A minor annoyance

“I’m gonna set up a blog, Twenty”, said Dirty Dave, little chips of headboard still stuck to his cheek. The doctors say they’ll fall off in time, or become permanent fixtures like those things on Seal’s face.

“Is that so?”

“It is. And I’m going to put up the tagline about how I’m ‘annoying everybody’ since the date of inception”

“That’s original”.

“I thought so. But here’s the best bit, right …”

“Right”

“I’m going to write stuff to annoy people but when I do annoy them and they respond like you would expect an annoyed person to respond I’m going to go all holier-than-thou and bleat that nobody understands me. I’m going to accuse them of annoying me!”

“Genius”.

“Do you think there’s a market for it?”

“Oh God yeah. Plenty of room, Dave. Plenty of room”.

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  • maggot Says:

    I’d pay to read the thoughts of Dave!

  • Medbh Says:

    Don’t forget the bit about claiming to love women while every other post denigrates them for being uppity enough to exist.

    That’s the cherry on top.

  • Robert Says:

    It that a swipe at Bock?

  • eejit meeja Says:

    This is not a swipe at Bock. this is, without doubt the most accurate summation of his online endeavours.

    Bock’s week looked like this;

    1. Drafted email pretending to be from widely read current affairs website, while conveniently forgetting that whenever he strays from Muster Rugby, or Leonard Cohen, his lack of any discernible talent or knowledge leaps from the screen like something which (if so inclined) would leap from a screen.

    2. Receive comments which point to the error of his logic, motives, thinking. Answer these comments in a rather pointless and infantile manner.

    3. Receive support from people who agree with everything he says anyway, regardless of subject matter.

    4. Pretend to be hurt by unfavourable comment. Forget that he has been “offending everyone since 2006 / the day he used his parents’ credit card to buy a domain name”

    5. Realise that people who commented unfavourably are too busy not giving a shit about his rather pointless views, to bother commenting all the time. Sees window of opportunity….

    6. Forget about being hurt and then posts more crap about how fearless he is, pioneering new and interesting ways to be an asshole while castigating dissenters as “thought / metaphorical police”

    7. Uses Excel chart to validate his responses to blog comments, when in fact his responses are twofold; you agree with me and we are friends, you disagree and I will point at a kitten and go “Look a kitten” and then hide, rather than debate an issue, because he is, a fucking tool.

  • Maxi Cane Says:

    So you don’t like Bock then?

  • eejit meeja Says:

    to clarify, when I say

    “this is, without doubt the most accurate summation of his online endeavours.”

    I meant Twenty’s post, what follows is my summation of his online existence.

    I neither like, nor dislike bock, I don’t know him. I do however dislike the pandering fallacy that is his blog, it’s lowest common denominator themes, its pretence at intellectualism, its pretend anger and its pretend hurt.

  • Nora Says:

    eejit,

    Since you have so much to say in your “critique” (?) one assumes that you think your own blog is better. Right?

  • eejit meeja Says:

    Better is subjective, I would think it is better because it doesn’t pander to baseless populism, you wouldn’t agree.

    And that’s fine…

    The reason it is fine is because I can accept that in a world of over 6 billion people, lots of them will disagree with me. And (whisper it) they might be right.

    I won’t seek to take the high moral ground over it, nor will I use pointless rhetoric as a device to avoid answering criticism.

  • Hypocrites–Bock The Robber Says:

    [...] see Twenty wrote this, but didn’t have the balls to link to the person it was aimed [...]

  • eejit meeja Says:

    Can someone please explain to me this whole “…don’t have the balls” thing regarding the internet.

    This is not myspace, there is no “balls” in linking a post just as there is no “lack of balls” when there is no link.

    Unless you really do see this as a virtual playground.

    Which would be sad.

    I expect soon, on Bock’s site there will be a totally out of the blue comment thread from someone calling them-self “Close Family Friend” which, while completely genuine, will thank Bock for raising the issue of hypocrisy.

    He may even preface his blog with it in a completely sincere attempt to contextualise the issue, and not as some may suggest, just to pretend that his blog is wide-reaching.

  • Nora Says:

    eejit
    I don’t know what you’re on, but it must be strong stuff.

