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Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

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    #692
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,792 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    It's in the print edition today. Is the online a day behind or behind the paywall?

    Just slow to get the article up. Up now for those that like to punish themselves :P

    EDIT: doesn't seem to the article you mentioned :confused:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #693
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I guessed that he would bring up the spunout article but my god that was a trippy read. He went from mortgage ceilings to threesomes to gay marriage. I'm still finding the reaction to the spunout article to be completely absurd. But John Waters has surpassed all expectations this time round.


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    #694
    freyners
    Registered Users Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭freyners


    I think he might have overdosed on communion wafers and veritas luxury holy water while writing that. :confused:


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    #695
    PopePalpatine
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    freyners wrote: »
    I think he might have overdosed on communion wafers and veritas luxury holy water while writing that. :confused:

    Is that the new name for methylated spirits?


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    #696
    freyners
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    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Is that the new name for methylated spirits?

    its john waters we're dealing with, one can not put things simply;)


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    #697
    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    He was bad enough, but the comments are worse -
    "Liberal democracy is now coming out in its true colours - a free-for-all - organised chaos orchestrated by the rich and powerful to exploit without limits?"


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    #698
    Bobby42
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    Jesus wept. Well, there's some brain cells I won't be getting back.

    So there's a small article on a youth website giving the pros and cons on threesomes in a non judgmental way and now all of a sudden society as we know it is going to collapse?

    Dramatic much?

    He really sounds angry and bitter. What's this? Young people having fun? Gay people getting rights? No, no, we can't be having any of that. If I don't get to have fun, no one else does.


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    #699
    Hotblack Desiato
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    He was bad enough, but the comments are worse -
    "Liberal democracy is now coming out in its true colours - a free-for-all - organised chaos orchestrated by the rich and powerful to exploit without limits?"

    The IT doesn't seem to know what a troll is, they have a guy who posts that multiple times on every story I've read but they leave him be. They used to have someone else go on about how every decision of the Supreme Court since some random date in the 80s/90s was somehow invalid - they seem to have gone, but most of the other conservative/RCC trolls re-reg and spout the same old same old again and again.

    I see that comments are now disabled on JW's article, one of the usual RCC trolls must have been badly losing an argument again and started posting abortion pictures :rolleyes: which gets all the comments removed

    For a newspaper which is inclined to go off on foamy rants about the perils of the internet, the standard of discussion they permit on their own website is orders of magnitude below boards.

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #700
    Turtwig
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    On RTE ONE now.
    *shudder*


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    #701
    PopePalpatine
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    This is why I don't watch that much Irish TV. I just hope that Republic of Telly takes the piss out of him next week.


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    #702
    Nodin
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    ninja900 wrote: »
    The IT doesn't seem to know what a troll is, ..........

    Unlikely, given they used to employ Colonel Myarse.


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    #703
    IT-Guy
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    Anybody watching the Saturday Night Show replay on RTE 1? Our quasi-wistful waffler was being interviewed and spouted a load of stream of consciousness bs including how from his subjective viewpoint, he's the centre of the universe...lmfao.


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    #704
    fisgon
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    koth wrote: »
    Just slow to get the article up. Up now for those that like to punish themselves :P

    He's actually beginning to sound genuinely deranged.


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    #705
    swampgas
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    koth wrote: »
    Just slow to get the article up. Up now for those that like to punish themselves :P

    For once almost readable, and mostly tongue in cheek. It's interesting that he seems to assume that the values of 1970's rural Ireland are the ultimate yardstick for evaluating social issues. No wonder he's so angry all the time. He even seems to be anti-condom. Why can't he just shag off back to the 1950s, where he belongs?


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    #706
    Corkfeen
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    swampgas wrote: »
    For once almost readable, and mostly tongue in cheek. It's interesting that he seems to assume that the values of 1970's rural Ireland are the ultimate yardstick for evaluating social issues. No wonder he's so angry all the time. He even seems to be anti-condom. Why can't he just shag off back to the 1950s, where he belongs?

