Micheal Martin Chinese Gaffe

Monty Burnz

Einhard wrote: »

It's not even inappropriate. If I were imitating an American, I'd probably put on an American accent. Same with a Cork person, or a French person. Would that be inappropriate too?

So if Inda Kinny was quoting something that Barack Obama said, it wouldn't be inappopriate to say it in a cartoon American accident?

dj jarvis

Listen if he done a English accent or American or god forbid a Australian one when talking about any of the above country's it would be totally out of place and unacceptable from a WANNA be states man ,

in fairness WHO THE F**K does chinese accents in public anymore let alone when being recorded for national media in the middle of a election campaign is a plank and needs to be restrained in a dark basement and not let out

just goes to show FF aint changed one bit and this gimp was trying to drum up business abroad ???? no wonder we are f*****D

and once again the irish peoples name gets dragged into the mud once again by FF

i would say meehall is so so srry

Renn

Einhard wrote: »

It's not even inappropriate. If I were imitating an American, I'd probably put on an American accent. Same with a Cork person, or a French person. Would that be inappropriate too?

Inappropriate/silly/etc...

sdanseo

It's a non event. /thread

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

stimpson wrote: »

The Chinese - a great bunch of lads.

Did he mention Ming the Merciless at all?

Sure hes not in Fianna Fail...

stuckin

Michael Martin: Welcome to the China club! A ching-a chang chang! A chang-a chong chong chang!

Gunsfortoys

People are forgetting that this is all berties fault.

starbelgrade

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

People are forgetting that this is all berties fault.

Why dis Bertwies faa?

Wa di Bertwie du?

UglyBolloxFace

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

People are forgetting that this is all berties fault.

I agree. Going forward we need to look at this from the grassroots level on the ground in the current economic climate.

bonerm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why dis Bertwies faa?

Wa di Bertwie du?

The money was only resting in his account.

Debthree

CoalBucket

If a british politician mimiced the Irish accent we'd be ragin.

Where as I don't think the Chinese give a fryin f*ck

flash1080

What a bunch of drama queens.

stuckin

Cranky Mc Funhouse wrote: »

If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply the buggers with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the ****ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.

Insightful, but how does that fit in with the Michael Martin bit?

mconigol

He's got a gaff in China now?!....bloody fianna fail....developers...houses....chicken balls...rabble rabble...

UglyBolloxFace

Cranky Mc Funhouse wrote: »

If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply the buggers with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the ****ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.

Hmm...are you gonna just post this in eeeevery thread?

Mod to aisle 2, mod to aisle 2.

blackdog2

Its not great behaviour or an example being set by someone vying for the leadership of this country.

If Ireland is to be helped we are certainly making it hard for ourselves!

phantom_lord

Really disappointed by this, after all the attention I was expecting something substantial

Captain Havoc

Racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






gif, let run for a few seconds

admiralofthefleet

its not the chinese, its the greeks he's after

LizT

Load of fuss over nothing. If he had put on an american or english accent, no one would have said anything. Can't believe people are getting worked up over this.

Son Of A Vidic

TheZohan wrote: »

Non-story really, and I've no time for Enda Kenny.

Agreed, can someone please tell me what the issue is here? I've no time for Fianna Fail, but for fcuks sake this is ridiculous.

The Volt

Anyone else think that this thread was about him buying property in Shanghai?

clare1

How embarassing was that today!! Fianna Fail are un-real, what must we look like to the rest of the world when our previous Minister for Foreign Affairs insults China :eek:

Well Micheal, your slideshow was a big pile of crap! But the free drink. much appreciated!

Debthree

Einhard wrote: »

Unless you think there's something horrendously inappropriate about the Chinese accent itself, I fail to see what the fuss is about.

Are you serious? So from your comment I take it you feel Micheal Martin did a perfect Chinese accent then yeah? Jesus. The point is it was immature and downright inappropriate for him to do the accent *at all* and to use bad grammar whilst depicting a Chinese person ("you Irish very good at software"). He could have just told his damn story instead of doing an appalling imitation of a Chinese person.

CoalBucket

He should try putting on a cork accent he might get a few votes

onlyrocknroll

What are people thinking, of course it's a gaffe. Not exactly the most racist thing I've ever heard, but certainly stupid and insensitive.
Imagine if during the peace process Tony Blair said

"I think we've made great progress in Northern Ireland, I was talking to Mr Ahern this morning and he said
'Aye Soir, top o the moirnin to ya, sure its a ghreat daiy to be makin peas n Northern Oirlind'"


Imagine the uproar in the UK and in Ireland.
How could this not be a gaffe?

take everything

Thousands struggling with mortgages here and Martin's got a gaff in China?
Sickening.

milehip1

Even though I can't stand the mong or his party, it's an non issue.

blackdog2

Debthree wrote: »

The point is it was immature and downright inappropriate for him to do the accent *at all* and to use bad grammar whilst depicting a Chinese person ("you Irish very good at software"). He could have just told his damn story instead of doing an appalling imitation of a Chinese person.

