A person purporting to be the frapist writes:
I would be grateful if you could please take down your piece on the Celtic Links tweet!! It was a frape!! I know because I did it!! This guy had absolutely nothing to with it and I’m really worried bout his job right now as I cannot get through to him. This is something moronic on my part!! You said at the start that if it was a frape you would take it down and it 1000% is.
scarleh’ for ya!
So you take the post down, but put a screenshot of it in this post? What’s the point of that?
Bit late worrying about someone’s job after posting that, with friends like that etc…
The word “frape” is so f**king insulting. If it was a (not very funny) practical joke then call it that. If it was a hack, then call it that. But using someone’s computer/phone without their knowledge is NOTHING LIKE rape.
The word rape is commonly used in the computer world. For example, I raped John at Call of Duty last night.
‘commonly used’ != ‘not offensive’
Much like the pejorative use of the word ‘gay’, using ‘rape’ to mean ‘I totally beat someone at a videogame’ is upsetting and insulting to actual rape victims. So, please stop it thanks.
+1
Using the word rape like that is gay.
oh well thats ok then
there is only ONE world, the one you live and breathe on, spend more time away from your computer! lol
No word is offensive, they’re just letters. It’s the intent or context in wich they’re used that makes them offensive. Also, ur gay!
No word is offensive? The intent is what matters?
No. What matters is that someone is offended by it. If you say something that offends someone, either resolve to not say it again, or be okay with offending them. OWN what you say.
Yeah, own it. Then work it, work it. Maybe shake it a bit.
My point is that even if you’re insulted, it’s a commonly used word and there’s no signs of that changing. Maybe you should devote some of your free time to coming up with a catchy alternative and educate the masses?
Rape one of the many definitions from the Collins English dictionary; an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation:
It appears it is suitable and it can be used in a context other than the sexual assault. So FRO you wanna be politically correct let’s not offend anyone one people
It used to be ‘frappéd’, until the coffee growers protested the connotations.
+100
Would you be offended if I told you I had ‘murdered a burger’ last night? In using that phrase, I don’t think I am condoning the act of murder, nor am I trivialising it. Why is it different with the word frape?
It’s not.
Well firstly, you don’t have murder victims walking around hearing about you murdering a burger, being triggered by it…and secondly, according to the SAVI report 42pc of women in Ireland have been victims of rape and/or sexual abuse. If you have a 4 in 10 chance of triggering someone’s PTSD with a word, wouldn’t you find a better word?
Jesus christ, people are not programmed like the protagonist in the Manchurian candidate.
They can’t be reprogrammed so that casual, triviaising usage of the word ‘rape’ is suddenly inoffensive, either.
Also, horroscopes. I mean, there are cancer survivors everywhere, not to mention the fact that practically all of us have lost a family member or friend to the disease. And then you have to look at the ‘c’ word when you open up a newspaper! Brings on my PTSD!
Seriously – it’s two words that look alike. Find something else to fret about.
I realy don’t like your use of the word fret in this non-musical context.
There’s more than one victim in a murder. If you ‘murdered a burger’ in front of someone who had a relative who’d been violently murdered, you’d be as likely to upset them as upsetting someone with frape or rape.
Are you seriously suggesting that only those murdered are those affected by murder? And furthermore, that because there is a lower percentage of people affected by murder that they do not warrant the same concern as those who have been sexually assaulted?
Is that a serious, genuine effort to discover why it is that people find trivialising usage of that word horrible and offensive, or is that an arch, ironic way to avoid acknowledging that other people might feel emotional pain or discomfort and you either cannot or will not empathise with them?
Being completely honest, it’s a little of both. To me, both situations are the same, yet one is socially-accepted by the whole, whilst the other is seen as inexcusable by (what appears to be) the minority. Tell me why the word ‘frape’ is different.
What situations? Different from what?
What if you used their computer/phone and inserted it into them while they were asleep? I’m pretty sure that in that case it would be like rape. I don’t know though, so don’t quote me on it. Better look it up.
Serves him right for linking his personal FB account with his work Twitter account all the same. Also, very strange thing to ‘frape’ someone with.
“This is something moronic on my part”
Can you add use of the word ‘frape’ to your list on moronic acts please
Fraping someones personal facebook is completely different to fraping someones work twitter, dude who did this is a piece of shit
nah it’s linked to his twitter, the alleged perpetrator didn’t realise this, happens a lot these days.
well said
Statutory twape without prior knowledge?
Dig up, stupid.
It made the Silicon Republic and they’d shown another twitter post that made it fairly obvious that it was someone else posting on that chap’s behalf.
Something along the lines of having an ar*e like the japanese flag after “a serious dose of d wavin last nite”.
I’m currently raping a cup of tea after a short tea-bagging season.
I just raped a ham sammich.
This is what happens when stupidity becomes the norm. Idiots cause destruction all around them but they sleep OK. The rest of us lie awake knowing that idiocy is all too commonplace now.
You like awake at night thinking about people who link their facebook accounts to their twitter accounts?
I haven’t slept in weeks.
I thought Frape meant “Facebook Rape” therefore as this was a Tweet should not apply. But is there an alternative word (Twraped/Twittled/Rittered)?
You are correct, however, this individual has linked their Facebook & their Twitter and what they post on Facebook appears on Twitter.
The accounts were linked to each other and this person did not realise this when playing a practical joke by the looks of things. Much ado about nothing.
Twodomised
He may have ‘frittered’ his job away.
Loose lips sink ships
+ lots
The word frape isn’t as insulting as omg or lol.
Totes.
Any idea if one could sue if someone caused you to lose your job over such a “prank”? MIght put a stop to idiots who think it’s funny.
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I want to know if one can sue for others switching from formal use of “one” to collective use of you in such a willy nilly fashion!!
So offended!
Ha – brilliant Frodo!
That perpetrator of such a ‘prank’ is now called a ‘pwanker’.
And from this day on it shall be enshrined in the book of tinterweb, sayeth The TBL proxy… me!
So, semantics aside, do we believe that it was a ‘frape’/'use of someone’s computer without their knowledge’?
Suuuuuurrrreeeeee. A likely story.
Crikey is he trying to say it was some sort of jape?
Easy there now Paul. It was just a bit of fun that got out of hand!
In fairness if his job included tweeting on behalf of the compnay, and he linked it to a private facebook account he’s a bit of a dope anyway – he should be getting a bit of a going over by his bosses.
Give the lad a break for god sake, clearly he is having a bad enough Monday as it is, MOVE ON and dont kick him when he is down
I find it sort of ironic that BS makes a big song and dance over Kate Fitzgerald/bullying/suicide and then thought it was ok to post an obvious frape and personal FB account. If this guy loses his job, will ye support him with any mental health issues he has as a result?
Let’s not get caught up in semantics, people. The main issue here is: does a man who uses multiple exclamation marks several times and ’1000%’ deserve forgiveness?