We. Are. Fucked
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | 136 Comments
Last night’s Frontline show was one of the most depressing things I have ever seen. Unintentionally hilarious at times, but depressing all the same.
It was about how the recession/C.E.C©® is affecting ‘young people’. From the ludicrous Trinty bloke, who encapsulated perfectly sense of entitlement younger generations have grown up with some pseudo Citizen Smith rhetoric which was just laughable, to the bloke who claimed young people were ‘doomed to emigration’. Doomed. Fuck me. It’s not like they’re leaving Utopia to go dwell in the seventh circle of hell, is it?
While I genuinely feel for people who have move abroad to find work, leaving behind friends and family, such is life. If there’s no job here, go somewhere else and get one instead of complaining there’s no job here. As my old man used to tell me ‘Nobody’s going to turn up and offer you your dream job out of the blue. You have to go knock doors down to find it”.
The students were bad, and I mean really, stereotypically bad, but they had nothing on the two politicians involved. Both Lucinda Creighton (FG) and Thomas Byrne (FF) were given 90 seconds each to address the audience. Watching each one of them fumble and mumble their way through a badly rehearsed, insubstantial party political broadcast seemed to take 90 minutes. It was a toe-curling cringefest of epic proportions. If these are the young politicians on whom we have to rely to form governments and make policy then it is very worrying indeed.
Add a smattering of Bill Cullen “I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah” and it was, without question, the most dejecting thing I’ve seen on TV for years (and I once watched an episode of that cunt McSavage’s show).
If this is what the youth and politicians of tomorrow are like then it’s time to plan for early retirement somewhere else, somewhere with more prospects, somewhere better. Like Kabul.
If you want to watch it, it’s on the RTE Player here (I think that should be available to folk outside Ireland too. Let me know if it’s not).
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February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:28 am
I’m watching it now Twenty, so at least the RTE player works.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:35 am
Yep, the sense of entitlement among those who have gone to University can be irritating – I have a degree in hairdressing salon management and cannot get work, it’s not “fair”.
The emigration thing is interesting.I think there is a frustration that the Republic has not loved up to expectations – as in this article today in the IT.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0223/1224265034279.html
Emigration has been part of life here since the 18th century – and post independence it rose rather than fell. That was seen as a sign of national failure. I think people thought that it was sorted during the Tiger years when people from elsewhere actually wanted to come to Ireland – and it’s a bitter pill to have to revert to the pattern of the early days of the republic.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:42 am
I see what you mean – he looks in his 30s!
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:48 am
RTE TV is, in general, lowest common denominator tripe. Pat Kenny; very creepy. Bill Cullen – pain in the hole. Students; like my nieces they probably voted for Fianna Fail and are now giving out about them. If they put any of their thought processes into electioneering last time around then they might have a right to complain. You get the government you deserse, studenty dudes. You voted for them you thick cunts.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:49 am
The other thing I forgot to mention is that about 95% of the students interviewed sounded like Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. RTE + D4 = pain.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:06 pm
There is a major sense of entitlement issue in Ireland. Anyone under 30 thinks you just do an off the shelf degree in some second rate private college and hey presto, you’re a high flier with the world at your feet.
They were given just a bit too much confidence and not enough substance by their parents who were overcompensating for the upbringing they had when you told to behave and not talk back.
It’s the result of a backlash against old Ireland which went too far.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
And Bill Cullen is a media whore. Businessmen do business, not vanity.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:16 pm
Who taught Irish young people that bullshit can be converted into airmiles?
The current generation in charge thats who. As far as I’m aware only 16% of young Irish people go to University which is bloody low by European standards.
Is the old bitch busy eating her own farrow again?
It isn’t the students or young people who are busy thieving income tax to pay the debts of FF’s developers friends.
It isn’t the students or young people who are desperately trying to find a way of paying the church’s child-rape levy for it.
If the young people in Ireland had any sense they’d shoot as many of the preceding generation as they can find.
Lets have a programme on RTE detailing all the bills presented to the taxpayer and who actually incurred them.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
Cannot take any more of these whinging spoiled cunts.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
Did Bill Cullen say he was against hand-outs, like government scrappage schemes for the motor trade?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:28 pm
I thought Frontline was a flea treatment. At least that’s useful.