    Flux capacitor still hasn't been invented unfortunately. :D


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    #707
    Cork Boy
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    Just read this piece of his (non-religious) and he's actually able to use "normal words" when not spouting utter horse manure!


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    #708
    coffee_cake
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    Cork Boy wrote: »
    Just read this piece of his (non-religious) and he's actually able to use "normal words" when not spouting utter horse manure!

    "The President has momentously said the unsayable about our economy"
    "It is possible to argue with various characterisations in his speech – for example his choice of words such as “compassion” in elaborating the possibility of alternative understandings."



    Really?
    Still sounds like swallowing a thesaurus :pac:


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    #709
    Bannasidhe
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    "The President has momentously said the unsayable about our economy"
    "It is possible to argue with various characterisations in his speech – for example his choice of words such as “compassion” in elaborating the possibility of alternative understandings."



    Really?
    Still sounds like swallowing a thesaurus :pac:

    Water's prose always makes me want to get the dreaded (by my students) green pen out.


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    #710
    Delirium
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    He must be trying to sleep with his editor.

    "Look at all the words I know. I'm so smart. You know you're impressed." :pac:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #711
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin



    On Wednesday, at roughly the time President Michael D Higgins was delivering
    his momentous speech to the European Parliament, I was attending a meeting of concerned citizens seeking to forge alliances with a view to action when the
    inevitable happens.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/the-president-has-momentously-said-the-unsayable-about-our-economy-1.1364716?page=1

    We will be led through the wasteland of the Apocalypse by the one known as Waters....


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    #712
    Sarky
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    It was probably a meeting on fighting abortion legislation and nothing to do with the economy.


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    #713
    Penn
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    concerned citizens seeking to forge alliances with a view to action when the inevitable happens.

    *Please let that action be "leaving the country"... Please let that action be "leaving the country"... Please let that action be "leaving the country"... Please let that action be "leaving the country"... *


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    #714
    lazygal
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    Sarky wrote: »
    It was probably a meeting on fighting abortion legislation and nothing to do with the economy.

    Or fighting the children's referendum result or stopping the gays getting married because it would literally be like shooting marriage in the head.


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    #715
    Nodin
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    lazygal wrote: »
    Or fighting the children's referendum result or stopping the gays getting married because it would literally be like shooting marriage in the head.



    ..it'd be like the wedding in Kill Bill so it would.


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    #716
    Sarky
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    CerebralCortex wrote: »
    John with a full crop:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEC9zX3YQfk

    Only got round to watching that now. What the hell? He talked English when he was a lad. Did he suffer brain damage after being bludgeoned with a thesaurus later on?


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    #717
    robindch
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    Sarky wrote: »
    Did he suffer brain damage after being bludgeoned with a thesaurus later on?
    The Irish Times used to be considered a protestant newspaper -- still is by Popette, of course -- and given an historical context which suggested that catholics were dumber and less literate than protestant, I'm wondering if he's the first public sufferer of Catholic-Inspired, Sesquipedalianistic Literary Inferiority Complex(*).

    (*) Pronounced kiss-lick.


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    #718
    Hotblack Desiato
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    robindch wrote: »
    an historical

    I see what you did there.

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #719
    recedite
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    Cork Boy wrote: »
    Just read this piece of his (non-religious) and he's actually able to use "normal words" when not spouting utter horse manure!
    Even a stopped clock is right twice day.


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    #720
    goose2005
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    I was attending a meeting of concerned citizens seeking to forge alliances with a view to action when the inevitable happens.
    Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a bunch of colonels plotting a coup? ;) Generallissimo Waters will lead our nation out of this twilight!


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    #721
    goose2005
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    I was attending a meeting of concerned citizens seeking to forge alliances with a view to action when the inevitable happens.
    Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a bunch of colonels plotting a coup? ;) Generallissimo Waters will lead our nation out of this twilight!


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