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Dealers targeting "professionals" with "Snow Blow"..Jesus Wept!!

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    #122
    heavyballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭heavyballs


    just checked now and there's f*ck all outside my door and i live closeby,the feckers,where do i complain about this?


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    #123
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    heavyballs wrote: »
    just checked now and there's f*ck all outside my door and i live closeby,the feckers,where do i complain about this?

    It might have been blown away by a chill wind.


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    #124
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Has anyone figured out how she got this job yet?

    Is her Daddy an editor or something?


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    #125
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    funk-you wrote: »
    What a load of me hoop. This is along the same lines of the crap we were told when we were kids about dealers soaking strickers in drugs and running up and sticking them to you so you'd be addicted. What a load of shite.

    Wait, you were told that too?

    FFS, I'd eventually convinced myself that I'd dreamt being told that.


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    #126
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,935 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    This post from Dvpower didnt get enough attention:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68790618&postcount=56

    Im writing to the editor tomorrow about it and the press ombudsman 2 weeks after that.


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    #127
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/9112/alisonundercover.png

    P.


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    #128
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Nice too see the doorstep magazine people are branching out into new business models.
    Who knows but next week we could be reading about samples of dangerous new drugs samples known as Daz and Ariel being left at the doors of "young professionals" and how a friend of Alison who had taken them began to foam at the mouth and blow bubbles through their nose. :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    #129
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    why is this girl still alive?


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    #130
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Oh Just saw this now, well look who it is wrote it, my fav young Journalist.


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    #131
    Di0genes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    Augmerson wrote: »
    The Indo is a laughable rag at best.

    That "laughable" rag is the largest selling daily news paper in the country.

    I'm Iguana's partner, and I have , I think, more than a passing understanding of the journalist burden of proof (I've seen shattered glass like twice, and nearly watched the 5th series of the Wire like three times!)

    No seriously I've spent a few years working in TV News (Al Jazeera to, ahem, Sky News) and frankly if someone tried to attempt to file this kind of story, they would get get concussion from getting slapped out of the building.

    If the posters from AH can spot the levels of inconsistency, and stupidity in this story, what does it say about the editing of this paper on other matters if this shít eludes them.


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    #132
    timelessone
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭timelessone


    I believe Alison is pioneering a new form of journalism called ''Anti-Journalism’’

    The basic tenets of Anti-Journalism are:

    1. Factual accuracy didn't happen.
    2. Objectivity is for apples in a bowl.
    3. Witnesses can be imaginary, like their quotes.
    4. Gammar and spelling are subjective.
    5. Research takes too long.
    6. Plagarism isn't plagarism if you close you eyes when typing.

    Any more?


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    #133
    [Deleted User]
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    phasers wrote: »
    Has anyone figured out how she got this job yet?

    Is her Daddy an editor or something?

    Her Granddad owned(still owns?) The Savoy cinema and probably a load of other shít. So I would say she's well connected.

    If these are the spelling, grammar and basic english mistakes that we see, I wonder how bad they are before they go through the editor...


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    #134
    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    iguana wrote: »
    :D

    Well this is the one my husband sent about the most recent article, just in case anyone wants inspiration. It's CopyLeft;)

    Way better than mine!
    Awesome I'll send one also


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    #135
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Hey pop-pickers! This one goes out to the narcissistic Oompa Loompa with the macbook

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfz5m-ogmtq


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    #136
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    timelessone wrote: »
    I believe Alison is pioneering a new form of journalism called ''Anti-Journalism’’

    The basic tenets of Anti-Journalism are:

    1. Factual accuracy didn't happen.
    2. Objectivity is for apples in a bowl.
    3. Witnesses can be imaginary, like their quotes.
    4. Gammar and spelling are subjective.
    5. Research takes too long.
    6. Plagarism isn't plagarism if you close you eyes when typing.

    Any more?

    7. Don't seek out a story. Just wait until one is quite literally dropped on your doorstep.


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    #137
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,193 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    bonerm wrote: »
    7. Don't seek out a story. Just wait until one is quite literally dropped on your doorstep.

