Garda Dance Video *Mod Warning in OP*

Risteard81

lucalux wrote: »

We have policing by consent here

No we don't. I've never consented to either the RUC or the Gardaí. They "police" by force.

1800_Ladladlad

Anyone who has mates in the guards, do not ask them if they'll dance for you now....... I got two different responses:D

NIMAN

Its all a bit of craic, in the end all the police forces will end up taking part, so hopefully its not only Ireland where the people are moaning about it.

Although I do see already that some are trying to hijack it to push the "Ireland is a racist hole" agenda, which is sad.

Buford T Justice

Risteard81 wrote: »

No we don't. I've never consented to either the RUC or the Gardaí. They "police" by force.

Right, but we do live in a democracy though and they are function of the state... Majority rules - unless these rules don't apply to you for some magical reason

auspicious

Who else stopped reading after the sensible post accruing 231 likes?
Great video.

Risteard81

Effects wrote: »

That's because they don't apply to them. Read the list of essential workers, and you'll see they are entitled to do this.

Rubbish. I'm an essential worker but I'm not allowed to prance about like a nonce with countless other people. Your beloved Gardaí and the RUC will accuse me of committing a crime by trying to live my life in accordance with all natural law. They should be jailed for this. Anything else is grossly unjust to everyone else enduring their totalitarianism.

Larbre34

A) Nonce means child molester, so be careful with that.

you say you have a job (God help your boss but I digress) if so, you signed up to a contract of employment and the employer pays tax and PRSI contributions for you. That contract and those taxes are defined by the law of the land.

Congrats, you're a citizen, you're subject to every law the rest of us are subject to, enacted by the representatives of the people, in our name. If you don't like that so much, the door is any port or Airport you'd like to choose. Just don't piss off the Guards there eh?

Effects

Risteard81 wrote: »

Rubbish. I'm an essential worker but I'm not allowed to prance about like a nonce with countless other people.

You might be an essential worker, but you don't understand the rules in relation to the restrictions.

FanadMan

One thing I've noticed on this thread is that the people whinging and whataboutering all seem to have the same sort of poor spelling and grammar as the people whinging and whataboutering on all the other Garda social media. The same people that give out about the Gardai enforcing the 5km rules and handing out the relevant fines.

Green Peter

Risteard81 wrote: »

No we don't. I've never consented to either the RUC or the Gardaí. They "police" by force.

Ah but you do really, but you like to think and say you dont. I bet you'd be one of the first to ring 999 when you need them and demand their immediate presence.

blueser

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'll say it again... The coolest video I've seen in years.
Also I think we beat the Swiss,,, both cool but our scenery means we win by a nose. We'll done to all involved.

Ps: what's the tune called?

http://youtu.be/fCZVL_8D048


Sorry; the site won't let me embed the video.

blueser

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

There must be very little going on in someone’s life if a harmless video like this is what annoys them.

I suppose it makes a change from giving out about RTE presenters, Martin going to Washington on Patrick’s Day, the price of takeaway coffee, or whatever other banality seems to get under the skin of the perpetually outraged around here.

What a way to live.

Snowflakes will be snowflakes. Some still banging on about the "RUC", even. Who haven't been known by that name in 20 years, FFS.

weldoninhio

Green Peter wrote: »

It just shows they don't have many to pick from when looking for guests on certain topics

Does it? Are only her and Ebun the only black people in Ireland??

wexandproud

bit of fun in otherwise boring times . Nice bit of advertising of the country if tourism ever gets going again , who cares if it cost a few euro or man hours to make FFS in the overall scheme of things its nothing .
had a look at a few threads on fb and clicked on the profiles of some of the whingers .The one thing that struck me was most of the whingers were either shinner's , boy racer type's or anti vaxers . The kind of people who would give the impression they deal with the gardai on a regular basis

Necro

Risteard81 wrote: »

Rubbish. I'm an essential worker but I'm not allowed to prance about like a nonce with countless other people. Your beloved Gardaí and the RUC will accuse me of committing a crime by trying to live my life in accordance with all natural law. They should be jailed for this. Anything else is grossly unjust to everyone else enduring their totalitarianism.

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Sleeper12

I see Gardai in uniform at all times in the video & that means they are doing something work related. I see Gardai in their work pods with masks & distancing themselves. I see men & women who stand out in all weather trying to keep us from spreading a deadly virus & from killing each other. I see them showing a different side of themselves for our amusement & entertainment. I see that they have picked some scenic areas to shoot these videos.

In short I see an entertaining video that will be shared all around the world. This will boost Irish people's moral here in Ireland & boost Irish tourism when tourism returns. The tourism board could spend hundreds of thousands of euro trying to reach the people that this video will reach

Fair play to the Gaurds IMO

circadian

Came for the complaining, didn't disappoint.

I still don't understand why anyone is up in arms about this though.

ExMachina1000

circadian wrote: »

Came for the complaining, didn't disappoint.

I still don't understand why anyone is up in arms about this though.

Its almost like different people have different opinions. Mad times lads mad times

opinionated3

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Its almost like different people have different opinions. Mad times lads mad times

Exactly. I find the video cringeworthy and of no benefit to national morale whatsoever. My wife thinks it's great. So what?

