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Derek Mooney Show *MOD WARNING IN 1st POST*

  • 12-04-2011 3:27pm
    #1
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭


    Is Derek Mooney a bit thick?

    I am listening to the guy talking about the Birthday Paradox, which is quite interesting. Now apart from the fact he keeps interrupting the guy, he is talking utter rubbish.

    Like the guy said "To guarantee 2 people in a room share a birthday, you have to have a total of 367 people in the room". And Derek goes "IS that true?". Thats basic maths Derek!

    Then the guy goes, "How many people do you need for a 50/50 chance that 2 people share a birthday? and Derek goes "Err double?" :eek:

    And I think Brenda should keep her mouth shut in segments like this.

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    From here on, any incursion on this policy will be an instant week-long ban. A second offence will be a month. A third will be permanent.
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  • #2
    Demonique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭Demonique


    Is there one for Derek Mooney?

    I'd like to have a bit of a moan about him


  • #3
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Exibhit B :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTPEVYVtcHE


  • #4
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    syklops wrote: »
    And I think Brenda should keep her mouth shut in segments like this.
    Fixed.


  • #5
    denishurley
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭denishurley


    I couldn't believe my ears when hearing this yesterday, especially given that the bit about having 367 people in the room was just the preamble to part about the 50% probability needing just 23 people.

    Also, when the text came in about adding the last two digits of the year you were born and the age you'll be this year and getting 111, they seemed amazed


  • #6
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    denishurley wrote: »
    I couldn't believe my ears when hearing this yesterday, especially given that the bit about having 367 people in the room was just the preamble to part about the 50% probability needing just 23 people.

    I found that very annoying. Should up and listen to what he is saying, this is the introduction to the story, not the story itself.
    denishurley wrote: »
    Also, when the text came in about adding the last two digits of the year you were born and the age you'll be this year and getting 111, they seemed amazed

    Brenda was a bit slow at that bit too. It took her about 5 minutes to add 2 numbers.


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  • #7
    Sid_Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Sid_Justice


    Yes, I can't stand him. How this guy is earning a 6 figure salary i don't know.


  • #8
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I think you've just started it.


  • #9
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    At last. :)

    A megathread for discussion about discussion about tits !











    Blue ones.


  • #10
    Demonique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭Demonique


    Yesterday Mooney said Irish people should do the patriotic thing and holiday in this country.

    I think someone needs to take the patriotic stick out of his arse and allow people to give him a smack on the head with it. If people want to get away from this sheep's arse of a country then they damn well should be able to without some tit bleating on about patriotism


  • #11
    Spudmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    How's this for a coincidence Derek, I lose my rte feed at 3.20 everyday!!

    bbbbbbbbyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee...................


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  • #12
    miketv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭miketv


    Spudmonkey wrote: »
    How's this for a coincidence Derek, I lose my rte feed at 3.20 everyday!!

    bbbbbbbbyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee...................
    lol:D


  • #13
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Rarely listen to Mooney - if I'm near a radio I listen to Sean Moncrief instead - far better.

    Derek is sufferin from a bad case of Risin' Camp, IMO. I sometimes tune in at the start of the show for a laugh to hear how clichéd the topics he's going to be talking about are. Today it's memorabilia for the queen and someone that won a competition to star in a musical.

    Definitely going for the oulwan/pink audience. Come back Shirley Temple-Bar - all is forgiven!


  • #14
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    I thought I'd give this thread a chance, but it seems to have been set up specifically to question a presenter's intelligence, not to talk about the radio programme he presents. Can anyone give me a good reason NOT to lock it?


  • #15
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Bard wrote: »
    I thought I'd give this thread a chance, but it seems to have been set up specifically to question a presenter's intelligence, not to talk about the radio programme he presents. Can anyone give me a good reason NOT to lock it?

    Well, the topics he has on a daily basis seem to appeal to the lowest common denominator...Jedward, Mary byrne, All Ireland Talent Show, the Eurovision...

    Not exactly the kind of programming that challenges the old brain cells. The wildlife stuff is the only redeeming quality it seems...


  • #16
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    why are RTE doing their best to dumb down this country?


  • #17
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    Bard wrote: »
    I thought I'd give this thread a chance, but it seems to have been set up specifically to question a presenter's intelligence, not to talk about the radio programme he presents. Can anyone give me a good reason NOT to lock it?


    Well the Liveline thread, questions Joe's, Salary, FF connections,Salary, objectivity, Salary, value for money, Salary, why is he on holidays this week, Salary, how many weeks holiday does he get anyway, Salary,

    daily,

    and so far it has over 20,000 posts, so maybe give this one another week or so.


