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Annoying traits of radio presenters.....

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    #302
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Not a presenter, a regular guest on Pat Kenny's programme is some fella from the sciences (TCD or UCD) who guffaws at the beginning and/or middle and/or end of almost every sentence he utters. At this stage I think it's probably just as weird tic that doesn't happen once the red light goes off.

    I'm not sure I know the fellah you mean, but in general the whole "forced mirthless laugh" thing winds me up a lot. Ruth Coppinger rarely seems to be able to answer a question without a sneery laugh at it. Without any detectable shred of actual amusement in it whatsoever.


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    #303
    TheRiverman
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    crossman47 wrote: »
    Just saw this thread. The rugby commentator Michael Corcoran always says "the match referee" (what other ref is there?) and "at this moment in time" - just say now.

    Also,"over on that far side of the pitch".


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    #304
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    I'm not sure I know the fellah you mean, but in general the whole "forced mirthless laugh" thing winds me up a lot. Ruth Coppinger rarely seems to be able to answer a question without a sneery laugh at it. Without any detectable shred of actual amusement in it whatsoever.

    Oh yeah, John Cleese did this incessantly in yesterday's Newsnight interview. Cringey.


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    #305
    Jennehy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Nicky Byrne with his of the saying e.g Jenny of the greens, lotty of the Ryan’s. What is the of the about?


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    #306
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Jennehy wrote: »
    Nicky Byrne with his of the saying e.g Jenny of the greens, lotty of the Ryan’s. What is the of the about?

    Once got a slight smile about 12 years ago, so he's been saying it relentlessly ever since.

    Or alternatively, it's a dogwhistle shout-out to his legions of Freeman on the Land followers. Why should Jim Corr have all the fun?


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    #307
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Why do AA traffic reports usually sound like horse race commentaries?


    Rapid, random and breathless?


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    #308
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    dense wrote: »
    Why do AA traffic reports usually sound like horse race commentaries?


    Rapid, random and breathless?

    This has struck me before. Maybe it's because their model listener is a stereotypically toxic masculine boy racer type. So in order for them to listen to the reports-- or even not be so enraged they smash their radio up immediately -- the presenters telling them to do things have to sound as harmless and helpless as possible?


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    #309
    dense
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    alaimacerc wrote: »
    This has struck me before. Maybe it's because their model listener is a stereotypically toxic masculine boy racer type. So in order for them to listen to the reports-- or even not be so enraged they smash their radio up immediately -- the presenters telling them to do things have to sound as harmless and helpless as possible?


    No I doubt the typical toxic masculinity boy racer type even listens to radio.



    Mainly boom boom self selected sub bass stuff.


    Must be something to do with the AA wanting to sound like a relevant important almost essential emergency service.



    Which is odd because their reports sound so random, almost hysterical at times such is the breakneck speed of delivery.


    Of absolutely no use to a driver IMO.


    If there was a format, done alphabetically for example, delivered clearly each time, it would make some sense, as it is its just self serving PR. Done poorly.


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    #310
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    dense wrote: »
    No I doubt the typical toxic masculinity boy racer type even listens to radio.

    Possibly not, but I think it might be at least adjacent to the thinking, if "thinking" isn't to dignify the decision-making process too much. Isn't this roughly speaking why most satnavs are non-threatening female voices, for example?


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    #311
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    Possibly not, but I think it might be at least adjacent to the thinking, if "thinking" isn't to dignify the decision-making process too much. Isn't this roughly speaking why most satnavs are non-threatening female voices, for example?


    Is that why Alexa has a female tone?


    Too OT.


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    #312
    batistuta9
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    Ray D'Arcy saying "good afternoon on this Xday afternoon"


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    #313
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    dense wrote: »
    Is that why Alexa has a female tone?

    Might be related. Almost certainly another area where the target market is seen as being majority male.
    Too OT.

    Sooo... dragging it back to AA travel, it does seem to be more than the one presenter. There's several of them that sound as if their interview went "You sound like a lispy, breathy, eight-year old!" "Oh." "... which is just what we're looking for, you've got the job."

    But admittedly not all. There's one of them that sounds vaguely Nordie/border, by whose pronunciation of "Dorset Street" I'm always struck.