  • Irishbegrudger Says:

    Jaysus, you could cut the air in here with a spatula made of under-set jelly. If you could all see me, I’d try to lighten the mood by demonstrating the famous avuncular illusion, whereby I appear to separate the top of my thumb from its base. My uncle Jimmy was a master at it. Of course, he’s dead now. Not from the thumb thing, it was liver failure. Although he did dislocate his wrist once trying to the thumb-thing after downing a bottle of Jack Daniels.

  • fill3rup Says:

    Just when it looked like the feuding was over,a new one pops up.. 2 for the price of 1 aswell..

    Bargain.

  • Nora Says:

    Eejit,

    Among your blatherings you’ve written this:

    “I expect soon, on Bock’s site there will be a totally out of the blue comment thread from someone calling them-self “Close Family Friend” which, while completely genuine, will thank Bock for raising the issue of hypocrisy.”

    I haven’t the faintest idea what you think you’re talking about, but ‘Close Family Friend’ is a person connected to young AJ Hanlon who was shot in the USA. Bock posted extensively about AJ’s killing on his site. I suggest you go back and read those threads before you fling words around here. Your scattergun approach is nothing short of risible.

    As for Medbh:

    If she was trying to give feminists a bad name, she couldn’t have done better than the above. Extraordinary.

  • Nora Says:

    Oh, and I suppose we can *accurately* call Twenty’s post an “incitement to Bock-bashing”. Eh Twenty?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    My post was nothing to do with feminism or anything like it. I just thought it was funny that somebody who makes a point of ‘offending everybody’ took such offence when he wrote something offensive and people challenged him about it. That’s all.

    I’m sure Medbh can stand by her comment, I can’t, and won’t, speak for her.

    As for not having ‘the balls’ to link to his site, I’m really not sure why a link is required.

  • Nora Says:

    He didn’t write anything offensive, Twenty. You were just determined to find offence in it. That’s all there is to it.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Medbh has stated here that every other post on my site denigrates women for being uppity enough to exist

    This is a plain, manufactured lie, and a good example of the lunatic generalisations I objected to in the first place.

    I have asked Medbh on my site either to substantiate it with facts or to withdraw it. This means producing the relevant quote or quotes from me. She will not be able to do this because I have never said any such thing except perhaps in Medbh’s imagination.

    Since it is on your site, I have also asked you either to substantiate it or to distance yourself from it. If you can’t do that, you remain associated with the unprincipled warping of facts that is Medbh’s normal procedure, and which was what I objected to in the first place.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    He didn’t write anything offensive, Twenty. You were just determined to find offence in it. That’s all there is to it.

    I said all I had to say about that post on the post itself.

    Bock – talk to Medbh about it. You’re asking me to speak for her, which I can’t do. She is entirely capable of substantiating her own arguments.

    And do you really want to go down the road where I become associated with every comment that’s left on my site considering some of comments that are left on yours?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Oh, and I suppose we can *accurately* call Twenty’s post an “incitement to Bock-bashing”. Eh Twenty?

    Call it what you want, Nora. It doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference to me.

  • Nora Says:

    “I said all I had to say about that post on the post itself.”

    Apparently not, given this post you’ve done now. Disingenuous, Twenty.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Comprehension is not your strong point, Nora, is it?

    This is not about the post, but Bock’s reaction to it.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    You seem unaware of the irony in this. The entire argument started because I dared to question the use of gross generalisations to explain everything that men do.

    I was careful to point out that I was not directing those comments at you, but at a blind, anti-thought feminist ideology,

    Now you have an obvious example of exactly that, right here on your own site. A blatant lie, an invention, and on a post arising directly from the argument. Despite that, you stand back and claim to have nothing to do with it.

    There’s a word for that: hypocrisy.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    And incidentally, since you mention my strong reaction, it was not about people criticising me or disagreeing with me. It was about another character-assassinating lie, quite similar to this one, in which I was accused of being a misogynist.

    That’s just to keep the facts straight. You wouldn’t want to distort the facts, would you Twenty?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    You weren’t accused of being a mysoginist, as you rightly know. So don’t accuse me of distorting the facts.

    I had an issue with your post, which I addressed in your comments.

    You then took it to a whole new level accusing Gimme of being my ‘lapdog’ – something that might be referred to as, hmmm, let me see, ‘A blatant lie, an invention’ and ‘character-assassinating’.

    So get off your high horse and don’t call someone a hypocrite when you tick all the boxes yourself.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Avoiding the question one comment at a time, Twenty.