  • #18
    Doodah7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    martinn123 wrote: »
    Well the Liveline thread, questions Joe's, Salary, FF connections,Salary, objectivity, Salary, value for money, Salary, why is he on holidays this week, Salary, how many weeks holiday does he get anyway, Salary,

    daily,

    and so far it has over 20,000 posts, so maybe give this one another week or so.

    and repeat for the Marian Finucane show thread...


  • #19
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Bard wrote: »
    I thought I'd give this thread a chance, but it seems to have been set up specifically to question a presenter's intelligence, not to talk about the radio programme he presents. Can anyone give me a good reason NOT to lock it?

    Ive tried starting a Derek Mooney megathread in the past, but it never got going, and instead of dragging up old threads, I started a thread to discuss a particular segment on his show which annoyed me.

    I did not mean it to become a "Slag Derek Mooney thread". Indeed I even reported two posts to this thread last night, that made derogatory comments about his sexuality.

    I quite like Derek strangely enough, I just get annoyed by some of the things he has on his show. Fate has conspired against me, and the time when I can listen to the radio is between 1.30 and 4pm Irish time, and so Joe Duffy and Derek Mooney is what I listen to. I like being able to discuss what i am listening to with other boardsies in a friendly and laid back manner, but I do not think this forum should be run like After Hours is, and I think a certain decorum should be maintained, but I still reserve the right to complain about him or his fellow presenters.

    Lock it if you wish, or merge it to other Derek Mooney threads.


  • #20
    bubbaloo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭bubbaloo


    Bard wrote: »
    I thought I'd give this thread a chance, but it seems to have been set up specifically to question a presenter's intelligence, not to talk about the radio programme he presents. Can anyone give me a good reason NOT to lock it?

    To be fair, the name of the thread is "Is Derek Mooney a bit thick?" so I don't know where you could have gotten the idea that it was a discussion of his programme, and not related to his intelligence! :pac:


  • #21
    Cat Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭Cat Melodeon


    Is there really a need for a Derek Mooney megathread? Duffy, yes, there is so much to moan about, but Mooney? He's a bit too bland for a Megathread, it'll be a daily bitch about how dumb he is and how annoying Brenda is and how he should just stick to the wildlife and leave the current affairs/'interesting' microtopics to the rest of them. I don't see it lasting.


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  • #22
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    At long last, Derek Mooney has come of age and has been rewarded with a Megathread of his very own on Boards.ie...Well done Derek!

    *wipes tear from eye*


    Anyway, where to start...I think his show is a load of inane arse-licking sh*te revolving around untalented irish people that have gained notoriety from TV 'talent' shows.


  • #23
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Threads merged... "megathread" created. Will keep an eye on it... Let's see if it actually lasts (not betting on it).


  • #24
    dambarude
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    It really has deteriorated in the last few months. It used to hit on interesting (slightly quirky) subjects fairly often - but not anymore. The same drivel is repeated incessantly.


  • #25
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    dambarude wrote: »
    It really has deteriorated in the last few months. The same drivel is repeated incessantly.

    Yeah I've noticed this too.. I'm a fan of Derek .. But there's been too much JEdward/Mary Byrne/Brenda and complaining about his perceived persecution of the GLBT community (him speaking from a completely disassociated and objective point of view, of course ;) )

    It needs to be fun again..


  • #26
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Mooney's show is clearly aimed at women. End of story really.:)


  • #27
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Mooney's show is clearly aimed at women. End of story really.:)

    No it's not.

    It has mistakenly (imho) adopted a 'tabloid' attitude in an attempt to ride the wave of interest in 'reality' tv and mildly talented individuals who gain publicity far above their talents as a result.

    Donohue has the kids at every talent show going in an attempt to break into show business, McAnally,surely one of the blandest and watery people in RTE, is the producer and also does some spots in showbiz.

    Mooney is getting more camp every day and seems to think his role is to plug the various shows run by his friends, Alan Hughes for example.

    So is there any wonder it is pure tabloid drivel, for a lot of the time.

    It used to be passable when Donohue was out on maternity leave.


  • #28
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    No it's not.

    It has mistakenly (imho) adopted a 'tabloid' attitude in an attempt to ride the wave of interest in 'reality' tv and mildly talented individuals who gain publicity far above their talents as a result.

    Donohue has the kids at every talent show going in an attempt to break into show business, McAnally,surely one of the blandest and watery people in RTE, is the producer and also does some spots in showbiz.

