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  • 02-11-2013 1:13pm
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I agree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    So so true I've been thinking about this very topic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    ;

    half arsed.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Surely a Garda matter? (Online though it may be, it's still harrassing someone, no?).

    If they did it on Facebook the victim should be able to get their information to report them. I know I wouldn't be too long about doing it. I'd imagine your average internet hardjaw would be absolutely terrified of the sight of a patrol car pulling up outside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Tis a nuanced position, might get a few to scratch their heads but should be a fruitful discussion.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Posted in wrong forum, nothing to see here, move along, are ya right folks please !, you dont have to go home but you cant stay here etc etc.

    Now in feedback for anyone that did see the original post.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Down with this sort of thing



































    Careful Now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    That would be an ecumenical matter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Surely a Garda matter? (Online though it may be, it's still harrassing someone, no?).

    If they did it on Facebook the victim should be able to get their information to report them. I know I wouldn't be too long about doing it. I'd imagine your average internet hardjaw would be absolutely terrified of the sight of a patrol car pulling up outside.


    No no no, what you want to do is send them this strongly worded letter. Replace the names obviously.

    In this letter I intend to express my views about Mr. First Name Last Name with gentleness and respect. Let me begin by saying that Mr. Last Name is totally insolent, as he has proved to my complete satisfaction. He is an opportunist. That is, he is an ideological chameleon without any real morality, without a soul. Shame on Mr. Last Name for thinking that people like you and me are batty!

    I plan to work together towards a shared vision. This is a choice I have made; your choice is up to you. But let me remind you that nepotism is a plague upon us all, a pox that will likely not be erased in the lifetime of any reader of this letter. To Mr. Last Name, however, it's merely a convenient mechanism for committing acts of immorality, dishonesty, and treason. Actually, the baneful nature of his credos is not just a rumor. It is a fact to which I can testify.

    My vision that some day, people everywhere will put Mr. Last Name in his place is an inspiring dream. Unfortunately, reality always awakens me and reminds me that Mr. Last Name should think twice before he decides to unfurl the ungrateful flag of favoritism. There are several logical contradictions in Mr. Last Name's position on this matter. For example, I fully intend to focus on concrete facts, on hard news, on analyzing and interpreting what's happening in the world. I will spare no labor in doing this and reckon no labor lost that brings me toward this mark. Even so, Mr. Last Name's spin doctors don't want us to compare, contrast, and identify the connections among different sorts of alabandical, unregenerate Tartuffism. That'd be too much of a threat to plagiarism, metagrobolism, and all of the other hateful things they worship. Clearly, they prefer doing everything possible to keep the most prodigal calumniators you'll ever see morally crippled and inaniloquent.

    It is clear from what I have already written that some people think I'm exaggerating when I say that Mr. Last Name has never been afraid to leave the terra firma of reason and venture out into the open sea of base-minded Bourbonism. But I'm not exaggerating; if anything, I'm understating the situation. Speaking of which, most members of our quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society are too impatient to realize the importance of insisting on a policy of zero tolerance toward Fabianism. I wish only that a few more people could see that inasmuch as I disagree with Mr. Last Name's accusations and find his ad hominem attacks offensive, I am happy to meet Mr. Last Name's speech with more speech and, if necessary, continue this discussion until the truth shines.

    Some would say that this is a platitude. Would that it were! Rather, I unmistakably insist that Mr. Last Name is a neo-nocent misosophist. How else can I characterize a person who did all of the following and then some?

    Suppress controversy and debate
    Grant a free ride to the undeserving
    Degrade, divide, and destroy our nation
    I could lengthen this list, but I shall rest my case. The point is that an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. Keep that in mind the next time you catch Mr. Last Name attacking my character.

    What if we collectively just told Mr. Last Name's surrogates, "Sure, go ahead and destroy the lives of good, honest people. Have fun!"? That would be worse than bloody-minded; it would make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his hate-filled efforts.

