another exciting day at Aquatic Village

Ok i was pulled up for being racist on leinster fish keepers for using the word pikey.....what is the world coming to....so in the interest of fair play i will introduce a substitue called people of the mist i hope i have got this right....humble apologies to any overly sensitive people out there....

AAh yes it's so good to be poor yet alive. This country is great did I ever tell you that? Recession pestilence famine and The people of the mist.....Jesus I feel blessed to be surrounded by people that really make u want to reach out and give them a big hug....that’s the equivalent of a fish reaching out and hugging a protozoan or a koi embracing a fluke or ....need I go on...
Well anyways yesterday a couple of half grown up people of the mist tried to rob one of our Dragon water features up in Brittas. Quinner walked into the yard as they were wrestling with it. Their Da or head person of the mist or source of everyone’s DNA regardless of stature waited outside in a custom built white people of the mists van with a different reg on the back to the front.... something the garda would never cop.......unless there tax was out enough to draw irate attention.
Well Quinner runs them.....he tracked them by their foul smell or it could been that new fragrance ‘eau du people of the mist' they are all raving about....he also called the guards and fair play to them(I’m actually a big fan of the guards they do a great job and i mean that)anyway crossed wires somewhere along the line brought 4 armed response units to Quinner aid......wow says I ...it took em 5 minutes to arrive from Tallaght.....do u know that this is the second time we have had armed response??? And every time it happens we get the guards to buy a tank.....now that’s how to make a sale ladies and gentlemen.....
Cheers
IAn
Disclaimer:
No people of the mist were hurt during the making of this article.....mores the pity!

More is the pity indeed. If you were accused of being a racist for using 'pikey', it was probably by annoying do-gooders, who have clearly never worked in retail in Tallaght. My shop is hit every few days by shoplifters and every person, bar one, that I have caught are pikeys. And trust me, that's quite a few. I happily differtiate these from the travelling community that don't act this way, but reckon if someone is trying to steal from your livlihood, you can call them whatever you want. Pikey is probably the most polite I have ever used.

Fair play to the Garda for a quick response.

L

Xaribdis wrote:

More is the pity indeed. If you were accused of being a racist for using 'pikey', it was probably by annoying do-gooders, who have clearly never worked in retail in Tallaght. My shop is hit every few days by shoplifters and every person, bar one, that I have caught are pikeys. And trust me, that's quite a few. I happily differtiate these from the travelling community that don't act this way, but reckon if someone is trying to steal from your livlihood, you can call them whatever you want. Pikey is probably the most polite I have ever used.

Fair play to the Garda for a quick response.

L

dont paint all with the same brush

Accused of Racism? thats pretty stupid really..The Residents association in our housing estate had a meeting recently to address the number of Roma Gypsies & Irish travellers getting social housing in the area..some people were playing the race card..when it's not rascist in anyway. just discrimiation!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

Nozebleed wrote:

Accused of Racism? thats pretty stupid really..The Residents association in our housing estate had a meeting recently to address the number of Roma Gypsies & Irish travellers getting social housing in the area..some people were playing the race card..when it's not rascist in anyway. just discrimiation!

jaysus... one week of fine gael government and the Blueshirts are back with a vengeance it seems.

[/quote] dont paint all with the same brush[/quote]

garda or the travelling sales men?

Ah thanks for the Amendment to the Post. I haven't laughed so much in a long time, LFKS getting high and mighty, this coming from a Forum where one of their members was allowed, unashamedly to change his Avatar to a Gestapo General in full military garb, whatever next?
Kev.

Sean wrote:

Nozebleed wrote:

Accused of Racism? thats pretty stupid really..The Residents association in our housing estate had a meeting recently to address the number of Roma Gypsies & Irish travellers getting social housing in the area..some people were playing the race card..when it's not rascist in anyway. just discrimiation!

jaysus... one week of fine gael government and the Blueshirts are back with a vengeance it seems.

One must remember its not illegal to be racist..it is highly ignorant apparently.

Nozebleed wrote:

Sean wrote:

Nozebleed wrote:

Accused of Racism? thats pretty stupid really..The Residents association in our housing estate had a meeting recently to address the number of Roma Gypsies & Irish travellers getting social housing in the area..some people were playing the race card..when it's not rascist in anyway. just discrimiation!

jaysus... one week of fine gael government and the Blueshirts are back with a vengeance it seems.

One must remember its not illegal to be racist..it is highly ignorant apparently.

Never said it was. There's a fine history of it in our country from our law makers.

I remember a school teacher of mine many yrs ago used to refer to our travelling friends as "d'oul Johnnys". He'd say somethin like "see d'oul Johhnys goin round collectin de Shcrap metal. Dem boys knows wots der doin".

hahahahaha

"people of the mist"

should make a documentary called that or maybe rename "into the west"...

Want ta buy some second hand Fish stuff Boss?

Kev.

ha ha excellent...

I just got censored and my people of the mist article was binned on the lfs... i can see their point...it could be seen as offensive god what is the world cooming to ....I'm becomming and Eamonn Dumpy now....wanted posters next...unwanted posters more likely....ok i will next time be more considerate because both the itfs and lfs work hard for our hobby and i dont want to ruin that work by being an arsehole sorry John and of course Anthony ....its like being back at school again.....oh the pain....i think i have an ism or something...
Cheeers
IAn

Think the thread has run its course now to be honest...its only gonna develop into a who is right and wrong senario now.
Gavin

Ian,

While I appreciate you have a story to tell, this discussion forum is not the place to debate whether another discussion forum is right or wrong in approving or not of your posts/language.

Thread closed.

Valerie