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Bride and groom getting fired on Monday

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    #362
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,178 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Is/was the Pope in the IRA??


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    #363
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,668 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    their bosses are probably in the same orange lodge so there wont be any firing from work more than likely


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    #364
    lawred2
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    Balf wrote: »
    So you're saying its alright for people to engage in genocide on their wedding day.

    :confused:


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    #365
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Feisar wrote: »
    Am I the only one who thinks it's a lot of kerfuffle over very little?

    .

    Nah there's another lad here who has posted that he 'can't see the issue' multiple times. So that's at least two of ye.


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    #366
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,673 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Nah there's another lad here who has posted that he 'can't see the issue' multiple times. So that's at least two of ye.

    I'm not coming at it from that sort of faux pedant type crap.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #367
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    It's not nice, but I don't think that anyone should lose their jobs for this.


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    #368
    [Deleted User]
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Is/was the Pope in the IRA??

    No, but the Pope emeritus was in the Nazi party... almost as bad.


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    #369
    Beechwoodspark
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    Uncle Andy would’ve enjoyed that wedding once there was plenty of cans of mcewans or tennents


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    #370
    Boggles
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    Brilliant. 2nd one.

    https://twitter.com/EricAnRi/status/1180252810086100992?s=20


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    #371
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    I'd be more concerned with a society where keyboard warriors could get someone sacked, than I would with a society where someone engages in (slightly distastful) free speech at a private function.


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    #372
    James Brown
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    Hold on now it's their 'culture'.


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    #373
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Nah there's another lad here who has posted that he 'can't see the issue' multiple times. So that's at least two of ye.

    And me. Don’t forget me. A load of nonsense. And I’m the only practicing catholic granddaughter of a former IRA prisoner here.


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    #374
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Of course they aren't.

    Appears half the people on this thread don't understand what is going on here at all.

    For the final time, this song is causing people offence, even if they don't like the Pope or support republican terrorism.

    Its not about the church, the pope or the IRA. Its about bigotry, hatred of people who work with you or don't share your views.

    Are they entitled to hold these views? Of course they are. People can hold whatever views they want privately. But if your views go public, then you have to be prepared for any consequences that come after.

    Remember the rugby player who had an anti-gay rant. He got the sack, and basically his career ended because he publicly expressed his views.

    Why do you think people have the right not to be offended?


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    #375
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    So what is the issue here lads:

    1. "**** the pope" or
    2. "**** the IRA"
    3. The bad language

    We can push the merits and demerit of that to one side but why the hell would that be your entry song at your wedding?

    I have to admit. It's quite catchy.


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    #376
    AppleD
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭AppleD


    "Jennie Andrews, who lives in the Village, called for an apology. "It is absolutely ludicrous that he would make such a statement, branding us all racist," she said"

    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/antiracism-campaigner-patrick-yu-urged-to-quit-over-belfasts-racist-village-storm-31279496.html


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    #377
    [Deleted User]
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    splinter65 wrote: »
    And me. Don’t forget me. A load of nonsense. And I’m the only practicing catholic granddaughter of a former IRA prisoner here.

    How do you transition to a real catholic granddaughter?


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    #378
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No, but the Pope emeritus was in the Nazi party... almost as bad.


    No he was not a member of the Nazi Party.

    He was conscripted into Hitler Youth which was compulsory for all 14 year old.


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    #379
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    A civil servant down here would need to be found with bodies in the boot of their car to get fired, if the same culture exists up north, i don't think that they need to worry about signing on the dole


    A friend of mine and lifelong civil servant admitted as much. As he put it:


    "I could jump up on the table and take huge dump in front of everyone and still not get sacked."


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    #380
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How do you transition to a real catholic granddaughter?

    1. I’m a 54 year old practicing Catholic but I’m not a snowflake thank God.It will take more than a 90 second clip of an overexcited bride singing **** the pope in a private function room to offend me. Only the perpetually offended will be bothered.
    2. My maternal grandfather was imprisoned for being in the IRA in the 1920s. The **** the IRA bit doesn’t bother me either.
    People need to start getting over themselves.


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    #381
    jimgoose
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    partyguinness wrote: »
    No he was not a member of the Nazi Party.

    He was conscripted into Hitler Youth which was compulsory for all 14 year old.

    He wasn't the most enthusiastic little helper either, by all accounts - particularly after his cousin was murdered by the Nazis because he had Down Syndrome.


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    #382
    Ash.J.Williams
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    partyguinness wrote: »
    So what is the issue here lads:

    1. "**** the pope" or
    2. "**** the IRA"
    3. The bad language

    We can push the merits and demerit of that to one side but why the hell would that be your entry song at your wedding?

    I have to admit. It's quite catchy.
    I couldn't help but sing along towards the end


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    #383
    tigerboon
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    Balf wrote: »
    So you're saying its alright for people to engage in genocide on their wedding day.

    Did they all get slaughtered??;)


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    #384
    James Brown
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    For me it's the mentality. Would you want anyone with that level of mental health deciding if you get a bank loan, checking the brakes on your car or making you a sandwich? This was their wedding. Very sad.


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    #385
    partyguinness
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    I couldn't help but sing along towards the end


    It's in my head now. Head bopping away to it here...:D


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    #386
    Balf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Balf


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Balf wrote: »
    So you're saying its alright for people to engage in genocide on their wedding day.
    :confused:
    Apologies, Cathy Newman is known for a hyperbolic approach to interviewing.

    This one is legendary:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54


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    #387
    Balf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Balf


    partyguinness wrote: »
    A friend of mine and lifelong civil servant admitted as much. As he put it:


    "I could jump up on the table and take huge dump in front of everyone and still not get sacked."
    In fairness, if you took a dump on the table they might ask you to sign a statement confirming you were aware of the building's health and safety statement.

    And ask if you felt you needed any additional training.


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    #388
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    For me it's the mentality. Would you want anyone with that level of mental health deciding if you get a bank loan, checking the brakes on your car or making you a sandwich? This was their wedding. Very sad.

    Are you a mental health professional?
    If you’re not then you aren’t qualified to comment on anyone’s mental health, and you’re being offensive to people who DO have mental health issues.
    Further , you have no way of finding out what “level of mental health” any service provider has. Nor have you the right to.
    What are you going to do, do everything yourself?


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    #389
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    For me it's the mentality. Would you want anyone with that level of mental health deciding if you get a bank loan, checking the brakes on your car or making you a sandwich? This was their wedding. Very sad.

    How is being a dick anything to do with your mental health?


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    #390
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    gctest50 wrote: »
    It's the tailend of this :



    I love that whatever idiot put that video together they made a spelling error in the first sentence.

    "When I was young, I had know sense". Also, "no surander".

    Beautiful.


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    #391
    hatrickpatrick
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    Homelander wrote: »
    It's a known anti-catholic chant associated with loyalist paramilitaries. To have that as your entrance song at your wedding at a hotel, encouraging audience participation? Not hard to blame an employer of public servants, who work in the field of education and healthcare, to take issue with someone who would do such a thing. I'm not saying they should be sacked by the way, but to pretend that people in any position should have the unlimited right for their workplace to be immune from their actions in their own time is absurd.

    I disagree. One's workplace's authority over an individual should end the second one crosses the threshold when leaving the office after clocking off, unless their behaviour is directly related to their employment.


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