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Iona vs Panti

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  • #1922
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    Fox News are now ridiculing the Iona Institute. When FOX of all media organisations are mocking you for being too intolerant...

    Pretty sure that is the article that was in the Washington Post.

    Edit - YUP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/drag-queens-speech-fuels-irish-gay-rights-debate/2014/02/11/f53175be-9318-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html


  • #1923
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/video?vid=1.1687871

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #1924
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Pretty sure that is the article that was in the Washington Post.

    Edit - YUP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/drag-queens-speech-fuels-irish-gay-rights-debate/2014/02/11/f53175be-9318-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html

    Bah. Still, not exactly a rousing show of support for Quinn and his minions.


  • #1925
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Associated press article but WP and Fox ran it!


  • #1926
    ewan whose army
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭ewan whose army


    Sarky wrote: »
    Fox News are now ridiculing the Iona Institute. When FOX of all media organisations are mocking you for being too intolerant...

    Wow that is ironic !! The about of time Bill O'Reilly goes on about how is "Catholic of Irish decent" on there I thought they would be matches made in heaven.

    Being a bit historical here, but I remember reading about the Stonewall riots, it was the drag Queens who were one of the people who kicked it off, apparently there is a report of one of them smacking a cop with their stiletto heel, kinda apt for this


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  • #1927
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    efb wrote: »
    Associated press article but WP and Fox ran it!

    Ah. Yes, that explains it.


  • #1928
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Pretty sure that is the article that was in the Washington Post.

    Edit - YUP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/drag-queens-speech-fuels-irish-gay-rights-debate/2014/02/11/f53175be-9318-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html

    Wow, that's a nicely balanced and well researched summary of events. Cool.


  • #1929
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Sarky wrote: »
    Bah. Still, not exactly a rousing show of support for Quinn and his minions.

    I thought it was alright! For a short article, like...? No?!


  • #1930
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Yes, good article. Actually far closer to the truth than a lot of Irish papers. Just wonderful to see it published by an organisation as right-wing and anti-just-about-everything as Fox News.


  • #1931
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    mango salsa wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/video?vid=1.1687871

    Irish Times makes video about support for Team Panti which is locked in battle with one of their columnists.

    My irony meter can't take much more.


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  • #1932
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Sarky wrote: »
    Yes, good article. Actually far closer to the truth than a lot of Irish papers. Just wonderful to see it published by an organisation as right-wing and anti-just-about-everything as Fox News.

    Ah right. Yeah, I just read it in the WP and it didn't make me cringe at all. Point taken about Pox News.


  • #1933
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Obliq wrote: »
    Point taken about Pox News.

    I wonder if they read it...

    :D


  • #1934
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Irish Times makes video about support for Team Panti which is locked in battle with one of their columnists.

    My irony meter can't take much more.

    Oh wow....ok. Before I watch this, I predict it will be a joyless happy-clappy "we're so proud of our gays at RTE" cringe fest, using the same slightly frantic sounding woman that appears in all their upbeat stuff, in a kind of desperate response to claw back an ounce of credibility in the light of the FABULOUS Channel 4 "good luck gays on gay mountain" for Sochi. Amirite?

    Nope.

    What made me think RTE when I clearly saw Irish Times? Hmmm.


  • #1935
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Obliq wrote: »
    Oh wow....ok. Before I watch this, I predict it will be a joyless happy-clappy "we're so proud of our gays at RTE" cringe fest, using the same slightly frantic sounding woman that appears in all their upbeat stuff, in a kind of desperate response to claw back an ounce of credibility in the light of the FABULOUS Channel 4 "good luck gays on gay mountain" for Sochi. Amirite?

    Nope.

    What made me think RTE when I clearly saw Irish Times? Hmmm.

    Waaaay off.

    soz.


    RTÉ - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Stop you're killing me. Killing me is homophobic. Bad Obliq. BAD.


  • #1936
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Waaaay off.

    soz.

    Miles, shur! No problem. It was alright actually. Maybe they have dumped Waters before it was made?


  • #1937
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    RTÉ - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Stop you're killing me. Killing me is homophobic. Bad Obliq. BAD.

    Ah feck. Honesty not always best policy. Bad Obliq.

    But it's just my honestly held opinion.....






    ok, running for coat...


  • #1938
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Buzz O'Neill just shared this on facebook. Nice one. Might find out how they were meant to go about taking a decision about license fee money soon enough.

    Joint Committee on Transport and Communications

    Dear Buzz,

    Please be advised that your recent correspondence was noted by the Members of the above Committee at its meeting held last Wednesday 5th of February. The Committee agreed to write to Mr Noel Curran, Director General, RTE, requesting that he outline, in writing, the processes or protocols RTE follows when making decisions in relation to paying compensation to complainants.

