Louise O'Neill on manned mission to Mars: "Why not go to Venus?" (MOD Warning post 1)

DickSwiveller

Just listening to the BBC podcast, Louise O'Neill comes across as a very nice, pleasant person. It's just a shame she is so barmy. Talking about her rewriting of the little mermaid on a serious programme is embarrassing.

Boom_Bap

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Just listening to the BBC podcast, Louise O'Neill comes across as a very nice, pleasant person. It's just a shame she is so barmy. Talking about her rewriting of the little mermaid on a serious programme is embarrassing.

I was reading Jack and The Beanstalk last night with my daughter when the following dawned on me.


Jack broke into the giants house 3 times.
Jack robbed the giants 3 times.
Jack has the giant woman in such fear that she had Stockholm syndrome and helped Jack.

Jack and his mother murdered the man giant.


Jack and his mother profited off the robbing and killing spree.

Gravelly

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I was reading Jack and The Beanstalk last night with my daughter when the following dawned on me.


Jack broke into the giants house 3 times.
Jack robbed the giants 3 times.
Jack has the giant woman in such fear that she had Stockholm syndrome and helped Jack.

Jack and his mother murdered the man giant.


Jack and his mother profited off the robbing and killing spree.

We have copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales at home that belonged to my grandfather as a child - if memory serves, it dated from the 1910's. Many of today's popular fairy tales are in it, but they are full on R rated - in little red riding hood, the wolf savages the grandmother before eating her, and then the woodsman beheads the wolf etc. Nearly every fairytale features blood and gore, and all the female characters are rescued by strong, tough men, who go on to marry them. Imagine poor Louise and her ilk reading those now. They'd be traumatised for life.

Omackeral

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Just listening to the BBC podcast, Louise O'Neill comes across as a very nice, pleasant person.

Enough of that... who'll she be supporting in the World Cup this Summer?

hatrickpatrick

Gravelly wrote: »

We have copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales at home that belonged to my grandfather as a child - if memory serves, it dated from the 1910's. Many of today's popular fairy tales are in it, but they are full on R rated - in little red riding hood, the wolf savages the grandmother before eating her, and then the woodsman beheads the wolf etc. Nearly every fairytale features blood and gore, and all the female characters are rescued by strong, tough men, who go on to marry them. Imagine poor Louise and her ilk reading those now. They'd be traumatised for life.

I think LoN could handle a bit of gore in her fairytales if it had the right sociopolitical context... Eg, a guy says hello to a woman at a bus stop and politely asks her if she'd like to get a coffee some time, so the woman swiftly pulls a sword from a nearby stone and cuts off his ballsack, with the story ending on a picture of her holding the ballsack up to the sun and smearing the word "#metoo" on the bus stop window with his gushing blood :pac:

MikeyTaylor

Omackeral wrote: »

Enough of that... who'll she be supporting in the World Cup this Summer?

Des Moines Menace

Yer Da sells Avon

Omackeral wrote: »

Enough of that... who'll she be supporting in the World Cup this Summer?

That's not til next year.

Edit: Oh sorry, you must mean the men's World Cup. I forgot that was on this summer.

padd b1975

keano_afc wrote: »

She'll gather up pools of menstrual personstrual blood and hurl it at every man within a 2 mile radius. Roisin Ingle and Una Mullaly will also donate.

Good luck getting a donation from Mullaly....

jcorr

razorblunt wrote: »

Tell me she did not actually bring up the Ulster Trial?

The sky news presenter asked her .....if you lose this referendum what's next for you.....

Then she went on spouting about how it's such a hard time right now to be a woman in Ireland and she mentioned the Ulster rape trial...

Is it a hard time right now in Ireland for women? She sounded quite exasperated. I didn't know what to make of her.

Omackeral

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Des Moines Menace

You are the Des Moines Menace.

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

That's not til next year.

Edit: Oh sorry, you must mean the men's World Cup. I forgot that was on this summer.

