Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has never been one to shy away from making controversial remarks – his latest being a suggestion that cyclists should be taken out and shot.
The businessman made his comments in a keynote speech at the Creative Minds conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin this morning, reports Independent.ie.
At the event, organised by the US Embassy, he took aim at the city council’s ambitions to get more people cycling.
“That’s all we need in Dublin is more blooming bicycles,” he said. “In a country where it rains about 250 days a year, the way forward for Dublin is more bicycles.
“Let’s just go back to walking altogether. Soon we’ll be living in caves designed by Dublin City Council. Traffic won’t work, there’s nowhere to park the cars and yet this is a smarter way forward.
“We should take the cyclists out and shoot them.”
O’Leary lives in County Westmeath, around 55 miles from Ryanair’s headquarters at Dublin Airport.
“We should create a city that works given that this is a low rise, broadly based city and I speak as one of the commuters who commutes on a daily basis from Mullingar,” he said.
“I can’t do it by bicycle … I want to drive and I expect Dublin City [Council] to come up with a smarter way for me to get around Dublin and be able to park my car somewhere in the middle of Dublin without it being dug up every six weeks so we can have some other faddy non sustainable public transport solution.
“I hate to pick on Dublin City Council, but shit they’re here and they deserve a slapping,” he added.
In September at the inaugural Cycle Planning Awards, Dublin beat off competition from the London Borough of Southwark, Greater Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Coventry to be named the local authority with the most cycle-friendly policies for the Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network Plan. The citation read:
The project was completed in 2013 and published in April 2014 and set the challenging task of developing a strategic cycle network for the Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and Wicklow areas, known as the Greater Dublin Area. This plan was aimed at increasing this further and taking cycling to Northern European levels of usage over the coming five to 10 years, ambitious but in the context of over 100 per cent growth over the last five to 10 years achievable.
> Dublin among winners at Cycle Planning Awards
The city ranked 15th in the 2015 Copenhagenize Index of the world’s most bicycle-friendly cities, with the urban design company behind the ranking saying that “the city has been inspirational for the rest of the world in its efforts to increase cycling levels.”
Last year, Ryanair was widely derided on social media when it trumpeted price reductions in extra charges for carrying sports equipment which for a bicycle actually increased the cost per flight from €50 to €60.
> Ryanair “reduces” bike fee from €50 to €60, flies into cloud of Twitter derision
100 thoughts on “Ryanair CEO – “Take cyclists out and shoot them””
But he’s very happy to take
But he’s very happy to take the money off all those cyclists who fill his otherwise empty planes to Majorca every Spring. What a hypocrit!
Hardly surprising from such a
Hardly surprising from such a person.
Ignorant cunt.
Ignorant cunt.
Once again O’Leary courts
Once again O’Leary courts publicity by being a twat.
Slow ride through Mullingar,
Slow ride through Mullingar, anyone? Preferably, about 60 Dublin cyclists round about commuting-time?
dafyddp wrote:
Ugh. No thanks. 🙂
Keep filling the skies with
Keep filling the skies with his pollution spewing aircraft and we’ll all soon enough be living in caves again.
I hope he dies slowly in a fire.
He’s actually inadvertantly
He’s actually inadvertantly highlighted the problem (apart from him being a cunt): like many commuters, he has chosen to live far away from his work. West Meath for God’s Sake. When I (and he) was a kid, that was a distance you travelled once a year on your summer holidays, not every bloody day.
Having built himself a nice house there – because land is cheap – he now thinks it’s Dublin City Council’s problem to facilitate his life choice.
This is just one brash cunt articulating what most long distance commuters do.
Username wrote:
Glad I’m not the only one using that line. I sometimes wonder was it actually true when I see what people do routinely now. I question whether I was just not aware of it, but I think I was (un)fortunate enough to grow up on the cusp of the transition from the motorcar being a useful tool into an unholy nuisance. I still remember the old rides up to Sally Gap where I didn’t fear I’d be mashed into the hedge by some moron in a BMW.
