So the three people who read My Little Piebald (a weekly Popbitch-esque Irish gossip mailout) have noticed I was slagged in it this week. Matt from Dublin Streets who were also crapply slagged in it told me last night. What shit digs though. Everyone knows I'm a complete knob, so you think they (and by 'they', I mean that dude called John who is behind it) could have stuck the boot in proper.
My Little Piebald wasn't venomous enough. I'm so disappointed. Why can't haters up their game these days?
All they did was quoted something boring I wrote on my blog this week and called me a "Sunday Tribune nobody". Although, clearly I wasn't a 'Sunday Tribune nobody' in the past anytime John from My Little Piebald has called me to get gossip for his mailout. BURN!
Why didn't they talk about my endless self-promotion? The shameless bias and plugging of my club night on this blog (PS: thanks so much to everyone for coming down last night, such a great buzz! Details of the epic XXXmas party next week on the SoundCheck blog this afternoon.) My clear favoritism of certain Irish bands over others? Putting that fucking annoying 'sies' thing at the end of wordsies? Attesting that I'm a serious music critic while constantly exposing my taste for shit tunes? Occasionally linking my own articles on 'articles of the day' posts - WANKER! The shit blog design? Stealing mp3 links?
I mean, come on!
It's also stupid of MLP to slag what is essentially their target audience. MLP should come up with proper gossip instead of just throwing crap digs (so John, if you want that leaked George Hook email to Newstalk staff, the real story behind the East Wall murder, rumours about more venue closures, details on how much various bars are losing, or any other salacious gossip, just give me a buzz this afternoon.)
Of course, all that I'm doing by making this post is giving My Little Piebald publicity (fuck it: subscribe to it by emailing mylittlepiebald@gmail.com). Of course I know that, but I can never let people bitching at me go by because I'm an arrogant motherfucker with too much time on my hands. EVERYONE knows that.
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Hugh Ormond, the ex-editor of The Slate, is also behind this. His day-job is as producer of the Marian Finucane Radio Show on RTE Radio One - wonder why they never mention this in MLP? And surely a RTE producer should be the last one to throw shit like this around?
Don't get them get u down - this is a great blog
"Don't get them get u down" - there's no question of that! I always find people slagging my blog hilarious, because if someone thinks I'm a dickhead, then them simply wasting time reading the blog of a dickhead makes them a double dickhead.
His day-job is as producer of the Marian Finucane Radio Show on RTE Radio One
LOLOLOL. Radical.
Meh, its a poorly written mailout. All it is is basically them calling everything shit, and not in a particularly well written or funny way.
wipe the tears away
They're right though.
Liathróidi.
My little piebald? FUCK trendy Irish liberal satirical cunts who think its acceptable to make fun of travellers. Think about it you sad shits. My little piebald. No sut up, and fucking think about it. You sad, racist, yellow-bellied middle class morons. My little piebald. Why not go the whole hog and call it my little nigger. Oh wait. That would be racist. Shame.
I'm just after reading this mail out. It is about as funny as an episode of Gerry Ryan's Secrets from 1992. Una I would rather be slagged than admired by these sub pop-bitch humour vacuums.
Here, where did my last comment go?
Anyway, úns, lash it up there so I can see what they said.
LolZ!
I wants to know all about that gossip you mention though so I think you should also add some mailouts to your portfolio STATsies.
I have to say I do subscribe and they are occasionally funny but they also managed to annoy me by being mean to the Dandy Warhols who I am not ashamed to say are the rulers of the universe
But then MLP are quite obviously cooler than likkle me and have Serious Musical Taste.
On another note, the word I have been asked to type to post this message is "aircunds"...I like it.
It's a pretty a crap slagging of a pretty crap blog. I used to read this all the time but these days I think it's just drivel. My suggestion: if you don't like it don't read it. I'm sure Una will live.
hahaha....Double dickhead
You've done Cyrano proud..... ;-) x
Rawk! Una.