    Mooney is getting more camp every day and seems to think his role is to plug the various shows run by his friends, Alan Hughes for example.

    So is there any wonder it is pure tabloid drivel, for a lot of the time.

    It used to be passable when Donohue was out on maternity leave.


    Is his campness a big thing for you? By the way I don't even notice it, but I presume it's because he covers the Eurovision and X Factor. Move on.

    So what if it's going more tabloid, the programme is aimed at women! Men can't really complain. It's an hour and a half of fluff in an RTE schudule that is made of serious programmes.


  • #29
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Is his campness a big thing for you? By the way I don't even notice it, but I presume it's because he covers the Eurovision and X Factor. Move on.

    So what if it's going more tabloid, the programme is aimed at women! Men can't really complain. It's an hour and a half of fluff in an RTE schudule that is made of serious programmes.

    Eh no his campness is not a big thing friend. Couldn't give jack Schidt.

    I think you do women a disservice there pal,if you think all they are interested in is reality shows and tabloid trash.

    I'm just giving my opinion on my impression of how the show has gone downmarket and tacky recently.

    Ok man?


  • #30
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Is his campness a big thing for you? By the way I don't even notice it, but I presume it's because he covers the Eurovision and X Factor. Move on.

    So what if it's going more tabloid, the programme is aimed at women! Men can't really complain. It's an hour and a half of fluff in an RTE schudule that is made of serious programmes.
    sexist?


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  • #31
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    hotmail.com wrote: »

    So what if it's going more tabloid, the programme is aimed at women! Men can't really complain. It's an hour and a half of fluff in an RTE schudule that is made of serious programmes.

    Since when is it a programme aimed at women? While it has slipped into a lot of female-oriented material, they say they are a current affairs programme. At the start of the programme he says "You can ring in about anything you want". Its just that Derek Mooney does not attract the same moaning, "Isn't it terrible Joe" callers that Joe Duffy attracts, partly because he has his own opinions about things and does not jump on populist agendas like Joe does.

    Also, one day a week he does the nature segment which I definitely do not think is in the purview of female-only content, and I would not call it fluff either.

    Perhaps the problem with the Mooney show, is that it is a little too varied?


  • #32
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    syklops wrote: »
    Perhaps the problem with the Mooney show, is that it is a little too varied?

    I disagree. I don't think it's varied enough.

    Jedward, Mary Byrne, blue tits. It's nearly always one or all 3 of these things in the one show.

    They seem to rehash a lot of the same topics. They did a topic on those sheds for men and they did it again about 4 weeks ago.


  • #33
    miketv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭miketv


    rat trap...and you've been caught..
    it's stuck in my head now!


  • #34
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I thought it was a radio programme aimed at women and also a source of light relief in between the News at One, Joe Duffy and Drivetime. I'm at peace with that and expect to hear about the Eurovision etc.

    Maybe I'm wrong :)

    As for Mooney, he does my head in.


  • #35
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Eh no his campness is not a big thing friend. Couldn't give jack Schidt.


    If you don't care about that, why did you mention it in the first place...you must care a little.


  • #36
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    That_Guy wrote: »
    I disagree. I don't think it's varied enough.

    Jedward, Mary Byrne, blue tits. It's nearly always one or all 3 of these things in the one show.

    They seem to rehash a lot of the same topics. They did a topic on those sheds for men and they did it again about 4 weeks ago.

    I know what you mean, what I meant was, he tries to cover too broad an area, from Nature, to gardening to consumer issues and womens bras, that from a listeners point of view, there is no standard theme apart from the thing that they do every day which is at the start of the show where they gossip about the recurring topics of Jedward, X-Factor, Your a star, Abba, Kylie Minogue, Mary Byrne(who ever that is) and whatnot

    No-one knows what to expect from one day to another apart from Mooneys Money and the gossip bit. And the blue tits of a friday..


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  • #37
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    If you don't care about that, why did you mention it in the first place...you must care a little.


    It's so in your face that not to mention it would seem strange.

    I think you are inferring way too much from that, friend.

    Why the interest ?


  • #38
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    It's so in your face that not to mention it would seem strange.

    I think you are inferring way too much from that, friend.

    Why the interest ?


    Ah no but you made reference to Alan Hughes as well for some reason. Are you not used to camp men on tv or radio or something?


  • #39
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Ah no but you made reference to Alan Hughes as well for some reason. Are you not used to camp men on tv or radio or something?

    I know what Flut is talking about though. I'm a straight guy, and I have no interest in gay issues... I dont have a problem with gays, the subject if obviously irrelevant to me... And there IS a persistent, subtle but tangible pro gay agenda being propagated by Mooney.. It was particularly evident in his discussion of the civil partnership last week.


