I stand with @Arthur on this one. Ridiculing irish pastimes like trad music and dancing as backward is pathetic.
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Bacon and cabbage, is savage.
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I dont really eat bacon like that anymore. I do like cabbage though
Surely the people who are objecting to this sketch are in fact the people ridiculing these pastimes?
If they didnât think they were ridiculous, why would they want the sketch withdrawn?
Whats behind this stance?
Health. Choc full of salt and cutting back on red meat. We tend to do a big mince every now and then thatll last at least a couple of days and then a steak sometimes. No sausages either.
We do do rashers as they are savage easy for sambos for school.
Solidarity with the ukrainian fighters on frontlines?? War diet. May as well be getting rations above in the Joy
No. The sketch ridicules traditional irish pastimes by presenting them with the other shite. Iâm no fan of irish dancing but i know plenty who like it and itâs great exercise and sport for kids.
So youâre saying there arenât people like that?
I like a bit of traditional Irish music meself but I donât object people calling it diddly aye, which is a term of ridicule.
Iâm sure Irish dancing is grand exercise but that doesnât take away from its essential ridiculousness.
The sketch has done a great job of exposing the reactionary, humourless, censorious minds in this country. It struck a raw nerve because while itâs a caricature thereâs a large element of it ringing true. If youâre confident enough in the quality of your pastimes, music or sport, you wonât be offended by a bit of very gentle winding up.
I mean Iove the GAA but I bejaysus I love a bit of GAA ridicule.
I love Oasis but I was highly entertained and amused by that classic article by Neil Kulkarni which ridiculed Oasisâs music and fans and made an association between Oasis and Brexityness.
Perhaps thatâs because Iâm not a po-faced, humourless right wing bore like the perma-offended getting offended at this sketch.
The thing about the sketch you posted is that itâs about as funny as a dose of the clap.
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Itâs wound up the performatively offended headbangers beautifully.
If only they were as offended by genocide.
racist self loathing shite, funny or otherwise, has no place in a childs textbook
It wasnât a wind up ffs. It was in a genuine school text book aiming to educate children/teenagers about inclusiveness.
I always find it instructive how lads spend a lifetime denying racism suddenly reach for the racism card when their performative outrage is triggered.
Yes, and?
Youâre offended because you identify with the non-inclusive people?
only a moron or a wum wouldnt see it as racism/ icitement to hatred
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Family b were dressed in the fashion of other cultures because thatâs to be celebrated , looking Irish is backwards ⌠To be fair to sid, he probably couldnât see the other family.
Heâs fooling nobody.
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