[Article] Top private students' offensive web attacks

Victor · 05-06-2005 06:46PM #1

This is soooo last century.

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/5685092?view=Eircomnet

Top private students' offensive web attacks
From:The Irish Independent
Sunday, 5th June, 2005
DANIEL McCONNELL

STUDENTS at some of Dublin's most prestigious fee-paying schools are using websites to verbally attack each other using highly-offensive and sexually-graphic language, it has emerged.

The existence of the websites, built by students using a free web-based template, has led to a number of the exclusive schools launching investigations into the matter.

What started off as mild rivalry between some of Dublin's top schools, including Blackrock College, St Michael's College, Holy Child Killiney and Loreto Convent Foxrock, quickly became more sinister and personalised with individuals being singled out, named and having their sexual behaviour exposed.

Some of the more explicit entries found on the websites, written mostly in textese (the bastardised English used on mobile phones when sending SMS texts) include furious inter-school exchanges with rivals calling each other 'whores' and 'gay' as well as considerable mentions of physical threats.

Examples of entries on the sites which first appeared in April include: "loreto girls r d biggest little hos around!! u mite as al just becum lesbos becuz u have nooooo hope watsoever in gettin any guy unless he was blind r DESPERATE!!!!!!! u fuking hoares ur going 2 die!!!", "Holy Child Girls are not ugly stupid bimbos who cant get a guy . . . im sorry basically every single one of us is with a guy excapt 4 a few . . . so i dunno wat ur on about!!" and "HELLO!! the loreto girls r like so sound!! u holy childers r jus f***ing jealous!! learn how to put on fake tan . . . Properly!!"

Tensions in the respective student bodies has hit fever pitch in the past few weeks as accusations as to who established the sites began to circulate. The ensuing witchhunt led to individuals being blamed - often wrongly according to the forum - and subjected to ferocious personal attacks about their appearance, sexual behaviour and their friends.

"For the person who made this, I can honestly say I actually hate u. ur the most f****d up person ever and i dont give a sh*t if u get upset by that. look at all the fights u hav caused and all the people u hav hurt?!?! do u not feel guilty at all framing like 4 really nice girls and giving their year/school a bad name?!", said one entry. "To *****, watch out, your gonna get a bashin'," said another.

A number of the schools as well as the Parents' Associations connected to them have said they are to investigate the matter as a result of the Sunday Independent findings.

Gardai examined the websites over the weekend after being contacted by the Sunday Independent and a spokesman said: "While we cannot comment on individual cases, if any complaint is made to us we will investigate the matter accordingly."

angelofdeath · 05-06-2005 06:49PM

lol, they could be talking about any forum on the internet there

simu · 05-06-2005 06:50PM

Amazing the Abercrombie thread etc didn't get a mention there!

NotMe · 05-06-2005 07:02PM

OMG! People giving abuse over the internet! Inform the media! Call the gards!

ixoy · 05-06-2005 07:11PM

I'd imagine the schools would want to get these sites shut down, given the appalling standard of English that it shows their students as having. Any parent examining these schools as prospects for their little brats might think twice now...

kstanl · 05-06-2005 07:22PM

Run for the hills. A bunch of Michaels and Blacrock boys are going to give someone a "bashin"... scary stuff. If they want to be such hard-asses why don't they head down to Ballyfermot on a Friday night and take the mick out of some of the local lads there? You know... to test all their bravado.

05-06-2005 07:32PM

Wow, people say mean things on the internet, who'd a thought?

cashback · 05-06-2005 07:34PM

"learn how to put on fake tan . . . Properly!!"

Ouch!! :rolleyes:

Sparky · 05-06-2005 07:35PM

tut tut, no respect for our dear internet, god next there will be porn on it. tut tut.

Johnson · 05-06-2005 07:39PM

kstanl wrote:

Run for the hills. A bunch of Michaels and Blacrock boys are going to give someone a "bashin"... scary stuff. If they want to be such hard-asses why don't they head down to Ballyfermot on a Friday night and take the mick out of some of the local lads there? You know... to test all their bravado.

Are people tougher and better fighters if they're from poor areas?

mike65 · 05-06-2005 07:40PM

Of course, kids round there have to fight rats for territorial rights!

Mike.

kstanl · 05-06-2005 08:18PM

Johnson wrote:

Are people tougher and better fighters if they're from poor areas?

