ALIVE Newspaper - Your opinion of it?

Galvasean · 07-03-2013 12:03am

Sarky wrote: »

Avonmore pioneered that revolutionary easy pour 2L bottle.

The first thing I wondered; were people having trouble pouring freaking milk????

Bloodwing · 07-03-2013 12:07am

Phoenix wrote: »

I use it for the stove,makes a wonderful aul flame

I'm thinking I might use it as toilet paper. It appears that whatever type of paper they use is extremely good at absorbing s#1t.

Hotblack Desiato · 07-03-2013 12:56am

Sarky wrote: »

Avonmore pioneered that revolutionary easy pour 2L bottle. That's more than the pope EVER did for humanity.

What about the whipped cream you don't have to whip because it's been whipped already? I mean, how did we live before that?

Doctor Strange · 07-03-2013 1:25am

ninja900 wrote: »

What about the whipped cream you don't have to whip because it's been whipped already? I mean, how did we live before that?

It was a time of stronger wrists

Sarky · 07-03-2013 1:25am

We thickened it up with SHAME AND PRAYER AND WE WERE BETTER OFF FER IT!

lazygal · 07-03-2013 2:50pm

Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »

It was a time of stronger wrists

They were dark, dark times.

Morag · 07-03-2013 3:36pm

I think the publication is a hate speech case waiting to happen.

07-03-2013 3:59pm

eviltwin wrote: »

I can't for the life of me get what the Avonmore reference is about though

The logic goes something like - RTE is full of godless socialists - therefore the news is propaganda - Avonmore sponsor the weather - boycott Avonmore - ??? - Ireland returns to a rural idyll with comely maidens dancing at the crossroads, vocations return to 1950s levels, the fifth amendment is revoked...

Galvasean · 07-03-2013 5:57pm

Drinking a nice tall glass of Londis brand milk as I read this thread. Feeling mighty catholic

lazygal · 07-03-2013 6:17pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Drinking a nice tall glass of Londis brand milk as I read this thread. Feeling mighty catholic

Are you using Alive! as a coaster? I fecking love the exclamation mark.

Dades · 07-03-2013 6:53pm

I wouldn't be surprised if they nicked that exclamation mark from Hello! magazine.

Or maybe Youth Defense nicked it and gave it to them.

lazygal · 07-03-2013 7:34pm

Dades wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if they nicked that exclamation mark from Hello! magazine.

Or maybe Youth Defense nicked it and gave it to them.

Maybe we should start calling it Youth Defence!

Sarky · 07-03-2013 7:36pm

More likely Youth Defendants, if they keep breaching copyright.

Hotblack Desiato · 07-03-2013 9:56pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The logic goes something like - RTE is full of godless socialists - therefore the news is propaganda - Avonmore sponsor the weather - boycott Avonmore

We haven't even mentioned Jean Byrne's scandalous outfits yet :pac: I think the average Barely Alive! reader has to switch off straight away lest their blood pressure rise to dangerous levels*

* with outrage not lust, durrr

Sarky · 07-03-2013 10:12pm

Jumpin' Jaysus, is that what weather girls wear these days? And here I thought RTE were squandering the license fees...

Turtwig · 08-03-2013 1:43am

Sarky wrote: »

Jumpin' Jaysus, is that what weather girls wear these days? And here I thought RTE were squandering the license fees...

Not weather girls; meteorologists. They've got to show their distinction somehow!

Brian Shanahan · 08-03-2013 10:52am

Jernal wrote: »

Not weather girls; meteorologists. They've got to show their distinction somehow!

Just because Jean likes dressing up doesn't mean she's not a proper meteorologist. Now them girls on RTE 2 are nothing but bimbos.

darjeeling · 14-08-2013 7:14pm

I finally caught the Alive! man just after the latest copy arrived through the letterbox. He looked like a willing volunteer giving up his time after work, rather than a paid leafletter. He was quite happy to take my copy back, though I think we both knew this was just the opening skirmish in a long campaign to come.

wonderfulname · 28-07-2014 4:52pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

Between the lines it's homophobic? Last time I checked it was blatantly so.

