The say anything, what's on your mind thread

**Spudulika** · 04/03/2015, 4:25 AM

Have you a job waiting back home?

**nigel-harps1954** · 04/03/2015, 7:35 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Have you a job waiting back home?

Teaching English to Limerick people.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 07/03/2015, 7:51 PM

Is it me or are Scottish men very vain for some reason?

**Charlie Darwin** · 07/03/2015, 7:55 PM

Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

Is it me or are Scottish men very vain for some reason?

I didn't even know you were Scottish.

**dong** · 10/03/2015, 7:53 AM

Gustavo I've just read your post and as a fellow Sligo Rovers supporter (albeit now exiled) wish you all the best in your rehabilitation.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 11/03/2015, 9:45 PM

Me: "What was the German girl's presentation like"?

Other person: "She's right behind you".

**nigel-harps1954** · 27/03/2015, 9:48 AM

I think Glasgow City Council won the internet with this..

**BonnieShels** · 27/03/2015, 2:32 PM

I had Crackbird for the first time in 3 years on Wednesday. I thought about Crosby the whole time. Grr.

**DannyInvincible** · 27/04/2015, 3:04 PM

This is Paddy Power's latest publicity stunt:

Some have found it hilarious, whilst others have found it offensive to the LGBT community and victims of the Troubles. I'm not sure how to respond because I don't get the link between the gay marriage referendum and militant republicanism. Can someone explain the message Paddy Power are trying to convey here, if it is indeed something more subtle than simply intending to use provocative imagery with shock value in order to create a stir? Is there a subtle reference to something that I'm missing?

**Real ale Madrid** · 27/04/2015, 3:09 PM

I can think of 5 or 6 more offensive stunts PP has pulled in the last few years - this is the bookmaker that took bets on weather Pistorius was guilty. This is pretty mild in comparison - think the phrase is guerrilla marketing?

**nigel-harps1954** · 27/04/2015, 3:10 PM

I had thought it to be fairly obvious sort of 'Our day will come' play on words.

**Charlie Darwin** · 27/04/2015, 3:24 PM

I suspect it wasn't meant to conflate gay people with the IRA but they seem to have managed it.

**DannyInvincible** · 27/04/2015, 3:34 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I had thought it to be fairly obvious sort of 'Our day will come' play on words.

I was having a discussion about it with one of the Rubber Bandits on Twitter. He thought it a clever means of creating a spectacle (à la Roland Barthes), but if it's as obvious as you think it is, and you might well be right, is that actually clever or funny? I think I'm looking for some deeper meaning that isn't there as the supposed connection or juxtaposition just doesn't really resonate in the same way, say, Banksy's kissing cops makes a coherent statement to me. Or maybe I'm seriously lacking a sense of humour...

**Mr A** · 27/04/2015, 4:01 PM

Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

I can think of 5 or 6 more offensive stunts PP has pulled in the last few years - this is the bookmaker that took bets on weather Pistorius was guilty. This is pretty mild in comparison - think the phrase is guerrilla marketing?

I was on Not Guilty

**Real ale Madrid** · 27/04/2015, 4:03 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I was on Not Guilty

It was the footprints that threw me......

**SkStu** · 27/04/2015, 4:31 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

I was having a discussion about it with one of the Rubber Bandits on Twitter. He thought it a clever means of creating a spectacle (à la Roland Barthes), but if it's as obvious as you think it is, and you might well be right, is that actually clever or funny? I think I'm looking for some deeper meaning that isn't there as the supposed connection or juxtaposition just doesn't really resonate in the same way, say, Banksy's kissing cops makes a coherent statement to me. Or maybe I'm seriously lacking a sense of humour...

Agreed. But it is clear that Nigels take on the intent is correct. Its a play on sentiments captured through words but all it has (and all it probably aspires to) is shock value as opposed to any deeper sense of meaning. PP is getting boring at this stage.

**nigel-harps1954** · 27/04/2015, 4:35 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Agreed. But it is clear that Nigels take on the intent is correct. Its a play on sentiments captured through words but all it has (and all it probably aspires to) is shock value as opposed to any deeper sense of meaning. PP is getting boring at this stage.

I had assumed the same here. It's definitely meant to evoke shock rather than humour, and if not, it's a pretty poor attempt at humour.

The first few times PaddyPower done this sort of thing, it was indeed funny and something very different, but alike Stu, I'm getting quite bored of it too.

**Eminence Grise** · 27/04/2015, 8:00 PM

Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

think the phrase is guerrilla marketing?

Did you really mean to say that? You must gutted nobody spotted it sooner!!

Was at a conference recently at which some of PPs 'stunt men' were speaking. Came away with the impression of a fairly shallow, schoolboyish set-up, where most of the thinking goes into how much attention the stunt will get, not how much sense it makes.

**osarusan** · 27/04/2015, 11:07 PM

Silly idea that is fairly flippant about republican violence and probably hasn't thrilled the LGBT community either.

I think Paddy Power subscribe to the Michael O'Leary school of publicity.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 12/05/2015, 2:30 PM

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/fe...98004-May2015/

At least when the Americans do it, it is out of naivety. When the Brits do it, it is pure arrogance and spite.