Jesus. It was an honest mistake. No need to throw a Paddy over it.
Posted less than an hour ago already
I’d never heard that phrase before a couple of days ago and now that I have I really couldn’t give a fuck about it.
Jesus, soon people will be offended that water is wet.
“without awareness of the history of the phrase and any wider connotations around it”
sounds like someone could do with some education
I think the only solution to this is that the BBC reeducate their people about the history of the phrase. And that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again
Note: i didn’t realise this had already been posted, I sort by Hot rather than New and didn’t see it.
Apologies for any “spamming” on people’s timelines.
Would anyone genuinely say that Paddy is at the same level of the N word?
So where is the grovelling apology from the journalist involved? Seemed a big enough fucking deal when the Sky prick milked the apology from the women’s football team, so when is this clown going to issue an apology?
This makes wanna throw a brit now
Human error my arse
Just wait till this sub gets wind of Jonbers Blonde as St. Patty on Rupaul’s Drag Race UK season 4 yesterday..
Hope you’re ok
Sure lads that’s not the offensive to them micks. They didn’t suffer enough for them to be allowed to be offended.
Seems reasonable enough.
Irish people who are obsessed with the Brits are cringe, move on guys
Imagine this being something you complain about.
Paddy the Karen
Fair enough.
Seems fair.
Nobody is perfect. And that’s the kind of behaviour that we all should show to be more inclusive. They apologised, admitted mistake, promised not to do it again.
For the “needs education” jokes, that was sky sports.
“Human error” sounds like the sentinels are taking over.
Lack of historical context 😂 what a derptastic statement
Are we really gone that soft that such a thing offends us now? Christ help us. 🙄
what exactly is meant by “throw a paddy”? I’m not really sure what that phrase means, are they insinuating we complain a lot?
All the abuse we give them and when one of them makes a silly comment someone complains to the BBC. Fuck sakes..
did anyone really give that much of a shite about it? we goin to meltdown like the brits everytime someone says paddy? or can we stop taking ourselves so fucking serious. who cares. jesus.
So you know who posted it?
Was it one of their journalists?
Hypocrites, they were out for blood when the girls sung up the RA, after qualifying, some went as far as calling for them to be thrown out of the World Cup. Almost like they “threw a paddy”.
If the offence was on air widely broadcasted, the apology should be.
Have they already apologised on air too? (I don’t watch broadcast tv)
Once Jacob Reece Mogg live on the BBC said of the attempted genocide of the Boers in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer war, that the British army was ‘trying to help them’ and that the death rate was comparable to Scotland that same year (utterly ridiculous nonsense of course). Particularly as I’m married to a South African of partial boer descent, I was really annoyed so I complained. I got essentially told to fuck off, albeit in a very polite and professional way. Laughable that Tories call them left wingers. They seem like anything but.
They called you a member. You can’t be having that.
Up the ra old boy
I’m willing to bet that response was written by someone from Capita in Belfast very much like the non commital responses I used to have to write.
I received the exact same copy and paste email reply
Same copy paste response that I got, granted I copied my complaint from /u/Gaffers12345
I’m a Brit and I never knew that. Didn’t equate paddy with Irish in this context. Wow! Just goes to show how careful we need to be to avoid all these sorts of old sayings. It’s like the word bossy. Is it ok? Well not really because you never hear of a man being called bossy, only women, it is generally a sexist remark and it’s obvious once you know, but before you realise it isn’t very obvious. I’m still learning…🙄😁
Imagine, just fucking imagine if the same response was given to somebody sating “acting a n**ger”, just fucking imagine it.
I got the exact same response.
I went to school with an Anthony Member, any relation?
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Jesus. It was an honest mistake. No need to throw a Paddy over it.
Posted less than an hour ago already
I’d never heard that phrase before a couple of days ago and now that I have I really couldn’t give a fuck about it.
Jesus, soon people will be offended that water is wet.
“without awareness of the history of the phrase and any wider connotations around it”
sounds like someone could do with some education
I think the only solution to this is that the BBC reeducate their people about the history of the phrase. And that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again
Note: i didn’t realise this had already been posted, I sort by Hot rather than New and didn’t see it.
Apologies for any “spamming” on people’s timelines.
Would anyone genuinely say that Paddy is at the same level of the N word?
So where is the grovelling apology from the journalist involved? Seemed a big enough fucking deal when the Sky prick milked the apology from the women’s football team, so when is this clown going to issue an apology?
This makes wanna throw a brit now
Human error my arse
Just wait till this sub gets wind of Jonbers Blonde as St. Patty on Rupaul’s Drag Race UK season 4 yesterday..
Hope you’re ok
Sure lads that’s not the offensive to them micks. They didn’t suffer enough for them to be allowed to be offended.
Seems reasonable enough.
Irish people who are obsessed with the Brits are cringe, move on guys
Imagine this being something you complain about.
Paddy the Karen
Fair enough.
Seems fair.
Nobody is perfect. And that’s the kind of behaviour that we all should show to be more inclusive. They apologised, admitted mistake, promised not to do it again.
For the “needs education” jokes, that was sky sports.
“Human error” sounds like the sentinels are taking over.
Lack of historical context 😂 what a derptastic statement
Are we really gone that soft that such a thing offends us now? Christ help us. 🙄
what exactly is meant by “throw a paddy”? I’m not really sure what that phrase means, are they insinuating we complain a lot?
All the abuse we give them and when one of them makes a silly comment someone complains to the BBC. Fuck sakes..
did anyone really give that much of a shite about it? we goin to meltdown like the brits everytime someone says paddy? or can we stop taking ourselves so fucking serious. who cares. jesus.
So you know who posted it?
Was it one of their journalists?
Hypocrites, they were out for blood when the girls sung up the RA, after qualifying, some went as far as calling for them to be thrown out of the World Cup. Almost like they “threw a paddy”.
If the offence was on air widely broadcasted, the apology should be.
Have they already apologised on air too? (I don’t watch broadcast tv)
Once Jacob Reece Mogg live on the BBC said of the attempted genocide of the Boers in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer war, that the British army was ‘trying to help them’ and that the death rate was comparable to Scotland that same year (utterly ridiculous nonsense of course). Particularly as I’m married to a South African of partial boer descent, I was really annoyed so I complained. I got essentially told to fuck off, albeit in a very polite and professional way. Laughable that Tories call them left wingers. They seem like anything but.
Wow I had no idea of this [historic implications of that saying](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Throwing%20a%20paddy).
They called you a member. You can’t be having that.
Up the ra old boy
I’m willing to bet that response was written by someone from Capita in Belfast very much like the non commital responses I used to have to write.
I received the exact same copy and paste email reply
Same copy paste response that I got, granted I copied my complaint from /u/Gaffers12345
I’m a Brit and I never knew that. Didn’t equate paddy with Irish in this context. Wow! Just goes to show how careful we need to be to avoid all these sorts of old sayings. It’s like the word bossy. Is it ok? Well not really because you never hear of a man being called bossy, only women, it is generally a sexist remark and it’s obvious once you know, but before you realise it isn’t very obvious. I’m still learning…🙄😁
Imagine, just fucking imagine if the same response was given to somebody sating “acting a n**ger”, just fucking imagine it.
I got the exact same response.
I went to school with an Anthony Member, any relation?