearable.
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I found that the majority of songs sounded exactly like somebody else. Germany = Ed Sheeran for example.
I though the Czech song was relatively original and quirky and would have been my pick. I thought Germany would win it. I thought the UK's was awful altogether. Ireland's was as bland a ballad as you could get. Marty Whelan is beyond unbearable.
Marty is trying to much to be like Terry Wogan. Also he was totally lost in the scoring system!
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I found that the majority of songs sounded exactly like somebody else. Germany = Ed Sheeran for example.
I though the Czech song was relatively original and quirky and would have been my pick. I thought Germany would win it. I thought the UK's was awful altogether. Ireland's was as bland a ballad as you could get. Marty Whelan is beyond unbearable.
Marty is trying to much to be like Terry Wogan. Also he was totally lost in the scoring system!
Noticed that alright. I think he was looking to the right of each entrant were their totals were rather than to the left where the current scores were shown. He mustn't have been expecting to be on :P
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
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I must say I found it compulsive viewing but for all the wrong reasons. ;D
Mind you, I had to turn the sound off between acts as Marty and his non-stop drivel was wrecking my head. He’s about as funny as Brendan O’Connor. ‘Nuff said!
Our fella was bad enough with the two laddybucks leppin’ all over the place. Their antics were synchronised with what yer man and his guitars was doing and to cap it all, the winner was a female Sumo wrestler, wearing a kimono, some cultural clash! That was funny enough but to cap it all, she thought she was a chicken!
I can’t wait for next year. Mrs. Brown’s Boys isn’t nearly half as funny.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
I forgot how much that stereotype has been used as an excuse to systematically persecute Cavan people over the centuries. Thanks for reminding me.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
Has there been a genocide perpetrated against Scottish people or Cavan people, in which the portrayal of them as "money grabbers" was used to mobilise the widespread, systemic hatred and prejudice against them which enables genocide to happen?
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
I forgot how much that stereotype has been used as an excuse to systematically persecute over the centuries. Thanks for reminding me.
Probably a bit ironic that your strapline reads "Never mind your why. Why ain't in your repetoire no more n***a" while making that point about persecution.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Is there an echo in here? ;D
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What country did win?
A country that doesn't even exist, and is not even in Europe.
Sums up Eurovision really.
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
I forgot how much that stereotype has been used as an excuse to systematically persecute over the centuries. Thanks for reminding me.
Probably a bit ironic that your strapline reads "Never mind your why. Why ain't in your repetoire no more n***a" while making that point about persecution.
I'm not sure you understand what irony means.
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What country did win?
A country that doesn't even exist, and is not even in Europe.
Sums up Eurovision really.
Really?
What's your basis for stating such?
And what country do you come from?
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
I forgot how much that stereotype has been used as an excuse to systematically persecute over the centuries. Thanks for reminding me.
Probably a bit ironic that your strapline reads "Never mind your why. Why ain't in your repetoire no more n***a" while making that point about persecution.
I'm not sure you understand what irony means.
Zing
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Jesus wept
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
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You disagree?
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You disagree?
Absolutely. Just a big if harmless fun. Just like 'Did you hear about the Jewish kamikazi pilot? He landed in his brother's scrapyard'
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Jesus Christ lads it’s the f**king Eurovision!!!
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Here there's a brave buzz around Cross today
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Here there's a brave buzz around Cross today
The sound of red diesel?
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Actually you're not a million miles away there. There was a charity tractor run event taking place
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Actually you're not a million miles away there. There was a charity tractor run event taking place
Some nice yokes, although many of them are merely ordinary enough elderly machines.
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A summer of this : ( missing club month already
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
Has there been a genocide perpetrated against Scottish people or Cavan people, in which the portrayal of them as "money grabbers" was used to mobilise the widespread, systemic hatred and prejudice against them which enables genocide to happen?
Not sure about the scots but the Cavan wans have been given awful stick over the years.
