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Monday 7 April 2008, 11:01 am

Bridgit Gread

Categories: Bogans, Media, Society

Tags: comments, HeraldSun, incest

The subjects of a Hun story… not Hun commenters

You can tell as much as you need to know about the Herald Sun from the online commenting habits of its readers. One day someone will write a thesis or commission a study on it but from general observation, any story involving politics, international issues, poverty, global warming, etc. struggles to reach double figures in comments … but mention Wayne Carey, Shane Warne, any other current or ex-sportsperson, sex, death, sharks, stingrays, mortgages, petrol prices… and whooooosh! the posts they come like a stream-of-consciousness torrent. And something like an unholy incest yarn - weird sex and all that - attracts 42 boganisms and rising in about three hours, ranging from ‘SICK! DISGUSTING!’ tub-thumping to the thinly veiled gags:

All this story needs is Banjo music in the background!!
Posted by: A. Thompson of Melbourne

it was chad morgan who pend and sung the song “im my own grandpa” talk about life imitating art!
Posted by: dimitri of mildura

First a pregnant man now this?! Celeste ay? She will probably be called Cest for short.
Posted by: Steve of Wagga NSW

further evidence that south australia truly are better off for not having any convict settlement…
Posted by: John of Ball

I think it’s fantastic. People should leave them alone - they obviously found true happiness despite the obstacles. Alana - how can you talk? You’re from Narre Warren of all places - you must see this kind of thing everywhere.
Posted by: johnny of Melbourne

All the Hun needs now is for Wayne Carey to commit incest with a stingray while urinating on the windows of Crown Casino and their commenting system may implode.

37 Comments

steve (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:15 am) #

That’s the hun commenters for you, always get off on rubbish that other people would see as irrelevant to their busy lives.
Bron (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:23 am) #

You think the comments on the Hun are bad? I’ve just been reading some comments on The Daily Telegraph. Just as bad, if not worse - about anything and everything… and it’s all Kevin Rudd’s fault.

Seems like a familiar refrain, actually.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:25 am) #

At least the Herald Sun comments are moderated to a greater extent than the Tele’s. But I dread to think of what has been posted that hasn’t made the cut.
Bron (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:34 am) #

I’m sure there are bunch of ding-dongs who trawl all the News Ltd websites and leave their angst-ridden, holier-than-thou, right-wing drivel all over the place.

Sounds like the Blairites, actually.
Bron (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:35 am) #

And yes, me too, I dread to imagine what didn’t make the cut.
Almost Always Wrong (Monday 7 April 2008, 11:54 am) #

If it wasn’t about incest it would probably be a good point you’re making.
steve (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:02 pm) #

AAW unfortunately they have a predictable reaction to any subject or non subject really. They are just naturally sour people who could have spent their life practicing by eating lemons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbo2xP_jx8g
Wah (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:08 pm) #

I added a couple of hot issues to send the Hun’s commenting system into meltodown.

“All the Hun needs now is for Wayne Carey to commit incest with a MUSLIM stingray while urinating on the windows of Crown Casino WHILE SAYING SORRY TO ABORIGINES and their commenting system may implode.”
Wah (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:09 pm) #

At least when that guy said “who’s your daddy?” during sex he meant it.
Bron (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:11 pm) #

LOL!! Wah, that was funny. I have to stop reading Grods at work.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:29 pm) #

LOL x3, Wah.
Austin (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:40 pm) #

I think you mean “explode”.
Bron (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:41 pm) #

Most read story on The Age website today?

Dad and daughter gettin’ it orf.

Most read story on the SMH website today?

Dad’s incredible rootin’ ‘n’ tootin’ with daughter.

Most read story on the Brisbane Times website today?

“Google ’street’ pictures upset couple”.

Dad and daughter story number four on list of most read stories as at 12.45pm.

What’s happening up there? Everything OK?
Suburban Marxist (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:44 pm) #

Okay, i may be missing the point here, and being a reverse-elitist into the bargain,…but issues like sport, petrol prices and mortgages are important to most working people. I mean, petrol prices are important to me as well, as in, they are too high and I like to complain about them.

Also, surely there is a lot of politics in sport…and the commentary and discussion from both officials and fans reflects, in some distorted way, issues of class, race, gender and power?

So, I don’t think it’s a ‘boganism’ that people bring up the issues that affect them most immediately and that the Hun knows what its audience is interested in.

