Catriona, the lady in red..

Ballstein · 28-06-2017 09:12PM #1

Looks like a master stroke by Catriona Perry, global front page news. Wearing a figure hugging tight red dress in front of a perverted old codger with a predisposition for young, toothy blonds. She may play coy, but it's straight out of a Ron Burgundy movie such was the predictability of it all. Oh and save your "she should be able wear what ever she likes crap", it was a carefully calculated move on her behalf that has sent her profile stratospheric.

keith_sixteen · 28-06-2017 09:13PM

Ok then.

colm_mcm · 28-06-2017 09:15PM

Jaysus, I just watched this and can't believe all the fuss.

me_irl · 28-06-2017 09:15PM

Not this sh*t again!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-06-2017 09:16PM

Ballstein wrote: »

Looks like a master stroke by Catriona Perry, global front page news. Wearing a figure hugging tight red dress in front of a perverted old codger with a predisposition for young, toothy blonds. She may play coy, but it's straight out of a Ron Burgundy movie such was the predictability of it all. Oh and save your "she should be able wear what ever she likes crap", it was a carefully calculated move on her behalf that has sent her profile stratospheric.

Are you serious? You're reading and seeing too much in it.

Dyr · 28-06-2017 09:18PM

Poor Donnie, he fell right into her trap.

Murrisk · 28-06-2017 09:19PM

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Badly Drunk Boy · 28-06-2017 09:23PM

Yeah. What's this thread about? Is it Katy Perry? And did she wear a dress (and liked it)?

Jayop · 28-06-2017 09:25PM

Bambi wrote: »

Poor Donnie, he fell right into her trap.

Yup, the old honey trap. He's not the first and he sure won't be the last.

DontThankMe · 28-06-2017 09:28PM

If Obama had said it everyone would be saying what a nice guy he is complimenting her but, because trump said it, it's weird absolute bull****.

Barry Badrinath · 28-06-2017 09:30PM

Someone needs to buy her a chin.

Wibbs · 28-06-2017 09:32PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Yeah. What's this thread about? Is it Katy Perry? And did she wear a dress (and liked it)?

You too? My first thought when I saw the previous thread was "Caitriona Perry? Has she gone all serious now and is about to release an emo-grunge album?".

Murrisk · 28-06-2017 09:36PM

DontThankMe wrote: »

If Obama had said it everyone would be saying what a nice guy he is complimenting her but, because trump said it, it's weird absolute bull****.

Obama wouldn't say it. So it would never come up.

Ballstein · 28-06-2017 09:36PM

DontThankMe wrote: »

If Obama had said it everyone would be saying what a nice guy he is complimenting her but, because trump said it, it's weird absolute bull****.

He's not the first politician to have an eye for the ladies and most certainly won't be the last (Hillary wouldn't have broken with tradition either) but he has all the subtly of a brick in the face. Makes you think what he's like when the worlds TV cameras aren't trained on him.

Mardy Bum · 28-06-2017 09:38PM

Ballstein wrote: »

He's not the first politician to have an eye for the ladies and most certainly won't be the last (Hillary wouldn't have broken with tradition either) but he has all the subtly of a brick in the face. Makes you think what he's like when the worlds TV cameras aren't trained on him.

I think we already know that what he is like without cameras.

Richard Hillman · 28-06-2017 10:01PM

Murrisk wrote: »

Obama wouldn't say it. So it would never come up.

Bill Clinton would though

Wibbs · 28-06-2017 10:04PM

Murrisk wrote: »

Obama wouldn't say it. So it would never come up.

Really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juy9NwI8_i0

greencap · 28-06-2017 10:11PM

Ballstein wrote: »

Looks like a master stroke by Catriona Perry, global front page news. Wearing a figure hugging tight red dress in front of a perverted old codger with a predisposition for young, toothy blonds. She may play coy, but it's straight out of a Ron Burgundy movie such was the predictability of it all. Oh and save your "she should be able wear what ever she likes crap", it was a carefully calculated move on her behalf that has sent her profile stratospheric.

Imagine if Donny followed Rons lead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9b80J9DFp8

Murrisk · 28-06-2017 10:27PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Really?

Yeah, I don't consider that remotely as bad. An offhand term of endearment is not the same to me at all. Like, if someone called me 'sweetie' like that, I wouldn't mind, kinda like someone saying 'love' or 'dear'. I've never minded any of those terms. People generally mean well saying them. But someone making a point of noting my "nice smile" while I'm trying to do my job would give me pause. Side eye would be deployed. It's moving into the realms of objectification. 'Sweetie' most certainly does not have the same effect. Reminds me off all the creeps down the year who seem offended by the fact that I'm not smiling in their presence and jokingly instruct me to do so. Just not the same.

I could have predicted some of the users who would thank your post though and was not disappointed. I think I guessed five out of seven.

MRnotlob606 · 28-06-2017 10:36PM

DontThankMe wrote: »

If Obama had said it everyone would be saying what a nice guy he is complimenting her but, because trump said it, it's weird absolute bull****.

Obama didn't have a history of being a complete ass with women though? I don't even have to provide examples because they'er probably in their thousands when it comes to Trump.

Exeggcute · 28-06-2017 10:42PM

"You have a nice smile."

The nerve of him.

Imagine if she had blown him and he penetrated her with a cigar in the oval office....oh wait that was Bill and Monica.

The left in America has lost its marbles

Murrisk · 28-06-2017 10:49PM

Exeggcute wrote: »

"You have a nice smile."