    Gimme can speak for himself.

    Do you agree with Medbh’s statement here or do you not?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Gimme can speak for himself, but Medbh can’t.

    I see.

  • Nora Says:

    “This is not about the post, but Bock’s reaction to it.”

    This is not about Bock’s post but Bock’s reaction to Bock’s post? Thanks for straightening me out, Twenty. :)

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Medbh chooses not to produce the facts behind her statement because there aren’t any.

    It’s a simple question I have for you, Twenty: do you agree with the accusation Medbh has made, here on your site, on a post about me?

    That’s not hard to answer. Even a simple yes or no would do.

  • maggot Says:

    No idea who Bock is – has anyone a link ?

    As for wimmin, sigh – big mistake giving them the vote. It has made them think their opinions are of interest.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Maggot, Medbh’s statement isn’t an opinion. It’s a lie.

  • maggot Says:

    Why does it matter Bock ? How many other truthful things can be read here ? Maeve doesn’t like your site – OK. It’s hardly the end of the world, it’s not as if she has labelled you a paedophile in real life or a rapist or anything that has real importance, is it ?

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    This entire epoisode arose because I challenged such distortions of reality in my original post. After some commenter wheeled out the all-purpose patriarchy to explain Bourke’s actions, I objected because I felt it got in the way of understanding the crime. it;’s very easy to point at monsters but much more difficult to acknowledge that the potential for evil lies within all of us. And not just within men due to some abstract patriarchy.

    I also think it’s important because distortion is part of Medbh’s modus operandi: quoting people and then informing the world what they really meant behind the words. She can do that all she likes with other people, but I won’t have it applied to me.

    Finally, let me tell you something: I take responsibility for all the comments on my site, whether I agree with them or not, and if somebody asks me whether I agree with some particular comment, I will answer them, if I haven’t already challenged the commenter on their statement.

    So it seems only reasonable to ask you again. Do you think Medbh is correct to accuse me on your site of questioning the right of women to exist?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Bock, I’ll make this clear again – I will not, and cannot, speak for Medbh. If you’re happy to accept that ‘Gimme can speak for himself’, then why not show Medbh the same respect.?

    Also, you might want to step back and realise that her comment, in line with the post on which it was left, has an element of ‘tongue in cheek’ about it. You’re the one taking it literally because it fuels your sense of moral outrage.

  • Nora Says:

    “If you’re happy to accept that ‘Gimme can speak for himself’, then why not show Medbh the same respect.?”

    Medbh has commented on this post. Gimme hasn’t – yet. Do you think Medbh’s statement was justified?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    So allow Medbh to respond. Don’t keep asking me to do it for her. My opinion of what she said is not relevant.

  • Nora Says:

    Normally not so ’shy’ with your opinions, Twenty. What’s stopping you?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    This is like pissing in the wind.

  • Nora Says:

    Maybe you should have had more sense and pissed elsewhere.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    That doesn’t make any sense at all. This is my blog, in case you hadn’t noticed.

  • maggot Says:

    Palm Sunday boredom has the harpies out looking for trouble.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Twenty — Your opinion is very relevant. You hosted Medbh’s comment. As I said, I take responsibility for all comments on my own site.

    So please clarify this one simple question. It’s not a difficult one: do you believe I have questioned the right of women to exist?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    I don’t believe Medbh’s comment suggested that you questioned the right of women to exist.

    If you would like further clarification of what Medbh meant, ASK MEDBH. Stop fucking asking me.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    every other post denigrates them for being uppity enough to exist

    Did I notice you telling Nora that comprehension wasn’t her strong point?

  • Eolaí Says:

    Can I ask what a harpy is. Anyone can answer; I’m easy.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Well, denigrating somebody for being upitty enough to exist and questioning somebody’s right to exist are two entirely different things, so I’d suggest comprehension isn’t your strong point either.

  • maggot Says:

    It must be enough to drive you to drink Twenty

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/harpy

    I was too lazy to type harridan.

  • fill3rup Says:

    This is like the Rumble in the Jungle..
    Heavyweight…

  • maggot Says:

    Is this why Twenty rarely blogs over the weekend ?

  • fill3rup Says:

    As Alan Partridge once said “Sunday,Bloody Sunday!”