What does My Little Piebald mean? (seriously)
If they were liathroidy themselves they would blog instead of mailing out.
@ cw: what comment? It didn't come through
@ sarah: I don't understand why they don't have a blog instead, although I suppose it would be too Blogorrah, and there can never be another Blogorrah. I guess they choose to do a mailout ala Popbitch to get around libel, but because it's so tame, there's very little libel in it, but maybe they want to have the veneer of it being salacious without the actual risky content.
In fairness, they hit the nail on the head - and your response was typically undignified.
I never said I was dignified.
FUCK YOU!
*burp*
Piebald is pretty crap but so is this response. I mean if you're really not bothered, why bother writing about what 3 people think of you?
At least when I wrote about you in the spike it was pretty funny ;)
"I mean if you're really not bothered, why bother writing about what 3 people think of you?"
Because I have a huge fucking ego and can't take criticism. I think that's pretty obvious.
I'm bothered about what piebald think of una. And also, I'm interested to see what they think of the Irish travelling community. Go on PIEBALD tell me???? PIEBALD nice word. I would like an in depth justification of why you called your blog my little piebald? Tell the readers of Una's blog what a piebald is, and why you decided to call your own smart and funny blog my little piebald and how it fits into your satirical view of life. Hahahahaaaaaaah PIEBALD HA! HA!
If properly handled and with a little noise from the balder of the two, this could be just in time for internet spat of the year.
FIRE:STOKE
what's a piebald??
Not that a couple of their criticism weren't on the money or anything. And not that I didn't like the Slate (although it remains massively overrated) in its day.
It's just that those guys are in their thirties now, which is a little bit old not to have cottoned onto the fact that it's pretty hard to go out and put your own balls on the line. And it's pretty easy to sitting around anonymously like some teenage YouTube commenter and call everything crap.
These guys' contempt for working class people and working class culture is transparently obvious. Although this kind of prejudice is widely tolerated in polite society, it's just as wrong as racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
Also, interesting to hear they slagged off Una after having asked for her help in the past. FYI Una, next time you bump into John Byrne (researcher on the Newstalk breakfast show incidentally), he'll expect a free pass for this because... hey, they're the guys who did the Slate like fucking ten year ago.
Normally I wouldn’t pick on someone just for being bad at their job. But these guys have made a career out of it so, fuck it, here goes. What does My Little Piebald do?
- Call everything crap: A ten year old could do this.
- Print vindictive gossip: Easy to do when you’re anonymous Gmail address. Incidentally, about the most salacious piece of gossip they ever printed was about who Grainne Seoige wanted to replace Joe O’Shea. Grainne fucking Seoige! And they weren’t even right...
- Satire: Which in the MLP universe means equals a sort of sub-Bull Island level of discourse where humour equals nothing more than perpetuating whatever the laziest stereotypes is to hand (rich people are snobs, poor people are stupid etc. etc.)
This might have been considered the apogee of wit when they were snot-nosed Trinity undergraduates. But who applies the same philosophy and technique to something when they’re grown adults that they did when they were teenagers? Well, apart from AC/DC.
The only thing that's really unforgiveable about MLP is that it's just not funny.
"And also, I'm interested to see what they think of the Irish travelling community. Go on PIEBALD tell me???? PIEBALD nice word. I would like an in depth justification of why you called your blog my little piebald?"
Jesus, get a grip. It's a pun, not a fucking race war.
A pun? I know another pun, nigger. People who think they can bandy around racially sensitive insults like that are ripe for a fucking slagging. The fact that you said it was a pun and belittled it shows you up as the sort of reprehensible confused dickhead that our country is full of. None of us are racists, BUT (my favourite word, but) when it comes to the travelling community we show our colours. Why? It's acceptable. And I guess if it was so acceptable to make fun of other ethnic minorities we'd do that too. You are a fucking sadcase. No it's not a race war, but think about it, it just might be wrong to name your mediocre mailout after a racist slur. IMHO My little piebald is a fucking lazy, smug, middle class, racist slur.
