What Twitter pile on are you watching right now (4 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

Wait, what? Every single one of them has happened to me at some point in work. They're not malicious in intent necessarily (coming from Americans anyway) but yeah they happen, and I live in Ireland!

 

[ann post]

Well I'm sure they could do with another keyboard player lilli.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Not sure they'd let me join, what with me actually being from Dublin and all.

 

[chris d]

Tin whistle gives a toot.

 

[ann post]

It's terrible that this happenned while they were trying to release a new record.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Tin whistle gives a toot.

You leave Whipping Boy out of this

 

[magicbastarder]

a guy i was in college with, brendan, had been on a J1 and working on a production line in the states somewhere. he used to get slagged by a colombian lad he worked with - 'hey brendan, when are you going to get me that semtex and AK47s you promised?' sort of stuff, and brendan would slag back 'as soon as you get me those two keys of powder you promised' etc. etc.
some of his american colleagues protested to him 'you can't assume angelo is a drug dealer because he's colombian' and brendan told them it was fine, just good humour between them.
anyway, brendan ended up being questioned for a couple of hours in a cop shop cos it turned out angelo *was* running cocaine, and brendan had been heard openly asking for supply.

(i fully expect to hear this is a hoary old chestnut)

 

[seanc]

In this country, the vast majority of malicious racism I've received* has come from Irish people.

Brits don't like to slag off the IRA, they respect the IRA because respecting them helps to protect their fragile ego's. They faced down the best terrorist organisation in the world, it certainly wasn't that they were humiliated for decades by a bunch of wooly jumpered hippies.

I was at a book reading with Joseph O'Conner years ago and some literary luvvie asked him something about Anglo-Irish relations generally. Now Joseph was trying to flog books at the time, but he said something like "the great untold secret about the English and the Irish is that actually we all get along quite well together".

*as in stuff where the intent was explicity to upset me rather than just ignorance or "banter".


Anyway, Grian is some yoke. He knows his market, I'll give him that.

 

[ann post]

Shir there was like at least two people on thumped trying to get a rise out of me for being from donegal last week. Workplace low tier casual slagging and flirting is all part of life in the trenches.

I kinda find it hard to swallow a band that trade on putting on voices and approprating a bit of inner city all of a sudden being the victims of stereotypes mid album launch campaign. time to cancel @ann post again i guess.

 

[egg_]

Anyway, Grian is some yoke. He knows his market, I'll give him that.

Yeah, impressive use of woke culture for his own nefarious ends.

How do you pronounce his name? Is it "gree-an"? As in the Irish for "sun"?

 

[seanc]

I don't mind them really. Fontaines that is.


Personally I'm just a bit miffed that they stole my schtick that I was cultivating in 2001/2002. I was a country lad buying individual batteries on Francis street and going on Pat Liddy walking tours when they were still in Primary school.

Egg: yes, exactly as in Irish for sun. He was on the radio over here explaining that recently. He's mother is English wouldn't you know. He was doing Synge-ian cultural appropriation before he was even born.

 

[egg_]

Hey, my first ever job was in the Liberties in 1988 ... even though I also am a country lad - my Ma sent me to work for my uncle's friend in Dublin to try and prevent me from spending all summer playing in the-band-that-is-now-called-Stoat

 

[Lili Marlene]

Shir there was like at least two people on thumped trying to get a rise out of me for being from donegal last week. Workplace low tier casual slagging and flirting is all part of life in the trenches.

I kinda find it hard to swallow a band that trade on putting on voices and approprating a bit of inner city all of a sudden being the victims of stereotypes mid album launch campaign. time to cancel @ann post again i guess.

I don't think hating on Fontaines DC online is exactly the path to get cancelled.

I dunno, i'm trying to imagine what it would have been like if they had done the whole Irish Strokes thing in 2002 instead of 2018+, how would we have viewed them? I find them hard to take seriously but people get so mad at them it feels as performative as their Dublin shtick, as if it's still 1993 and we have no choice but to find new music by listening to the radio. I never hear the Fontaines unless I actually put them on.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Imagine of of then did a Richey James and carved DUBLIN into his arm in an interview.

 

[chris d]

"he should have carved Swords"

the twitter backlash against the backlash is already underway and we can move on with our worthless lives tomorrow.

 

[chris d]

we can give the young scientist winner a kicking tomorrow for being posh.

 

[sleepy]

Imagine of of then did a Richey James and carved DUBLIN into his arm in an interview.

Or R4SHERS

 

[magicbastarder]

betcha (s)he's a specky four eyes.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Or R4SHERS

They'll never be 4Real enough for the centrist dads on Thumped or the weekend communists of Irish Twitter.

 

[sleepy]

betcha (s)he's a specky four eyes.

They’ve appropriated my nerdiness. Those fucking pricks!!