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Ronan writes:

Received this email from Hassle.com today:

“How did you spend your St Patrick’s Day? It’s been a couple of days since St Patrick’s Day but we hope you celebrated in style (and you’ve now recovered from your hangover!). Was it one to remember? Did you take in the parade in true style? Did your night end up in Abrakebabra? These are the *really* important questions.  See if we can guess how you spent your St Patrick’s Day!”

And a link to take their quiz (why?)

Nice bit of racist stereotyping. The intention is to build a loyal relationship with customers?

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42 thoughts on “Hassled

      1. Stewart Curry

        The answers are either Fran Love/Hate, Twink, Glenda Gilson and Michael O’Leary. Not much racial diversity there…

        1. Mani

          Especially as Twink is the last of her race, the Leatherwans.

          To be fair she did kill all of the others.

        1. ahyeah

          That you’re Irish so you’re necessarily a pi$$head. And your celebration of St Patrick’s Day revolves around going from a pub to cheap takeway and then back to the pub, and then waking up with a hangover.

          It’s just a bit boring at this stage.

    1. John E. Bravo

      I think it’s possible that in asking if you’ve recovered from your hangover because you’re Irish is a bit racist , even you did have a hangover, since it’s a stick routinely used to beat/self-flagellate the Irish with.

  1. Stewart Curry

    Which race? Irish people? Or is the implication that this is some class warfare/DNS/D4 thing?

      1. Joe the Lion

        you’re ploughing a lone furrow so I thought I’d indulge in a spot of meh-theal

        – not why I’m doing it but go rabbit maith – le de thoil

  2. gallantman

    A bit moronic, Republic of Telly level ‘comedy’. Sure. But ‘RACIST stereotyping’????

  3. Barry white

    I used hassle once and found it all very ironic as it was much more hassle trying to get a refund for the cleaner that left our house after an hour as we didn’t have proper sponges or something.

  4. 15 cents

    agree with most comments so far, as in, how is it racism? ireland is so sensitive these days, any slight little thing and everyone shouts racism. i think its like a cool thing or something .. where its cool to be seen as very very PC. its like walkin on eggshells.

    1. Jane

      I’m always intrigued by this point. What is is that you’re so anxious to say but don’t because you don’t want everyone to know you’re a racist?

      1. SweetPeteato

        Maybe he’s anxious about making a quiz asking if people prefer breakfast rolls or eggs benedict

      1. ahyeah

        And you’re not going to like what they’ve done to your last comment either – they’ve added three unnecessary exclamation marks, making you look like an excitable teenager.

  5. James M.Chimney

    It’s 9am and your raring to go you begin you day by falling out of Camden St Boozer after lock-in..

    Breakfast done, you’re on your way to the parade, are you still insisting calling it a ‘parade’ when the word line-up is more apt?

  6. forshiz

    wha, this is hilarious! racist?? hardly. a garish stereotype between 20yrs versus 40yrs Dubliners, yeah, but a bit sense o humour lads. Us breakfast roll eating luddites aren’t that sensitive…

  7. Goosey Lucy

    It’s nonsense, obviously . I mean who gets up ever “raring to go” at 9am!!!?!
    Sure, the hangover’d be only clearing from Paddy’s Eve by 12 ….

  8. andyourpointiswhatexactly

    “Fallow and Byrne sipping a machiato”?
    Rather Fallon and Byrne sipping a macchiato.

    Tsk tsk.

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