Dublin Road billboard gets Occupied

G Power

ha

Storm 10

Come on its a photoshop job

Lapin

Where the hell did you find such a clear blue sky in Galway. :eek:

Robbo

Lapin wrote: »

Where the hell did you find such a clear blue sky in Galway. :eek:

No Chemtrails so beloved of the Occupiers either so I call shennanigans.

snubbleste

Lapin wrote: »

Where the hell did you find such a clear blue sky in Galway. :eek:

This morning was a blue sky morning. So it was.

G Power

Storm 10 wrote: »

Come on its a photoshop job

is it ya? thousands of people travelling on the road would disagree with ye, go and look for yourselves or download the image and zoom in for a closer look

antoobrien

G Power wrote: »

is it ya? thousands of people travelling on the road would disagree with ye, go and look for yourselves or download the image and zoom in for a closer look

couple of telltales around the edges that don't look like digital compression/zoom artefacts. Of course standing less than 60' away from a billboard one shouldn't need a digital zoom.

Fey!

Uniformed Gardai with guns?

And weren't their Uzis taken away a few years ago?

G Power

antoobrien wrote: »

couple of telltales around the edges that don't look like digital compression/zoom artefacts. Of course standing less than 60' away from a billboard one shouldn't need a digital zoom.

go down and see it for yourself so or wait for the local media confirm it :pac:

antoobrien

G Power wrote: »

go down and see it for yourself so or wait for the local media confirm it :pac:

The Dublin road is about 130 miles long, perhaps you'd like to tell us where this sign is and if it is real whom we can report for criminal damage (defacing a sign).

G Power

antoobrien wrote: »

The Dublin road is about 130 miles long, perhaps you'd like to tell us where this sign is and if it is real whom we can report for criminal damage (defacing a sign).

you're such a photo/graphic-design/legal expert, can you point out the criminal damage? I have Horatio Caine on the other line and he's...

*slowly puts on his shades over the phone :cool:

...got a plan

antoobrien

G Power wrote: »

you're such a photo/graphic-design/legal expert, can you point out the criminal damage? I have Horatio Caine on the other line and he's...

*slowly puts on his shades over the phone :cool:

...got a plan

Horatio would be clapping iron on your wrists because he'd know that defacing something - which is what has been done here if it is not a photoshop - is criminal damage.

Storm 10

See my post below

_Puma_

That looks like it is opposite the Eye cinema. Will check it out later on the way home from work.

ben.schlomo

I have to say, who really gives a fudge about it anyway. Its an ad for the Irish Times is it? Otherwise its of little interest to anyone as has been proven in the past.

evoke

it is across from the eye cinema. I know the path on the left. People would see when they are coming in to galway.

Seaneh

It's the billboard beside the hunstman across from the G.


The pictures dont look like photoshops btw.

Storm 10

Yes the OP is correct it is the bill board near the Huntsman inbound to the City, the picture he posted is what is on the bill board, its pasted over an add for the Irish Independent.

_Whimsical_

Fortunate they refound their protesting zeal just as the colleges finish exams and the weather improves.
Occupying Eyre Sq for the summer could be a lay abouts dream.

Did the weekly multi purpose protest from the Cathedral ever take off btw?

Eeden

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Fortunate they refound their protesting zeal just as the colleges finish exams and the weather improves.
Occupying Eyre Sq for the summer could be a lay abouts dream.

Did the weekly multi purpose protest from the Cathedral ever take off btw?

You say the weather has improved?? :P

_Whimsical_

Eeden wrote: »

You say the weather has improved?? :P

Haha well since the last time they were out!

And Galway's summer is generally a tantilising flash of sun mid may that peters out by June.

G Power

antoobrien wrote: »

Horatio would be clapping iron on your wrists because he'd know that defacing something - which is what has been done here if it is not a photoshop - is criminal damage.

I only took a photo. are you following this thread or letting your imagination run riot?

Das Kitty

G Power wrote: »

I only took a photo. are you following this thread or letting your imagination run riot?

So you're not an affiliate of Occupy Galway then?

