The Irish on QT

watched question time from londonderry last night and came up with an observation

the audience was imo more clued up than what you get generally over here in england

but your politicians were absolute tripe. Dianne abbot is pretty much a numpty imo, she looked 'clever'.

A bit of a generalisation maybe, and maybe just coincidence

when I see politicians like that I see why some of our countries are up the proverbial creek

English politicians are real ****s, but slick with their crap

 

Why do you use the word numpty?

I thought that was our word?

 

i have used it for years, thought it was quite common

 

No, it's a Scottish word.

The plot thickens

 

is the scottish meaning the same?

I know it started to be used a lot after a danny dyer movie

i think i got it of mancs initially

 

Fixed

But agree with you on the politicians, they really arent up to the job. It seems the qualifications to get into office in Northern Ireland is to either be a raging bigot or an ex member of a paramilitary force. Their inability to get this place moving economically in any way is infuriating (just cut the god damn corporate tax) and the Stormont debates are an absolute joke with petty bickering and point scoring inhibiting any real progress

 

A numpty is a doughball.

An idiot

 

yeah, so the same

 

Danny Dyer is the greatest actor of the last 100 years

 

Well it better be, it's our fukin word.

 

Nahhhhhh, the English invented it you idiot

 

Don't know what you called the black woman but she struggled to give an opinion / answer to anything, just waffling on.

Some good points and it was quite funny seeing Dodds and Anderson about to have a go when the audience told her to move on. Near boked though when she was talking about celibacy and get being in prison.

 

Yep, numpty is defo a Scottish word. But f*ck is about as anglo-saxon as it get's. Feel free to use it though, we've got loads more where that came from.

 

that was dianne abbott. complete moron and you should say something negative about obama in front of her. i remember on This Week some bloke said he had failed after all the hype she nearly exploded

as i said in th OP, the people of ireland came acroos well informed and articulate

the panel came across as morons. owen patterson, the secretary of state for northern ireland looked like he was going to cry. he was slow, monotonous and boring imo

my mrs is part irish, i said to her the politicians in ireland must be bad if they made him SoS, and sent abbott and it was confirmed imo

 

I can not bring myself to watch QT any more.

The audience is full of the type of people that I wouldn't tire of battering the **** out.

 

Numpty is not an exclusive scotch word.

It does apply to all Glaswegians though.

 

Numpty is a Scottish word, the Internet told me so.

 

I use numpty. I just thought it was voted scotland's favourite word, i didn't realise it was scottish. I've just googled, your word is numps, ours is numpty.