Comments on: This Is Not About Niall McElwee

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:15:46 +0000

snookertony:
What’s up with a mexican wave in Oz??

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:03:52 +0000

GOM: I wouldn’t harass a fly! Harmless I am. :)

(I was thinking the word ‘gom’ would age me but I see in the Indo letters’ page online that it’s still in use …)

Bock: Yes, another time perhaps.

dan: I don’t think you’re overreacting — the men I mentioned are the same as you, about children. And I think it’s a crying shame.

Can anyone imagine a tribe in Borneo carrying on like we do, or bothered by the things we’re discussing here? They have far more sensible stuff on their minds!

By: Dickler

Dickler — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:48:43 +0000

Again, to take another slant, we’ve all become a little scared of being thought Un-PC or unsafe, and particularly as men in a world where at last our female counterparts appear to finally be getting a more equal bite of the cherry, but the pendulum has swung too far.

I take Photographs, Sports Photos mainly and mainly of Rugby, various teams, the people involved etc.Some of them make the papers from time to time, people tell me that they like my photos, well and good, that’s nice, but I take them for myself, for the pleasure I get in getting that one shot in a hundred that come out perfect, it makes it worthwhile, it’s like a treasure hunt.

I have three daughters, my eldest has started to play soccer with a local club nearby (Under 10’s) , I go to games, drive her there and stand on the sideline watching the ,matches BUT I WILL NOT take photos of her or her teammates on the pitch. Why? Fear, Dread, I’m afraid that as soon as I take out my camera, that some PC and “totally safe” clown will come up to me and start a rant and a rave about taking photos of female children. I just don’t want the hassle of it, Maybe I’m wrong, but I know people that have been on the receiving end of such crap, it destroyed the life of one particular individual who was falsely accused and had to endure two years of legal proceedings to prove his innocence, resulting in a mental breakdown.

Scratch the statement above, I’m wrong, I know it, But I’m not brave enough to take the chance, so the likelihood is that I may never get a photo of my daughter playing sport.Am I daft? or just sad……..But for the moment and in the current environment I’m just going to err on the side of safety..

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:56:14 +0000

Paddy and Nora: Maybe we’ll have to do a post about that as well, another time.

By: samuel10000

samuel10000 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:27:50 +0000

Some wimmin are too sensitive these days, recently I asked a bird would she dress up as a nun and let me spank her whilst I was wearing a ban garda uniform - in upper William Street outside the bookies - well … you should have heard her reaction, and she still won’t talk to me, just huddles with her mates in the corner of the pub, sipping girly drinks, whispering, and hissing like the three witches at the start of Macbeth while pointing their bony fingers at me…
Needless to say, a bloke can’t even make a reasonable request these days..

Meanwhile, Bock raised some very valid points,
be carefull out there or you could find yoursel sharing a cell with Big Al in the sex offenders wing of Mountjoy, spot on about the Indo article also.

By: GOM

GOM — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:02:11 +0000

Nora, in trying to decipher if there was a hidden meaning in your message about me calling myself a GOM - I might take that the wrong way and feel harassed…..things are getting sensitive around here!! :)

By: dan dare

dan dare — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:18:21 +0000

I’m a middle-aged man and I would compliment a woman colleague on clothes or new hair style. Any sort of physical contact would be not be initiated by me and only reciprocal but I would never, ever touch a child except to save him/her from immediate physical danger. Maybe I’m overreacting on the last point but better safe than sorry.

By: Nora

Nora — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:07:18 +0000

Paddy, it’s far more complicated than that, and this is not the thread for it.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:02:28 +0000

“Ireland’s conviction rate for rape is sadly the lowest in Europe”

Maybe that’s a good thing? If the courts find an accused person innocent?

By: Nora

Nora — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:37:43 +0000

Andrew, you can’t call someone a gom!

Oh, it’s ok. It’s GOM and he did it himself.