Friday, November 18, 2011

THE STUPID LIES

I know their cesspit sites (rateyoursolictor and crookedlawyers/vlps) are packed with lies but some of them are more stupid than others.  Take the following examples:
"Breaking the law seems to run in the McGynn family. I watched the officer of the Court and his accomplice wife down a bottle of alcoholic wine and jump behind the steering wheel of their car and drive into the sunset narrowly escaping the Polestar Roundabout in Letterkenny, Ireland. Clearly they think they are above the drink driving laws of Ireland too."
This post is wrong on so many levels, most importantly the idea that the poster, supposedly a waiter in a local restaurant, would watch customers "down a bottle of alcoholic wine and jump behind the steering wheel of their car" and instead of suggesting a taxi before they did so, or had they failed to, called the gardai to report it, thought: "first thing tomorrow I must post this on a cesspit website?"  It doesn't say much about the morals of this poster (were he genuine). 
Incidentally, at the date of that post and with a meal over the course of 2 hours such a driver would not have been over the legal limit.But the truth of the matter is that we NEVER take the car if we are having drinks with a meal.  A taxi in Letterkenny is only €5 to the restaurant and €5 home.  Would anyone really risk an accident or losing their licence for the sake of TEN EURO?  Hardly! 
And further, at the date of that post we had been out in Letterkenny restaurants on only three occasions in the previous year so I know which restaurants they were and I know the owners and staff who would not have posted such a thing as they ALL know we ALWAYS take taxis.
But ALL that apart, the one thing that shows that this poster is not genuine and has absolutely NO idea of the layout of Letterkenny let alone work here is this:

"and drive into the sunset narrowly escaping the Polestar Roundabout in Letterkenny, Ireland."

Letterkenny town, where the restaurants are located is the the EAST of the Polestar Roundabout.

As everyone (except this poster) knows, the sun sets in the west.

It would therefore be IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to drive into the sunset driving from Letterkenny town to the Polestar Roundabout.

And another ridiculous poster:

"cathrine Mcglynn yet again reversed onto the public road this morning almost killing me and my children! This is a contravention of the Highway code and in breech of the law! Once again she disregards the laws of Ireland. Al other UK drivers adhere to the laws of this country why shouldn't she."

Leaving aside the lack of punctuation and misspellings, clearly this poster is lying.  And how do I (and every single person who knows me) know this for a 100% fact?

I DO NOT DRIVE.  I can drive but haven't driven in many, many years and I have never driven the car we have now (and have had for a number of years) EVER.  And I never drove any of at least the last three cars we have owned.

These people who own and write posts on the sites really need to get at least simple facts right.  I know they know nothing about the law but simple things like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west is surely something very basic and not above even their, albeit limited, intelligence

Their limited intelligence is a problem for those people they are advising (payment in cash, tax free don't forget) would be unfortunate enough (especially for those who took their advice and landed in  jail) but it also allows the readers of their cesspit sites who know they are lying a laugh at the irony of their (stolen from the Joe Duffy show according to their site) "You Can Never Improve On The Truth". 

The quote by Noam Chomsky explains why they lie: "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the Truth and expose lies." 

Using lack of intelligence as a mitigating factor, perhaps they are excused their lies, because, let's face it, between them they scarcely have enough brain power to power a small torch.