Username wrote:
Yep. This is a real problem we have made thanks to cheap petrol/diesel at the expense of so much else. His attitude is like this:
From https://twitter.com/copenhagenize/status/721897401557106688
Were you to express a similar
Were you to express a similar sentiment about one of his fleet of polluting vehicles, you would be locked up as a terrorist.
Name calling doesn’t solve anything.
But to say something like that, you’ve got to be a bit of a pillock.
I wouldn’t piss on O’leary if
I wouldn’t piss on O’Leary if he was on fire, and I wouldn’t breed from him if he were the last man on earth. Giving him the opportunity to speak on anything other than greed is a waste of time and oxygen. The only thing the man understands is selfishness.
If I made a public statement
If I made a public statement saying protestants/Muslims/Jews/gays etc should be rounded up and shot I’d probably be arrested for committing a “hate crime”. How is this any different.
I for one will never be using a Ryan air flight.
1961BikiE wrote:
Oh, I came to that conclusion a looong time ago.
Username wrote:
Oh, I came to that conclusion a looong time ago.— 1961BikiE
Me too!
1961BikiE wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.
This guy is a professional knobjockey though. File under twat and move on.
L.Willo wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.
This guy is a professional knobjockey though. File under twat and move on.— 1961BikiE
Beliefs are voluntary. One can alter a belief at any time.
darrenleroy wrote:
and my belief is that he is a publicity seeking wank puffin
Gourmet Shot wrote:
Oh thats so unfair to puffins!
L.Willo wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.— 1961BikiEBigotry and hatred of another group is no less worse because someone volutered to be part of such a group, like say by changing or converting to a religion.
Besides someone could be cycling to their job at Ryan Air because they are not being paid enough to afford a car or public transport, should a bus even go in right direction.
L.Willo wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.
This guy is a professional knobjockey though. File under twat and move on.— 1961BikiE
beliefs are voluntary. That’s why it’s ok to criticise them and to mock them.
we can all mock this guy as a knobjockey for his belief that cyclists (who are all cyclists by choice) should be shot, or for believing in virgin birth, that god created man from a clot of blood, reincarnation, or enlightenment values (if he does), but not for his race, sex or any disability he might have.
L.Willo wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.
This guy is a professional knobjockey though. File under twat and move on.— 1961BikiE
I actually do agree with you on almost all of that; except: beliefs are – IMO – voluntary. You choose a religion, or you choose to stay in a religion. Other than that, I agree with you (shudders)
brooksby wrote:
OK. You can choose to be a muslim but why would you do that if the beliefs that you already have when you make that decision are incompatible? You might choose to join the club called “muslim” ifor all the social benefits that accrue from associating with people who believe similar things but you have not chosen your beliefs.
Who seriously thinks, I have decided to become a Buddhist, I had better find out what they believe so I can choose to believe the same things … that is the cart before the horse.
L.Willo wrote:
Religious belief is voluntary.
L.Willo wrote:
Cycling is voluntary. Beliefs, race, sexuality, gender, disabilities are not voluntary. Which is why they are protected characteristics in law. Demanding that people should be erased, not for what they do, but merely for having the audacity to exist, is an order of magnitude more repellent. Kind of like the NAZIs.
This guy is a professional knobjockey though. File under twat and move on.— 1961BikiE
A good answer! However, upon further thought, a gray zone appears especially with regards to “belief”. A person can self-idenify as a “cyclist”, in much the same way as a person can identify with a religion. Moreover, there are strong social correlations between “cyclists”. Children of cyclists are more likely to self-identify as “cyclists”. Not surprisingly, most “cyclists” practice cycling, many of them religiously.
ch wrote:
Thanks.
One of my favourite passages on the subject of belief, written about this controversial scripture (many theologians maintain it is not authentic)…
“Whoso believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and whoso believeth not shall be damned.”
There is not one particle of sense in it. Why? No man can control his belief. You hear evidence for and against, and the integrity of the soul stands at the scales and tells which side rises and which side falls. You can not believe as you wish. You must believe as you must. And he might as well have said: “Go into the world and preach the gospel, and whosoever has red hair shall be saved, and whosoever hath not shall be damned.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
L.Willo wrote:
Beliefs not voluntary? Really?
