ALIVE Newspaper - Your opinion of it?

kylith

Are they talking about Avonmore milk? If so... what a non-sequiter. I am confused.

ETA: Just did a bit of Googling. That actually is the phone number for Avonmore Milk. I am even more confused now.

Fattes

Great for cleaning the Windows! Love to see it it means it is time to clean the windows.

Brian Shanahan

Another juicy article.

article title wrote:

Nazi Influence on Movie World

I'm not going to quote the whole article, too much writing and they're a month behind on their webzone. But it talks about Michael Hanecke's latest film Amour, comparing it to a Nazi propoganda reel by the name of Ich Klage An.

Now while there are strong similarities between both films, making out Haneke to be a secret Nazi is a bit low even for that scandal rag (never mind the irony of a paper which models itself on Der Sturmer being horrified at others for espousing a view similar to a one held by Nazis), and it concludes with the following:

Taken together the two films illustrate how close today's liberal secularism is to brutal tyranny: for both, might is right, killing is compassion, and who are we to judge?

Considering that that paragraph comes from a paper which is espousing the creation of a brutal and tyrannical theocracy, it becomes too clear how easily it can equate democracy with its polar opposite, tyranny, instead of the author putting his face up to a mirror and realising how close to Nazism he is.

Oh, and one final note, the paper praises Beasts of the Southern Wild strongly, totally missing the point that it is a fantasy film, and deals with the results of global warming, something that Alive! is on record as having stated is a hoax. Maybe we should all write into the editor complaining about it.

Brian Shanahan

Sarky wrote: »

I'm informed this came from Alive.



What the actual f*ck?

Yeah, that's right next to the Michael Haneke article I complained about.

Bannasidhe

I've never even seen a copy and here was the first place I heard of it's existence.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

*smiles smugly from within Atheist bubble*

TheChizler

My brother got some kind of job to distrubute them around last year, wasn't paid but think they got free rehearsal space or something. Never made it out of his room. Took great delight in binning a giant stack of them recently.

darjeeling

kylith wrote: »

Are they talking about Avonmore milk? If so... what a non-sequiter. I am confused.

ETA: Just did a bit of Googling. That actually is the phone number for Avonmore Milk. I am even more confused now.

I think the intention is that readers will phone Avonmore and say, "We, the outraged Catholic faithful of Ireland, will stop buying your milk unless you cease sponsoring news bulletins that report news we don't like."

Edit:
More likely, the people behind ALIVE know that no-one is actually going to bother doing this, but think that RTE will still somehow be so terrified at the prospect that they will be cowed into self-censorship.

car.kar

The first and only time I ever flicked through one of their publications out of curiosity, I was informed that it was a good thing that Marie Flemming - who is terminally ill and fully paralysed with MS - lost her request for assisted suicide, because it was wrong and a sin.

I tossed it in the bin after that.

Flier

darjeeling wrote: »

....they will be cowed into self-censorship....

very appropriate :D

Galvasean

The day I boycott Avanmore will be the day someone makes a viable alternative to Supermilk.

eviltwin

A girl I used to work with writes the odd article for it so I've seen it a few times.
Its hard to believe anyone takes it seriously.

Some parts are good for a laugh. They used to have a column, kinda of a "single girl in the city" diary kinda thing which talks about the dangers of wearing skirts above the knee or having drinks after work with male coworkers. A lot of the stuff has an American spin so is obviously lifted from other sites, really extreme stuff about pre marital sex and contraception.

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

kylith

I emailed Avonmore to let them know they're in there, in case they were wondering why elderly people were calling them to talk about how great the pope was. They haven't gotten back to me yet though.

Brian Shanahan

Galvasean wrote: »

The day I boycott Avanmore will be the day someone makes a viable alternative to Supermilk.

Nothing beats fresh milk, straight from the milking machine.

Yum!

Sarky

Avonmore pioneered that revolutionary easy pour 2L bottle. That's more than the pope EVER did for humanity. They're f*cking heroes and Alive can take a running jump if they think they can diss my lactose idols.

legspin

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Nothing beats fresh milk, straight from the milking machine.

Yum!

I disagree. Straight from the cow ftw. Frothy, warm, creamy.... hmmmmm...

geeky

I interviewed the guy who publishes it.

He was extremely mild-mannered and polite. So hard to square what he put in his paper with the person I spoke to for about two hours.

What I find interesting is that you can often tell the stance of your local PP by whether they allow Alive in their churches. Some will have it right up by the poor box, others won't allow it anywhere near the place. To take an absurd analogy, if the Catholic church as a whole is the Labour party, then Alive is the Socialist Worker.

Dades

Galvasean wrote: »

The day I boycott Avanmore will be the day someone makes a viable alternative to Supermilk.

You're like the [3rd] brother I never had...

/wipes tear

Crann na Beatha

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Brian Shanahan

legspin wrote: »

I disagree. Straight from the cow ftw. Frothy, warm, creamy.... hmmmmm...

No way am I getting kicked in the 'nads for my daily milk. I'll let someone else do it.

legspin

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

No way am I getting kicked in the 'nads for my daily milk. I'll let someone else do it.

In the relative safety of a milking parlour on a freezing cold late winter morning, after being up all night at a difficult calving and a full day of school to come yet, it was the best breakfast you could wish for.

Galvasean

Sarky wrote: »

Avonmore pioneered that revolutionary easy pour 2L bottle.

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

Bloodwing

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

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

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

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

lazygal

Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »

It was a time of stronger wrists

They were dark, dark times.

Morag

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

eviltwin

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

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

lazygal

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.