Boards: The Root of all Hysteria

Chuchoter

Just saw this over on politics.

Green Party Senator Niall Ó Brolcháin was speaking about mental health and the recession, and we got a mention!!

Another phenomenon is that of group think on websites such as www.politics.ie where many people who are wound up to 90 are writing all types of vitriolic things. Those involved are purporting to be people representing society. However bad our public broadcaster is, sites such as www.boards.ie or www.politics.ie are creating hysteria in terms of their content in regard to how bad things are and how badly people are being hammered. That is not good for mental health.

I love it! The country is hysterical because **** is falling apart, any reason beyond that is minimal at best. Maybe I'm wrong though, do you think our daily 'Ireland eaten by financial black hole monster' threads do any damage?

Deus Ex Machina

Most of the folks around here probably flew over the cuckoo's nest long before that fateful login.

FreudianSlippers

AH genuinely is the root of mass hysteria. Quite often misinformed and misguided hysteria too.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

In fairness there is a lot of hysteria and a complete lack of rational thinking around here and on politics.ie a lot of the time.
But it's a relevantly small percentage of the population and I dont think it's all that relevant, especially considering that there are so many keyboard warriors who just seem to be using boards as an outlet for their anger/incompetence/sexual frustration

Aldebaran

They are really running out of people to blame at this stage.

mike65

De Vore will be thrilled with the namecheck

Saila

it depends how good your sarcasm and satire detectors are..and the all important troll detoctor

Princess Peach

I agree that Boards is not good for mental health.

Latchy

Stan - '' If people didn't make threads about the subject on Boards.ie they would only take their buisness someplace else ....it's simple ''


Ollie - '' Ok Stanley ! ''

CrazyRabbit

I thought the economy was doing great until a mod here on boards.ie made a post about it going to hell. I was blissfully ignorant and happy until then.

Damn me for trusting those mods.

Scuid Mhór

some part of me is proud for contributing to the CRAZINESS.

strokemyclover

Everyone is after me!

Saila

Princess Peach wrote: »

I agree that Boards is not good for mental health.

neither is the internetz

Princess Peach

I have an addiction

Sharkey 10

OisinT wrote: »

AH genuinely is the root of mass hysteria. Quite often misinformed and misguided hysteria too.

Rte Have been misinformed also

mikom

Mass hysteria or cool-aid.

Gimme Mass hysteria, as cool-aid rots my teeth.

My name is URL

Hysterical? He should be dragged headlong by the nostrils through the streets of Galway for making such a comment. Then we'll see who's hysterical!

SV

My name is URL wrote: »

Hysterical? He should be dragged headlong by the nostrils through the streets of Galway for making such a comment. Then we'll see who's hysterical

big time lol.

Latchy

Princess Peach wrote: »

I agree that Boards is not good for mental health.

Princess Peach wrote: »

I have an addiction

It's early days , 5000 posts down the line you'll be as crazy as the rest of us ...

Princess Peach

Latchy wrote: »

It's early days , 5000 posts down the line you'll be as crazy as the rest of us ...

I'll start planning the party.

Insect Overlord

I don't suffer from hysteria.

I enjoy it!

Latchy

Princess Peach wrote: »

I'll start planning the party.

We might all stay till the end to ....

RonMexico

Relax people - Nobody is trying to eat our swans.

Princess Peach

Latchy wrote: »

We might all stay till the end to ....

Did you receive an invite?

Latchy

Princess Peach wrote: »

Did you receive an invite?

You only started planning and managed to send out invites ...that's some going .

Princess Peach

Latchy wrote: »

You only started planning and managed to send out invites ...that's some going .

I'm fast at everything

Latchy

Princess Peach wrote: »

I'm fast at everything

Everything hey ? ......I love fast

Saila

"do you think its time to crack open each others heads and feast on the goo inside?"

"yes kent, yes I do"

starbelgrade

"Those involved are purporting to be people representing society. "

Niall Ó Brolcháin

Eh, no. The Green Party are the ones purporting to be representing people in society. that, despite the fact that they only received 4% of the public vote at the last national elections & at the last local elections they were almost obliterated, holding onto just a mere 3 seats.

People who post on forums aren't purporting to represent anyone except themselves. They may be right or wrong in their viewpoints, but at least they are not delusional like the Greens who hang onto the last sliver of power they have before they will finally be wiped out entirely in the next general election.



