Pet Peeves

[Mower Liberation Front]

The sheer volume of people that follow Waterford Whispers on Facebook that cannot grasp the concept of satire.

Snopes is guilty of that too.  They went after WW over a story where WW claimed Trump had named Bill Cosby as Secretary of State for Women.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Snopes didn't "go after" WW. They merely did what they do; fact check a claim some had started to believe and, in this case, point out it was false since the source was a satire site.

[Juggz]

Social media reactions being collated and published as news articles. The outbursts of largely uninformed tools are not news. #cunts

[Doomlord]

Social media reactions being collated and published as news articles. The outbursts of largely uninformed tools are not news. #cunts

This is my biggest bugbear of all recently - I don't give a flying fuck what Dave from Manchester thinks

(That and newsreaders reading articles from their fucking phone feed)

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Social media reactions being collated and published as news articles. The outbursts of largely uninformed tools are not news. #cunts

Related, articles about the fires in the Amazon containing numerous tweets from celebs as opposed to experts. I don't care if Cristiano Ronaldo tweeted a copy and paste of someone else's informed opinion, and no one should!

[Trev]

The state of modern journalism is just shocking. There's still people out there doing great work but it's getting harder to find amongst all the shit

[101_North]

Relevant to the last few posts and an interesting read. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49435387

[Pedrito]

Very interesting when you consider these Deepfake videos that are starting to surface lately and which are getting more and more real by the week.

An article that popped up on my feed relating to Deepfakes and Jordan Peterson..we're in unchartered waters

https://reclaimthenet.org/not-jordan-peterson-deepfake-taken-offline/amp/

[Pedrito]

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/0823/1070576-record-revenue-at-krispy-kreme-in-blanchardstown/

The upbeat tone of this article is something to behold. Fat fucks stuffing their faces is somehow a great thing

[Juggz]

24 hour drive-through doughnuts, what an age we live in.

On a tangent, the award for best use of Rush by a hip-hop or rap artist goes to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCnoA8E5Hp8

[Cryptic Stench]

The Krispy Kreme thing was a new low. What the fuck are the general public like here? They're fucking donuts. Queue up like complete spas for 3hrs + then make sure you get up all your donut pictures onto social media like 90% of the population. Wasn't it the same when that 5guys kip opened in Dundrum?

Really are a vacuous materialistic population, obsessed with brands and consumption.

I feel like watching Dawn of The Dead now.

[Pedrito]

All the healthy kombucha shit that is normally being pushed and then celebrating an utterly shameful fuking landmark like that? We should be hiding our faces in shame rather than publishing articles like that, but what more can we expect of RTE anymore, utter drivel. All that said I'd love a donut and a coffee right now 

[Mr Moonlight]

Smart phones. They have their uses unfortunately but for me my dislike of them and what they represent is beginning to outweigh any convience or novelty factor.

People texting behind the wheel, see it all the time. Unforgivable.

[Mower Liberation Front]

The fact that Krspy Kreme have opened up over here, yet Chick-Fil-A haven't.

[Pedrito]

And yet Irish people are suposedly buckling under the weight of living costs...never saw so many beached whales in my life as the time I came home 2 weeks ago.