Biffo drops a clanger

by planetparker

Our new taoiseach Pretty Boy Biffo has been castigated for using a profanity, or in plain man’s language a curse, though this seems to reek of double standards. The offending word was used not in connection with a member of the opposition, but members of the National Consumer Agency, an unelected, overpaid group of quangoites. it goes without saying that such elevated and self-important people never use bad language, and even if they do they can never be held accountable for such actions. Here in Cavan we used to have a public official whose discourses were peppered with profanities – unless someone else had written a speech for him. He was inestimably proud of his “colourful” language, and anyone who criticised him too openly was leaving themselves open to victimisation.

Now if I were Biffo I wouldn’t apologise. Instead I would have borrowed a line from Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys – I only said it; I didn’t do it.

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