Outrage fatigue

KingOfFairview · 12-08-2014 12:50PM #1

Between water charges, garth brooks, the church, direct provision for asylum seekers, John Bruton, etc I feel Ireland has reached outrage saturation. Have we become a bit addicted to the oul moaning?

McDermotX · 12-08-2014 12:55PM

Talk to Joe...

1850 715 815

KingOfFairview · 12-08-2014 12:55PM

McDermotX wrote: »

Talk to Joe...

1850 715 815

Exactly.

Exactly.

conorhal · 12-08-2014 01:01PM

At this stage I could give a toss about what happens in Israel or Palestine.

It used to be that if you wanted a good moan you had to lean over a fence, hang around after mass or go to the pub.
Now thanks to he glory of the internet and with enough coffee, I can be #OUTRAGED! 24/7. It's tiring so i'm off to Ranting and Raving to have a moan about my outrage fatigue.....

snubbleste · 12-08-2014 01:05PM

some people will moan until they are most moist.

Davarus Walrus · 12-08-2014 01:06PM

It does get tiresome. As we speak, there is a man on Facebook (I genuinely shít you not) who is 'writing' a hundred page 'manifesto' which promises to blow apart the corruption that lies at the heart of Irish Water, bank bailouts, awarding of contracts and every other story that can be linked to some overarching conspiracy about an elite that is oppressing poor punters like himself.

100 pages of absolute gibberish. I'll skim through it as I have a dark sense of humour, but it's the sort of thing that makes you realise the whole outrage industry is coming to an end.

_Redzer_ · 12-08-2014 01:06PM

No!

Got a great dose of it today.

Bus was 15 minutes late which had me standing around like a gobeshíte. But sure what more could you expect from Bus Eireann.

Got absolutely drenched.

Bone dry the second I got inside again.

Tried to pay for something with a euro, except it wasn't a euro, but looks exactly like one -so some bastard ripped me off and I'm left with this POS coin.

And to top it off, after I was gonna settle down into my usual routine, some prick took my regular seat!

I dunno whether to moan or to hit somebody tbh

Mrs Garth Brooks · 12-08-2014 01:09PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Between water charges, garth brooks, the church, direct provision for asylum seekers, John Bruton, etc I feel Ireland has reached outrage saturation. Have we become a bit addicted to the oul moaning?

Garth Brooks ???

Are you taking the mickey?

The Diabolical Monocle · 12-08-2014 01:10PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Between water charges, garth brooks, the church, direct provision for asylum seekers, John Bruton, etc I feel Ireland has reached outrage saturation. Have we become a bit addicted to the oul moaning?

Oh saturation you say.
Bunch of moaners.

Well how dare you.

How very dare you (/David Norris)

For Forks Sake · 12-08-2014 01:32PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Exactly.

Exactly.

Go on. Go on.

KingOfFairview · 12-08-2014 02:26PM

Facebook has really exacerbated it. Every little issue is now cause for trembling. Too much sharing of misery. Even if its something I'm genuinely concerned about, facebook isn't the medium for it, most of the time

Aglomerado · 12-08-2014 02:27PM

Well, we do live in IRE-land... :pac:

I am pie · 12-08-2014 02:28PM

Cribbing and moaning all the live long day.

Nemeses · 12-08-2014 02:29PM

What we moaning about again?

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-08-2014 02:30PM

Edna's Dail Circus will be rolling into town again shortly

Birroc · 12-08-2014 02:31PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

It does get tiresome. As we speak, there is a man on Facebook (I genuinely shít you not) ....

Did you start that brackets a bit early? Outrageous.

groucho marx · 12-08-2014 02:35PM

Makes me tremble with rage!

ShagNastii · 12-08-2014 03:10PM

I'm quite apathetic towards most of the big issues that really probably do deserve a healthy dose of rage. I’ve no problem with people raging about Real issues. People airing their distain about the austerity, world conflict, the likes of direct provision for asylum seekers (like you said) and other social issues, I find it almost affirming- as if people really give a damn about the country we live in.

It’s the “outrages of the week” that do my head in. This week radio, TV, social media have got all their knickers in a twist about an article some bint of a journalist wrote about rugby. Last week it was a comment about 1916 by John Bruton. Week before it was probably Garth Brooks. Mary Hearny once said working likes blacks. A posh women talked about names knacker kids have. Some girl only last year blew a guy at Slane Etc etc.

These moot issues then turn into a who can be most disgusted and appalled competition.

mickydoomsux · 12-08-2014 03:35PM

ShagNastii wrote: »

... Some girl only last year blew a guy at Slane Etc etc.

...

I had forgotten about her until just not.

Whatever happened to her, did she cause the downfall of western civilisation like the media, womens groups and the Rape Crisis centre predicted?

Nemeses · 12-08-2014 03:42PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I had forgotten about her until just not.

Whatever happened to her, did she cause the downfall of western civilisation like the media, womens groups and the Rape Crisis centre predicted?

Probably not.

mickydoomsux · 12-08-2014 03:47PM

I had high hopes for her. She made the front of a bunch of newspapers at the time

RoboRat · 12-08-2014 03:50PM

I watched Megalodon on Monday night on National Geographic and I am outraged that I watched it until the end.

draiochtanois · 12-08-2014 03:58PM

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