I love the whinging about prefab schools and the shambles of a health service, like these problems didn’t exist before the recession. Didn’t see anyone whinging about these things when there was money available to fix them.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
“The other thing I forgot to mention is that about 95% of the students interviewed sounded like Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. RTE + D4 = pain.”
95% sounded unemployable.
including the one with the masters law degree who has just passed the New York bar exam. Cocktail bar?
But that’s students the world over, you wouldn’t want to give one a job unless you had to.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:39 pm
Captain, I think the figure for 3rd level uptake is about 55% at least. Probably more. Do you mean only Universities and not all third level institutions?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
Students. Spare me. You offer them work and it’s all: “yea, maybe, I should be free that day probably, I don’t know.”
I’m like, “well fucking tell me ‘cos the client probably won’t be happy with “maybe, possibly, could be, might, most likely, if I can be arsed” and most probably, maybe, won’t book us for the fucking job. So why don’t you just stay at home and I’ll send you the money and do the job myself?”
Students. Subsidised tossers. I’d be as well off recruiting in a graveyard.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:52 pm
I’m fucking amazed that there is suddenly this rounding on students and young people in general.
Or is this part of the usual generational thing on an island of the socially retarded?
Suppose the vast majority of young people leave Ireland and develop their livese elsewhere- what are the current generation going to look forward to? Who is going to pay the generous pensions negotiated by the current generation?
Or will it be a case of telling the young to fuck off now because they look like being a burden and then waiting a generation to tell them they’d been selfish to fuck off when Ireland really ‘needed them?’
The usual smallminded peasant bollocks. Fucking Albania-By-The-Sea.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
I did a degree in botany and expected it would lead directly to a job. It did not.
I do have a job now, but if I had to pay for my degree would I have picked botany. No. Saying that, it was useful when I used to grow weed.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
Why does nobody mention kenny and co’s outrageous salaries on these fucking programmes,if those bastards in rte got their act together and started to SLASH these cunts salaries it might bring a sense of belief to programmes like frontline,but to listen to those millionaire fucks pretend to be one of the “ordinary” people is enough in itself to make you want to get the fuck out of dodge city.The country is fucked unless all the politicions/bankers/freeloaders and their mates are gotten rid of and we start with a clean slate,but i suppose thats like asking the gardai to start arresting criminals,they’d have to begin within.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
No matter how bad things get, allah spare us from a repeat of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZE6q4gYgg
February 23rd, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
I love that Kenny the broadcaster is a climate-change sceptic, and owns substantial Dalkey seafront property.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:11 pm
I didn’t see frontline last night. I’ve seen bits of it over the last few weeks. It’s uncool to say so but i think it’s a good show and kenny is doing a good job.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
Very uncool Peader. You’re a gack.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:14 pm
The original Albania IS by the sea, Cap’n, so you must mean we’re Albania-By-The-Sea-By-The-Sea.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:15 pm
Hardly worth the money though Peader,he’s just another millionaire social commentater,thens its back home to Dalkey or Killiney or wherever the fuck he lives,another fortune banked.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:24 pm
Yes- apologies to Albania for comparing Ireland with them.
It was an unnececessarily cheap shot at Albania.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:27 pm
Kenny earns what he earns, people should get over it. What great harm is he doing?
He earns what RTE are willing to pay out, I’d rather see him get the money than a bucketload of Katherine Lynch/Gerry Ryan fuckwits. You take the rough with the smooth.
It’s popular to slag him off ever since our friend in the audience took him to task a couple of months ago but as the host of this – as opposed to the Late Late – I think he’s doing a good job.
Without paying someone the big money to host a show like The Frontline, we’d only be left with the likes of McSavage and the All Ireland Talent Show and that would be the ultimate embarrassment.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:28 pm
Ah come’on Jonjo,they won an Ifta.It MUST be a good show..
Speaking of the ifta’s,I loved the irony that its an award ceremony paying tribute to excellence in programme making,and it looked like it was put together by 1st year media students..
