Now a completely different kind of post but still important.
And that's regarding the enforced diversity and equality that is being pushed hard on Irish TV and media.
RTÉ news is all women these days and the newspapers are heading that way too.
But sometimes you will see something so blatant, it's laughable.
Maybe some of you here know 'The Young Offenders'.
The movie was a good laugh, two young Cork eejits on a madcap adventure.
Well now they have a show on BBC3 and there has to be a black character inexplicably shoehorned into this Cork family.
It's so ridiculous and totally out of place.
And they make sure to have her call the Cork father "Dad"!
Worse again is that one of the two main characters has to fall for her and she's about twice his size, fat and pretty unattractive.
And look, I know that some families adopt African kids, and that's their perogative, but it's this in your face kind of 'hey we don't have our quota of black/gay/Muslim/tranny characters in the show, let's just fucking throw a few in there, for the sake of it' attitude that kills me.
Jesus... It might seem like a minor thing but it's getting worse and worse...
Now I see why people were getting seriously pissed off with all these diverse remakes (Star Wars, Mad Max etc).
And that's regarding the enforced diversity and equality that is being pushed hard on Irish TV and media.
RTÉ news is all women these days and the newspapers are heading that way too.
But sometimes you will see something so blatant, it's laughable.
Maybe some of you here know 'The Young Offenders'.
The movie was a good laugh, two young Cork eejits on a madcap adventure.
Well now they have a show on BBC3 and there has to be a black character inexplicably shoehorned into this Cork family.
It's so ridiculous and totally out of place.
And they make sure to have her call the Cork father "Dad"!
Worse again is that one of the two main characters has to fall for her and she's about twice his size, fat and pretty unattractive.
And look, I know that some families adopt African kids, and that's their perogative, but it's this in your face kind of 'hey we don't have our quota of black/gay/Muslim/tranny characters in the show, let's just fucking throw a few in there, for the sake of it' attitude that kills me.
Jesus... It might seem like a minor thing but it's getting worse and worse...
Now I see why people were getting seriously pissed off with all these diverse remakes (Star Wars, Mad Max etc).