Sunday Indo's Life! Supplement....

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 7:41pm #1

...the arsehole of the printed word?

Every Sunday you get a magazine filled with Irish models, Calum Best, Peter Stringfellow, Geard Keane and Lisa Murphy, Michael Flatfoot, the "shocking" truth of leaving cert students abroad. etc etc. Complete and utter bollox.

Why is it the first thing I read when I get the Indo?

brianthebard · 07-09-2008 7:41pm

Because you touch yourself at night?

genericgoon · 07-09-2008 7:43pm

jayteecork wrote: »

...the arsehole of the printed word?

Every Sunday you get a magazine filled with Irish models, Calum Best, Peter Stringfellow, Geard Keane and Lisa Murphy, Michael Flatfoot, the "shocking" truth of leaving cert students abroad. etc etc. Complete and utter bollox.

Why is it the first thing I read when I get the Indo?

Wait, what were you expecting from the Indo? A tabloid in broadsheet clothing.

Dudess · 07-09-2008 7:47pm

My parents moan about it but are unable to stop themselves from buying it, so deeply ingrained in them is the habit. I think that's often the case with the SIndo.

It's kinda like the god-awful parish newsletter that is Cork's Evening Echo - nearly everyone buys/reads it but so many of those very people whinge about it. Presume it's the same for the Hedald.

connundrum · 07-09-2008 7:48pm

Because you have the gheyness.

kelle · 07-09-2008 7:53pm

It can have great recipes. Otherwise it's full of rubbish, but like OP it's the first thing I read when I buy the Sunday Indo. I can't explain it either.

Deadeyes · 07-09-2008 7:56pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Why is it the first thing I read when I get the Indo?

Because once you've read those oh so hilarious captions about the "Irish Models" you can then throw the whole thing out, safe in the knowledge that it only gets worse and your not going to miss out on anything that might be considered news or journalism.

Fanny Cradock · 07-09-2008 8:40pm

According to the same paper the going rate for a BJ in UCD is a cigarette.

'First you suck on this, then you suck on this'

They will print anything to sell papers.

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 8:45pm

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

According to the same paper the going rate for a BJ in UCD is a cigarette.

'First you suck on this, then you suck on this'

They will print anything to sell papers.

I can imagine a bunch of people buying 20 Johnnie Blue and heading out to campus.

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 8:48pm

brianthebard wrote: »

Because you touch yourself at night?

Not sure which is worse.
The above comment or the fact that 2 people thanked him.

Magpie! · 07-09-2008 8:51pm

You buy the piece of **** rag, you've noone but yourself to blame if you don't enjoy the contents. :rolleyes:

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 8:55pm

Magpie! wrote: »

You buy the piece of **** rag, you've noone but yourself to blame if you don't enjoy the contents. :rolleyes:

I've never bought the thing in my life.
But someone I live with does.

Kold · 07-09-2008 8:59pm

Get your news from the internet like a clever person.

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 9:00pm

Kold wrote: »

Get your news from the internet like a clever person.

Watching the Simpsons this evening were you?

brianthebard · 07-09-2008 9:29pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Not sure which is worse.
The above comment or the fact that 2 people thanked him.

yay the thanks system works!

gcgirl · 07-09-2008 9:34pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Not sure which is worse.
The above comment or the fact that 2 people thanked him.

because it was funny

shenanigans1982 · 07-09-2008 9:44pm

Could be worse....you could get the Sunday World....about 100 pages with some fat blonde things ugly face splashed across 60 percent of them.

rainbow kirby · 07-09-2008 10:12pm

It's like watching a train wreck - you know it's horrible to watch, but you do anyway.

chickenhawk · 07-09-2008 10:28pm

jayteecork wrote: »

...the arsehole of the printed word?

Every Sunday you get a magazine filled with Geard Keane and Lisa Murphy

They are always talked about by that Barry Egit in the back of the review bit. Why? Who cares where they go on holiday or if he bought himself a new pair of shoes! :mad:

phantom_lord · 07-09-2008 10:48pm

it's a pathetic rag, can't understand why anyone buys it.

Insect Overlord · 07-09-2008 11:04pm

jayteecork wrote: »

...the arsehole of the printed word?

I would've reserved that title for the Irish Daily Mail, but having seen the Indo magazine recently I'd almost think of giving them both that dubious honour.

jayteecork · 07-09-2008 11:25pm

Front page of the Sindo sports.

Dion Fanning reckons Georgia scored an "injury-time winner"

More journalistic integrity from Ireland's best read.

Insect Overlord · 07-09-2008 11:27pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Front page of the Sindo sports.

Dion Fanning reckons Georgia scored an "injury-time winner"

More journalistic integrity from Ireland's best read.

lmao

mental07 · 08-09-2008 9:25am

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Could be worse....you could get the Sunday World....about 100 pages with some fat blonde things ugly face splashed across 60 percent of them.