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
yep, spot on Radge
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:44 pm
Radge; besides the legal land stealing episode, changing of locks on gates etc I suppose he’s alright. But then again I could be wrong and he’s probably a cunt. In fact, he is a cunt.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
whether or not he’s a cunt is irrelevant. People need to stop whining about what other people earn
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:52 pm
Lucinda Creten has really beefed up. Is she up the Damien?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
I’m sure everyone’s a cunt if you hold a big enough microscope to them. Kenny’s property actions – while unsavoury – have nothing to do with his skills as a broadcaster.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:58 pm
And everything to do with Fianna Fail.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
Granted.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
i didnt see that show last night. But i am a student and im not a D4 kid living off mammy and daddies money. for the most part i pay my own way through. Iv just given up on complaining about the recession and the government and lack of money. My hours might have been cut but i still just get by on what i have. The way i see it is if a student cant put up with 4 years of living in relative poverty while they study they should just fuck off and go on the dole. Students dont actually have it that bad but i think there is a sense of entitlement among students and some of them really need to pull there heads out of there arses.
on a side note im looking for work experience in IT this summer, web development would be my first choice in area to work in. Anyone know any companies that take on people?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
Poor jason the physio talking about having to study abroad for two years, you’d swear he watched his family being slaughtered!
It’s fucking shocking Neil’s ‘going Austrailia’ to work, to earn money I’d fucking hate that the whack of opportunity off that!
Law wagon: horrible face on her.
That trinity guy Conan should be shot!
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:06 pm
Conan, Bill was all for hand-outs. Or, as he liked to call them, ‘stimulus packages’.
As for Kenny, the problem is that whoever hosts a show like this on a station like RTE is going to earn a packet, so the millionaire social commentator thing is hard to avoid.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:08 pm
Start an EU Student Mountain.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:18 pm
Ireland 2034, 2million pensioners.
Working population; One Fupping Dolphin.
Fianna Fail spokesman; ‘It was all the young crowd wanting beaches and dinner every day and such that left us witt nottin’.’
Young People of Ireland; ‘Drop fucking dead’.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:22 pm
I fall into the outside Ireland section, and left 12 years ago. Apparently it was all planned if you believe Kevin Myers…..and who can you blame for the politicians? The electorate, vote the fuckers out and then there will be a new bunch to complain about.
20 you could start an honest political movement “All politicos are cunts” or something,could be risky it might backfire look at Glee……
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:23 pm
“I’m fucking amazed that there is suddenly this rounding on students and young people in general.
Or is this part of the usual generational thing on an island of the socially retarded?”
Nothing sudden about it and not confined to Ireland.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
We may as well join the USA. We can be East Hawaii.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
We’re partly responsible for the USA. That was supposed to be the improved version.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:31 pm
Well they practically run us anyway. You won’t see any Irish government doing something the US isn’t happy with.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:40 pm
Well they practically run us anyway. You won’t see any Irish government doing something the US isn’t happy with.
Like giving Irish passports to Mossad?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:53 pm
We should donate 50 passports to Hamas. And then deny it all day long.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:53 pm
Yep.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
It’s all cyclical.
People here just love fucking moaning; moan when it’s cold, moan when it’s hot, moan when there’s too many jobs around so they’re employing furriners, moan when there’s not enough.
Students have always been lazy dickheads who rebel against not being allowed to be lazy dickheads, I was one myself once. I did fuck all and I moaned a lot. Then I grew up.
And what have you got against Lily McSavage?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:08 pm
Oops, that was me. Zorg is some green fecker that was messing on my computer yesterday.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
That smug looking prick with the massive head sitting beside Bill Cullen used to be Declan Ganley’s right hand man in Libertas. A thoroughly dodgy individual who should have no say in anything related to the economy.
Also, I’d bang the bejaysus outta that chick with the lip-ring.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
fuck them all i am off to spankys in bangkok to get the swellen down glad to get out of this swamp
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
I am in my mid 30′s, well educated, and thought that I’d be able work and live in Ireland, bring up a family etc. A luxury that generations before me did not have.
Now as direct result of the incompetence and greed of the banking system, supported by a corrupt government, I am forced to do what aunts and uncles done before me and move abroad.
It pisses me off no end that we had the opportunity during the boom years to make this right, and possibly save a generation from moving abroad.
If we keep on doing what we’ve always done (vote FF), we’ll keep getting the same result (corruption)
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
Nothing sudden about it and not confined to Ireland.
Obviously, but that won’t stop the captain from getting in his usual “everything is shit in ireland and better elsewhere” crap. The words broken and record spring to mind
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:32 pm
Yeah,but unfortunately he’s right Peadar.For the moment at least.
