[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Alf

Spudulike me to tell another?

waits for the outrage...

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Cherie

waits for the outrage...

Yeah, mash will be along in a bit...pointing.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

waits for the outrage...

As an Irish person the outrage is meant to come from you... :/

I don't think you have the hang of this outrage thing at all

Luckily there are those who can and do stand up for you when directly mocked. Being diminished as exhibiting 'faux' outrage shouldn't stop anyone from challenging a stereotype.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

As an Irish person the outrage is meant to come from you... :/



Luckily there are those who can and do stand up for you when directly mocked.

who?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

As an Irish person the outrage is meant to come from you... :/

I don't think you have the hang of this outrage thing at all

Luckily there are those who can and do stand up for you when directly mocked. Being diminished as exhibiting 'faux' outrage shouldn't stop anyone from challenging a stereotype.

Irish people generally don't get offended about the Potato stuff, although if you really think about it, it is an awful thing to joke about, over a million people actually died during the famine and another million emigrated. I think alot of people don't really know much about it though or how bad it really was

*I do really like Potatoes though

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Irish people generally don't get offended about the Potato stuff, although if you really think about it, it is an awful thing to joke about, over a million people actually died during the famine and another million emigrated. I think alot of people don't really know much about it though or how bad it really was

*I do really like Potatoes though

its not about the famine tho, the joke is about your love of tatties

like scots get mean and alcoholics and english get pompous royal cow-tailing milk-sops and the welsh get sheep-shagging inbreds etc

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its not about the famine tho, the joke is about your love of tatties

Of course it is. If it weren't for the famine you think the Irish would still be associated with potatoes?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Of course it is. If it weren't for the famine you think the Irish would still be associated with potatoes?

Of course hence why the blight on the potato was do devastating, we did not have a whisky famine in scotland to get a rep for drink

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Of course hence why the blight on the potato was do devastating, we did not have a whisky famine in scotland to get a rep for drink

We have that too tbf

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Of course hence why the blight on the potato was do devastating, we did not have a whisky famine in scotland to get a rep for drink

you do your bit to keep that reputation alive

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its not about the famine tho, the joke is about your love of tatties

like scots get mean and alcoholics and english get pompous royal cow-tailing milk-sops and the welsh get sheep-shagging inbreds etc

Yeah I know but the whole love for Potatoes comes from the fact that back before the famine (and why the failing potato crops actually caused a famine for Irish people) Irish people were only eating potatoes because they mostly only had tiny plots of land to try and grow food to survive on and Potatoes were the only way they could produce enough to live on. Basically, why irish people are linked with Potatoes in the first place was to avoid starvation while working for British landthievesLords

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

As an Irish person the outrage is meant to come from you... :/

I don't think you have the hang of this outrage thing at all

Luckily there are those who can and do stand up for you when directly mocked. Being diminished as exhibiting 'faux' outrage shouldn't stop anyone from challenging a stereotype.

Are they all Senaglese complaining?


why aren't you outraged on my behalf and your own, aren't you part Irish?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Are they all Senaglese complaining?

Doubt it.

Just as I doubt Alan Sugar was suggesting all beach sellers are Senagalese.

He was referring to their skin colour/how they look. Which makes the tasteless joke racist rather than xenophobic.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Doubt it.

Just as I doubt Alan Sugar was suggesting all beach sellers are Senagalese.

He was referring to their skin colour/how they look. Which makes the tasteless joke racist rather than xenophobic.

Yes it was ill judged, does it deserve all the attention it is getting, no it doesn't

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Yes it was ill judged, does it deserve all the attention it is getting, no it doesn't

I never said it did.
Like I said before I don't think he intended anything other than a harmless joke. It is racist, however. And he was naive to think it wouldn't get a bad reception in the first place.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Are they all Senaglese complaining?


why aren't you outraged on my behalf and your own, aren't you part Irish?

Some , does it matter?

This 'celebrity' didn't mention potatoes, had he shown the Irish team with a few dead bodies and some rotten potatoes strewn around them then yes, I would be having a say on that.
However your glib reference doesn't inspire much outrage sorry.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

As an Irish person the outrage is meant to come from you... :/

I don't think you have the hang of this outrage thing at all

Luckily there are those who can and do stand up for you when directly mocked. Being diminished as exhibiting 'faux' outrage shouldn't stop anyone from challenging a stereotype.

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Some , does it matter?

This 'celebrity' didn't mention potatoes, had he shown the Irish team with a few dead bodies and some rotten potatoes strewn around them then yes, I would be having a say on that.
However your glib reference doesn't inspire much outrage sorry.

Not 5 minutes ago you were suggesting I should be outraged, I can't keep up.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Not 5 minutes ago you were suggesting I should be outraged, I can't keep up.

So we're discussing you now and your hypothetical?...I can't keep up.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

So we're discussing you now and your hypothetical?...I can't keep up.

You commented on it, and I responded, if you felt it was so inconsequential not sure why you bothered

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Are they all Senaglese complaining?


why aren't you outraged on my behalf and your own, aren't you part Irish?

According to Ancestry UK, I am 5% Irish. Who Knew! No one in our family...

Anyhoo, I'm outraged Cherie. Similarly, when I wrote a song about Niamh last Christmas for Eurovision and threw just about every negative Irish stereotype at her, she was outraged too.

Oh no hang on... she laughed.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

According to Ancestry UK, I am 5% Irish. Who Knew! No one in our family...

Anyhoo, I'm outraged Cherie. Similarly, when I wrote a song about Niamh last Christmas for Eurovision and threw just about every negative Irish stereotype at her, she was outraged too.

Oh no hang on... she laughed.

Of course she laughed, she didn't want a smack in the face.

You have a reputation round here.

Whilst we're here, let poor Kizzy out of that headlock!