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Tabloid plebs

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  • #32
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Karamoja wrote: »
    Dumb cunts.

    People like the folks in "Royle Family" and "Shameless".

    Anto and Deco.

    The funny thing is, nobody has posted here to say that they read it. Either nobody on this forum reads those rags, or they are too embarrassed to admit it.
    I am not embarrassed to admit it

    I also watch midget porn but i wouldn't partake :pac:


  • #33
    DaveDaRave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭DaveDaRave


    I'd feel bad not buying it, since they went to all the trouble of writing it.


  • #34
    Hangballlouie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Hangballlouie


    parker kent wrote:
    I read The Guardian, The Observer, The Irish Times and sometimes The Sunday Times. I don't mindlessly agree with everything they say, but they are what I like best.

    Look at you all smart and what not! Only knobs who don't understand the media would slag off the red tops. A true democracy needs them. The majority of people read tabloids in Ireland, so that means the country is full of plebs. (waits for the "yes, yes it is full of plebs," answer)


  • #35
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    hangballlouie wrote: »
    Look at you all smart and what not! Only knobs who don't understand the media would slag off the red tops. A true democracy needs them. The majority of people read tabloids in Ireland, so that means the country is full of plebs. (waits for the "yes, yes it is full of plebs," answer)

    A) I wasn't exactly serious with my neanderthal link.
    B) I am smart so why shouldn't I read intelligent newspapers?
    C) I do understand the media. Go read my thesis on the media in UCD library.
    E) If you want to read the red tops, go ahead. Different people like different things. But red tops are just entertainment and that is fine. But they often come with worrying side effects (mass hysteria, race to the lowest common denominator etc).


  • #36
    Hangballlouie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Hangballlouie


    parker kent wrote:
    A) I wasn't exactly serious with my neanderthal link.
    B) I am smart so why shouldn't I read intelligent newspapers?
    C) I do understand the media. Go read my thesis on the media in UCD library.
    E) If you want to read the red tops, go ahead. Different people like different things. But red tops are just entertainment and that is fine. But they often come with worrying side effects (mass hysteria, race to the lowest common denominator etc).

    Totally agree with most of your post, and yes I do read some red tops, but also broadsheets, as is my job. My comment wasn't really directed at you but a general snobbish attitude when it comes to media in this country. Some of the stuff in the tabs is ridiculous but the lines are starting to blur, as crazy frighten the public stories are appearing in broadsheets regulary. But hey without the tabs, we would have never known about Freddie Starrs appetite for hamsters ;)


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  • #37
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    hangballlouie wrote: »
    Totally agree with most of your post, and yes I do read some red tops, but also broadsheets, as is my job. My comment wasn't really directed at you but a general snobbish attitude when it comes to media in this country. Some of the stuff in the tabs is ridiculous but the lines are starting to blur, as crazy frighten the public stories are appearing in broadsheets regulary. But hey without the tabs, we would have never known about Freddie Starrs appetite for hamsters ;)

    Fair enough. I agree the lines are blurring as newspapers look at the bottom line. But I guess I posted that as there can be reverse snobbery towards more intellectual newspapers.


  • #38
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    What type of people read the sun, the herald or the Irish star?

    Probably people that you know.


  • #39
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Have to admit I'm having a good chuckle at the answers (and the questions) here. But, as one poster has said, there is a HUGE element of snobbery. And it's quite evident here.

    Indeed, many of the 'snobs' would have been the ones who tripped up during the property bubble. But we'll push that conveniently to one side.;)

    I remember meeting an acquaintance around 2006, and the conversation went something like this:

    'Are you STILL living in XXXX'?

    'Erm, yes'.

    'Did you not buy a house?'

    'I have one already'.

    'No a buy to let'.

    'Nah - don't think I'll bother'.

    Cue incredulous look:eek:.

    'You'll regret it - I've bought two - I'll bank the profits after five years'.

    (Spins off in new SUV).

    Now this chap would have been classed as fairly intelligent; a broadsheet reader; and fairly savvy.

    Me? Yeah, when I was younger I would have read the Sun or whatever. But interestingly, on a Sunday I would have bought the Indo or the Press, along with possibly the NOTW or the Sunday World.

    Haven't bought a paper in years. Instead use Teletext and the Internet.

    It's fairly obvious from this thread that a lot of people still haven't thrown off the shackles of the Property bubble fiasco, now preferring to be seen reading a broadsheet outside Bewleys/wherever, looking down on what they term 'the plebs'....while the rest of us get on with our not-so-complicated lives.:)


  • #40
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Is there a paper that After Hours actually likes?

    Most AH'ers buy the Sunday Indo every week and read it from cover to cover looking for something to get outraged about.


  • #41
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Have to say, I do like the tits on page three.

    Newspapers are becoming obsolete anyway.


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  • #42
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    Have to admit I'm having a good chuckle at the answers (and the questions) here. But, as one poster has said, there is a HUGE element of snobbery. And it's quite evident here.

    Indeed, many of the 'snobs' would have been the ones who tripped up during the property bubble. But we'll push that conveniently to one side.;)

    I remember meeting an acquaintance around 2006, and the conversation went something like this:

    'Are you STILL living in XXXX'?

    'Erm, yes'.

    'Did you not buy a house?'

    'I have one already'.

    'No a buy to let'.

    'Nah - don't think I'll bother'.

    Cue incredulous look:eek:.