  • maggot Says:

    Partridge

    Careful – They’ll say that having a go at a bird is sexist!

  • Medbh Says:

    Yes, my comment was hyperbole.
    So?
    Only someone full of entitlement and self-absorption would manufacture such “outrage” as a response.
    Joke aside, there’s more than a kernel of truth to it.
    I didn’t do anything more than state the obvious.
    Bock is a misogynist.
    Sure, he likes women enough when they know their place as lap cats.
    Anyone who compares feminists to the Taliban has clearly lost the plot.

  • Jimmy Bastard Says:

    I’d suggest everyone steps back and take a long hard look at how this looks to those on the outside.

  • Brock Landers Says:

    Bock,
    You are a complete penis. Seriously.

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    I think Mr. Bastard may be right. Medbh’s comment about women being uppity enough to exist and Bock’s feminist Taliban comment were in the same vein.
    Jokes borne out of annoyance perhaps, but jokes none the less. This whole thing seems to be have become blown out of propostion by all involved.

  • Doctor Orgasm Says:

    Meabh thinks bock is a mysoginist. Bock disagrees.

    The rest is purely accademic.

    Back to your lessons, children. Playtime is over.

  • fill3rup Says:

    Are you being Childist Dr?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    It’s about time somebody thought of the children, isn’t it?

  • Northern Slide Says:

    Nice to be cheered up on a Sunday ! Most men love women especially woman with nice tits and a welcome sign near there beaver ! Up the rev!

    On behalf of the Non-Grumpy Cunts Party

  • Constable Responsible Says:

    Ye all should just meet in the pub tonight and settle your shit over over a few pints. Fuck sake.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Medbh — Hyperbole? You mean distortion don’t you?

    Please point out where I denigrated women for being uppity enough to exist. Give the exact quotes, without rewording them as you normally do.

    And as for the schoolyard misogyny accusation : you aren’t qualified to say what another person thinks or feels. You are not a mindreader.

  • Doctor Orgasm Says:

    “Are you being Childist Dr?”

    I try not to. But I’m an awful fartist alltogether. Except when I make them. Then theiy’re funny. But NO ONE else is allowed have an opinion on ANYTHING.

    I’m John Waters in diguise. You can tell by how self righteous my typing is.

  • Medbh Says:

    Bock, your posts speak for themselves.
    I’ve no need to quote you.
    My estimation of you should hardly be rated as persecution, so you can climb down from your cross now.

  • Nora Says:

    “Bock, your posts speak for themselves. I’ve no need to quote you.”

    Cop out.

  • Gobnait O'Lunacy Says:

    Jesus, I know two year olds with more maturity than you lot.

    With your adolescent sneering and your incessant point scoring, you have made yourselves look like the utter dicks that we can only assume you must be in real life.

    Congrats.

  • Medbh Says:

    Nora, I don’t believe that I have to re-state the obvious, what with the victim-blaming and intolerance for women and feminism on display over there.

    But you are a dutiful lap cat, I’ll give you that.

  • Northern Slide Says:

    My Pork & Pepper Sausage casserole is nearly ready……..can’t wait ! Happy Cunting !

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Medbh — You seem to be saying that you can’t produce the damning quotes and I’m not surprised because they don’t exist.

    You’re a fraud.

  • Medbh Says:

    You’re a ham-fisted bully.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Here’s an offer.

    For every post on my site where somebody finds a comment denigrating women for being uppity enough to exist, I will donate €100 to a charity of their choice. We can agree a trusted third party to verify the payment.

    I will post this offer on my own site as well.

  • fill3rup Says:

    Medbh: Whatever you do don’t go onto Twenty’s forum..really!some of the stuff over there would make Bock look like a man hating feminist crusader….

  • Ibanez Says:

    theres loads of people taking the internet too seriously

    rattled ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<<<<<< all of you !

  • Money Offer — Expose Bock the Misogynist–Bock The Robber Says:

    [...] comment appeared on Twenty Major’s site here and I now make the following [...]

  • maggot Says:

    Comparing femists to the Taliban seems fair comment to me – Womanity ? Herstory ? Bollix. They need rid.

  • maggot Says:

    Bock – I hope you qualify that offer with the proviso that the comment had to be made before this – otherwise you will be asking for folks to pop over and make such posts ….

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    It’s not comparing feminists to the Taliban, it’s joke about those who take it too far. Like when you say the ‘pc police’.

