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IT WAS A week when the ECB threw its weight around, austerity was declared over (a year ago), and a Donegal theater came under scrutiny for not showing 50 Shades of Grey.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes:
Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained.
Christian campaigner Mary Doherty on her opposition to 50 Shades of Grey being shown in her local Donegal cinema.
If you are a criminal… heading out on a day’s robbery and thievery, that person has to get it into their head that maybe one day they’ll go home in a box. And if that happens, I wouldn’t be sorry.
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae said that a “soft approach” cannot be taken when dealing with thieves.
I had to bury my daughter, Ella, who was born with fatal foetal abnormalities.
Richard Boyd-Barrett shared a personal story with the Dáil.
“Austerity in Ireland ended more than 12 months ago.”
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan made a slightly delayed announcement.
Why did you do it, Myleene, why?
Some parents were a bit miffed that Myleene Klass shared their private emails online.
The most destructive own goal in history.
Professor William Black on the banking guarantee.
When you’ve got a dog on a leash you give them more slack, you don’t tighten the noose and suffocate them entirely but that seems to be news to the ECB.
Professor of Finance at TCD Brian Lucey on how the ECB is treating Greece.
I haven’t had this much fun pointlessly spinning around in twenty years.
TheJournal.ie’s Thomas Fanning on using Spinner.
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Re 50 Shades
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again If I wanted to watch a poorly written movie with a cast of unknowns and badly acted, unrealistic sex scenes I just watch actual porn.
Do girl.
Haha, hypothetically speaking that is.
Down to with this sort of thing!
There’s people coming from gdansk to see the film!
Ah in fairness the people from Gdansk are probably here to collect the social welfare and going to the cinema to kill time before the flight home.
Looking forward to film version of Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly’s ‘Fifty Greys in Shades’
“Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained”
In the olden days couples were known to ‘do it’ on the floor in the back row of the balcony seats in the Leinster Cinema in Dolphins Barn, giving much entertainment to us young lads.
I’m looking forward to it actually, hope its in 3 D too
The sequel is already in production – 50 Shaves a Day starring Susan Boyle!
In the words of Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire: “Giggidy gigidy al…rite…”
”Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained.”
Guess what Mary? A hell of a lot of people find sex entertaining. And (you may need to sit down for this one) a very large percentage of the 100 million copies of FSOG sold were to women, as is the target audience for the film. That’s a lot of lady perverts. But the good news for you is Shaun The Sheep is on. The clean version.
I’ve s feeling film is going to gratuitous just for the sake of it.
More ebbing away of Ireland’s mortality
Gary seriously get a hobby for yourself. Sick of your comments on nearly every article.
Ireland’s morality has been eroded by the very people who were preaching it. An organisation that was rife with child molesters, paedophiles, people who would abuse physically, mentally and sexually and then get up on an altar and tell people how they live their lives. Sorry now but a film/book about sex is not going to destroy this country.
I think Gary Gary is from one of them groups that dress women up from head to toe to cover them up for morality reasons. Yet when they get home they 50 shades the women where people can’t see them or judge them. It’s the 21st century Gary Gary come into the light my friend.
Mortality btw is about death. Morality is about morals fyi..
Gary
I’m surprised you’re posting comments here, I though you’d be at Mass!
Pat the only problem with what you said there is that people i.e the clergy did those things. It never said in the bible to abuse children and I do think there needs to be a separation there. But yes a lot of bad people preached one thing and did another and as a result hurt the church, country and people. Not all but some.
We’ll said Pat
Sex is not evil, immoral or a negative, we are the most sexualised and social beings on this earth. The head of the human penis is shaped like so to plunge other semen out of the vagina, we think about and have Sex More than any other animal, our biology shows that sex was used to strengthen bonds, people that love an old book have made us feel guilty of these natural “immoral” urges, wish they’d get a grip and stop trying to legislate nonsense on other people, feel free to flagellate yourselves though.
Save yourself a tenner: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
Would you watch your sister in a porn movie skippy?
“Austerity in Ireland ended more than 12 months ago.” Good one, isn’t not the whole of the eurozone in austerity because it was aimed at the currency rather than countries and this led to countries being in worst austerity than the Euro. How can the Eurozone have a currency that is in austerity and the countries using it are not, I find that confusing?
Time to do away with the whip system in government ,I say!
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