Yeah, but the difference is that the Sunday World knows it's trash. The SIndo tries to masquerade itself as a 'quality' newspaper

Gone West · 08-09-2008 10:10am

At least that moany bítch Roisín Ingle isn't writing for them anymore.

lostexpectation · 08-09-2008 10:29am

its edited by brendan o'conner what do you expect.

EamonnKeane · 08-09-2008 11:52am

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

According to the same paper the going rate for a BJ in UCD is a cigarette.

'First you suck on this, then you suck on this'

They will print anything to sell papers.

That's an acceptable exchange rate, given present economic conditions

Honey-ec · 08-09-2008 12:03pm

I am fully convinced that the Life supplement is sponsored by Assets.

"In this week's LIFE, Barry Egan banging on about some Irish Models. Again."

stovelid · 08-09-2008 12:10pm

chickenhawk wrote: »

They are always talked about by that Barry Egit in the back of the review bit. Why? Who cares where they go on holiday or if he bought himself a new pair of shoes! :mad:

I'm not so hard on Barry E, since I saw him in a coffee shop one morning. It must be torture for the lad hanging out with a load of models when you're as ugly as he is.

gcgirl · 08-09-2008 12:13pm

I don't know how the ginger minger does it

constitutionus · 08-09-2008 12:21pm

lostexpectation wrote: »

its edited by brendan o'conner what do you expect.

this is what bothers me.

do you lot not feel filthy knowing your furthering o'connors careeer ?

even back when i bought the SINDO i never even glanced at this crap. FFS if the actual paper can have nonsense by young wan journos from the sticks talking about how rough life is on grafton street in high heels (im not fcuking kidding! they actually spent broadsheet PAGE on that ! ) then i dread to think what brain sucking idiocy is in the supplement.

whole thing mostly seems to be an exercise in getting pseudo posh totty to get their kit off. ive got internet access if i want to see that!

cson · 08-09-2008 12:40pm

Sindo = Hooker in a dinner dress.

Which leads to my next question; if you all (rightly) rate the sindo as the septic tank of journalism that it is, what paper would you buy?

I'm of the opinion that there is a dearth in quality Sunday newspapers in this country.

panda100 · 09-09-2008 3:59pm

Life magazine is absolutely disgusting and should be on the top shelf of the newstands as most of the pictures are soft porn. I remember once the headline on the front cover was 'How Tyra banks has turned into a fat cow'.

gaybitch · 09-09-2008 4:09pm

Triona McCarthy literally has her cleavage out in EVERY single column she does for the Life. Every week I check just to make sure her tits are still there, going strong.

She comes out with great beauty tips like "brush your lips with a toothbrush to get rid of dry skin", which has been printed in every teenage or beauty magazine since toothbrushes were invented. She also occasionally breaks out a 'witty' blonde joke, or dirty limerick loosely based around shampoo.

The Life magazine is just rubbish.

markesmith · 09-09-2008 5:13pm

I only ever get the Observer myself, and read any Irish-interest stuff on the Irish Times website. FFS, the Sindo is absolute tosh. So sensationalist. My parents buy it but never seem to read it. It seems to be bought by some silent majority, a lot of the time because they've always bought it. It's force of habit.

The 'Life' Magazine I glanced at had your one Caroline Horahan on the cover, looking like a dominatrix or something. Inside were articles about...oh I don't even want to start.

It's an awful paper. For good supplements, recipes, book/film/music reviews and that, check out the Observer. Okay, it's an English paper, with very little coverage of Irish events, but I just get that online anyway. The Sindo prints very little factual, or relevant content anyway.

stovelid · 09-09-2008 5:30pm

gaybitch wrote: »

Triona McCarthy literally has what purports to be a "cleavage" out in EVERY single column she does for the Life.

Fixed your post.

gaybitch · 09-09-2008 5:59pm

stovelid wrote: »

Fixed your post.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=58645225&albumID=0&imageID=708044

Caption really speaks for itself...

mike65 · 09-09-2008 6:04pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Front page of the Sindo sports.

Dion Fanning reckons Georgia scored an "injury-time winner"

Blame the Sub-ed for that.

Mike.

lostexpectation · 09-09-2008 6:54pm

and the tv times are always wrong too

red.gloved.lady · 09-09-2008 7:04pm

lostexpectation wrote: »

and the tv times are always wrong too

yeah wtf is with that? the only thing i use the magazine for and it cant even do that right, pfft i'm sticking with the weekend supplement for my tv needs thanks

jayteecork · 09-09-2008 7:15pm

lostexpectation wrote: »

and the tv times are always wrong too

And they don't give full weekly listings either, what's up with that?

They give Sunday's, then a sort of "round up" of the rest of the week.

Awful.

Sunday Indo's Life! Supplement....

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