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Maria Bailey's Final Statement in Comic Sans

Always Tired

I often find it hard to decipher whether our politicians are corrupt or just incompetent.

We knew Maria Bailey was crooked, but her font choice for this final statement just underlines how out of touch and clueless her and her ilk really are.

Even if she wasn't aware of how universally derided the font is (and if you aren't aware yourself, it is basically to a designer what a McDonald's burger would be to a Michelin star chef), when you select the font it tells you the name of it - COMIC... Why would you pick that for such a serious statement?

They really are laughing at us, all of them. I actually hope we have another recession maybe we might get rid of this crowd they are just Tories by a different name.

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[Deleted User]

Comic Sans is a nice font. Much nicer to read than somethimg ugly and dull like Times New Roman.

Tony EH

whisky_galore wrote: »

Ideal for your CV so.

I'd definitely call someone for an interview if I got a CV in with comic sans. :pac:

That'd be brilliant.

Tony EH

Deleted User wrote: »

Comic Sans is a nice font. Much nicer to read than somethimg ugly and dull like Times New Roman.

It's a grand font for something light hearted. For official documents it looks ridiculous.

biko

Times New Roman is the business font.

is_that_so

Internet forum goes bananas over font! It must be Friday!

[Deleted User]

I’ve received CVs in comic sans before. Would be from young applicants with little experience. I never put them in the “no” pile because of it but if they had been older and experienced in a work environment, I would have.

lawred2

biko wrote: »

Times New Roman is the business font.

Calibri is far easier on the eye

Times New Roman was for the 90s

AndyBoBandy

Calibri (Body) (size 11) is the only gig in town in Outlook as far as I'm concerned.

OldGoat

Tony EH wrote: »

Just a typical Fine Gaeler really.

Don't ya mean "type-ical"?

I like comic sans and still use it whenever I feel like it. **** the designers who think it's passe. It was once a very popular font to use because people liked it. Then we were told it's not nice and we believed it.
I do however change the kerning between glyphs 3, 7 and 8 just to be idiocentric.

The Bishop Basher

I'd be far more irritated by the arrogant and self entitled tone of her statement tbh.

Every time she opens her gob she makes it worse for herself but she doesn't seem capable of learning from it.

The fact that this was published in comic sans isn't surprising as her actions have been anything but professional throughout this sorry mess.

But it's just a font at the end of the day

The content is far more relevant and damaging.

ednwireland

she's pure senator material

Tony EH

The Bishop Basher wrote: »

I'd be far more irritated by the arrogant and self entitled tone of her statement tbh.

Thing is, nobody is surprised at the tone of her letter. Why would anyone expect anything different.

Buford T Justice

I wouldn't be surprised if she ran as an independent now.

cj maxx

It does look a bit like a menu you'd see at a christening.
As posted above I wouldn't be surprised if she ran as an independent such is her what looks like arrogance

Cee-Jay-Cee

machiavellianme wrote: »

I found it hilarious that her latest bulletin dropped through the letterbox last night while all this is going on. Going for the sympathy card too with a picture of her with her late father front and centre.
There's a whole page dedicated to the environment and recycling, yet the bulletin is printed on environmentally unfriendly heavy colour card (at least 300gsm).

He was a bigger crook than she is so god knows what she’s trying to do putting his face on anything. Anyway good riddance to bad rubbish, she deserved everything she got. I’m sure the Indo will keep tabs on her and anytime she appears attached to a new venture or event they’ll make sure the public don’t forget that’s she’s a fraudulent greedy liar.

PhilOssophy

I don't get the outrage, am I alone in neither caring nor understanding the outrage regarding what font she used?

whisky_galore

Buford T Justice wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if she ran as an independent now.

She could, if she likes being made fun of and laughed out of it at every second door.
Best bet is the Senate, retirement home for failed politicians.

In the pre word processor days, the font would be akin to writing a statement in crayolas.

seamus

All the comic sans, but no comments on the fact that she typed it up, printed it out, then took a photo of it to put up on Twitter. If only there were an easier way...

This is political dynasties all over; self-entitled, arrogant, and utterly, utterly incompetent.

dotsman

OldGoat wrote: »

Don't ya mean "type-ical"?

I like comic sans and still use it whenever I feel like it. **** the designers who think it's passe. It was once a very popular font to use because people liked it. Then we were told it's not nice and we believed it.
I do however change the kerning between glyphs 3, 7 and 8 just to be idiocentric.