  • Jo Says:

    Grooooaaan.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Maggot — The offer concerns things I was accused of saying.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Medbh,

    What’s a feminist?

  • Lorcan the Lion Says:

    http://www.dictionary.com you’ll find the answer there.

    have you see bock’s new post? It’s like being accused of racism then bringing out all your black friends to prove you’re not.

  • STIPES Says:

    Bock should be on the forum, because he seems like a cunt.
    Nora should be there too as the cunts lackey.
    That is all.
    This is the internet and I’m a liar

  • Sweary Says:

    Mammy! Daddy! Don’t fight! I can change! I CAN CHANGE!

  • maggot Says:

    What’s a feminist?

    Surprisingly accurate

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Tant

  • Radge Says:

    I think Maxi Cane said it best.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Thanks for that Lorcan,

    Thank God she’s not a misandrist.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Maggot,

    Nothing like a good piece of satire to undermine the pompous (men or women).

    You’re surely not suggestin that feminists have no sense of humour.

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    I dunno, but all this talk is making me a bit of a misanthropist.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    C’est,

    That’s the curse of all misogynists and misandrists. They hate humanity. Might be because they have self loathing.

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    Stipes — The money’s on the table, kid. It’s up to you to earn it.

  • Samson Says:

    Jesus Bock, let it go. Such long-winded hysteria about nothing.

  • maggot Says:

    Samson – a man’s good name is at stake!

    http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/ts/ts18.htm

  • Irishbegrudger Says:

    May I be so bold as to suggest a fight to the death? Semi-finals of Twenty versus Nora, and Medbh versus Bock. Each combatant chooses one of four available weapons: chainsaw, bigger chainsaw, laser-mounted penny farthing, or pet lion.

    My guess is that Twenty easily dispatches of Nora (unnecessarily beheading her), Bock edges a close contest with Medbh (applying a failed CPR to her carcass), and then in a hugely disappointing denouement, Bock and Twenty look each other in the eye, tear off their armour, embrace, and refuse to draw further blood for the baying crowd.

    Exiting the arena, Twenty unexpectedly whips a box jellyfish out of his underpants and stuffs it down Bock’s back, killing him instantly. Bock dies a martyr, revered far and wide. Not that Twenty gives a shite…

  • Sweary Says:

    “C’est La Craic Says:
    April 5th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
    I dunno, but all this talk is making me a bit of a misanthropist.”

    It’s making me a philatelist.

    I’m funny.

  • Doctor Orgasm Says:

    You cant have a fight to the death without one of the weapons being a 19″ dong.

  • Nora Says:

    “My guess is that Twenty easily dispatches of Nora”
    –Irishbegrudger

    Don’t be daft, man. Twenty ran away earlier until Medbh arrived back. But the general idea sounds like great fun.

    “Not that Twenty gives a shite…”

    I’m not too sure about that. He gave this topic new legs for a reason.

  • Nora Says:

    “You cant have a fight to the death without one of the weapons being a 19″ dong.”

    In that case you better find one. JK Rowling can write a book about your travels.

  • Irishbegrudger Says:

    “19 inch dong.” – Doctor Orgasm

    Why didn’t you just say ’small-to-regular sized dong’?

  • Nora Says:

    “But you are a dutiful lap cat, I’ll give you that.”

    Medbh, I hope you’re not labouring under the illusion that most women share your world view. I found your instant post mortem reading of Tim Kretschmer’s mind quite bizarre. I find your whole blog bizarre. It gives me stomach acid.

    But *IF* you could find those quotes, you could make a fortune for the Irrational Feminists Rehabilitiation Centre. Best of luck.

  • maggot Says:

    I’m for having a late night cheese omelette with salad. Beat that !

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    -Sweary
    I don’t get it. (I had to look up philatelist too, so thanks for rubbing it in)

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Maggot,

    Precisely put.

    This dispute occurs on the internet, nobody’s going to the High Court.

    There are no rules for ending these differences.

    If someone has proof that Bock is a misogynist all they have to do is post it.

    Otherwise they are men (or women) of straw.

  • Nora Says:

    That’s “Rehabilitation.”

    ‘Night all.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Doc,

    Now I know what philatelist’s do.

    Jesus, you live & learn.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Nora,

    Now I’m confused.

