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Maria Bailey's Final Statement in Comic Sans

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  • #62
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    ...if I had my way, twitter would be done away with

    That would be bliss. We'd never hear from the big orange bollix in Washington


  • #63
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Stark wrote: »
    Never mind the Comic Sans, I'm loving the primary school essay style "The End." finish.

    That's one of the few things that is actually correct about this. It's standard format for press releases to include "ENDS" at the end of the statement.

    Contact information for the press officer will usually be at the very bottom of the press release so "ENDS" denotes the end of the content, and that anything below that should not be published.


  • #64
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Stark wrote: »
    Never mind the Comic Sans, I'm loving the primary school essay style "The End." finish.

    Entirely normal on a press release


  • #65
    XLR 8
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭XLR 8


    Before this swing gate ****e started I'd never heard of Maria Bailey and pretty soon she will fade from my memory. But füčk me it got me thinking. She really is an elected member of our parliament !!! She's not short of money she had a privellaged upbringing a great job a nice lifestyle. Yet she still tried to milk a newly refurbished hotel which was bringing employment and relighting a part of our city , because she fell on her arse!!!! I meet more honourable people daily who would never contemplate such a claim. Maria is from a different world to the decent hardworking citizens who pay their taxes in Ireland. To think that one cent of my taxes ever ended up in this gob****es pocket really sticks in my gullet. To think her boss left it up to the local foot soldiers of his party to deliver the coupe de grace is beyond belief. Those women & men Maria whose blood flowed down our streets so a nation could be born would be disgusted by your behaviour. I don't think countess Markievicz if you've ever heard of her would let you clean her gun. Fine Gael as I know it died this year, no guts no glory. If anything positive comes of all this it'll be that a light has been shone by you on just how your ilk think. It is time for not alone you but all of your self centred type to be removed from public office. The ballot box will do that job for free. We started our journey to freedom with amazing brave women who would have died for our nation and for you. You followed them into public office and this is how you behave. Go and stand at their graves and maybe then you might get where I'm coming from. You represent no-one.You are not worth their ghosts. To hold public office is an honour but you must also repay it by behaving with honour.


  • #66
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,902 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Fine Gael "died" years ago.

    You have to go back to Garret FitzGerald to find even a modicum of honour.


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  • #67
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Honestly, in spite of being brought up to date on the font (and still not caring), the fact that the replies to the tweet were about the font rather than why she was dropped (insurance fraud) still says it all.
    I couldn't care less if she wrote it by hand, the dirty insurance cheating skank. She should be being brought to court for fraud, not being dropped from a general election ticket.


  • #68
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/mariabaileyfg/status/1195086903705579529?s=21
    Maria has trouble getting her balance right !


  • #69
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    seamus wrote: »
    Nah, it's not outrage, it's mocking.

    Comic Sans is the font that someone technologically inept uses and then stands back thinking what a great job they've done, how they could charge a fraction of the price to do up professinal flyers.

    It's a running joke that when someone uses comic sans for anything, especially if they're trying to make it look "fun", then you're dealing with a clueless technophobe.

    Maria Bailey went one further and wrote a formal public press release, on headed paper emblazoned with an official harp...in comic sans.

    It's not outrage, just a mixture of slagging and outright disbelief that anyone could be such a simpleton.

    How the heck is a font style an indicator of one that is technologically inept?


  • #70
    Dramatik
    Registered Users Posts: 899 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    F**K Helvetica! Hup da Comic sans!


  • #71
    jetsonx
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    XLR 8 wrote: »
    Yet she still tried to milk a newly refurbished hotel which was bringing employment and relighting a part of our city , because she fell on her arse!!!! I meet more honourable people daily who would never contemplate such a claim. Maria is from a different world to the decent hardworking citizens who pay their taxes in Ireland. To think that one cent of my taxes ever ended up in this gob****es pocket really sticks in my gullet. To think her boss left it up to the local foot soldiers of his party to deliver the coupe de grace is beyond belief. Those women & men Maria whose blood flowed down our streets so a nation could be born would be disgusted by your behaviour. I don't think countess Markievicz if you've ever heard of her would let you clean her gun. Fine Gael as I know it died this year, no guts no glory.


    Well said.

    After this disgusting incident, I also view Fine Gael in totally different light. They tried to prop up this fraud. For me, Maria Bailey has done irreparable damage to the Fine Gael brand.


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  • #72
    SJW Lover
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 322 ✭✭SJW Lover


    jetsonx wrote: »
    Well said.

    After this disgusting incident, I also view Fine Gael in totally different light. They tried to prop up this fraud. For me, Maria Bailey has done irreparable damage to the Fine Gael brand.


    Ah stop. Everything is reparable in terms of politics. I'm sure Fianna Fail had done "irrepearable" damage to themselves too 10 years ago. They'll be voted back in before too long. Electorates are stupid.


  • #73
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    2YMza.jpg


  • #74
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    I write with a biro


  • #75
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Still waters wrote: »
    I write with a biro
    Proper form!


  • #76
    Always Tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    scotchy wrote: »
    Googled "Comic Sans humour" for the above. Cant believe there is so much derision for it.

    If you enjoy font related humour there is a really funny SNL skit about Papyrus featuring Ryan Gosling on youtube.


  • #77
    Always Tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    YFlyer wrote: »
    How the heck is a font style an indicator of one that is technologically inept?

    The fact that you are asking that indicates a similar lack of awareness. It's like someone wearing a corduroy suit to a wedding, and getting made fun of. And you're the guy saying, 'What do you mean it's unfashionable, sure isn't it a suit?'


  • #78
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    Always Tired wrote: »
    The fact that you are asking that indicates a similar lack of awareness. It's like someone wearing a corduroy suit to a wedding, and getting made fun of. And you're the guy saying, 'What do you mean it's unfashionable, sure isn't it a suit?'

    I used to have a corduroy suit, but yes I'm not aware of the importance of fonts either.


  • #79
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Always Tired wrote: »
    The fact that you are asking that indicates a similar lack of awareness. It's like someone wearing a corduroy suit to a wedding, and getting made fun of. And you're the guy saying, 'What do you mean it's unfashionable, sure isn't it a suit?'

    The only people who would make fun of what a person wears to a wedding are insecure ignorant childish idiots.


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