Comments on: Easy pickings

By: K8

K8 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:32:36 +0000

Jefferson; He’d keep driving on the wrong side of the road too, which would make things really interesting…

Conortje; I was educated by them. I could never figure out how they manage to float instead of walk. It’s quite creepy.

Deborah; I hadn’t noticed that so much until you said it, you’re so right. It smacks so much of ‘us’ and ‘them’ which only perpetuates the divide.

Queen of Clean; Dude! I need lessons on how to defend my beliefs… I’m usually such a sad-sack I just sit there and let the racism just soar over my head. That’s worse. Way worse.

By: Queen of Clean

Queen of Clean — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:58:05 +0000

I recently told a story about racism on my blog, I don’t know how you held your tongue…not something I am good at, maybe you could give me some lessons K8 on how to keep my gob shut?

My husband quite likes racists, he finds them really entertaining, after years of trying to change the world, he decided that it was better to make them squirm. Once into a conversation that is turning a *bit* hateful of anyone that isn’t white, he tells them that his wife is black/asian/Polish whatever the conversation is about….usually works, and they shut up.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:43:44 +0000

It’s a tough one K8, really is. My husband manages a shop and would rather have an all Polish staff than one Irish person. The Irish are constantly calling in drunk, I mean sick, they complain, they have bad attitudes etc. then get upset when they are passed up for promotion. It’s a sad affair altogether.

Don’t you love how the papers use those terms Foreign national (Polish), non-national (African) to describe perpetrators of crime? The other 90% of crime stories don’t describe the perpetrators as Irish nationals. Hypocrites. It’s almost incitement of hatred. Almost.

By: conortje

conortje — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:18:15 +0000

innocent looking females are the very worst. Ever heard of nuns?

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:24:32 +0000

What you need is Southern ‘Merkan foreigners to really muck up the place. “How Y’all’s doin’?” “Where wud yu’ins, be’s wantin’ ta go?” “Hollywood, aye?” “Off to Holywood, County Down we’s agoin then”. It’d be quite entertaining.

The photo is hilarious!!!

By: K8

K8 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:26:37 +0000

Sean Hyland; Thanks for commenting! Sure you know how us Irish are… our blood seems to have a lower boiling point - we’d never survive over there!

Baino; The Irish are losing their identity and are blaming immigrants for it. Nothing a few Irish language courses wouldn’t fix!!

By: Baino

Baino — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:05:41 +0000

Foreign nationals here (other than genuine refugees) have to bend over backwards to fit the system whether from the UK or Afghanistan . . .although it is unfair that one event can tar the others with the same brush . . but doesn’t that happen across the board? I actually agree wholeheartedly with Quickroute . . .over hear we’re all invaders so who are we to get on our high horses about immigrants?

By: Sean Hyland

Sean Hyland — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:53:51 +0000

I have nothing but contempt for the Irish who rose from the depths of poverty in the 80’s who are now so high and mighty and biggotted they refuse to let “bloody foreigners” share in the spoils.

I know we owe a lot to the USA etc…can you tell me how many Irish made it to Nigeria?

By: K8

K8 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:41:10 +0000

Brian; Is yer man in the picture that fella off d’tv - Scrubs, wannit? (Whatchoo talkin’ about, Willis?)

Maxi; At least they got busted! I heard of a similar though unrelated scam where forgeigners bring their kids over for a wee holiday here, register them and start claiming benefits. They then send the family back home, so Ireland ends up effectively funding another country. Loopholes.
I gotta say, where there are loopholes, the system will be abused, and not just by foreigners.

Quickroute; Yep. Your comment. Pretty much what I was trying to say!! The biggest racists are the taxi-drivers, at least some of the dudes on the ranks here! Talk about falling into the lion’s den…

By: Quickroute

Quickroute — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:12:59 +0000

I have little or no pity for the foreign nationals who abuse the social welfare system and don’t make an effort to integrate into Irish society.

I have a huge amount of respect for the foreign nationals who work like demons scraping a living together often doing the jobs Irish don’t want to do.

Sadly we now have a reputation as a nation of hypocritical racists!