Alive! Newspaper.

PopePalpatine · 29-10-2014 2:41pm

endacl wrote: »

Sorry. You'll need to be more specific...?

I'm 90% sure catallus has been banned from here. I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to name and shame him here.

endacl · 29-10-2014 3:54pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

I'm 90% sure catallus has been banned from here. I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to name and shame him here.

S'OK. Even AH doesn't take his messing seriously. And just to be on the safe side, 'AH' in this instance may in fact refer to a slight abbreviation of the renowned 80s Scandinavian synthpop trio.

Mr_A · 29-10-2014 4:16pm

fisgon wrote: »

- According to the editor "it's great to be a Catholic". Why? you may ask. Well, "Catholics belong to the one true Church", and "they have the certain hope of eternal life and happiness in heaven."

A certain hope eh?

It's the best kind of hope I guess.

Brian Shanahan · 30-10-2014 11:24pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

That certainly does remind me of that uber-Catholic troll with the mis-spelt version of a Roman writer's name.

Roman traitor's name to be precise. I'm really proud of that little [sic], he's really done his job.

fisgon · 13-11-2014 4:28pm

Was in my local Post Office today and saw a stack of these on a counter.

Anyone know if there are guidelines about what can and cannot be distributed or promoted in state post offices? I am certainly going to write to the PO head office to inquire.

BTW, I grabbed about twenty of them and took them with me. They are now nestling snugly in my recycling bin.

Nodin · 13-11-2014 4:38pm

fisgon wrote: »

.......................

- Apparently, contraception is one of the main reasons for the growth of "the gay agenda". Because of the Pill, people now engage in DSS - deliberately sterile sex - and "once DSS is accepted between a man and a woman, how can it be rejected between two people of the same sex?......or between a brother and a sister?"
..............

It's the way they have cold, hard inescapable logic on their side.

People decide to have sex -> decide to use contraception -> decide "jaysus, this is good, but not as good as gayness" and abandon relationship -> eventually decide to shag siblings, because contraception.

robindch · 13-11-2014 5:08pm

Nodin wrote: »

People decide to have sex -> decide to use contraception -> decide "jaysus, this is good, but not as good as gayness" and abandon relationship -> eventually decide to shag siblings, because contraception.

Have you considered a career in the promotion of religion?

Mr. CooL ICE · 06-12-2014 12:25pm

I could have put this in any number of threads, but this should cover all. Got a chuckle out of it.

Warning: Doctor Who spoiler alert

Orion · 07-12-2014 3:58am

Well in fairness they're applying a fictional story from TV to their logic based on a fictional book written just over 1000 years ago. Two made up stories don't add up to truth to me.

branie2 · 07-12-2014 8:16pm

I might have seen some copies in knock

Peregrinus · 08-12-2014 1:39am

Orion wrote: »

Well in fairness they're applying a fictional story from TV to their logic based on a fictional book written just over 1000 years ago. Two made up stories don't add up to truth to me.

And this post is itself made up! Metafiction or what?

(No part of the bible was written "just over 1,000 years ago". The bible consists of various texts which took their present form at different times between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago.)

Michael OBrien · 08-12-2014 11:26am

Peregrinus wrote: »

And this post is itself made up! Metafiction or what?

(No part of the bible was written "just over 1,000 years ago". The bible consists of various texts which took their present form at different times between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago.)

While the last gospel was estimated to be written around 100 CE, there were additions and changes made after that. But I agree that it's unlikely anything was written just over 1000 years ago as far as the bible is concerned except of course for interpretations made by the different denominations like Martin Luther's editing.

Brian Shanahan · 23-02-2015 5:22pm

Yes, you've read that right. In an attempt to demonise RTE and show that secularism is an evil godless religion, the idiots writing articles for Alive have gone all weak in the knees over a recent spat between Miriam O'Callaghan and Choudary on Prime Time (in the February issue).

Describing Miriam as a proponent of the "secularist religion" and "trapped in a narrow, secularist view", despite herself being probably the most catholic and conservative of all RTE presenters, in a bloated contest Alive! has lambasted the views of RTE and the western world.

Some highlights:

Alive! wrote:

This was not a clash between secularism and Islam. As Choudary could see and O'Callaghan failed to see, it was about deep contradictions in secularism itself, issues we would still need to face, even if islam did not exist.

...