1961BikiE wrote:
I 100% agree with you. I was going to write the same thing until,I saw that you had already. Until such time as it’s considered both socially and legally unacceptable to make public statements about killing cyclists, the acceptance of an anti-cyclist attitude will continue which in turn leads to deaths and destroyed lives. His defence will be that he doesn’t really condone killing cyclists, but the reason it’s illegal to use hate speech calling for the killing of others groups of citizens is because it feeds into a culture of acceptance of such attitudes which in turn leads to 0.1% of people taking actions which do lead to deaths.
Most disturbing is that, just as a racist might call for the deaths of blacks or migrants in order to bolster is popularity amongst his audience, he makes this statement in order to impress his audience. If such statements were investigated as hate speech against a societal group, then perhaps his audience would feel uncomfortable and ashamed to hear him say it and to be associated with him.
Until then, it’s just a “joke”, as is calling for the death of migrants, blacks, Jews etc. After all, he didn’t _really_ mean it.
Never flying Ryan Air again.
1961BikiE wrote:
The simple answer is because the groups you mention are protected by anti-discrimination law, and cyclists are not.
Now, is the the same Michael
Now, is the the same Michael O’Leary who, back in the days when Dublin City Council had a cap on taxi licences and a licence was changing hands for up to €75,000, bought himself a licence so that he could pretend to be a taxi and gain access to the taxi-only and bus lanes to beat the traffic into the city centre?
Without all the cycle
Without all the cycle commuters Dublin would be even more congested and polluted.
ibike wrote:
Exactly. The headline should be “Hysterical Hate-filled Moton Looks Gift-horse in Mouth”.
Ush wrote:
So true, I really think it will take cyclists to co ordinate a monthly travel by car day, for the drivers to realise cyclists are not making their journeys slower.
Never flown Ryanair now never
Never flown Ryanair now never will….
Cunt of the month.
Cunt of the month.
He’s taking the piss as usual
He’s taking the piss as usual. He knows how to hit the headlines.
Anyway, he gets a free pass for life for the shagging the Queen joke a while back. Pure class.
I’m thinking that at a
I’m thinking that at a Creative Minds conference, there’d be a good few cyclists in the audience…
This comes from a man, that
This comes from a man, that had his car registered as a Taxi/Hackney so he can use the bus lanes to skip traffic. Do us a favour Michael and ride one of your useless dogfood horses instead.
Not really. Your beliefs
@darrenleroy: Not really. Your beliefs alter in response to new information, but you cannot consciously change them. You can change what you profess to believe but that is a different story.
Try it! Force yourself to truly believe that the earth is flat. You can’t.
L.Willo wrote:
How are people discriminated against by what they believe? Surely it’s what they profess to believe, unless people have developed the ability to read minds. Which they can change at any time, rendering your comments (as all your others) pointless.
Bikebikebike wrote:
Spectacularly thick! I don’t even know how to begin to engage with this level of ignorance.
The dumb is strong in this one!
L.Willo wrote:
Spectaculary spanked by an incisive comment me thinks. Go home and cry with your mummy fool!
L.Willo wrote:
Please enlighten me. You can use short words so I am sure to understand.
Bikebikebike wrote:
I will give you a clue: often, what people profess to believe and how they act reflects their actual beliefs. This is called sincerity.
I will give you another clue: often people believe that they should stand by their beliefs regardless of the possible negative implications of maintaining a stance. This is called, conviction.
So for example, a person might prefer to be … thrown to the Lions rather than deny the Christian beliefs, that they both have … and amazingly profess to have … at the same time!
Does being fed to hungry lions for sport for being a Christian count as discrimination based on belief? I think it does.
Can you think of any other examples from human history? Shouldn’t be difficult. There are millions! How you have failed to notice this is completely beyond me.
I suggest you read more and ride less. Your IQ needs work.
