that Tommy Tiernan was having the Craic about his youth and days on social welfare (sw). He referred to them as some of the best days of his life!
I think this is called reflection. TT probably made the best of a bad situation.
People often recall past events and periods in their lives and look back on them with a perspective of humour, even though in reality it was far from the truth.
.TBS - Was it Woody Allen who prescribed the formula for this? As in.......
Comedy = Tragedy plus Time
“ the best years of my life were when I was on the dole”. That’s his reflection on dark times in his life. There are many out there who will only hear that.
On the other hand JK said about her dark days of poverty “ only a fool romantises poverty”. Two very different social messages let’s face it!
just because Jk Rowling says something doesn't make it right. She says only a fool romanticises poverty, but is she correct , afterall some of the greatest art in the world has as its subject povery, for example the spanish artist Velazquez frequently painted peasant scenes and they are romantic to our eyes. This is now regarded as some of the greatest art in the world, so was Velazquez a fool, hardly. If he was not his own man and listened to that opinion then some great art would not have been painted.
The small town Men/woman who sailed through the last recession will be on to remind you bailed out the deposit holders not the banks.In fairness Tommy Tiernan would source a laugh from anything. He said this a few years ago in a Late Late interview where if a tsunami or earthquake hit some island causing death, destruction and poverty it was only a matter of a few days when he'd receive a text with a joking spin on what happened.
Having struggled in the days where one's wife had to give up paid work on marriage, fighting our way through a mortgage interest rate of 19.75%, surviving real recessions (not doddles like the last recession) . I am not a stranger to being in need. There is nothing romantic about living in penury. Unlike the song I do look back in anger. I have dealt with our bank asking for an extension of 5 years on a 20 year mortgage and the fastest letter ever letter of reply came two days later informing me of my commitment to paying back €9K (big at the time) over no more than 20 years. That letter shoved me into poverty where literally we hadn't a button for years; locked the car in the garage, cycled for a few years, no holidays, scraped to pay electricity bills on a weekly basis, bought food that nobody else would. A visit to the doctor was out of the question. Romanticism my This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language.
There are times when I get emotional on what we soldiered through. You may ask "Did it leave a bitter pill?" You bet your bottom dollar it did. And I as a taxpayer was one who bailed out the bloody banks after they had spectacularly screwed up. I'm getting emotional again so I'll shut up before I say something that will have this post deleted.
Were her comments remarkably similar to something JRR Tolkien wrote or am I thinking of some books she wrote?I agree with JK Rowling’s progressive thinking in relation to poverty.
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