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SO, IT APPEARS Sheamus – Cabra native, professional wrestler, sporter of unfeasably Celtic colouring – is a bad guy these days.
How do we know?
He took to the ring of the 3Arena (it’s what they’re calling the Point these days) with a pretty unpopular message: pay your water charges.
The warning didn’t go down to well with fans, as you might imagine…
Fans, apparently, didn’t know who to cheer on as the Dubliner’s match continued.
In case you’re wondering, former WWE champion hasn’t always been a bad guy.
According to some wrestling websites we just looked at, Sheamus returned to action after injury in an episode of Raw last month debuting a new look – a mohawk and braided beard, and staged an attack on two rival wrestlers.
It is, apparently the first time he’s ‘turned heel’ since 2011.
According to Alfred Konuwa at Bleacher Report:
By being that much different than everything else and attacking all that is familiar and beloved, Sheamus is more effective in his role as a heel. He knows fans don’t want to like him. With an over-the-top look that pierces through a bland, transitional roster, they’ll love to hate him.
Professional wrestlers, over their careers, often switch between being ‘faces’ (heroes) and ‘heels’ (bad guys), to liven things up for fans as fictional storylines play out between matches.
With reporting by Ben Blake.
I find it a little amusing that (according to my phone) this article is “supported by Lidl” along with the tag line “Share more this Christmas”
@Ian Breathnach: I like to Lidl!
@Truckermal: I can’t pass this one by… “A lidl bit of Monica by my side, a lidl bit bit of Erika…”
I am entirely in support of a regulated sex industry. So apologies for the low brow humour.
@Ian Breathnach: Share more as in kiss and tell or STI’s???
@Ian Breathnach:
Surely a two for one offer would be better recieved.
@Ian Breathnach: Are they cheaper in Aldi?
I don’t use their services, but this is obviously a cry for help from women who don’t have any other source of income. Enough of the snide remarks. You cannot judge someone until you have walked in their footsteps.
@Cal Mooney: they get their social welfare payments just like the rest of the imported free loaders here.
@oh i dunno: no ta very much would you?
@Cal Mooney: so find any another source of income…FFS
@Shoot First: you’re sick
@Cal Mooney: it is easy to tell all the blasé comments are from users of the sex workers and it’s all a funny joke to these people.
Some clients slip through the cracks
@patrick o keeffe: lol
Fun fact: Western states in the US, like Wyoming, were built by prostitutes.
Towns sprang up around work camps, but while the men had money, it was a lonely time.
Then prostitutes came out west, set up brothels, towns boomed, and they became even wealthier than their hard-working male counterparts.
Wyoming was even the first state in the US to allow woman to vote, in 1869.
More than 50 years before the rest of the US allowed women to vote!
@Franklin Roosevelt: I say this with no judgement whatsoever but isn’t that the industry Donald Trump’s great grandfather worked in when he arrived?
Lads if I could make a grand for 3 hours on me back id be all over it.
@James Wond: give it a go so,dont think you’ll earn much on your back though,
@James Wond: add tax free.
@Tedser: yeah he would probably have to pay his clients
@James Wond: Sounds like Jobbbridge to me then?
@James Wond: Just roll over and the cash is yours James.
@James Wond: You would have sex with women and men but you won’t be getting that amount to money….
@James Wond: or under it
This article is full of contradictions,
@Tedser: How is?
@Tedser: such as,?
@Tedser: contra what?
That candle lit vigil picture is from last year yet you say it is from today?
I used to be pro-liberalization of the sex trade until our apartment block was over run with brothels. Venezuelan and Brazilian mainly male, tv and ts sex workers.
There is absolutely zero protections if a group of sex workers move in beside you. And the landlords loved them rents soared. Gardai had no interest.
@GizmoIrl: Lucky git
@oh i dunno: they swing a handbag harder than most
@GizmoIrl: where’s this place you speak of…
Even though little to no people would pick this as a profession, it is not something to be outlawed but regulated. But even in the Netherlands mainstream party politicians are starting to call for criminalizing the buying of sex.
