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Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

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    #1772
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    Especially considering tht Brooks is a big supporter of gay rights, given that he had a lesbian sister who was a fairly big part of his band until she died last year.

    Does Jawn not realise this?


    That's a wrong fact and can be ignored, unlike a right fact, which must be used.


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    #1773
    swampgas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,535 ✭✭✭swampgas


    Buried in that mountain of waffle is this:
    ... the nonsense closes in around you, a bubble of regurgitated cant that smells of stale bull****.

    Sounds like a pretty good description of his own prose to me.


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    #1774
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    The waters hatefest is getting a bit old at this stage


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    #1775
    PopePalpatine
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    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    The waters hatefest is getting a bit old at this stage

    By comparison, his hatefest for anything not fitting in with de Valera's diddly-eye dream of Ireland must have arisen when the universe was still immeasurably hot billionths of a second after the Big Bang.


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    #1776
    robindch
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    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    The waters hatefest is getting a bit old at this stage
    He's only 59 and nobody's forcing him to write.


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    #1777
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,936 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Hmmm if JW is back in the saddle so as to speak, does that mean we can't include Breda on this thread any more?

    She had a laughably bad piece in the IT on Saturday.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/bert-and-ernie-s-romance-offers-a-lesson-in-tolerance-1.1863318?page=1
    Given that gay marriage is currently illegal in Northern Ireland, how can there be any grounds for claiming discrimination?

    I'm pretty sure that's the most stupid sentence I've ever seen written in a broadsheet newspaper.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1778
    Delirium
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Hmmm if JW is back in the saddle so as to speak, does that mean we can't include Breda on this thread any more?

    She had a laughably bad piece in the IT on Saturday.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/bert-and-ernie-s-romance-offers-a-lesson-in-tolerance-1.1863318?page=1

    I'm pretty sure that's the most stupid sentence I've ever seen written in a broadsheet newspaper.
    Does this mean Iona no longer view Christians as being persecuted in China since the law allows it?

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



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    #1779
    magicbastarder
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    robindch wrote: »
    He's only 59 and nobody's forcing him to write.
    i prefer this approach.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZARnK4WemU


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    #1780
    lazygal
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    If being Catholic was illegal in Ireland, would Breda have no grounds for complaint about being discriminated against?


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    #1781
    Mr. CooL ICE
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    I thought it was a typical Waters article, albeit slightly more angry than normal. Then he starting getting at Sweden. What the hell???

    Also, I noticed the following bits where his thesaurus crawling abilities weren't up to scratch:
    and chancers to jump at the chance of a casual lynching - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/searching-for-the-soul-of-the-true-ireland-30426465.html#sthash.Bx15Bsak.dpuf

    Hmm, there's another bit like that, but I'll be damned if I try reading through that again.


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    #1782
    lazygal
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    The Swedish thing was odd. He's on a soapbox about people making assumptions about him, then he proceeds to refer to the Swedish way of doing things as The Worst Way Ever. Way to make assumptions John. Was one of his exes Swedish or something? Did he have a run in with a surly member of staff in Ikea?


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    #1783
    Skrynesaver
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    I think it's the unnaturalness of saunas that gets to him, all those naked sweaty bodies in close proximity, it's the path to hell I tells ya, well saunas and the counter example of a tolerant secular social democratic state where life seems reasonably good.


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    #1784
    lazygal
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    Maybe he doesn't like meatballs and the unnaturalness of daim cake. Or he's pissed about expedit being discontinued.


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    #1785
    B0jangles
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    It's because saunas make his hair go frizzy.

    All his hair.


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    #1786
    robindch
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    B0jangles wrote: »
    It's because saunas make his hair go frizzy.

    All his hair.
    I did not need that image in my mind just now.


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    #1787
    Links234
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    B0jangles wrote: »
    It's because saunas make his hair go frizzy.

    All his hair.

    ಠ_ಠ


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    #1788
    P_1
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    I always thought it was the Finns that brought us the sauna, that plus reliable phones and interesting metal bands. The Swedes gave us flatpack furniture, reliable cars and interesting metal bands.

    Maybe Jawn had a bad experience with a flatpack desk in a Saab at some point in his life?