Just came across a copy of the current issue;

PopePalpatine · 28-07-2014 5:18pm

I noticed the usage of pseudonyms and initials on that list of donors - perhaps the donors are afraid of being outed as utter ****.

Nodin · 28-07-2014 5:54pm

I can't see 'homosexualist agenda' catching on.

Brian Shanahan · 29-07-2014 12:01pm

Two observations:

1) Bill Donahue does more by himself to hurt the cause of catholicism than any hundred anti-catholic organistations could. That man is a low creature.
2) It must really seethe amongst the kind of people who hate gays that the word "gay" is now universally associated with people of same sex or multi sex sexual drives. I imagine them sitting in a darkened room shouting "damn dem gheys! Dey took eerr werds!"

Hotblack Desiato · 29-07-2014 7:39pm

"Alive Says No To Gay Fronts, Yes To Straight Behinds"

Piliger · 30-07-2014 4:39pm

saspeir wrote: »

I find it utterly repulsive and offensive.

You are 100% right. And it includes the most offensive and disgusting so-called letters to the editor if I recall correctly.

lazygal · 30-07-2014 6:34pm

http://www.alive.ie/editors-jottings.html

Some of the crazy editor here.

swampgas · 30-07-2014 7:43pm

lazygal wrote: »

http://www.alive.ie/editors-jottings.html

Some of the crazy editor here.

"Our society needs a war on cohabitation".

It's a parody of itself. Wonderful stuff.

lazygal · 30-07-2014 8:40pm

It must be terrible for them to be locked into a bunker world without hope of heaven, to believe that life ends with death, that nothing ultimately matters.

There's a glum view of non believers.

eviltwin · 30-07-2014 8:42pm

swampgas wrote: »

"Our society needs a war on cohabitation".

It's a parody of itself. Wonderful stuff.

Good luck with that, they'l need it!

Hotblack Desiato · 31-07-2014 12:00am

lazygal wrote: »

There's a glum view of non believers.

They're the glum ones locked into a bunker tbh.

ziedth · 31-07-2014 9:13am

My first memory of this paper is being a young fella around the time mother Teresa die (I guess I was 10/11) and walking out of mass and seeing her face taking up the whole front page and "Alive" being the only word there. I innocently picked it up and ran to my mam shouting that she hadn't died. Got a clip around the ear for being a smartass....... haven't really read since but judging by those letters to the editor I might see can I find one for the craic

robindch · 31-07-2014 9:32am

ziedth wrote: »

I might see can I find one for the craic

Behold, the internet provides. The last year's worth of this publication rests here:

http://www.alive.ie/archives.html

10-08-2014 4:49am

I went to mass on Christmas morning with my family and found a stack of these in the back. Having heard of its reputation I decided to take a copy to see how bad it really was.

It had a picture of Ellie Goulding on the cover, which made me curious; why would Ellie Goulding do an interview with a small time Catholic newspaper known for being a bit crazy? Unsurprisingly, she hadn't; basically they had just taken a few quotes from an interview she did with the Guardian and used them as part of some bizarre anti-divorce spiel.

There was also an article admonishing Stephen Hawking, suggesting his theory of a universe without a creator was unscientific. And instead of a proper obituary for Nelson Mandela (this was shortly after he died) there was a little piece that slated him for his support of "destroying the unborn" or however it was phrased. Pretty sure there was a few homosexual agenda tidbits in there too.

An...um....interesting read, if nothing else.....

shruikan2553 · 10-08-2014 1:30pm

Not alive but I got a magazine called 4you.ie. Its made in Mayo and has some money if they are offering free books so Im assuming it evangelicals.
It had an article about how you might feel being gay is ok but God says it is bad and guess who knows better?
They doesnt like Jehovah's Witnesses.
Atheism is wrong because science shows what we think involves events that while can happen aren't likely to.

