Comments on: Moobs and Boobs: Cowen Can’t Get It Right http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802 Beaut.ie, the Irish Beauty Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ita http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-711255 ita Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:09:48 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-711255 The internet has reduced public debate to the level of a drunken argument, in which no holds are barred, in which deeply unpleasant people get to voice their ignorant opinions in the ugliest terms, in the name of “free speech”. The idea that we all need “a laugh” has allowed the “joke” to become elevated beyond everything. Nobody may object if others have declared something “funny”. 'John Waters' What do we think? The internet has reduced public debate to the level of a drunken argument, in which no holds are barred, in which deeply unpleasant people get to voice their ignorant opinions in the ugliest terms, in the name of “free speech”. The idea that we all need “a laugh” has allowed the “joke” to become elevated beyond everything. Nobody may object if others have declared something “funny”.
‘John Waters’
What do we think?

]]> By: Fiona http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710528 Fiona Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:58:41 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710528 No oil painting - well said mrs. No oil painting – well said mrs.

]]> By: cearta.ie » Cowengate: Pictures at an exhibition http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710378 cearta.ie » Cowengate: Pictures at an exhibition Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:28:03 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710378 [...] BBC here, here, here and here | Beaut.ie | Belfast Telegraph here, here and here | Blather.net here and here | Blog with a silly name | [...] [...] BBC here, here, here and here | Beaut.ie | Belfast Telegraph here, here and here | Blather.net here and here | Blog with a silly name | [...]

]]> By: eric odee http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710377 eric odee Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:13:17 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710377 make that a sad old pair... make that a sad old pair…

]]> By: eric odee http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710375 eric odee Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:12:31 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710375 wonderful pair...of pics, it has to be said.. wonderful pair…of pics, it has to be said..

]]> By: stylefreak http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710274 stylefreak Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:31:19 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710274 Its actually embarassing for us as a nation that RTE apologised. its like a regression towards a facist state, with all communication censored. sigh... Its actually embarassing for us as a nation that RTE apologised. its like a regression towards a facist state, with all communication censored.
sigh…

]]> By: Hannah http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710215 Hannah Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:20:12 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710215 Hermione - heehee. And Maggie was portrayed as a cross dresser who used urinals and took advice from Adolf Hitler who didn't die and was posing as her gardener 'Herr Jeremy'. Hermione – heehee. And Maggie was portrayed as a cross dresser who used urinals and took advice from Adolf Hitler who didn’t die and was posing as her gardener ‘Herr Jeremy’.

]]> By: Hermione http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710205 Hermione Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:09:49 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710205 Hannah - No, we did not! Even those who did, didn't elect them on a platform of cutting services and taxing everything in sight! I love, love, love the Spitting Image sketch of Maggie and the vegetables :lol: Hannah – No, we did not! Even those who did, didn’t elect them on a platform of cutting services and taxing everything in sight!

I love, love, love the Spitting Image sketch of Maggie and the vegetables :lol:

]]> By: Hannah http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710202 Hannah Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:04:41 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710202 Hermione - hear! hear! And some of use didn't even elect them in the first place ;) And does anyone remember the caricatures of Maggie Thatcher etc? They were brutal but that's politics for you! Hermione – hear! hear! And some of use didn’t even elect them in the first place ;)

And does anyone remember the caricatures of Maggie Thatcher etc? They were brutal but that’s politics for you!

]]> By: tcup http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802&cpage=2#comment-710201 tcup Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:04:03 +0000 http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8802#comment-710201 as far as i know it was a 'and finally piece....' but i mean if all we want to hear is bad news and look at dower faces then by all means complain that rte news are being far to happy! i need a drink as far as i know it was a ‘and finally piece….’ but i mean if all we want to hear is bad news and look at dower faces then by all means complain that rte news are being far to happy! i need a drink

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