Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121670039#Comment_121670039

Then split after she grew up

juno10353

Barry Keoghan. I know he is a good upcoming actor, but something irks me. Can't put my finger on it

thinkabouit

Sir James Dyson, saw a video on YouTube of him showing off his farm. Comes across as a right 👋

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672425#Comment_121672425

He’s a Grade A arsehole and his products are a triumph of marketing over quality -!: function.

FrancieBrady

Could somebody do a diagram of what 'inexplicable' means...if you can explain why you can't stand someone you shouldn't be posting here. 🙄

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672430#Comment_121672430

Ah now, the ‘Dyson V8 Animal’ is a game changer when it comes to house cleaning, Bob, a game changer.

Wasn’t impressed with Mr. Dyson’s support of Brexit then moving his “business” elsewhere. Dirty pool, if you ask me.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672443#Comment_121672443

This “debate” has been had, a number of times, F, and it’s not worth getting upset over.

Although, not exactly, a good-natured thread, it has its “merits”.

K-9

Shane Ross on Prime Time doing his usual act.

You had your chance to shake things up and you were just all talk and camera opportunities. I remember the time the women's hockey team came back, he wasn't even supposed to be there, he just turned up anyway. As the joke went; you're so vain, you probably think this pr op is about you.

spookwoman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121663006#Comment_121663006

She's like dog ****, seems to be on every show and she is very difficult to understand.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672540#Comment_121672540

I suppose it's inexplicable for those who don't share a poster's view on a given celebrity. Still counts. :pac:

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121673399#Comment_121673399

She’s on the comedy circuit in the uk so she gets gigs on tv . Wokism at its finest

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672540#Comment_121672540

Maybe change the thread title?

'I just want to rant about somebody'

jmayo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121673552#Comment_121673552

She is just not funny.

Comedy is all about delivery and for obvious reasons she just can't do it.

Maybe she could be a writer or something, but as a performer it really doesn't work and I would bet that people most of the time laugh out of a feeling of obligation.

It is also obvious that most of the time there is no continuation from her "jokes" whereas with others the theme continues.

brokenbad

Aidan O'Mahony - Former Kerry Footballer. If he was chocolate he would eat himself.

Cheddar Bob

Paul Mescal.

His American ex, the folk pop musician, is your cookie cutter lefty culture wars bore, so on the basis he would put put up with her I'd assume he can only be a class A bellend on that evidence.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121666899#Comment_121666899

A while back I saw him post Roscommon's pre famine population with today's figure as proof that Ireland is nowhere near full. Roscommon had more in 1845 so it can take more again.

The fact that the people of Roscommon in 1845 were accustomed to classrooms of 70 plus children, everyone working within a short walk/ cycle of their own home, having no expectation of a running water/ electric network, a society where people were lucky to see 55 instead of 80 odd today, where 95% of people would never require the use of a hospital because they simply couldn't afford it, where there was probably one GP per 10,000 peasants and he was called in only the most absolute dire straits due to financial contraints, babies born with the help of amateur midwives.....and so on

The fact he could post his little numbers comparison, and nobody pull him up on it being about more than numbers, says a lot about this country.

Kiteview

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121686177#Comment_121686177

Although he may be a total pain, he is actually correct on this.

Had the famine and the resulting mass emigration that it triggered not happened, then based on what happened in other European countries, the population of Ireland would have at least doubled between the mid-19th century and today.

To set it in context:

The average population density of the EU is 109 people / square kilometre.

The population density of Roscommon is 27 people / square kilometre.

Hence Roscommon could easily have a population significantly larger than it does today.

cj maxx

What famine ? There was never a shortage of food in Ireland . Exports increased . Backed by British army escorts . It was ethnocide

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121686935#Comment_121686935

And we would over time adapted- twice as many teachers, hospitals, road networks etc etc.

I would say we would actually have more than doubled. We always had a higher birthrate than the likes of France and England, although mass emigration would have eventually happened regardless- there was no famine in Italy or Poland and they still sent millions slightly later than ourselves.

Morons like Ming are effectively saying we could double the population over the space of a few years and it would all be grand, to the clapping of the fiscally illiterate seals on his timeline who believe you can run a society on de feelz.

How anybody like that can be taken seriously is a damning indictment of our media- it's the type of stuff Diane Abbott in the UK comes out with, and she is widely lampooned in their media for the thick gobshyte that she is.

There can be no arguing that there is a cohort of Irish politicians- Ryan, Harris, McEntee, P Murphy, Coppinger, Brid Smith- for whom it isn't just a question of their policies being bad, it's a fact that they are by any measure of extremely low intellect. Some of them could well fall under a psychological disorder diagnosis.

BraveDonut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121675423#Comment_121675423

I used to love Live at the Apollo - now it just seems to be an exercise if filling diversity quotas

Comedy needs to be funny no matter who is delivering it

Suckler

Ricky Gervais. I don't think he's a decent person. Likes to come across as a serious thinker on topics until he doesn't like the game anymore so hides behind his stupid cackling to try and make it all a joke.

His latest comedy I didn't find funny at all. That last TV series 'After life' was awful guff laced with bad actors and terrible storyline. Loads of lazy gags dragged in from his old material - The same line about atheism strung through every gig and outlet he's got going. Coasting on the coat tails of his earlier work a while now.

To freshen things up he's going after "woke" people......edgy stuff alright.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765162#Comment_121765162

That way he played 'Derek' was offensive even though Karl Pilkington and David Earles characters were great

Strumms

Gervais ? Is it overexposure ?

Since he hit our screens he’s always doing something and or on repeat on Gold.

the office, awards presenting, talking head on various shows usually with Stephen Merchant laughing his head off about XYZ…

*im not trying to explain the inexplicable but just discussing the possibilities 💀

dominatinMC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765162#Comment_121765162

I find his crusade against the "woke" refreshing to be honest. He won't be silenced and hasn't been "cancelled" so clearly is doing something right.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765195#Comment_121765195

His latest show isn't genius but I laughed fairly lively for all of it , and that is the single most important part of comedy , if its a silly lecture like on live at the apollo then its not comedy

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121673399#Comment_121673399

Out respect to the disabled I have to change the channel every time

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765162#Comment_121765162

I liked the Office but he comes across as a throughly unlikeable individual.

StevenToast

Richie Sadlier and his smug turtleneck...

retalivity

That brian dowling gimp

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765162#Comment_121765162

I wouldn't argue with much of that because you're entitled to your opinion on his work, but I do think he's a decent person. Listened to hours and hours of his radio show and podcasts and interviews and that's where you see more of the real person. He would probably have a good giggle at anyone thinking that he is the same as the characters in his films or the persona of his stand-up.

Anyway, someone who annoys me for no apparent reason is the MC guy in the Tommy Tiernan Show. I just feel like his tone and manner is totally out of kilter with the vibe of the show. He seems to think it's a gameshow from the 1980's.