A big change is required to change things for the better in this country,and I reackon its nothing a Govt overthrow and a few public hangings wouldnt sort out.
Companies overseas might take an interest in reinvesting here then..
“Oh,I see they finally got rid of those corrupt shower of cunts then..Did you see the Taoiseach getting Cunted in the Bastard on youtube?Its No 1 on Google apparently..”
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:37 pm
So it’s only in ireland that people give out about young people/students?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:39 pm
Kenny shares the same sense of entitlement as the students in your piece. He conceives of and manufactures this programme into a fracas, and is in no way an honest broker. He’s embuggered in the political system and cannot offer anything credible.
Do RTE have a duty of care here? To construct and produce a constructive forum which in addition to shining a light, works at providing a credible solution. Same question to all the media including the blogs.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 3:58 pm
look at all the thick cunts
44%
i.e. nearly half the people you know are thick cunts
http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/index.html
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:03 pm
Been a while since I checked in on the twentymajor site. What’s all the dumbing down with these malcontents ranting on about Pat Kenny’s wages as if it mattered. Shut your traps you mongo environmentalist crazies. It has absolutely no relevance to anything, you cretinous twerps.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:03 pm
No its everywhere,but at the moment there looks like there will be a flood of people out of this country,many of whom would be beneficial to the future of the country but may never return and the the powers that be seem to not give a fuck,on the other had,students are cunts..ye get me?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:12 pm
why cant the guys from the community groups at least have a fucking shave going on national television???
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:16 pm
I get ya man i get ya
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
Yep. And give Pat Kenny a brazilian.
Live on air.
With a chainsaw.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:22 pm
So sorry, Peadar. I keep forgetting that the reason we have emigration every generation is so cunts like you can pretend everything is hunk-dory and you don’t have your little bogger world disturbed.
It might have escaped your attention but it isn’t just the Cap’n who is pissed off at the way Ireland is run for the benefit of a few favoured families.
If you want to put forward an argument as to why people should be happy with the way Ireland is run please do so.
But don’t sit there fartling like an old dog every time your hear something you don’t like.
Fianna Fail sock-puppet with fuck all available except a plan to clap hands over ears. You could at least stop wasting bandwidth and go back to chatting up strawberries.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:36 pm
Captain,you’re so busy prattling on you don’t even get the point I made. Well it was actually made first by Div. I never said anyone should be happy with the way ireland is run. Climb out’ve your arse and read the comments
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:49 pm
If all the talent leaves, then it’s easier for lazy bastards to get half decent jobs.
That’s just wrong.
Ahem.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:55 pm
I wonder how Mary Coughlan would have got on if she’d emigrated?
I suspect she’d have been back home again inside three months breathing that old familiar oxygen of ‘who you know’ instead of ‘what you know’.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:55 pm
What about us braindead slobs?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Captain i understand your opinions, you’re not on your own. There are plenty on here with the same opinions. But it’s easier to take the rest of the lads serious because their opinions aren’t effected by some sort of agenda, as yours appear to be.
The point i was making was a very, very simple one so don’t complicate it with childish insults. Students are thought of as cunts in a lot more countries than ireland yet your response is that it would only happen in ireland
because we, as a country are socially retarded.
actally ignore the part about childish insults, sure that’s all part of the blog/forum
February 23rd, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
‘join Fianna Fail, the vaguely patriotic brown envelope party. Where everybody knows your name and it doesn’t matter if you are a braindead slob’.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:03 pm
Peadar do me a favour. You are always on with the ‘sure everywhere else is the same’ line. As if the lowest common denominator something to aim for.
Ireland IS politically, culturally and educationally retarded.
The fact that you don’t like people saying that does not change that one bit.
More than happy to debate that with you anywhere anytime. My reason for saying it is because I am tired of listening to Irish deadbeats trying to find a way of making stupidity look glamorous.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:16 pm
I was looking for the simpsons qoute response to that question…
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:31 pm
I was looking for the simpsons qoute response to that question…
Not on your life, my Hindu friend
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
Peadar Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Captain i understand your opinions, you’re not on your own. There are plenty on here with the same opinions. But it’s easier to take the rest of the lads serious because their opinions aren’t effected by some sort of agenda, as yours appear to be.