    Has JK Rowling got a 19″ inch dong.

    I hope Medbh’s ok with that comment. Because as far as I know JK Rowling is a womnan.

    But maybe J stands for Jack. And JK Rowling is just fucking with everyone’s kid’s heads for money.

  • maggot Says:

    Has JK Rowling got a 19″ inch dong.

    Ah, a variation on the Martina Navratilova question.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Maggot,

    Are you saying that Martina Navratilova is a variant?

    Is there a place for that in cultural feminism?

    Has Medbh authorised this calumny.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Lorcan,

    Is the SCUM Manifesto feminist doctrine or satire?

    I’m thinking satire, but Medbh makes me question that.

  • bendersbetterbrother Says:

    I’m pretty sure the arms race started off over a disagreement like this.
    Both Twenty and Bock both seem happy to escalate this and as it’s much easier for all of us to be bigger pricks in print than we dare to be face to face there appears to be no way to defuse the situation.
    It’s already sucking in more and more fellow bloggers in the same way a full scale bar brawl erupts over a nudged pint.

    As I’ve unilaterally decided that next year’s Irish Blog awards will be held in Belfast (following the simple formula that the organisers are going through Irish cities in reverse alphabetical order and D and C have already been done, coupled with the fact that the Euro goes further up North but more because the winner of most humourous blog ALWAYS comes from the host city and Manuel’s a local) it should at least mean that Damien Mulley could get away with booking a photo booth for the evening instead of the Europa. At the minute though it looks like he’ll be the only winner.

    So, despite this spat being interesting from the point of view of the spectator couldn’t the lot of you just discretely send each other emails behind the scenes (which may or may not sort out the issues you disagree over) and therefore avoid, even if accidentally, dragging a lot of others in?

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    bender,

    Is a bun fight and getting a gong all you think about?

    Have you any evidence that Bock is a misogynist?

    Put up or shut up.

    And by the way, fuck the Irish Blog awards. Who the fuck are they?

    Do they offer a gong for truth?

    Or will they be shortly be on bended knee to the Queen of England looking for a Charter, or going to FAS (€1,000,000,000,000 per annum wasted) looking for an enterprise grant?

    I know nothing of this man.

    But this.

    Put up or shut up.

    Is Bock a misogynist?

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    That’s €1,000,000,000.

    It’s easy to get confused between Billions and Trillons.

    The two Brians will explian that to you on Tuesday when they fuck you upside down.

    But hey, let’s be happy we have they Irish Blog Awards. Hellaloyha.

  • bendersbetterbrother Says:

    Abbott_Of_Iona, I’m not in any danger of getting a gong nor was I suggesting myself for one. A re-read of my comment should reassure you. A read of my blog will definitely convince you.
    Most of the rest of your comment didn’t make any sense to me so I don’t know how to answer it.
    I don’t think Bock thinks I think he’s a misogynist. I don’t think Twenty thinks Bock is a misogynist. But that’s just what I think and they might think different.

    Good to see you grasped the essence of my previous comment though.
    That last line might have been sarcastic.

  • eejit meeja (aka close personal friend, of someone) Says:

    I will offer anyone €100 of Bock’s money when he admits he was wrong to start an email to a government minister with a blatant fucking lie*

    *lie, in Bock’s terms is a “tactic” by the way.

    For the record, Bock refers to me as someone 2who has been hanging around looking for a fight”

    So, there you have it, if you agree with this childish, self aggrandising asshole, you are a friend who “should never be silenced”

    If you disagree and point out that he is an egomaniac and a fucking liar, you are a “stalker” and a “fool”

    My suggestion is that you keep your euros and spend them on a course in reality and objectivity. And for fuck sake, take your ritalin.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    I have read your comment.

    “I’m pretty sure the arms race started off over a disagreement like this.”

    I don’t think so. This is tinker logic.

    “… pricks….”

    I’m not a prick. I’m a human being.

    “It’s already sucking in more and more fellow bloggers in the same way a full scale bar brawl erupts over a nudged pint.”

    Is that an advertisement for your blog?

    “As I’ve unilaterally……”

    Blog, Blog, Blog……….Prize, Prize Prize………

    “…from the point of view of the spectator…”

    Well, excuse me.

    I don’t have a blog. I’m not part of your club.

    I am humbled.

    By the way. Do you have any proof that Bock is a misogynist?

