Bill Cullen and Frontline

So last night as I was doing boring web based tidy ups, Mr Fonnen turned on RTE’s Frontline.

Usually we don’t watch it. I’ve always felt Pat Kenny is best on radio anyway.

But last night it seemed relevant to our collective interests.

It was about us.

Well, not entirely. It wasn’t a RTE special on the two scamps talking crap on the web anyway. It was about “De Young Peeeople”.

And that would be us. Strapping lads in our twenties are we.

Mr F has already covered some of this, so I won’t go through all that again. But wow, those politicians sure have some neck, right?

Really, jumping under Daddy Bill Cullens protective yells of finger pointing and useless kids, the politicians had the balls to stand in front of the countries young and spout their bull.

Fine Gael. Fianna Fail. All those other weaker parties. You’re voting for same shit different asshole.

Now, I won’t get into generalisations like Daddy Bill did last night, pretty much writing off and insulting entire generations of people. I’m sure there are good politicians out there that could help us. But I’m damned if they’ve been found yet.

Bill reckons we should all stop whining and either:

A) Get a (non existent unless you’re in fairy land) job, ya stinkin hippies!

or

B) Stop whinging and GTFO of this country.

Great idea Bill, abandon the country, export all our brains. Mass emigration does wonders. No wonder you’re Irelands answer to Donald Trump.

Bill basically looked down his bitter nose at everyone that dared complain that this country has gone to shit. It has, unless you’re filthy rich and don’t have to worry about loans, mortgages, families to feed, rent, medical expenses etc etc etc.

Bill should have gone one further. He should have whipped out a scythe and popped on his black cloak and offed some of the young folk. Get rid of the surplus population.

Bills complete freaker came after someone mentioned a re-distribution of wealth. Of course he should worry and try and lash out at the filthy tosser generation. He is stinking rich right? Well yes, but Bill had hard times too, which he constantly wants to remind us about, droning on and on about ye olde Ireland and how tough it was.

I almost expected him to start singing a trad song about the filthy Sasanach stealing all our potatoes.

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Of course, the Irish web (and IRL) is full of folk that think and act like Bill. They may not have his money, but they do have that hate for the younger generation. Hell, there are even some of us (with jobs) that constantly bitch about “wasters” and “whingers”.

Of course people are going to whinge. The government has raped this country and are too ass backwards to fix the swamp we’re in. They come on a talk show to “listen” to the young? They wouldn’t even listen to their icon, who was an economist.

We have NAMA which may or may not be so full of fail that a black hole could pop up and suck this country inside. We had the bank of Bruton, which was just as incomplete. Here’s a novel idea, use a freaking economist.

Bill seems to think that all this generation wants is handouts. Most of the good people I’ve talked to in seriously tough situations just want the ability to help themselves. To Bill this is expecting the government to fly in and fix their lives. No, they just want the government to fix this country so they can help themselves.

And for those people that are just sitting back and wishing for handouts, why shouldn’t they? The government has bailed out the banks enough, why not bail out the people.

There are still high level bankers who are nothing more than criminals sitting comfortably in their offices still.

We have politicians committing serious offences and getting salaries, pensions and golden handshakes for their sins.

If Frontline wanted to provoke the country, it certainly did. On one side it gave the Joe Duffy worshipping backwards crowd more ability to give out about students and young people. It gave people with jobs the ammo to,yet again, bitch about dole folks and students. It gave the young generation more headaches and feelings of disbelief at how shit this country is and how head wreckingly full of assholes it is. It gave me headaches thinking about this during my day job and annoyed me more and more as the day went on.

And it gave Bill Cullen an opportunity to talk about his terrible childhood and vent his subconscious rage about how shit it was by wishing it onto this generation.

Hey Bill, lots of families in this country have older relatives that have been through the same type of life or even worse stuff than you.

We’re a long way away from penny apples, no one more so than you.