They’re Picking On Julien

Admin at 4:11 pm July 10, 2015

Bodger: “Who the fupp are?”

Chompsky: “The strange boys from the Village.”

Bodger: “Stinking rotters.”

Chompsky: “They’ve a girl with them.”

Bodger: “Leave Julien’s face for pity‘s sake.”

Almost whimsically and perhaps in closet guilt at the apparent libertarianism of its no doubt mostly junior advertising exec readership (it promotes, nay ogles, Julien Mercille, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, Maître Mitty on a Monday. Worse still – and alien to the “get that state out of my life readership, this is a leftie. “Beef cake”, ” boffin”, “egghead”, “the man they all want to marry”: all bouffant hair and sallow skin, his clean-cut just-bathed Canadian earnestness, an embodiment of dissent for Broadsheet’s hirsute, lycra-clad, hashtag revolutionaries.

Ow.

Noms de Plume such as “FluffyBiscuits”, “Spaghetti Hoops” (sic) and “Bodger”: words synonymous with childhood innocence…

A kick in the plumes?

….a Freudian nod perhaps to the infantilism of Broadsheet, where ‘Animal Farm’ meets Old McDonald and Broadsheet ends up confusing our furry friends with the Irish electorate?

*nuzzle*

Broadsheet and its commentariat are – dare I say it – profoundly Catholic in tone, devoutly intolerant of any counterweight to the individualistic, hipster agenda. Its commenters and posters drown in a pool of contradictions, one minute decrying “Je suis Charlie”, the next putting the boot into “Ich bin Hitler” merchants. And what’s going on with over 20 posts about the Fuehrer?

Reich so.

To meet the standards imposed by Broadsheet editorially, the poster requires just a talent to irritate the commenter merely the ability to circumnavigate a crude filter. Though there are suspicions that one John Ryan posts under more than one Nom and some of the commenters seem suspiciously on-message.

Literally preposterous.

And there’s more (link below) so much more.

It’s a bloodbath.

The stakes couldn’t be lower.

Confessions Of A Broadsheet Addict (Julia Tuohy, Village)

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189 thoughts on “They’re Picking On Julien”

Drogg July 10, 2015 at 4:16 pm

Should we all like hitler now to appease The Village? cause if so i am out.
Waffles July 10, 2015 at 4:17 pm

shots fired.
Mister Mister July 10, 2015 at 4:18 pm

They’re right about Julien in fairness, I called it a while back. Damn Villagers robbing my opinions.
1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:37 pm
  
  Oh yeah? You did, you “called it” alright… you should change your name to Mister Hipster!
  
  FIGHT ! …anyone?
  1. Rob_G July 10, 2015 at 5:07 pm
    
    I’d say you’re sad that you didn’t get a mention, all the same.
    1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 5:10 pm
      
      I’ll have me day in the pages of Village yet :)
2. PT July 12, 2015 at 10:43 am
  
  A deliciously wicked summation of Julian’s media analysis. Juicy Julia or is that Jane Tuohy. Am confused.
Mani July 10, 2015 at 4:18 pm

So…Fu** Julian, Marry Fluffy and Kill BS?
1. fluffybiscuits July 10, 2015 at 5:08 pm
  
  Clampers will wet his pampers
  1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 5:13 pm
    
    I’d have no where to go….
    
    Although I’m lost on the pampers reference….. :)
    1. Anne July 10, 2015 at 6:25 pm
      
      infantalism..ya big baba
      1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 8:52 pm
        
        Waaaaaaaaahhhhh !
      2. Bad At Memes July 10, 2015 at 9:02 pm
        
        Calm down Clampers!
        Anne probably meant ‘infantilism”.
        