I'm anonymous, look how I can talk shite!
@gardenhead: I read your comments on this post and I have to break the news to you. You're clinically retarded. First, a 'piebald' is a type of horse that is colored back and white. Secondly, My Little Piebald is not a 'blog', it's a fucking mailing list. I'm really not surprised you're reading the tripe that UnaRocks writes as I just read through a few of her posts here (a friend linked to me this post) and I must say I've never before seen such idiotic self-ego inflating ramblings in my life. With the celebrity name dropping left right & centre, I can only imagine Una to be the next Barry Egan. Please excuse me whilst I go vomit *ugggh!*.
If you feel so strongly about why im a dick, then why be anonymous?! For all i know, youre probably John or Hugh from MLP. Your opinion will always be worth nothing if you are too much of a pussy to put your name to it.
Ok I'm stepping in here. How dare you call someone clinically retarded. We all know what Piebald means, its the context its used in. For some strange reason, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think that MLP out has anything to do with black and white patches of colour on horse. Considering the subject matter of the mailout is to gossip and slag off Irish people, I think it's right in believing that the word Piebald is meant to be derogatory.
So let me get this straight.
Two thirtysomething media professionals - Hugh Ormond from RTE and John Byrne from Newstalk - use an anonymous email to slag off peope who they often use (and use is the word) to get dirt from their weekly sub-Popbitch thing.
Two old fellas sneering at everyone they don't like and especially everyone younger than them who work in the media and have more ideas than they will ever have,
Two past-it lads without the balls to use their real names and who then try to deflect comments here by using Anonymous.
Two old bald fucks still trying to live off the "glories" of the hugely over-rated Slate. Wonder has Hugh told Pat Kenny that he voted him Cnut of the Year in that mag?
What a pathetic pair of plonkers
Keep on rocking Una
Oh for Fuck's sake.
Calm down the lot of you.
You're both a bunch of ignorant internet feckwits.
RE: the comment beginning "@gardenhead - i hate to break it to you but you're retarded etc. etc."
That was almost certainly written by John Byrne. (A) Because tripe is the kind of word he often uses to dismiss something out of hand without actually making any case against it. (B) Because he says someone mailed the link of this thread to him. Why would they do that? Because it's about him.
I think the fact that comment approval is enabled on this blog is interesting in this case... Una could have chosen not to approve any of the negative comments left here and didn't. Something tells me Hugh and John would not be so gracious under attack.
I only really moderate/delete sexist, homophobic or racist comments and that kind of thing. Oh, and L Word spoilers. People are entitled to have and express their opinions on whatever is being discussed, even if cheap shots are being thrown.
Una’s blog is not to my taste personally. But she’s exactly right. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. If you don’t read it, you have nothing to complain about.
MLP a mailout, not a blog? That’s like the most insignificant detail you could possibly take issue with, John. All the substantive criticisms are valid. For example, the reason the mailout is called My Little Piebald is obviously because it juxtaposes My Little Pony (representing an idealised vision of world you’d have as a kid) with piebald ponies commonly owned by travellers and working class people in Dublin (representing what John and Hugh regard as the distasteful reality).
You just know they wish anybody who didn’t go to Trinity could be castrated and sent to an island. This, of course, coming from two guys who’ve enjoyed every privilege and are old enough to take a more balanced view.
Una is young and successful. By the sounds of it, she can be a bit of a tool. But to her credit, she’s willing to acknowledge as much. John and Hugh should look in the mirror and ask themselves where all this bile is really coming from. I think most of us could take an educated guess.
I cant take an educated guess, because i went to DCU. Darn.
If one of them worked at Newstalk why would you need to leak them the leaked George Hook email? Did you make a mistake?
I didn't know John worked at Newstalk. I thought he worked in RTE.
So tell us what was in the George Hook email anyway. All this talk of it has me wondering!
