TG4's ident before thenews last night

Wheety · 20-09-2018 11:11AM #1

https://streamable.com/yrezh

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On the news which mentions the woman dying when her caravan fell off a cliff, the ident just before the news had giant creatures kicking caravans into the sea

Roger Hassenforder · 20-09-2018 11:13AM

Well, that's awkward.

Deebles McBeebles · 20-09-2018 11:13AM

Oooh noooo.

verycool · 20-09-2018 11:15AM

Ahh humour... the only coping mechanism I need.

The_Kew_Tour · 20-09-2018 11:15AM

Somebody is getting a P45

GLaDOS · 20-09-2018 11:16AM

All you can do is laugh

Reminds me of this

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verycool · 20-09-2018 11:19AM

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o1s1n · 20-09-2018 11:25AM

Sad story and all, but my god, the levels of coincidence there are almost unbelievable. :eek:

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 20-09-2018 11:32AM

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Harry Palmr · 20-09-2018 11:32AM

The only thing stopping that becoming a twitter hit is the language.

Why on earth would anyone commission a promo featuring a giant kicking a caravan into the Atlantic?

20-09-2018 11:36AM

Wheety wrote: »

https://streamable.com/yrezh

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On the news which mentions the woman dying when her caravan fell off a cliff, the ident just before the news had giant creatures kicking caravans into the sea

Yes, they should have ran another ident but id imagine there is a certain level of automation in TV production and i cant imagine this ident was used for the first time yesterday either??

20-09-2018 11:42AM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Really??

Im sure it wasnt done deliberately. It seems a genuine oversight to make and it would be hard to produce new idents at a seconds notice because of such a horrific unprecedented event.

I mean the woman is from Switzerland so the chances of her family watching TG4 news are fairly slim too so anyone beyond her immediate family and friends that have been triggered by this well perhaps they need to get a life really.

lawred2 · 20-09-2018 11:44AM

that's hilarious

endacl · 20-09-2018 11:48AM

lawred2 wrote: »

that's hilarious

I didn’t want to be the one to say it!

You’re going to hell in my place.

lawred2 · 20-09-2018 11:54AM

endacl wrote: »

I didn’t want to be the one to say it!

You’re going to hell in my place.

I bet even a deity would find that funny

It would want us to laugh

Wheety · 20-09-2018 12:08PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes, they should have ran another ident but id imagine there is a certain level of automation in TV production and i cant imagine this ident was used for the first time yesterday either??

I didn't say it was deliberate. If you watch it on their player, every time you refresh, you get a different one

It's just a funny, if morbid, coincidence.

Skylinehead · 20-09-2018 12:08PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Really?? Im sure it wasnt done deliberately. It seems a genuine oversight to make and it would be hard to produce new idents at a seconds notice because of such a horrific unprecedented event.

I mean the woman is from Switzerland so the chances of her family watching TG4 news are fairly slim too so anyone beyond her immediate family and friends that have been triggered by this well perhaps they need to get a life really.

It's a Simpsons quote :P

sbsquarepants · 20-09-2018 12:14PM

Pardon my ignorance - but what the hell is an ident?

Wheety · 20-09-2018 12:16PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance - but what the hell is an ident?

It's the little adverts for the channel itself you see at the start and end of ad breaks. Some time a split second one between ads too.

Like the big number 4 doing stuff in Ch4 ad breaks or the BBC '2'.

verycool · 20-09-2018 12:17PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance - but what the hell is an ident?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_identification

sbsquarepants · 20-09-2018 12:25PM

Wheety wrote: »

It's the little adverts for the channel itself you see at the start and end of ad breaks. Some time a split second one between ads too.

Like the big number 4 doing stuff in Ch4 ad breaks or the BBC '2'.

Gotcha - just copped that clip in the OP (I've a awful habbit of reading threads from end to start!)

It's a little bit eh, unfortunate shall we say!

AllForIt · 20-09-2018 12:31PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

don't be ridiculous

Gbear · 20-09-2018 12:34PM

I know there's been a tragedy, but **** me if that isn't one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen.

Del2005 · 20-09-2018 12:35PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Really?? Im sure it wasnt done deliberately. It seems a genuine oversight to make and it would be hard to produce new idents at a seconds notice because of such a horrific unprecedented event.

I mean the woman is from Switzerland so the chances of her family watching TG4 news are fairly slim too so anyone beyond her immediate family and friends that have been triggered by this well perhaps they need to get a life really.

Social media will make sure that they see it. Since the Journal pull loads of stories from here it'll be in the "news" soon.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 20-09-2018 12:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Really?? Im sure it wasnt done deliberately. It seems a genuine oversight to make and it would be hard to produce new idents at a seconds notice because of such a horrific unprecedented event.

