John Waters on blogs
Posted on | January 10, 2008 | 92 Comments
This is him on Newstalk talking about blogs. John, you sound like a fucking fanny.
But how do the Newstalk breakfast show really feel about blogs? Well, here’s a screenshot from their website from just a couple of weeks ago.
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January 10th, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
what a fuckin cock-holster
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
There’s even satanic pornogrpahy.
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Ooooh.. i shouldn’t have listened to that. I knew when I saw the name that I shouldn’t but I did, and now my blood pressure is dangerously high. Where do you start? The excruciating self-importance of one who thinks everybody’s opinion is boring (except, it has to be assumed, for his own); or maybe this nasty habit of picking figures out of thin air (80% of the internet is pornography and/or satanism????)
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
I think this and I think that!
Thats just for John.
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
pornography rocks.
santanism sucks.
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
The other 20% is made of people ripping the piss out of John Waters. He is after all the only man in the history of music, ever, to be awarded negative 12 points by every Eurovision natio with a voite.
Zing – take that you beardy cunt.
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
hah
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Well, look at the upside – I can immediately excuse myself from his presence should I be unlucky enough to be in his proximity.
He’s a fucking joke, but I think the last marbles went out that particular window when he wrote that Katy French article
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
I happened across this post while looking for shots of my hero John Waters giving the devil a blowjob.
I refuse to believe that the towering intellectual figure that is John Waters could say such moronic things. This only proves his point that the internet is stupid.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
His marbles left him approximately 12 years ago when Sinead got sense (heh, heh) and dumped him – if you’re too bonkers for Sinead, well…..
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
This is the reply from Newstalk to my ranting letter:
I’m sorry that you felt compelled to complain about an item on the Breakfast show this morning.
As a regular listener you will know that the newspaper review is meant to be both informative and thought provoking, a highly personal take on that day’s news agenda.
That said, I do agree that we missed an opportunity to make it clear that not everyone might agree with Mr Waters’ view of the internet or the figures used to support it.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
whats wrong with satanism? or pornography?
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
I love when they have the barrister on to read the papers.
He sounds as if he is about to do the mash. The monster mash.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
I cannot wait for his website to go live:
http://www.johnwaters.ie/
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Poor soul, he’s quite obviously talking shite. ‘I think this and I think that’, gosh, imagine people going about thinking things. How crass.
I gather he didn’t banish you from his mighty presence at at Leviathan the Twenty. Funny that.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
that man is a complete idiot.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
“How seriously would we take a newspaper of which that was true?”
Has he looked at readership figures for tabloids recently? I feel less intelligent having listened to that little excerpt
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
There was a very Brasseye-like Panorama the other night about teenagers and the internet. Having dropped the bombshell that sweaty middle-aged men like to pose as teenage girls in chatrooms, they discussed one offender: when the police went round to arrest him, a distraught hammer-faced mother declared, ‘they were unable to open the door because of the volume of pornography blocking it.’
Helps keep those Jehovah’s Witness fuckers away too.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Is he a condemed priest or has he had a bad blow job off a nun.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
I’d like to have heard John knobwad Waters on talk radio when Dr Johnson’s dictionary. ‘I mean, here’s “sex” on one page, “masturbation” on another, “satanism” on another. Won’t someone think of the children?’ Knobwad.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
When Dr Johnson’s dictionary CAME OUT, that should have been. Sorry.
Knobwad can stand though.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
‘I am crying as I write this’, can I just add for anyone with fond memories of JW’s piece on Katy French.
Slurrybubble.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
I didn’t know Dr. Johnson’s dictionary was openly homosexual.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
hahah slurrybubble, i think i might rob that phrase.
Was someone saying that he recently “found god”?
What a dick.
Like Johnny Vegas, I used to find his drunken antics amusing and he was quite witty, but when i watched his show where he went off to the states to have a look at evangelists I lost all respect for him. Sort of a “i’m not happy being fat and drunk all the time, Jesus will save me” sort of show.
cunt.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
Fucking first class whopping hairy cunt of a man. Apply everything he says about blogs and replace it with “my work” and it’d be more apt.