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I don't see anything wrong with it.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
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That's without doubt one of the most pathetic comments I've seen on this site. Embarrassing stuff. Inability to distinguish between the state of Israel and "the Jews". Whinging about people playing the anti-Semitism card by being shockingly anti-Semitic.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
As for this, I'm not sure whether you're on the windup or genuinely see nothing wrong with that post.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
Watch this and realise what a dunce you are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_F27ejh3x4
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
As stated above, I'm not very familiar with the stereotype of the "money grabbing Scotsman" being used to systematically persecute the Scots (up to and including genocide) over the centuries. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?
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Jesus the snowflakes have fcuked the euro-vision thread now too.
Is nowhere safe?
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Jesus the snowflakes have fcuked the euro-vision thread now too.
Is nowhere safe?
Nowhere.
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Jesus the snowflakes have fcuked the euro-vision thread now too.
Is nowhere safe?
It's mad the way there's a cohort of posters who cry "bully" as soon as they're outpointed in a debate.
And then see nothing wrong with obvious naked anti-semitism, calling anybody who objects a snowflake.
Mad, I tells ya.
There's a rather obvious hypocrisy there, but sure, nah...why even bother...
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Snowdrops and daffodils
Butterflies and bees
Sailboats and fishermen
Things of the sea
Wishing-wells
Wedding bells
Early morning dew
All kinds of everything remind me of you
Seagulls and aeroplanes
Things of the sky
Winds that go howlin'
Breezes that sigh
City sights
Neon lights
Grey skies or blue
All kinds of everything remind me of you
Summertime
Wintertime
Spring and autumn too
Monday
Tuesday every day
I think of you.
Dances
Romances
Things of the night
Sunshine and holidays
Postcards to write
Budding trees
Autumn leaves
A snowflake or two
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
Summertime
Wintertime
Spring and autumn too
Seasons will never change
The way that I love you.
Dances
Romances
Things of the night
Sunshine and holidays
Postcards to write
Budding trees
Autumn leaves
A snowflake or two
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
As stated above, I'm not very familiar with the stereotype of the "money grabbing Scotsman" being used to systematically persecute the Scots (up to and including genocide) over the centuries. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?
It's not just the stuff the Israeli state has done, it's the stereotypes like the tight Scotsman that can't even be spoken of. All attempts of reference to the Jewish people is lumped into the big anti-semitism net.
A tight Jew or a drunken Irishman. Why is one an acceptable stereotype and one not?
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
As stated above, I'm not very familiar with the stereotype of the "money grabbing Scotsman" being used to systematically persecute the Scots (up to and including genocide) over the centuries. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?
It's not just the stuff the Israeli state has done, it's the stereotypes like the tight Scotsman that can't even be spoken of. All attempts of reference to the Jewish people is lumped into the big anti-semitism net.
A tight Jew or a drunken Irishman. Why is one an acceptable stereotype and one not?
Are you pretending to be stupid or are you genuinely stupid?
I think I know the answer to this one, actually, having had the misfortune to read a range of your infantile posts on different subjects.
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
As stated above, I'm not very familiar with the stereotype of the "money grabbing Scotsman" being used to systematically persecute the Scots (up to and including genocide) over the centuries. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?
It's not just the stuff the Israeli state has done, it's the stereotypes like the tight Scotsman that can't even be spoken of. All attempts of reference to the Jewish people is lumped into the big anti-semitism net.
A tight Jew or a drunken Irishman. Why is one an acceptable stereotype and one not?
Are you pretending to be stupid or are you genuinely stupid?
I think I know the answer to this one, actually, having had the misfortune to read a range of your infantile posts on different subjects.
As someone who earlier on this thread alluded to the ass-shaking of the females in the Cyprus act, i’d be careful when you try to link threads. What about treating women as second class citizens? Ok to objectify them when singing on the stage? Nothing to do with singing, lyrics etc.
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
Why would I go and contact some famous satirists about some moron posting anti-Semitic tripe on an Irish GAA discussion board?
