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Holly Carpenter...whoever you are...

[Deleted User] · 2016-01-03 06:31:22

...write an essay about your New Year's Eve...but in the style of a 7 year old... http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/holly-carpenter-celebrates-2016-with-boyfriend-danny-oreilly-at-coronas-nye-gig-34328771.html Well done Holly. That was perfect.

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#182 03-01-2016 5:15pm
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Custardpi wrote: »

I understood that perfectly. I also understood that you were equating (for hyperbolic effect fair enough) those who poke some harmless fun at a crap article with those who engage in physical violence.

Yes, so I was joking and meant absolutely nothing by it.

If I cared enough about this topic and wanted a serious back-and-forth debate I'd have responded to your initial comment, which was fair enough.

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#183 03-01-2016 5:23pm
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Hammer89 wrote: »

Let's all get tickets and throw batteries at her because she isn't Shakespeare.

9v ftw.

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#184 03-01-2016 5:41pm
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It's not her fault she's an air-head, but the Independent deserve every criticism it gets for publishing her.

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#185 03-01-2016 5:45pm
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Azalea wrote: »

The best was the one on the sindo where the woman used her daughter's boyfriend's death from cancer to promote her shop and her daughter's modelling career. That deserved the savaging it got.

What one was that?

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#186 03-01-2016 5:47pm
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She makes Alison O'Riordan look like Shakespeare.

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#187 03-01-2016 5:55pm
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NIMAN wrote: »

I do think many people underestimate how popular these trivial 'news' type articles and celeb gossip is.

Absolutely, and I'm no angel myself in this regard. I'd love to say that I only read the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, but I will also often have a tonne of DM tabs open and they nearly ALL get read. The DM has, IMO, shrewdly tapped into humans' primitive gossipy nature and our status as a highly social species like no other newspaper. They know exactly what they're doing.

I actually think the Indo is not doing too badly in this regard either albeit on a more local scale. Most people I know browse their site daily.

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#188 03-01-2016 6:01pm
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The indo and Holly must be delighted at all the page views / shares and chatter about this though.
I wonder if they set out to do exactly this...

Well played

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#189 03-01-2016 6:05pm
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Muahahaha wrote: »

What one was that?

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

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#190 03-01-2016 6:06pm
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whiskeyman wrote: »

The indo and Holly must be delighted at all the page views / shares and chatter about this though.
I wonder if they set out to do exactly this...

Well played

Yes thats right, makes me want to tune in next week to see what she had for breakfast.

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#191 03-01-2016 6:09pm
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GFT wrote: »

Yes thats right, makes me want to tune in next week to see what she had for breakfast.

Rice krispies I'd say

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#192 03-01-2016 6:10pm
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Amazing the number of people who dont realise the romeo and juliet tweet is a pisstake

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#193 03-01-2016 6:12pm
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Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

You can't be serious, is that actually real??

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#194 03-01-2016 6:16pm
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Dtp1979 wrote: »

You can't be serious, is that actually real??

Hey, don't point that finger at ME, I didn't write it!!!!!

And yes, sadly it is. Feel a bit sorry for the kiddo in the article too. There was a photo accompanying the original article. Yeah, she probably liked the attention but I'd say she could have gone on to regret it. She was so young. An adult should have stepped in there.

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#195 03-01-2016 6:38pm
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NIMAN wrote: »

So the Examiner are making a news story out of this thread?

Thats equally shoddy journalism.

Nodin wrote: »

Nay, similar remarks on twitter. We rarely get credited when we're the source.

That Examiner article was written yesterday. This thread was only started today.

And it's been all over Facebook and Twitter for the past 24hrs or so...

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#196 03-01-2016 6:46pm
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Is being sh*t a good thing nowadays? If you are complete sh*t like this girl and Kat*e H*pkins does that mean you get to write for national newspapers? How do they make money?

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#197 03-01-2016 7:01pm
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Muahahaha wrote: »

What one was that?

Found a thread here on it :pac:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72527693

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#198 03-01-2016 7:05pm
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Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

I must say, that is reprehensible. But strangely funny. Hope the shop burns down.

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#199 03-01-2016 7:18pm
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Xaracatz wrote: »

Whatever about the "I went to the shops. I saw a red balloon. Ice cream is tasty." style..

What kind of unfortunate sentence is that? You could use all the coloured crayons and sparkles in the world, and it will wouldn't make it onto the fridge door.

It's not even just a run on sentence - it's genuinely really bad grammar.

Good lord

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#200 03-01-2016 7:20pm
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nullzero wrote: »

Ireland is a fantastic country, if you're attractive

She's nearly as plain as her writing.

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#201 03-01-2016 7:23pm
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Zimmey wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chloes-burning-ambition-and-dedication-to-her-tragic-boyfriend-rory-26737425.html

Can someone who lives in the locality please confirm that this shop has since closes down?

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#202 03-01-2016 7:25pm
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Quazzie wrote: »

Can someone who lives in the locality please confirm that this shop has since closes down?

Ring the number and find out

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#203 03-01-2016 7:29pm
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Canadel wrote: »

She's nearly as plain as her writing.

Not everyone is going to fancy her and she does look no better than lots of other pretty women, but I still think plain is hardly an accurate description.

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#204 03-01-2016 7:31pm
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Azalea wrote: »

Not everyone is going to fancy her and she does look no better than lots of other pretty women, but I still think plain is hardly an accurate description.

She's as plain as an good looking, fame/media/rich boyfriend hungry bimbo

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#205 03-01-2016 7:34pm
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Right, she's not plain.

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Ring the number and find out

That number is long deleted/recycled I'd say :pac: - I remember how destroyed they got on Facebook. The one time I agreed with a company being slaughtered on social media.

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#206 03-01-2016 7:41pm
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Azalea wrote: »

Not everyone is going to fancy her and she does look no better than lots of other pretty women, but I still think plain is hardly an accurate description.

Oh she's hardly plain, but a duckface and makeup do wonders.

Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.

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#207 03-01-2016 7:43pm
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and photoshopping.

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#208 03-01-2016 7:58pm
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Sheeps wrote: »

Not sure if it's been posted yet, but the examiner have picked up on how bad it is.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/holly-carpenter-gets-slammed-for-writing-article-about-boyfriend-danny-oreilly-713834.html

NIMAN wrote: »

So the Examiner are making a news story out of this thread?

Thats equally shoddy journalism.

Custardpi wrote: »

Sadly they haven't done that. The article is actually a (sym)pathetic one about the "hate" & "abuse" which Carpenter has apparently suffered. Strangely it's accompanied by several screengrabs of tweets which contain neither. Presumably there'll be a follow up article in the Indo soon detailling how her life has been "destroyed" by the "online mob" or some such drivel.

They described her slating as hate, its a slating, but I can't say I've interpreted hate, so they're overdoing it by a longway.

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#209 03-01-2016 8:02pm
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Wibbs wrote: »

Oh she's hardly plain, but a duckface and makeup do wonders.

Am I the only one who thinks the duckface pose actually makes girls look less attractive?

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#210 03-01-2016 8:03pm
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Wibbs wrote: »

Oh she's hardly plain, but a duckface and makeup do wonders.

That's all I mean. She's objectively pretty (even if not everyone fancies her, or would go for that look themselves - I know I wouldn't). People who call her plain must be utterly stunning :pac: and the Photoshop thing is like something a jealous girl would say.

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#211 03-01-2016 8:04pm
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so did Conor74 (op) come across this article all by himself and share it with us? then it developed legs?

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