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Facebook to protect users from the Onion

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  • #32
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    KungPao wrote: »
    To help prevent idiots from making fools of themselves.

    Idiots will always make fools of themselves no matter what, it's the very core of their being!


  • #33
    Reebrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 733 ✭✭✭Reebrock


    Facebook needs to protect me from old school friends awful pea brained rants.


  • #34
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    I don't think my sense of humour is shít. I think its the joke that's shít. There's more to satire than just writing bullshít.

    Sounds like this filter is just the thing you need.


  • #35
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    Fat Christy wrote: »
    In fairness, when my bf first sent me one of those articles, can't remember who wrote it, I did fall for it. It was about John Gilligan posting himself out of prison. I was hook, line and sinker until the sentence:

    'He covered himself in 55cent stamps.'

    I'm a bit of a dope at the best of times, may as well embrace it. :pac:

    Thank you so much for this post; it totally had me in stitches walking down the street :o


  • #36
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Arsebook complaining about the Onion is a bit like the kettle complaining about how black the pot it.

    What the hell is this sentence supposed to mean?


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  • #37
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Philo Beddoe wrote: »
    Sounds like this filter is just the thing you need.

    This filter ? No. No use tagging shíte that's clearly shíte. Filter to block the shíte altogether is what I'd like.


  • #38
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Philo Beddoe wrote: »
    What the hell is this sentence supposed to mean?

    Facebook aka Arsebook


  • #39
    Rough Sleeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Rough Sleeper


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Facebook aka Arsebook
    This was incredibly unfunny the first time you used it and it's become progressively more unfunny with each subsequent use. It isn't also known as Arsebook by anyone but you because it's a it's ****ing stupid unfunny term.


  • #40
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Rough Sleeper wrote: »
    This was incredibly unfunny the first time you used it and it's become progressively more unfunny with each subsequent use. It isn't also known as Arsebook by anyone but you because it's a it's ****ing stupid unfunny term.

    Right there Ted


  • #41
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    They could add a "painfully unfunny shíte" tag on Waterford whisper news articles.

    I'd the best thing to do here is unlike the page. Problem solved. And those of us that enjoy it can get back to doing just that.


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  • #42
    LiveIsLife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭LiveIsLife


    Tarzana wrote: »
    I'd the best thing to do here is unlike the page. Problem solved. And those of us that enjoy it can get back to doing just that.

    That doesn't solve the problem at all. Don't mind ww but anytime someone likes, comments or shares a page from a third party site it shows up on my newsfeed (or did, I've since deleted my facebook)


  • #43
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Tarzana wrote: »
    I'd the best thing to do here is unlike the page. Problem solved. And those of us that enjoy it can get back to doing just that.

    I never liked the page I just see them when people share it.


  • #44
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    LiveIsLife wrote: »
    That doesn't solve the problem at all. Don't mind ww but anytime someone likes, comments or shares a page from a third party site it shows up on my newsfeed (or did, I've since deleted my facebook)

    Your problem is solved so seeing as you have deleted your Facebook account. Stop complaining about it.


  • #45
    LiveIsLife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭LiveIsLife


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Your problem is solved so seeing as you have deleted your Facebook account. Stop complaining about it.

    You sound like a nice person


  • #46
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    Satire is used for a purpose. When its witless, pointless and unfunny then I say there's more to satire than simply writing bullshít. Just as there's more to being funny than telling jokes.

    But I'm happy to stand corrected and admit that although shíte of the highest order it does bear some resemblance to what could loosely be defined as satire.

    Is this someone in AH admitting to being wrong?

    Because, I'm printing this out and framing it.


  • #47
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Barely There wrote: »
    Is this someone in AH admitting to being wrong?

    Because, I'm printing this out and framing it.

    I grudgingly accepted that there is a possibility that on some level I may not have been entirely correct.

    But I never admitted to being wrong !


  • #48
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Good stuff. The onion is dire.


  • #49
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    LiveIsLife wrote: »
    That doesn't solve the problem at all. Don't mind ww but anytime someone likes, comments or shares a page from a third party site it shows up on my newsfeed (or did, I've since deleted my facebook)
    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    I never liked the page I just see them when people share it.

    Then live with it.


  • #50
    LiveIsLife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭LiveIsLife


    Tarzana wrote: »
    Then live with it.

    First suggestion useless and the second pointless


  • #51
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    biko wrote: »
    They could open a sub section for people that doesn't get Onion/Whisperer stuff.

    http://potato.facebook.com

    They could open the main section for knuckleheads only. Soon fill up. To keep it's market share it's got to have the full monty - otherwise share price goes south. So, for the foreseeable future ....... it's fully inclusive ;)


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  • #52
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    i heart chewy louie wrote: »
    Good stuff. The onion is dire.

    They give you indigestion, don't they!


  • #53
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Tarzana wrote: »
    Then live with it.

    Why would he ?


  • #54
    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-facebook-user-incredibly-stupid,36712/

    I see plenty there's plenty of dummies that were taken in here. Methinks the ladies doth protest too much.


  • #55
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    LiveIsLife wrote: »
    First suggestion useless and the second pointless

    I know, the third option of whinging on here about something not being funny is wwwaaaaay better.


  • #56
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    LiveIsLife wrote: »
    First suggestion useless and the second pointless

    Well, he could also

    - quit Facebook
    - hide the people who post Onion or WW stuff regularly from his newsfeed
    - delete the individual posts from his newsfeed
    - accept that stuff he doesn't find funny sometimes will appear on FB or in life in general.

    But yep, having an aul whinge is much better than all these options. :cool:


  • #57
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Tarzana wrote: »
    I know, the third option of whinging on here about something not being funny is wwwaaaaay better.

    I don't think your counter whinge is working though


  • #58
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Tarzana wrote: »
    Well, he could also

    - quit Facebook
    - hide the people who post Onion or WW stuff regularly from his newsfeed
    - delete the individual posts from his newsfeed
    - accept that stuff he doesn't find funny sometimes will appear on FB or in life in general.

    But yep, having an aul whinge is much better than all these options. :cool:

    Jesus Christ all I did was make a joke about tagging it as shíte in a thread about tagging satirical articles on facebook. It wasn't whinging and it doesn't really warrant this extent of analysis.


  • #59
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    I don't think your counter whinge is working though

    I probably am whinging, whatyagonnado?


  • #60
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    Jesus Christ all I did was make a joke about tagging it as shíte in a thread about tagging satirical articles on facebook. It wasn't whinging and it doesn't really warrant this extent of analysis.

    You weren't joking. :pac: Or if you were, it didn't come across at all. Anyway, like these satirical sites, don't like them, whatever.


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  • #61
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Tarzana wrote: »
    You weren't joking. :pac: Or if you were, it didn't come across at all. Anyway, like these satirical sites, don't like them, whatever.

    This:
    They could add a "painfully unfunny shíte" tag on Waterford whisper news articles.

    Is hardly a serious suggestion. I think its shíte but I was joking about tagging it as shíte. Like I said too much has already been made of what I said. Lets all move on with our lives.


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