John Waters caught skipping queue in Fiumicino

[Utopian Hermit Monk]

Once, Ireland was world famous for being a place where everything was not reduced to “ethics” and “equality” and rules.

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There was Seanie FitzPee from the grand AIB
There was Roddy the big man at FAS.
There was Bertie, Iar-T, from a large famileeee,
Very fond of his free pint of Bass.
There were lawyers and clergy and Dunlop and Neary,
the lot of them rarely sober.
But they all rose in station by fleecing a nation,
Known worlwide as 'The Irish Rover'.



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[Andrew49]

I'm sometimes moved to feel some sympathy with him because of that very fact (that he's a bit of a freak).

But a weekly opinion column in the national newspaper of record when he regularly produces practically stream-of-consciousness nonsense like what he wrote today...?
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He's almost become 'required reading' in my household! What other writer could produce a column based only on being in the wrong part of a queue? This man has huge issues. I think his writings need to be dissected word for word to get at the deeper meaning!

Perhaps an unhappy childhood was to blame, caused by being switched at birth; perhaps his mother took home the wrong baby, and he only discovered this when it struck him that he was the only member of the family that positively enjoyed Kelloggs Bran Flakes. Not trying to do down Bran Flakes now, heaven knows they get a lot of bad press, particularly from the 'liberal media' whose snide remarks, vis-a-vis Bran Flakes, we are all too aware of. But that's worth considering today, in light of the fact that many families don't eat their meals as families any more. They eat in the kitchen, in the drawing room, in front of the television even and we know that, despite the multitude of channels, television isn't what it used to be. Not that anything is these days. We seem to have collectively mortaged our past for the Bar-B-Que grill

[Wendy]

He provides some welcome, though not light, relief from the likes of Fintan O'Toole and Vincent Browne. Lots of it is too personal by a mile and he gets carried away by his identification with supposed underdogs and possibly sheer contrarianism more often than not but I'm glad there's still a role at the IT for a columnist that articulates a minority viewpoint on, what, sociocultural issues.

He is nearly always wrong about women, however.

[Lulu84]

John Waters and Róisín Ingle should get together. They deserve each other.

[The OD]

Apparently, this is a sign of a 'Moralistic tyranny bedeviling our society'.

Moralistic tyranny bedevils our society - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 03, 2009

Next week:

Waters gets a dirty look while eyeing up blond on the way to meet his friends in Communion and Liberation and writes article on a new prudery taking over Irish café society.

And the week after:

Waters gets caught shoplifting and writes article on imminent alien invasion.

The next time Waters starts to derail the genuine campaign for Fathers rights with his own special brand of paranoid BS, he might want to review the following:

Once, Ireland was world famous for being a place where everything was not reduced to “ethics” and “equality” and rules.

What, he wants no ethics, equality or rules?

Why in the name of reason is he paid to dribble this sputum?

The ming boggles, everytime I hear him on the radio he is whinging and moaning out of him.

Perhaps he should shave the beard, cut the hair and grow up.....

[The OD]

He's almost become 'required reading' in my household! What other writer could produce a column based only on being in the wrong part of a queue? This man has huge issues. I think his writings need to be dissected word for word to get at the deeper meaning!

Perhaps an unhappy childhood was to blame, caused by being switched at birth; perhaps his mother took home the wrong baby, and he only discovered this when it struck him that he was the only member of the family that positively enjoyed Kelloggs Bran Flakes. Not trying to do down Bran Flakes now, heaven knows they get a lot of bad press, particularly from the 'liberal media' whose snide remarks, vis-a-vis Bran Flakes, we are all too aware of. But that's worth considering today, in light of the fact that many families don't eat their meals as families any more. They eat in the kitchen, in the drawing room, in front of the television even and we know that, despite the multitude of channels, television isn't what it used to be. Not that anything is these days. We seem to have collectively mortaged our past for the Bar-B-Que grill

He has all the hallmarks of the ''victim of nothing all that terrible'', an expression I have just coined.

Waters must be distraught at the way Ireland has gone, people who are genuine victims of abuse, unjustice and fiscal idiocy are taking all the limelight away from John and his existential rage at......well whatever it happens to be on that given day.

You can guarantee that if John was bypassed in the cue by some earthy Dub wearing cheap tracksuits and possessed of a lot of cheap gold then he would be writing about the lack of respect that the Irish show their betters (him) whilst abroad and bring disrepute to our land. He would be going on about how we Irish have no respect for rules or ethics or equality.....

Do me a Favour John, stop with the generalisations, I wouldnt mind if they were based on actual national characteristics, they are not, they are based on whatever annoyed you on the way to work so grow up and shut up.

[nuj]

John Waters is Georgie Burgess.

"Lockhards" with Asti Spumante in their pockets? WTF! What they had was a copy of the Herdle'o'press.

[garlandgreen]

John doesn't write articles. He just uses the Jaberwocky function in Quark Xpress.

[garlandgreen]

I know exactly what he's getting at. We have become a nation of regulators and the regulated. And nowhere more so than when it comes to those regulations which allow a state appointee to lord it over his fellow countryman. We will close a restaurant for having a dusty worktop but will allow the state to poison thousands with polluted water. Or as Jimmy Magee once famously said - "give a man a cap..". This obsession with rules and with the State wanting to dominate its citizens is actually working to suppress our creativity and to drown our initiative in seas of form-filling. The French, for example, take rules more as suggestions, whilst we tend to see them as absolutes.

Yes and next week when John get's stud in front of in a queue we'll hear a diatribe about the coarseness of society. And the week after that we'll get one ridiculing the dogmas of consistency. As long as it suits John it's ok

[Geekzilla]

John Waters and Róisín Ingle should get together. They deserve each other.

Ah now, what has Rósín Ingle done to you - sure most of what she writes is fluff (not my cup of tea) but at least she doesn't claim it's contains deep insights into the Irish psyche.