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Oh sorry, is it still ok to say "puff-piece"? 😆

If only I could get my kicks by posting brilliantly witty comments like those I quoted.

I'm trying to fit in with the other posters.

Its all down to the Tubridites.....Tubridy is the King of faux wokeness/virtue signalling.....

Obsessed with not offending whilst in reality being a sexist bully (Shane Lynch/Derry girl/ticks on womens arses etc).....

Using the word faggòt in a classic christmas song offended no one until the mini Tubridy/sexpest Eoghan McDermott made a fuss.....

"Maybe ignore him for a few weeks and they will stop."

That probably wouldn't stop me.

I’m bleedin lost here. Was Brian Scan genuinely praising our “witty” posts or deriding them?

@Quantum Erasure strange alright I was invited to something during the week and it was cancelled for similar reasons!

Either its a lie and they are just pushing them to other times because of low sales?

No that finished a while back.

Was it the toys that got sick or the humans??

Glen Hansard makes me feel ill. Feels like he WANTS to be a Bono, but hasn't the talent or the wit.

I heard about the FoNY cover... and some even declaring it worse than Ronan Keating's version. That's some feat. Whatever it is, every time it's performed on the LLS, it's utter sc*tter. Philomena Begley sang it with Shane McGowan, and whilst I commend her for using the actual unchanged lyrics (when she could remember them, that is) it was still awful. Her voice did not go with McGowan's.

I was out getting some last minute items for Xmas on Thursday (probably gonna have to get more last last minute items, cos it was damn cold that day), and heard Fairytale... in my local supermarket, uncensored. I feel like Tarantino summed it up best, once, when discussing why characters should use the slurs and racial epithets in his films, and why it was the character's 'truth'. He'd been challenged about it, but not to his face-folks went to the media to 'decry' the language he used. He spoke about it on television, and in interviews. And whilst one may disagree (as is one's right) his reasoning makes a lot of sense. And he noted his explanation, he would happily explain it to someone's face, face to face.

The characters of Fairytale, with their slurs and all, are not meant to be likable. And the language they use, it's their 'truth'...and the truth is often ugly. And they are bitter, and they are sad, and they are upset. Bryan Kennedy (openly gay) has stated he has no issue with the lyrics. And as others have noted, in the 1980s, when the song was written, the word 'f*gg*t' meant 'a lazy person, a waster. Someone of weak character'. (I'm only censoring the word because Boards won't let it through uncensored) Similar to how 'abomination' has come to take on a sinister meaning, whilst in olden English it meant 'against tradition'.

"We'll bring you hourly updates on the dog that ate the homework-- We'll stay here all night if we have to!!!'

And getting back to PC on RTE, since when did RTE call Didi Hamann, Dieter? He's Dieter now, on the captions, like your man off Kilinaskully. Is it forbidden to print the word 'DIDI' on a caption? The late Brendan Grace played 'Big Diddy' in said Kilinaskully. Word police strike again. Luders.