Moronic FB news commenters

C Montgomery Gurns II

Honestly, I read a varied bit of UK, Irish, even the occasional piece of yank media online, and we really are stuck with the moaniest* bunch of semi literate gob****es commenting on news stories, to the point at which you could nearly do a template for them.

An example: any, and every, report by the Irish media about something positive on the jobs or media front. A jobs announcement will typically be met by a sarcastic reference of "keep the recovery going".

Are a significant percentage of the population actually mildly cretinous? The recovery is going. It is ongoing. I can't be bothered googling but from memory it has been going since at least late 2012, when the unemployment rate peaked somewhere around 15 percent and then began to fall. We are down to 6 percent unemployment- Celtic Tiger Ireland always had a hardcore of 4 percent of the population who by and large are a mixed bag of alcoholics, heroin addicts and members of two or three protected minority groups, who could not be forced to work and were placated by the government with free money.

Another regular one, the odd time when a young lad from Dalkey or Killiney or where have you appears in court for criminal damage, or theft, or posessing drugs, his suspended sentence will invariably bring a cry of "if he waz frm talla r sumwhere heda been sent ta prison".

Yes, because we all know that there is nobody from working class areas with 20 plus convictions who have never seen the inside of a prison cell. As we all know, when it comes to tackling anti social behavior perpetrated by the working class the Irish justice system is distinctly like Rudy Giulani's New York of the 90's.:rolleyes:

What other nuggets do you see on the regular, and why do we in particular have such an utterly thick subset of the population compared to seemingly anywhere else?

koumi

Is it possibly because you live in Dublin and use FB ? I fear these factors may be limiting your exposure to real life.

C Montgomery Gurns II

koumi wrote: »

Is it possibly because you live in Dublin and use FB ? I fear these factors may be limiting your exposure to real life.

I'm not going to deny that the recovery is not being evenly felt across the country but the facts speak for themselves- 15 percent down to 6 percent. A significant amount of those who emigrated have returned, so the less people to claim dole argument doesn't hold much weight either. The abuse for Enda Kenny online is unparalleled, and s usually perpetrated by some eejit in awe of spoofers like the AAA, SF etc etc. Kenny is by no means a perfect Taoiseach but he has done a somewhat decent job- his main failing is the amount of autonomy he gives to various clowns in his cabinet to undertake personal advancement/ vanity projects on the public purse with no intervention by him.

koumi

C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »

I'm not going to deny that the recovery is not being evenly felt across the country but the facts speak for themselves- 15 percent down to 6 percent. A significant amount of those who emigrated have returned, so the less people to claim dole argument doesn't hold much weight either.

I mean in answer to your question about the thick subset of population compared to anywhere else

C Montgomery Gurns II

koumi wrote: »

I mean in answer to your question about the thick subset of population compared to anywhere else

Reading UK media and the comments, yes, there isn't a tenth of the amount of semi literate gob****es polluting the comments with the same old rehashed inaccurate opinions with no grounding in reality.

koumi

C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »

Reading UK media and the comments, yes, there isn't a tenth of the amount of semi literate gob****es polluting the comments with the same old rehashed inaccurate opinions with no grounding in reality.

There are few things I'm grateful for, like at this moment I'm chilling indoors with the windows open listening to a blackbird calling loudly from the hedgerow and feeling happy that its my only concern in life right now.

Your Face

To summarise:
Moany person moans about other people moaning.

Hans Bricks

Any Enda Kenny article published by a media outlet on FB really brings out the pond life of Ireland.

end of the road

C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »

Reading UK media and the comments, yes, there isn't a tenth of the amount of semi literate gob****es polluting the comments with the same old rehashed inaccurate opinions with no grounding in reality.

it's just as bad in the uk media.

koumi

Hans Bricks wrote: »

Any Enda Kenny article published by a media outlet on FB really brings out the pond life of Ireland.

tbf, I tweeted a thanks to Enda Kenny a while back. Not for anything in particular, I think it was when Leo Varadkar was starting to rev the throttle on his campaign for teee-shocckk before Kenny had a chance to burp up his last meal. So I offered him thanks, for all the hard work he had done, a pat on the back somewhat like winding a baby, before Leo pushed him out of the car. Felt he deserved that much at least. Turned out that burp sounded good at the presidential press conference for St Patricks day. I'll give him that much, you can trust him to always burp at the right time. That's my political statement for today.

C Montgomery Gurns II

C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »

Another regular one, the odd time when a young lad from Dalkey or Killiney or where have you appears in court for criminal damage, or theft, or posessing drugs, his suspended sentence will invariably bring a cry of "if he waz frm talla r sumwhere heda been sent ta prison".

Yes, because we all know that there is nobody from working class areas with 20 plus convictions who have never seen the inside of a prison cell. As we all know, when it comes to tackling anti social behavior perpetrated by the working class the Irish justice system is distinctly like Rudy Giulani's New York of the 90's.:rolleyes:

That happens the whole time.
The same people are notably silent whenever an underprivileged person gets a light / suspended sentence. Or else they make excuses for their background.

C Montgomery Gurns II

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

That happens the whole time.
The same people are notably silent whenever an underprivileged person gets a light / suspended sentence. Or else they make excuses for their background.

I can't remember the exact circumstance, but a few weeks ago there was a report about a local SF councillor somewhere having been assaulted, or maybe even run over by a car.

Among the "reacts" were a few giving the big :D smiley.

I checked the FB of one of these scrotes for a laugh, and his profile was wall to wall SF propaganda- this clown had seen the words "local politician", not bothered reading the story, assumed he was from an establishment party and therefore deserved whatever physical injuries he had suffered.

But to be fair - most of people screeching about the "middle class getting light sentences" tend to be middle class themselves. The self-loathing socialist variety that sees privilege everywhere.

Ash.J.Williams

I find it difficult to comprehend how so many trolls know so much about Egypt and the Muslim brotherhood... Every article on that chap in Egyptian prison is followed by hundreds of vvitriolic comments about lynching him.

Ash.J.Williams

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I find it difficult to comprehend how so many trolls know so much about Egypt and the Muslim brotherhood... Every article on that chap in Egyptian prison is followed by hundreds of vvitriolic comments about lynching him.

They're also full of unfounded allegations about "ripping up his Irish passport". But there are legitimate questions also asked about his father's position and lack of commentary on the situation. The fact that The Journal continually highlight this story (in the absence of any critical overview) also seems to annoy people.

Arcade_Tryer

Facebook comment sections make the The Journal comment section look like a world leader's summit.

The worst are on the Guardian. They're not smart enough to understand most of the Guardian articles. But smug enough to not realise. Basically full of Corbyn fanatics who have now started to blame the Guardian for his lack of success. It's scary to read them as a liberal.

Ash.J.Williams

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

They're also full of unfounded allegations about "ripping up his Irish passport". But there are legitimate questions also asked about his father's position and lack of commentary on the situation. The fact that The Journal continually highlight this story (in the absence of any critical overview) also seems to annoy people.

Absolutely agree his father needs to be watched. I just find it odd the number if people calling for the son to rot in prison. I personally think he should be released to Ireland... Given the appropriate counselling and see how it goes... If he happens to be a jihadi then lock him up again..