The Week on Twitter | Healy-Rae, Chambers, & Berry
This week, we all watched the Olympics, we watched Jack Chambers say some stuff, we watched Danny Healy-Rae say some more stuff, and we didn’t watch the Great British Bake Off, because it’s not back on telly yet, but it will be, soon.
Twitter watches the #Olympics2016
The Olympics has been going on for a few weeks now. It’s been pretty good, or so I’ve heard from all those tweets everybody’s been tweeting about it.
Since the Olympics began, many sport related things have happened. Some of those things included Usain Bolt being amazing, a proposal that annoyed everybody, a man breaking his leg very badly, gymnasts being superhuman, Katie Taylor not winning, Alan Maguire setting up camp atop the high dive, Usain Bolt being very fast indeed, people swimming, lots of think-pieces concerning the sexist reporting of female athletes, Usain Bolt being deadly, and lots and lots of doping.
Some other things happened too, like Paul and Gary O’Donovan winning medals for Ireland in the rowing (hooray!), but those things were not tweeted about in abundance so they do not feature here.
Homie is fighting for his life and Bolt is posing for photos mid-race pic.twitter.com/69f6Hk3rTR
— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) August 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/SocialElitesTX/status/763053212677115904
Phelps is fast,
Bolt is quick, pic.twitter.com/8TMO2q4ape— Stacky™ (@JordanStack7) August 13, 2016
I'm taking up tanning as an Olympic sport.
I'm going for bronze.— Robbie (@thefortuneblack) August 9, 2016
do they just make phelps race until he dies
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 12, 2016
Little Mo Farah pic.twitter.com/eNnJg6bibJ
— Ciara (@Ciara_Knight) August 14, 2016
Finally, an answer to the question “Who can afford to get into equestrian sports?”#EquestrianEventing pic.twitter.com/RtpUEmm7Gr
— Andrew Bloch (@AndrewBloch) August 8, 2016
#DannyHealyRae spouts complete nonsense… Again
Since being voted into the 32nd Dáil alongside his brother Michael, Danny Healy-Rae has done lots of things. He had a bit of a sing along in the street and held up traffic for ages. He said that climate change didn’t exist and that God controlled the weather. He has consistently affiliated himself with anti-choice and homophobic agendas much to the dismay and disgust of many people from Kerry, and those of us who have to listen to him spout such nonsense every couple of months.
This week, Danny continued to be offensive, ill-informed, and just downright wrong. In an interview with Hot Press due to be published some time this week, Healy-Rae stated that the Bible story of Noah and the ark proved his ‘theories’ about climate change. “I’m basing my views on facts,” he says knowingly, rambling on about the Ice Age and the Famine, and all those cold, hard, peer reviewed facts published in the Bible way back when.
According to the Irish Examiner, Healy-Rae then went on to talk about his No vote in the marriage referendum, again claiming that one man and one woman were the only possible parents for a baby and the only way a child could ever grow up successfully, irrespective of all of the living, breathing, loved kids existing in the world today that have two mammies, two daddies, or even one of each.
Healy-Rae’s comments angered a lot of people, and for good reason. Here are their tweets.
Danny Healy-Rae says Noah's Ark is "a fact".
See! If you shat the bed on your #LeavingCert there's always a place in government for you.
— Baz (@bazlyons) August 18, 2016
Danny Healy-Rae looks like he slept on the floor of a house party and went straight to work the next morning.
— Gareth Stenson (@gstenson) August 18, 2016
Fun fact . Danny Healy-Rae never goes out to sea because he's worried he might fall off
— Annie West (@anniewestdotcom) August 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/Daracho/status/766247756683964416
For a man who loudly-proudly claims to represent people, Danny Healy-Rae's personal opinions seem to guide him on an awful lot of issues…
— Jack Leahy (@Jack_Leahy) August 18, 2016
the healy-rae family was initially a joke that got out of hand after a few pints
— stephen (@Shuggana) August 18, 2016
The Great British Bake Off is back and no one can wait #GBBO
This week, the contestants of the latest series of the Great British Bake Off were revealed, and everybody got very excited because the Great British Bake Off is fantastic television, and should by watched by all who enjoy cakes, bread, pastries, and watching human beings crumble mentally and physically when their baked Alaska collapses in the freezer.
This year’s batch of contestants includes an engineer, a pastor, and a PE teacher – all of whom will be baking lots of really nice and impressive things that none of us could ever make at home because we are simply not as strong and as worthy as GBBO contestants.
The Great British Bake Off will begin its 7th series on BBC One on August 24th, and lots of people on Twitter are looking forward to this day very much.
I am outrageously excited for the return of #GBBO. It brings so much joy to my life.
— Patrick Kelleher (@paddykell) August 16, 2016
The #GBBO is nearly back on our screens… and we are busy preparing for our own #GlossyBakeOff in the office 🍰 🍩 🍪 pic.twitter.com/Bukg7fHypt
— Glossybox UK (@GlossyboxUK) August 16, 2016
LOVE BAKE OFF ANDREW
PROTECT BAKE OFF ANDREW
TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ABOUT BAKE OFF ANDREW #GBBO pic.twitter.com/4wRKVzvsUO— joe (@gnarlydweeb) August 16, 2016
https://twitter.com/MissLuxLife/status/765511577659400193
Gendered icing for the new bakers @BBC, really??? #GBBO pic.twitter.com/gUOZZNhixw
— Rowan Ellis at #RuckusRetreat (@HeyRowanEllis) August 16, 2016
#JackChambers actually makes a lot of sense for once, to the surprise of most
Remember Jack Chambers? Of course you do! He’s your local pro-life TD who is vehemently against the idea of the people of Ireland having a referendum of the 8th amendment. He is also very young and lives at home and people made fun of this for a bit a while ago.
However, this week, in a shocking turn of events, Jack Chambers actually said something that a lot of people agreed with. Following RTÉ’s recent broadcasting of the beloved Big Big Movie featuring a sponsor from McDonald’s, the Fianna Fáil TD issued a statement claiming that it was “remarkable” that RTÉ had chosen to give a fastfood chain the prime time slot.
According to Chambers, the broadcaster “are potentially infringing the Codes of Standards for Advertising, Promotional and Direct Marketing in Ireland, by allowing the advertising of junk food during the Big Big Movie.”
Unlike when his questionable comments regarding Ireland’s lack of abortion rights were broadcast to the nation a few months ago, a lot of people were quick to support Chamber’s opinions this time around… (Most of them just wished it hadn’t been him that had said it.) Others simply used his views as an opportunity to slag him about McDonald’s, which is fine too, I guess.
Jack Chambers will go to McDonald's with his mates, but he doesn't get anything and keeps telling them "it's just empty calories, guys."
— Conor Smith (@conorsmith) August 16, 2016
Jack Chambers's parents wouldn't get him a Happy Meal last week and now we all have to suffer https://t.co/UXxfMm6l0g
— Alan (@alan_maguire) August 16, 2016
Jack Chambers is so bland that Google's best guess is "person". pic.twitter.com/QKhoeKbGbV
— Semi-D (@mrfrankiegrimes) August 16, 2016
Oops! Populist Fianna Fail poll backfire
Doh! Jack Chambers, stick to overseeing women's bodies#repealthe8th #Vinb https://t.co/ul6EUBogNS— Eire Nua (@IrelandNua32) August 18, 2016