        But what was meant by that is beyond me.
        Ask Anne. He knows more than I do.
      3. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 9:20 pm
        
        That waaahhh… shoulda come with a smiley face…. if I got any chiller I wouldn’t type any mo…
      4. Tom July 11, 2015 at 2:33 pm
        
        “Noms de Plume such as “FluffyBiscuits”, “Spaghetti Hoops” (sic) and “Bodger”: words synonymous with childhood innocence, a Freudian nod perhaps to the infantilism of Broadsheet, where ‘Animal Farm’ meets Old McDonald and Broadsheet ends up confusing our furry friends with the Irish electorate?
        
        This is so just mean.. I need some snuggily wugglys now..
Dόn Pídgéόní July 10, 2015 at 4:20 pm

She is reading far too much into BS
1. realPolithicks July 10, 2015 at 6:53 pm
  
  I totally agree, talk about somebody who has completely missed the point.
  1. Don Pidgeoni July 11, 2015 at 10:23 am
    
    TLDR but you got me
2. Annie July 10, 2015 at 7:56 pm
  
  The hilarious irony though is that Broadsheet have brought Julia Tuohy and her “article” far more attention than she would ever get in Village Magazine. LOL.
St. John Smythe July 10, 2015 at 4:23 pm

It’s intentionally overwritten, right? This is supposed to be part of the humour..?
And would it have been so difficult to find out how to type an ü?
1. Dόn Pídgéόní July 10, 2015 at 4:27 pm
  
  Oh its supposed to be funny? Right…
2. neil July 10, 2015 at 4:36 pm
  
  Following the vowel with an ‘e’ is acceptable when the umlaut isn’t available. Special characters can often cause issues online, where text can move through different forms of encoding when stored and retrieved from a database, or re-published elsewhere.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#Printing_conventions_in_German
  1. Tidy Dave July 10, 2015 at 4:38 pm
    
    Wickedly good analysis, but they used “Maître” in an earlier paragraph.
    1. neil July 10, 2015 at 8:21 pm
      
      Fair.
  2. St. John Smythe July 10, 2015 at 9:09 pm
    
    its acceptable but poo, I live in Germany and do occasional work designing websites. With the exception of the URL, its been a while since you had to avoid the umlaut, or do the old ü
    1. St. John Smythe July 10, 2015 at 9:11 pm
      
      …do the old & u uml ; (Broadsheet turned my first version into a proper umlaut)
3. Tidy Dave July 10, 2015 at 4:37 pm
  
  Right on brother. Managed to crank out “Maître”, thus revealing their lazyness or ignorance/contempt of keyboard layout settings and/or the German language.
  
  Schade.
4. Annie July 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm
  
  I love Julia Tuohy’s deliberately and painfully verbose de trop ‘writing’ style – it won’t be long before Spiked Magazine snap her up!
Squiggleyjoop July 10, 2015 at 4:25 pm

So internal affairs have been setting us up the whole time?
1. John E. Bravo July 10, 2015 at 11:24 pm
  
  Haha
seany_delight July 10, 2015 at 4:26 pm

Sublime bit of trolling / Click bait.
Thank goodness for AdBlock.
1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:35 pm
  
  How does Adblock help with that….
  1. seany_delight July 10, 2015 at 4:37 pm
    
    I at least don’t have to look at the adverts on the page.
    No idea if it still registers as a click or view and the site publishers get paid or not.
    1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:38 pm
      
      Ah right…
    2. MajorThrill July 10, 2015 at 7:51 pm
      
      Usually not. If the ad widget is blocked the it doesn’t load the image. So the image wasn’t asked for by the site and nothing happened from the provider’s perspective.. The village site might pass on their own stats about what adverts they think they served and what they should get paid but usually the ad provider’s stats are gospel.
      