  • #40
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I know what Flut is talking about though. I'm a straight guy, and I have no interest in gay issues... I dont have a problem with gays, the subject if obviously irrelevant to me... And there IS a persistent, subtle but tangible pro gay agenda being propagated by Mooney.. It was particularly evident in his discussion of the civil partnership last week.

    What's a pro-gay agenda exactly? Do you want a presenter with an Anti-Gay agenda doing the programme?

    Propagated by Mooney - oh please, listen to yourself, somehow I don't believe your assertion that you have a problem with gays. How can someone propagate pro-gay stuff? Sheesh.

    Why is it irrelevant to you anyway - do you not have friends, family members, work colleagues that are gay?

    Why does a discussion on Mooney always come back to sexuality.


  • #41
    whoareyouanyway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭whoareyouanyway


    God I hate Derek Mooney. It's especially annoying when the competition ad refers to "Mooney's Money" ITS not Mooney money! its the freaking licence fee money!


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  • #42
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    whoareyouanyway wrote: »
    God I hate Derek Mooney. It's especially annoying when the competition ad refers to "Mooney's Money" ITS not Mooney money! its the freaking licence fee money!

    Ah its not in fairness. Its just a fraction on the return he gets from all the texts from gullible listeners the day before. Some racket he's pulling in fairness...


  • #43
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    What's a pro-gay agenda exactly? Do you want a presenter with an Anti-Gay agenda doing the programme?

    Propagated by Mooney - oh please, listen to yourself, somehow I don't believe your assertion that you have a problem with gays. How can someone propagate pro-gay stuff? Sheesh.

    Why is it irrelevant to you anyway - do you not have friends, family members, work colleagues that are gay?

    Why does a discussion on Mooney always come back to sexuality.

    Because people like you make an issue of it buddy.

    I mentioned facts, facts which anyone listening to the Mooney show,with a modicum of intelligence could deduce.

    I have no problem with gays, I'm just writing what everybody knows.

    There is a strong whiff of lavender off the Mooney Show.

    That's fact.It's there almost every day, when I listen.

    Doesn't bother me one whit though, even though no doubt you will try to convince yourself that it does.

    'kay?


  • #44
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    What's a pro-gay agenda exactly? Do you want a presenter with an Anti-Gay agenda doing the programme?

    No, personally, I want no agenda. Neither pro nor anti. Like every other programme I listen to or watch.


  • #45
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Ah not Tutankamun(sp ?) again. We have had this already.


  • #46
    syklops
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    What does Aengus Mcanally do when he is not covering for people?

    All I ever remember him for was for covering the community games on television back when I was a nipper.


  • #47
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    syklops wrote: »
    What does Aengus Mcanally do when he is not covering for people?

    All I ever remember him for was for covering the community games on television back when I was a nipper.

    Produces mooneys show.


  • #48
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Produces mooneys show.


    Practices being blander than the blandest of the blandest of all the blandest fcukers in this wide world.


    Grow a set man.:cool:


  • #49
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,584 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Because people like you make an issue of it buddy.

    I mentioned facts, facts which anyone listening to the Mooney show,with a modicum of intelligence could deduce.

    I have no problem with gays, I'm just writing what everybody knows.

    There is a strong whiff of lavender off the Mooney Show.

    That's fact.It's there almost every day, when I listen.

    Doesn't bother me one whit though, even though no doubt you will try to convince yourself that it does.

    'kay?


    I don't know, it's like watching Graham Norton and saying the show is camp. Well duh.


  • #50
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    I don't know, it's like watching Graham Norton and saying the show is camp. Well duh.

    You sound like a guy who has issues pal.

    I just comment on the content of the show, if you infer something from that, well, ok.

    Mooney comes across as a guy who likes gays, that is not saying he is gay, couldn't give a fcuk whether he is or not.


    Just commenting on his attitude man.;)


  • #51
    TimmyTarmac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    Eurovision season is nearly upon us once more!
    Can't wait for the fevered, sibalant discussion which invariably spills from The George into the Mooney studio at this time of the year.
    We must preview each song, discuss geo-political considerations, best use of the wind-machine, the necessity of the key change etc.
    Can Armenia keep up it's record of never finishing outside the top ten?
    The French entrant sings in Corsican this year, Ooooooh La La!
    And what chance our two fine lads from Lucan?

    It's the Gay Champions League and it's on The Mooney Show.

    The anticipation has made me visibly excited!


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