It’s a record - Dublin sucks blogger is a liar
Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on December 3rd, 2004
Over 250 people visited Twenty Major yesterday and may I commend you all on your impeccable taste and distinction. Just need another 5,999,999,975 people to have almost everyone on earth reading me.
Ok, so we don’t know if Dubloon is a girl, or Canadian or American, but what we can be sure of is that they’re most definitely a cunt and despite having no email address on the site or any other way of people getting in touch they still manage to post ;feedback’ from their readers. That makes them a fabricator and a big fat liar, I reckon.
Turn your comments back on Dubloon. They’re far more entertaining than the rest of your insipid blog and many people have been in touch with me to say that after reading your site they’re now smoking on buses in the hope that you’ll tell them to stop so that they can punch you in the kidneys. With some kind of bat.
Jessica says:
I must make a note to check the blog more often, because I’ll admit that I’m curious about the deleted posts. However, it’s always been my position that posting *anything* under “anonymous” removes about 70% of the credibility for any poster–regardless of how salient his/her/its point may be.
I mean, let’s face it, to borrow a term from our Goldfish–it’s the act of a real quilp.
I’ll think I’ll just add this next bit because I can. Any blogger, regardless of profession, is in part a writer. Some of us do that gig full-time, so, in order to make points certain literary devices, such as hyperbole, etc. are often used. In this case, however, I’ve been intrigued.
While I’m a big-time supporter of free-speech, free-press, and well, free-porn, I will also say that I’ve known plenty of writers who can’t “abide having their baby slapped,” to use the child-beating anaology, and whenever their writing is called into question, comments made, or criticism aimed in their direction–often the person writing can’t stomach it. So, I’m not really surprised that Dublin Sucks has turned off his/her/its comments section.
While I’m sure part of Dublin Sucks raison-d’etre is to inflame readers, annoy residents, and wind up the people who actually read the blog–I do think it’s pretty wimpy to silence the reactions, if only because to make a blog which resides in the public forum and then refuse to allow interaction (except on whatever limited scale this person professes to allow it), is tantamount to vanity publishing. And I think vanity publishing is just masturbation in written form.
This has, however, completely made up my own mind. I code my own site, using it as an experiment to learn HTML and other such things. I’ve decided that as I learn PHP, I will add a public comments section to my own boring blog. While there are links to email me on mine, I have decided that good, bad or indifferent–the lesson I’ve taken out of this entire thing, is that you have to put up, or shut up.
Oh, and yeah, I’m a yank and my Mom comes from Dublin. Not that that counts as anything, really…except of course in our house, beating wasn’t allowed and puking was highly frowned upon. ;)
December 7th, 2004 at 4:10 pm
Twenty Major says:
One comment was deleted because of poor formatting.
The others were removed at the request of the comment author(s) for reasons of respect and privacy (and not the privacy and respect of the comment authors).
In other words I was being nice when I could have been a cunt and left them.
December 7th, 2004 at 4:31 pm
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Anonymous says:
Anonymous the 3rd, whoever you are,
they were my comments, and I did indeed ask for them to be deleted.
Now apologise to TW.
Jessica, I agree, muchly.
I’m not sure who said it, when or where, but I’m defo quoting… removing the comments has turned the debate into a sermon.
A preaching from some lecherous liar, no thanks.
And to those who bang on about us insulting them, go fuck yourselves.
They’ve insulted us plenty in the past, and while tit-for-tat insults aren’t big or necessarily clever, it’s all we’ve got since the cowards closed down the comments section.
Dubloon, I see you’re reading what we have to say here and then putting your own spin on it over on your own shite-site.
If you have something to say, say it to us directly. Warring web-sites is pretty fuckin rediculous. Coward.