Or am I being a snob and assuming that most working people aren’t that interested in the big ‘P’ political questions of the day…like the war in Iraq and Global Warming…
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:47 pm) #

The great majority are only interested in issues that directly affect them, SM, that’s a given. It’s the reason why global issues are really ever solved.
Jeremy (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:54 pm) #

I didn’t realise we lefties were to blame. According to ;;;;, it’s part of our cunning “eugenics” program. DAMN OUR UNHOLY VILLAINY!
Ant Rogenous (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:55 pm) #

You know, I’m willing to bet the father is a wingnut. He certainly put his family first.
steve (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:56 pm) #

Bron, the anti google story in the Brisbane Times is actually from the Good Old USofA. I personally detest Google more than any story the Hun has dug up, so it is good to see. However I gave up using any Google product I could avoid about ten years ago so it is only of passing interest to me personally.
Suburban Marxist (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:57 pm) #

Actually Bridgit I was just thinking about that…surely one of the reasons Howard was kicked out was that he was seen as out of touch on the issue of Climate Change…which means a lot of people were concerned about it as an issue..?
steve (Monday 7 April 2008, 12:58 pm) #

“out of touch on the issue of Climate Change…”

And any other issue that he mentioned.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 1:09 pm) #

I don’t think so, SM. People were more concerned about interest rates rising and being screwed over by Workchoices, probably in that order.
Magic Bellybutton (Monday 7 April 2008, 1:47 pm) #

What’s happening up there? Everything OK?

Oh yeah. This is just a bit of the same old same old for QLDers. Remember that Brisbane is near Ipswich - where that that fish and chip shop was located.
Chuck A. Spear (Monday 7 April 2008, 1:51 pm) #

At last a sensible voice. WTF?:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=81nU53WTbYU
steve (Monday 7 April 2008, 2:27 pm) #

What’s happening up there? Everything OK?

We have a new Pineapple party being formed by the Nats to lassoo the Liberal partners into a shotgun wedding and the Libs have bolted. Not a word for days from the Libs. Vow of silence territory. Sheer bliss.
Wah (Monday 7 April 2008, 2:45 pm) #

The child looks remarkably normal.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 3:03 pm) #

She’s got four legs, Wah.
Ant Rogenous (Monday 7 April 2008, 3:20 pm) #

And she can already play the fuck out of a banjo.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 3:24 pm) #

I wonder if Chuck A. Spear could use her talents? He seems to be into the bluegrass stuff.
Terry Wright (Monday 7 April 2008, 6:56 pm) #

Wah: At least when that guy said “who’s your daddy?” during sex he meant it.
Ant: I’m willing to bet the father is a wingnut. He certainly put his family first.

Too funny.

I wonder if MK is Blair & Bolt’s lovechild?
…and if so, who was the receiver?
Anthony_ (Monday 7 April 2008, 7:14 pm) #

Meh South Australians.
Mikey (Monday 7 April 2008, 10:07 pm) #

Poor kid if/when she finds out.

Still it took the Egyptians a few generations of sister-brother combos until they worked out that higher functioning animals couldn’t breed.
Bridgit Gread (Monday 7 April 2008, 10:10 pm) #

‘Grandparents’ Day’ at school will be a hoot too.
Dave from Albury (Monday 7 April 2008, 10:17 pm) #

Where did 60 minutes find these freaks? Have they decided that the New Idea reader is the future of television?

The lass is no oil painting, but seriously, the old man’s looks like a very well fed version of gollum. WTF is going on there?

Perhaps if this is what’s happening in South Australia we need to stop pumping our sewerage into the Murray?
Bron (Tuesday 8 April 2008, 10:27 am) #

More outrage from the Hun’s readers:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/comments/0,22023,23503421-662,00.html

This one is not going to die any day soon.
Bron (Tuesday 8 April 2008, 1:23 pm) #

Yes, thought so: groupthinking on The Daily Telegraph too.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/comments/0,22058,23504716-5001021,00.html
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 8 April 2008, 2:13 pm) #

Never fear - there’s been a shark attack, that’ll knock it off the front page.
Bron (Tuesday 8 April 2008, 2:39 pm) #

The teenage gang attack (complete with machetes) on a western Sydney high school yesterday has drawn a fair few outraged comments, such “LOCK THEM UP AND THROW OUT THE KEY” or “TRY THEM AS ADULTS, AND NEVER RELEASE THEM”.

Understandable, in a way, since it was a terrible thing that happened, but these people clearly don’t believe in, or - more likely - understand or heard of rehabilitation and prevention - just “LOCK ‘EM UP” or “CASTRATE THEM ALL”. All kinds of severe punishments they can think of. No sense of justice or mercy or reasonableness or a balanced approach.

Sad, really. And would half these goons scream the same old shit if it was one of their kids in the wrong? Doubt it.