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    #1789
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Nodin wrote: »
    "Since the 'bother' erupted in January - as a result of a stranger in drag presuming factlessly to define me, and prompting a mob of cowards and chancers to jump at the chance of a casual lynching - I often found myself thinking that the Ireland I grew up in and loved so unconditionally had gone for ever. It seemed that we had arrived someplace that was not merely post-irony and post-reason, but which had also left behind the possibility of perspective, balance, fairness, truth or decency. "

    "In the depths of February, I went to London and found myself walking around wondering if, what with the way things were going, I could live there now and start over, not caring about the public life of the place I lived in, privatising myself and emulating several of my peers by writing indifferent novels as though Beckett and Kafka had never bothered to burn the building. I decided to come back and give it another lash. \"
    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/searching-for-the-soul-of-the-true-ireland-30426465.html

    Why? We're not good enough for you, o great one. Londinium is the place for thee!


    Oh , Christ on a bike, Nodin. Don't send him over here, please :eek:


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    #1790
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    The waters hatefest is getting a bit old at this stage


    Yeah, maybe if you tell the indo that, they'll get him to tone it down.


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    #1791
    Pherekydes
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    P_1 wrote: »
    I always thought it was the Finns that brought us the sauna, that plus reliable phones and interesting metal bands. The Swedes gave us flatpack furniture, reliable cars and interesting metal bands.

    Maybe Jawn had a bad experience with a flatpack desk in a Saab at some point in his life?

    I'd say his real problem with Sweden lies in the way they welcome immigrants, and happily dilute their culture. He probably bemoans the fact they gave ABBA to the world, rather than traditional Swedish music.


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    #1792
    old hippy
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    Some of the replies are hilarious

    "It is wonderful to see that you have lost none of your ability to eloquently express what so many of us who are confined to silence, except in narrow private trusted circles, out of fear of falling foul of the thought police, our true feelings regarding Ireland's current afflictions, when not suppressed by the tyranny of political correctness."

    :D:D


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    #1793
    robindch
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    He probably bemoans the fact they gave ABBA to the world, rather than traditional Swedish music.
    I'm thinking that he's annoyed at ABBA since they won the Eurovision and went on to have a successful career in the music business and he didn't.


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    #1794
    TwoShedsJackson
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    Wonder why he feels it necessary to point out the stranger was 'in drag', can't see how that alters ones ability to slander, or take offence at the alleged slander.


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    #1795
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    Wonder why he feels it necessary to point out the stranger was 'in drag', can't see how that alters ones ability to slander, or take offence at the alleged slander.


    Drag = Dirty, Dirty, Wrong!!!!!!!

    ....which terms could in no way be applied to this article by the suitably trousered Martyred One, no......
    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/john-waters-we-have-been-conditioned-to-think-of-pregnancy-as-an-imposition-on-a-woman-29365730.html


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    #1796
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    What's even more amusing than waters, is someone calling themselves panti bliss, while dressed as drag queen, stamping their heel while demanding to be taken seriously :D


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    #1797
    lazygal
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    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    What's even more amusing than waters, is someone calling themselves panti bliss, while dressed as drag queen, stamping their heel while demanding to be taken seriously :D

    Do you always judge people on what they're wearing? Is the relative seriousness of a comment directly linked to what the person making the comment is wearing or what their name is?


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    #1798
    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    What's even more amusing than waters, is someone calling themselves panti bliss, while dressed as drag queen, stamping their heel while demanding to be taken seriously :D

    Not that it matters, but Rory made his comments that kicked off Pantigate while dressed heterosexually.


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    #1799
    Hotblack Desiato
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    LordChessington wrote: »
    while dressed heterosexually.

    O_o

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1800
    goose2005
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    LordChessington wrote: »
    Not that it matters, but Rory made his comments that kicked off Pantigate while dressed heterosexually.

    Incognito, as it were. Perhaps that sort should be made to wear some sort of badge


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    #1801
    lazygal
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    goose2005 wrote: »
    Incognito, as it were. Perhaps that sort should be made to wear some sort of badge

    Perhaps a jaunty pink triangle could be affixed to outer clothing. And other groups could wear similar identifying shapes.


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