I know several people who’ve had the pleasure of dealing with this self-inflated felcher of a man professionally and every single one came back to me with the same fucking opinion: He’s a world class spunk dump of a man who places too much stock in his poorly informed and idiotic opinions…
Why do they give cunts like in air space let alone column inches… I hate pundits!
ARRRGGH!
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Puerile – ha!
This from a man that wrote a song for the Eurovision? Calling him a twat would only cover about one of his eyebrows. The man sounds threatened to me. Maybe more people are reading blogs than his opinions in the paper.
For the Eurovision! For the love of God!
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
John Waters is a personification of our fantasies, of our sense of the big prick he is, of how we might think this or that. John Waters is my fuckwit know-it-all, he is your fuckwit know-it-all, he is the nation’s fuckwit know-it-all.
I have foam in my mouth writing this.
January 10th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
That is the weirdest Irish man I have ever heard and Iv’e heard some scattered shits.
January 10th, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Is he a dung packer?
January 10th, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
When all our huffing and puffing and outrage and indignation has been vented; he is quite correct of course.
January 10th, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
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January 10th, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
what do you expect from a show where the presenter admits she doesn’t read very much (or at all) – second 25 or so in the clip. and what is a blawwg anyway?
January 10th, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
Turns out Waters was right about the amount of porn on the internet. It’s the deadness in their eyes that compels me. I am wanking while I write this.
January 10th, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
At 0:30 he says sixty to seventy per cent of the cunting of the internet is pornography.
January 10th, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Yup. Come across some porn on the internet over the years, but nary a bit of Satanism. If anyone could kindly direct me…
January 10th, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Morgor I think you will find that it was Des Kelly The Carpet Man who was recently declaring his discovery of God. I think he found him when he took up some old lino in Ballyfermot…
As For John Waters. Well for someone who speaks with such an air of erudition, he has an awfully poor concept of what the internet is.. to compare it to a single newspaper… the magic of the internet is that theoretically(fuck the spelling) you can tailor your own news, and most importantly avoid any articles by that tit.
And maybe some people dont read Blogs to stay informed(unless its of the latest swear-words) maybe they read them for fun.
And most importantly, I hope that prick isnt reading this blog, causee I know he would love us all talking about him…
Sam C
January 10th, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
hehe. Waters’ got all yer numbers. ye bunch righist and leftist deviationists and twenty you Titoist rootless cosmopolitan!
God Bless stalin
January 10th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
john waters what a cunt how has he a posh voice no one Ireland has a posh voice we all sound like fucking knackers its the same with women in shops i feel like fucking kicking them in the fanny with there mock posh voice cunts
January 10th, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
John Waters on blogs, does he? Well I wouldn’t piss on that beardy nomark if some of his own hot air and very occasional spark set the shitebag on fire. Fucking shaper.
January 10th, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
He’s just a rent a gob for men’s rights, Katy French, etc. And now it’s blogging?
If he’s just starting doing blogging, how on earth can he have anything to say on the topic. I’ve been on the radio with him some years back, and it was impossible, he just ranted about men’s rights. Tried motioning to get Emily O’Reilly to push the off button to cut him off but she wouldn’t. The late Anthony Clare was on the programme too, and afterwards he did advise me to just not engage with people like him in public and give them more publicity. But the child in me says “yay” let’s flood his blog with endless comments, etc…
January 11th, 2008 @ 12:24 am
Silly man. 60 to 70% of John Waters is shit and any one who talks to him reads/writes – by his standards that a fair comment.
January 11th, 2008 @ 12:39 am
what a cunt……radio now that is full of shite…..and the bollocking adverts…I wonder would ye Mr Waters……..
January 11th, 2008 @ 8:30 am
this man is a tool.
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:00 am
[...] John Waters on blogs » Twenty Major – Still smoking in Dublin bars Talking on Newstalk… (tags: blog audio) [...]
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Other breaking news from John Waters
Digital music will never take off because the internet is full of porn.
People will never buy stuff on the net because it is full of porn.
People will never interact with each other on the net because it is full of porn.
That John Waters he really has his finger on the pulse.
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Yeah, Charlie Haughey’s pulse
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:28 am
OOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!