What kind of morality, for example, is enshrined in the "live and let live" value system? [a damned sight more than Alive!s one] Does justice or care for the poor fit into it? [given that Alive! is writing from a conservative catholic view, which hates justice and thinks the poor are there because of their own failings, this is a strange line to take] Does "let live" include the unborn [does the "pro-life" views of anti-abortionists mean they support the lives of living women over not yet living clumps of cells? Don't be silly, of course not. Life is only precious before it exists]

...

Modern secularist ideology has lead to as much evil as any system in history [a blatant lie, but then again Alive! has never broadcast the truth]

And my favourite, a veiled threat that all those who don't share Alive!s (lack of) values will be killed:

The Paris attack brought forward that day of reckoning. RTE staff urgently need training in how to challenge this ideology [secularism]

How ****ed-up is this? Let me count the ways:
1) Alive! is cheerleading an advocate of mass murder.
2) Alive! is cheerleading an advocate of intolerant racism.
3) Alive! is cheerleading an advocate of religious war, and the killing of non believers (of his personal religion).
4) Alive! is demonising the one system of governance designed to protect their religious freedoms.
5) Alive! is championing a man, who, if he ruled Ireland would have them all put up against a wall and shot, or worse.
6) Alive! is calling Mrs. O'Callaghan a secularist.
7) Alive! is grossly libelling secularism.
I could go on.

shruikan2553 · 23-02-2015 11:01pm

Business as usual in the Alive office then

Mickeroo · 20-03-2015 1:50pm

Got one of these through the door last week after moving to Carrick-On Shannon. Had never seen or heard of it before, it's hilarious but kind of terrifying too.

lee_baby_simms · 20-03-2015 1:55pm

robindch wrote: »

Dominos put -- I find the words hard to type -- pineapple on pizza dough:

http://www.dominos.ie/menu/

This is the work of the devil.

I thought this was the athiest forum?

robindch · 20-03-2015 2:59pm

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

I thought this was the athiest forum?

It is, but we like to keep an eye on the other lot all the same.

lazygal · 20-03-2015 4:46pm

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

I thought this was the athiest forum?

Well, we do like to discuss the beauty of God's creation that is the Hawaiian pizza.

Penn · 20-03-2015 5:23pm

lazygal wrote: »

Well, we do like to discuss the beauty of God's creation that is the Hawaiian pizza.

God is not real. Hawaiian pizza is clearly man-made. No omnipotent deity would put pineapple on a pizza. Something like that can only be done by man, who is fallible.

#SeparationOfFruitAndPizza

lazygal · 20-03-2015 5:32pm

Bad Horse wrote: »

God is not real. Hawaiian pizza is clearly man-made. No omnipotent deity would put pineapple on a pizza. Something like that can only be done by man, who is fallible.

#SeparationOfFruitAndPizza

theleaderisgoodtheleaderisgreatpineappleonpizzaonmyplate

lee_baby_simms · 20-03-2015 5:38pm

I'm certain that the man who invented pizza, Jim Pizza, would be horrified at the thought of pineapple on a pizza.

Apparently it was invented in Canada in the 60s.

lazygal · 20-03-2015 5:42pm

Nah, Jim's cool. He also invented the Hawaiian pizza.
#littleknownfacts #fidelmafacts

TwoShedsJackson · 20-03-2015 6:37pm

Pineapple or chicken on a pizza are the worst sin imaginable.

shruikan2553 · 20-03-2015 6:39pm

Putting pineapple on a pizza is unnatural and it's not real pizza as god doesn't approve.

looksee · 20-03-2015 7:13pm

I like pineapple on pizza

PopePalpatine · 20-03-2015 7:15pm

Bacon and pepperoni on pizza is the best. Therefore, if there's a god, they don't care about keeping it kosher/halal, so that's Judaism and Islam disproven. :pac:

Pherekydes · 20-03-2015 7:27pm

With the one true Dog all things are possible, even pineapple on pizza.

BlaasForRafa · 20-03-2015 8:16pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Bacon and pepperoni on pizza is the best. Therefore, if there's a god, they don't care about keeping it kosher/halal, so that's Judaism and Islam disproven. :pac:

Yeah, that banning muslims and jews from eating pork is way worse than the apple in the garden thing. Like apples are kind of mank and knowledge is over-rated but pork and bacon is the best food ever

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Putting pineapple on a pizza is unnatural and it's not real pizza as god doesn't approve.

These ananaphobic attacks need to end, if pineapple and pizza dough wish to co-habit then why should anyone wish to enforce discrimination against them!