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Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
Has there been a genocide perpetrated against Scottish people or Cavan people, in which the portrayal of them as "money grabbers" was used to mobilise the widespread, systemic hatred and prejudice against them which enables genocide to happen?
The Halocaust was carried out by the Nazis but the Jews try to make everybody feel guilty for it. Anyone criticizing the Jews is accused of antisemitism to the point that they can carry out atrocities of their own with impunity.
As far as the money grabber title is concerned, it is well deserved
I’ve played Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2. Is this a new one in the series?
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
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Supposed anti-semitism isn't acceptable, but anti-catholic, anti-irish, anti-abortion seems very acceptable.
Lololol the absolute state of you trying to draw an equivalence there.
The old saying of a tight arse Scot or Yorkshireman is laughed at, but when it's a jew... Oh, you can't say that! ::)
As stated above, I'm not very familiar with the stereotype of the "money grabbing Scotsman" being used to systematically persecute the Scots (up to and including genocide) over the centuries. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?
It's not just the stuff the Israeli state has done, it's the stereotypes like the tight Scotsman that can't even be spoken of. All attempts of reference to the Jewish people is lumped into the big anti-semitism net.
A tight Jew or a drunken Irishman. Why is one an acceptable stereotype and one not?
Are you pretending to be stupid or are you genuinely stupid?
I think I know the answer to this one, actually, having had the misfortune to read a range of your infantile posts on different subjects.
As someone who earlier on this thread alluded to the ass-shaking of the females in the Cyprus act, i’d be careful when you try to link threads. What about treating women as second class citizens? Ok to objectify them when singing on the stage? Nothing to do with singing, lyrics etc.
Go on. Quote my post, there. Explain exactly what you found objectionable.
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Is Frankie Boyle on the racist list? What about Tommy Tiernan?
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Is Frankie Boyle on the racist list? What about Tommy Tiernan?
Yes and yes.
Anyone who says anything funny or witty about a person/country/race is on the list.
Jokes should all be like..........'Did you hear the joke about the bin........its rubbish' or maybe that is being offensive to bins?
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What about the Muslims?
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What about the Muslims?
Yeah - f**k them.
Stick them on the list as well
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Snowdrops and daffodils
Butterflies and bees
Sailboats and fishermen
Things of the sea
Wishing-wells
Wedding bells
Early morning dew
All kinds of everything remind me of you
Seagulls and aeroplanes
Things of the sky
Winds that go howlin'
Breezes that sigh
City sights
Neon lights
Grey skies or blue
All kinds of everything remind me of you
Summertime
Wintertime
Spring and autumn too
Monday
Tuesday every day
I think of you.
Dances
Romances
Things of the night
Sunshine and holidays
Postcards to write
Budding trees
Autumn leaves
A snowflake or two
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
Summertime
Wintertime
Spring and autumn too
Seasons will never change
The way that I love you.
Dances
Romances
Things of the night
Sunshine and holidays
Postcards to write
Budding trees
Autumn leaves
A snowflake or two
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
All kinds of everything remind me of you.
Dana be trying to change the subject to Eurovision stuff ..... lads here are trying to speed it up with their chat. Unfortunately we lost it this year but sure what’s another year eh? Some of the kids on here should be more rock and roll and not take life too seriously.
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Thought the german song was the best. Rest were pure shite as usual. ::)
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?
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Thought the german song was the best. Rest were pure shite as usual. ::)
Was that the song about the Da who had passed away?
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Yeah thats the one as far as i recall.
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That israeli blade singing that winning song absolutely turned me no harm to her :-[
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Is Frankie Boyle on the racist list? What about Tommy Tiernan?
Yes and yes.
Anyone who says anything funny or witty about a person/country/race is on the list.
Jokes should all be like..........'Did you hear the joke about the bin........its rubbish' or maybe that is being offensive to bins?
