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Maria Bailey's Final Statement in Comic Sans

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  • #52
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    We live in a world where outrage is the currency most people deal in. Facebook, twitter and all the other dumb social media outlets are all about outrage. It saves you from getting off your hole and doing anything about it.
    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.


  • #53
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    I don't get the outrage, am I alone in neither caring nor understanding the outrage regarding what font she used?

    It has nothing to do with "outrage". It's laughing at someone who thought that comic sans was an appropriate font to use in a formal letter. It looks ridiculous and is hard to take seriously, that's all.

    As to the content of the letter, absolutely nobody is surprised that a self righteous, entitled, Fine Gaeler would pen or approve of such. That's not even in question. The world and his wife expects such drivel from people like that, so there's little comment on it.


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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.

    You forgot to mention that it was typed up, printed off, placed on a table, photographed and then uploaded to twitter.


  • #55
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,744 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    seamus wrote: »
    All the comic sans, but no comments on the fact that she typed it up, printed it out, then took a photo of it to put up on Twitter. If only there were an easier way...

    I'd rather it that way than in a series of 15 or 20 tweets, to be honest...


  • #56
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,744 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    ...if I had my way, twitter would be done away with


  • #57
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,034 ✭✭✭✭Stark


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


  • #58
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Calibri (Body) (size 11) is the only gig in town in Outlook as far as I'm concerned.

    Science thesis Times New Roman (size 12)... I believe.


  • #59
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Calibri (Body) (size 11) is the only gig in town in Outlook as far as I'm concerned.

    Absolutely.

    I write everything in Calibri 11 today.

    I'm finding it amusing that a lot of folk on this thread are thinking that her choice of font is not worth a mention. Seems a lot of people just let the world wander by without noticing things ...


  • #60
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    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.


    It’s a font.

    That’s all.

    There is nothing wrong with being technically inept, or not up to date on Some aspects of IT, it doesn’t make anyone a simpleton, I’m sure there are areas of IT that you and I have no clue about.

    The sad thing is that it’s nowhere near as important as what she actually did, something that should be looked into as insurance fraud, something that should be dealt with legally and have criminal Repercussions, but people seem to be more worried about an irrelevant font than what actually happened.


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  • #61
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


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

    And Facebook.


  • #62
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 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: 2,972 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    F**K Helvetica! Hup da Comic sans!


  • #71
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    2YMza.jpg


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


    I write with a biro


  • #75
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭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: 2,928 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭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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