# Sinead O'Connor Wants to Crush Your Children's Heads!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923 "2004-09-24T18:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/1 "2004-09-24T18:46:49Z")
An example of exquisitely unfortunate wording: DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) – One-time pop sensation Sinead O’Connor was back in the news Friday - by taking out a full-page ad pleading for people to stop making fun of her. “I don’t think there can be any person male or female from this country who has been as consistently lashed as I have been and always am no matter what I set out to do,” she complained during her 2,000-word essay published in the Irish Examiner newspaper . . . She resurfaced on Ireland’s airwaves Wednesday, when she told the national RTE radio network about **her campaign to stamp out head lice in children**. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/2 "2004-09-24T18:49:36Z")
Totally off topic, but could you please email me, Eve. I have a quite serious question from someone I love about which I think you can give me needed advice. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/3 "2004-09-24T18:57:05Z")
Doesn’t taking out a full page ad begging people to stop making fun of you give the audience more ammunition with which to make even more fun of you? Damn, she’s dense sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/4 "2004-09-24T19:05:57Z")
I was going to make a joke about her having a shorn head and the lice thing, but I couldn’t come up with one. So let’s pretend I did and all laugh anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/5 "2004-09-24T19:15:39Z")
Well, at least we know now why she wears combat boots all the time. ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/6 "2004-09-24T19:17:53Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Damn, she’s dense sometimes. uh, sometimes?? :dubious: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/7 "2004-09-24T19:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > any person male or female from this country who has been as consistently lashed as I have been That’s _Reverend_ Sinead, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/8 "2004-09-24T19:22:24Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > I was going to make a joke about her having a shorn head and the lice thing, but I couldn’t come up with one. So let’s pretend I did and all laugh anyway. I’m having the same problem. It positively _screams_ for a joke, but I’m having trouble putting one together. So let’s pretend I made another funny joke off of your funny joke and it was all terribly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/9 "2004-09-24T19:24:51Z")
[_stomp! stomp!_] “Stop whimperin’, ye darty little bahsahrt!” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/10 "2004-09-24T19:28:31Z")
“RTE radio network” Real Time Entomology? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/11 "2004-09-24T19:29:48Z")
Heh. That adds new meaning to the heavy tap shoes of Riverdance… ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/12 "2004-09-24T19:37:32Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > I was going to make a joke about her having a shorn head and the lice thing, but I couldn’t come up with one. So let’s pretend I did and all laugh anyway. While some conventional scientists have discounted the “O’Connor Method”, it has been endorsed by several Brazilian scientists. One, a Dr. Jose Mengelez, had this to say : ‘Ja, It’s very effective!’ ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/13 "2004-09-24T20:06:20Z")
Stomp out headlice _in_ children? I though lice lived _on_ children. I guess as long as you’re stompling it doesn’t hurt to be thorough. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/14 "2004-09-24T20:27:51Z")
Well, if she wants to crush my children’s heads, I have no recourse but to teach them to defend themselves by pinching her face. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/15 "2004-09-24T21:01:23Z")
I wsa going to start a thread about this, but dammit, they actually wanted me to do my job and I had to wait until now… I can’t imagine what she was thinking, as **Casey1505** said, this can only make things worse. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/16 "2004-09-24T21:13:33Z")
Head lice, Hummm, I wonder if that’s why she went with the shaved head look. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/17 "2004-09-24T21:22:20Z")
LOL, Eve! ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/18 "2004-09-24T21:41:18Z")
:rolleyes: Sinead, Sinead, Sinead. You’ve produced a few decent records, but you don’t half talk a load of bollocks. Next time you feel the need to publish a screed of self-justifying whining, and you do seem to make a habit of it, please (in the words of your brother Joseph) just _stop_. Think how often you’ve got up on your high horse in the past and then gone on to contradict yourself. Maybe then you’ll see why people find it hard to take you seriously and why they’re probably now laughing at your advert. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/19 "2004-09-24T22:00:27Z")
Aw. let’s stop picking nits _re_ poor Sinead… [Here is a fuller version](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1206862.htm) of the story excerpted in the OP. Isn’t it appropriate that someone named **Futile Gesture** has contributed to this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923/20 "2004-09-24T22:08:38Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Well, if she wants to crush my children’s heads, I have no recourse but to teach them to defend themselves by pinching her face. Nobody’s home! Great stuff that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinead-oconnor-wants-to-crush-your-childrens-heads/265923.md?page=2)