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dont use big WORDS to country folk

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    #2
    Quantum Erasure
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    Wah?


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    #3
    biko
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    Maybe it is that country folk pull the conceited Green party activists up on their bullcrap whereas city folk pretend to understand and agree?


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    whisky_galore
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    Is this the thread for people who can't understand the big words of the other thread?


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    [Deleted User]
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    I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is.
    Or what bourgeois means
    Or proletariat


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    TomTomTim
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    Why does she equate rural people with travellers? I'm not even offended, I'm simply confused. This condescending nonsense certainly won't be winning them any votes anyway.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




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    Gods Gift
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    Nothing worse that a discombobulated rural person.


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    s1ippy
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    She likely meant that there wouldn't be public buy-in to high falouten language, not that people wouldn't understand it. The irony is that her own poor communication skills led to this faux pas. Either that or she needs taking down a peg considering her own mental inadequacy.


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    emaherx
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    s1ippy wrote: »
    She likely meant that there wouldn't be public buy-in to high falouten language, not that people wouldn't understand it. The irony is that her own poor communication skills led to this faux pas. Either that or she needs taking down a peg considering her own mental inadequacy.

    No she didn't.
    She specifically mentioned words like "biodiversity" and "sustainability", trying to claim rural folk don't understand these is not only highly insulting but is a topic that rural Ireland has a better idea of than she does.


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    silverharp
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    is it similar to not mentioning economics to Green party folk?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    J.O. Farmer
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    She fails to realise the difference between vague concepts that sound great in South Dublin suburbs and real life impact.

    Biodiversity is hardly a major policy in urban areas. Sustainability (e.g. switching from fuels will probably not cause as many challenges either.


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    Simi
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    emaherx wrote: »
    No she didn't.
    She specifically mentioned words like "biodiversity" and "sustainability", trying to claim rural folk don't understand these is not only highly insulting but is a topic that rural Ireland has a better idea of than she does.

    It's not that they think they won't understand, it's that the mere mention of words like biodiversity and sustainability to farmers automatically puts them on the defensive.

    They automatically respond with phrases like 'Ireland back to the forest!' and 'What are you going to do with all the cows? Kill them!' like they've been fed talking points from their union.


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    Danzy
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    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    She fails to realise the difference between vague concepts that sound great in South Dublin suburbs and real life impact.

    Biodiversity is hardly a major policy in urban areas. Sustainability (e.g. switching from fuels will probably not cause as many challenges either.

    She is from a farm in Clare.


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    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,140 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Simi wrote: »
    It's not that they think they won't understand, it's that the mere mention of words like biodiversity and sustainability to farmers automatically puts them on the defensive.

    They automatically respond with phrases like 'Ireland back to the forest!' and 'What are you going to do with all the cows? Kill them!' like they've been fed talking points from their union.

    I actually also find that fairly offensive.
    Biodiversity is something we discuss regularly and a major concern for what most of us do.


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    Man with broke phone
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    Youd wonder do rural people have the same schools as dublin folk or are they just taught how to pet cats and close gates ?


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    Harry Palmr
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    The indo needs to elucidate and extemporise a bit more on this particular topic.


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    Harry Palmr
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    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    She fails to realise the difference between vague concepts that sound great in South Dublin suburbs and real life impact.

    Biodiversity is hardly a major policy in urban areas. Sustainability (e.g. switching from fuels) will probably not cause as many challenges either.

    Well it should be and I imagine the Greens do have policy positions on use of spaces in the urban environment.


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    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Fine Gael in sandals they can absolutely get f*cked.


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    Yamanoto
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    What an utterly cromulent woman


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    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,552 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Surprise, surprise

    Another link dump by the OP when there's an active thread on exactly the same topic


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