Kevin Myres (3 Viewers)

[Goodbye]

I love when people have a good angry rant about somthing they passionatly hate... it's so entertaining, so funney.
Which is probably why I love Kevin Myres' colum in the Irish Times "an Irishmans Diary" so much...

todays colum is fucking hilarious...

 

[rothko]

read it.....BRILLIANT as always

I Love Myers

Especially on:

The North
9/11
"War On Terror"
Irish Neutrality
Prostitution
RTE after they dumped him and Challenging Times

Oh yeah.

 

[egg_]

I despise Kevin Myers. He sure can be funny, but his peculiar combination of wilful ignorance and vitriol can be frightening. So much of what it writes is blatantly not researched or even given more than a moment's thought, yet he pours so much bile into it. He's like the spiteful guy in your class in school who makes everyone laugh by heaping scorn on anything or anyone with good intentions.

I'd love to invite him to a party, get him to go off on one about 'leftists' or 'the feminist agenda', and then publicly humiliate him by showing him up as the fraud faux-intellectual prick that he is

Having said that I do guiltily enjoy the odd thing he writes

 

[herv]

a friend of mine saw him walk into a bus one time.

not walk onto, walk into.

he just wasn't watching where he was going.

 

[billygannon]

Originally posted by egg_
I despise Kevin Myers. He sure can be funny, but his peculiar combination of wilful ignorance and vitriol can be frightening.

the fraud faux-intellectual

Guess who was using the dictionary!!

 

[krystal]

betchez don't all know that KM is Anna from BB1's brother in law. So now.

 

[rothko]

I *so* knew that already

 

[krystal]

yeah yeah

 

[Hector Grey]

who. fucking. cares.

serious, buh.

 

[rothko]

Originally posted by kirstie
yeah yeah

the summer of BB1 I was working for Windmill Lane
and Anna's sister worked there too.
KM showed up for a party that was thrown for Anna by Windmill after BB1 ended...

 

[krystal]

Oh - you must know one of my mates, he also used to work for Windmill, though he may have been gone by then

 

[InsidePoint]

He's easily my favourite journalist. He's funny, very thought-provoking and and not afraid to take on controversial issues. I particularly like his pieces on the North - quite the antidote to the lily-livered ramblings of Vincent "Free the Castlerea Five" Brown.

I'd love to invite him to a party, get him to go off on one about 'leftists' or 'the feminist agenda', and then publicly humiliate him by showing him up as the fraud faux-intellectual prick that he is

I doubt it very much. In fact I'd I'd be willing to gamble a large wad of cash that he'd kick your ass in a debate. Particularly if the debate was on the "feminist agenda" - that'd be just too easy.

 

[rothko]

Originally posted by kirstie
Oh - you must know one of my mates, he also used to work for Windmill, though he may have been gone by then

what did he do there Kirstie?

 

[Speed Racer]

Who the fuck is Kevin Myers?

 

[egg_]

Originally posted by InsidePoint
In fact I'd I'd be willing to gamble a large wad of cash that he'd kick your ass in a debate. Particularly if the debate was on the "feminist agenda" - that'd be just too easy.

You don't know me very well, InsidePoint

... anyway, I'm not talking about a fair debate. I'm talking about a set-up

 

[Pantone247]

Originally posted by egg_



You don't know me very well, InsidePoint

... anyway, I'm not talking about a fair debate. I'm talking about a set-up

what like you'd keep him busy yapping about Feminists, while I snuck up behind him and
thwacked him across the head with a big bloody chair??

that kinda set up??

 

[InsidePoint]

You could kneel down behind him, get Egg to push him and then run away giggling hysterically.

 

[krystal]

Originally posted by rothko



what did he do there Kirstie?

he did do avid editing, I can't remember when he left, but I think he'd have been there then. His name is tony, he's a big tall dark haired feller.

 

[rothko]

I knew a few avid editors there
but no Tony The Avid Editor.

Must have been before my time there...

 

[Goodbye]

Originally posted by Speed Racer
Who the fuck is Kevin Myers?

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2001/0320/archive.01032000087.html

probably now his best work, nut I couldent be arsed/havent the time to be looking for summat more betterer