      (Source: I’m totally fun at parties and work in the software dev part of that godforsaken industry)
      1. MajorThrill July 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm
        
        If the ad widget is blocked the *site* doesn’t load the image.
  2. neil July 10, 2015 at 4:38 pm
    
    seany would rather not feed the trolls through the ad impressions they would be paid for, if he didn’t have AdBlock installed.
    1. neil July 10, 2015 at 4:39 pm
      
      That said, I don’t see any ads on the page, and I don’t have AdBlock installed.
      1. seany_delight July 10, 2015 at 4:45 pm
        
        *harrump*
      2. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm
        
        Heh :)
        
        You should turn it off for BS… give them the support for all the good work :)
Just sayin' July 10, 2015 at 4:27 pm

Well, BS has evolved over a few years from just a few cheap laughs and things that look like Ireland to a strong social commentary. Maybe that’s intentional but I just come here for the laughs – been a while since I actually laughed out loud. I used to do it all the time a few years back.
I’d like to see their mission statement to figure out what they think is the purpose of their website.
1. ABM July 10, 2015 at 5:31 pm
  
  “strong social commentary” LOL. How about cheerleading the destruction of the family, promoting the criminalisation of Catholicism, wanting to wipe Israel off the map, the promotion of Mosque building, the forced indoctrination of 5 year-olds about gay daddy, gender identity and trannies. All the time leading 10,000s of souls astray by promoting lifestyle buggery and “sex worker” Utopia.
  1. jeremy kyle July 10, 2015 at 5:39 pm
    
    The post really has it all.
    1. jeremy kyle July 10, 2015 at 5:42 pm
      
      *this -_-
      1. bisted July 10, 2015 at 6:24 pm
        
        ….I scored 3/7 ABM…what do I win?
  2. Bacchus July 10, 2015 at 6:38 pm
    
    tell me more about this “lifestyle buggery”. ‘Tis better to give than receive I hear.
  3. Joe the Lion July 10, 2015 at 6:55 pm
    
    I’m bound for sex worker Utopia I want to toil in her cotton fields
  4. Lush July 10, 2015 at 7:19 pm
    
    You didn’t get a mention in the article either; it wouldn’t be the same without you though.
  5. Annie July 10, 2015 at 8:01 pm
    
    Fake ABM for sure! LOL – “lifestyle buggery” – tis the stuff of the real ABM’s dreams!
    1. realPolithicks July 10, 2015 at 8:20 pm
      
      Nice one, I actually laughed out loud.
  6. Mike July 11, 2015 at 12:34 am
    
    Love a bit of lifestyle buggery I do
    1. James M. Chimney July 11, 2015 at 2:07 pm
      
      Champion Sports is more my haunt.
  7. ahyeah July 11, 2015 at 10:27 am
    
    “forced indoctrination of 5 year olds”
    
    surely that doesn’t happen?
  8. Janet, I ate my avatar July 11, 2015 at 10:48 am
    
    I missed you baby
The Old Boy July 10, 2015 at 4:32 pm

The impertinence! Don’t they know the only people allowed to denigrate viciously Broadsheet’s editorial decisions are those who haunt the comments section?
Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:33 pm

” A cat that looks like Ireland? ” …I musta been out that day… link, anyone?
1. Tidy Dave July 10, 2015 at 5:10 pm
  
  I was curious hoping to find something, but came across this instead:
  
  http://i4.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article5849364.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/PAY-Edge-Cat.jpg
  1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 5:14 pm
    
    *snigger*
  2. Lush July 10, 2015 at 7:20 pm
    
    Snorted half-eaten pizza onto the keyboard..cheers.
Art_Vanderlay July 10, 2015 at 4:37 pm

She opened a bracket in that Mercille bit that didn’t get closed and its freaking me out. Several other parentheses come and go but the original never gets closed. She’s definitely going to read this, so Jane could you close that bracket please? I’m not gonna sleep a wink tonight..
1. Lush July 10, 2015 at 7:22 pm
  
  Thank Christ you noticed too; doing my head in.
  I take it you saw this earlier?
  https://www.broadsheet.ie/?s=blame+the+parenthesis
  Very traumatic Friday.
scottser July 10, 2015 at 4:38 pm

are they picking on our fluffy and our hoop?
*rolls up sleeves, spits on hands, clenches fists
1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm
  
  I’m with ya Scottser!
  
