Boards.ie’s Moderator, Faith, AKA Vicky the thieving Blogger.

“That’s a nice recipe on the BBC’s website … I’ll copy it and post it on my blog and they’ll all think it’s my own doing …”

Faith or Vicky claims to be from Vancouver

One of Boards.ie's Moderators, who uses the pseudonym Faith, is a perfect example of the stupid and idiotic person that’s ubiquitous in south-west Ireland. She’s a prime example of how atrocious moronism permeates the entire social spectrum in the Irish counties of Cork and Kerry.

Her profile on Boards.ie gives an instant glimpse of Faith’s abnormal mental facilities; it’s here that you get the first inkling that she’s cut from the same inbred cloth that produces the majority of south-west Ireland’s denizens.

What should remembered about Faith, and her peers on Boards.ie, is that they’re members of the professional class in provincial Ireland. These people will be nurses, engineers, surveyors, Garda; the type of people who will in other countries be assumed to have common sense and be of intelligent disposition.

Boards.ie users have the option of providing what’s termed as a signature, a short written piece on the user’s profile page that gives visitors an insight into the member’s personality and mentality. Faith didn’t go to much bother in giving visitors to her profile hints as to how she might think or what her personality might be like. Instead of writing a short witty or descriptive piece herself she simply copied a piece from the Whistler on the IMDb website and proffered it as her own – typically of a moron, she makes no effort whatsoever to credit the people she stole the verse from.

Faith is a Moderator, or upholder of the law, on Boards.ie

And in keeping with this act of stupidity she claims she’s from Vancouver (she probably wouldn’t even know where this city is if asked). If you go through the Cork section of Boards.ie you’ll find a lot of the users claiming to be from North America. Read the childish and inane bullshit they’re posting, though, and you’ll realise they’re most probably from south-west Ireland. It gives these idiots an ephemeral  sense of self-importance when they affect being American or Canadian but in reality it shows the deep-seated subconscious shame they feel about being thick-brogued and provincial Irish.   

What’s really nauseating about Faith’s plagiarism is the fact that she’s a “Moderator” on this backward Irish website. It’s her job to keep in check the many morons who use this site, to keep abusive people and trolls at bay and ban them when they break the rules – plagiarising and lying: what a fantastic example she sets for the many Irish imbeciles that can be found interacting in this site’s chat rooms.

Faith’s online presence and shameless plagiarism doesn’t end with Boards.ie. She also has a blog which is called “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” where she imparts other people’s gastronomic expertise. The pseudonym she uses on this blog is Vicky and the blatant way she copies and pastes from other people’s websites in absolutely amazing.

One of her posts has Vicky giving us her recipe for a fish pie and instruction on how best to cook it. A quick glance through this post, though, reveal amazing similarities with a fish pie recipe to be found on www.bbcgoodfood.com.

Vicky’s or Faith’s fish pie recipe

Above is an extract from Vicky’s instructions on how to cook fish pie. If it’s compared to the extract (below right) from the BBC Good Food’s website it’s clear that Vicky is far more competent in copying and pasting that she is in formulating recipes.

The BBC’s fish pie recipe

She gives herself away early in her post where she says: “I find it very hard to give quantities here. Usually I buy a bag from the supermarket.” She goes on to say: “If you want to buy it separately, I'd aim for about 500g total I guess.” (It’s the amount of fish to be used that Vicky is referring to here.)

She has left the quantity of fish to be used up to the reader but yet, when instructing how long it should be cooked, gives the BBC’s time of 8 minutes. If this was a recipe she had concocted herself she’d have bore in mind that while some readers might be cooking for two people others would be setting a meal for eight. A competent and genuine cook would have picked a specific weight of fish (bbcgoodfood.com’s recipe is for 800g of fish) and stuck with it – when you copy something and try make it look like your own you can slip up on the details.  

Pat O'Connell, a Cork fishmonger
who’d be open-mouthed at
the mention of weights

What’s also interesting is Vicky’s mentioning of “I buy a bag from the supermarket.” Most fishmongers in Cork very seldom sell fish by weight, they sell it by the bag. That’s because Cork people don’t do weights very well, it means nothing when you tell them that 1lb or ½ Kg of fish costs €7.00. You have to put the fish in a bag and hold it up for them to see; then you might hear: “oh god, that’ll be enough for our dinner,” or, “jayus, there’s not much there, put in another bit.” This extreme thickness not only results from the people being ill-bred but also due to the badly mismanaged educational system.

How stupid was Vicky to pick the BBC’s Good Food site to copy from? She couldn’t have picked a more popular site; enter ‘recipe’ in a search engine and www.bbcgoodfood.com comes top of the SERPs – might as well rob the Mona Lisa and claim to have painted it yourself.

This is a painting I done myself – honest. I call it the Lasi Moan

Considering Vicky’s position as Moderator on Boards.ie – her role in ensuring that threatening and abusive morons are kept at bay – how does she feel about having cast herself as the most moronic and biggest abuser of all; a thief who’ll rob in the most stupid way that’s possible?

Vicky, though, won’t be too worried about me highlighting her atrocious plagiarism, or her abuse of BBC Good Food’s website, because copying others in a monkey type manner is quite acceptable in Cork – it’s actually a tradition. And the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Enda Kenny, reset the precedent when the US president visited a few years ago: the Irish leader’s welcoming speech was almost a verbatim copy of Barack Obama’s inaugural speech – nothing like official endorsement from the very top of government, is there?

To copy another in Ireland, especially among the Picts in the west (Kenny’s home) or south-west, is looked upon with admiration; viewed as a sign that the plagiarist is showing initiative. Much the same as a mother chimpanzee would show pride when she’d see a son or daughter aping the way a peer poked insects from a dead tree trunk.