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Is it time to stop being annoyed or outraged by idiots online?

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    #32
    Rjd2
    Registered Users Posts: 12,017 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    biko wrote: »
    Outrage journalism is the latest after click-bait journalism.
    Anything to get people to click the links.

    Agreed. Another thing to be wary about any article which is pretty much titled

    "people are outraged by blah blah been cast as whoever"

    Good chance nobody is outraged and the twitter accounts they have linked to to highlight the supposed outrage are nobodies. However when it comes to so much US culture wars that does not matter, got to get the hot takes for retweets. Blah blah..white privledge,,,tolerant left,,sjws...NAZIS...shariah law" you know the usual buzzwords. :pac:

    Bill Maher nailed this much better than I could.



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    #33
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,112 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Yip, that about sums it all up.


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    #34
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,266 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Yes people spend to much time engaging with online idiots. Some people love a fight/battle tough!


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    #35
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    They don't actually leave the rest of us waiting on trolleys with suspected bleeding on the brain either.

    I agree with you but have you read "Rate my Hospital " comments?


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    #36
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,303 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Amirani wrote: »
    I'm guessing you haven't been to A&E in a third world country, because if you had then you wouldn't be making comments like this.

    I have. If you have cash it is fine actually. Probably not great for the majority of locals though.


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    #37
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Sites like here and the Journal are filled with mouth-breathing morons. Most of them have no job, no partner, and no hope. So they just spend their days complaining, ranting, and soapboxing. Very easy lads to wind up as well I’ve noticed. You wouldn’t be dealing with our intellectual elite.

    Couldn't agree more - its given a platform for people who, in the past, would have met up in some sh1thole pub and slagged off everyone and anyone, to now feel they have a voice worth listening to and spout utter bollocks and tripe all day long.

    The journal is particularly bad, no matter the article, some plebite posts some bitchy & idiotic remark and all hell breaks loose.

    Its like monkeys with uzi's...


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    #38
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,055 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    klaaaz wrote: »
    It's understandable that one of the men involved in the misery of the major economic crash would have anger directed at him.

    And you don't see anything inappropriate with venting that 'anger' when the object is fighting for his life.


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    #39
    klaaaz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    And you don't see anything inappropriate with venting that 'anger' when the object is fighting for his life.

    I said that it was understandable, I didn't justify it. Rather than attack the messenger, attack the Twitterati who post stuff like that over there.


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    #40
    rireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 90 ✭✭rireland


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    My PHI costs me €2.10 a day. Excellent value for money. That's less than I pay for the flat white that I enjoy daily as I study the latest drivel from Fintan O'Toole and Una Mullally in the free Irish Times provided by my local coffee bar.

    Best wishes to Biffo though - he's far too young to die.

    You don't get anything daily for your 2.10.


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