Do Frankie Boyle and Tommy Tiernan deliberately vilify all people of certain ethnic groups merely because they are members of a certain ethnic group, in the way some posters on this site vilify Jews merely because they are Jews?
Sometimes on this forum one has to do a double take to make sure it's not a BNP forum.
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Is Frankie Boyle on the racist list? What about Tommy Tiernan?
Yes and yes.
Anyone who says anything funny or witty about a person/country/race is on the list.
Jokes should all be like..........'Did you hear the joke about the bin........its rubbish' or maybe that is being offensive to bins?
Do Frankie Boyle and Tommy Tiernan deliberately vilify all people of certain ethnic groups merely because they are members of a certain ethnic group, in the way some posters on this site vilify Jews merely because they are Jews?
Sometimes on this forum one has to do a double take to make sure it's not a BNP forum.
Hmmmm.....they tell jokes about certain ethnic groups in their routine absolutely.
Asking do they vilify them would be a matter of opinion
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?
Excellent point and shows up the absurdity of some of the positions here. Funny is funny end of - Dougal's original joke here that sprouted this bleeting match was just shit tho.
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Perhaps you might tell me who, if anyone, this joke would be offensive to:
Did you hear about the nun who fell asleep outside a synagogue ?
When she woke up next morning there was a heavy dew on her
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Is Frankie Boyle on the racist list? What about Tommy Tiernan?
Yes and yes.
Anyone who says anything funny or witty about a person/country/race is on the list.
Jokes should all be like..........'Did you hear the joke about the bin........its rubbish' or maybe that is being offensive to bins?
Do Frankie Boyle and Tommy Tiernan deliberately vilify all people of certain ethnic groups merely because they are members of a certain ethnic group, in the way some posters on this site vilify Jews merely because they are Jews?
Sometimes on this forum one has to do a double take to make sure it's not a BNP forum.
Hmmmm.....they tell jokes about certain ethnic groups in their routine absolutely.
Asking do they vilify them would be a matter of opinion
Read back over the last couple of pages of this thread and tell me whether there has been outright anti-semitism on it.
Remember now, several posters have defended what was said.
Think carefully.
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Just clarify what you define as being anti Semitic
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I dislike Israelis because they steal Palestinians land and shoot dead unarmed protesters. Is that anti Semitic?
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Just clarify what you define as being anti Semitic
You started it off.
But your trope, anti-semitic as it was, is actually pretty mild compared to the Oliver J. Flanagan-esque rant that followed.
Smile will be on the other side of Eurovision's face tomorrow when they discover every telephone vote cast for Israel reversed the charges
Really? A jews are tight with money joke?
Yes. A bit of light humour. Have you some point to make?
Yes. It was a joke in poor taste that reinforces old antisemitic tropes.
That sort of thing is ok around here though.
Shi#te, thats me in trouble then. Told a similar joke at work last week but it was a scottish person instead.
Come to think of it, someone else was slagging off Cavan(sorry anyone from Cavan on here) people for being tight during another discussion. I shall be reporting him first thing tomorrow.
Has there been a genocide perpetrated against Scottish people or Cavan people, in which the portrayal of them as "money grabbers" was used to mobilise the widespread, systemic hatred and prejudice against them which enables genocide to happen?
The Halocaust was carried out by the Nazis but the Jews try to make everybody feel guilty for it. Anyone criticizing the Jews is accused of antisemitism to the point that they can carry out atrocities of their own with impunity.
As far as the money grabber title is concerned, it is well deserved
What country did win?
A country that doesn't even exist, and is not even in Europe.
Sums up Eurovision really.
I dislike Israelis because they steal Palestinians land and shoot dead unarmed protesters. Is that anti Semitic?
If you object to the behaviour of the Israeli government and armed forces, as I do, that's clearly not anti-semitism.
If vilify Jews in general because of the actions of the Israeli government, that's anti-semitism.
