More on John Waters and blogs
Another random tirade against blogs and blogging on Newstalk this morning prompted this excellent post here by Daragh.
And it seems some rogue has gotten in on the act with Fanny Waters.
Is there nothing blogs can’t do?
Update: Here’s the audio from his nonsensical rant yesterday morning.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Fly. Blogs can’t fly. Or drive trains.
If I’m ever on a train with John Waters and the driver has a fatal heart attack or some form of seizure, I’d sooner entrust my fate to John Waters and his train driving skills than let a blog sort it out. However, if there are any good blogs on rail crash avoidance techniques, I’m sure they’ll pop up soon.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Fuck ‘em -I’ll keep my head in the sand thanks!
January 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
hes just a publicity hungry whore. Hes probably trying to sell some kind of book product.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
God love him, he’s a glutton for punishment and more to be pitied than laughed at.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
hes just a publicity hungry whore. Hes probably trying to sell some kind of book product.
heh
January 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
What i dont understand is, by his own admission he never reads blogs or has anything to do with them yet seemingly has this complete hatred of them.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
There’s very little that is private and confidental in Ireland if you know who to ask, someone I know had access to some of John Walters medical history and among the everyday sneezess bad farts and warts it seems that [snipped: you can't say that].
January 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Speaking of blogs Twenty, will you be sending your younger, better looking brother along to ‘be Twenty major’ at the blog awards againg this year?
January 16th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I don’t know who I’m sending this year. I’m auditioning next week.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Twenty…
You should send John Waters.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
You’d need to get him cleaned up a bit first..haircut mandatory…the comeover has got to go!
January 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I did of course mean comb…
January 16th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
It amuses me that I had never heard of John Waters until he appeared in a blog.
I’d like to meet him and say
“oh JOHN Waters, you’re the guy that lots of bloggers take the piss out of, what do you do again?”
January 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
would be nice to be able to continue not hearing about john waters
January 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
As far as I know, a blog has never successfully had sex with a psychotic skinhead female caterwauling lesbian priest who was also a bhuddist.
But they can do everything else.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Hells Bells, it’s such a long time since a Fanny caught my attention so. Well played sir, er… miss, er… fuck it, whoever you are.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
wish this worked on john waters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eHtyuo7E4k
January 17th, 2008 at 12:36 am
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January 17th, 2008 at 1:05 am
what a mong….in fact he’s a mongs mong
January 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Fanny Waters first post is one of the funniest things Ive read in ages. Loved the crying as I write this bit. Who did it, who who?
January 17th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Got to agree. That Fanny Waters is just brilliant. Not one word wasted. Top marks.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:25 am
The photo-shopping skills are suspiciously familiar….
January 17th, 2008 at 2:27 am
I’m jumping off the JW slagging band-wagon cause he slagged off the editor of the Herald the other night on TV.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:27 am
I think you’re onto something there Sam. And I think you’re right too.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:32 am
But at the same time, I’m not sure “skills” is the right word to be using. And it looks more like MSPaint than Photoshop.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:20 am
LOL
MS Paint.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Why do you keep giving the stupid cunt credence, Twenty? He’s nothing more than an attention seeker and you blogger types are biting every single time.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Can anybody help me with this crossword clue:
Shorten jaw for complete asshole.
(Think it might be an anagram?!)
January 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Can anybody help me with this crossword clue:
Shorten jaw for complete asshole. (4,6)
(Think it might be an anagram?!)
January 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Twenty, did he know you were a blogger at that Leviathan thing?
What did he make of that? Did he tell you that you were stupid?
January 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Yes, he knew. I was introduced as ‘blogger Twenty Major’. And he sat beside me the whole time and didn’t complain.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Jungle life
I’m far away from nowhere
On my own like Tarzan Boy
Hide and seek
I play along while rushing cross the forest
Monkey business on a sunny afternoon
Jungle life
I’m living in the open
Native beat that carries on
Burning bright
A fire the blows the signal to the sky
I sit and wonder does the message get to you
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other
chance tonight
Gimme the other, gimme the other
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other world
Jungle life
You’re far away from nothing
It’s all right
You won’t miss home
Take a chance
Leave everything behind you
Come and join me
Won’t be sorry
It’s easy to survive
Jungle life
We’re living in the open
All alone like Tarzan Boy
Hide and seek
We play along while rushing cross the forest
Monkey business on a sunny afternoon
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other
Chance tonight
Oh Yeah
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other
Night to night
You won’t play
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other
Chance tonight
Oh Yeah
Night to night
Night to night
Gimme the other, gimme the other
January 17th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
‘Comeover’ Ha! Made me spit my tea out.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Twenty, he found himself liking it that little bit too much when sitting next to you and so he’s scared he might have got the blog from you. He’d never thought about blogs before that night I’ll bet and now it is all he can do not to be picturing blogs in tight, short leather pants while typing away furiously at his column.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
prick
January 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
$500000 a month Waters!
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Labels: disintermediation
at 1/17/2008 12:45:00 AM
January 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
we should have a campaign to stop media outlets bringing him on as pundit. its newstalks fault
January 17th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
In fairness Twenty, I’d say he was too fecking terrified of you to utter a word.
Fanny.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Jesus Maggie, give us a break, I fell asleep after my third attempt to count the number of zeroes.. they’re comments, not essays… (no offence)
January 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
TM,
Would you consider a comment box that limits the number of words you can type, that run out just as you are about to
January 17th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
ammo for his blogging debater
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0800258.htm
Andrea Frova, a professor of physics and one of the organizers of the professors’ letter of protest, told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale that he and his colleagues were “offended by the fact that a pope hostile to science” was invited to give a major lecture at a formal university event.
However, he said, the letter was written in November when there was still time to cancel the papal visit without fanfare and was meant to be an internal university communication.
Frova said he did not know how newspapers got a copy of the letter, but “I want to be very clear on one point: It was not our intention to unleash protests, hostile actions or violence of any kind.”
The professor said it did not make sense “to entrust the inauguration of our academic year to a foreign head of state who also is the head of the Catholic Church.”
In addition, he said, the fact that the pope was invited to speak last at the event meant that there would be no opportunity for public questions, comments or debate.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
pope benedict original speech
http://ncrcafe.org/node/1541
…the pope meant what he said he wasn’t just quoting.
nail fanny on this point you don’t need to talk about anything else.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Its been suggested that he might be cordially invited to host [or at least present an award at] this years blog awards…
http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/17/more-on-fanny-waters-dance-songs-and-recordings/#comment-554534
These are my thoughts.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Wait a minute, he called the Pope a brilliant man.
This is the same Pope who..
oh, whats the point.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
The bloggers took the bait and Muddy, the professional controversialist, keeps the dough pouring in. I imagine that the remarks by Waters were calculated to create this kind of stir.
That is how he makes his living, like his pal Eoghan Harris.
I remember a fascinating column where John more or less spelt out how he operates as a columnist. He finds a niche, or several niches, in the market – he has cornered the market in pro divorced daddies, anti-Dublin 4, anti-atheist, anti-blogger crankiness.
Fair dues to him. He’s a pro.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:22 am
A pro he may well be. But he’s still a cunt. Face it he’s still making a living off the fact that he once threw one to baldy. And he’s setting up his own website too, the wanky egotist…
January 21st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
has whole a column on it now still don’t know where hes got this idea that blogs were responsible for the protest, and the pope wasn’t just quoting he meant what he said about science coming second to religious explanations for things
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
tv3 ireland am have contacted atheist.ie for an atheist to come on there show, and guess who the counter guest is, john waters!!! ffs
slugger and sarah carey both have their say
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
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March 29th, 2009 at 12:21 am
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