Tips for candidates running in the locals

Agent Smith

28064212 wrote: »

Given that her mobile number is available on the web (she really needs to learn how to hide personal details), I predict she'll get about 50. Well, 50 before she realises she has to change her number, which will probably be sometime tomorrow.

It was a massive mistake on her part (or Fine Gael's) to take the picture down. If she had left it up, there would have been feck-all comment about it (bar a couple of well-deserved posts on the "hottest political poster" thread). It got practically no follow-up on the Thumped thread until after it was taken down. Now it's going to be picked up by the national news, most likely by the Independent, they'll run some piece on how people don't realise what they're allowing to be shown to the public through Facebook and how it can affect your life etc. The only result of that will be that she'll lose votes from biddies who think "that kind of behaviour is disgraceful"

As mentioned before, She would have a Private mobile and A public mobile

28064212

Agent Smith wrote: »

As mentioned before, She would have a Private mobile and A public mobile

On a different thread. In a different forum. Which I only found through your recent posts after you posted that. Tbf.

And I'm sure she does have separate mobiles, not going to stop her (or her staff if she has one) receiving those 50 phone calls and then having to change the number

stovelid

The_Minister wrote: »

Don't: Leave a photo on your Facebook showing you and your friends lezzing it up by having them squeeze your sumptuous boobs.

Very nice photo, but the trade description act might come into play about the description sumptuous.

af_thefragile

Agent Smith wrote: »

on a mac? you deserve to miss out on the goodies

Its Command/Apple + Shift + 3 or 4

RaverRo808

Bertie Aherns spring chicken of a brother(hes easily mid seventies),knocked at my door last night at about ten past 9,I told him,'shouldnt you not be back in your home by this time',anyway I gave him a mad b*llocking,about brown evelopes,the handling of abuse in religous orders,about me having had to live in the middle on nowhere because I couldnt afford a house where I was from,and how in general Fianna Fail are a shower of w*nkers,his reply was ah but you'll give me number 2,I gave up

Professey Chin

af_thefragile wrote: »

Its Command/Apple + Shift + 3 or 4

Proof that people who say Macs are more user friendly are talkin shite :pac:

loveissucide

Tip for local canditates?Don't schedule your big campaign function on the same night as the Champions League final as one pillock in Donegal did.

The_Minister

Emma Kiernan responded on P.ie, so maybe we will get a little visit too.
http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/72027-caption-week-5.html

/uses mouth-spray

af_thefragile

The_Minister wrote: »

Emma Kiernan responded on P.ie, so maybe we will get a little visit too.
http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/72027-caption-week-5.html

/uses mouth-spray

She does talk/type like a politician should...

Agent Smith

Nice girl, Met her a few times.



this Exposure can only help her campaign

af_thefragile

Agent Smith wrote: »

Nice girl, Met her a few times.



this Exposure can only help her campaign

By the end of this week, she's definitely gonna be quite famous...

Gran Hermano

af_thefragile wrote: »

By the end of this week, she's definitely gonna be quite famous...

You mean in a Claire Swire kind of way?

af_thefragile

Gran Hermano wrote: »

You mean in a Claire Swire kind of way?

Its only gonna help her with her campaign ultimately...
Better to be spoken about than not spoken about or however that quote goes!

Lickarse1

The only tip I would have is just listen to the people on the doorsteps

GhostInTheRuins

Lickarse1's post being thanked by a user named lickarse2? Very odd..

The_Minister

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Lickarse1's post being thanked by a user named lickarse2? Very odd..

What do you expect?

He's a sycophant.

randylonghorn

af_thefragile wrote: »

Its only gonna help her with her campaign ultimately...
Better to be spoken about than not spoken about or however that quote goes!

Yep.

It was in the Indo to-day, treated gently / humourously enough, and rightly so.

The_Minister wrote: »

Emma Kiernan responded on P.ie, so maybe we will get a little visit too.
http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/72027-caption-week-5.html

/uses mouth-spray

Good response, the girl obviously has a brain, unlike whoever went round demanding it be removed from websites.

randylonghorn

randylonghorn wrote: »

Dear Emma,

that pic will probably gain you a lot more posts than it loses you.

Especially among a certain demographic.

Yours sincerely,

An ordinary man.

Agent Smith wrote: »

Nice girl, Met her a few times.

this Exposure can only help her campaign

Glad to see we were right.

Maybe it means that Ireland is actually growing up a bit.

Though I suspect it may just mean that a lot of men voted! :pac:


Anyway, seems from to-day's paper that an ex of this young lady's (from three years back!) was responsible for drawing attention to the picture, and alerting the papers with a holier-than-thou "is this what we want from our elected officials?!" message.

I just wanted to say a public "thank you" to him, and this seemed like a good place to do it.

Because, as a man, I really feel grateful that this guy has proven that there are still bitter, small-minded, chauvinists around.

Because, as a man, I really enjoy knowing that his behaviour will help to bolster the "all men are assholes" belief that some women hold (and with evidence like this, who can blame them!).

Because, as a man, I am really thankful to this neanderthal and all those like him who give the majority of men a bad name.

I am so pleased that this backfired on you, Captain, and that Emma Kiernan and her boobs got elected. I really hope it continues to do so, as indeed it appears it may do.