Mrs OBumble

Eeden wrote: »

You say the weather has improved?? :P

The rain's slightly warmer.

Mrs OBumble

Fey! wrote: »

Uniformed Gardai with guns?

And weren't their Uzis taken away a few years ago?

It's an ad for the Irish Independent (or some news org) comparing what is with what might be. Was run before a film at the Eye on Saturday (and probably a zillion other places too, but that's where I've seen it).

G Power

Das Kitty wrote: »

So you're not an affiliate of Occupy Galway then?

not that it matters but yes, I'm a supporter of the Occupy movement. what are you trying to insinuate? and i'd be careful now if I was you cos you're already threading on thin legal ground here.

G Power

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

It's an ad for the Irish Independent (or some news org) comparing what is with what might be. Was run before a film at the Eye on Saturday (and probably a zillion other places too, but that's where I've seen it).

and some bright spark with access to a printer and a sense of humour changed the context of it very eloquently in my view. The original message is still there but with a new twist. I say well done to whoever done it. There were plenty of motorists stuck in traffic but stitches and taking pics when I passed

Das Kitty

G Power wrote: »

not that it matters but yes, I'm a supporter of the Occupy movement. what are you trying to insinuate? and i'd be careful now if I was you cos you're already threading on thin legal ground here.

Am I?

Jaysus I must ring my solicitor so. :pac:

Bless.

Zaph

G Power wrote: »

not that it matters but yes, I'm a supporter of the Occupy movement. what are you trying to insinuate? and i'd be careful now if I was you cos you're already threading on thin legal ground here.

For the purposes of clarification it's probably only fair to warn you that making legal threats against other people on this site is an automatic siteban.

Your move.

kippy

I thought we'd seen the back of these chancers.

Any encroachment into the city, similar to last time, should not be given any leeway whatsoever.

biko

G Power wrote: »

i'd be careful now if I was you cos you're already threading on thin legal ground here.

We don't need people threatening getting all legal here. If you are insinuating any legal action again I will ban you permanently from this forum as boards don't want to get involved in real world court cases. Do you understand?

Edit, Zaph beat me to it.

G Power

Zaph wrote: »

For the purposes of clarification it's probably only fair to warn you that making legal threats against other people on this site is an automatic siteban.

Your move.

no, i'm good, in my view both parties have said enough and can move on now but of course it's up for mods to decide as you said

G Power

biko wrote: »

We don't need people threatening getting all legal here. If you are insinuating any legal action again I will ban you permanently from this forum as boards don't want to get involved in real world court cases. Do you understand?

Edit, Zaph beat me to it.

I totally understand what you're saying Biko but i wasn't the instigator of what would have become a legal issue if a certain someone had tried to correlate the taking of a photo with the presumption of guilt

kippy

G Power wrote: »

I totally understand what you're saying Biko but i wasn't the instigator of what would have become a legal issue if a certain someone had tried to correlate the taking of a photo with the presumption of guilt

Guilt of what?

G Power

kippy wrote: »

I thought we'd seen the back of these chancers.

Any encroachment into the city, similar to last time, should not be given any leeway whatsoever.

I don't think you know which "chancers" are really effecting your life kippy

kippy

G Power wrote: »

I don't think you know which "chancers" are really effecting your life kippy

I know a bunch of crusties who should be doing something more productive instead of creating a scene in a square in town, purporting to represent my wishes, effect my life more than any politician, banker or new world order member.

G Power

kippy wrote: »

I know a bunch of crusties who should be doing something more productive instead of creating a scene in a square in town, purporting to represent my wishes, effect my life more than any politician, banker or new world order member.

i'm genuinely curious to hear how you've come to this conclusion

please enlighten us all

kippy

G Power wrote: »

i'm genuinely curious to hear how you've come to this conclusion

please enlighten us all

There you go, speaking on behalf of others already.


I wouldn't waste my time explaining it to be honest.
Should be pretty obvious.

biko

Aaaand we're done. Unfortunately these threads almost never work out in this forum.
Perhaps Politics forum next time OP?