The WTF Thread (5 Viewers)

[ann post]

 

[nooleen]

i was thinking of getting a 'social justice warrior' t-shirt*

as intended insults go it's highly complimentary


*obviously not really, slogan t-shirts are never ok

 

[rettucs]

Viet Cong: banned from playing because of their name | Music | The Guardian

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Should I be glad that this Elaine O'Hara is getting a lot of coverage because violence against vulnerable women should never be ignored, or should I be just a little disgusted that every personal detail of the case is being revealed with we're-not-tabloid-seriousness in the Irish Times and RTE?
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I've totally tuned out of this story. Prurient ghoulishness.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

People who picked up their accents from American telly. What's up with that?

 

[therealjohnny]

I read that in a Seinfeld voice

 

[therealjohnny]

Should I be glad that this Elaine O'Hara is getting a lot of coverage because violence against vulnerable women should never be ignored, or should I be just a little disgusted that every personal detail of the case is being revealed with we're-not-tabloid-seriousness in the Irish Times and RTE?
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I've totally tuned out of this story. Prurient ghoulishness.

There is no need to share every salacious detail with the world. And there is no need to keep telling us he is an architect.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

There is no need to share every salacious detail with the world. And there is no need to keep telling us he is an architect.

I always try and parse that too. If it were two headers up in Darndale, would it even be in the IT?

 

[Unknown Convict]

every personal detail of the case is being revealed with we're-not-tabloid-seriousness in the Irish Times and RTE?.

pretty sure they drew their line in the sand yesterday. at last.

 

[Unicron]

People who picked up their accents from American telly. What's up with that?

Some of us grew up in the countryside with no friends around.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Some of us grew up in the countryside with no friends around.

You don't sound 'Merkin.

 

[Unicron]

You don't sound 'Merkin.

It's something I get quite often. I was at a dance festival last year got into an argument with some woman from the mid-west over why I was pretending I was Irish.

 

[rettucs]

Should I be glad that this Elaine O'Hara is getting a lot of coverage because violence against vulnerable women should never be ignored, or should I be just a little disgusted that every personal detail of the case is being revealed with we're-not-tabloid-seriousness in the Irish Times and RTE?
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I've totally tuned out of this story. Prurient ghoulishness.

covering the story is one thing. Covering it with obvious glee that they have weeks and weeks of easy column inches is fucking disgusting. Horrendous shower of cunts, the media in this country.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

the media in this country.

Prolly everywhere like that in fairness.

 

[rettucs]

Prolly everywhere like that in fairness.

true dat

I guess I only really see it here though.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

true dat

I guess I only really see it here though.

I just hear it every morning on Morning Ireland and then all fucking day in the Irish Times. It's not why I engage with them.

 

[ann post]

People hate hearing this but popular stories fund media. Democracy dictates what you see/hear most often. This is what people right now want to read.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Should I be glad that this Elaine O'Hara is getting a lot of coverage because violence against vulnerable women should never be ignored, or should I be just a little disgusted that every personal detail of the case is being revealed with we're-not-tabloid-seriousness in the Irish Times and RTE?
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I've totally tuned out of this story. Prurient ghoulishness.

it just occurred to me (probably several months after everyone else) that he (graham o'dwyer) looks quite like David Cameron

so there's that

 

[pete]

will ferrell = 6'3"

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[dudley]

pretty sure they drew their line in the sand yesterday. at last.

That line has been thoroughly ploughed through this morning. Court removed public from courtroom as today's details were going to be so gruesome, so gruesome they got, in minute detail, lead story on the indo website.