The nerve of him.

Imagine if she had blown him and he penetrated her with a cigar in the oval office....oh wait that was Bill and Monica.

The left in America has lost its marbles

Bill Clinton is also a disgusting lech and possibly worse. What's your point?

Ballstein · 28-06-2017 10:51PM

Murrisk wrote: »

Yeah, I don't consider that remotely as bad. An offhand term of endearment is not the same to me at all. Like, if someone called me 'sweetie' like that, I wouldn't mind, kinda like someone saying 'love' or 'dear'. I've never minded any of those terms. People generally mean well saying them. But someone making a point of noting my "nice smile" while I'm trying to do my job would give me pause. Side eye would be deployed. It's moving into the realms of objectification. 'Sweetie' most certainly does not have the same effect. Reminds me off all the creeps down the year who seem offended by the fact that I'm not smiling in their presence and jokingly instruct me to do so. Just not the same.

I think the vast majority of rational people would agree that Trump is a deviant with a warped view of women. I think Perry used this knowledge to her own advantage though in a cynical move to advance her career. Surely a smart business suit would have projected a better image for a respected international news corespondent as opposed to a figure hugging bright red dress when in the company of one of the most well known philanderers on the planet.

Murrisk · 28-06-2017 10:52PM

Ballstein wrote: »

I think the vast majority of rational people would agree that Trump is a deviant with a warped view of women. I think Perry used this knowledge to her own advantage though in a cynical move to advance her career.

That's certainly possible. We are living in the age of clickbait, after all.

One eyed Jack · 28-06-2017 11:01PM

Ballstein wrote: »

I think the vast majority of rational people would agree that Trump is a deviant with a warped view of women.

Would these people only be considered rational because they agree that Trump is a deviant with a warped view of women? If anyone disagrees they are irrational?

I think Perry used this knowledge to her own advantage though in a cynical move to advance her career. Surely a smart business suit would have projected a better image for a respected international news corespondent as opposed to a figure hugging bright red dress when in the company of one of the most well known philanderers on the planet.

A what? :pac:

...And Justice · 28-06-2017 11:04PM

Ballstein wrote: »

Looks like a master stroke by Catriona Perry, global front page news. Wearing a figure hugging tight red dress in front of a perverted old codger with a predisposition for young, toothy blonds. She may play coy, but it's straight out of a Ron Burgundy movie such was the predictability of it all. Oh and save your "she should be able wear what ever she likes crap", it was a carefully calculated move on her behalf that has sent her profile stratospheric.

If you lived here, you'd be home by now - Lionel Hutz.

28-06-2017 11:07PM

Not sure it was appropriate...but not sure about her taking to tweeting about it afterwards.

Her job is to interview others for a national broadcaster, not really to publish comments about her take on incidents putting her in centre stage. Let others do that. It reminds me if when Charlie Bird used to think Charlie Bird's reaction to events was the news, so he'd describe his emotions rather than the real victims of an earthquake or flood.

osarusan · 28-06-2017 11:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Not sure it was appropriate...but not sure about her taking to tweeting about it afterwards.

She tweeted once, calling it a 'bizarre moment'. It was a bit bizarre the way he cut into the call to Varadkar to call her over and talk to her. She wasn't exactly claiming to be a victim or anything.

He didn't say anything weird though, it's just his ham-fisted approach, his reputation preceding him, and a press that will seize on anything at all.

The notion that this was all some cunning masterplan of Caitriona's, though, is absolute nonsense.

Ballstein · 28-06-2017 11:48PM

osarusan wrote: »

She tweeted once, calling it a 'bizarre moment'. It was a bit bizarre the way he cut into the call to Varadkar to call her over and talk to her. She wasn't exactly claiming to be a victim or anything.

He didn't say anything weird though, it's just his ham-fisted approach, his reputation preceding him, and a press that will seize on anything at all.

The notion that this was all some cunning masterplan of Caitriona's, though, is absolute nonsense.

Why would you think it's a nonsense? Are you saying Perry is above using her looks to her advantages? While I doubt she expected to be called out like that I've no doubt that she knew exactly what she was doing when she wore that outfit. Is it that far fetched that an ambitious, good looking female reporter, knowing that she would be in close to proximity to the most powerful man on the planet, a man with a proven reputation as a womaniser, wouldn't seek to improver her chances of getting noticed by said man?

Carry · 28-06-2017 11:49PM

What is the problem?
There is a journalist who was commissioned to report about the phone call between Varadkar and that American imbecile who calls imself president, he couldn't handle a political conversation, if there ever could be one between people who don't know feck all about each other, or at least that Yank doesn't know know red from blue ... hang on, he knows red if it's a red dress on a blond woman.

Anyway, to distract from his ingnorance he hit on what he knows best: a young blonde.

So who is to blame? A female journalist who happens to be young and attractive or an old lecher who uses his supposed power as alpha male to suffocate any political conversation he hasn't a clue about anyway by distracting to "lovely smiles" (not his though)?

And what it is about red dresses? What association have the gentleman of AH with it?

I don't know this Catriona woman, don't know her work, I'm not on twitter either. But I watched that video because it was all over the place.
If Varadkar on the phone had any backbone he would have shouted: Oi, I'M talking to you! Well, I would, and more ...

Outlaw Pete · 29-06-2017 12:01AM

Murrisk wrote: »

Obama wouldn't say it. So it would never come up.

Unfortunate choice of words there :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcIuCF5RdI

Catriona, the lady in red..

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