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

Yer Da sells Avon

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

What a wonderfully bitter and hate-filled post. I suspect that's mission accomplished for Sweetemotion.

It doesn't take much to bring out the real person behind the online persona.

It was a quote from Seinfeld. I forgot how humourless some people were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zG_PN31YJU

Ralf and Florian

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Ah yeah there will always be a Boland for her likes to fall back on.

Has anyone heard from Sam recently by the way? I'm a little worried.

His Twitter account seems to be gone.

Bunny Colvin

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

His Twitter account seems to be gone.

Yeah it was posted here a few weeks back. Hopefully he returns soon, Sam's great craic.

Bunny Colvin

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Ah yeah there will always be a Boland for her likes to fall back on.

Has anyone heard from Sam recently by the way? I'm a little worried.

He probably vanished up into the deep crevices of some feminists arse that he was licking.

givyjoe

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Makes sense now. One mentally unstable loon coming into the thread to defend another.

Eh, I thought the post was a complete p1sstake and intended to be just that, no?

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

She has a writing room now so she means business!
https://twitter.com/oneilllo/status/975516856697180160

Plenty of low quality journalism and unfounded shíte will be produced from this Think-tank

givyjoe

givyjoe wrote: »

Eh, I thought the post was a complete p1sstake and intended to be just that, no?

Who knows Joe, who honestly knows?!

Yer Da sells Avon

Deleted User wrote: »

Who knows Joe, who honestly knows?!

Exactly. If in doubt, call someone mentally unstable.

Bunny Colvin

[Deleted User] wrote: »

He probably vanished up into the deep crevices of some feminists arse that he was licking.

Ah Sam is alright. He tells us what is acceptable and what's not, for that I'm grateful.

givyjoe

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Exactly. If in doubt, call someone mentally unstable.

Careful now ted, or I'll take my thanks back

freshpopcorn

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Ah Sam is alright. He tells us what is acceptable and what's not, for that I'm grateful.

What did he say about Friends again?

soiseztomabel

Deleted User wrote: »

He probably vanished up into the deep crevices of some feminists arse that he was licking.

I heard he's holed up at home rewriting the Constitution

Ulysses Gaze

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What did he say about Friends again?

That when he was 16 years old, he knew that it was both racist and sexist.

_Dara_

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Yeah that's true. She wouldn't last a minute in a debate anyway and she knows it. She's a sheltered brat who can't face any pressure. A true role model for young women alright.

It would be kind of funny to see her take part in a debate against, say, the Oxford Union or something. She'd be trounced.

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

What a wonderfully bitter and hate-filled post. I suspect that's mission accomplished for Sweetemotion.

It doesn't take much to bring out the real person behind the online persona.

No, that post was fine. Sweetemotion deals in passive-aggressive swipes at people. And that's the beauty of passive-aggression - when someone responds strongly to it, they are the ones who look OTT. And everyone falls for it. Le sigh.

_Dara_

Candie wrote: »

If posts here were confined to LON on a professional level, thats one thing. When posts start to speculate on her mental health, her living arrangements (though it's been stated she lives with her parents while she recovers from a serious eating disorder), her clothes, appearance, relationships, and even what she spends her own money on, then it's not surprising people see it as petty and sometimes spiteful. As also in the case of the Twitter person being targeted. It's frequently been 'helpfully suggested' to anyone pointing out they have a problem with that that they unfollow, so criticism of the style of some of the commentary obviously isn't welcome. People want to be left alone to say what they like and obsess over minute details of this womans life.

It's ironic that the term 'Echo Chamber' is used disparagingly when it apparently applies to the 'other side', yet that appears to be exactly what the more prolific posters on this thread seen keen to cultivate by 'encouraging' anyone questioning the style of commentary to stop posting their opinions.

Just to re-iterate what I feel I must again, I'm not a fan of LON or of any of her work. I'm just not a fan of this kind of stuff.

Very well said. I agree with it all. I'm not fan of her either.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

He's had rakes of threads about him, some which went on for six months. They used to ate him alive around here and me for defending him. Seriously, here's just the AH threads about him (there was many more throughout the site) and in these alone there's over 4000 replies and around 347 insults aimed at him. Approximately.

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

You are joking, right? That's 17 threads over 13 years, the longest of which is around half the length of this one. Unlike Louise O'Neill, he wrote for the 'paper of record' and then for Ireland's largest selling daily newspaper, which had, until recently, a circulation of well over 100,000. She writes for her local paper in Cork. Her articles aren't even accessible unless you can be arsed registering.

Incidentally, the thread about Kevin Myers that "went on for six months" actually went on for less than two weeks, until it was bumped six months later (after which, it went on for less than a day).

Yes, thank you. There has been no thread on Myers anywhere near the level of this LON one. He's another provacateur so of course there'll be threads started about him but they peter out in a normal amount of time. Like you said, even the six month one was not even continuously busy for six months. It had an approximately 2.5 week active period.

py2006

The accent took me by surprise. In my head she had that fake accent that some south dubs who have a superiority complex put on. :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X42i2P0jpZc

What absolute horseshít..

Outlaw Pete

I know, total and utter bollox. Christ, I remember from when I first heard about sex all I heard about were women having multiple orgasms and how men needed to learn about the clitoris so women could be have them, and be truly satisfied. Sure why would it even have become a thing for women to fake orgasms if men weren't trying to elicit one?

Also, she says's that the character in her book, Sarah, when having sex, prioritizes the guy's pleasure over her own as some kind of proof of all this. Eh, Louise, you wrote the bloody book ffs.

backspin.

_Dara_ wrote: »

It would be kind of funny to see her take part in a debate against, say, the Oxford Union or something. She'd be trounced.h.

I would be happy to see her interviewed by Piers Morgan on GMTV. He doesn't suffer that sort of feminism to easily. She would be challenged.

Wibbs

py2006 wrote: »

The accent took me by surprise. In my head she had that fake accent that some south dubs who have a superiority complex put on. :P

Aye I'll give her that and kudos with it. Too many Irish people and particularly young Irish women have this fake mid Atlantic elongated vowels accent. It's become almost normalised on TV. She to her credit has a nice Corkonian accent. A bloody real accent, not a fake whine.

Charmeleon

backspin. wrote: »

I would be happy to see her interviewed by Piers Morgan on GMTV. He doesn't suffer that sort of feminism to easily. She would be challenged.

Slacktivists don’t do arguments or debate though, they live by slogans and hashtags. They are not equipped to debate the issues.

Water John

In fairness now, Piers Morgan is a gob****e.

pleas advice

Ah but he's the right kind of gob****e

Water John

Wouldn't inflict him on anyone.

ohnonotgmail

backspin. wrote: »

I would be happy to see her interviewed by Piers Morgan on GMTV. He doesn't suffer that sort of feminism to easily. She would be challenged.

what a cruel thing to inflict on somebody.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

what a cruel thing to inflict on somebody.

On which of them?

ohnonotgmail

Deleted User wrote: »

On which of them?

:cool:

Ulysses Gaze

Deleted User wrote: »

On which of them?

Listen that's the type of debate that whoever wins, we lose.

backspin.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

what a cruel thing to inflict on somebody.

She would deserve it.

_Dara_

backspin. wrote: »

I would be happy to see her interviewed by Piers Morgan on GMTV. He doesn't suffer that sort of feminism to easily. She would be challenged.

No, Piers Morgan can fook right off, the big gobsheen!