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Why do people get outraged about stupid stuff

  • 12-09-2020 11:16AM
    #1
    Zarco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Zarco


    If the Sun prints an inflammatory headline

    That's their job they do it to sell newspapers


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  • #2
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,248 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Zarco wrote: »
    If the Sun prints an inflammatory headline

    That's their job they do it to sell newspapers

    Attention, clicks, likes, virtue signalling, money.


  • #3
    KilOit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭KilOit


    People are stupid and media and playing them


  • #4
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,992 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Zarco wrote: »
    If the Sun prints an inflammatory headline

    That's their job they do it to sell newspapers

    It’s not just the newspapers. People get their knickers in a “twist” over tweets on Twitter.

    They seem to seek it out and “revel” in their own anger, and outrage.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #5
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,298 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    They are different types of people for starters and people deal with different situations differently.
    Some like the drama, some can’t deal with things, etc.
    However lately I’ve noticed if somebody makes a small comment about disliking something some people like to turn it into a big ordeal of them being outraged.


  • #6
    3d4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭3d4life


    I'm amazed at the stuff that people start threads over on AH.

    Mods should be much tougher

    Lifetime bans in order

    In some cases even non rat OPs should br taken out by the elite gun cat squad that live in the basement of Boards Towers


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Angry men on internet. Just men.


  • #8
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,298 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Angry men on internet. Just men.

    Angry white heterosexual men.


  • #9
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Angry, white, heterosexual, privileged men.


  • #10
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Middle aged as well


  • #11
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Angry men on internet. Just men.




    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs&t=1s


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  • #12
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Check outt the current
    'Car Wash Issue' on going on boards at the moment..lads getting tetchy...


  • #13
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,437 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    We've got a false impression of how much outrage there is. The media seeks it out and then places like boards amplify and distort it: exhibit A, the Current Affairs forum.


  • #14
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,298 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Also the angry, white, heterosexual, middle aged men can’t be from a traveller background.


  • #15
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    Seamai wrote: »
    Angry, white, heterosexual, privileged men.

    Dont forget Karen.
    According to a popular meme, Karen is a middle-aged white woman with an asymmetrical bob asking to speak to the manager, who happens to be as entitled as she is ignorant.


  • #16
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Angry men on internet. Just men.

    Why just men? Can you elaborate ?


  • #17
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Angry white heterosexual men.

    Why the above?


  • #18
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Seamai wrote: »
    Angry, white, heterosexual, privileged men.

    Why the above?


  • #19
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    sligojoek wrote: »
    Middle aged as well

    Why the above?


  • #20
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,437 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Kylta wrote: »
    Why just men? Can you elaborate ?

    It is mainly men, to be fair. Visit any of the "discussions" in Current Affairs and it's usually all fellas, with a few token female voices.


  • #21
    Antares35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Mostly because inside they are probably desperately sad and frustrated I imagine.


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  • #22
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    On here, it's mainly men - usually getting outraged about something 'woke' or the 'SJWs' or whatever Americanism they happen to have obsessively latched onto at any given time.

    But go onto any local Facebook group and it very much isn't mainly men getting outraged about stupid stuff.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kylta wrote: »
    Why just men? Can you elaborate ?

    I'm just taking off a self-appointed ''legend'' of the boards saying that tbh.


  • #24
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I'm just taking off a self-appointed ''legend'' of the boards saying that tbh.

    I don't know who that so called legend is but I'd imagine there hasbeens now. Because I'm the only legend of the boards, all the others are like cheap fake tans, that was off during the rain. I'm here to stay (i think) so you can quote me in future. Actually Omackeral when your thinking about god in future you can think about me,


  • #25
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Can somebody help me out here? AH is about taking the p!ss out of each other, so how can people get serious and annoyed over it. A lot if the other forums have serious issue discussions. But anybody posting on AH shouldn't get annoyed or irked, they should enjoy the banter between like minded posters. Am I right or wrong?


  • #26
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,469 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Zarco wrote: »
    If the Sun prints an inflammatory headline

    That's their job they do it to sell newspapers

    I blame boards.ie, sure didn't they start it? :D

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #27
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    .anon. wrote: »
    On here, it's mainly men - usually getting outraged about something 'woke' or the 'SJWs' or whatever Americanism they happen to have obsessively latched onto at any given time.

    But go onto any local Facebook group and it very much isn't mainly men getting outraged about stupid stuff.

    Nah its definitely more the other way around around here anyway - with the sjw's and wokkers getting absolutely outraged with just about everyone and anything they disagree with. But most especially where others don't hold the same views and opinions as them.

    Some of the dialogue generated from this lot would make Stalin appear to be a tolerant paternal figure lol.

    Bizarrely can't find any existing nicknames for these type of outragers - I think I'll call them "Justins" for the hell of it :D

    If you think boards is bad - try the Dubai Forum for some real hilarity

    https://www.dubaiforums.com/professionals-dubai/hunt-job-dubai-t8623.html


  • #28
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    gozunda wrote: »
    Nah its definitely more the other way around around here anyway - with the sjw's and wokkers getting absolutely outraged with just about everyone and anything they disagree with. But most especially where others don't hold the same views and opinions as them.

    Some of the dialogue generated from this lot would make Stalin appear to be a tolerant paternal figure lol.

    Yeah, in one thread I saw a guy go into meltdown because another user would rather take the opinion of an expert over his. Definite signs of being an egomaniac.


  • #29
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Zarco wrote: »
    If the Sun prints an inflammatory headline

    That's their job they do it to sell newspapers

    Because people believe it and then use this information to attack people who have absolutely no reason to be attacked or vote for people who have absolutely no busienss being in power.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #30
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Actually I stopped buying newspapers when they stopped printing news


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  • #31
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭touts


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Angry men on internet. Just men.

    Don't know about that. The three women on liveline yesterday arguing about wether it was insulting to transsexuals and nonbinary to use the term women seemed pretty angry about a stupid thing.


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