Posters! Posters everywhere!

gugleguy · 23-04-2014 03:25PM

Have a Chauffer driven SUV festooned with your personal logo and party preferably
Have a powerful loudspeaker system on the SUV roof
Recline on view in the back, as the poster candidate with your favorite iPhone / Android / Nokia in your hand
Pretend to be ensconsed in serious business conversation
Drive around where all your own posters have been stuck up. Really important.

yeppydeppy · 23-04-2014 03:28PM

Steodonn wrote: »

I really don't understand this. I put up and take down alot of posters and its alot easier to just clip the cable ties other wise you have to rip the poster off which is alot harder and we can reuse them to paint new posters on them for other events after the election.

Also worth pointing out that there are alot of smaller parties and independents with people who have never put up posters before I myself blocked a traffic sign and only realised in a car going by the next morning. Report them to the offending party and it be moved ASAP.

Also night time is the best time to put them up because there is less traffic,less pedestrians and no buses

There is no word "alot" - it's not a word. It is two words: a lot!
I apologise for the pedantic post but this guy is a poster erector.

MadsL · 23-04-2014 03:41PM

However would people know who to vote for without these posters :rolleyes:

goose2005 · 23-04-2014 08:01PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

The FF logo is getting slightly bigger. It's still rather small, but you no longer need a magnifying glass to make it out.

Just like a tumour, you always have to watch it in case it turns malignant again.

Stavros Murphy · 23-04-2014 08:27PM

I was working down in Limerick today and there were a dopey number of election posters up -and a fair few killinaskully types on em. I wanted a big marker, to scribble on em, "I'm a crook, but I'm your crook" with a speech bubble.

Teyla Emmagan · 23-04-2014 08:38PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Here's hoping they take down the cable ties as well as their posters when finished.

Cable ties drive me bonkers. I may even be mad enough to photograph every lamppost in the village to know who to complain to when they're not taken down again. Because that would be considerably less effort than trying to shimmy up a lamppost to take them down myself.

Guy:Incognito · 23-04-2014 08:44PM

Kenny Egans posters were up yesterday anyway. Possibly longer.

EDIT: Actually, I came back from Cork on Monday evening at around 8 and his posters were on these railings then (its the only time I've been at that junction in the last 2 -3 weeks anyway)https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=green+isle&hl=en&ll=53.312245,-6.397865&spn=0.000002,0.00096&sll=53.312326,-6.397668&sspn=0.000356,0.00096&t=h&radius=0.02&hq=green+isle&z=20&layer=c&cbll=53.312245,-6.397865&panoid=L8rQkQftT5sUQJec9GVadw&cbp=12,76.08,,0,12.35

kerry4sam · 24-04-2014 12:55AM

They'll take the fun out of driving having to look at mug-shots every which way

Some of us like the natural beautiful scenery surrounding us and not having to look at these over-sized mug-shots!

I've more respect for those campaigning with no election posters! I'd shake their hands no bother so I would.

Thanks very much,
kerry4sam

Sir Arthur Daley · 24-04-2014 01:18AM

Does plastering every available esb/eircom pole with posters guarantee to get you extra votes?

Annasopra · 24-04-2014 10:49AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Once they are printed by companies in this state giving employment to people here i have no problem with them

They are

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-04-2014 10:50AM

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

They are

was not always the case

24-04-2014 10:53AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Once they are printed by companies in this state giving employment to people here i have no problem with them

Remember a few years back there was a big campaign to shop local?

I had a look at the poster and at the bottom the printers had their usual details (name, address, etc). The posters were printed in Northern Ireland!

No practicing what they preached for that campaign :mad:

errlloyd · 24-04-2014 10:55AM

Grace Tallon in Dundrum is actually pretty hot. It almost makes me inclined to vote labour.

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-04-2014 10:59AM

errlloyd wrote: »

Grace Tallon in Dundrum is actually pretty hot. It almost makes me inclined to vote labour.

very nice

Akrasia · 24-04-2014 11:07AM

I think it's pretty ironic that today and tomorrow the Gardai are having a 'blitz' on mobile phone use because it distracts drivers and causes them to take their eyes off the road

On the same day, a bazillion election posters pop up that are specifically intended to get drivers to take their eyes off the road.