December 7th, 2004 at 6:06 pm
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Anonymous says:
that was me, Ciaran, by the by
December 7th, 2004 at 6:08 pm
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Anonymous says:
I moved to Dublin in 1998 and I can honestly say that in the 6 years that I’ve lived here, I can’t think of a single positive thing to say about this city. It is a filth-infested shithole, and the only reason I’m still here is because I haven’t yet saved enough money to get as far away as possible. I feel truly sorry for the people that can’t see the pestilence and corruption of this place. Those people are either too stupid to question what goes on around them, or have simply convinced themselves that this is what every city in the world is like. Wake up! This city is a joke. I’ve learned that the Irish are a very proud race, but as I look around, I fail to see anything to be proud about.
December 8th, 2004 at 8:37 pm
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Twenty Major says:
Is that you, Dubloon?
December 8th, 2004 at 9:34 pm
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Anonymous says:
I’d tend to agree with much of that.
It’s suggestions of us all being badly dressed, racist child-beaters that I can’t stomach.
Particularly coming from this louse.
Ciaran..
December 9th, 2004 at 10:13 am
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Twenty Major says:
Careful there, Ciaran.
Don’t tap on that keyboard too hard or auld Dav..Dubloon will be round with his camera taking pictures of how Dubliners take out their frustration on inanimate plastic objects before vomiting their way home to beat their children.
December 9th, 2004 at 10:22 am
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Anonymous says:
Byrrrr sure is cold out today
December 9th, 2004 at 11:14 am
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Anonymous says:
Den be sure to wrap up well
December 9th, 2004 at 11:48 am
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Anonymous says:
Maybe instead of complaining about how people think Dublin is so bad you could show us why you think it is so great? Sure its easy to complain about not allowing comments or someone writing about something you don’t like, but how about showing the positives? So far all I have seen is threats of attacks, hacking, insults and foul language. Show the positives, put up or shut up.
The only argument I have seen against the blog is that there are no comments, I have yet to see anyone post something that refutes the links and data supporting the comments made there. Ciaran claims he can, but I don’t see any of it here. Maybe you should just make your own blog instead of worrying about someone elses.
Apologize? I don’t think so, if you use a blanket remove message then you get what you get. Same reasoning you use against Dubloon’s blog.
Anonymous the 3rd, I like that. Thanks, I will use it.
Anon3
December 10th, 2004 at 4:03 pm
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Twenty Major says:
This site isn’t about the positive side of Dublin. Sounds like a familiar argument, no?
I’m sure Ciaran would be quite happy to provide an alternative view on your blog, but seeing as you won’t allow anyone to comment then it’s impossible. Making another blog or replying here takes everything out of context. Ciaran was a regular commenter on your blog in the past.
Anyway, who asked you to apologise (notice how we spell it with an ’s’)? You’re perfectly entitled to your opinions but when you make sweeping and ridiculously speculative statements about how many people beat their children, amongst others, then you’re not commenting seriously, you’re deliberately trying to wind people up.
Turning on your comments would show that you’re not afraid to back up what you write, that you have enough conviction that what you’re saying is truthful and wholly representative of all of Dublin. As it is you’re just the same as Stacy McGinty. She uses walls and the buildings to write her shite, you’re just an internet graffiti artist.
I am assuming this is Dubloon I’m talking to - you could just leave your name you know. Anon3 sounds weak, even for you.
December 10th, 2004 at 5:10 pm
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Anonymous says:
Positive side of Ireland? Hmmm…when you complain about the Gardai, knockers, gyppos, and make jokes about using game where you kill ‘fugees…not much speaks of positive there.
Speaking of “sweeping generalizations” seems you think anyone who defends Dubloon is him/her…well its not….and we spell it apologize over on this side of the pond.
If you want to post back to me do it here, I know where to come and find the post, I get enough spam as it is. Anon3 sounds cool to me, a lot better than Twenty Major anyway.
Anon3
December 10th, 2004 at 9:50 pm
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Twenty Major says:
Have you ever heard of satire?
