The Official "woo-hoo/anti-moan" Thread

Summer is here.

Stargal

I just got interviewed on the Simon Maher show on Phantom about an article I had in Sunday's paper. And in double w00t, it meant I got to walk up and back to the Phantom studios, which gave me a lovely 40 minutes in the sun. Je suis heureuse

Ron DMC

Stargal wrote:

I just got interviewed on the Simon Maher show on Phantom about an article I had in Sunday's paper.

An article in the paper? Go on, give us a link to it.

Zis?

Ron DMC

Myth wrote:

Zis?

Here was me thinking it would be an opinion piece I could poke fun at/applaud.

Man was I wrong?

ApeXaviour

Well I'd assume it was the most recent Sunday so one of these "Heir Today" ones:

http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=TribuneFTF&id=100959
http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=TribuneFTF&id=100960
http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=TribuneFTF&id=100965

Stargal

Uh no it's none of those but thanks for the free plug. I think...

Agent Smith

Was it the Article That i was talking to you about?

shay_562

My immediate guess was that it was the piece on the pregnancy options agency that used misinformation and emotional blackmail to get her to keep her (imaginary) baby. Since we're all making guesses and all...

Awayindahils

shay_562 wrote:

My immediate guess was that it was the piece on the pregnancy options agency that used misinformation and emotional blackmail to get her to keep her (imaginary) baby. Since we're all making guesses and all...

I'm so very glad some kind of compassion overcomes you during I never ever.

I have no wohoo. Other than that the hostel is very very very nice, and cool, and busy and other stuff. Brains a bit melted today.

Oh im getting a pig.:)

ApeXaviour

Stargal wrote:

Uh no it's none of those but thanks for the free plug. I think...

Welcome... I think. Can you tell us which one it is then?

Stargal

ApeXaviour wrote:

Welcome... I think. Can you tell us which one it is then?

Yeah shay got it right

Agent Smith

eh, What one you think i ment? the space hotel one?

shay_562

awayindahils wrote:

Oh im getting a pig

...explain. 'Cause right now this is all that's going through my head, but that just seems...ludicrous.

And I resent the implication that I lack compassion in other situations. I'm perfectly capable of feeling empathy towards others. I just often choose not to.

stargal wrote:

ApeXaviour wrote:

Welcome... I think. Can you tell us which one it is then?

Yeah shay got it right

Thought it might be that one alright - that sounded royally ****ed up. It's one thing to try to discourage someone from getting an abortion, but telling a girl who's scared and coming to you for information that she's going to get breast cancer, become incontinent and have to have two abortions to make sure all the baby is gone is just twisted.

Oh, and topic: 96 hours from now I'll be in Orlando. Wheeeeee!

Perhaps? Bartley mentioned before how Stress Pigs are making a glorious return.

Bartron Prime

Indeed Dónal, you are right. They are currently 1000+ Stress Pigs sitting in my office, kindly provided by Pigsback.com. They will be unleashed upon the world when Supplementals begin....

WooHoo: Free stuff for students doing Supplementals coming along. Free stuff from Pigsback.com, Sqeez, Red Bull, European Movement Ireland, Lemon Coffee & Crepe Co. and Innocent (1,000 bottles of 'This Water').

Ladies and Gentlemen, 'The Pig-ening' approaches. This will be epic....

Ron DMC

Bartron Prime wrote:

WooHoo: Free stuff for students doing Supplementals coming along. Free stuff from Pigsback.com, Sqeez, Red Bull, European Movement Ireland, Lemon Coffee & Crepe Co. and Innocent (1,000 bottles of 'This Water').

I knew it was worth failing. Woohoo (I think...)

Nietzschean

sweet i assume those freebies will be about for us grad students to 'yoink'

Time Magazine

Bartron Prime wrote:

Free stuff for students doing Supplementals coming along.

Largely due to the fact that I am a nerd, I intend on coming into College in September to do some research/essays I've wanted to do for ages. Can I have some free stuff too?

Crash

NO. You're not special like me and Ronnie. Get away.

Boston

shay_562 wrote:

Thought it might be that one alright - that sounded royally ****ed up. It's one thing to try to discourage someone from getting an abortion, but telling a girl who's scared and coming to you for information that she's going to get breast cancer, become incontinent and have to have two abortions to make sure all the baby is gone is just twisted.

Well she should learn to keep her legs closed.

Awayindahils

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

I knew it was worth failing. Woohoo (I think...)

So long as you pass this time...

And you had so better be in the library the next time i see you.

Ron DMC

Awayindahils wrote:

So long as you pass this time...

And you had so better be in the library the next time i see you.

How would you see me if I was? You've absolutely no reason to be in there yourself.

Pet

I´m in some backwater town in the middle of nowhere, [edit: northEAST] Spain, en route to Pamplona, and [someday...] Santiago de Compostela. The sun is shining, the keyboard is crazy (Ññññ!! Çççç!!), and I´m tired but happy. Oh yeah, I get back less than a week before my supplementals start. Oops.

ApeXaviour

Pet wrote:

I´m in some backwater town in the middle of nowhere, northwest Spain, en route to Pamplona.

Iruñea is a lovely place, you'll love it, but if you're near there then it'd be considered northeast-España or just Euskadi no? Or do you actually have a good distance to travel?

dan719

Interpol tickets!:D

paperclip

Ibid wrote:

Largely due to the fact that I am a nerd, I intend on coming into College in September to do some [strikeout]research/essays [/strikeout] stuff I've wanted to do for ages. Can I have some free stuff too?

Please? The lemon stuff sounds goood....

Awayindahils

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

How would you see me if I was? You've absolutely no reason to be in there yourself.

Oh Im going to go check. im always killing time in Trinity why not do it wandering the library.

paperclip

shay_562 wrote:

My immediate guess was that it was the piece on the pregnancy options agency that used misinformation and emotional blackmail to get her to keep her (imaginary) baby. Since we're all making guesses and all...

As opposed to what would happen to her baby? The misinformation and emotional blackmail is wrong, but let's face it, the decision to ''remove'' a baby SHOULD be an emotional one.

I know so many couples who have to wait for years to adopt a child and then we have this other side where pregnant women, in a panic, listen to the first doctor they go to who blithely recommends a termination and before you know it, someone loses their life.

Maybe I'm biased, my mother was told by her doctor to abort me when she had rubella while pregnant. I'm glad she didn't listen to that doctor.

shay_562

paperclip wrote:

As opposed to what would happen to her baby? The misinformation and emotional blackmail is wrong, but let's face it, the decision to ''remove'' a baby SHOULD be an emotional one...we have this other side where pregnant women, in a panic, listen to the first doctor they go to who blithely recommends a termination and before you know it, someone loses their life.

Well sure - I completely agree that it should be a carefully made decision and not one that you rush into. But I think it's morally abhorrent to use what could best be described as questionable facts and figures to try to bully someone into taking a particular course of action simply because of one's own moral views. The decision to have an abortion shouldn't be made lightly, but neither should the decision to have a baby.