The point i was making was a very, very simple one so don’t complicate it with childish insults. Students are thought of as cunts in a lot more countries than ireland yet your response is that it would only happen in ireland
because we, as a country are socially retarded.
actally ignore the part about childish insults, sure that’s all part of the blog/forum
_____________________________________
That’s not Peadar, someone’s using his ID.
That was demi-semi-articulate and didn’t mention giving one to anybody.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:36 pm
There’s a section on the diaspora later in the book I’m reading at the moment – Revisionism And The Revisionist Controversy – looking forward to it.
Emigration challenges one of the central tenets and justifications for the nationalist movement. However these days countries that formerly had open arms are not so welcoming.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Imposter Peadar??
Tell me it isnt true..
The Brain Decrayoning Operation was a success?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:40 pm
Shut up magoo or i’ll rape your face
Generally speaking, from country to country, human nature doesn’t vary very much.
More than happy to debate that with you anywhere anytime.
Ah no, you’re grand thanks
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
Shut up magoo or i’ll rape your face
promises, promises.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
I’m hungry.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:56 pm
have a banana
Are magoo and maggot the same person?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 5:59 pm
Dunno, had a banana this morning with my porridge.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:11 pm
No Maggot’s a bloke. All we really have in common is the Peadar face-raping thing..
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:16 pm
Are magoo and maggot the same person?
You owe magoo an apology!
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
You are a gurl magoo ? Explains a lot. So much classier than we male riff raff that hang round here.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:23 pm
a real girl? opps, perhaps it was a bit rude to say i’d rape your face. I’ll be a gentleman and rape your arse instead
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:25 pm
Girls, a new experience for Peadar!
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:37 pm
As long as you don’t mind the fact that it doesn’t look like this Peadar petal..
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
looks familiar, i know her
February 23rd, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
Ah, the John Terry Trap
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
Ashley Cole’s Sloppy seconds morelike
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:08 pm
You know her too Peader? She’s mental. Wouldn’t stop texting me after.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
She does have a saucy rump though.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:15 pm
yeah, a real bunny boiler. it was a baaaaad sexperience.
jesus thats bad, i’m cracking up, better go home
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:18 pm
Ewe need help Peadar.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:31 pm
We could sit around all day and berate the goverment but we need to move on… preferably to a forming a lynch mob. Trinners gets it first
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:39 pm
Peadar:”Captain i understand your opinions, you’re not on your own. There are plenty on here with the same opinions. But it’s easier to take the rest of the lads serious because their opinions aren’t effected by some sort of agenda, as yours appear to be.”
You sure you aren’t a member of Fianna Fail? You’ve actually managed to get an accusation of an agenda in there as well. Maybe if I hang about a bit you’ll explain why you the victim in all this. Straight out of the Willie O’Dea FF Handbook of Implications.
“The point i was making was a very, very simple one so don’t complicate it with childish insults. Students are thought of as cunts in a lot more countries than ireland yet your response is that it would only happen in ireland”
Where did I say that? I think you are extrapolating your own theories and trying to make them fact. You should apply for a job with NAMA.
The stuff that annoyed me was the sudden attack on young people when quite frankly its this generation with the hands on the reins and the generation before them who should be hanging their heads in shame.
It would be typically Irish to start accusing the only set of people in the country who certainly weren’t responsible for the economic and social shambles the place finds itself in.
