Comments on: The Spit of Virtue http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 17 May 2012 08:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Ben http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12211 Ben Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:48:58 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12211 I have been curious about that - how Fianna Fáil have not run with crime to any significant degree. apart from the odd local councillor, they haven't come out wth anything significant about crime. I mean, the fear-ridden stuff. could this be a bit of level thinking from the auld soldiers? I genuinely don't know! but you're right, they have been quiet. I have been curious about that - how Fianna Fáil have not run with crime to any significant degree. apart from the odd local councillor, they haven’t come out wth anything significant about crime. I mean, the fear-ridden stuff. could this be a bit of level thinking from the auld soldiers? I genuinely don’t know! but you’re right, they have been quiet.

]]> By: WorldbyStorm http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12210 WorldbyStorm Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:30:40 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12210 Interesting times though for FF, they can't really indulge in the 'crime' orgy and haven't convincingly (albeit wrongly and utterly opportunistically) done so since O'Donoghue lambasted Nora Owen in the mid 1990s. It's quite a weapon from their armoury that they've had to drop and walk away from. Interesting times though for FF, they can’t really indulge in the ‘crime’ orgy and haven’t convincingly (albeit wrongly and utterly opportunistically) done so since O’Donoghue lambasted Nora Owen in the mid 1990s.

It’s quite a weapon from their armoury that they’ve had to drop and walk away from.

]]> By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12201 Donagh Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:01:33 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12201 <i>5 burglar alarms for every house</i> According to some ad that tries to harvest cash from paranoid home owners, the sound of house alarms going off is so common that neighbours rarely pay attention when they go off. They just cock their guns and wait until the homeowner returns from their mid-term hoilday in the Algarve. So even from the practical security point of view some other sound would prove useful. In the context of Fine Gael rather than Amhrán na bhFiann I thought of 'Annie Get Your Gun', but I found out that that's the name of the musical - there isn't a song by that name. Wikipedia does tell me though that there is one called Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better), which could be Fine Gael's theme tune once the elections are announced, in the same way that New Labour adopted Things Can Only Get Better. Actually, I like your idea more. By the way, this article was falsely attributed to me. It is in fact Ben post. Can't understand how that happened :) 5 burglar alarms for every house
According to some ad that tries to harvest cash from paranoid home owners, the sound of house alarms going off is so common that neighbours rarely pay attention when they go off. They just cock their guns and wait until the homeowner returns from their mid-term hoilday in the Algarve. So even from the practical security point of view some other sound would prove useful. In the context of Fine Gael rather than Amhrán na bhFiann I thought of ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, but I found out that that’s the name of the musical - there isn’t a song by that name. Wikipedia does tell me though that there is one called Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better), which could be Fine Gael’s theme tune once the elections are announced, in the same way that New Labour adopted Things Can Only Get Better. Actually, I like your idea more.

By the way, this article was falsely attributed to me. It is in fact Ben post. Can’t understand how that happened :)

]]> By: Hugh Green http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12192 Hugh Green Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:02:40 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/16/the-spit-of-virtue/#comment-12192 Yes. I was thinking that Fine Gael's new stat-tastic advertising campaign (40 billion new hospital beds! 250,000 new Gardai!) missed a trick by not promising 5 burglar alarms for every house. Each one could sound the first 5 notes of Amhrán na bhFiann. That way protection of small-p private property, such as stopping junkies from stealing your flat-screen TV, would become a patriotic endeavour. The 250,000 new guards could run spot-checks. I do hope this isn't an alarmist scenario. Yes. I was thinking that Fine Gael’s new stat-tastic advertising campaign (40 billion new hospital beds! 250,000 new Gardai!) missed a trick by not promising 5 burglar alarms for every house. Each one could sound the first 5 notes of Amhrán na bhFiann. That way protection of small-p private property, such as stopping junkies from stealing your flat-screen TV, would become a patriotic endeavour. The 250,000 new guards could run spot-checks.

I do hope this isn’t an alarmist scenario.

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