Not sure if you mean the pootpost that Broadsheet put up of the mark of solidarity that people are making on FB. I was only yesterday talking to my work colleagues how awful I thought the attacks were and how I was thinking about the the poor people in Belgium, but in fairness I didn’t realise that we couldn’t express disgust at the attacks any more. Thanks BS for pointing out other people’s flaws.
MoyestWithExcitement
Bit mean spirited, this. Is taking the pish out of these people helping the situation?
H
+1 Belgian flag
Panty Christ
Roddy Doyle was quick off the mark this week to make a tit of himself in that regard
han solo's carbonite dream
i’ve always hated roddy doyle two lads in a pub.
he is sh1te.
well maybe not sh1te just boring as f
Nice Jung Man
it helps people feel superior to mock those of simple faiths and beliefs
you know – like calling people with whom you don’t agree ‘idiots’ on the internet
MoyestWithExcitement
Bit you *are* an idiot. You can’t blame me for that.
Nice Jung Man
How astute of you – to repurpose the thread to highlight – yet again your own shortcomings.
Have you consulted mental health services as a matter of interest?
As many other posters have pointed out there’s a few of you here e.g Anne, Same old same old, ahjaysiz, don pidgeon woman – and all of you ever seem to do is ventilate your clearly damaged personalities online
constantly in a rage, foam-flecked, ranting, attacking and belittling others
you are all destroying the site in pursuing your hate-filled agendae
Smith
Fancy but incorrect use of the plural. It’s *agendas*
Same Old Same Old
“As many other posters have pointed out”
We think we’re spot on there again.. xx Well said again us.
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Says he calling people pro-Israeli shills
Nice Jung Man
Nice of you not to address your own hate issues – have a good rant at me now for pointing out the obvious – why don’t you?
@ Smith: Thanks for the spelling correction, I’ve never been 100% sure on that one. In fact it says here that agenda is itself originally a plural of agendum.
“have a good rant at me now for pointing out the obvious – why don’t you?”
Who me? Nah, got better things to do thanks. But go on without me.
Nice Jung Man
don, you gotta admit you have some major anger issues judging from the tone and content of your frequent diatribes on this
a few weeks ago you attacked that women catherine mcentee because she was saying some stuff about the dangers of abortions
you just could have pointed out where in your view etc her perspective was not supported by the facts and gave a few references etc
but still this simple approach was somehow beyond you as you were incandescent with rage
first step is acceptance of the problem
MoyestWithExcitement
You know, there’s a lot to be said for a spot of Schadenfreude.
Anne
“first step is acceptance of the problem”
That’s right Sybil..
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Are you going to give me an internet police ticket?
Nice Jung Man
you could all just accept your manifest anger issues
that would be the first step
after that I don’t really care
you’re just some losers ranting on the internet
Nice Jung Man
and the fact is you’re destroying this site for everyone else
no-one else is rushing to your rescue I notice
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I’m single-handedly destroying all of BS? Wow, what power I have! I hope I only use it for good!
Same Old Same Old
Sybil, we’re gone a bit whiny.. Let’s give it a rest for a while will we?
Happy thoughts Sybil… let’s go to the happy place. xx
Same old same old
I see the usual narcissistic BS idiots are all out in force today
Anne
“you could all just accept your manifest anger issues
that would be the first step
after that I don’t really care”
Whats the second step though ?
Same old same old
Nice Jung Man has a point though hasn’t he Anne? Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky and out there in fairness
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And I don’t feel I need to be rescued from the likes of you to be honest, over-running the comments with this nonsense.
Now chill out, there’s a long weekend on the way, there may even be sun, and we won’t have to talk to each other for 4 whole days. Amazing!
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” Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky and out there in fairness”
That is pretty odd but then I think having multiple logins is weird. Maybe people are just weird.
Mikeyfex
Ah stop will you? The amount of noise on the website lately is so off putting. From picky, tedious arguments to unfunny, tedious trolls. It’s no wonder so many people have stopped commenting.