  Pickin’ on our aul Hoop and the lovely Fluffy !
  1. scottser July 10, 2015 at 4:47 pm
    
    hold me back clamps, hold me back!
    1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:55 pm
      
      It’s funny how so many come on here and say the place is anti-Catholic, yet, here she says the place is “profoundly Catholic in tone” …hmmmm, that one threw me…
      
      But this line’s a cracker… “devoutly intolerant of any counterweight to the individualistic, hipster agenda”.
      
      I KNEW IT, BLEEDIN’ HIPSTERS HAVE AN AGENDA, JUST LIKE THE GAYS DID !
      
      Slagging hipsters is like shooting fish in an open barrel suspended two foot from the mouth of a blunderbuss. Taking it all seriously though, well….. that’s just whoooooooshy now, in fairness :)
      1. Joe the Lion July 10, 2015 at 5:44 pm
        
        I think she means most people here are oddly judgemental and hypocritical about anything other than their own pet peeves- I agree
      2. rotide July 10, 2015 at 6:59 pm
        
        Of course she’s right about that. A lot of what she said has obviously hit a collective nerve.
      3. John E. Bravo July 10, 2015 at 11:27 pm
        
        Maybe the subeds mistakenly uppercased the C and she just meant ‘diverse’ and ‘all-embracing’.
    2. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm
      
      Sorry Scottser… I was going to hold you back …..and then I started rambling :)
      1. fluffybiscuits July 10, 2015 at 5:09 pm
        
        Get the battering ram
        
        *shines rotides bald head*!
      2. bisted July 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm
        
        ….did nobody warn Joan not to take the brown acid?
      3. rotide July 10, 2015 at 6:58 pm
        
        Who are you calling bald!
Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:39 pm

Does Julien only have one shirt?
1. Caroline July 10, 2015 at 6:20 pm
  
  One too many, amirite? *runs*
  1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 8:57 pm
    
    Haha :) …took me a minute
Kevin July 10, 2015 at 4:40 pm

Cant disagree in fairness
Tidy Dave July 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm

Honestly, this is golden. Never change, Broadsheet.
1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm
  
  +1
ahjayzis July 10, 2015 at 4:45 pm

“no doubt mostly junior advertising exec readership”

Sorry, but I’m not sure people in advertising can read.
1. Drogg July 10, 2015 at 4:47 pm
  
  I wish i made junior ad exec money, they have some nice cheques to cash.
2. Mick Flavin July 10, 2015 at 5:15 pm
  
  I’ve often wondered in what field most commenters here work. I get the impression a fair few work in graphic design or the like.
  1. Joe the Lion July 10, 2015 at 5:45 pm
    
    Do you draw the dole Mick?
    1. Mani July 10, 2015 at 6:06 pm
      
      Mick Flavin job is as actual foreplay for a lot of those in the midland.
    2. Mick Flavin July 10, 2015 at 8:28 pm
      
      I can only draw faces, Joe, abstract concepts are out. Unless you mean Bob. In which case, I’d give him a go.
      
      Oh, you meant the *dole*…Yes, under several aliases.
      1. Joe the Lion July 12, 2015 at 12:51 am
        
        Mick
        
        Has the dole a face that looks like Ireland?
        