I do have an agenda Peadar. And that is never again to mince words with the sort of Irish eejit who is of the ‘sure it’ll all be grand’ variety.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 7:40 pm
I think they’re on the way out. Can’t see them lasting too long now. But Jesus, I really don’t want FG either. We’re really quite screwed.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
Yep- the Greens and FF are turning on each other now and there’s a personal storm coming for Cowan over the glass bottling site ‘investment’ it looks like so it’ll be interesting to see those tensions play out. Death throes of this government I reckon …
February 23rd, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
Interesting times – though sadly if history is anything to go by a new FG government (no experience) will make a pig’s ear of things and guess who will form the following government ?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 9:45 pm
The IMF?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:07 pm
Fianna Fail & the Blockheads
Clever Trevor
just cos I ain’t never ‘ad, no, nothing worth having
never ever, never ever
you ain’t got no call not to think I wouldn’t fall
into thinking that I ain’t too clever
and it ain’t not having one thing nor another
neither, either is it anything, whatever
and it’s not not knowing that there ain’t nothing showing
and I answer to the name of Trevor, however
Just cos I ain’t never said, no, nothing worth saying
never ever, never ever, never ever
things ‘ave got read into what I never sad, ‘till me mouth becomes me ‘ead
which ain’t not all that clever
and it’s not not saying one thing nor another
neither, either is it anything I haven’t said, whatever
and it ain’t not proving that me mind ain’t moving
and I answer to the name of Trevor, however
knock me down with a feather
Clever Trevor
widebrows wonder whether Clever Trevor’s clever
either have they got
nor neither haven’t not
got no right to make a clot
our of Trevor
why should I feel bad about something I ain’t ‘ad
such stupidness is mad cos nothing underfoot
comes to nothing less to add to a load of old toot
and I ain’t half not half co there’s nowhere to put it
even if I ‘ad i’m a bit of a Jack the Lad
knock me down with a feather
Clever Trevor
widebrows wonder whether Clever Trevor’s clever
either have they got
nor neither haven’t not
got no right to make a clot
our of Trevor
also, it takes much longer to get re-elected, the slow way
February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
FF to 9:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjf5CccAwY
February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
The IMF?
Aren’t they trying to buy Greece ? Or is it Portsmouth FC ?
February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
So there’s Trevor gone. Now can someone please explain to me why all these fuckers who resign are still sitting in the fucking dail?
Best job in the world: Q.”Am I sacked?”
A. “No.”
Q. “Can I resign?”
A. “Yes.”
Q. “I resign so.”
A. “Good, go sit over there and we’ll keep paying you.”
Q. “That’ll do nicely.”
February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:53 pm
Emigration’s not so bad. As a norn prod I was forced – in the late ’60′s – to emigrate in order to avoid work. Had a ball in London ; met my first free staters and never looked back.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:09 pm
Thanks Twenty for the link
I never understood this thing about deserving a job from anyone or anywhere ….
Fuckit we have the internet now so people can apply for jobs all over the world .. back in teh 80′s theres was no internet and people were well fucked if they couldnt find anythng in ireland and didnt have any connections overseas
I battle every day with 1 billion indians to the right of me and one billion chinese to the left of me that would slit my fucking throat for what I have … Its up to myself to keep these fuckers at bay with continual study,education,motivation etc … nobody else but myself
I thinl people think after university then thats it …By fuck thats the start
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:33 pm
maggot; the fg/labour coalition did a pretty good job in my humble on opinion
on the day that is in it when a real puppeteer left the building I’ve uploaded a clip – one of my puppets, well, not a puppet, but close enough
hope it works, go dubya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxUiA59Obvw
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:43 pm
maggot; the fg/labour coalition did a pretty good job in my humble on opinion
Certainly the impression I got Itchy – but sadly FG have never had back to back government. Irish people like voting FF for some reason.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:46 pm
fuck. sideways.
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:46 pm
Spot on Feynman, i couldn’t agree more. you do what you have to do, be it home or abroad. I’ve decided to do it here but if i had to go abroad i would. I’ve never been on the dole and i never will
Maybe if I hang about a bit you’ll explain why you the victim in all this. Straight out of the Willie O’Dea FF Handbook of Implications.
Me a victim? Where the fuck did you get that from? You’re the one with the never ending chip on your shoulder
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:49 pm
bring back Dick Spring and John Brutal
February 23rd, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
I want to wish the greens to collapse ff/pd scumparty.
but then I think
this country is fucked. cunts everywhere.
1/2 the population are cunts.
http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/Kerry-South.html
remember – cheryl cole is a thug but the Minister for Justice is behaving like a gentleman again I notice.
Cya Trevor, I wonder how that happened….
what a cuntry.
February 24th, 2010 @ 12:03 am
that sheep looks good.
February 24th, 2010 @ 1:21 am
http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/Kerry-South.html
Dammit Itchy – there was a picture of Mary Lou on that site – I just ate a late supper.
February 24th, 2010 @ 1:36 am
Down maggot…. sit….. stay. Good lad.
February 24th, 2010 @ 1:48 am
I once told her
Where she could find her dream.
And I still adore her,
No matter how it seems.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:04 am
Again I feel a bit less lonely on a cold cold night seeing others still awake.