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    #314
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    Ray D'Arcy saying "good afternoon on this Xday afternoon"



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    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    Ray D'Arcy saying "good afternoon on this Xday afternoon"

    More like "Goooooooood afternoon" and "How are Yoooooooooooooou"


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    #316
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    alaimacerc wrote: »

    There's one of them that sounds vaguely Nordie/border, by whose pronunciation of "Dorset Street" I'm always struck.


    There is a chap who I used to hear in the morning with Marty on Lyric who sounded like that and also as if he was whispering the report?


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    johnire
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    Fergal Darcy and his extremely irritating habit of continually harking back to his youth and continuously going on about Ireland in the 80s and 90s. He’s made a career out of it and he talks drivel.


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    EPAndlee
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    The way you can hear Matt Coopers heavy breathing during an interview


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    #319
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    johnire wrote: »
    Fergal Darcy and his extremely irritating habit of continually harking back to his youth and continuously going on about Ireland in the 80s and 90s. He’s made a career out of it and he talks drivel.

    scarred for life it seems


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    Jennehy
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    EPAndlee wrote: »
    The way you can hear Matt Coopers heavy breathing during an interview

    Is that all he is doing?


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    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    Michael Reade on LMFM ....eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh... ad infinitum ..eh


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    #322
    alaimacerc
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    dense wrote: »
    There is a chap who I used to hear in the morning with Marty on Lyric who sounded like that and also as if he was whispering the report?

    That AA guy doesn't sound unusual, except that he pronounces Dublin street names other than Dubs would (... no harm there, sez I), and he doesn't sound like an eight-year-old girl, like the other presenters. So he's strikingly odd man out.


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    #323
    honeybear
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    alaimacerc wrote: »
    That AA guy doesn't sound unusual, except that he pronounces Dublin street names other than Dubs would (... no harm there, sez I), and he doesn't sound like an eight-year-old girl, like the other presenters. So he's strikingly odd man out.

    Is that Adrian Harmon-heard Marty say last week that he’s not with AA anymore-I used like their chats


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    #324
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    honeybear wrote: »
    Is that Adrian Harmon-heard Marty say last week that he’s not with AA anymore-I used like their chats

    I think that's the name, or at least it's tinkling a faint bell in my sleepy brain. Didn't know he'd gone, Drivetime seems to get a completely ad hoc mixture of them. To which I don't generally pay that much attention anyway, tbh.


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    Viscount Aggro
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    Fake accent of Pat Courtney... drives me crazy.
    Also, radio presenters annoying habit of announcing song title and artist, when its obvious what it is.


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    #326
    bobbyss
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    Viscount Aggro wrote:
    Fake accent of Pat Courtney... drives me crazy. Also, radio presenters annoying habit of announcing song title and artist, when its obvious what it is.


    No can't agree with that. They should always say at beginning and afterwards names etc. People may not have heard the introduction .


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    #327
    dense
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    honeybear wrote: »
    Is that Adrian Harmon-heard Marty say last week that he’s not with AA anymore-I used like their chats


    Yes, he seemed like a nice chap though, but not particularly well suited to broadcasting or public speaking.



    I cringe when Marty tries bit of the old bonhomie with the AA crew and they genuinely don't seem to understand any of his witticisms (or know anything at all music wise) due to the age gap.


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    #328
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Viscount Aggro wrote: »
    Fake accent of Pat Courtney... drives me crazy.
    Also, radio presenters annoying habit of announcing song title and artist, when its obvious what it is.


    Not fake....he really is a dope....:P


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    #329
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Interviewers on current affairs show who wrap up the interview and don't tell you who they've just been speaking to and possibly why.... It doesn't take that long at all.

    'That's Dr. Smarty O'Genius who'll be speaking about paint drying at Dublin's Paint drying Festival in DCU tonight at 8. more information on paintdrying dot com'...


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    #330
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭smokingman


    Anyone mention Matt Coopers pronounciation of "theatre" yet?


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    #331
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    smokingman wrote:
    Anyone mention Matt Coopers pronounciation of "theatre" yet?


    Or 'three'.


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