L.Willo wrote:
Please enlighten me. You can use short words so I am sure to understand.
— L.Willo I will give you a clue: often, what people profess to believe and how they act reflects their actual beliefs. This is called sincerity. I will give you another clue: often people believe that they should stand by their beliefs regardless of the possible negative implications of maintaining a stance. This is called, conviction. So for example, a person might prefer to be … thrown to the Lions rather than deny the Christian beliefs, that they both have … and amazingly profess to have … at the same time! Does being fed to hungry lions for sport for being a Christian count as discrimination based on belief? I think it does. Can you think of any other examples from human history? Shouldn’t be difficult. There are millions! How you have failed to notice this is completely beyond me. I suggest you read more and ride less. Your IQ needs work.— Bikebikebike
It’s your outward expression (ie, the profession) of your belief, not the internal (ie, the actual belief) that begets problems (ie, the discrimination). That was bikebikebike’s point. It’s hard to see how a genius would not have understood that.
davel wrote:
And in Denseworld where you both live, the two things can be easily separated, belief and behaviour that reflects belief?
Furthermore in Denseworld, the nature of discrimination should not be defined by the victims, but the aggressor. All those stupid Christians thinking they were put to death for their beliefs were wrong. If only they had the good sense to keep their mouths shut they would have been fine. Isn’t that called victim blaming?
This woman http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-woman-batman-niqab-shepherds-bush-camera-veil-a6968391.html in Denseworld is apparently not a victim of discrimination based on belief … even though her twatface aggressor specifically mentions Christianity to justify his knobbishness….No it is her fault for having a lifestyle consistent with her beliefs. She needs to profess less apparently.
Hypocrisy is the way to go, people!
….. Only in Denseworld …
L.Willo wrote:
It’s your outward expression (ie, the profession) of your belief, not the internal (ie, the actual belief) that begets problems (ie, the discrimination). That was bikebikebike’s point. It’s hard to see how a genius would not have understood that.
— L.Willo And in Denseworld where you both live, the two things can be easily separated, belief and behaviour that reflects belief? Furthermore in Denseworld, the nature of discrimination should not be defined by the victims, but the aggressor. All those stupid Christians thinking they were put to death for their beliefs were wrong. If only they had the good sense to keep their mouths shut they would have been fine. Isn’t that called victim blaming? This woman http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-woman-batman-niqab-shepherds-bush-camera-veil-a6968391.html in Denseworld is apparently not a victim of discrimination based on belief … even though her twatface aggressor specifically mentions Christianity to justify his knobbishness….No it is her fault for having a lifestyle consistent with her beliefs. She needs to profess less apparently. Hypocrisy is the way to go, people! ….. Only in Denseworld …— davel
But in Denseworld we expect an argument to be logical and clear. We’re not very bright. So your floundering around changing the subject of the discussion, and resorting to insults just serves to confuse us. When you can put your argument into clear and short words that we can understand then maybe you’ll be able to join us here.
L.Willo wrote:
Please enlighten me. You can use short words so I am sure to understand.
— L.Willo I will give you a clue: often, what people profess to believe and how they act reflects their actual beliefs. This is called sincerity. I will give you another clue: often people believe that they should stand by their beliefs regardless of the possible negative implications of maintaining a stance. This is called, conviction. So for example, a person might prefer to be … thrown to the Lions rather than deny the Christian beliefs, that they both have … and amazingly profess to have … at the same time! Does being fed to hungry lions for sport for being a Christian count as discrimination based on belief? I think it does. Can you think of any other examples from human history? Shouldn’t be difficult. There are millions! How you have failed to notice this is completely beyond me. I suggest you read more and ride less. Your IQ needs work.— Bikebikebike
What is your point? That people always profess to believe what they actually believe? If so, then your examples point to a clear case where this didn’t happen. In the Roman Empire, when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion, there were a few times when due to the whims of successive emperors, it was extremely advantageous to be either a Christian or a Pagan (depending on the guy in power at the time). And, surprise, surprise, plenty of people changed their professed religion.