You know, I really am an ancient old man with a grey beard who still smokes in pubs. And I do advocate the idea of children killing refugess, the same way I’m actively campaigning to have a travelers’ coloseum built in Mullingar and demolishing Trinity College to build football pitches.
And as for spam, what an earth makes you think I’d engage in such a practice. And anyway, wouldn’t I need your email address first?
December 10th, 2004 at 10:29 pm
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Anonymous says:
Sure I’ve heard of satire, I just haven’t seen any lately.
anon3
December 13th, 2004 at 3:36 pm
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Twenty Major says:
It took you three days to come up with that?
December 13th, 2004 at 4:40 pm
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Anonymous says:
Unlike you, some of us have a life on the weekends.
anon3
December 14th, 2004 at 12:56 pm
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Twenty Major says:
It took you nearly a day to come up with that one. I prefer to think of you as a dimwit rather than attempt to give you all the details of my fun-packed and debauched weekends.
December 14th, 2004 at 2:35 pm
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Anonymous says:
90 minutes for that one…not bad. I wonder how much of that was time spent on the spellcheck and Thesaurus.
anon3
December 14th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
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Twenty Major says:
Erm, you’re the one who spends hours mulling over a possible retort, only to be foiled each time by your sluggish frontal lobe and being a witless cunt. What does how long I take to reply have to do with anything?
December 14th, 2004 at 5:01 pm
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Anonymous says:
20Minor says:
It took you three days to come up with that?
It took you nearly a day to come up with that one.
Then comes back with - What does how long I take to reply have to do with anything?
Its just great with mental midgits like yourself just feed into your own arguments…amazing, and you can still get into your pants with the zipper on the right side. It goes in the front in case you forgot. Maybe you should put yourself in display with one of those travelling carnivals.
I don’t feel foiled at all, its just not as much fun when there isn’t really anything on the other side to make it challenging. And believe me, you aren’t. It’s just great how you brought down this whole arguement to personal attacks, but hey, I can deal.
Perhaps less smoking will aid your growth and a few pints less will give you some brain cells you can use to give me a worthwhile reply.
anon3
December 15th, 2004 at 1:32 pm
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Twenty Major says:
No brain 3 says:
“It took you three days to come up with that?
It took you nearly a day to come up with that one.
Then comes back with - What does how long I take to reply have to do with anything?”
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See, I was making the point that it took you ages to come up with any kind of response worth talking about. Then you make the point that it took me 90 minutes. That’s why I asked what it had to do with me because it was all about you in the first place.
Or do you need me to explain this in a more simple manner?
December 15th, 2004 at 3:00 pm
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Anonymous says:
Well no, here you are wrong….AGAIN!
“I have less than a 20 IQ mumbled”
Erm, you’re the one who spends hours mulling over a possible retort,….rest deleted as boring
I just noted that you are the one who is concerned with how long responses take, I just upped the ante on that one and really to me it doesn’t matter how long it takes. So what it is is about you and your lame responses to the empty responses I make to your lameness. What you think is all about me being about you is really about you and how you think its all about you in the first place.
I’d explain it to you again, but I can’t drink enough to get to your level of unconsciousness.
anon3
December 15th, 2004 at 4:47 pm
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Anonymous says:
as a neutral who just reads for the laugh.
the score is 20Major 4
anon3 0
January 5th, 2005 at 12:32 am
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Anonymous says:
As a former Dubliner who was fortunate to part from that damp, and disturbing and dreary dump, I can only concur with whatever crap people say about it. Dublin is a toilet that’s been never cleaned - full of dry vomit and shit deliberately smeared on the rib. The inner-city accent makes me wince when I hear it and those who are unfortunate to be born into that deranged inner-city, angry, class-obsessed, illiterate, irrascible culture in places like Ballyer are most to be pitied, as children or “childer,” as the scum of this culture call dem. What a disgusting hole full of mentally ill losers. Listen, your accent is like your attitude and identity: disgusting.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:28 am
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