Anne
“Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky”
It’s kinda like one of those email storms – reply to all, saying stop.. it never works.. Just sayin’ :)
Nice Jung Man
Hi folks
I have only one login on here
I don’t know what the issue with Anne is
Rather than face her obvious anger issues she is logging in as others?
That’s it is it?
My point was addressed to Same old same old just the same as the other anger trolls.
Like Mikey, I’m really sick of logging in here every day and seeing the same old (pun intended) savage beasts tearing strips off each other and attacking and belittling others, it’s very limiting.
I’m sorry for stating the obvious but please reflect on it, and have a safe weekend everyone
Catherine McEntee
Well said Nice Jung Man. It’s about time someone addressed the toxic bullies on here that seem to think they can attack anyone that’s not brown-nosing them or in their caustic coven.
I have found the original, Same Old Same Old, to be a decent person and an interesting poster. The person now posting as him, is
showing herself to be a bitter old crone who is to be pitied. If she put as much time and energy into educating herself on current affairs, as opposed to filling her posts with
copied and pasted articles followed by rambling litanies, we’d all be better off.
She posted as me a few times too, got no
response, then transferred her juvenile
arseholery to trolling as others on here.
Same old same old
Thanks Nice Jung Man
I had no issue with you pulling the piss out of me to be honest
Anne
“Is taking the pish out of these people helping the situation?”
Who knows. Rotsey will be along any minute to tell us the intention here..
Polaroid Fluid
better that than “yeah but what about the poor people in whatever-istan, typical western blah blah blah”. Shut up. Next you’ll be giving these dirty rats blowies.
15 cents
people arent trying to help by puttin a flag on their profile, theyre just showing support.
Royal M
How does it support the fight against religious extremism? It doesn’t. It just makes the person posting it feel better about themselves.
Kieran NYC
It shows people that you’re against religious extremism. Which is a good start.
Nigel
I’m so glad there’s someone here to finally stand up against people feeling better about themselves.
Deluded
^_^
(You’re far more polite than I so I will leave it at that ; )
Got to admit that it’ll take more than the platitudes that are on FB to get us out of the hole we are in.
Smith
What ‘hole’ are ‘we’ in?
Mani
Your ma’s.
Good day.
Smith
Hi Dad.
Twunt
I was wondering how it got so mucky in here
Smith
That would be the discharge coming from your Twunt
mildred st. meadowlark
Well that certainly gave me a lunchtime lolz :D
jeremy kyle
This is my hole, get your own.
Smashmouth
best post on Broadsheet in ages
On a side note – its funny how theres far less people changing their profile pics on facebook to the Belgian flag as there were to the French flag
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I think Paris was more shocking, not to down play Brussels, but you would expect transport to be targeted, not a concert maybe? That and young kids out having fun.
Verbatim
I think people are weary, lighting up monuments, changing profile pics, outrage is not going to solve this.
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Is anyone claiming that it will or is it simply a small show of support and a small fupp you to IS who want to divide us from people who feel they can’t really do anything else?
Verbatim
Yeah, that’s very nice showing support by taking 5ms to change your profile. It’s a desperate situation really, who knows where the next bomb will go off and we are told there will be a next and a next… the mood is sombre and people are dividing, which could lead to a lot of violence.
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It takes your 5 mins to change yours?! :)
Seriously, I think it is nice, I think people in Paris and Brussels appreciate it. Equally important are the chats about not letting such events divide us because that is what IS wants. They want us to be afraid to go out, they want us to be afraid of Muslims, they want to start a war between the West and Muslims. Why let them win?
jungleman
People changing their profile picture over a terrorist attack are doing it primarily out of narcissism. It is the very foundation upon which a social network thrives. Same applies to people checking in as “safe” after a terrorist attack. The whole world revolves around them.
mildred st. meadowlark
I agree with the profile pic thing, it does seem to be more narcissistic than to have any real value (but then who am I to quantify the value of such a gesture?) but the checking in as safe does seem to me to be a good idea, because if you have a relative or friend who was in Brussels, your thoughts would go to them, hoping they are safe. It seems, to me, one of the few benefits of social media in such an horrific situation.