And when England became a Christian country, the decision was a mostly political one. The king did not suddenly convert, he was convinced a bit by his wife, then invited an envoy of the pope to come in and show him what conversion could do for him and the country. He went from professing to be a pagan one moment to professing to be a Christian in one moment. I hardly think that either of these were his actual beliefs.
Those are a few historical examples. Can continue if you like.
L.Willo wrote:
there are other ways in which people change their beliefs in the absence of new information. For example, by making conscious efforts to examine them, and to think them through rationally and objectively.
By contrast, true ‘believers’, at least the religiously or politically committed types, are notoriously unsusceptible to new information.
ConcordeCX wrote:
You always have new information. Re-examining your beliefs, you are older and more experienced than you were when your beliefs formed and perhaps better equipped to think rationally and objectively about what you have come to believe. This often happens with indoctrinated children whose beliefs alter with experience as they become better at critical thinking.
In any case, reflecting on what you believe is not the same thing as actively changing one’s beliefs, even if such a thing were possible.
L.Willo wrote:
We know through science that the earth is flat. We don’t know that God favours Islam or Judaism or Christianity, or indeed even if there is a god. Beliefs are based on superstition. Knowing the earth is round is based on science. One can change one’s superstitions but one can’t (without irrefutable evidence) refute science.
If someone else said that I
If someone else said that I might get annoyed, but it’s O’Leary, so I just laugh.
I want to drive and I expect
I want to drive and I expect Dublin City [Council] to come up with a smarter way for me to get around Dublin and be able to park my car somewhere in the middle of Dublin.
Entitled.
Because he doesn’t want to do
Because he doesn’t want to do it, noone else should! The logic of a twat!
I’ve always liked Mr O’Leary…
I’ve always liked Mr O’Leary…
it’s no wonder that ITV got
it’s no wonder that ITV got rid of him from the EX-factor.
After suffering from their
After suffering from their notoriously bad handling of complaints last year (first they swerve the issue, than they swerve the issue again with another irrelevant reply and on a third attempt they do not even bother to reply at all anymore), funnily enough on a bike holiday to Mallorca, I swore to never-ever use Ryanair again. Now certified POS O’Reilly delivers another piece of what he will doubtlessly say is his sense of “humour” or “direct speak” only to make sure that I will never renege on that vow.
Knobber
Knobber
Twat.
Twat.
Entitled ignorant as*hole.
Entitled ignorant as*hole. Decides to live half-way across the country and voluntarily (he’s one of the few people that could afford to live anywhere in Dublin) commute to Dublin in a polluting dangerous box of metal and demand that Dublin City Council provide him with handy and free car-parking. He must be saying this utter shite about cycling for publicity, but even so, his level of psycopathy is staggering.
Well done to all the Dublin
Well done to all the Dublin cyclist, you have them on the ropes, keep on keeping on!! 😉
Another lost customer. Prick
Another lost customer. Prick
Wish I’d kept my virtual
Wish I’d kept my virtual mouth shut now. But I still feel that saying in a public forum that any group or individual should be killed for a completely legal activity is unacceptable IMHO & effectively a “hate” crime.
1961BikiE wrote:
Context is everything. Had he screamed the same thing at a rally of angry motorists wielding burning torches about to take to the streets, there might be a case for charges of inciting violence or behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.
But he didn’t. He said it at a conference. Where the audience probably thought he was a twat.
He does not mean a word of it. He has placed no one in danger.
He said it to get free publicity via his usual role of pantomime
villaintwat.1961BikiE wrote:
I agree. If it’s technically not a hate crime, is it not, at least, incitement to disorder or something similar?
Futhermore, I’d suggest (seriously) that rather than sitting around writing insults about him, would it not be more constructive to collectively petition Road.cc, Cycling UK (former CTC) Sustrans, LCC etc to take a joint legal action against him for what he’s said, if grounds can be established? If, as I suspect is the case, he is an Irish citizen and the words were spoken in Ireland, than it might not be possible to take an action in UK courts. However, in those circumstances it might be possible to collectively sponsor an action in the Irish legal system (in conjunction with any Irish cycling organisation) if similar laws exist in that jurisdiction. It’s quite possible that they do, given the Northern Ireland’s and the Irish Republic’s history of sectarianism and unrest.