Aren’t we touchy darlings! Are we threatened by somebody who is able to offer an opinion in public and using their own name?
I don’t agree with everything JW says or does but for fucks sake lighten up.
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:43 am
He’s related to that mad cunt of a priest that pushed the marathon runner of the track, and ran infront of the gram prix cars.
January 11th, 2008 @ 10:15 am
http://www.abc.net.au/southwestwa/stories/s1143947.htm
John Waters is one of the finest actors our wide brown land has ever produced so shut your gobs you drongos.
…….oh shit, is this a non Aussie blog? Are yiz talking about that wanker Irish journo who shares the same name as my hero? Heard he’s a tosspot as we say down this way
January 11th, 2008 @ 10:39 am
The guy makes a comment on the radio and suddenly lots of people are talking about him. Negative advertising. Sounds clever to me. I wonder how many bloggers would buy ‘I hate Bloggers’, a new book by John Waters. He’s still a cunt who’s just better off being ignored and not given the time of day.
January 11th, 2008 @ 10:51 am
I don’t give a flying fuck about his comments about bloggers, which is an opinion which we can choose to agree or disagree with. However his scaremongering shite about Internet Content is appalling and merely goes toward fuelling the ignorant masses about what is on the Internet rather than seeing what an amazing source of information,porn and satanism it can be. It is people like that who lead to “book burning” and censorship. Although book burning can be condoned in certain circumstances, mainly around Dan Brown and Cecilia Ahern.
January 11th, 2008 @ 11:05 am
[...] blogging sensation Twenty Major: Celebrities On Ice sensation and Eurovisionary John Waters disses the blogosphere. Poor Johnser – that Eejit Of The Year Award has definitely gone to his [...]
January 11th, 2008 @ 11:49 am
[...] poor diddums. Is he crying over it like he was Katie French? Thanks to Twenty for the clip I [...]
January 11th, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
He’s turned into Eoghan fucking Harris..what a complete and utter cock
“All blogs are stupid”
Wha?
January 11th, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
I am crying as I listen to this…
January 11th, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
What a thundering cuntbag
January 11th, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
He is a total bell end.
January 11th, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
The man has a point. What sort of sick bastard blogs anyway? And would you, an educated person, ever read one? Sweet Jesus you’ll be telling me people exchange views and comments on t……..
Oh.
January 11th, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
rte morning ireland had a piece about social networking last week, their producing been a unimagination dullard invited on waters as the sceptic?
so five experts and one man who knows nothing about everything?
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1227/morningireland.html
why does these people have to share airtime with the him. its insulting
January 11th, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
On this page alone, John Waters has been called the following
a felcher
a tool
peurile and
a bell end
it has been reminded here that he wrote last years Euro entry and “I’m wanking as I write this.” I hope he is reading this.
January 12th, 2008 @ 12:36 am
[...] Ireland simultaneously went onto Google to search for the email that they had just heard about on Newstalk. Message boards kicked into overdrive, and admins and mods began deleting threads, handing out [...]
January 12th, 2008 @ 2:40 am
[...] Song Contest, but despite all this I never actually disliked John Waters until I heard him criticise the internet in general (all pornography and satanism, apparently) and blogs (”appalling stuff”) in [...]
January 12th, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
What a pompous hand-wringer. Oh noes! A free exchange of ideas online! How dare they.
I have no idea what Sinead ever saw in that guy.
January 13th, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
He made some sense there towards the end when he said “Enough of that”.
Presumably they cut out him saying “I’m off to masturbate over Katy French’s grave.”
January 14th, 2008 @ 5:32 am
[...] Twenty nails it. Waters is a fanny. [...]
January 14th, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Could we possibly get a button of John Waters with a fanny on his forehead for our sidebars?
Also please don’t judge all radio on the basis of the Newstalk breakfast show :-)
January 14th, 2008 @ 10:04 am
[...] http://twentymajor.net/2008/01/10/john-waters-on-blogs/ [...]
January 14th, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Hell hath no fury like touchy chaps in blogosphere scorned.
I always thought that Twenty Major was John Waters. But I may have to revise that view.
January 14th, 2008 @ 10:58 am
We are a cranky bunch, you know.
And please revise that view. It’s just not on.