        As ding dong Denny O’reilly would say Waterford would be the arse. Think spare van!
  2. Mani July 10, 2015 at 6:05 pm
    
    I live off welfare cheques a cos a my debilitating obesity and abject loneliness.
    1. Continuity Jay-Z July 10, 2015 at 7:14 pm
      
      Your humor is as sharp as your bacon knife.
3. rotide July 10, 2015 at 6:57 pm
  
  There’s defintely a few refugees from creative ireland here
  1. Mani July 10, 2015 at 7:36 pm
    
    Yes. But their refugee status excludes them from working.
    1. Drogg July 10, 2015 at 7:41 pm
      
      There is always render time.
    2. Bacchus July 10, 2015 at 7:44 pm
      
      Their creative status excludes them from working.
4. Buzz July 12, 2015 at 7:41 pm
  
  So she thinks everyone who posts here is under 30, bwahahaha.
Stephen July 10, 2015 at 4:47 pm

That gave me a headache, trying to decipher her rococo wafflings
1. scottser July 10, 2015 at 4:50 pm
  
  ‘Broadsheet and its commentariat are – dare I say it – profoundly Catholic in tone,’
  
  and just plain wrong.
  1. Drogg July 10, 2015 at 4:54 pm
    
    Yeah you all are the most disagreeable bunch going. I come here for the disagreement of opinion because there is very rarely a consensus so it helps me keep perspective on my own opinions about things.
    1. linbinius July 10, 2015 at 4:59 pm
      
      Oh no you don’t.
    2. Vote Rep #1 July 10, 2015 at 5:09 pm
      
      that sounds like individualistic, hipster talk there Drogg
      1. Drogg July 10, 2015 at 5:29 pm
        
        I only wish they made skinny jeans for a man of my standings, in saying that though if i start cycling a fixie i could be in skinny jeans by the time the next tragic fashion trend rolls round.
    3. Janet, I ate my avatar July 11, 2015 at 10:54 am
      
      I only come here after a pint when I’ve a touch of homesickness and miss me mammy
2. Mick Flavin July 10, 2015 at 5:21 pm
  
  “Rococo Wafflings” sounds like a brand of crisps exclusive to Fallon and Byrne.
Stewart Curry July 10, 2015 at 4:49 pm

All she’s doing is introducing Broadsheet to dozens more people
1. Bacchus July 10, 2015 at 6:43 pm
  
  hardly dozens. Three maybe? Including a pi$$ poor sub editor.
2. Continuity Jay-Z July 10, 2015 at 7:15 pm
  
  F**k off N00BS1!
daveray July 10, 2015 at 4:49 pm

They won’t post any comments, the message “Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Village Magazine” shows up. Cowards.
1. rotide July 10, 2015 at 7:14 pm
  
  ….because you never get that message here?
  
  In fairness to the admins here, they usually approve stuff pretty quickly. Maybe everyone in village has gone for a pint.
  1. Martin Heavy-Guy July 13, 2015 at 2:39 pm
    
    “0 comments” and this is 3 days old…
    1. oui July 13, 2015 at 2:55 pm
      
      186 here though
      1. Domestos July 15, 2015 at 5:30 pm
        
        And I missed all the fun. The one day I’m out of the office.
      2. maisnon July 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm
        
        never too late to pour your bleach
      3. Domestos July 15, 2015 at 5:57 pm
        
        For posterity perhaps, not infamy though at this stage. I’ve laid out my thoughts on Julien’s “economics” already, straight out of the Michael Taft land of make believe. And my “nom de plume” has a childproof cap for God’s sake.
Odis July 10, 2015 at 4:51 pm

An overly verbose critique that covered most things but left out John Moynes, for some reason.
1. Stephen July 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm
  
  I actually like Moynes. And after the excellent work on [REDACTED] and the Thin Blue Timeline I can forgive Broadsheet any irrelevancies
  1. Tidy Dave July 10, 2015 at 5:17 pm
    
    Yeah but even the Moynes-bashing is part of the BS culture. Honestly, I think if he did a video to demonstrate the metre of some of the more, eh, advanced Limericks I’d probably end up liking them a lot more.
    
