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Joe Collins writes:
Georgie our one eyed cat went missing over FOUR years ago having climbed under a neighbour’s car bonnet to avoid a heavy rain shower.
The neighbour got into the car and travelled from East Wall [Dublin 3] to a garage in Sallynoggin [Co Dublin]. A car mechanic got a shock when he opened the bonnet and the cat fled.
We drove out to the area to search for him and put up posters. We gave him little chance as only having one eye was such a disadvantage.
Yesterday we received a call from the DSPCA Rathfarnham to say he was handed in. Shook, starving and quite unwell but still with the same old attitude.
What’s the lesson? Always chip your pets…
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Just look at how many of those comments are about my gender. Those comments are because I’m a woman expressing an opinion. It is hateful.
— Una Mullally (@UnaMullally) April 15, 2016
The Guardian trawled through 70 million comments and found that, of the newspaper’s 10 most abused writers – in the comments section – eight were women and two were black men.
The 10 writers who received the least abuse were all men.
Further to this, Una Mullally wrote about the matter in today’s Irish Times…
Una writes:
The vitriol that women and minorities experience online is anecdotally obvious, but now we have the data. Perhaps finally, news organisations will wake up to how the scale and scales of abuse are tipped towards women and minorities.
The bigger picture also calls into question the value of comment sections at all. Whatever the motivations for the Guardian study, what it shows is something any journalist who is not male, straight, white, or all three already knew, but that was often undermined by their male, straight, white, peers.
Women get more flack because they are female. That doesn’t mean that male journalists never get abuse, but the motivation for that abuse is different.
Gendered abuse or criticism is not as obvious as “I hate this article because you’re a woman”. It is more insidious than that. Male journalists are often criticised for the opinions they hold, whereas women are often criticised just for holding opinions.
…Where is the value in making potential comment posters and readers angry and annoyed when they go below the line? The authors of articles are not the only victims of abuse, but also other comment posters who go up against the most domineering comment posters.
…Comment sections as they currently exist have failed. Instead of fostering intelligent debate, they are taken over by ranters and ravers. Instead of adding value for the reader, they detract from the reading experience.
Instead of representing alternative points of view, they are specifically hateful of women and minorities. In an industry obsessed with what its readership wants, the tail has ended up wagging the dog.
FIGHT!
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Lane Shaming
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8kJStpcaOs
Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Mickeyfex writes:
Is it time for another one of these?
Golden Discs
Sinead writes:
Golden Discs, the biggest and longest running record store chain in Ireland, celebrates Record Store Day TOMORROW, with live performances in ten stores nationwide.
Record Store Day celebrates the unique culture of independently owned record shops and has become one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar.
Vinyl sales are bucking the trend, and at Golden Discs sales are up over 300% year on year. 11 of the 13 Golden Discs stores now stock vinyl with an ever increasing choice on offer for vinyl fans.
With a Golden Discs Vinyl Club Loyalty Card every €10 spent earns a sticker, with 10 stickers earning a €20 discount on the next vinyl purchase. Unique in Ireland, this incentive is very popular with vinyl fans…
…To celebrate, we are giving away a Red Steepltone Discgo turntable (as above) to a Broadsheet reader.
The winner will also receive FIVE of Golden Discs’ bestselling vinyl [Hozier/Hozier; Amy Winehouse/Back To Black; Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol 1; Bob Marley/Legend and Walking on Cars/Everything This Way] to start/restart or enhance your collection.
To enter, just complete this sentence:
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was___________________________’
Lines MUST close at 4.50pm MIDNIGHT
Dott- Heroes
Anna writes:
We are giving away a free download of our cover of Heroes by David Bowie for Record Store Day 2016 and ahead of our performance at An Evening of David Bowie in The Cracker Factory, NY on April 29th.
Dott moved from Ireland to Toronto, Canada this year and have evolved into a two-piece band. They have been experimenting with drum loops and home-recordings which will very soon culminate in the release of new material. New songs and US Tour dates to be announced very soon….
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Copywriter José Quintela condenses the facades and parked vehicles of Lisbon with the help of Instagram’s layout application.
David Smith complains about what he calls ridiculously intrusive “haitches” in the pronunciation of taoiseach and tánaiste on the airwaves. These are both Irish words, and in the Irish language, the letters D and T, if followed by a broad vowel (a, o, u) are pronounced as if they were followed by the letter “h”. For convenience, I call them “soft” Ds and Ts. So the broadcasters are right – it should be “thaoiseach” and “thánaiste”.
And while I’m at it, “Fine”, as in Fine Gael, is also an Irish word, and is pronounced “finna”, and not “fine”, to rhyme with “wine”. Enda Kenny gets it right. Do his supporters not hear the difference?
Doireann Ní Bhriain,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.
Finally.
Vowels – softy does it (Irish Times letters)
Pic: Laura Hutton