"Another phenomenon is that of group think on websites such as www.politics.ie where many people who are wound up to 90 are writing all types of vitriolic things. Those involved are purporting to be people representing society. However bad our public broadcaster is, sites such as www.boards.ie or www.politics.ie are creating hysteria in terms of their content in regard to how bad things are and how badly people are being hammered. That is not good for mental health."

Niall Ó Brolcháin


Mr.Ó Brolcháin - have you not read your own Twitter account? The one where you posted;

"Not looking forward to the budget and what lies beyond."

and

"do you think it is advisable to go the way of Greece. I actually don't. However, I'm not sure the budget can prevent that."

Now if that is not creating hysteria in terms of content in regard to how bad things are and how badly people are being hammered, posted by someone purporting to represent society, then I don't know what is.

With the greatest of respect, Mr.Ó Brolcháin, you are a fucking hypocrite of the highest order.

Misanthrope

crayolastereo wrote: »

Just saw this over on politics.

Green Party Senator Niall Ó Brolcháin was speaking about mental health and the recession, and we got a mention!!



I love it! The country is hysterical because **** is falling apart, any reason beyond that is minimal at best. Maybe I'm wrong though, do you think our daily 'Ireland eaten by financial black hole monster' threads do any damage?

What desperation!

Oh how they panic now that they realise all the old restraints are breaking one by one.

The evil 'internets' is what's causing the problem.All we sick crazies here on Boards are voicing opinions,debating issues,and having a laugh if we can.

The church has disintegrated.The government is a persistent failure.The banks are a complete failure.

Fewer and fewer people are listening to mainstream media.People at ground level are starting to think for themselves.

You can smell their fear.Their lies are being exposed one after another.Their denial makes them even more vulnerable.

ejmaztec

The government's bad for mental health, given that the budget to cover that particular area has been slashed to ribbons (along with everything else), and not enough money was spent on it before the slashing took place.

The Green Party is green in more ways than one.

bnt

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I don't suffer from hysteria.

I enjoy it!

I think Hysteria is wonderful too - if I hark back to the original meaning of the word. They're even making a movie about it, starring Maggie Gyllenhall, who describes it like this:

I play a firecracker whose father is a doctor who is in the business of curing hysterical women. He cures them basically by getting them off and that actually happened. I end up having a sort of unexpected love affair with this guy who works for him, and who by mistake invents the vibrator.

skelliser

I would just like to add that Senator O Broilachain doesnt represent anyone not even the people of Galway.

You see, we the people of Galway have rejected him three times, 2002 and 2007 general elections and the 2009 local elections.

And what reward did he get?
a nice seat in the seanad and 70k a year plus expenses!

DeVore

WOW!

So its my fault? ahhaha :)


I guess he wasnt paying attention when his Green Party colleague Paul Gogarty praised the platform for hosting a reasonable debate over in our politics section.


DeV.

Beruthiel

DeVore wrote: »

WOW!

So its my fault? ahhaha :)

Did you ever think you'd see the day when you'd be blamed for sending the Irish nation into hysteria?
A proud moment.

/wipes tear from eye...

galwayrush

The Senator is bad for the mental health of the car owners of Galway:rolleyes:

orourkeda

go on the politicians.

up for anything

Bugger that! I went to have a look at his Twitter page and it's struggling with translating it to English. Twitter doesn't have a Forked Tongue to English dictionary obviously. :rolleyes:

CrazyRabbit

DeVore wrote: »

WOW!

So its my fault? ahhaha :)


I guess he wasnt paying attention when his Green Party colleague Paul Gogarty praised the platform for hosting a reasonable debate over in our politics section.


DeV.

I still haven't forgiven you for taking away my innocence. Damn Sex & Sexuality forum...

AckwelFoley

Jesse Flat Serpent wrote: »

In fairness there is a lot of hysteria and a complete lack of rational thinking around here and on politics.ie a lot of the time.
But it's a relevantly small percentage of the population and I dont think it's all that relevant, especially considering that there are so many keyboard warriors who just seem to be using boards as an outlet for their anger/incompetence/sexual frustration

big +1 on that ^ ^ ^

senordingdong

Aldebaran wrote: »

They are really running out of people to blame at this stage.

Hmmm, heaven forbid they accept some constructive criticism.

Though constructive criticism for the Greens would be to grow some balls and a spine.

Weasels.

gbee

You KNOW you are telling the truth when politicians try to discredit you.

We have no future, our island have been changed there is no return. We face a new future, but there is no going back.