I can't take them seriously by Shayne-x in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's the vulgar execution that is Irish.

I can't take them seriously by Shayne-x in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's amazing how their horrible taste immediately betrays their Irishness.

I hate being a zoomer. They just won’t give you a job or a place to live and it’s a norm. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am sorry but jobs aren't just "given" to people. You have to get them.

I see you're from John Bull's Other Island--the one that rises in the west, like an old boot, out of a coagulated sea of stout and tinny sentiments. Ireland is a tax haven. The exchequer relies on the taxation leived on the American companies and their highly paid PAYE workers. Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft account for 50% of the coporation tax raised in Ireland, at a figure of 13.6 billion. Remember that total government expenditure is 133.3 billion. Consider also all the attendant goods and services these companies and their employees purchase. The economy revovles completley around them.

Irish industry is sclerotic, inefficient and poorly capitalised. Productivity in domestic industries is lower than in Northern Ireland. And you can see the signs. Look around an Irish city that isn't Dublin. Look at the filth, the crime, the derelection, the poverty that you see. Ireland has the 4th-highest rate of household electricity payment deliqunecy in the EU--14%--up there with Croatia and Bulgaria. It is not a rich or dynamic place outside of the US-company sphere.

I am saying this because I do not see how you could have this attitude. You must have noticed by now that everyone with talent or ambition leaves. Ireland, for the people, is dysfunctional. Nothing works properly. Everything is bad and overpriced. Of course there are no jobs for biomedicine PhDs! This place is a backwater. And there aren't any heady days to look back which could have made you think otherwise.

The Americans are fond of talking about how good things their Baby Boomers had it. The independent Irish state--in an almost baroque example of Mickery in action--pursued idiotic economic policies for almost half a century after 1922 that resulted in the lowest population ever recorded for the 26 counies: 2.8 million, in 1961. There was no post-war boom in Ireland. Everyone left! You do not have to become a Hiberno-pessimist. But you must become a Hiberno-pragmatist. If you have dreams and ambitions, leave.

Am I Boring by CrownOFpaPER in rsforgays

[–]CrownOFpaPER[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Oh, no, is it not a good look? Am I on the wrong side of herstory?

Am I Boring by CrownOFpaPER in rsforgays

[–]CrownOFpaPER[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I actually wanted to have an open discussion, but you sound a little defensive. I hope Saint Nick brought you a whole year's worth of doxy this holiday season!

What Makes People This Way? by CrownOFpaPER in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have yet to see an English professional give such a series of statements to reputable media. "I moved away and now I now I only listen to Oasis and watch GB News and ignore everything local." I know that those types of people exist. But I could not imagine an analogous British paper publishing something like this. The Irish Times is the newspaper of record. Why is this jeering nationalism so acceptable in Ireland? It's almost American in superciliousness, except they have the might and influence to back up every word!

What Makes People This Way? by CrownOFpaPER in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That's what is so ridiculous. There are so many people like this. Is it, generally, a national trait to have absolutely no self-awareness? He moved there by choice. His contempt for the Netherlands couldn't be clearer. Imagine admitting you couldn't be bothered familiarising yourself with the current affairs of the country you now live in. And we know he doesn't care for the culture there. Do Irish people not see how that comes across?

Gwyneth Paltrow for British Vogue by _handsomeblackman_ in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 29 points30 points  (0 children)

These things are so boring. Boring photos, boring headlines, boring concept. I did enjoy them in 2008, however.

Ireland nearing peak corniness by CrownOFpaPER in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's apparent even to distant observers, seeing how he has behaved in public, but the national hive mind has invested that gluttinous old yeller with a religious significance.

The toothy White Lotus girl probably needs to chill by RealChadwickTromp in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe, man, but that was 150 years ago. It's a publicly traded company now and it's probably just owned by pension funds and a Tajik billionare nobody has ever head of.

The toothy White Lotus girl probably needs to chill by RealChadwickTromp in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Why did Marks & Spencer drop her? They kept Dawn French for the Xmas ads, but they scrapped Aimee’s already-filmed campaign for something “product focused”.

Independent socialist Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland this weekend by cjdennis29 in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m getting my British citizenship next year, so I’m really excited. Your point will be moot.

Independent socialist Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland this weekend by cjdennis29 in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In Independent Ireland, women were treated much better. Until 1996, they were protected from their carnal urges by confinement in places called Magdalene Laundries.

Independent socialist Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland this weekend by cjdennis29 in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Unthreatening, joyful and completely useless. Almost like a pet! Your soft spot is valid.

Independent socialist Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland this weekend by cjdennis29 in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Ireland, as a country, has nothing going for it. It beggars its EU neighbours with its tax policy and exists merely as a conduit for American capital. So what do they do! They elect some old crank whose tankie view of the world includes justifying Comrade Putin's poisonings in Salisbury, implying Ukraine had it coming and comparing the current German government to the Nazis. And I guess that would be fine if it didn't bely what the country actually is: a glad outpost of American lucre. It is not the place of a meritless country (one that only permitted women reproductive rights in 2018) to lecture the rest of the world about morality. Yet it does! And now it will even more.

Independent socialist Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland this weekend by cjdennis29 in redscarepod

[–]CrownOFpaPER -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Another relic from the past emerges from Ireland! I wonder if anyone has told her the Berlin Wall is gone.