Lillyfae

gozunda wrote: »

Link to the Swiss one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WKbtocEA0

Gardai: Douze Point ...

I think that's fine, looks like it was mocked up during coffee breaks or team building exercises using phones mostly.

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'll say it again... The coolest video I've seen in years.
Also I think we beat the Swiss,,, both cool but our scenery means we win by a nose. We'll done to all involved.

Ps: what's the tune called?

I think this is what makes it super cringey. It's clear that there was alot of planning time and resources used. Obviously Switzerland is a breathtakingly beautiful country too, but the Swiss police did this in their offices with minimal fuss.

It's like the time they did that "flash mob" in Cork where the whole city was invited about 2 months in advance and every school and community centre in the place was giving free dance lessons. Total cringe.

ExMachina1000

opinionated3 wrote: »

Exactly. I find the video cringeworthy and of no benefit to national morale whatsoever. My wife thinks it's great. So what?

Exactly. I find it to be akin to a pr exercise. Look at us we are great craic.
Pass

paw patrol

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

All done while off duty so no issue at all

This thread was very long , point may have been repeated.

off duty eh?

The same fcuks in this video would stop you , demand 20 questions of you and fine you for doing the same.
shower of b@astards.

in response to the gushing praise for the gardai and their hard lives, cry me a river.
It's rough all over for many people , the gardai if anything have financial security in this pandemic

circadian wrote: »

Came for the complaining, didn't disappoint.

I still don't understand why anyone is up in arms about this though.

see point above. Thats' why and it's utter cringe.

Nermal

wexandproud wrote: »

Nice bit of advertising of the country if tourism ever gets going again.

A pity that when they get here, tourists will probably visit O'Connell St., and come face-to-face with the consequences of Gardai pre-occupied with dancing.

Institutions that used to inspire respect, now desperate for 'likes'.

Sad!

Omackeral

Qwertyminger wrote: »

Public opinion of them is all but in the toilet now and they go and waste time doing this while everyone in the country is stuck at home. Rubbing our faces in it and terrorising our granny while she tries to go down to buy the paper.

Ah here

silverharp

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I see Gardai in uniform at all times in the video & that means they are doing something work related. I see Gardai in their work pods with masks & distancing themselves. I see men & women who stand out in all weather trying to keep us from spreading a deadly virus & from killing each other. I see them showing a different side of themselves for our amusement & entertainment. I see that they have picked some scenic areas to shoot these videos.

In short I see an entertaining video that will be shared all around the world. This will boost Irish people's moral here in Ireland & boost Irish tourism when tourism returns. The tourism board could spend hundreds of thousands of euro trying to reach the people that this video will reach

Fair play to the Gaurds IMO

Do you have any studies to measure these benefit? in the dopamine fueled Twitter age, attention span is about 15 seconds, and the irony that the gov doesn't want any furriners here until 2022 is funny

Qwertyminger

Omackeral wrote: »

Ah here

There's a checkpoint often set up at the end of my gran's road. Often the same guard stops her and demands to know where she's going. He thrusts his head in the car window.

Since the current lockdown started any day he's on duty she's stopped when going for her bread, milk and paper. All the rest wave her on but it's like she's personally irritating him by doing it. Realistically it's the only time she can see anyone all day and exercise a bit of independence because we all live in a different county.

She said she is afraid of him because if he's sticking his head in her car window he probably does it to everyone. She wears a mask now driving the car in expectation of him.

Great use of time and energy. Maybe if he'd been distracted by dancing he wouldn't have time to bother her. More of this sad dancing crap please, Gardaí seacláide.

daydorunrun

I turned it off not because it’s a Garda thing and I think they should have better things to be doing. I turned it off because these attempts to brighten the mood by creating a viral video are annoying.

kravmaga

Apparently some Gardai who didnt make the cut for the dance video arent happy.

Especially Garda Rory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtRt1B0x12w

Green Peter

Qwertyminger wrote: »

There's a checkpoint often set up at the end of my gran's road. Often the same guard stops her and demands to know where she's going. He thrusts his head in the car window.

Since the current lockdown started any day he's on duty she's stopped when going for her bread, milk and paper. All the rest wave her on but it's like she's personally irritating him by doing it. Realistically it's the only time she can see anyone all day and exercise a bit of independence because we all live in a different county.

She said she is afraid of him because if he's sticking his head in her car window he probably does it to everyone. She wears a mask now driving the car in expectation of him.

Great use of time and energy. Maybe if he'd been distracted by dancing he wouldn't have time to bother her. More of this sad dancing crap please, Gardaí seacláide.

I bet she's 35 and a looker

Necro

Qwertyminger wrote: »

Too much time and effort spent. Too much money wasted. Trying too hard, why? They're supposed to be police, not whatever they're portraying in the video. Public opinion of them is all but in the toilet now and they go and waste time doing this while everyone in the country is stuck at home. Rubbing our faces in it and terrorising our granny while she tries to go down to buy the paper.


I mean, that's a famous boards.ie response to any complaint anyone ever has "if you don't like it gtfo of Ireland"

But surely at the moment you will acknowledge that we're literally prisoners in this dump and face penalties for trying to escape from the same pricks who making idiots of themselves expensively in this video?

I await my ban because that's what this thread seems to be about.

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