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Slow News Day

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  • 31-03-2015 8:05am
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    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭


    So, I decided to log on to breakingnews.ie to see what pressing issues are affecting the world I'm waking up to today, and one of the main news stories of the day seems to be that Brian O'Driscoll brought back a Toblerone from Japan for his wife. In a smaller announcement just below it there's something about some IT crowd in Waterford creating 100 jobs...... I'm eagerly awaiting an update when she opens the bar of chocolate. How the fcuk is this actually news?


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Surely the big news is that Conor McGregor stuck out his tongue at an opponent or did something else maaaaaad?

    For a nation that churned out Yeats and Joyce, we've dumbed down on our heroes.


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    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    dmc17 wrote: »
    How the fcuk is this actually a news website?

    FYP



    Get your 'news' elsewhere OP!
    breaking'news'.ie and many others (especially indo online) are just clickbait articles.


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    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    For a nation that churned out Yeats and Joyce, we've dumbed down on our heroes.
    You just have to read some of Joyce's letters about his wife's farts to realise just how much we have regressed.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    This is serious, OP. As we speak half of the even-numbered postal districts in Dublin are going "Oh-my-GOD I can't believe she's actually, like, going to eat that?? She'll have an orse on her like Hennessy Coughlan-O'Hara's Jaaag!" :pac:


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    eamonnq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    Did you not know that they are CELEBRITIES, and therefore ANYTHING they do is allegedly of interest (to some people).


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    So how do we MAKE some news then. :)


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    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    They wouldn't print/upload these stories if people didn't view them. Unfortunately people do.


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    #9
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Now this is what you call having a slow news day.


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    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Deleted User wrote: »
    For a nation that churned out Yeats and Joyce, we've dumbed down on our heroes.

    I think it's the audience that has dumbed down.


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    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Now this is what you call having a slow news day.

    Why would you destroy a hat?


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    Why would you destroy a hat?

    To avoid distorting the market. This thing has a bobble, for Heaven's sake!!


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    Why would you destroy a hat?

    Who would you expect to pay for the storage and security costs of guarding such an expensive item of clothing?


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    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Who would you expect to pay for the storage and security costs of guarding such an expensive item of clothing?

    True. I hope there's a happy ending to all this.


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    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Now this is what you call having a slow news day.

    Why are they going to destroy the hat? Couldn't they just give it to someone?


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Pr and marketing doing their slimy work as they seek to create an Irish Posh and Becks
    "Gosh and Fecks", if you like.


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    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Some of the female twitter comments :rolleyes:

    "is he in the bold corner"

    "he's trained well"

    "You could at least get the big one."

    :rolleyes:


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    walkingshadow wrote: »
    Why are they going to destroy the hat? Couldn't they just give it to someone?

    Health and safety issues.

    All kinds of nasty diseases and infections can be caught by hat sharing.


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