    Also: He has a Godlike beard in my book (this is not the Catholic tone you are looking for).
    1. bisted July 10, 2015 at 7:31 pm
      
      …at the risk of sounding homophonic…Broadsheet has always been more meter and mitre than metre…and Moynes is tokenistic proof of that.
      1. John E. Bravo July 10, 2015 at 11:30 pm
        
        Moynes is a poetic extension of the Irish Water protest, doggedly opposed to any standardisation of meters.
      2. Joe the Lion July 12, 2015 at 12:52 am
        
        Hell no we won’t pay
linbinius July 10, 2015 at 4:55 pm

Just pissy about the good press this place received after the DOB “scandal”. They didn’t get much of mention around that time…

The piece is rubbish. At least BS is somewhat self-aware. I think.
nellyb July 10, 2015 at 4:59 pm

Oh la la :-) I like the angst fused with existential tiredness, Will Self-ishly created adjectives – so Broadsheet!
Brilliant :-)
Ms Piggy July 10, 2015 at 5:02 pm

Is that first paragraph meant to be in English?
jeremy kyle July 10, 2015 at 5:18 pm

I think it’s sweet that she went to all this trouble…
Optimus Grime July 10, 2015 at 5:39 pm

Well I am outraged about the Catholic outrage won’t someone please think of the children of Broadsheet!
1. B Bop July 11, 2015 at 10:47 am
  
  Blah blah we’ve been through the Catholic/non Catholic freak out over Educate Together.
  Less children on BS more dogs in outfits.
collynomial July 10, 2015 at 6:19 pm

I actually do post under two names but the second one is by accident and comes about when someone else has been using my computer.
Jack Ascinine July 10, 2015 at 6:27 pm

Two words; Village Magazine. Tells you all you need to know.

Hey Vincent, how’s that big lawsuit going that the Village idiots were to launch last September?

I don’t like the majority of the liberal bleeding hearts on this site but I’ll take one of them over Vincent Browne or the stupid (Person) that wrote the article.
1. B Bop July 11, 2015 at 10:48 am
  
  Ah Jack, you shimmied in there with your “Village Idiot” (though nice usage of Vinnie Brown)
  I was saving that indeed for the author of said article!
  1. tomboy July 12, 2015 at 5:13 pm
    
    VB has nothing to do with the running of Village Magazine in its current incarnation.
    1. Buzz July 12, 2015 at 7:45 pm
      
      It’s Michael Smith this weather.
Panty Christ July 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm

The is an assault on democracy or something
Exclamation Mark July 10, 2015 at 6:42 pm

Someone take away her wiffy code. Tough one for Mercille seeing as he’s written for them before.
Caroline July 10, 2015 at 6:43 pm

The article seems to be addressed to someone other than the reader. Perhaps it is an offering to a strange god we’d best not offend.

Shame really, she went to a lot of effort and captured exactly none of the essence of the site. Which is probably just as well.
1. Bacchus July 10, 2015 at 6:46 pm
  
  we have essence??
  1. Lush July 10, 2015 at 7:29 pm
    
    :)
  2. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 9:02 pm
    
    Pubessence, apparently :)
2. Mé Féin July 10, 2015 at 7:04 pm
  
  I don’t know who you are but I like that!
bisted July 10, 2015 at 6:43 pm

…still no vacancy for Village idiot then..
dereviled July 10, 2015 at 6:56 pm

A hirsute, lycra-clad, hashtag conspiracy.
Well I can safely say I don’t know what’s going on : )
1. Continuity Jay-Z July 10, 2015 at 7:17 pm
  
  Yeah, Not getitng the lycra comment at all at all at all.
  
  And I look f**kin’ hot in lycra because I’m ripped.
  
  Like, comnpletely swole.
  
  But in a super hot way.
  1. dereviled July 10, 2015 at 8:01 pm
    
    *fistbump
    I even lift.
    1. Continuity Jay-Z July 10, 2015 at 8:42 pm
      
      I mean, who doesn’t??!! Hope you don’t skip leg day, bro.
    2. Continuity Jay-Z July 10, 2015 at 8:43 pm
      
      I suspect Julia doesn’t lift.
      1. dereviled July 10, 2015 at 9:09 pm
        
        Yeah nogirlsontheinternet
Joe the Lion July 10, 2015 at 6:57 pm

Has she a face that looks like Ireland?

