Notice that? Nobody on this thread has called an Irishman a Paddy, yet Jim Carrol reserves the right to be sanctimonious. I believe I stated that somebody having a temper tantrum was called, in most the UK, having a paddy. For someone who rattles on about preserving heritage, he certainly does know how to stifle it...

Does that mean all the people you namedrop in your earlier rant are in your eyes paddies? That's what I seem to be reading? Or is it that they all get angry and have a hissy fit? (With respect to all ethnic hissies out there...)

I suppose that when an industrial unit of mine was broken into eight times over a fortnight and when the police raided the conveniently situated impromptu caravans at the end of the estate, they found some of my property... I shouldn't have used the term "thieving bastards", because after all, it could have been a cultural thing and I was oppressing them with my "values."

In the interest of balance, the industrial unit was on the outskirts of Dublin...

Which leads us to the original thread and obnoxious members. As I see it, I enjoy being obnoxious from time to time, if only to knock sanctimonious people off their perch. It's called getting a reaction, another cultural aspect of being human... You see, in debate, you can slowly bend to the opinion of others and have your perspective altered, and that's a good thing. On forums such as this, I note that we live up to the comments expected of us, hence you don't need to do anything to obnoxious members, as this is not really a debating forum. it is a showpiece for the more focussed aspects of our opinions, and that will always invite ridicule, because we are a broad church as it were..

As an example; Anything sung in a folk club is a folk song.

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