Humiliation on Boards

ScumLord · 27-07-2012 02:38PM

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

I used to work in Eason as a student when I lived in Ireland back in the day. Most of those celeb mags came from the UK. Didn't realise there'd be enough Irish titles to fill two shelves worth. Maybe things have changed.

There are all the UK ones but now there's Irish mags which include what passes for a celeb in Ireland.

Holocene · 27-07-2012 03:07PM

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Just to clarify, the people I had in mind were those who show up on the media radar for one reason or another, rather than full-blown celebrities as such. It can definitely be argued that the latter court and necessitate the attention, good and bad.

But most people on TV are just regular people with jobs be it presenter, actor, comedian or journalist and not all of those jobs are as lucrative as some might think.

And many other people just have the spotlight thrust on them.

Hopefully the trolls never have reason to train their collective beady eye on my own baldy head and beet red face

Pottler · 27-07-2012 03:19PM

I think it's shocking when any human being takes the p1ss out of another living soul. It should not be tolerated or condoned and to be so mean just shows up their own immaturity.
On another note, all celebrities are gee-bags except when I meet them, whereby they become celebrities once again and I marvel over their every syllable, despite my inner schnide pulling hard on the wires attached to my sac whilst screaming "hypocrite" into my left earhole. I think that's fairly normal. The sac-wire bit might just be me.

daveyeh · 27-07-2012 03:21PM

Ms.M wrote: »

Or even all the Michael Jackson jokes; nobody hear knows he was a paedo, so shut up.

You don't know that for sure. You shut up.

Biggins · 27-07-2012 03:32PM

Lollers wrote: »

...Its an embrassement that will never leave. Tubridy that is.

We keep hoping - but he still keeps staying!

Snakeblood · 27-07-2012 03:47PM

Holocene wrote: »

But most people on TV are just regular people with jobs be it presenter, actor, comedian or journalist and not all of those jobs are as lucrative as some might think.

Those jobs are essentially trading off being in the public eye. I don't really have a huge amount of sympathy for let's say, Georgia Salpa, whose main attribute seems to be growing tits. I certainly don't have a problem with her, either, but she's relying on people talking about her, and I don't think it's fair to dictate what people can or can't say about someone like that.

Ditto Ryan Tubridy or anyone in RTE. They're living off other peoples interest in them.

It doesn't really matter how much someone in Tallafornia (never watched it) earns. People talk about them because they engender strong feelings one way or the other. It's their mealticket.

I'd have a lot more sympathy for people who are thrust into the spotlight for no good reason.

Napper Hawkins · 27-07-2012 04:07PM

If your career is based on attention seeking then you can't complain when some of that attention is negative.

jmayo · 27-07-2012 04:07PM

FatherLen wrote: »

who do you know op?!?!
is it jedward?
ryan tubridy?
joe?
any politician?

Must be one of the Quinns ?

Maybe yer wan that was on with Joe the other day ???

OMARS_COMING_ · 27-07-2012 04:39PM

Some people on this site can be very mean,you just have to try and ignore it.

Brain Stroking · 28-07-2012 03:19PM

byronbay2 wrote: »

"Some of the banter, okay, understandable and goes with the territory but some people get very, very personal...almost hateful."
Agree with Eve; piss-taking of celebs and fellow Boardsies is all part of the fun but (and maybe I'm just getting old) there is a line that you cross from slagging to unfunny hatred/vitriol that seems to be happening a lot more now that a couple of years ago.
I know I don't spend as long on Boards (or post as many replies) as most but it seems to me that I see the same usernames all the time, writing things like: "Oh, suchandsuch, I hate that useless cnut, I hope that ......etc." Also, a lot of interesting threads (much more than in olden times) degenerate into personalised verbal brawls between 2 or 3 posters and become impossible to follow.
Dear God, even as I write this I'm realising that I'm..I'm... falling OUT of love with Boards.ie!!!!

I hope you arent starting to regret those 29 posts. They've made my life richer, for one. Keep the faith

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