  • maggot Says:

    I had a cheese, garlic and coriander omelette with salad followed by two hot cross buns and two chunky kitkats – beat that!

  • eejit meeja (aka close personal friend, of someone) Says:

    http://bocktherobber.com/2009/01/new-laws-of-womens-rugby

    an indication of his sexism, if not his complete lack of humour.

    Abbot of Iona, let the whole “Blog Awards” thing go.

    The shame was not in Bock losing out in his category, the shame was him being nominated in the first place, unless they have a new award for “Best reading of newspaper and adding an irrational slant to it” category

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    eejit,

    “I will offer anyone €100 of Bock’s money when he admits he was wrong to start an email to a government minister with a blatant fucking lie”

    What was the “blatant fuckink lie”?

    Maybe you can explain?

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Nice of you to offer €100 of Bock’s money but not your own.

  • Fergal Says:

    It’s just possible that bit about offering Bock’s money was a joke.

  • eejit meeja (aka close personal friend, of someone) Says:

    I wouldn’t offer Bock’s money, it was a joke, if his cash is as worthless as his blog, none of us would eat.

    Iona, he is a liar / tactician

    http://eejitmeeja.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/when-is-a-lie-not-a-lie/

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    What tpye of cheese?

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    eejit,

    “5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm”

    Did you fall asleep in the last 15 minutes?

    What was the lie?

  • maggot Says:

    Dromona mature cheddar – needed something gutsy with the garlic.

    Now having a smoke of Murray’s Yachtsman Plug and listening to Sandy Denny. Life is good.

  • eejit meeja (aka close personal friend, of someone) Says:

    I apologise iona, I assumed you weren’t so stupid that a hyperlink would confuse you.

    I was wrong. I feel guilty

    To summarise, Bock described his blog as a widely read current affairs blog, when challenged about this lie, he admitted that he only said is as a “tactic”

    I hope this clears the issue up, because I am sure your nurse will want to let you rest now.

    Maggot you are making me hungry and cheese gives me nightmares.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Fergal,

    It’s possible that one could offer another’s money, wealth or good name as a joke.

    For myself. I wouldn’t do it.

    I take my money, wealth and good name seriously. As I take that of others.

    Do you have any evidence that Bock is a misogynist?

  • eejit meeja (aka close personal friend, of someone) Says:

    Iona = Bock methinks

    Self righteousness – tick

    Avoidance of anything that contradicts them – tick

    Stupidity beyond the call of duty – tick

  • Fergal Says:

    “Do you have any evidence that Bock is a misogynist?”
    Er, not on me. But then I never called him one.

    “I take my money, wealth and good name seriously”
    Normally I’d think this was a gag, but you’ve made it fairly clear that you don’t do jokes.

  • maggot Says:

    Listening to it ! I saw her sing that live once – memorable concert!

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Fergal,

    “Normally I’d think this was a gag, but you’ve made it fairly clear that you don’t do jokes.”

    I do jokes. But not when it comes to my name or wealth, or for that matter yours.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    maggot,

    It’s sublime. Listening now.

  • Fergal Says:

    Sure never mind. You’ve given me a good laugh already.

  • maggot Says:

    I’m listening to her “Banks of The Nile ” – next up will be the CD of her last concert just a few days before the accident.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    I have one and only one question for the moderator of this site.

    Do you have any evidence that Bock The Robber is a misogynist?

  • Fergal Says:

    You should go on hunger strike until he answers your question. It would be a proportionate response.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    maggot,

    Tragic loss.

    Haunting voice.

    Where are they now?

  • copernicus Says:

    Iona’s. Wealth. Is. No. Laughing. Matter.

    CAN. YOU. NOT. GET. THAT. INTO. YOUR. THICK. SKULLS!?!

    His wealth I tell you. It’s no joke.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Fergal,

    Done.

    Can I have a drink of water?

    By the way, who is the moderator?

    Will he give me a drink?

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    copernicus,

    You appear deliberate in your misunderstanding, I said

    “But not when it comes to my name or wealth, or for that matter yours.”

    When I said “or for that matter yours” that included you.

    Perhaps you are happy with others taking your good name and wealth and using both for their own advance.

    You may be. I am not. We differ.

    I sense that you think wealth equals greed.