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Some might be but I don’t think it’s as many people as thought. People today live their lives online so it must only be natural to express your emotion or opinion in that way.
I would think checking in safe after an attack is a quick and easy way of letting people know you are ok no? I know when these things happen I always wonder if I know anyone over there and if they are ok.
And, in the end, does it really matter if someone changes their FB profile?
MoyestWithExcitement
Whatever their motivation, their message is a positive one. Why belittle them for that other than to make yourself feel superior? They are releasing a positive into the air, you are releasing a negative.
jungleman
I’m not being negative.. Just making an observation. People are entirely within their right to do it. But just because it is a positive thing on the face of it does not mean we shouldn’t question peoples’ motives. Personally, I think their time would be better spent reading up on the Middle East, rather than blindly clicking a button which really doesn’t require much thought at all. It is through better education and understanding that the big issues of the world will be solved, not through Facebook profile pictures.
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Also, didn’t FB just add a post to your timeline making it super easy for people to change it? Another reason why it may be less narcissism and more of a show of support – and why not as many people have done it for Brussels.
MoyestWithExcitement
”I’m not being negative”
Well, you are. You are criticising them. If that wasn’t clear in your previous post with your narcissism comment, it’s clear in this one with your comment about how they should be spending their time. Like I said, what you’re posting here only serves to make you feel superior. Their motivation might be selfish as well, but at least a nice message is the byproduct of it. The opposite is the case with you.
”But just because it is a positive thing on the face of it does not mean we shouldn’t question peoples’ motives.”
Why? What purpose does it serve? Remember now, you are lamenting what these Facebook photos because they just serve an ego and have no effect on the real world, so, again, why should we, on the internet, question their motives?
”Personally, I think their time would be better spent reading up on the Middle East”
Ok. So Owen from Bray has decided not to change his Facebook photo and read a report about the rise of Wahhabisim. Now what? How are the people of Brussels lives any different now?
”It is through better education and understanding that the big issues of the world will be solved, not through Facebook profile pictures.”
Or through condescending missives on the comments section of a relatively obscure blog that nobody your message is aimed at is reading.
jeremy kyle
Whatever about the profile picture, it’s not fair to imply people are checking in as safe out of narcissism.
Janet, I ate my avatar
I didn’t mark myself safe a friend did and lots of people who tried to call were happy to see it. Its hard to explain how helpless you feel when it’s on your doorstep and it’s a show of solidarity in the face of being pretty helpless for the most part to do anything else but to change your profile. A sense of community helps to deal with events.
mildred st. meadowlark
Great point Janet
+1
Same old same old
Jungleman seems a bit angry over perceived slights
The other day he was whining about how some people earn more than him
Get over yourself
jungleman
You ignored my response on that one I noted same old
Medium Sized C
Good point .
There was the running around with Guns element too.
jungleman
The novelty has worn off I suppose..
Nice Jung Man
this guy is a pro-israeli shill
he only ever posts about anti-islamic or pro-israeli stuff
jungleman
Smashmouth?
I do recall him being pro Israel alrite. Don’t see why he can’t be correct about something else though which is completely unrelated.
Smashmouth
Pro Israel?!
I would consider myself quite the opposite
Think you have me confused with someone else. But if you want to find evidence to the contrary by all means go ahead
jungleman
Yes I must be confusing you with someone else.. Did they mean I am a pro Israel shill? Because I have a track record of the complete opposite here also!
Smashmouth
I think its more a case of Broadsheet users having to fulfil their obligation of identifying X amount of Israeli Shills per week
Nice Jung Man
Hi smartasssmash
I’m not one of the clowns here with nothing better to do that go off doing google searches looking for ‘evidence’ of some asshat ranting off on the internet
But yes your posts have led me to believe that you’re a strong Israeli supporter.
Sorry if I got it wrong – I’d hate to misunderstand you.
Smashmouth
Glad you cleared that up for us all
Junkface
I did my bit. I ate some Belgian chocolate
Owen C
Don’t stop eating or the terrorists winomnomnomnom
Tish Mahorey
We’re already living through World War III. Get used to it. It’ll be going on for another 50 years.
