RTE addresses us with a contemptible colonial term. What’s that say about their position vis a vis the rest of us? http://t.co/45SN98QAQS
— rabble (@wearerabble) October 6, 2015
Begob.
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meh – they’ve quotes around it. Didn’t Inda use this term before? They’re quoting him, I think.
Storm/teacup. Rather like the myth that Bertie told people to go and commit suicide…
True. He didn’t ask them to kill themselves, he wondered why they didn’t kill themselves of their own accord. Huge difference.
^Oooh. That’s actually a bit Fennelly isn’t it?!
Semantics.
I wasn’t aware that there was a myth that he actually told people to go & kill themselves.
What he said was plenty bad enough.
Quote:
http://m.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/90808-economy/
That’s our word.
haha
+1 :)
You my paddy
RTE presuming to know what are the issues/pressure points for the elections? Ha, funny…
Time to stop perpetuating this. Enda used it and it was extremely condescending. Let’s not turn it into a thing.
Citizens. A word we do’t hear often eough
I *haaaaaaate* that this saying keeps getting bandied about.
I’m not Paddy, I’m , and I pay your f**king wages.
Oooh, it removes stuff with <'s around them… Try again;
I’m not Paddy, I’m [insert name of citizen], and I pay your f**king wages.
+1
+1 more
+ 1
Loud n’proud Paddy anseo
‘Not in the slightest bit put out by been included under the umbrella of paddywhack generalisms
N’ such like
And I’ll use the term as I see fit
As I usually do
So even though some people find it offensive, you’ll keep using it?
I’m totally with you by the way, I’ll just remember it next time we get down with the old LGBTQISNIDGTRS debate. Or blackface. etc etc
I use it too, it’s a pet name we have for ourselves. But when Enda or the meeja use it I feel it’s condescending, it infantilises the voter, it’s always used to mean the ‘great unwashed’ low-information voter who only gets brushstrokes and ‘impressions’ and isn’t interested in nuance.
Exactly …what about Paddyine ?
Offensive?
Here Rottie Bhoy
Anyone who gets a snot on ’cause they’re called a Paddy
Clearly isn’t one
West Brits probably.
Me?
I wouldn’t want t’be an’ting else
Build a ditch for me
n’I’ll dive back inta it
I’m not afraid of where I’m from
I’m with you. It doesn’t offend me in the slightest. Anyone who it does offend has issues with something else and not the word.
But then i feel that way about a lot of things.
Smacks of ignorant self-condescension
Up the culchies biy!
Have RTÉ decided that only the most inveterate bog-stompers still watch their programmes now that almost everyone has access to the full complement of UK stations?
We’re not the ones watching Fair City
N’ we’re not the ones on 200 300 400 500 thousand salaries out there on Montrose
Easy earn a blue tick on Twitter these days
I suppose an actual rabble wanted to distance themselves.
I’m a bogger, but I’m no bleedin “Paddy”!!!!!
Call yourselves whatever ye want lads, but remember that term is a loaded one- just hear it used in London in reference to your fellow countrymen and then see how proud you are of it.
Like Obama using “ni***rs”. Nope