If you vilify Jews in general as being "money grabbers", yes, that is very definitely anti-semitic - because it's the exact same type of ethnic vilification that led to the Holocaust.
It really is a shame to have to explain this stuff.
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
Not particularly, because it doesn't use a negative stereotype to generalise about Jews as a group.
Now, can you tell me whether you believe that negative stereotypes about Jews being money grabbers are anti-semitic?
Like yours, and like the even more vile post of Windmill Abu's?
Can you tell me whether such negative stereotypes were widely used to vilify Jews in 1930s Germany, thus preparing the ground for the Holocaust?
I'll make a leap and presume you have knowledge of what the Holocaust was.
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
Not particularly, because it doesn't use a negative stereotype to generalise about Jews as a group.
Now, can you tell me whether you believe that negative stereotypes about Jews being money grabbers are anti-semitic?
Like yours, and like the even more vile post of Windmill Abu's?
Can you tell me whether such negative stereotypes were widely used to vilify Jews in 1930s Germany, thus preparing the ground for the Holocaust?
I'll make a leap and presume you have knowledge of what the Holocaust was.
3 Jewish billionaires - Paul Singer, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus- funded the lobby that convinced Trump to pull out of the Iran deal. They also heavily funded the lobby for the tax cuts that went 60% to the richest 1% of americans.
Is that antisemitic ?
It is very f**king dangerous.
When the US economy crashes along with the dollar, guess what will happen. The white elite will blame the Jews. And it will be easy. People in Indiana and Ohio will take the bait.
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
Not particularly, because it doesn't use a negative stereotype to generalise about Jews as a group.
Now, can you tell me whether you believe that negative stereotypes about Jews being money grabbers are anti-semitic?
Like yours, and like the even more vile post of Windmill Abu's?
Can you tell me whether such negative stereotypes were widely used to vilify Jews in 1930s Germany, thus preparing the ground for the Holocaust?
I'll make a leap and presume you have knowledge of what the Holocaust was.
Don't patronise me. I suggest you look back over your history books and try to address your selective memory. Contrary to popular myth the Jews weren’t the only people killed in the holocaust. They were mainly killed because they were considered inferior.
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Did you hear about the 2 gay ghosts?
They put the willies up each other!
Offensive ?
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Did you hear about the 2 gay ghosts?
They put the willies up each other!
Offensive ?
Very.
Disgusting in fact.
LGBT community will be after you
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Did you hear about the Irish formula 1 driver?
He made 10 pit stops , 1 for tyres, 1 for fuel and 8 to ask for directions
Offensive?
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Did you hear about the 2 gay ghosts?
They put the willies up each other!
Offensive ?
Very.
Disgusting in fact.
LGBT community will be after you
Will ghosts start to haunt me?
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?
Excellent point and shows up the absurdity of some of the positions here. Funny is funny end of - Dougal's original joke here that sprouted this bleeting match was just shit tho.
Was there an answer to this at all?
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
Not particularly, because it doesn't use a negative stereotype to generalise about Jews as a group.
Now, can you tell me whether you believe that negative stereotypes about Jews being money grabbers are anti-semitic?
Like yours, and like the even more vile post of Windmill Abu's?
Can you tell me whether such negative stereotypes were widely used to vilify Jews in 1930s Germany, thus preparing the ground for the Holocaust?
I'll make a leap and presume you have knowledge of what the Holocaust was.
Don't patronise me. I suggest you look back over your history books and try to address your selective memory. Contrary to popular myth the Jews weren’t the only people killed in the holocaust. They were mainly killed because they were considered inferior.
They were killed because they were constantly vilified using negative stereotypes. When you vilify an entire ethnic group, you can justify anything.
You and the other fuckwits on this thread see no problem perpetuating the negative ethnic stereotypes which have been a contributing factor to genocide in the past, of course.
It's just "bantz", or something.
It'd be a very interesting thought experiment to set up a thread to ridicule Northern Catholics using every negative stereotype imaginable. Just for the craic, like. And to see what the reaction is.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
Nor Kazakhstan imo.
