30 thoughts on “Number 1. Who Are You Calling Paddy?

  1. ivan

    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…

    1. ahjayzis

      True. He didn’t ask them to kill themselves, he wondered why they didn’t kill themselves of their own accord. Huge difference.

    2. classter

      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.

  2. george

    Time to stop perpetuating this. Enda used it and it was extremely condescending. Let’s not turn it into a thing.

  3. ahjayzis

    I *haaaaaaate* that this saying keeps getting bandied about.

    I’m not Paddy, I’m , and I pay your f**king wages.

    1. ahjayzis

      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.

  4. Frilly Keane

    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

    1. rotide

      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

      1. ahjayzis

        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.

      2. Frilly Keane

        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

        1. rotide

          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.

  5. The Old Boy

    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?

    1. Frilly Keane

      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

  6. Emmett

    Easy earn a blue tick on Twitter these days
    I suppose an actual rabble wanted to distance themselves.

  7. Goosey Lucy

    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

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