Genuinely the best thing I've read all day. Fantastic :pac:

RabbleRouser2k

padd b1975 wrote: »

Good luck getting a donation from Mullaly....

She's gone through the menopause cos of her cancer, so that stream has dried up.

She did come across as rather nice in that bbc yoke..

freshpopcorn

Deleted User wrote: »

She did come across as rather nice in that bbc yoke..

She can come across nice if you never heard of her but then when you read some of her articles,Tweets,books,etc you might have different of opinion!

Kimbot

I like to think she will spoil her vote tomorrow :pac:

TheValeyard

Kimbot wrote: »

I like to think she will spoil her vote tomorrow :pac:

Votes to abort all men

freshpopcorn

Kimbot wrote: »

I like to think she will spoil her vote tomorrow :pac:

I think I read somewhere she nearly broke down crying when she was voting in the marriage referendum at the polling station.

TheValeyard

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think I read somewhere she nearly broke down crying when she was voting in the marriage referendum at the polling station.

Probably couldn't figure out whether it was a tic or an X

Gravelly

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think I read somewhere she nearly broke down crying when she was voting in the marriage referendum at the polling station.

Sweet lord, if I had to listen to her going on with that shïte I'd break down crying myself. Imagine her tomorrow, she'll go to the nearest mens shed with an AK47 if it doesn't pass.

AllForIt

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think I read somewhere she nearly broke down crying when she was voting in the marriage referendum at the polling station.

Yeah, she couldn't cope with the idea that there are at least some men who clearly aren't driven to abuse and subjugate women than stems from their sexual desire for them.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

if she married Ronan Mullen the kids would look like Austin Powers...

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

She can come across nice if you never heard of her but then when you read some of her articles,Tweets,books,etc you might have different of opinion!

Yeah..it's kind of sad really..

freshpopcorn

Well they say opposites attract. They'd be silence in the bedroom I'd say tough.

Gravelly

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well they say opposites attract. They'd be silence in the bedroom I'd say tough.

I'd say Rónán would be spending a lot of time on his knees.

padd b1975

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

She's gone through the menopause cos of her cancer, so that stream has dried up.

The old grey mare she ain't what she used to be.

freshpopcorn

Itssoeasy

Gravelly wrote: »

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well they say opposites attract. They'd be silence in the bedroom I'd say tough.

I'd say Rónán would be spending a lot of time on his knees.

Praying for a happy death ?

So is Louise o Neill someone who thinks all men are assholes and the world would be a better place if we weren't here ? Is that her gimmick(to use a pro wrestling term) ?

freshpopcorn

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Praying for a happy death ?

So is Louise o Neill someone who thinks all men are assholes and the world would be a better place if we weren't here ? Is that her gimmick(to use a pro wrestling term) ?

Her issue is mainly with straight white men!

Itssoeasy

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Praying for a happy death ?

So is Louise o Neill someone who thinks all men are assholes and the world would be a better place if we weren't here ? Is that her gimmick(to use a pro wrestling term) ?

Her issue is mainly with straight white men!

I've heard the name but wasn't aware of her angle so to speak.

I mean has the White man made some mistakes down the centuries ? Yes but it's a bit long to hold a grudge. Or is it something more specific about white straight men she dislikes or is it a general hatred ? I'm eager to learn her ways.

freshpopcorn

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I've heard the name but wasn't aware of her angle so to speak.

I mean has the White man made some mistakes down the centuries ? Yes but it's a bit long to hold a grudge. Or is it something more specific about white straight men she dislikes or is it a general hatred ? I'm eager to learn her ways.

Well she often wonders what her grandfather was thinking when she was setting on his knee as a child.
Then they were something about boyfriends at college.

Itssoeasy

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Praying for a happy death ?

So is Louise o Neill someone who thinks all men are assholes and the world would be a better place if we weren't here ? Is that her gimmick(to use a pro wrestling term) ?

her vagina has a odd obsession wit the weeknd (https://www.image.ie/life/women-we-love-40-questions-with-writer-louise-oneill-40443)

And Tupac (convicted sex offender) is the woke bae