But nobody ever liked it!

Some people used it back in the 90's because, when it was introduced with windows 95 etc it was "different" and they thought it made their documents/posters look "hip" compared to the boring, standard fonts. But, to the majority of people, it just made it look like the document/poster was composed by a child.

lawrencesummers

PhilOssophy wrote: »

I don't get the outrage, am I alone in neither caring nor understanding the outrage regarding what font she used?

We live in a world where outrage is the currency most people deal in. Facebook, twitter and all the other dumb social media outlets are all about outrage. It saves you from getting off your hole and doing anything about it.

seamus

lawrencesummers wrote: »

We live in a world where outrage is the currency most people deal in. Facebook, twitter and all the other dumb social media outlets are all about outrage. It saves you from getting off your hole and doing anything about it.

Nah, it's not outrage, it's mocking.

Comic Sans is the font that someone technologically inept uses and then stands back thinking what a great job they've done, how they could charge a fraction of the price to do up professinal flyers.

It's a running joke that when someone uses comic sans for anything, especially if they're trying to make it look "fun", then you're dealing with a clueless technophobe.

Maria Bailey went one further and wrote a formal public press release, on headed paper emblazoned with an official harp...in comic sans.

It's not outrage, just a mixture of slagging and outright disbelief that anyone could be such a simpleton.

Tony EH

PhilOssophy wrote: »

I don't get the outrage, am I alone in neither caring nor understanding the outrage regarding what font she used?

It has nothing to do with "outrage". It's laughing at someone who thought that comic sans was an appropriate font to use in a formal letter. It looks ridiculous and is hard to take seriously, that's all.

As to the content of the letter, absolutely nobody is surprised that a self righteous, entitled, Fine Gaeler would pen or approve of such. That's not even in question. The world and his wife expects such drivel from people like that, so there's little comment on it.

[Deleted User]

seamus wrote: »

Nah, it's not outrage, it's mocking.

Comic Sans is the font that someone technologically inept uses and then stands back thinking what a great job they've done, how they could charge a fraction of the price to do up professinal flyers.

It's a running joke that when someone uses comic sans for anything, especially if they're trying to make it look "fun", then you're dealing with a clueless technophobe.

Maria Bailey went one further and wrote a formal public press release, on headed paper emblazoned with an official harp...in comic sans.

It's not outrage, just a mixture of slagging and outright disbelief that anyone could be such a simpleton.

You forgot to mention that it was typed up, printed off, placed on a table, photographed and then uploaded to twitter.

Quantum Erasure

seamus wrote: »

All the comic sans, but no comments on the fact that she typed it up, printed it out, then took a photo of it to put up on Twitter. If only there were an easier way...

I'd rather it that way than in a series of 15 or 20 tweets, to be honest...

Quantum Erasure

...if I had my way, twitter would be done away with

Stark

Never mind the Comic Sans, I'm loving the primary school essay style "The End." finish.

YFlyer

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Calibri (Body) (size 11) is the only gig in town in Outlook as far as I'm concerned.

Science thesis Times New Roman (size 12)... I believe.

skallywag

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Calibri (Body) (size 11) is the only gig in town in Outlook as far as I'm concerned.

Absolutely.

I write everything in Calibri 11 today.

I'm finding it amusing that a lot of folk on this thread are thinking that her choice of font is not worth a mention. Seems a lot of people just let the world wander by without noticing things ...

lawrencesummers

seamus wrote: »

Nah, it's not outrage, it's mocking.

Comic Sans is the font that someone technologically inept uses and then stands back thinking what a great job they've done, how they could charge a fraction of the price to do up professinal flyers.

It's a running joke that when someone uses comic sans for anything, especially if they're trying to make it look "fun", then you're dealing with a clueless technophobe.

Maria Bailey went one further and wrote a formal public press release, on headed paper emblazoned with an official harp...in comic sans.

It's not outrage, just a mixture of slagging and outright disbelief that anyone could be such a simpleton.

It’s a font.

That’s all.

There is nothing wrong with being technically inept, or not up to date on Some aspects of IT, it doesn’t make anyone a simpleton, I’m sure there are areas of IT that you and I have no clue about.

The sad thing is that it’s nowhere near as important as what she actually did, something that should be looked into as insurance fraud, something that should be dealt with legally and have criminal Repercussions, but people seem to be more worried about an irrelevant font than what actually happened.

lawrencesummers

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

...if I had my way, twitter would be done away with

And Facebook.