Fuck you you fucking Waters apologist.
[quote=“glasagusban, post: 901831, member: 1533”]Do we have a thread for that cunt John Waters? Fintan O’Toole has a nice cut off him today. Fintan is an alright sort (fuck you @Horsebox shove that up your jacksie).
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/a-columnist-s-job-confers-some-privileges-and-obligations-1.1686487[/quote]
Waters has written one of the best books about Irish society ever written. O’Toole regurgitated a few old columns, stuck them between two pieces of paperback and passed them off as a book.
Waters was also riding Sinead O’Connor when she was in her prime. So I’d make that 2-0 to Waters. The other lad is only a maundering self regarding cunt.
I’ll fucking sue you if you keep that up.
[quote=“Fagan ODowd, post: 901891, member: 706”]Waters has written one of the best books about Irish society ever written. O’Toole regurgitated a few old columns, stuck them between two pieces of paperback and passed them off as a book.
Waters was also riding Sinead O’Connor when she was in her prime. So I’d make that 2-0 to Waters. The other lad is only a maundering self regarding cunt.[/quote]
What’s the book waters wrote and what’s the general gist of it fagan? I find waters a desperate pretentious cunt but would be willing to have my mind changed
[quote=“Sidney, post: 901834, member: 183”]Fergus Finlay has an article in the Examiner today where he describes how Waters launched into a tirade of abuse against him on a TV3 debate about the Children’s Rights referendum last year. The programme was recorded an hour before broadcast and a decision was immediately made by TV3 to cut the segment out because it contained defamatory content.
Waters has also used the the term “feminazis” on more than one occasion. So he’s well used to dishing out abuse, but clearly can’t take what by any fair analysis was a fair description of him, without running to his lawyer. An out and out bully.
Here are some quotes I picked out from that Waters interview with the UCD College Tribune:
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/02/09/…-gay-adoption/[/quote]
What is Waters qualified in exactly?
Jiving at the Crossroads.
Jiving at the Crossroads is the book I would say
About the same as any other columnist. Fuck all, but with an opinion on everything.
How very “Waters” of you.
is he a thinker or a tinker?
@Mark Renton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPiRvVD4WB8
What was so good about it and what’s it about fagan?
This is a fairly good description of it.
[I]In 1991, Ireland was in the midst of a devastating recession; thousands of young Irish men and women had emigrated over the previous decade, and divisive social and moral debates on abortion and divorce had rocked Irish society. The great pillars of society - politics and religion - were beginning to crumble, a process that continued in subsequent years as both institutions were hit by scandal. A questioning of the values on which Ireland had been built had begun, with an apparently unbridgeable divide opening between ‘traditionalists’ and ‘modernizers’. At the start of the decade, the modernizers appeared to have won, with the election as President of the iconic Mary Robinson.Irish Times columnist John Waters captured the zeitgeist of the time with the hugely successful Jiving at the Crossroads, which sold over 50,000 copies. A defining book of the era, its success was partly due to its remarkable blending of social/cultural commentary with personal memoir. At the emotional core of the book was the relationship between John and his father, and the story of Ireland was intricately woven into this powerful narrative. It was the first in a long line of books to question the very notion of modern Irish identity, and to examine the deep-rooted tensions at the heart of the Irish psyche.Twenty years later, much has changed in Ireland, and yet Jiving at the Crossroads remains a deeply resonant book, particularly in the light of the remarkable rise and precipitous fall of the Celtic Tiger, and the fresh questioning of how we got where we are now. This twentieth anniversary reissue of a landmark book, with a new Afterword, will be welcomed by those who remember it, and will be a fascinating insight for a new generation of Irish people.
Reviews
One of the most original and insightful Irish non-fiction books of the last decade… Any commentator who claims to know how Irish people feel, particularly about the national question, should be made to read this book
Conor Foley (Tribune Magazine)
John Waters’ method is the word, his passion truth, his object a better world… a wonderful, witty, and moving book
Patsy McGarry (Irish Press)
This [is a] rich, racily written first book… one of the most inspired/inspiring debuts to have come from an Irish journalist in recent years
Aubrey Malone (Independent on Sunday)
This is a splendid book, warm, eloquent and calmly intelligent, as easy and rewarding a read as anything published recently in Ireland. It combines political analysis, polemical essay, personal reminiscence and recapitulation of pieces published in the past… marvellously evocative of an era drawing to a close… This is the best book about Fianna Fáil published in recent years, and by a mile the best-written. A lot of it is funny, but mostly it’s very sad[/I]
[quote=“Rudi, post: 901919, member: 1052”]@Mark Renton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPiRvVD4WB8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHquzFv2exQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNX_4ZwOPys
[/quote]
O’Toole made ribbons of those low lifes there. Thanks Rudi for highlighting it here.
So we have established Fagan as a homophobe ya?
No you’ve just established yourself as a moron.
Again.
[quote=“Fagan ODowd, post: 901964, member: 706”]No you’ve just established yourself as a moron.
Again.[/quote]
Your support of Waters can only let us believe that Fagan. As well as the rest of your old catholic fear driven persona.
waters is an odious cunt
Oh the irony. It’s not great when people make assumptions and look at things in black and white eh?