    I do not mean to use the word in that sense. But in its real meaning as “weald” the “forest”, the thing available to all. And if we behave, available to a community. That would be Commonweald or Commonwealth.

    Apologies for the misunderstanding.

  • Fergal Says:

    Actually, I think he was just taking the piss out of you. I’d love to stay and chat, because you, my friend, are hilarious, but it’s time for bed.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    twentymajor,

    Do you have any evidence that Bocktherobber is a misogynist?

    If yes, provide it.

    If not, admit that you do not.

    “Fergal Says:
    You should go on hunger strike until he answers your question. It would be a proportionate response.”

    I’ve decided that that is proportionate enough. I like my food, drink and smoke.

    If Twentymajor can provide proof that Bocktherobber is a misogynist I will not speak.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Fergal,

    I don’t think so. I think he just doesn’t get Common Wealth.

    He thinks wealth is dirty, you know, unclean.

    Maybe he’s a Catholic. They’re used to poverty. It’s what their leader wants.

  • Abbott_Of_Iona Says:

    Fergal,

    Really, you’re not that stupid. You just made that shit up.

  • Northern Slide Says:

    Morning Campers…….Have just passed last nights Pork & Pepper sausage casserole which by the way was lovely but my rusty sheriff’s badge is hurting now. Have a nice day boys and girls !

  • Twenty Major Says:

    twentymajor,

    Do you have any evidence that Bocktherobber is a misogynist?

    If yes, provide it.

    If not, admit that you do not.

    Why are you asking me to prove something I didn’t say?

    How’s the hunger strike going?

  • maggot Says:

    That’ll teach you to blog at weekends Twenty!

  • Fill3rup Says:

    Have the bad men stopped shouting yet?

  • bendersbetterbrother Says:

    Abbott_Of_Iona, perhaps you’re still reading too fast.

    Again, your reply makes no sense. It’s possible to reason and debate in the face of ignorance but I’m at a loss at how to deal with stupidity.

  • morgor Says:

    I love these arguments where everyone comes out looking like a tool.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    It’s fantastic entertainment.

  • Conan Drumm Says:

    I was gardening.

    In a word, what have I missed?

  • Twenty Major Says:

    I know it’s a picture and not a word but you get the drift, I’m sure.

  • Conan Drumm Says:

    Yes, it’s come up as of those little red Xs in a box with storm.jpg beside it.

  • Twenty Major Says:

    Deleted the red X, I hate those.

    It was a picture of a storm, in a teacup.

  • Sweary Says:

    bendersbetterbrother’s views disgust me.

    I’m NOT from Cork.

  • bendersbetterbrother Says:

    Sweary, I apologise. You’re quite right. I should have said resides. Near. But didn’t necessarily grow up in or was born in. Perhaps moved there later in life. Or drove through once.

    Here’s a hand grenade though. What’s wrong with saying someone’s from Cork?

  • irishbegrudger Says:

    I hear all Cork people have webbed feet. Scienticians speculate that, evolutionarily speaking, they’re on their way to having gills. They, and the rest of humanity, are on diametric paths: we’re coming out of the water onto the land, and Corkonians are slithering off the land into the water. Blue Whales, be warned. Soon yee’ll have company…

  • peadar Says:

    Bock doesn’t like women? Is he gay?
    I love women. I’m a lesbian.

    There was a lot of …ists flying around over the weekend. I’m confused, what’s a misogynist again?

  • C'est La Craic Says:

    Someone who hates gynecologists I believe.

  • Swe.Ge Says:

    I think I’ll be a Nihilist for this one…

  • Jo Says:

    WAIT!!! COME BACK! ANSWER THE QUESTION!!

    Nobody’s answered the question, dammit! How will we sleep! Twenty?! Or Whatever your name is? Come back Answer the question, before I throw myself onto this biro, nose first.

    I’ll do it!

    Aaaagh….

  • paulo Says:

    Was this load of absolute shite just a pathetic attempt to boost your readership (Bock and Twenty) or, have you been infected with an alien pathogen that forces both of you to act like total pricks in the eyes of the entire blog-reading world. Grow the fuck up?

  • Bock the Robber Says:

    How’s the charity fund going?

  • Nora Says:

    Not one red cent so far?

    Twenty boosted his hits — temporarily — by re-opening an issue that had effectively been closed. And lost all credibility in the process. As did Medbh.

    Ho hum.

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