    Antagonism has served as the justification for the butchering, torture, and enslavement of more people than any other "ism". That's why it's Mr. Last Name's favorite; it makes it easy for him to abandon me on a desert island. Where does the line get drawn? Mr. Last Name's foot soldiers have the gall to accuse me of rewriting history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". Were these shrewish fogeys born without a self-awareness gene? It's questions like that that indubitably get people thinking about how one of the great mysteries of modern life is, Where is Mr. Last Name's integrity? To answer that question, we need first to consider Mr. Last Name's thought process, which generally takes the following form: (1) The purpose of life is self-gratification, so (2) he is a model citizen. Therefore, (3) the more strepitant the communication, the more perspicuous the message, and thus, (4) he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. As you can see, Mr. Last Name's reasoning makes no sense, which leads me to believe that he ought to realize that the most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Unfortunately, Mr. Last Name tends to utter so much verbiage about triumphalism that I can conclude only that neopaganism is correctly defined by its quixotic style, structure, and methods, not by its stated or apparent ideological premises or goals. It may be more correct, however, to say that in these days of political correctness and the changing of how history is taught in schools to fulfill a particular agenda, one can usually be pretty sure when Mr. Last Name is lying. Sometimes there's a little doubt: maybe it's not a deliberate lie but merely a difference of opinion. But when Mr. Last Name claims that education and open-mindedness are some kind of liability, there's no room for ambiguity: he's lying.

    I understand that Mr. Last Name's ramblings are saturated with the pathological rhetoric that will truly produce culturally degenerate films and tapes, but if you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will really find that Mr. Last Name's ravings all stem from one, simple, faulty premise, that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the petty hands of uncongenial extortionists. On the other hand, there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Last Name and his winged monkeys started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that Mr. Last Name has a natural talent for complaining. He can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours. He has been trying to convince us that feral flibbertigibbets have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us. That argument fails to take into account the reality that I support those who devote their life to education and activism. It is through their tireless efforts that people everywhere are learning that instead of taking the easy path in life, the downward path, we must choose the upward path regardless of the pain, suffering, and sacrifice that this choice entails. Only then can we finally bear the flambeau of freedom. Yes, Mr. Last Name will try to stop us by making my blood curdle, but his intimates were recently seen creating an atmosphere of mistrust in which speculations and rumors gain the appearance of viability and compete openly with more carefully considered theories. That's not a one-time accident or oversight. That's Mr. Last Name's policy.

    Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that I can reword my point as follows. I sincerely reject Mr. Last Name's demands. Mr. Last Name's approach is generally to seize upon an anecdote or a narrow and limited manifestation and/or purpose, and then totally blow it out of proportion to justify his argumentative philosophies. Sure, it sounds malefic. Blame that on statism-prone passéists.

    Why am I so fascinated by each new incarnation of Mr. Last Name's metanarratives? It must be morbid curiosity. Even though I know his latest metanarratives are going to be as absolutely raving as the previous batch, I feel I have to find out just how raving they are. What I've found so far is that Mr. Last Name is exceptionally eager to help disloyal fugitives evade capture by the authorities. His insuperable acrasia is partly to blame for that, but another part of the story is that everyone ought to read my award-winning essay, "The Naked Aggression of First Name Last Name". In it, I chronicle all of Mr. Last Name's analects from the devious to the uncompanionable and conclude that in a rather infamous speech, Mr. Last Name exclaimed that he's a tribune of the oppressed. (I edited out the rest of what he said because, well, it didn't really say anything.) Let me conclude by stating that Mr. First Name Last Name's beliefs are enmeshed in dogmatism. You can quote me on that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    A period of reflection.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭mrsoundie


    Won't somebody, please think of the children?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


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    Controversial


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    you can't write that! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,868 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    .

    tl:dr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Well done sir, good observation

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Can we just get to the point?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Never saw so much hypocrites in one place as I have here. All perfect are ye? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? I don't see anyone beating down your doors with a blue Peter medal


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