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TG4's ident before thenews last night

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    #32
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I hope not. I saw it already on twitter though.
    The specificity of it is unbelievable.

    It is, isn't it. I wonder is it a bit like algorithms - do the random 'indents' show up to correspond to upcoming news content in the same way adverts pop up online depending on your searches etc. (?)


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    #33
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I hope not. I saw it already on twitter though.
    The specificity of it is unbelievable.

    Oh no.
    Journal.ie have done it.


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    #34
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,295 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Oh no.
    Journal.ie have done it.

    and an apology from TG4

    :(


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    #35
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Malayalam wrote: »
    It is, isn't it. I wonder is it a bit like algorithms - do the random 'indents' show up to correspond to upcoming news content in the same way adverts pop up online depending on your searches etc. (?)

    I can't imagine how it can without the right metadata. And even still, that would be asking for a fukup like this.

    Just a very odd and morbid coincidence.


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    #36
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Churnel by name churnel by nature.


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    #37
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Oh no.
    Journal.ie have done it.

    Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.


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    #38
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,723 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.

    It's below the scum of journalism.


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    #39
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,295 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Journal.ie really is the absolute scum of ‘journalism’.

    rehashing tweets and publishing paid for articles is not journalism


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Whoosh. Depressing when people don’t know classic Simpsons quotes.

    I need to start watching more re runs and obviously i havent been paying enough attention to ISF on facebook :p


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    #41
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Gbear wrote: »
    I know there's been a tragedy, but **** me if that isn't one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen.

    Agreed. I wasn't sure if it was worth clicking on it but I'm glad I did.

    461759.PNG


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    #42
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    This is mad. It's so specific like!


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    #43
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    stratowide wrote: »
    Depressing isn't a word I'd use for not knowing quotes from cartoons.

    Classic Simpsons is exemplary - riotously funny, not remotely dumbed down, both slapstick and cerebral humour. Who cares that it’s a cartoon? How small-minded of you.


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    #44
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,240 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    It was a slip up. No big deal. awful as the tragedy was, TG4 did not mean any offence by it.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #45
    Carsanal
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭Carsanal


    It's just a coincidence.

    The things people are triggered by these days.
    Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

    Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

    **** off getting triggered over nothing really.


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    #46
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Carsanal wrote: »
    It's just a coincidence.

    The things people are triggered by these days.
    Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

    Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

    **** off getting triggered over nothing really.

    Who's triggered?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #47
    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,510 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Carsanal wrote: »
    It's just a coincidence.

    The things people are triggered by these days.
    Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous.

    Can guarantee it's automated and nobody remembered that they have one where a giant is firing a caravan into the sea.

    **** off getting triggered over nothing really.

    This is another type of poster these days. Calling everyone triggered and snowflake after not reading the thread properly.

    "Calling for someone to be fired over this is ridiculous". That was one poster and I'd imagine they were firmly tongue in cheek.


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    #48
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Absolute non-story, bottom of the barrel tabloid outrage scraping.


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    #49
    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,510 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Absolute non-story, bottom of the barrel tabloid outrage scraping.

    I didn't find it in a tabloid. They were much later. Jesus, everyone desperate to claim it as a non story. It was only posted because of the coincidence.


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    #50
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    It was an interesting quirk, well worthy of being pointed out. No outrage, no offense.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #51
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    I'm glad someone spotted this. To think it might have gone unnoticed.


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    #52
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,476 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    I'm sure all 6 viewers were devastated...


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    #53
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,553 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I'm more offended by the CGI to be honest.


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    #54
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Reminds me of the time two gardai died in circumstances that I believed involved a major car crash (being vague because I don't remember).

    RTE repeated a Podge and Rodge Scare at Bedtime episode in a story involving gardai, about two weeks after the tragic Gardai deaths. (The episode itsself aired about 6 months prior-also involved two Gardai dying in a car crash). A terrible timing to air a repeat, RTE had to apologise after the papers went apespit.


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    #55
    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,510 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Also saw this one on Reddit








    *I am not saying this one was done on purpose, I know it was coincidence. I'm not calling for anyone to be sacked.

    **Is this what the world has come too now? :rolleyes:


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