Go to bed maggot, good boys should be asleep.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:08 am
The delightful JJ called me a good boy – I feel ten foot tall!
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:27 am
Well, you’re not in bed yet, so you’re not so good!
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:29 am
Don’t spoil it ! I see you are on Twitter.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:32 am
Yup. And on a chair, too. 8ft, no more.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:34 am
Three chairs for JJ
Hip hip Hooray!
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:39 am
“I was standing on the wall
Feeling ten feet tall
All you maggots smoking fags
On Santa Monica Boulevard”
Lost in Hollywood – SOAD
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:42 am
New band to me – and it’s not bad at all – Thanks!
And I’m smoking a fag !
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:48 am
There, I’ve broadened your horizons and predicted what you were up to in the same time. May may, women are multitaskers after all.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:49 am
You know me so well – do you know Leo Kottke music?
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:59 am
I was surprised to find you knew who he was – read your tweets – I owe familiarity with his music to my mum, great stuff.
Makes me fall asleep though.
February 24th, 2010 @ 3:01 am
Also love Bert Jansch music. Very Catholic tastes.
February 24th, 2010 @ 6:18 am
YOU ARE ONLY REALISING NOW WHAT I TOLD YOU LONG AND EVER AGO!!
NO WONDER YOU ARE FUCKED!!!!
BWAA HA HA HA!!
I GLUAISTEAN CERTAINLY AM LAUGHING LAST!!!
; )
February 24th, 2010 @ 6:20 am
AND ‘TIS ONLY NOW YOU REALISE WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR SO LONG???
NO WONDER YE’RE FUCKED!!!
BWAA HA HA – GLUAISTEAN LAUGHS LAST AND LONGEST AFTER ALL!!!
February 24th, 2010 @ 6:26 am
What took you so long Gluey ?
February 24th, 2010 @ 6:53 am
Cardinal fucking Brady up there with the capslock on.
February 24th, 2010 @ 8:20 am
Was that Bill Cullen?
I thought ir was one of teh MOnty Pythons doing the “Yorkshiremen” sketch.
(“Had to get up two hours before we went to bed, eat a lump of poison, got flogged within an inch of our lives …. if we told young people that today, they wouldn’t believe it)
February 24th, 2010 @ 11:25 am
Gluey! Phew, I was worried.
Peader, I don’t know about that sheep, mutton dresses as lamb you ask me.
February 24th, 2010 @ 2:05 pm
Cullen complained how he’d employed hundreds of people, etc. but he neglects to mention that in the 1980′s (when the economy was shite), he bought Renault for £5.00! He just said people with debts should renegotiate them or just walk away from them… such great fucking advice. Just a dinosaur.
February 24th, 2010 @ 8:46 pm
I was a student until recently… and a Dublin 4 resident to boot (Ringsend, honest)… and I’m still an unbearable cunt… But yeah, the halls of any Irish university (or technical institute that desperately wants to be a university and will piss away your money to get there) are packed with horrible, egregious, mewling fucks who you’d enjoy just stabbing and stabbing and stabbing. I’m sure some of the horrible attitude rubbed off on me, but at least I went and got a job when I got out (‘ard graft, mate).
These fuckin’ people. You know double doors? The swing doors that open both ways? If there was a stream of people going through one door you’d invariably see a queue of fuckers coming the other way, standing and waiting at a closed door, too fuckin’ thick to figure out it opens. “That door opens too” “Ohmygawd, the door, loike, totally works?” (question mark for the inflection invariable applied to any statement). Standing around en masse in stairwells and landings was another one. They’re a fire hazard because they’re too thick to run when the place goes up.
My brother did a master’s degree in Archaeology and Shit Timing that he got out of last year. He doesn’t have a job but he’s the laziest, stonedest political expert I know. We used to talk about good headphones for blocking out vacuous chatter from Ireland’s educational cream. I keep em for public transport. Only a cunt of the highest order plays music from a mobile phone on a bus – steel toe to the chops, fuck the phone out the window.
Rambling a bit here, yeah, fucking hate students but that’s only because I’m not one any more.
February 25th, 2010 @ 11:20 am
Nice Python quote ! The exact one was going through my head while watching that cunt Cullen, I tweeted it shortly thereafter…
March 2nd, 2010 @ 10:13 am
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