Is Judge Mary Devins a Racist?

[Seán Ryan]

When you're done with criticising the right to be critical, including the use of critical thinking in those criticisms, it might be an idea to come back and back up those wistful opinions you're advocating as counter argument, in lieu of an actual argument, on the actual topic matter at hand. Surely you'd be better placed starting a thread on the merits of pointless waffle and how you feel it can brighten up an otherwise serious discussion.

[Nikolai Bukharin]

One key point surely is that a higher proportion of natives than Poles are social welfare spongers?

[homer]

One of these days I'll wake up to find a crusty attached to a bin filled with concrete outside my gate, shouting obscenities at the window and thinking himself a hero.

Baron

Sally forth with a loudly revving chainsaw explaining that you cannot find your spectacles and that you find it hard to control these yokes. Explain that you used to be good practising tourniquets in first aid classes years ago so all should be well even if you cut in the wrong place.

Crusties can move very quickly at times

[Seán Ryan]

One key point surely is that a higher proportion of natives than Poles are social welfare spongers?

I don't think it's about having to follow Devin's line of reasoning beyond defining it. Otherwise we'll get bogged down in defining 'spongers' and other generalisations that bring the topic away from Devins.

[Seán Ryan]

Baron

Sally forth with a loudly revving chainsaw explaining that you cannot find your spectacles and that you find it hard to control these yokes. Explain that you used to be good practising tourniquets in first aid classes years ago so all should be well even if you cut in the wrong place.

Crusties can move very quickly at times

Homer erotic fantasies on behalf of Biffo?

[Seán Ryan]

Labour ********* have suggested something, now that the bloodshed has abated and it's safe for them to stick their heads above the parapets.

Of course, just in case it's not safe yet, they've confined themselves to talking the drivelling ***** they've become accustomed to talking since switching from whispering sweet nothings to the electorate to to probing the nether regions of their betters in government with their hungry tongues.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3194340.html

Jesus wept...

[Baron von Biffo]

One key point surely is that a higher proportion of natives than Poles are social welfare spongers?

Our minister for social welfare regards unemployment as a lifestyle choice so it's clear that from the top down there's a view that anyone on SW is a sponger.

[Baron von Biffo]

Baron

Sally forth with a loudly revving chainsaw explaining that you cannot find your spectacles and that you find it hard to control these yokes. Explain that you used to be good practising tourniquets in first aid classes years ago so all should be well even if you cut in the wrong place.

Crusties can move very quickly at times

Sounds like a 1950s arithmetic question -

If a fat Biffo pensioner with a chainsaw can cover a mile in 30 minutes, how many seconds head-start would a crusty dragging a bin of concrete have to get to avoid dismemberment if they start 200 yards apart?

[C. Flower]

My jaw dropped when I heard Pat Kenny's stand in (who was it?) say that (in spite of the apologies) Mary Devins had "set an agenda" on immigration and "welfare tourism"...

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2012/pc/p...2568_audio.mp3

[Ogiol]

Labour ********* have suggested something, now that the bloodshed has abated and it's safe for them to stick their heads above the parapets.

Of course, just in case it's not safe yet, they've confined themselves to talking the drivelling ***** they've become accustomed to talking since switching from whispering sweet nothings to the electorate to to probing the nether regions of their betters in government with their hungry tongues.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3194340.html

Jesus wept...

I reckon that was John 11:35 you were looking for

[Ogiol]

Our minister for social welfare regards unemployment as a lifestyle choice so it's clear that from the top down there's a view that anyone on SW is a sponger.

I was unemployed recently and i was sponging to a certain degree but it did give me enough time and money to found a company and thus become employed!

YEA SOCIAL WELFARE (maybe I should thank moan, or maybe not cause if she had her way then there would be 4 less jobs in the country)

[PaddyJoe]

My jaw dropped when I heard Pat Kenny's stand in (who was it?) say that (in spite of the apologies) Mary Devins had "set an agenda" on immigration and "welfare tourism"...

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2012/pc/p...2568_audio.mp3

I think Myles Dungan is looking after it at the moment.

[Seán Ryan]

My jaw dropped when I heard Pat Kenny's stand in (who was it?) say that (in spite of the apologies) Mary Devins had "set an agenda" on immigration and "welfare tourism"...

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2012/pc/p...2568_audio.mp3

It brings back a conversation a few of us had over in Machine Nation a few years back, about how right wing and racist Europe was and could be in the blink of an eye...

We're living in interesting times. One of the disgusting things about this is that folks are forced to fund this type of guff and pretend that it's enlightening and informative.

[Baron von Biffo]

I was unemployed recently and i was sponging to a certain degree but it did give me enough time and money to found a company and thus become employed!

YEA SOCIAL WELFARE (maybe I should thank moan, or maybe not cause if she had her way then there would be 4 less jobs in the country)

If you have an inclination to sponge in Ireland then starting a company is the way to go. In fact if you're too lazy, the government will send out JobsBridge 'interns' to sponge for you for free.

[Ogiol]

If you have an inclination to sponge in Ireland then starting a company is the way to go. In fact if you're too lazy, the government will send out JobsBridge 'interns' to sponge for you for free.

No interns for me, Im all high-tech new-fangled digital stuff! What is annoying tho is the absolute uselessness of the county (and national) enterprise boards. Its like talking to a plank, I mean those ppl are so useless and old (nothing wrong with that) that they dont know what the word software means!

Oh and back on topic, yes, she is a rascist, and she is typical of a large undercurrent of irish people.!!