Ireland will be in NATO within the lifetime of the next Government and your children will be fighting wars in Middle East and Asia.
Smashmouth
Mystic Tish
Kieran NYC
Thanks, Mr T.
Always a ray of sunshine.
Nigel
It’s not hurting, which puts it well ahead of the game for a start.
Positivity is a negative.
Let’s not even try.
Me Not helping that’s umpossible.
The cynicism is strong in this one
Every bit as useful as prayer.
+1 Amen
Now it’s solved!
Not sure if you mean the pootpost that Broadsheet put up of the mark of solidarity that people are making on FB. I was only yesterday talking to my work colleagues how awful I thought the attacks were and how I was thinking about the the poor people in Belgium, but in fairness I didn’t realise that we couldn’t express disgust at the attacks any more. Thanks BS for pointing out other people’s flaws.
Bit mean spirited, this. Is taking the pish out of these people helping the situation?
+1 Belgian flag
Roddy Doyle was quick off the mark this week to make a tit of himself in that regard
i’ve always hated roddy doyle two lads in a pub.
he is sh1te.
well maybe not sh1te just boring as f
it helps people feel superior to mock those of simple faiths and beliefs
you know – like calling people with whom you don’t agree ‘idiots’ on the internet
Bit you *are* an idiot. You can’t blame me for that.
How astute of you – to repurpose the thread to highlight – yet again your own shortcomings.
Have you consulted mental health services as a matter of interest?
As many other posters have pointed out there’s a few of you here e.g Anne, Same old same old, ahjaysiz, don pidgeon woman – and all of you ever seem to do is ventilate your clearly damaged personalities online
constantly in a rage, foam-flecked, ranting, attacking and belittling others
you are all destroying the site in pursuing your hate-filled agendae
Fancy but incorrect use of the plural. It’s *agendas*
“As many other posters have pointed out”
We think we’re spot on there again.. xx Well said again us.
Says he calling people pro-Israeli shills
Nice of you not to address your own hate issues – have a good rant at me now for pointing out the obvious – why don’t you?
@ Smith: Thanks for the spelling correction, I’ve never been 100% sure on that one. In fact it says here that agenda is itself originally a plural of agendum.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/is-agenda-singular-or-plural
“have a good rant at me now for pointing out the obvious – why don’t you?”
Who me? Nah, got better things to do thanks. But go on without me.
don, you gotta admit you have some major anger issues judging from the tone and content of your frequent diatribes on this
a few weeks ago you attacked that women catherine mcentee because she was saying some stuff about the dangers of abortions
you just could have pointed out where in your view etc her perspective was not supported by the facts and gave a few references etc
but still this simple approach was somehow beyond you as you were incandescent with rage
first step is acceptance of the problem
You know, there’s a lot to be said for a spot of Schadenfreude.
“first step is acceptance of the problem”
That’s right Sybil..
Are you going to give me an internet police ticket?
you could all just accept your manifest anger issues
that would be the first step
after that I don’t really care
you’re just some losers ranting on the internet
and the fact is you’re destroying this site for everyone else
no-one else is rushing to your rescue I notice
I’m single-handedly destroying all of BS? Wow, what power I have! I hope I only use it for good!
Sybil, we’re gone a bit whiny.. Let’s give it a rest for a while will we?
Happy thoughts Sybil… let’s go to the happy place. xx
I see the usual narcissistic BS idiots are all out in force today
“you could all just accept your manifest anger issues
that would be the first step
after that I don’t really care”
Whats the second step though ?
Nice Jung Man has a point though hasn’t he Anne? Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky and out there in fairness
And I don’t feel I need to be rescued from the likes of you to be honest, over-running the comments with this nonsense.
Now chill out, there’s a long weekend on the way, there may even be sun, and we won’t have to talk to each other for 4 whole days. Amazing!
” Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky and out there in fairness”
That is pretty odd but then I think having multiple logins is weird. Maybe people are just weird.
