In Search of The Pope's Children (1 Viewer)

[roxy]

So what are you? A hi-co? A decklander? Breakfast roll man?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

i like david mcwilliams but didnt he just rip the whole thing off some american guy?i think i remember pete posting something about it....

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

im into paving and the internet.
what bracket do i fall into?

 

[pete]

i like david mcwilliams but didnt he just rip the whole thing off some american guy?i think i remember pete posting something about it....

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=607484&postcount=15

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

thats the one,a gold star for p

 

[Wilbert]

So what are you? A hi-co? A decklander? Breakfast roll man?

That tool McWilliams really gets my goat.


And I need that goat.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I don't know about the show but the book is a piece of shite. McWilliams came up with the term "celtic tiger" i think and so he coins all these painful, unfunny terms for crude stereotypes of Irish people in the hope that some of it will stick. His (Eddie) Hobbsian smugness and smart-arsery is especially grating. Having said that he presented the only daycent show on TV3, I think it was called Agenda.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

So what are you? A hi-co? A decklander? Breakfast roll man?

Think I'm a cun-fuc.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=607484&postcount=15

which paper is this from Pete?

 

[MDR]

I have very long and angry opinions about David McWilliams.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

why cos he's so anglo?

 

[Goff]

I have very long and angry opinions about David McWilliams.

Join the queue.

I watched about five minutes of it, just so I could have a rant about it. In those few minutes, he said Pope's Children six times. Decklander came a close second.

He really thinks he is clever at coining phrases. No one uses them.

And the style of program was up its own hole.

Here's David standing by the river. Here he is again, standing by the river. Oh, and to get his point across, here he is again standing by the river.

Oh and he used the term "baby belt" to describe navan, etc. What the fuck is he on?

Still, he's a gas cunt.

We need people like that so we can go, "There but for the grace of God...."

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

i like 'low gi jane' and 'robo paddy' , they are gas stereotypes.but when the book was first released, I thought it was all a bit too classist to be true. when asked if McWilliams was any of these categories himself he replied to Pat Kenny, that he is 'just an observer" still he will be as rich as fuck now as a pseudo-economist and social commentator, a pain in the ass pundit

 

[evil bandit]

Agenda was great and he did a god job on newstalk but that 'Popes Children' is a load of old bollox, all he's done is take a load of sterotypes and give them hip, new McWilliams-isms or just made up new sterotypes.

 

[Dixer]

T'was a seriously tacky show but vast swathes of this country seem seriously tacky right now. Were they actors btw? Particularly the orange girl eating breakfast bars and drinking red bull while driving and talking on the mobile? Barely credible.
Plus it was very subjective. A lot of things he piped up with seem to have just been convenient for his argument and bore no reflection on truth.
I wonder about shows like this though, is he just talking to himself or do people see themselves reflected in his view of things?
He's such a mannered, dramatic speaker too.
Annoying.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

but I love stereotypes

 

[evil bandit]

Oh and he used the term "baby belt" to describe navan, etc. What the fuck is he on?

After visting Northside Shopping Centre yesterday surely the Clonshaugh / Coolock / Kilmore region deserves this title.

Kid pushing around kids, carrying (pregnant) kids then taking them all to the bonfire in the green across the road.

 

[pete]

which paper is this from Pete?

pretty sure it's from an Amazon book review.

 

[monkeymafia]

Who in the fuck gets their dog washed at a petrol station? You people make me sick!

 

[Pantone247]

Particularly the orange girl eating breakfast bars and drinking red bull while driving and talking on the mobile? Barely credible.

have you been up around Baggot Street or Ballsbridge lately?