    'You'll regret it - I've bought two - I'll bank the profits after five years'.

    (Spins off in new SUV).

    Now this chap would have been classed as fairly intelligent; a broadsheet reader; and fairly savvy.

    Me? Yeah, when I was younger I would have read the Sun or whatever. But interestingly, on a Sunday I would have bought the Indo or the Press, along with possibly the NOTW or the Sunday World.

    Haven't bought a paper in years. Instead use Teletext and the Internet.

    It's fairly obvious from this thread that a lot of people still haven't thrown off the shackles of the Property bubble fiasco, now preferring to be seen reading a broadsheet outside Bewleys/wherever, looking down on what they term 'the plebs'....while the rest of us get on with our not-so-complicated lives.:)
    Its nothing got to do with property.


  • #43
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Probably people that you know.

    I don't know you.


  • #44
    JohnP199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭JohnP199


    I do. I usually read the Star and the Sunday World. So what?


  • #45
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    JohnP199 wrote: »
    I do. I usually read the Star and the Sunday World. So what?

    The answer is in the question.
    Or if that is too complex, read over your previous posts about being an english premier league football fanatic,and how you yearn to rent a 'cheap' self catering apartment in galway.
    P_ _ _ .

    mod: poster banned.


  • #46
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    I buy the Star on Mondays to read my team's manager (Roddy Collins) articles and also on Fridays for the League of Ireland pull out and sometimes on a Saturday to read about the Mons trashing someone.

    I very occasionally will buy the Mirror for the LOI stuff too as most of the "proper papers" ignore the league or only cover the premier so I refuse to buy them until they give me something relevant to my life to read.

    The rest of the paper is just fluff and will glance through it but don't rely on it for news as such. Thats what the internet and my tv licence are for.


  • #47
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    I don't know you.

    I don't read any printed paper if i am honest, shame on me.

    You seem to be fairly desperate to imply reading certain types should be seen as a negative trait though.

    Fair play, no one on the internet has ever done that before.

    You are a true original.


  • #48
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    I don't read any printed paper if i am honest, shame on me.

    You seem to be fairly desperate to imply reading certain types should be seen as a negative trait though.

    Fair play, no one on the internet has ever done that before.

    You are a true original.

    LOL.


  • #49
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    Its nothing got to do with property.

    Well, if you can't look down on people because you own a property empire, I suppose newspapers are the next logical thing. Mindset.:p:rolleyes:


  • #50
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    Tabloid plebs
    What type of people read the sun, the herald or the Irish star?

    Unless there is a marked increase in persons interfering with your personal circumstances (e.g. stealing your milk bottles from outside your door or sexually harrassing your pets etc) AND you can prove that these people read (or don't read) tabloids, then really, may I sugeest that what type of person reads what type of paper should not be at the top of your "Things To Lie Awake At Night Thinking About" list.

    I lost nearly a years worth of sleep pondering what type of people insist on putting the foil back on those spreadable butters instead of ripping the whole thing off once opened and putting it in the bin.


  • #51
    Sunnyisland
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    I dont believe everything I read in newspapers or anywhere else for that matter but The majority of times I buy the Irish times ,but if I want a bit of a laugh or scandal I will buy one of the tabloids,


    Ps The sun & sunday world are the biggest selling newspapers in there respective countries.


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  • #52
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    It's fairly obvious from this thread that a lot of people still haven't thrown off the shackles of the Property bubble fiasco, now preferring to be seen reading a broadsheet outside Bewleys/wherever, looking down on what they term 'the plebs'....while the rest of us get on with our not-so-complicated lives.:)

    I don't read broadsheets because I want to be seen reading a broadsheet. I read them because once I turned 10, I had surpassed the intelligence level required for a tabloid (btw the reading intelligence required for a tabloid is said to be that of a 9 year old). Tabloids are good for seeing tits, that's about it.

    Just because some idiots read broadsheets does not make non-broadsheet readers some sort of working class heroes.


  • #53
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    This is a newspaper. And I know
    it's ninety percent bullshit but
    it's entertaining. That's why I
    read it. Because it entertains
    me. If you won't let me read my
    paper, then entertain me with your
    bullshit. Tell me a story.

    http://snoopbloggybloggg.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/1297213-alonzo_harris_super1.jpg


  • #54
    Standman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    People with low attention spans read tabloids


  • #55
    hondasam
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    I don't get the fascination with what people read.

    I buy what ever paper suits me to buy and I don't care what AHs thinks.


  • #56
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    I don't do tabloids.


  • #57
    Sunnyisland
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    Standman wrote: »
    People with low attention spans read tabloids


    In fairness a lot of people read tabloids as usually they have better sports coverage.


  • #58
    hondasam
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    Standman wrote: »
    People with low attention spans read tabloids

    I think that is offensive to anyone who reads tabloids.

    what paper should we read ?


  • #59
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Scrappychimow wrote: »
    What type of people read the sun, the herald or the Irish star?
    People who like their sports coverage and for page 3 too, I believe.


  • #60
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    hondasam wrote: »
    what paper should we read ?




    :D The newsofthesundayworld on a sun day :D


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  • #61
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    And to reverse the sterotypes: People who read The Irish Times are all hippies and people who read the Irish Independant are Fascists.

    But in reality, categorising people by the newspaper was redundant decades ago.

    Ian O'Doherty, Kevin Myers and John Waters are just as vulgar as Richard Littlejohn or Eamon Dunphy.


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