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The nun outside the synagogue. Anti Semitic?
Not particularly, because it doesn't use a negative stereotype to generalise about Jews as a group.
Now, can you tell me whether you believe that negative stereotypes about Jews being money grabbers are anti-semitic?
Like yours, and like the even more vile post of Windmill Abu's?
Can you tell me whether such negative stereotypes were widely used to vilify Jews in 1930s Germany, thus preparing the ground for the Holocaust?
I'll make a leap and presume you have knowledge of what the Holocaust was.
Don't patronise me. I suggest you look back over your history books and try to address your selective memory. Contrary to popular myth the Jews weren’t the only people killed in the holocaust. They were mainly killed because they were considered inferior.
They were killed because they were constantly vilified using negative stereotypes. When you vilify an entire ethnic group, you can justify anything.
You and the other fuckwits on this thread see no problem perpetuating the negative ethnic stereotypes which have been a contributing factor to genocide in the past, of course.
It's just "bantz", or something.
It'd be a very interesting thought experiment to set up a thread to ridicule Northern Catholics using every negative stereotype imaginable. Just for the craic, like. And to see what the reaction is.
Well if any Jews are subject to genocide as a result of my quip I’ll remove it.
The NI Catholics joke thread is a great idea. Go ahead and set it up. Just one final point, when you resort to crude language to make an argument, you lose it.
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?
Excellent point and shows up the absurdity of some of the positions here. Funny is funny end of - Dougal's original joke here that sprouted this bleeting match was just shit tho.
Was there an answer to this at all?
I'll wait for all the the six county Catholics on this thread to finish up their bomb-making activities for the day before answering.
Hey, just #bantz, remember!?
Like Barry McElduff!
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You’ve lost me with that last bit Chief
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You’ve lost me with that last bit Chief
Being lost is no doubt a feeling you're well used to.
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It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.
Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.
I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.
Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.
The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.
A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.
It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0
Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?
Excellent point and shows up the absurdity of some of the positions here. Funny is funny end of - Dougal's original joke here that sprouted this bleeting match was just shit tho.
Was there an answer to this at all?
I'll wait for all the the six county Catholics on this thread to finish up their bomb-making activities for the day before answering.
Hey, just #bantz, remember!?
Like Barry McElduff!
Seriously do I have to research jokes/ comedians before laughing at them? And lets be honest the Catholic Church rightfully get loads of abuse on here including stereotypical comments. In fact I don't think there's a grouping/ race that get as much.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
No, but I'm just hoping they qualify for Qatar 2022. Then the fun will start.
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Why is Dougal Maguire twaddling on about jokes when it's obvious to everyone that Windmill Abu's literally anti-semetic post wasn't a joke? Sometimes people on this site (most times) don't realise how absolutely reprehensible the behaviour they're trying to defend is.
Windmill's post was out of line. No problem with someone taking issue with it. Dougal's however was harmless.
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You’ve lost me with that last bit Chief
Being lost is no doubt a feeling you're well used to.
What do you mean by a cryptic message like that?
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I’m cut to the bone. I thought my initial comment was a piece of spontaneous comedy genius if truth be told.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
Nor Kazakhstan imo.
For a country to be eligible to qualify for participation for the European Song Contest, it must be represented by a national broadcaster that is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union) (EBU) - in Ireland's case that can be either RTÉ or TG4 - that lies either within the European Broadcasting Area of the ITU or be from a country that is a member of the Council of Europe (in the latter case, the only country outside the European Broadcast Area at present that could qualify for Council of Europe membership of is Kazakhstan). Australia is the obvious exception, being granted now an effective permanent wildcard entry.
The European Broadcast Area is not limited simply to continental Europe & associated islands. Indeed when the EBU was founded in 1950 its first members included broadcasters from Lebanon, Morocco & Tunisia. Indeed Morocco had an entry in the 1980 contest, the only time an African country has done so. A number of years back Syria was contemplating sending an entry but were told by the EBU that if their representative broadcaster refused to show or edited the Israeli performance on the live broadcast they would be disqualified, so no further progress was made.
