Terry Prone: From Ivana Bacik to Donald Trump, salty language has its place in the lexicon
One 'Irish Examiner' reader who didn't approve of Terry Prone quoting an F-word may not agree — but the thought of the Labour leader's rebirth as a sweary woman was enthralling
Originally published in the Irish Examiner.
Ivana Bacik apologised for her language and I got ticked off in a hand-delivered letter on the same day.
Normally, Ivana’s idea of rabid condemnation is to describe something as “not helpful”. The thought of her as a newly sweary woman was enthralling. In fact, though, all she’d done was tell Michael Healy-Rae to shut up because he’d been heckling her about cyclists.
When she said sorry, she also said she was “sick of taking insults on cycling and abuse on cycling from deputies who believe that God above is in charge of the weather and who have no record of taking the climate crisis seriously".
Go Ivana.
Not suggesting she should continue to do a Joe Biden (remember his “Oh, shut up, man” to Trump in a debate?) but letting fly makes her much more exciting and interesting, as opposed to reasonably stating her opposition on an issue.
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