Ah stop will you? The amount of noise on the website lately is so off putting. From picky, tedious arguments to unfunny, tedious trolls. It’s no wonder so many people have stopped commenting.
“Actively posting under another posters handle is pretty freaky”
There’s freaky and there’s parody Sybil..
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/03/21/worth-the-licence-fee/#comment-1585082
“Ah stop will you?”
It’s kinda like one of those email storms – reply to all, saying stop.. it never works.. Just sayin’ :)
Hi folks
I have only one login on here
I don’t know what the issue with Anne is
Rather than face her obvious anger issues she is logging in as others?
That’s it is it?
My point was addressed to Same old same old just the same as the other anger trolls.
Like Mikey, I’m really sick of logging in here every day and seeing the same old (pun intended) savage beasts tearing strips off each other and attacking and belittling others, it’s very limiting.
I’m sorry for stating the obvious but please reflect on it, and have a safe weekend everyone
Well said Nice Jung Man. It’s about time someone addressed the toxic bullies on here that seem to think they can attack anyone that’s not brown-nosing them or in their caustic coven.
I have found the original, Same Old Same Old, to be a decent person and an interesting poster. The person now posting as him, is
showing herself to be a bitter old crone who is to be pitied. If she put as much time and energy into educating herself on current affairs, as opposed to filling her posts with
copied and pasted articles followed by rambling litanies, we’d all be better off.
She posted as me a few times too, got no
response, then transferred her juvenile
arseholery to trolling as others on here.
Thanks Nice Jung Man
I had no issue with you pulling the piss out of me to be honest
“Is taking the pish out of these people helping the situation?”
Who knows. Rotsey will be along any minute to tell us the intention here..
better that than “yeah but what about the poor people in whatever-istan, typical western blah blah blah”. Shut up. Next you’ll be giving these dirty rats blowies.
people arent trying to help by puttin a flag on their profile, theyre just showing support.
How does it support the fight against religious extremism? It doesn’t. It just makes the person posting it feel better about themselves.
It shows people that you’re against religious extremism. Which is a good start.
I’m so glad there’s someone here to finally stand up against people feeling better about themselves.
^_^
(You’re far more polite than I so I will leave it at that ; )
Needs more Üter Zörker !
Me fail to help, that’s umpossible.
Got to admit that it’ll take more than the platitudes that are on FB to get us out of the hole we are in.
What ‘hole’ are ‘we’ in?
Your ma’s.
Good day.
Hi Dad.
I was wondering how it got so mucky in here
That would be the discharge coming from your Twunt
Well that certainly gave me a lunchtime lolz :D
This is my hole, get your own.
best post on Broadsheet in ages
On a side note – its funny how theres far less people changing their profile pics on facebook to the Belgian flag as there were to the French flag
I think Paris was more shocking, not to down play Brussels, but you would expect transport to be targeted, not a concert maybe? That and young kids out having fun.
I think people are weary, lighting up monuments, changing profile pics, outrage is not going to solve this.
Is anyone claiming that it will or is it simply a small show of support and a small fupp you to IS who want to divide us from people who feel they can’t really do anything else?
Yeah, that’s very nice showing support by taking 5ms to change your profile. It’s a desperate situation really, who knows where the next bomb will go off and we are told there will be a next and a next… the mood is sombre and people are dividing, which could lead to a lot of violence.
It takes your 5 mins to change yours?! :)
Seriously, I think it is nice, I think people in Paris and Brussels appreciate it. Equally important are the chats about not letting such events divide us because that is what IS wants. They want us to be afraid to go out, they want us to be afraid of Muslims, they want to start a war between the West and Muslims. Why let them win?
People changing their profile picture over a terrorist attack are doing it primarily out of narcissism. It is the very foundation upon which a social network thrives. Same applies to people checking in as “safe” after a terrorist attack. The whole world revolves around them.
I agree with the profile pic thing, it does seem to be more narcissistic than to have any real value (but then who am I to quantify the value of such a gesture?) but the checking in as safe does seem to me to be a good idea, because if you have a relative or friend who was in Brussels, your thoughts would go to them, hoping they are safe. It seems, to me, one of the few benefits of social media in such an horrific situation.
