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"My old knickers cost me my dole"

  • 11-04-2013 01:28PM
    #1
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭


    This is the front page story of today's Metro Herald. It must have been a VERY slow news day. "Journalist" Christina Finn wrote a piece , starting with the words
    The Irish web community got its knickers in a knot yesterday after a woman claimed she lost her dole - because she was selling her used knickers to fetishists online.

    This ENTIRE article is based on a thread on boards.ie that lasted a whole fifteen posts before it was locked. The article is written as a serious piece, featuring quotes (unattributed) from posters who had replied to the OP.

    I know journalists have long been using boards as a means of inspiration, but this is far and away the laziest and most laughable piece of crap I've ever seen! I know it's only the Metro Herald, but I can't believe it's on the front page. It's hilarious that the 14 replies to the thread caused her to use phrases such as "The Irish web community got its knickers in a knot" and "Reaction varied".

    On page 5 there is an article about the Savita case, on page 6 there is a piece about a social welfare worker who was jailed for pocketing €17,000 fraudulently, hell even on page 3 there was a story about a dog who got stuck in a pipe and had to be rescued by firefighters.

    However someone made the decision to put a story based on a 15-post thread on an internet forum as the front page story. What the actual fuck? :confused:


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Comments

  • #2
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    What a load of pants.


  • #3
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    There's a reason it's free


  • #4
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    When I saw the thread title I thought it was about the OP. :D

    I don't remember that thread, how long ago was it?


  • #5
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Metro Herald

    Well, there's your problem


  • #6
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Link to thread?


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  • #7
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056921863


  • #8
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    When I saw the thread title I thought it was about the OP. :D

    I keep off-shore bank accounts for those kinds of things!
    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    I don't remember that thread, how long ago was it?

    It was yesterday, it's in the State Benefits forum and it's still on page 1 of that forum. I'm not sure if there's rules about linking to threads from other forums...


  • #9
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Here's the article.


  • #10
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Never have I been so disappointed to see quotation marks in a thread title when I saw who the OP was.:(

    :P

    The story is today's in Mirror as well, brilliant journalistic piece it is too.


  • #11
    hdowney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    Honestly rediculous what they consider front page 'news'. I know it is a completely free rag but still!


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  • #12
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Tomorrow's front page, "Irish Web Community gets knickers in a knot about knickers in a knot story!" :pac:

    Hopefully they'll quote my post and I'll be 'famous' :P

    Seriously tho, no wonder that Metro is free :rolleyes:


  • #13
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    PM sent to Meave80


  • #14
    Morag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,450 ✭✭✭Morag


    I'd love to see the paper be hit with an invoice from boards.ie for using it's published material.


  • #15
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056921863


    this is a catholic country :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #16
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    That'll teach her to keep her knickers in check


  • #17
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    €350 per month on average. :eek:

    Any tips on how to hide this from revenue?


  • #18
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    €350 per month on average. :eek:
    Any tips on how to hide this from revenue?
    hide it in your knickers


  • #19
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    This is the front page story of today's Metro Herald. It must have been a VERY slow news day. "Journalist" Christina Finn wrote a piece , starting with the words



    This ENTIRE article is based on a thread on boards.ie that lasted a whole fifteen posts before it was locked. The article is written as a serious piece, featuring quotes (unattributed) from posters who had replied to the OP.

    I know journalists have long been using boards as a means of inspiration, but this is far and away the laziest and most laughable piece of crap I've ever seen! I know it's only the Metro Herald, but I can't believe it's on the front page. It's hilarious that the 14 replies to the thread caused her to use phrases such as "The Irish web community got its knickers in a knot" and "Reaction varied".

    On page 5 there is an article about the Savita case, on page 6 there is a piece about a social welfare worker who was jailed for pocketing €17,000 fraudulently, hell even on page 3 there was a story about a dog who got stuck in a pipe and had to be rescued by firefighters.

    However someone made the decision to put a story based on a 15-post thread on an internet forum as the front page story. What the actual fuck? :confused:

    it's always interesting when you experience a story firsthand, and then read how the papers report it. it usually sounds very believable, but nothing like you remember it.


  • #20
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    So she lodged the undeclared cash she got from her panty business into her bank account:o:rolleyes:


  • #21
    Corkbah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Corkbah


    Morag wrote: »
    I'd love to see the paper be hit with an invoice from boards.ie for using it's published material.

    would you expect boards to be hit for an invoice for every time someone posts a story and link to a story from a newspaper ??

    I think boards would loose on that one.


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  • #22
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I'm sorry, did you expect journalism from the Metro, or something?


  • #23
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I wonder if there were different categories for how 'used' her togs were!


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm off to Penneys to buy a shedload of knickies!


  • #25
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Here's the article.

    What's that guy on the skateboard trying to do with the book in his hand, Xtreme Reading?...............to the Max?

    Radical.


  • #26
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    kfallon wrote: »
    I wonder if there were different categories for how 'used' her togs were!
    Is that how they rate duvets?:eek:


  • #27
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I don't know why the media have picked up on this one but the 'I found a safe' thread was ignored!


  • #28
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    There is potential here for some SERIOUS trolling of said newspaper...

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



  • #29
    hyperborean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 655 ✭✭✭hyperborean


    Boards have her on the payroll, drumming up business for whatever media company owns it now....


  • #30
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Maybe next time she'll set up a secret bank account for when she wants to sell her dirty knicks. Works for me :cool:


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  • #31
    Son0vagun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    It was my fault that thread got locked. I asked her to post a link to the website. I also suggested she should have posted on AH.

    Got a nice PM from a lovely mod saying I had breached the forums charter. I was very upset :( sniff sniff


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