What I love about this is that Hugh Ormond and John Byrne slagged you off and then your readers - not you, I hasten to add - wrecked their "anonymous" facade by letting everyone know we're dealing with 2 so-called media professionals. This is why I love blogs.
Go Una!
Una, you are an idiot , make no mistake! There are at least 1000 better qualified people around Dublin to review music and culture, they just haven't rubbed themselves up against the knobs you have to get your shitty gig.
I wish you all the best with your future endeavours and your californicated posse too!
Mike Lynch
P.S.MLP are so much cooler than you, NME is where you should go girl! Bysies!
xoxoxo
Una I don't read your blog but judging by what you write in the Tribune magazine every Sunday I can only assume that it's not good. You can soon take over Roisin Ingle's innane magazine natterings.
Also it's hilarious to see precisely the same people the slate liked to rile rising to the bait in this case.
Such venomous posts.. seems to me your the only one who can take a little criticism mullally. I'm amazed that there are posts from people calling you shit. Double dickheads ay?
In my experience jealousy breeds contempt but at the end of the day isn't all just a little fun to distract us from work??
Confused E17 fan, Dublin.
Marry me Una
So if you were wrong about where one of them worked - bragging that you had gossip they didn't have which clearly they would have had, how do we trust you when you claim they phoned you looking for gossip for the mailout? What gossip are you claiming you gave them?
Personally i dont care what people think! Whether they trust me or not! And if youre being so pedantic about a small point while remaining anonymous, then i would question your motive, and who you are. I would be totally supportive about MLP or about anyone who was trying to do something different online if it was funny, smart or clever, but they frequently miss the mark. And they slagged me, so i hit back. The End.
Good god. Listen to the lot of you.
The My Little Piebald mailouts are absolutely hilarious. No one writes like them and thats the real reason the slate is still talked about. It was hilarious.
I'm just grateful that they go to the bother of doing it as its one of the few guarantees for big laughs in the week. You know those ones where you stop afterwards and think...jeez, its been a while since I laughed like that.
Lighten up people.
So will you be cancelling your subscription to MLP now Una? Honestly... ;-)
didn't think so.
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Una after all she has been through.!
All you people care about is….. readers and making money off of her.
SHE’S A HUMMMAN!!! ...ahhhh!...What you don’t realize is that Una is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her because all you people want is MORE! MORE, MORE, MORE, MORRRRE!!!!.
LEAVE HER ALONE! You are lucky she even writes her TV column for you BASTARDS!!!
LEAVE UNA ALONE!…..Please.
Perez Hilton talked about professionalism and said if UNA was a professional she would’ve pulled it off , no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional for My Little Piebald to bash someone who is going through a hard time.
Leave Una Alone Please…. !
Leave Una Mulally alone!…right now!….I mean it.!
Anyone that has a problem with her you deal with me, because she is not well right now.
LEAVE HER ALONNNNE!!!!!!!
thats hilarious
Oh, I want to be slagged on My Little Piebald, whatever a piebald is.
"A pun? I know another pun, nigger."
That's not a pun.
I've resisted commenting further but... sure fuck it :-)
I only have a couple of thoughts. I subscribed to MLP in the hopes it would be an Irish Popbitch, it turned out not to be. I was too lazy to unsubscribe as happens with many of my subscriptions.
I have very strong feelings about anonymous comments. If you have something to say about someone else, say it with your face on it and because you're willing to stand by it. Using anonymity automatically negates anything you have to say on any discussion in my book.
Either say what you have to say publicly or keep it for the bar on Saturday night.
When it comes to slagging things in mailouts, boards and the like, why do it? If I don't like something in life I just avoid it, I find my blood pressure does much better this way. Maybe this is because I've gotten old.
As for Una, I wish I had her duck's back...
Scared of anonymity Rick? There's something Freudian there buddy.
This is very amusing, some great comments on both sides of the argument. I'm glad I subscribed to MLP as it brought me here, yet another tangent on the glorious journey of life. Gardenhead, for what its worth, I think you should relax a little bit.
if someone thinks I'm a dickhead, then them simply wasting time reading the blog of a dickhead makes them a double dickhead.