As ding dong Denny O’reilly would say Waterford would be the arse
Dubloony July 10, 2015 at 7:01 pm

I read it. She doesn’t like us?
*snif *, I’ll… I’ll just going quietly sob in the corner. Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine…..
rotide July 10, 2015 at 7:09 pm

What’s funny about this is that not only is she generally pretty on the money about broadsheet, it’s obvious that she not only quite likes the website for all its faults but posts here too.

Of course the knee jerk reaction is one of attack, nerves hit etc

particularly liked this:
Even Village, doctrinaire as it is, deigns to allow dissenters: John Waters and Ruth Cullen. Constantin Gurdgiev with his Beckettian opaqueness. But Broadsheet only posts counter-liberal perspectives in a way that invites attack.
1. Mick Flavin July 10, 2015 at 8:18 pm
  
  I tend to agree with you, Rotide. She didn’t say anything harsh that didn’t have a ring of truth. The style is overblown and haughty, but I take it that’s on purpose…it reinforces the fact that she likes BS imo. It wasn’t a hatchet job, and would she have bothered putting in so much effort otherwise?
  
  People getting offended are feeding what is in essence a fairly harmless troll attempt writ large. Sure didn’t it give us all something to talk about anyway…
2. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 9:12 pm
  
  Havin’ read all the comments more than once… there be no attack, couple of.. two… snides maybe, but that’s it. Most of had a laugh… it was a fun piece :)
  1. Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 9:12 pm
    
    ^of the comments
3. Joe the Lion July 12, 2015 at 8:56 am
  
  Agree with this rotide
  
  However don’t misconstrue the fake ‘balance’ of rival media outlets as some form of nirvana
  
  Before the last election for example Dinnytalk was heavily staffed with Mortell, Gavin Duffy and other pro FG touts
Lush July 10, 2015 at 7:12 pm

Further to earlier posts, you never closed the brackets..most distressing.
1. dereviled July 10, 2015 at 7:51 pm
  
  )
Niall July 10, 2015 at 7:19 pm

Infantilism still better than clientelism! G’wan the Broadsheet — keep up the good work!
Parochial Central July 10, 2015 at 7:30 pm

The Village? Those environmental, @Labour, and TCDSU wanquers? Who cares? They carry around their resentments like a stink.
1. bisted July 10, 2015 at 7:37 pm
  
  …well done…you’ve just pushed this over 100 comments…
Parochial Central July 10, 2015 at 7:34 pm

Knowing John Ryan’s flair for business I’d say Julia Tuohy is, y’know like… actually him.
1. patricia July 11, 2015 at 7:15 pm
  
  This
follow me, silently July 10, 2015 at 7:48 pm

It’s an awful opinion piece in so many ways. The writing style is terrible and almost all of the descriptions and thinking is not great. It’s so pseudo-intellectual.
scottser July 10, 2015 at 7:48 pm

You win :)
1. Mick Flavin July 10, 2015 at 8:31 pm
  
  That’s some vivid imagery, Zara…
2. Fatman Scooperman July 11, 2015 at 9:01 am
  
  Best comment taken down. Booo
  1. scottser July 11, 2015 at 2:16 pm
    
    Ah seriously broadsheet, what the fupp? If there’s any criticism of this site its your tendency to delete comments for no good reason.
Annie July 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm

Love it!

Julia Tuohy, delightfully outdoing herself with her low-rent Ian O’Doherty look-at-them ever-so-studied contrarianism. It’s the sort of dross Niamh Horan would be embarrassed to submit.

And it is Julien who is the conspiracy theorist extraordinaire? Quite amusing. You make it too easy dear Julia.

