Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

Some gobsh*t on the following link has a very narrowminded and archaic attitude to the north of Ireland and our traditional music never mind a completly unique grasp of geography and history. I'm a fool for letting it get to me but, jaysus, sometimes you want to.......
Any help in re-booting, sorry, re-educating this person (I can guess where he's from) would be very welcome.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6n4_f_0wRGo#wOukA3VrWyg

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by iwerzon

Re: Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

http://xkcd.com/202/

I wouldn't bother. It's a wind up. If you try to turn this into a reasoned argument, you'll only give the fool credibility.

I don't think any "re-educating" of anyone is actually going to happen on YouTube, especially not in a forum where everybody resorts to name-calling to make their point.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Georgi

Re: Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

That makes us look tame here - or at least civilised. For which I'm glad. Don't bother answering the knob back - that's exactly what he (I presume he) wants.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Rudall the time

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I think you summed it up well there Georgi. I also think that you have compromised yourself iwerzon by stooping to his level. Thank goodness for moderators.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Backer

Re: Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

Was that Neil Hannon from Divine Comedy on the fiddle?

Didn't actually see anything controversial, apart from the trousers.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by bodhran bliss

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I thought the fiddler was *performing*.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by Alex Wilding

Re: Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

So did I, but didn't like to mention it, and Molloy was doing his Dow impression, glowering at him.

# Posted on August 3rd 2007 by bodhran bliss

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I looked to me as though the other posters on the site did a pretty good job of straightening the guy out.

# Posted on August 4th 2007 by Murph

Re: Anti-Ulster sentiments on Chieftains youtube blog - help me educate please!

iwerzon
Tuigim go díreach do phointe.
There is no shortage of these eejits about.
Uladh abú!!
(an bhfuil Gaeilge agat?)

# Posted on August 6th 2007 by double bass

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I'm having enough trouble just learning to play the fiddle. Now this guy comes along playing AND dancing all the while wearing the most gosh-awful pair of pants I've ever seen on a male of our species!!

Regarding the fool stirring up the political issues...fag e! It's not worth the stress. Although, it never ceases to amaze me that these "26 and 6" eejits mostly originate on my side of the pond and they NEVER seem to understand that fully 1/2 of Ulster is in the republic and that the fastest growing gaeltacht (by some estimates) is actually in NI.....

Leave the jerk alone....you'll only anger yourself!

# Posted on August 10th 2007 by ceolgaelach

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If that is where ITM is heading, I want out NOW. The ridiculous shiny outfit, the going off the tune into quasi-bluegrass and/or quasi-jazz sh*te...gives me a headache. Just look at Sean Keane sitting there playing the TUNE, pure class.

# Posted on August 15th 2007 by Richard D Cook