Hotblack Desiato · 20-03-2015 8:52pm

lazygal wrote: »

Nah, Jim's cool. He also invented the Hawaiian pizza.
#littleknownfacts #fidelmafacts

Pineapple on pizza is banned in at least two US states.*

* may not be true

Calibos · 20-03-2015 9:35pm

If you want me to eat pineapple on my pizza, you should be prepared to eat pepperoni on your ice cream.

smokingman · 20-03-2015 9:44pm

Pineapple and Clonakilty black pudding on pizza.....mmmmmm
<walks away whistling>

Mr. CooL ICE · 20-03-2015 10:18pm

looksee wrote: »

I like pineapple on pizza

Go straight to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect €200

Hotblack Desiato · 20-03-2015 10:43pm

Calibos wrote: »

If you want me to eat pineapple on my pizza, you should be prepared to eat pepperoni on your ice cream.

Challenge Accepted

Brian Shanahan · 21-03-2015 12:26am

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Bacon and pepperoni on pizza is the best.

Nah, spicy tandoori chicken, with extra jalapenos.

TheChizler · 21-03-2015 1:37am

Nearly had stewed plums and blue cheese on pizza tonight, but I repented at the last second and had duck instead. Must get to confession on Sunday after these unpure desires manifested themselves.

Nodin · 21-03-2015 4:27pm

I have never eaten pizza.

silverharp · 21-03-2015 4:39pm

Nodin wrote: »

I have never eaten pizza.

I dont believe you :pac:

Nodin · 21-03-2015 4:46pm

silverharp wrote: »

I dont believe you :pac:

Tis true. Never eaten a Chinese or the like either.

BlaasForRafa · 21-03-2015 10:52pm

You're last name isn't Flanders is it?

endacl · 21-03-2015 10:54pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

How do you get your Dominos vouchers then?

Stopped getting those around the same time the aul' belly started to disappear!

Nodin · 22-03-2015 12:05am

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

You're last name isn't Flanders is it?

No ,it diddedly-isn't.

robindch · 22-03-2015 3:05pm

Nodin wrote: »

I have never eaten pizza.

Well, what did you do with it?

magicbastarder · 05-06-2015 11:28am

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dina-Goldstein-Art/414446595787?fref=nf

alive! have used an american artist's photo without permission on their front page. the editor was confused, thought she'd be delighted with her work being used, but obviously forgot he'd had a pop at her work in an article inside.

robindch · 05-06-2015 12:05pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

[...] used an american artist's photo without permission [...]

The religious really don't seem to get this copyright thing at all, do they?

PopePalpatine · 05-06-2015 12:26pm

You'd think that Legatus money would come in handy for licensing.

Nodin · 05-06-2015 4:19pm

robindch wrote: »

The religious really don't seem to get this copyright thing at all, do they?

God owns everything. They're his chosen people, therefore....

Mr_A · 07-06-2015 10:37am

robindch wrote: »

The religious really don't seem to get this copyright thing at all, do they?

Given they seem to struggle with the concepts of right and wrong this should hardly be a surprise!

SpaceTime · 07-06-2015 10:48am

The use of that stock image of the extremely LGBT-friendly family on the No campaign poster wasn't exactly a very clever move either!

The J Stands for Jay · 07-06-2015 11:08am

Bad Horse wrote: »

#SeparationOfFruitAndPizza

No tomatoes? So you really just want an open ham and cheese sandwich.

Delirium · 08-06-2015 1:33pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dina-Goldstein-Art/414446595787?fref=nf

alive! have used an american artist's photo without permission on their front page. the editor was confused, thought she'd be delighted with her work being used, but obviously forgot he'd had a pop at her work in an article inside.

Catholic publication Alive threatened with legal action over misuse of image

Ms Goldstein said: “My work was deliberately manipulated into forming a criticism about parents who do not promote religion within the household.”

Insisting that she “could not disagree more” with the views expressed in Alive as to the consequences of not promoting religion at home, Ms Goldstein said that the sentiments expressed in the article linked with her work are “seething with the classic Catholic guilt-trip” that she rejects.
Explaining that she has chosen to raise her children “with tradition and without religion”, she said: “It’s insulting as well as dishonest of them [Alive] to use my artwork in this way.”

“I phoned the Alive office, left my contact information, and a message stating that I had been made aware that my image was published on the cover without my permission,” she said. “I also hired an attorney to file a formal complaint, ask Alive to pulp what they have in their possession, issue an apology in the next issue, and pay punitive damages.”

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