January 14th, 2008 @ 11:54 am
Oh my god, that was hilarious. The man’s a meteorite of self-importance plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist, to coin a phrase…
January 14th, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
Here, have a transcript….
JW: but actually, there are so many elements of the internet which are actually disquieting now. It’s not just this kind of thing — there’s kind of satanism, there’s kind of the stupidity — for example, blogs, I mean I think the most — I say to people, “do you BLAWG? and if you do, then please leave my presence immediately.” (laughter)
Claire: Not all blogs are stupid…
JW: They *are* stupid, Claire. You know, come on, they’re all stupid. Every single one of them. I mean, have you ever looked up a blog on the internet, and find you know, (puts on silly accent) “I think this, no I think that”…
Claire: no, I don’t often read them to be honest with you. There are some that *can* be interesting occasionally…
JW: they’re appalling stuff. The way I put it to people, 60 to 70 percent of the content of the internet is pornography. Now how seriously would we take a newspaper of which that was true? We wouldn’t. We would dismiss it out of hand. And that’s the reality of this culture, and it’s time we started thinking about it in those terms — I think. Em, anyway, enough of that…
January 14th, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
ah i think he might have a point, the internet is full of pornography
January 14th, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
the useless fucker is on Questions and Answers now.
January 16th, 2008 @ 10:42 am
The man is clearly an idiot. His argument is completely fallacious. He is giving a false analogy by comparing the medium of the newspaper to an individual newspaper. A fair argument would have to compare the medium that bloggers use to the medium that newspapers use…
Last I checked there was pornography on printed paper. I suppose we should all stop reading the irish times.
January 16th, 2008 @ 10:43 am
He was at it again this morning on newstalk.
January 16th, 2008 @ 11:17 am
[...] Ireland gets to grips with social networking. Starring the one and only John Waters, who has access to much classified information about the Internet that the rest of us mortals aren’t pr…. I’m crying as I write this, [...]
January 16th, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
[...] you may want to subscribe to my site using a feedreader or email. Thanks for visiting – Damien.Fanny Waters, once again is being, as Twenty termed it – a fanny. Daragh O’Brien has a very good blog post [...]
January 17th, 2008 @ 12:34 am
[...] John Waters on blogs [...]
January 17th, 2008 @ 9:33 am
[...] Twenty has a podcast of John. Darragh O’Brien had a fairly balanced article on the subject, while Damien goes head first on the offensive. [...]
January 17th, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
He forgot to mention the stupidest thing about the internet, websites “in construction”. I wonder what he was even planing on putting on johnwaters.ie
January 18th, 2008 @ 2:27 am
I’m looking at his web site at http://www.johnwaters.ie and in my semi-drunken state I’m waiting for the words “no, seriously!” to appear beneath “writer and journalist”.
Oh! Or possibly “… and possibly completely pointless COCK”.
Yes.
January 18th, 2008 @ 2:35 am
[...] Well said, Twenty! [...]
January 20th, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
[...] have been widely commented on in the Irish blogosphere. Twenty Major has the Newstalk interview here. Notwithstanding the fact that Waters’ tirade should be taken with a pinch of salt, and, [...]
January 21st, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
I tend to remove myself from the prescence of people who write a song soooooo bad that it fails in the Eurovision.
January 22nd, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
Selected highlights from the John Waters eulogy for Katy French in the Irish Times yesterday with the heckler included:
After a brief introduction, in which he explains that he once said hello to Katy French (and has been pullin’ his plum ever since) backstage at the Late Late Show, Waters gets down to business:
She had a beauty that suggested itself as emanating from an infinity within. (In other words she had big tits) She seemed to believe anything was possible (she was rabidly ambitious) and her smile convinced you, for an instant, that she was right. I wanted her dreams to come true.(so did her pusher) She was a child.(is there something you want to tell us?) She was my daughter and Eoghan’s daughter and Eamon’s daughter and Pat’s daughter and Bertie’s daughter. (fuck! Her Ma really got around, will there be a DNA test?) She was your daughter,(don’t drag me into your swingers club) your little sister.(now you’r really gettin weird, this is the immaculate conception gone nuclear) She was a child of Ireland in the time of its rebirth (as an upperclass drug lake).