Now, back to my Friday drinks with my advertising start-up hipster colleagues…
1. Annie July 10, 2015 at 7:54 pm
  
  Any chance you would consider giving Julia a chance to field some posts Broadsheet? PLEASE!
magazine village July 10, 2015 at 7:55 pm

Seemed like a pretty spot on article to me.

Poor clampers hahaha, will someone please give that poor sod a guest article or something.
Clampers Outside! July 10, 2015 at 9:00 pm

Brilliant :)
Iseult July 10, 2015 at 9:30 pm

Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose
Bad At Memes July 10, 2015 at 10:02 pm

….the narcissism….
…it’s too strong Captain….
-She cannae take it!
She’s gonna blow!

(I estimate about 300 comments before this post dies. That’s roughly 300 too many.)
KirkenBrenner July 10, 2015 at 10:09 pm

Ridiculous.. She didn’t even mention the censorship and constant Simpsons quotes.
1. Bad At Memes July 10, 2015 at 10:16 pm
  
  The censorship doesn’t exist, okay?
  -Don’t mention it again or you’ll be banned.
2. Fatman Scooperman July 11, 2015 at 9:03 am
  
  Simpsons quotes? Explains a lot..
3. jeremy kyle July 11, 2015 at 2:07 pm
  
  I was saying boo-urns.
Jared Katooie July 10, 2015 at 10:19 pm

Clearly Broadsheet needs to get John Waters on here ASAP just to prove Julia wrong.

Actually wait, never mind.
Janet, I ate my avatar July 11, 2015 at 11:05 am

I like the slutty bit, more of this please
dav July 11, 2015 at 11:13 am

Let’s make bambi eyed tuohy cry
Zarathustra July 11, 2015 at 11:38 am

Ah here, my comment’s gone! Was it for this? Infamy! Infamy! They all have it infamy!
Villan July 11, 2015 at 3:13 pm

Ceder Lounge Revolution FTW
1. fluffybiscuits July 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm
  
  Flaps
Laughter Tack. July 11, 2015 at 5:04 pm

What in-joke meta bs is this?!?

Some commenters on here need to relax and not treat commenting as a part time job, it’s embarrassing.

Mental.
1. Nice Anne (Dammit) July 13, 2015 at 12:41 pm
  
  Please give us the rest of the list of what we “have to do” cos you know EVERYONE loves being told what they have to do by randommers on the interwebs…
TheFerg July 11, 2015 at 5:09 pm

Thy is doth what thy cometh, thou most broadest of thine sheets……..(stares off into the distance and poses for existential London Irish photo-op)
Bonkers July 12, 2015 at 12:28 am

I would have thought it would be hard to write an article about BS without going into decent detail of the latest attempt by Redacted to bully the media he doesn’t own (this on top of his seventy legal letters to Irish journalists). BS was brave in the face of legal threat when the entire Irish media folded over but yet Julia only deems it worthy of a quick throw away remark? And to leave out Clampers altogether, the shame !
1. jeremy kyle July 12, 2015 at 3:44 am
  
  Clampers is an institution, though I have taken a drink.
  1. Spaghetti Hoop July 12, 2015 at 3:46 am
    
    +1
2. Clampers Outside! July 13, 2015 at 9:14 am
  
  I’m touched…. obviously, but I’m also touched by your sentiment :)
Spaghetti Hoop July 12, 2015 at 3:12 am

You’ve no idea what this has done to the Hoop family name.
P.S. Is Broadsheet hot?

Smokin’.
1. Joe the Lion July 12, 2015 at 8:50 am
  
  Your sex like complications are not my fascinations
  
  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16x1n_grace-jones-private-life_music
  
  PS if Mick Flavin was an Amazonian former model turned cabaret diva, he’d be Grace Jones
H July 13, 2015 at 8:19 am

I’m curious now, can all the John Ryan’s please stick your hands up so I can see just how many of the commentariat are sock puppets?

I’m sure no-one else on here has ever done such a thing….

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