    Kind regards,

    Denis McKenna
    Committee Secretariat
    The Houses of the Oireachtas Service
    Kildare Street
    Dublin 2

    +3531 6183237
    www.oireachtas.ie


  • #1939
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Obliq wrote: »
    Ah feck. Honesty not always best policy. Bad Obliq.

    But it's just my honestly held opinion.....






    ok, running for coat...

    Actually me and herself were having a discussion about how Ireland could do with a Channel 4 - not it's current 'icky bodies on benefits in crap location location locations at a fat wedding' incarnation but as it was in the 80s when it was a genuine alternative.

    *gazes into the past fondly remembering their queer film seasons with the wee triangle in the corner they were told they had to include as a 'warning' but was really a sign of a must watch programme.*


  • #1940
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Yes, when it actually WAS being risky. Wouldn't it be lovely? TG4 is closest, but is unfortunately in Irish (mostly). When it's a bilingual programme, they do a decent job. Saw a great documentary about the Australian Aboriginals having their children stolen from them, often half Irish children. We managed to export our cultural problems in entirety, from the Catholic schools to the Magdeline laundry model and also the Irish men unable/unwilling to marry their aboriginal women.

    But I'm derailing the thread now :o


  • #1941
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Actually me and herself were having a discussion about how Ireland could do with a Channel 4 - not it's current 'icky bodies on benefits in crap location location locations at a fat wedding' incarnation but as it was in the 80s when it was a genuine alternative.

    *gazes into the past fondling remembering their queer film seasons with the wee triangle in the corner they were told they had to include as a 'warning' but was really a sign of a must watch programme.*

    Will they have the 'camera on the front of the speeding train' ad breaks, when they couldn't sell enough ads?
    That used to be mad after a few funny cigs*



    *That my friend gave me, never knew what was in them, at all, at all, at all.


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  • #1942
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,804 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Re JW, some-one posted (somewhere) that he and B did not appear in print in their usual slots a few days ago. T'is nice of Fox News to take a "copy" of Panti and put it up on their network, the publicity can't but help Panti get justice. Imagine the look's on some of the Fox-newscasters faces if they are told to speak out live nationwide publicizing Panti (and Irish homophobia) in the US. imagine the effect if it's picked up on in NYC coming up to St Paddy's Day and it's parade.

    Re NYC and Stonewall, US LGBT history record's that it was the Bostonians who led the charge, a year or two before the Stonewall incidents. @obliq: I still like the original QAF, and the original Aidan ;-).


  • #1943
    AerynSun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭AerynSun


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    Probably one where everybody's singing a Gilbert & Sullivan musical right the way through.

    Ooo ooo, I know the one you mean!! *cough.cough* *tuning.note.hrrrrmmmm*
    To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
    In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
    Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
    From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

    Sounds about right as a happy ending to this whole Iona debacle?


  • #1944
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Check out all of the Team Panti tee-shirts on display in the primetime audience tonight :eek:

    Love it :pac:


  • #1945
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,194 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Actually me and herself were having a discussion about how Ireland could do with a Channel 4 - not it's current 'icky bodies on benefits in crap location location locations at a fat wedding' incarnation but as it was in the 80s when it was a genuine alternative.

    *gazes into the past fondling remembering their queer film seasons with the wee triangle in the corner they were told they had to include as a 'warning' but was really a sign of a must watch programme.*

    It's times like these I rue being a millennial.


  • #1946
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    aloyisious wrote: »
    I still like the original QAF, and the original Aidan ;-).

    Oh yeah, that was good. Not that long ago though?! Surely.....? :eek:
    AerynSun wrote: »
    Ooo ooo, I know the one you mean!! *cough.cough* *tuning.note.hrrrrmmmm*

    I sang that note with you! You get the award for best bedtime story :D


  • #1947
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    An american academic writes a book about hinduism; hindu campaigners claim that the book is filled with heresies and that they're feeling dreadfully offended. So on foot of a criminal case brought by the campaigners, Penguin India agrees to destroy the book at its own expense and publicly announce that "it respects all religions worldwide"

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-26133291

    The alleged agreeement between the campaigners and Penguin is here.


  • #1948
    nagirrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭nagirrac


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    gazes into the past fondling..

    Freudian slip?:D


  • #1949
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    nagirrac wrote: »
    Freudian slip?:D

    :o

    Jungian I fear.


  • #1950
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Tornado in Roscommon.

    John Waters is from Roscommon.

    It's obviously not the gays pissing off God.


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  • #1951
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0212/503805-david-norris-chairman-of-the-gay-rights-movement-1975/

    David Norris Chairman of the Gay Rights Movement 1975.

    Amazing.

    What worries me is we are STILL having the EXACT same ****ing questions / debates now!


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