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will an irish hero emerge?

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  • #52
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Bono...:o

    Vn6DQRUeX_o


  • #53
    GaryIrv93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭GaryIrv93


    Acta Non Verba


  • #54
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    You'd better start figuring out ways to make it better Keith since you'll be reunified with the Republic long before that time.

    On the new leader thing, can we just pick someone at random and use peer pressure and internet sarcasm to humiliate them into becoming an Irish hero? I nominate cloptrop, I like the cut of his jib.
    People up here are intelligent enough to not throw ourselves under the bus as they say. Lets be realistic.


  • #55
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    People up here are intelligent enough to not throw ourselves under the bus as they say. Lets be realistic.
    What's the problem with cloptrop for new Irish Hero? He may have that rough diamond charisma and Russell Crowe beardline but I can't see him throwing anyone under a bus.


  • #56
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    This is powerful imagery. I'm not ashamed to admit I felt a semi coming on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpNzalFKPo



    Artists impression.

    I prefer Colm Meaney's version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZY2Hzn3kWs


  • #57
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    The idea of an all powerful hero is bull**** - it feeds into this 'saviour will come' nonsense. It's a subtle message that we need a leader to deliver us from oppression/evil.
    The lure of the "strong leader" is a powerful one. In Italy after World War I, the country was massively in debt, and the Fascist Manifesto of 1919 didn't contain anything obviously radical at all. It contained such "modern" ideas as a 40-hour work week, universal suffrage, and the rights of workers to join a union.

    It also talked about letting "experts" run the country according to their expertise: technocrats, in other words. I won't go in to the details, I'll just say that the flexible definition of "expert" had a lot to do with what creating we now understand as Fascism. A country needs a strong leader in control, so that infrastructure is built and the trains run on time ... right? :rolleyes:

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #58
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    What's the problem with cloptrop for new Irish Hero? He may have that rough diamond charisma and Russell Crowe beardline but I can't see him throwing anyone under a bus.
    Be realistic about it. I have noticed on here a lot of people like discussing the problems but not a lot of people seem to be doing anything about it or trying.


  • #59
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    heres what we'll do. we wait it out for about 8 years, and if were still alive in 8 years , then we'll know were not dead!!


  • #60
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    4 pages in and the Citizen hasn't gotten a mention?....this place is slipping.


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