Pumpkinseeds · 24-04-2014 11:12AM

I really hate the blanket blitz of posters some candidates are doing. Mr Kelly in Clare, you putting your posters on every single lampost on the roads means I will not even consider giving you my vote. I do not need to see someones face on every single lamp post and I mean every single lamp post.

It just looks like a tactic to prevent other candidates from putting their posters up. Idiocy. I don't even know who he is, never heard of him before and after the election we won't hear of him again, until next time he runs and blankets our town with his face:mad:

OldGoat · 24-04-2014 11:13AM

Akrasia wrote: »

On the same day, a bazillion election posters pop up that are specifically intended to get drivers to take their eyes off the road.

Most irritating are the small diamond shaped ones masquerading as road signs that you have to read.

vitani · 24-04-2014 12:21PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I really hate the blanket blitz of posters some candidates are doing. Mr Kelly in Clare, you putting your posters on every single lampost on the roads means I will not even consider giving you my vote. I do not need to see someones face on every single lamp post and I mean every single lamp post.

It just looks like a tactic to prevent other candidates from putting their posters up. Idiocy. I don't even know who he is, never heard of him before and after the election we won't hear of him again, until next time he runs and blankets our town with his face:mad:

Yep. And anyone who put their posters up last week with a piece of A4 paper stuck on to advertise a conveniently-timed meeting can feck right off.

razorblunt · 24-04-2014 12:51PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Here's hoping they take down the cable ties as well as their posters when finished.

Best solution here, use red ties for Labour, green for FF, blue for FG and so on. If they're left up after the last day for removal fine them.

TheDoc · 24-04-2014 01:29PM

Really, people getting teary eyed over posters, concerned about their illegality?

What the **** is wrong with the internet....

yeppydeppy · 24-04-2014 02:10PM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Does plastering every available esb/eircom pole with posters guarantee to get you extra votes?

I'd love to know the answer to this - do the parties have proof that postering gets votes? Even if they could justify it, public opinion has changed and people no longer want posters festooning our road sides but that would only matter if they actually listened to the public.

Davarus Walrus · 24-04-2014 02:20PM

Akrasia wrote: »

I think it's pretty ironic that today and tomorrow the Gardai are having a 'blitz' on mobile phone use because it distracts drivers and causes them to take their eyes off the road

On the same day, a bazillion election posters pop up that are specifically intended to get drivers to take their eyes off the road.

We should get rid of advertising hoardings, shop fronts, and hot women in jogging gear as well then.

efb · 24-04-2014 05:07PM

Cowen rides again

Nemeses · 24-04-2014 05:10PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

We should get rid of advertising ... hot women in jogging gear as well then.

No.

What the deuce are you raving on about? You've gone AWOL.

Get out.:mad:

efb · 24-04-2014 05:28PM

Midlands North West

McCrack · 24-04-2014 05:39PM

Imelda.jpg

I came across this winner on my strolls yesterday evening.

Sky King · 24-04-2014 05:42PM

There were vandals at work last time in Kilkenny - hard to believe it's 5 years ago already.

dgt · 24-04-2014 05:54PM

efb wrote: »

And not the good kind! Is photoshopping a deductible expense now? And I saw one poster in Comic Sans font! Any good posters so far AH?

Needs more matisee font. That'll get attention

Red Nissan · 24-04-2014 05:56PM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Does plastering every available esb/eircom pole with posters guarantee to get you extra votes?

Pretty much yes.

As a public figure candidate, it IS you image you are selling initially. Then the good ones get a snazzy quote associated to them as well.

Relatively recently photos were added to the ballot papers, most people recognise who they will vote for, they might not actually know or remember their name at the time of voting.

kneemos · 24-04-2014 06:25PM

Red Nissan wrote: »

Pretty much yes.

As a public figure candidate, it IS you image you are selling initially. Then the good ones get a snazzy quote associated to them as well.

Relatively recently photos were added to the ballot papers, most people recognise who they will vote for, they might not actually know or remember their name at the time of voting.

Brand awareness.

Posters! Posters everywhere!

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