Generally yes.

grimloch · 05-06-2005 08:33PM

Nothing like this would happen in my nice free school.

andrew163 · 05-06-2005 08:50PM

Oddly enough... I run a forum populated mostly by people from my school... this (public) school being recognized almost nationally as scumbag central due to it's name (it's not really..honestly

...theres the odd muppet but it's quite a nice school)..... and it NEVER even comes close to being like that *points to article*...

*d4 accent* One would expect Blackrock to have quite a dashing reputation!

snorlax · 05-06-2005 08:52PM

jaaz they pretty ignorant....

all the bitchyness...how do the men even put up with them in the first place they must be head wreckers!

nesf · 05-06-2005 09:27PM

I really don't see what the fuss is about. There is always rivalries between schools/teams/colleges/cities.... Just because it's the "posh" Dub schools instead of two little country schools in the middle of nowhere doesn't make it any more important.

Christ some of the stuff that you'd overhear some CIT and UCC students saying to each other really makes you wonder if the point's system rewards close minded unoriginal idiots.

Oh, wait, it does.

Johnson · 05-06-2005 11:44PM

kstanl wrote:

Generally yes.

Why?

Tar.Aldarion · 05-06-2005 11:53PM

let the bastardisation of english commence 'textese'

because they have more practice tbh

and those holy child girls are ho's lol

RobertFoster · 06-06-2005 01:44AM

I'd hate to be correcting the English papers for the Junior/Leaving at the rate of this "bastardisation".

Someone tell the Indo about teenireland, I'm sure they'd have fun there.

Sarky · 06-06-2005 11:44AM

Frankly, I'm more offended by the fact that these people can't even construct a simple, coherent sentance. Ignorant, cretinous, f*ckmonkeys.

dregin · 06-06-2005 01:35PM

Anyone know where these forums are?

kstanl · 06-06-2005 01:37PM

Johnson wrote:

Why?

Because generally they're more streetwise, experienced and more likely to do what some fancy boy from Blackrock wouldn't.

AARRRGH · 06-06-2005 03:07PM

Johnson wrote:

Why?

You know why. Stop trying to be a smartass.

Speaking as a fellow who was raised in Blackrock: there are a lot of tossers in Blackrock. But just like there are in every area.

Please don't let this decend (spelling?) into an anti-D4 type discussion!

Sarky · 06-06-2005 03:09PM

But... But... Tradition...

AARRRGH · 06-06-2005 03:10PM

dregin wrote:

Anyone know where these forums are?

http://www.d4chat.com

"Talk to other like minded souls over a latte and wine. IP's from cheaper ISP's (eastbt) or people with no phoneline (IBB) are banned. So relax and have a great time."

Sauron · 06-06-2005 03:35PM

with rivals calling each other 'whores' and 'gay'

:eek: surely not!

steppen · 06-06-2005 04:16PM

dublindude wrote:

http://www.d4chat.com

link doesnt work, does anyone know of the website that the article speaks of?

Johnson · 06-06-2005 04:58PM

kstanl wrote:

Because generally they're more streetwise, experienced and more likely to do what some fancy boy from Blackrock wouldn't.

A guy from Blackrock won't kick a guy's head in? Hmm....

Sauron · 06-06-2005 06:15PM

they seem to have just become aware of the concept of..
kids say and do mean things....

kstanl · 06-06-2005 06:23PM

Johnson wrote:

A guy from Blackrock won't kick a guy's head in? Hmm....

Eh, did I say that? No I did not. :rolleyes: What I am saying is that if you put a schoolboy from Ballyfermot in a head to head against a Blackrock college boy, the odds are that the chap from Ballyfermot will kick the crap out of the rich kid. It's a fact. Accept it and move on. Your arguing that black is white here.

Johnson · 06-06-2005 06:35PM

kstanl wrote:

Eh, did I say that? No I did not. :rolleyes: What I am saying is that if you put a schoolboy from Ballyfermot in a head to head against a Blackrock college boy, the odds are that the chap from Ballyfermot will kick the crap out of the rich kid. It's a fact. Accept it and move on. Your arguing that black is white here.

Utter bollox. From my experiences, and there have been a few, most people from the likes of Ballyfermot are big on the talk, but can't back it up on their own. They need their posse with them.

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