Best response to a comment, evah! Well done Una, cool way of responding. Keep on rocking - there are those of us who like what you do and the crazy way you do it.
@C "A pun? I know another pun, nigger."
That's not a pun."
Well if we are getting pedantic, neither is piebald. Unless little girls played with my little ribald toys in the 80s.
I hear I'm slagged in this weeks mail out and called a self-important half-wit. Self important? I'm freaking anonymous on my blog because self-important is exactly what I am not. Pah, if these guys are satrical they shouldn't be so bothered with corners of the blogosphere. If anyone has the mailout please send it on to me. asleepontheheap@gmail.com
Good craic.
Some classic 'anti-bullying' behaviour.
Show the bully that they're not affecting you
Have a laugh at your own expense.
This can be used as an excuse to continue said behaviour.
Textbook.
Have to say I find mylittlepiebald pretty good. A nice refreshing change. Of course it's cynical about everything, that's its raison d'être.
I was having a laugh at all of Gardenhead's musings. (Reminded me of Samantha Mumba coming out after the Slate "Blacks in the Jacks" issue to deny she had made the comments attributed to her (thanks for clearing that up Sam).Reached the end of the comments and then saw Gardenhead's email..... Now why does that sound familiar..... Ah yes, this is the guy I heard pitching his blog to some girl for about 2 hours outside my tent at Oxegen this year. The rubbish talked in that 2 hours was as bad as I've heard.
Also, when did racist/sexist/classist jokes become unfunny? Must have missed that class.
Well said, George. My Little Piebald is hilarious. Gardenhead - I think for your sake you should probably shut up now. It's getting embarrasing.
I just read the mail-out now and am going to say a thing or two then bail out of this argument. First, I was a bit freaked out that there was so much made out of my couple of comments in this blog in a weekly mail-out. Why would a comments section on a blog merit such attention? It felt a bit petty TBH.
Okay I was a bit OTT in what I said but that's the nature of comments sections, generally, rash points made with little regard for syntax.
I don't want attention drawn to my blog for any reason other than that its a music blog. And if I was talking shite at Oxegen, call the cops. Sometimes people do that at music festivals.
If MLP people would kindly oblige, I'd rather not be part of their mail-out again. I don't think that I or my blog are of any interest to their readers.
textbook george? dunno this gardenhead dunno you, but sexist/racist/classist jokes stopped being funny when bernard manning manning died.
Deadly stuff. Una Rocks.
I have no idea what's going on, but I'm excited!
While I don't rate Una highly interms of her blogging, I do think she succeeds in the Róisín Ingle type vibe in the Tribune.It's something she'll grow into.
I think the MLP mailout was spot on and I respect Una's right to reply.
I dislike the really nasty personal comments though.
I found the reply from Una very funny..I was particularly amused by the notion that Ms mulally has the inside scoop...
Una Stuff. Deadly Rocks. Twenty lives.
Wow.
I've read most of these comments and i'm pretty pissed off.
It's 10 minutes of my life that i will never get back.
Una you boring bitch.
Double dickhead? Still hanging aroung schoolyards looking for fresh insults?
Gardenhead you useless muppet.>>
''Okay I was a bit OTT in what I said but that's the nature of comments sections, generally, rash points made with little regard for syntax.''
10 marks for back pedalling.
As for rickoshea, you said >>
''When it comes to slagging things in mailouts, boards and the like, why do it? If I don't like something in life I just avoid it, I find my blood pressure does much better this way. Maybe this is because I've gotten old.''
right after you spurted>>
''I have very strong feelings about anonymous comments''
so if you dont like anonymous,
Shut up.
I'm so glad there's a recession. You'll all have to do some real work now leaving you less time to 'write' your useless shite on the web.
I'm so glad there's a recession. You'll all have to do some real work now leaving you less time to 'write' your useless shite on the web.
If they get the sack they'll have no end of free time to write online.
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