Some might be but I don’t think it’s as many people as thought. People today live their lives online so it must only be natural to express your emotion or opinion in that way.
I would think checking in safe after an attack is a quick and easy way of letting people know you are ok no? I know when these things happen I always wonder if I know anyone over there and if they are ok.
And, in the end, does it really matter if someone changes their FB profile?
Whatever their motivation, their message is a positive one. Why belittle them for that other than to make yourself feel superior? They are releasing a positive into the air, you are releasing a negative.
I’m not being negative.. Just making an observation. People are entirely within their right to do it. But just because it is a positive thing on the face of it does not mean we shouldn’t question peoples’ motives. Personally, I think their time would be better spent reading up on the Middle East, rather than blindly clicking a button which really doesn’t require much thought at all. It is through better education and understanding that the big issues of the world will be solved, not through Facebook profile pictures.
Also, didn’t FB just add a post to your timeline making it super easy for people to change it? Another reason why it may be less narcissism and more of a show of support – and why not as many people have done it for Brussels.
”I’m not being negative”
Well, you are. You are criticising them. If that wasn’t clear in your previous post with your narcissism comment, it’s clear in this one with your comment about how they should be spending their time. Like I said, what you’re posting here only serves to make you feel superior. Their motivation might be selfish as well, but at least a nice message is the byproduct of it. The opposite is the case with you.
”But just because it is a positive thing on the face of it does not mean we shouldn’t question peoples’ motives.”
Why? What purpose does it serve? Remember now, you are lamenting what these Facebook photos because they just serve an ego and have no effect on the real world, so, again, why should we, on the internet, question their motives?
”Personally, I think their time would be better spent reading up on the Middle East”
Ok. So Owen from Bray has decided not to change his Facebook photo and read a report about the rise of Wahhabisim. Now what? How are the people of Brussels lives any different now?
”It is through better education and understanding that the big issues of the world will be solved, not through Facebook profile pictures.”
Or through condescending missives on the comments section of a relatively obscure blog that nobody your message is aimed at is reading.
Whatever about the profile picture, it’s not fair to imply people are checking in as safe out of narcissism.
I didn’t mark myself safe a friend did and lots of people who tried to call were happy to see it. Its hard to explain how helpless you feel when it’s on your doorstep and it’s a show of solidarity in the face of being pretty helpless for the most part to do anything else but to change your profile. A sense of community helps to deal with events.
Great point Janet
+1
Jungleman seems a bit angry over perceived slights
The other day he was whining about how some people earn more than him
Get over yourself
You ignored my response on that one I noted same old
Good point .
There was the running around with Guns element too.
The novelty has worn off I suppose..
this guy is a pro-israeli shill
he only ever posts about anti-islamic or pro-israeli stuff
Smashmouth?
I do recall him being pro Israel alrite. Don’t see why he can’t be correct about something else though which is completely unrelated.
Pro Israel?!
I would consider myself quite the opposite
Think you have me confused with someone else. But if you want to find evidence to the contrary by all means go ahead
Yes I must be confusing you with someone else.. Did they mean I am a pro Israel shill? Because I have a track record of the complete opposite here also!
I think its more a case of Broadsheet users having to fulfil their obligation of identifying X amount of Israeli Shills per week
Hi smartasssmash
I’m not one of the clowns here with nothing better to do that go off doing google searches looking for ‘evidence’ of some asshat ranting off on the internet
But yes your posts have led me to believe that you’re a strong Israeli supporter.
Sorry if I got it wrong – I’d hate to misunderstand you.
Glad you cleared that up for us all
I did my bit. I ate some Belgian chocolate
Don’t stop eating or the terrorists winomnomnomnom
We’re already living through World War III. Get used to it. It’ll be going on for another 50 years.
Ireland will be in NATO within the lifetime of the next Government and your children will be fighting wars in Middle East and Asia.
Mystic Tish
Thanks, Mr T.
Always a ray of sunshine.
It’s not hurting, which puts it well ahead of the game for a start.