Katy French was a personification of our fantasies, (So your were jerking off on her photo?) of our sense of what we were becoming,(drug heads?) of how we might unfold ourselves. (How the hell does anyone “unfold themselves”?. What kind of sexual gymnastics are you up to) She was not the only one, (so sales of coke have not been affected) but in the immediate past was perhaps the most spectacular light on the skyline, (if you lay on your back after mainlining) a meteorite of desire plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist (and landing in a grave after an autopsy) Katy had found a way of being that promised her it could slake all her human cravings. (Is that a fancy way of saying she was a drug addict?) She had manoeuvred herself into a position where everything humanly desirable seemed to be within reach,(I’d say that night was well worth the call out charge) and was careering forward on the path opening up in front of her.(a fancy way of saying she fell on her face) She did not, other than literally,(are we talking alternative reality here) die of whatever it will say on her death certificate. (Are you alleging a cover up?)She died of desire, (So the cocktail of drugs had bugger all to do with it then)of being utterly human. (as opposed to those other two poor idiots who were just coke heads who ODed.)
As Pope Benedict (real name Herr Joey Ratzinger a notorious anti-human) reminds us in his new encyclical, (which we have been up all night reading, my bollocks) we have no idea what we would really like. (ahem I do, I’d like Herr Ratzinger to fuck off and join his predecessors) “We do not know this reality at all ( Hello! is this coming from the twat who said the fires of hell are real?); even in those moments when we think we can reach out and touch it, (cue music, cue slow motion shadowy figure on horizon) it eludes us.” (Not if its your knob) All we know is that it is not what we have. (well there would’nt be much point in longing for something you already had, would there now) God is a concept by which we measure our longings. (Oh Oh Now the gawd thing is retreating to a mere concept) I’ll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our longings. (I’ll say it again: Oh Oh Now the gawd thing is retreating to a mere concept) As Katy did not comprehend the limits of her human capacity (which is why she was shovelling kilos of drugs into herself) to pursue her angelic yearnings,(apparently she thought doing industrial amounts of drugs would help her grow wings) neither, anymore, do the rest of us…(speak for yourself you fuckin wanker) And so, dear friends, (don’t be presumptious) we’ll just have to think it up all over again. (No we won’t: from the minute she died every minor nobody with tits and a modeling ambition was on the bandwagon milking it and hoping to replace her in Assets) The dream is over. (About time you fuckin woke up) Our daughter Katy is dead ((Give it over, her real Dad is staring at ya, don’t you have kids of your own?)… The dream is over. (About time you fuckin’ woke up, again)
January 23rd, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
[...] Major put a link to one of Waters’s early rants here and this led to a furore of debate on Mulley, Daragh O’Brien and [...]
January 25th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
[...] a result of all this, I have been missing out on quite a lot of the recent controversy that John waters has been causing amongst the Irish blogging community. I have yet to listen to the [...]
March 4th, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
[...] it must be said, have a comically overinflated view of their own importance that is the antipode of John Waters’ pathetic primal scream of rage against the realisation that he must now compete with the rabble in [...]
March 4th, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
I agree with John Waters.You only have to glance at the navel gazing,cringe making,crawling up her own self deluded ass crap that Sarah Carey witters on about as evidence.
Then setting herself up as some sort of expert on Q&A…talk about trying to ride two horses at the same time and this pompous,self important fool was seriously reprimanded at one of the tribunals and now is a self appointed guardian of morals etc. when Ahern is at the Mahon tribunal.
What a hypocrite.
April 17th, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
Ironically, some of the very aggressive and spiteful comments here pretty much illustrate perfectly the kind of thing Waters was talking about.
Having said that, I don’t think you can simply bash an entire medium. Like anything, blogging can be put to admirable use or the opposite. But I think he may have had a – albeit overstated – point.
April 28th, 2008 @ 2:47 am
How come a director whose movies has inlcuded both decapitation of chickens and a fat tranvsestive (Divine) eating steaming fresh dog shit right out of a dogs arse complaining about satanism and pornography?
July 18th, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
John Waters is fucking arse face fanny head!