    I really don't think anything has been literally dropped on her doorstep.

    I'd love to hear what their answers are to this nonsense, if they even DO answer!


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    #138
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    timelessone wrote: »
    I believe Alison is pioneering a new form of journalism called ''Anti-Journalism’’

    The basic tenets of Anti-Journalism are:

    1. Factual accuracy didn't happen.
    2. Objectivity is for apples in a bowl.
    3. Witnesses can be imaginary, like their quotes.
    4. Gammar and spelling are subjective.
    5. Research takes too long.
    6. Plagarism isn't plagarism if you close you eyes when typing.

    Any more?

    If this wasn't deliberate, the ironing is delicious.

    Maybe she read it in the other paper, and memorised it word for word, and then when she was stuck for a story, remembered it, and thought it was her own work?

    Maybe?

    You know how you think of a deadly invention that everyone would want, and then you realise most people have an iPod already, and Steve Jobs wouldn't appreciate you calling your portable multimedia device a Podi.


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    #139
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Another problem with her apartment.
    Jesus Alison.


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    #140
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,193 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    You know how you think of a deadly invention that everyone would want, and then you realise most people have an iPod already, and Steve Jobs wouldn't appreciate you calling your portable multimedia device a Podi.

    Oh damn, don't let David Fincher hear about Alison in this case............

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4


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    #141
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    This girl is obviously a complete retard and has the journalistic prowess of a turnip. However, at the end of the day, it's the people who allow her get away with these articles that should be held responsible. And to a lesser extent the people who actually buy the rag!

    However, her articles are always entertaining to read, in the same way I sometimes watch 5 mins of Fair City for the comedic value of such crap acting and ridiculous plots...


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    #142
    Di0genes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    This girl is obviously a complete retard and has the journalistic prowess of a turnip. However, at the end of the day, it's the people who allow her get away with these articles that should be held responsible. And to a lesser extent the people who actually buy the rag!

    However, her articles are always entertaining to read, in the same way I sometimes watch 5 mins of Fair City for the comedic value of such crap acting and ridiculous plots...
    Whatever Fair City is fiction, as is her claim about some Snow Blow of a Heroine like substance, the difference is she's passing off her nonsense as facts in a paper.


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    #143
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    If this wasn't deliberate, the ironing is delicious.

    He also misspelled plagiarism.


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    #144
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,193 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    consultech wrote: »
    He also misspelled plagiarism.

    He obviously knew that the heads at the Indo would eventually get wind of this thread and when they see his mistakes, no doubt they will be on the phone recruiting him!


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    #145
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    How much trouble would I get Boards in if I emailed the Indo links to all the Alison threads.

    Assuming the whirlind 'journalist' hasn't already found them that is.


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    #146
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Just in case it wan't mentioned; with all the snow it could be a job for Mr Plow.


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    #147
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,997 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Di0genes wrote: »
    That "laughable" rag is the largest selling daily news paper in the country.
    Exactly.
    flyton5 wrote: »
    Who decides to hoof some random powder up their nose that they found on their doorstep?? :confused:
    It's a test: are you smart enough to live, or are we going to read about you on the Darwin Awards website? If you really are that bloody stupid, I hope the stuff gets to you before you procreate. :rolleyes:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #148
    Di0genes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    senordingdong wrote: »
    How much trouble would I get Boards in if I emailed the Indo links to all the Alison threads.

    None whatsoever, nothing said here is defamation.
    Assuming the whirlind 'journalist' hasn't already found them that is.

    She does strike me as the type to google herself* HI ALISON....


    *Well not herself as she's not into all computers with the complicated stuff so I'm sure she had some help.


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    #149
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Di0genes wrote: »
    That "laughable" rag is the largest selling daily news paper in the country.

    It's still a laughable rag Di0genes.


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    #150
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    *takes down "No Junk Mail" sign*

    Yay...junkie mail!


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    #151
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,163 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Free Snow? Balls.


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