Brian Shanahan · 10-08-2014 4:30pm

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Not alive but I got a magazine called 4you.ie. Its made in Mayo and has some money if they are offering free books so Im assuming it evangelicals.
It had an article about how you might feel being gay is ok but God says it is bad and guess who knows better?
They doesnt like Jehovah's Witnesses.
Atheism is wrong because science shows what we think involves events that while can happen aren't likely to.

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

shruikan2553 · 10-08-2014 5:17pm

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

Ah what have you done to me. Just read a little bit about how you might not believe because pf the hypocrisy of the church but look! The non believers caused Nazi Germany! So it all cancels out and God will punish them.

mikeym · 10-08-2014 5:23pm

I saw an article on co-habitation and I couldnt believe the crap I was reading.

Theres a lot of co-habituating couples in Ireland at the moment that either have no interest in marriage or they cant afford it.

10-08-2014 5:34pm

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

"Blown Away by the Man of Love - Leaving my Lesbianism"

Spoiler alert:

The man is Jesus!!1!

:eek:

:pac:

wp_rathead · 10-08-2014 5:49pm

Their stuff on secularism in this month's edition is beautifully worded bollocks

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Just looked at the 4you website.
This is pretty open of them:

Q. Are you a Christian?
I believe in doing good & helping others.
••• That’s great, but so do most people. That doesn't make you a Christian.

Often these Evangelicals like to claim all morality as Christian

Brian Shanahan · 11-08-2014 12:28am

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Ah what have you done to me. Just read a little bit about how you might not believe because pf the hypocrisy of the church but look! The non believers caused Nazi Germany! So it all cancels out and God will punish them.

Where'd you see that? I missed it during my flick through.

shruikan2553 · 11-08-2014 12:33am

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Where'd you see that? I missed it during my flick through.

Issue 8. Only a small peice along the right side.

Brian Shanahan · 11-08-2014 12:47am

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Issue 8. Only a small peice along the right side.

I dived straight into the "god saved me from the airplane crash piece" in that issue, ignoring anything else. Thanks.

freyners · 11-08-2014 2:55pm

I wonder does that 4you crap have anything to do with a very well known family of nutters evangelicals in Mayo

Nodin · 12-08-2014 6:02am

'Shut up, yez liberal whingers yez'

"A HIGH-profile Irish Dominican has hit out at the liberal Association of Catholic Priests accusing it of contributing to the vocations problem.

Fr Brian McKevitt, editor of the conservative 'Alive' newspaper, described the priests' association as "a bunch of ageing, disillusioned priests who seem to be always whingeing about what they see as the failings of the Church".Fr McKevitt was responding to the latest appeal from the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) to Irish bishops to add their voice to the "growing chorus now accepting the need for a married as well as a celibate priesthood" in the Catholic Church. "

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/highprofile-cleric-hits-out-at-whingeing-priests-30500153.html#sthash.vFZdFbcK.dpuf

robindch · 12-08-2014 10:30am

Nodin wrote: »

Fr Brian McKevitt, editor of the conservative 'Alive' newspaper, described the priests' association as "a bunch of ageing, disillusioned priests who seem to be always whingeing about what they see as the failings of the Church".

As opposed to Mr McKevitt who's an ageing, disillusioned priest who seems to be always whingeing on about what he sees as the failings of other people.

Irony fail.

Corkfeen · 17-08-2014 10:02pm

Brian McKevitt on The Last Word. He discusses the war on cohabitation at around 12 minute mark. Rambles on about gay marriage too.... He reminds me of Fr Stone in Father ted.
http://www.todayfm.com/player/podcasts/The_Last_Word_with_Matt_Cooper/The_Last_Word_with_Matt_Cooper/18630/0/fr_brian_mckevitt

PopePalpatine · 17-08-2014 10:06pm

I wonder how long did it take for Matt to lose the will to live.

ALIVE Newspaper - Your opinion of it?

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