Nail and head have firmly been hit here. It shows his lack of maturity and judgement, regardless of whether it actually offended anyone.

metalfest

i don't understand why this sort of racism is being allowed ???

for anyone else this would stir up a hell of a lot more trouble...

Brenireland

So here we go,another having to apologise over an extremely harmless comment which has now been twisted into being a racist comment!

What is wrong with Irish Society?,have our people,and our media lost all remaining sense of humour they may have once had?.

If this is what modern Ireland is going to be like I am not sure to many will want to be part of it,why must our people have to answer for having a sense of humour?,it is a good job some people don't go to comedy gigs/stand ups,half of our best comedians would be done for racism.

I agree that Yes we should respect every race of people,I absolutely agree with that,however us Irish have been joked about in all 4 corners of the globe & yet we are used to it and most of the time we don't blink an eye to it!,however if we hear an Irish person make a tiny,harmless remark it is then twisted into to been a racist comment!?

I believe that if you go to a country to work that you should not only know how to speak their language,but also know what to expect culture wise & learn how to have a laugh,the same goes for us Irish!;):p

Michael Martin has done nothing wrong and need not apologise,I am however sorry for the people complaining.

What do you guy's think,should he have to apologise?

Another thing is Chinese should be a Leaving cert subject,China has one of the worlds fastest growing economies and having their language could be of benefit.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Brenireland wrote: »

What do you guy's think,should he have to apologise?

Should have said "Aaah, me so solly" ^_^

Brenireland

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Should have said "Aaah, me so solly" ^_^

careful now :D

Minstrel27

Brenireland wrote: »

What do you guy's think,should he have to apologise?

I don't think he should but an election is looming and he needs votes.

Duggy747

I shared a house with an asian couple once (Chinese guy / Japanese girl). The Chinese guy was an utter dickhead while the Japanese girl was extremely polite.............and hot!

Chinese guy's name was Thomas until when he moved out and he told me his Chinese name................Ping Pong............probably not how you spell it but I laughed when he told me, he even told me to think of "Ping Pong game" to remember his name :pac:

mike65

Just as well he did, is anyone watching The Chinese Are Coming on BBC2? They are the future and we don't want to get on their bad side.

Brenireland

Minstrel27 wrote: »

I don't think he should but an election is looming and he needs votes.

Yeah that's true,although some years ago he wouldn't have needed an apology to win over some votes,& that his effort in trying out a new language would have been very much appreciated..:p

BaZmO*

If it was an American accent would there have been such a big deal?

There's a million and one reasons to criticise FF, this is the least of them.

pickarooney

Minstrel27 wrote: »

I don't think he should but an election is looming and he needs votes.

Them Chinese birds give me an election too.

Brenireland

Duggy747 wrote: »

I shared a house with an asian couple once (Chinese guy / Japanese girl). The Chinese guy was an utter dickhead while the Japanese girl was extremely polite.............and hot!

Chinese guy's name was Thomas until when he moved out and he told me his Chinese name................Ping Pong............probably not how you spell it but I laughed when he told me, he even told me to think of "Ping Pong game" to remember his name :pac:

haha that's brilliant,good man Ping-pong.

pablomakaveli

BaZmO* wrote: »

If it was an American accent would there have been such a big deal?

There's a million and one reasons to criticise FF, this is the least of them.

One of the girls who asked a question during the debate last night was putting on an American accent. We should complain about her as well.

Brenireland

pablomakaveli wrote: »

One of the girls who asked a question during the debate last night was putting on an American accent. We should complain about her as well.

I suspect one of her parents was American.

stovelid

One more small victory for the massed forces of idiocy.

/even if he is an ah-so.

Brenireland

stovelid wrote: »

One more small victory for the massed forces of idiocy.

/even if he is an ah-so.

pablomakaveli

Brenireland wrote: »

I suspect one of her parents was American.

Or she was from D4.

TanG411

Brenireland wrote: »

A$$hole.

I think.

stovelid

Brenireland wrote: »

That's me told.

Dave!

pablomakaveli wrote: »

One of the girls who asked a question during the debate last night was putting on an American accent. We should complain about her as well.

She was reasonably attractive