In any case there is no formal international agreement that determines where Europe ends and Asia begins, but it's generally agreed that it includes the Turkish Straits, the Great Caucasus Watershed and roughly along the Ural River and Ural Mountains. On that basis quite a few countries straddle this line - the majority of Russia's landmass lies in Asia though the majority of its population live in Europe, only 3% of Turkey's land is in Europe and 4% of Kazakhstan's as well as a slither of both Georgia & Azerbaijan. Armenia lies entirely in Asia. Cyprus lies on the Anatolian Plate along with most of the Asia Minor that geographically it's part of Asia though culturally European while a few Greek islands off the Asian Minor coast like the Dodecanese could also count as geographically Asian. Then you have Spain, where the Canary Islands as well as the exclaves of Ceuta & Melilla are on the African continent, while the Portuguese island of Maderia (you know, the one Ronaldo was born on) lies much closer to Africa than Europe. Heck, if you want to start a real row Iceland straddles the European and American continental plates with its nearest landmass being Greenland but there is generally unanimous agreement that Iceland is a European country.
With regards to soccer, you have the transcontinental countries mentioned above that have all chosen to be part of UEFA rather than the AFC. You then also have Armenia and Cyprus (like above). Israel's participation is a result of history - not going to get into the deep politics of it all but they were effectively expelled from the AFC in 1974, became nomads for two decades before getting full UEFA membership in 1994. Another example is Australia leaving the OFC and joining the AFC for competitions at country and club levels. In the Americas you have Guyana, Suriname & French Guiana playing in CONCACAF competitions despite all three lying on the northern part of the South American landmass etc. etc. etc.
Generally when it comes down to geopolitics, things aren't always so simple. ;) What I would say though is that if FC Luch-Energiya of Valdivostok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Luch-Energiya_Vladivostok) ever qualify for the Champions League or Europa League, it's going to be fun for any team drawn against them to travel to Luch's ground for the away leg! Mind you, FC SKA-Khabarovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_SKA-Khabarovsk) were in this seasons Russian Premier League but have been relegated.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
No, but I'm just hoping they qualify for Qatar 2022. Then the fun will start.
Before they even bribed won the right to host, Qatari officials said that if Israel qualified they would welcome the team into the country. In any case Qatar don't ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country outright compared to most Arab countries but they do require a visa application beforehand.
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
No, but I'm just hoping they qualify for Qatar 2022. Then the fun will start.
Before they even bribed won the right to host, Qatari officials said that if Israel qualified they would welcome the team into the country. In any case Qatar don't ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country outright compared to most Arab countries but they do require a visa application beforehand.
The problem with Israel is that it never integrated into the Middle East.
No country in the region needs an international aiport the way Israel does.
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The world has gone mad
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Israel shouldn't be in the Eurovision. Neither should Australia.
Israel shouldn't be in UEFA either
No, but I'm just hoping they qualify for Qatar 2022. Then the fun will start.
Before they even bribed won the right to host, Qatari officials said that if Israel qualified they would welcome the team into the country. In any case Qatar don't ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country outright compared to most Arab countries but they do require a visa application beforehand.
Yes but then there's the Qatari people. That could be a different story.
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Yes but then there's the Qatari people. That could be a different story.
Only 12% of Qatar's resident population are Qatari citizens, they have the highest GDP per head of any country in the world notwithstanding that many South Asian working there in construction, hospitality & as servants along with many other foreigners are effectively indentured slaves. So nah.
In the current geopolitical climate, it might be trickier if Saudi Arabia, Egypt or the UAE qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
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Yes but then there's the Qatari people. That could be a different story.
Only 12% of Qatar's resident population are Qatari citizens, they have the highest GDP per head of any country in the world notwithstanding that many South Asian working there in construction, hospitality & as servants along with many other foreigners are effectively indentured slaves. So nah.