Figures of up to 90% involuntariness have been mentioned in research quoted by some politicians, but critics pointed out that the definition was very broad. Working in the sex trade due to being short of money was included as reason for doing the work involuntarily, but by that argument many jobs can be classified as such.
Banning it doesn’t solve anything, it just makes the job more dangerous. As the article points out, demand is more or less constant. Perhaps in the age of sex droids that pass some form of the Turing test, a ban is sensible, but that era has not quite arrived yet.
All the usual people on her commenting on a click bait article. And yet an earlier story about an elderly man losing his life in a house fire has just two comments. Discerning.
@Deborah Blacoe: in all fairness what more can you say when someone dies other than RIP .
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: Yes, but even that amount of respect for the tragedy of another old person dying on their own would be appropriate. Click bait articles are fun for a bit of banter. But the realities of our society shouldn’t be ignored.
“Sex workers”
Do they mean prostitutes?
@Fran Lonergan: Yes, the ones who put their backs into it?
@Fran Lonergan: The term sex work includes strippers, cam and phone workers and dominatrixes, so that would be no.
This is driven by religious nonsense.
@Jack O’Connell: feminism is a mental illness
@Misanthrope:
Are you a psychologist or are you just one of these guys that likes to talk out his arse from time to time
@John Cronin:
Have a happy Xmas John and best wishes for the New year
@Misanthrope: Feminism is the scourge of the 21st century
@oh i dunno:
No! Third wave feminism is.
When all the dragons have been slain, the third wavers have to find new ones.
@Casper: what about me? lol
@Misanthrope:
Happy Xmas to you too my old buddy
@John Cronin:
Nighty night John
@Casper: likewise.
no mention of where to go if someone was looking
@Christy Pop: seek and you shall find ..
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: coffee?
I am only commenting so as to be the 70th comment. The 69 didn’t sit well with me. Left a bad taste in my mouth….
its not illegal to be a prostitute , its illegal to buy sex , pimp or run a brothel . so an independent escort can in fact ring gardai . The involuntary prostitute has been put in more danger by this law .
@lapsy pa:
In the case of drugs, selling is the greater crime.
In paternalist Ireland, that’s turned on its head, buying sex is the greater misdemeanour.
As the disclaimer reads “XXXX charges for time and companionship only, anything else that takes place is coincidental between two consenting adults.” So whether you are getting your rocks off, discussing Brexit or trying to explain how your wife doesn’t really understand you, it’s €160 – €200 per hour. As the punter is now criminalised in these transactions, it would be interesting to see how a judge would view a defendant claiming he was only paying for a sympathetic and understanding ear. He had NO intention of availing of any of her other orifices. It’s amazing really, after all this time that we can’t better regulate man’s (and woman’s) need for a bit o’ casual sex and the other party’s willingness to consent to it for currency. Not every man is a demon, not every escort is a victim.
@Paul Jennings: unless the escort is an XR3I of course. They are ALL victims – of demons. Driving.
Santa baby… Whoops, wrong story… Is this not illegal now?
eh, maybe some of us find that modern women are generally obnoxious self absorbed pigs and sometimes we just want to have sex without all the complications.
@oh i dunno: depends where you are looking for these women. You might have up your game love..
Are you all squawking about the oldest profession?
@helen walsh: They should try working in it. Not an easy life at all. These women provide an essential service for many, they need protection and regulation to make the job safer.
@John Cronin: There’s many men who for whatever reason cannot form a proper relationship with women, but don’t want to live celibate lives.
Legalise and regulate, having safeguards and security in a designated area (red light district) Mandatory self defense lessons and health check ups. I don’t care if it triggers radical feminists or religious people, but there are women who go into this line of work by their own choice! I’ve no problem with a woman choosing this line of work. Wish a merry Christmas to sex workers
Cheers girls much appreciated
Under these laws can a prostitute openly say they are selling sex legally but the man that pays them is the one commiting the crime?? That’s messed up , female drug dealers should also be exempt from prosecution.
Short film, titled: ‘We want to save you! And if you Don’t appreciate it you will be punished!.
A Swedish Sexworker on the criminalization of clients
they need to be helped not used even more give these women housing ask the government to give them money for food you can afford to help these women get them back in the community they could be great assist .
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