Also, I suspect the new London Mayor might be in favour of creating a better, safer environment for cycling given his manifesto. He might have an opinion on the matter. Anyone London members of this forum fancy writing to their London Assembly member?
I think next I’ll copy this to Cycling UK / CTC of which I’m a member. I see there are 99 posts to this forum. Collectively that’s a loud voice.
Yet another reason not to fly
Yet another reason not to fly by RyanAir.
Should he not be prosecuted
Should he not be prosecuted for incitement to murder?
p33mul wrote:
YES
p33mul wrote:
Is this a joke?
edited: well at least one numbskull (dropped … probably on his head as a baby) fell for it. Chapeau!
Millionaire business owners,
Millionaire business owners, eh? I reckon we should line them up against a wall and …. Oh hang on…
I think anyone who uses
I think anyone who uses Copenhagen as a verb should be shot. Where do I turn myself in for “incitement to murder”?
Appalling comment, on so
Appalling comment, on so many levels:
– wouldn’t it be nice if this turned out to be his Ratner moment* (his employees all suitably safeguarded, of course); colourful entrepreneur makes tongue-in-cheek comment” doesn’t wash for me.
– To avoid getting shot, let’s all jump in our cars**, those that can, and solve Dublin’s traffic problems that way;
– btw, strange that the car advert I saw never mentioned all these traffic queues, pot- holes, MSCPs, etc : it was all clear, sweeping ocean drives and luminous city centres: who can I blame for this?
– Most worryingly, he’s not the first person I’ve heard, in an era where bar-room talk is increasingly translating into official policy, to harbour this kind of underlying hostility to others
*younger readers may want to look this reference up on the inter-web
** for which as “hard-pressed motorists”, we have paid our road tax, etc which means everyone else needs to get out our way, especially those pavement-riding, traffic light jumping, mobile phone using, road hog cyclists***
***yes, I mean you – I was held up by nearly by 30 seconds by a group of you on a Sunday morning, on a country lane – this happened once in 2012 and again last year
I think all ignorant, money
I think all ignorant, money-grabbing CEOs who commute 50+ miles should be taken out and shot.
Is O’Leary gaelic for dildo?
Stop Killing Cyclists have
Stop Killing Cyclists have been asked onto Radio 5 Live this morning at 8.35am to give a response to this outrageous statement.
But I agree O’Leary knows how to get millions of pounds of free publicity by making such statements.
However, I guess we should take advantage of it and get millions worth of free publicity for our cause, which benefits everybody, rather than the 15% of society who generally fly.
you f**king little migit and
you f**king little migit and your stupid airline..
Odd that at a conference
Odd that at a conference called Creative Minds his appears to be so closed
He’s the Donald Trump or the
He’s the Donald Trump or the air. Isn’t he also the owner of the horse Victoria Pendleton did so well on?
Upthread was the phrase “wank
Upthread was the phrase “wank puffin”.
I don’t know what it means or where it comes from, but it is a fabulous description of the annoying O’Leary. Though I prefer titbilled fuckgannet.
Edgeley wrote:
Logged in just to like this. Although name calling achieves nothing, the quality on this thread is approaching Shakesperean.
Also, does roadcc have an avian insult generator feature that I’m unaware of?
This is basically someone who
This is basically someone who has elected to live many miles away from the city, who chooses to drive a private car for 100% of their commute to work or for social visits to the city and then has the audacity to demand a greater share of publicly funded transport infrastructure than the people who actually live in the city, pay their council tax to that city and as a consequence of their choices to live there have the more practical options of public transport, cycling or walking. Personally I’d brush the ‘cyclists should be shot’ comment off as a cognitively disregulated outburst from someone who should know better, but understands the marketing image of being seen as a bit of a bad boy firebrand. At the same time, announce on twitter that you would like to shoot the incompetent airport staff who work for Ryan Air (they are not by the way I’m just illustrating a point) and see how quickly an armed response team turn up on your doorstep and just how lacking a sense of humour the legal system has in prosecuting you as a terrorist.