In the current geopolitical climate, it might be trickier if Saudi Arabia, Egypt or the UAE qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
Trouble has started before elsewhere with less ;)
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There's a poll going around on thejournal.ie asking if Ireland should boycott Eurovision in Israel. Initially, I thought yes, but if someone were to pen a good song about standing up to colonizing land-grabbing oppressors on the other hand...
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There's a poll going around on thejournal.ie asking if Ireland should boycott Eurovision in Israel. Initially, I thought yes, but if someone were to pen a good song about standing up to colonizing land-grabbing oppressors on the other hand...
I know just the group for that
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The Wolfe Tones in Eurovision!!
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Ireland didn’t make the final. So we are boycotting Israel in a round about way.
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It's becomes apparent that Eurosong competition has become too expensive to host.
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Didn't watch it, if you did you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Didn't watch it, if you did you should be ashamed of yourselves.
I happened to flip it over just as they were showing a review of each song. I had to mute it. It hurt my ears. Terrible noise.
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Which is worse ?
1. Eurovision
2 Rose of Tralee
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Didn't watch it, if you did you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Totally agree. Great to see we got what we deserved
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Which is worse ?
1. Eurovision
2 Rose of Tralee
At Your Service with the Brennan boys.
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Which is worse ?
1. Eurovision
2 Rose of Tralee
Definitely Eurovision
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Which is worse ?
1. Eurovision
2 Rose of Tralee
At Your Service with the Brennan boys.
The Ray Darcy show.
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Didn't watch. But when heard that song awhile back, it was a shocking attempt to ape crap American pop/country crossover. Irrespective of the political implications, the committee at RTE who foisted that on our eardrums should be named and shamed. Some wit on hearing that the Americans were using Westlife music to torture prisoners commented that RTE have been doing the very same thing to the Irish public for years.
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Which is worse ?
1. Eurovision
2 Rose of Tralee
The Israelis don’t use the Rose of Tralee as a propaganda vehicle. So I suppose it’s the Eurovision.
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The Icelandic act held up Palestine flags after their vote was announced. It did not go down well in the arena. Fair play, Iceland.
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Turgid stuff, except for the Icelanders.
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The Icelanics were mad. Still did a good deed by holding up the Palestine flags.
Some finish to the voting with both North Macedonia and Sweden flopping in the public vote. The Netherlands winning out.
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The Icelandic act held up Palestine flags after their vote was announced. It did not go down well in the arena. Fair play, Iceland.
Brilliant caught that there as I turn over from watching film, fair fcuks to them ! Went down like a lead balloon. Bookies favourite won. Brit’s cane last as usual seems to be a farce all the same
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It was very funny actually. The Iceland lads looked like they didn’t give a feck what score they got. It was like they were only there to produce the Palestine flags.
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It was very funny actually. The Iceland lads looked like they didn’t give a feck what score they got. It was like they were only there to produce the Palestine flags.
I hope they had a fast car ready
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It was very funny actually. The Iceland lads looked like they didn’t give a feck what score they got. It was like they were only there to produce the Palestine flags.
I hope they had a fast car ready
Yes, it takes balls to do what they did!
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Was in a pub at a function and the TV was on with no sound (why do they do this in pubs). Was ignoring it the best I could but was delighted to spot the Icelandic band sticking up for human rights. Iceland has a history of doing things correctly. Like with the economic crisis in 2008 - bankers and politicians got jailed, bondholders got burned. Fair play to them.
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Was in a pub at a function and the TV was on with no sound (why do they do this in pubs). Was ignoring it the best I could but was delighted to spot the Icelandic band sticking up for human rights. Iceland has a history of doing things correctly. Like with the economic crisis in 2008 - bankers and politicians got jailed, bondholders got burned. Fair play to them.
The Palestinians were not happy at all, they actually gave off about their token gesture.