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Ever been contacted by reporters about a post?

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  • #32
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Lillylilly wrote: »
    I saw that in the paper. I was the one who told IvySlayer about you and his/her posts being quoted!!!

    You don't remember what they used do you?


  • #33
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    I was contacted once, but didn't respond as I thought it was either

    a) some weirdo, or

    b) a lazy journalist.


  • #34
    Lillylilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭Lillylilly


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    You don't remember what they used do you?

    Can't remember exactly which one of you were quoted for what but it was something about it being for pervs and when you went on you say "X amount of d!cks, X amount of men masturbating" etc. I found it amusing! It did prompt me to go on it, but for about 5 seconds and all I saw was willies and ****!!!


  • #35
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    squod wrote: »
    No-one ever remembers the little boys name, only that he put his finger in a dyke.

    Horsesh*t. Everyone knows that was Dick van Dyke.


  • #36
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    ive gotten a few PMs over the years from journalists, looking for an interview re comments ive made in health sciences re psychiatry/mental health services/ECT . have never spoken to them though, no interest in being in the media, ananymously or otherwise.


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  • #37
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Yeah they wanted to interview me for some documentary that was to be on RTE.
    Couldn't be arsed to tbh.


  • #38
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Joe Duffy contacted me once about a letter I had written to the Independent.


  • #39
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Someone claiming to be a reporter sent me a pm.


  • #40
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Nope!


  • #41
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭phill106


    *searches uglybolloxface's posts*


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  • #42
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    A few times, mainly immigration based stuff, moving to the US and so on.


  • #43
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Sell it OP....Easy money in this day and age!


  • #44
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/226783/83732.jpg

    Never got asked it was just used.


  • #45
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    super_furry wrote: »
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/226783/83732.jpg

    Never got asked it was just used.

    I glanced at the article beside that and thought they had been putting elderberries in the cider.


  • #46
    Ev84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭Ev84


    Uglbolloxface, ask the reporter how much he/she is offering... then ask the bank how much they will pay to not have the letter published. Highest bidder FTW ;)


  • #47
    Gordon Gecko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Gordon Gecko


    Do the police count? If so then yes, many times


  • #48
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    I have been contacted on 11 different occasions with regards to 11 different posts including this one.


  • #49
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    Ev84 wrote: »
    Uglbolloxface, ask the reporter how much he/she is offering... then ask the bank how much they will pay to not have the letter published. Highest bidder FTW ;)

    Interesting...very interesting.
    Is that, what's the word, 'legal'? Obviously I wouldn't have the Gards after me for it, but is that not blackmailing the bank? (actually, hold on, for blackmail I probably would have the cops after me??).

    Oh ever clever AH, answer the above for me - is it advisable to do the above, or is it blatant blackmail, and thus could I get done for it?

    Danke.


  • #50
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Once, regarding Airsoft just after it became legal and the 'think of the children' talk show discussions about it started. I didn't reply as I knew whatever I said would be twisted and used against the sport.


  • #51
    Brando_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Brando_ie


    Had a journo PM to see if I wanted to comment on Jacksons death... (I wasn't there.... honest!!) I had posted in some thread about nabbing tickets for the O2 (for the wife and sister in law)... didn't bother replying


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  • #52
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I've been quoted in some Sunday tabloid apparently. Didn't see it myself but another user told me.

    Something about Chatroulette I think.

    But nobody contacted me beforehand.

    The b*stards.
    Lillylilly wrote: »
    I saw that in the paper. I was the one who told IvySlayer about you and his/her posts being quoted!!!
    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    You don't remember what they used do you?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055780072

    We were quoted in The Star on the 21/2/2010. I haven't seen it, I wonder if they have an archive?


  • #53
    dan185
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭dan185


    How much do they pay UglyBolloxFace?

    If it's above a couple of hundred, I've slept with Marilyn Monroe. If not, then Twink.


  • #54
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    slightly off topic

    when i was about ten i was fishing off the pier in Dun Laoghaire , finished and was leaving when i got stopped by a film crew , instantly star struck
    they were from rte's today tonight program

    so they asked me and my buddy if they could film us eating ice cream in front of a ice cream van , feckin happy days , loads of ice cream and a cam crew making us the center of attention

    told us it would be on in 2 weeks , so excited waiting

    night of the show , turned on the show

    it was about bacteria in ice cream vans making people really sick :eek:
    the feckin bastards - and 2 make it worse the back drop of the studio
    was a close up of me eating a bacteria laced death cream

    such a fecking slagging i got for yonks

    beware of the media :D


  • #55
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    A few years back, there was talk of bringing back the terraces into football stadiums in the UK. A football fan website got in on the debate & sent around an e-mail questionnaire to see what people thought of this idea.

    I thought it was a good idea, but I thought it was a bad idea to send the e-mail around on the anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster. For those who don't remember it, the Hillsborough Disaster was a human crush at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium that resulted in 800 injured Liverpool fans & 96 deaths.

    It effectively lead to almost all stadiums becoming all seaters in an attempt to make stadiums safer.

    So it was really bad form of them to send around a questionnaire on that day. I posted in the soccer forum about it & was contacted by The Sun. The journalist wanted to know if he could quote me on the story.

    I said "no" & the next day, the ran a story about an Irish based Man United fan who was "outraged" by the "disgusting & insensitive" behaviour of a certain footballing fans website.

    Shower of cunts.


  • #56
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Yep. Last week. Action against haters got in contact with me. ;)


  • #57
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    A few years back, there was talk of bringing back the terraces into football stadiums in the UK. A football fan website got in on the debate & sent around an e-mail questionnaire to see what people thought of this idea.

    I thought it was a good idea, but I thought it was a bad idea to send the e-mail around on the anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster. For those who don't remember it, the Hillsborough Disaster was a human crush at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium that resulted in 800 injured Liverpool fans & 96 deaths.

    It effectively lead to almost all stadiums becoming all seaters in an attempt to make stadiums safer.

    So it was really bad form of them to send around a questionnaire on that day. I posted in the soccer forum about it & was contacted by The Sun. The journalist wanted to know if he could quote me on the story.

    I said "no" & the next day, the ran a story about an Irish based Man United fan who was "outraged" by the "disgusting & insensitive" behaviour of a certain footballing fans website.

    Shower of cunts.

    Surely they're the last people in a position to say that? Their reporting of the disaster was nothing if not "disgusting and insensitive"


  • #58
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Nope, but I've found quotes from some of my posts in the Indo and the Sun... I was called a "source" even though the posts were complete bollocks, which they would have known if they'd asked my permission to use them.


  • #59
    paddy kerins
    Site Banned Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭paddy kerins


    Nope. Not yet anyway


  • #60
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Don't do it or else prepare to gain nothing but trouble and regret. Too many snakes in the media.


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  • #61
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    UBF,

    Don't answer the journalist's email.
    She's just trying to get you to buy her grotesquely overpriced flat in the docks.


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