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Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

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  • #1472
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Irish Times finally realises it hired the wrong John Waters.


  • #1473
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,219 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    1 down, 2 (Conroy and the Mewling Quinn) to go!

    You forgot BO'B.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #1474
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    He's gone to his underwater bunker to avoid the bunker mentality.


  • #1475
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    MrPudding wrote: »
    I am a simple man, therefore will not attempt a clever pun. I am going to go with a simple:

    "Relative average quality of writing in the IT increases one billion times! Absolute quality remains pretty much zero."

    MrP

    FYP:)


  • #1476
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭freyners


    Wat-er way to go?


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  • #1477
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    ninja900 wrote: »
    You forgot BO'B.

    No, I think someone here said Conroy was BO'B's real surname.


  • #1478
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,219 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    (one quick search later) It's her husband's surname.

    You're on dangerous ground if you're suggesting that any married woman who sticks with their birth surname isn't using their 'real' name :eek:

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #1479
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,246 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Waters in the Back (Be WARNED! Google does Nothing!)


  • #1480
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    You may Remove the Googles.


  • #1481
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    ninja900 wrote: »
    (one quick search later) It's her husband's surname.

    You're on dangerous ground if you're suggesting that any married woman who sticks with their birth surname isn't using their 'real' name :eek:
    I always wondered about that legally. I recently found out that some of the women I know kept their own name, but use his in some circumstances (usually social), and some who took his, but keeps their own for other stuff (usually work). Here was me thinking that your name was your name, pick which one you're going to use and stick with it.


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  • #1482
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

    Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.


  • #1483
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,961 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Yeah, John had a column on that point before, iirc.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1484
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    Eeden wrote: »
    Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

    Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.

    I am not that naive. The IT kept publishing Waters nonsense because it created outrage and controversy and sold papers. Selling papers is the No 1,2 and 3 reasons why newspapers exist.


  • #1485
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,961 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Irish Times staff release charity Rolling Stones cover You Can't Always Get What You Want in tribute to Waters

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1486
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Irish Times staff release charity Rolling Stones cover You Can't Always Get What You Want in tribute to Waters

    With proceeds going to BeLonG To.


  • #1487
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    "Won't Someone Think of the Children"


  • #1488
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Eeden wrote: »
    Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

    Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.

    Considering that the only opinion columnist in the paper to the left of Fine Gale is Fintan Tool, then the only way you could consider publishing the likes of O'Brien and Waters is if you believe that the Times considers socialism and social democracy to be myths invented to frighten impressionable children along the lines of the boogeyman.


  • #1489
    Mr_A
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mr_A


    You don't don't miss the Waters til the well runs dry

    (In this case the well is fine)


  • #1490
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    robindch wrote: »
    ...we'll leave the competition open until Monday and the winner will be the post with the most number of thanks...
    robindch-likes-this-3.png

    And the winner is!

    lazygal wrote: »
    Still Waters No Longer Running Deep.


  • #1491
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Jernal wrote: »
    And the winner is!

    Where can I claim my prize? I presume its a packet of biscuits and a pineapple laden pizza?


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  • #1492
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    The prize is "A Concise Anthology of the Musings of John Waters".
    You may pick it up at the Iona Institute; its too heavy to send in the post :D


  • #1493
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Jernal wrote: »
    And the winner is!

    About bloody time. :P


  • #1494
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Jernal wrote: »
    And the winner is!


    Or as Waters would put it "Woman Uses Hysterics To Manipulate Opinion".


  • #1495
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Really,hasn't this become illustrative of individualism and how it corrupts us into the ways of materialism? We now expect prizes and have created a new culture of thanks whoring to commandeer topic titles. To the bunker!
    Regards,
    John


  • #1496
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Really,hasn't this become illustrative of individualism and how it corrupts us into the ways of materialism? We now expect prizes and have created a new culture of thanks whoring to commandeer topic titles. To the bunker!
    Regards,
    John

    Banned.
    :P


  • #1497
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Jernal wrote: »
    Banned.
    :P

    To quote George Orwell, 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.' Jernal,you have opened my eyes. :eek:


  • #1498
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,219 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    To quote George Orwell, 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.'

    That's exactly how I feel like every time I see a BOB/DQ article. But I'm an amoral subhuman so it doesn't matter.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #1499
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    recedite wrote: »
    The prize is "A Concise Anthology of the Musings of John Waters".
    Publication run of two - one for himself, and one for a friend (if he has one).


  • #1500
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    robindch wrote: »
    Publication run of two - one for himself, and one for a friend (if he has one).

    Does he not have a laydee friend? He could read it to her.


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  • #1501
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    lazygal wrote: »
    Does he not have a laydee friend? He could read it to her.

    It would be far too verbose, eloquent and mysterious for a woman to read. This is the best option.


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