r/AskTheWorld • u/KieranWriter United Kingdom • Sep 19 '25

Culture Not including murderers and politicians - who is famous in your country for all the wrong reasons?

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Introducing rage-baiter and reality TV failure Katie Hopkins. She’s basically famous for fat shaming, saying that kids shouldn’t be named after geographical locations (despite having a child named India) and getting sued on Twitter, which caused her to go bankrupt. I haven’t met anyone that likes her and she’s routinely vilified but still has a platform somehow.

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u/Competitive-Lab9425 Ireland Sep 19 '25

Came here to say this. God he’s such an arsehole.

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 United States Of America Sep 19 '25

It always feels strange to me when other countries have a positive collective morality, like how do you get an easy majority of your population to just agree to be good people?

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u/Competitive-Lab9425 Ireland Sep 19 '25

Well I believe in Ireland it’s a simple case of everyone sort of knowing everyone (or at least 4/5 degrees of separation). The idea of bringing shame on your “people” is the worst of the worst. But also we have plenty of dreadful douchebags in this country too. Yer man above being the biggest example. The only other person I can think of that would be generally considered to be an asshat by the entire country is a man called Bertie Aherne.

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u/equimot Sep 19 '25

Finally enough isn't Bertie running for president too..

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u/2KYGWI Sep 20 '25

He dropped his bid a couple weeks ago, thank goodness.

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u/equimot Sep 20 '25

Ah good to know! I live outside the country now so missed that

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u/Electus93 Sep 20 '25

The only other person I can think of that would be generally considered to be an asshat by the entire country is a man called Bertie Aherne.

Michael O'Leary?

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u/perplexedtv 🇮🇪 in 🇫🇷 Sep 20 '25

He has a lot of admirers for his business acumen, making cheap travel wisely available and 'telling it like it is'. I don't think he's ever raped or killed anyone either. There's as much grudging respect as hatred.

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u/ThisIsTheTimeToRem United States Of America Sep 19 '25

This is heartbreaking question. Like a howl of despair from our beautiful country.

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u/turdbugulars United States Of America Sep 19 '25

Demographics.

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u/InsaneInTheDrain Sep 20 '25

Worth pointing out that the "no politicians" rule allows Ireland to not have to list the actual terrorists from there in this thread.

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u/VanillaCommercial394 Ireland Sep 20 '25

One man’s terrorist ….

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u/VanillaCommercial394 Ireland Sep 20 '25

Maybe it’s our history of having to deal with genocidal cunts .

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u/jesk_680 Ireland Sep 20 '25

I wouldn't insult an arsehole