Someone should put us all out
Someone should put us all out of our misery by taking O’Leary out and shooting him. Tosser.
dick-cuntosaurus
dick-cuntosaurus
Mungecrundle at least
Mungecrundle at least understands the point I was (obviously badly) trying to make. What happens to that guy a few years back who tweeted he had a bomb when he was frustrated at the airport? Rightly he was arrested, I can’t remember if any further action was taken. But some millionaire tw@t says a group of folk should be shot & it’s “banter” or he’s a clever self publicist. I’m sorry in my opinion that does not compute.
One rule for the rich, an infinite number for the rest of us.
“I can’t do it by bicycle …
“I can’t do it by bicycle … I want to drive and I expect Dublin City [Council] to come up with a smarter way for me to get around Dublin and be able to park my car somewhere in the middle of Dublin”
I am sure the children of Africa are dusting down their guitars to hold a charity concert for you.
Oxygen thieving cock womble!
Dildo crested marsh winnit.
Dildo crested marsh winnit.
I liked this thread better when people were making up rude names:
Mungecrundle wrote:
Ah. Sorry.
Just for you:
Michael O’Leary is an ugly beaked fuck buzzard.
Deciding between Easy Jet and
Deciding between Easy Jet and Ryan Air just became a lot easier.
O’Leary’s a Lesser Spotted
O’Leary’s a Lesser Spotted Cunty Warbler.
L.Willo: just ‘cunt’ will do.
This is a man that ‘bought’
This is a man that ‘bought’ taxi plates (and him the only ‘hire’…ever) so that he could use the bus/taxi lanes to get around the place in front of joe public in their metal boxes…his time is money, why should he have to spend it in traffic amongst the ‘serfs’….????CNUTwHOLE
I just realised I have never
I just realised I have never flown on ryanair … I think I’ll keep it that way!
OK to attack cyclists but not
OK to attack cyclists but not certain religious groups, For some of us cycling is our religion.
When are we all to wake up to the damage caused by motor vehicles.? We are advised to stay off the bike this weekend due to high air pollution levels. Nothing about suggesting motorists do not drive.
Suggest that the legal
Suggest that the legal response by every cyclist and their family/friends is to never fly Ryan Air. We have avoided for years due to the crap service.
Weary O’Leary.
Weary O’Leary.
Cyclist…Vote with your
Cyclist…Vote with your wallet DO NOT FLY Ryan Air…EVER
Having a chat with my elderly
Having a chat with my elderly mother this afternoon, various chit chat. Then she got on to if I was going abroad? I said not with Ryanair, she asked the question, I answered. Then she said,
“What would happen if you changed the cyclists to Jews, or to any number of ethnic minority’s, he obviously isn’t update with the latest news. Sounds like an amoeba.”
Smart women my mother.
one word is against the law, and the other, well, just try not to run them over.
Here we go
Here we go
Easyjets Head of Marketing?
Easyjets Head of Marketing? Maybe that’s true, I’m sticking with Easyjet!
test
test
This kind of selfish,
This kind of selfish, arrogant, attitude is common among high net-worth individuals. It’s almost certainly the attitude where the rules that apply to the rest of us, don’t apply to them, and must surely be related to tax-evasion [*], and much more (e.g. the legal-system). It also explains why these people become rich, because they just do not care about the effect of their behaviour upon others, irrespective of how severe those effects are.
——————
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior, Piff et al. 2011 [Note this is US english where ‘class’ means ‘wealth’.]
Abstract
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full
* [Irvana Trump: ‘only the little people pay taxes’. – Which is code for the rich hide their wealth offshore, from the taxman].
Should take his horse that’s
Should take his horse that’s just won ‘The Grand National’ and shot that, they are more of a hazzard to cars and cyclists when there out on the road.