I mean the woman is from Switzerland so the chances of her family watching TG4 news are fairly slim too so anyone beyond her immediate family and friends that have been triggered by this well perhaps they need to get a life really.

Whoosh. Depressing when people don’t know classic Simpsons quotes.

endacl · 20-09-2018 12:40PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

P (I've a awful habbit of reading threads from end to start!)

?!?taht seod ohW

irishgeo · 20-09-2018 12:41PM

Surely nothing tops this

http://www.drunktiki.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2013/09/sex-offender-leaves-westport.jpg

endacl · 20-09-2018 12:44PM

irishgeo wrote: »

Surely nothing tops this

This does!

stratowide · 20-09-2018 12:45PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Whoosh. Depressing when people don’t know classic Simpsons quotes.

Depressing isn't a word I'd use for not knowing quotes from cartoons.

igCorcaigh · 20-09-2018 12:46PM

Del2005 wrote: »

Social media will make sure that they see it. Since the Journal pull loads of stories from here it'll be in the "news" soon.

I hope not. I saw it already on twitter though.
The specificity of it is unbelievable.

Arghus · 20-09-2018 12:55PM

These things happen.

Malayalam · 20-09-2018 01:05PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I hope not. I saw it already on twitter though.
The specificity of it is unbelievable.

It is, isn't it. I wonder is it a bit like algorithms - do the random 'indents' show up to correspond to upcoming news content in the same way adverts pop up online depending on your searches etc. (?)

igCorcaigh · 20-09-2018 01:12PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I hope not. I saw it already on twitter though.
The specificity of it is unbelievable.

Oh no.
Journal.ie have done it.

lawred2 · 20-09-2018 01:14PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Oh no.
Journal.ie have done it.

and an apology from TG4

igCorcaigh · 20-09-2018 01:14PM

Malayalam wrote: »

It is, isn't it. I wonder is it a bit like algorithms - do the random 'indents' show up to correspond to upcoming news content in the same way adverts pop up online depending on your searches etc. (?)

I can't imagine how it can without the right metadata. And even still, that would be asking for a fukup like this.

Just a very odd and morbid coincidence.

Harry Palmr · 20-09-2018 01:34PM

Churnel by name churnel by nature.

Fr_Dougal · 20-09-2018 01:41PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Oh no.
Journal.ie have done it.

Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.

lertsnim · 20-09-2018 01:49PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.

It's below the scum of journalism.

lawred2 · 20-09-2018 01:51PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.

rehashing tweets and publishing paid for articles is not journalism

20-09-2018 02:16PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Whoosh. Depressing when people don’t know classic Simpsons quotes.

I need to start watching more re runs and obviously i havent been paying enough attention to ISF on facebook

mcmoustache · 20-09-2018 03:24PM

Gbear wrote: »

I know there's been a tragedy, but **** me if that isn't one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen.

Agreed. I wasn't sure if it was worth clicking on it but I'm glad I did.

20-09-2018 06:26PM

This is mad. It's so specific like!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 20-09-2018 07:05PM

stratowide wrote: »

Depressing isn't a word I'd use for not knowing quotes from cartoons.

Classic Simpsons is exemplary - riotously funny, not remotely dumbed down, both slapstick and cerebral humour. Who cares that it’s a cartoon? How small-minded of you.

TheValeyard · 20-09-2018 07:13PM

It was a slip up. No big deal. awful as the tragedy was, TG4 did not mean any offence by it.

Carsanal · 20-09-2018 07:18PM

It's just a coincidence.

The things people are triggered by these days.
Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

**** off getting triggered over nothing really.

GLaDOS · 20-09-2018 07:19PM

Carsanal wrote: »

It's just a coincidence.

The things people are triggered by these days.
Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

**** off getting triggered over nothing really.

Who's triggered?

Wheety · 20-09-2018 10:14PM

Carsanal wrote: »

It's just a coincidence.

The things people are triggered by these days.
Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

**** off getting triggered over nothing really.

This is another type of poster these days. Calling everyone triggered and snowflake after not reading the thread properly.

"Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous". That was one poster and I'd imagine they were firmly tongue in cheek.

Atoms for Peace · 20-09-2018 10:21PM

Absolute non-story, bottom of the barrel tabloid outrage scraping.

Wheety · 20-09-2018 11:36PM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Absolute non-story, bottom of the barrel tabloid outrage scraping.

I didn't find it in a tabloid. They were much later. Jesus, everyone desperate to claim it as a non story. It was only posted because of the coincidence.

GLaDOS · 20-09-2018 11:42PM

It was an interesting quirk, well worthy of being pointed out. No outrage, no offense.

ToddyDoody · 21-09-2018 01:18AM

I'm glad someone spotted this. To think it might have gone unnoticed.

TG4's ident before thenews last night

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