Des Bishop does Ireland

Bicky

One of the best programs i have seen in years was "DES BISHOP WORK EXPERIENCE" tonight on network 2.
Having worked part time in Supermacs during my youth i can relate to his experience very well. Pay for your uniforms!! Free food!! So no bank holiday pay. I could feel the anger in his voice as he said it.
He forces us to look from a hilarious angle on the absolutely unbelievable way in which Irish people are portrayed to the rest of the world.
In my opinion no Newspaper article, Government report or Prime time special could ever highlight our alcohol problem the way Des Bishop has in a single half hour show. Surely its time to rectify this problem but is it too late to change the "Tradition" of alcohol abuse?


He also highlights the ignorance of a lot of ppl ( even on these boards ) who believe they have superior intellegence over the average American person.
Not exactly quotes but something along the lines of...
Bishop : Bertie ahern is a ****
Reply : sure we know that
Bishop : Well i know bush is a ****
Reply : No you dont you american fool
Might seem silly to those who have not seen the show but to me it sums up the attitued we as a nation ( yes me included) have towards the people from the most INFLUENTIAL superpower in the world.
Its horrible but i could almost imagine a drunken version of myself telling the american Prick to **** off home.
why do we think we are better than them?

dr_manhattan

Hey, with a lot of american friends, I realise this prejudice exists: nothing more embarassing than bringing an american out for a drink, and having all your mates explain EVERYTHING to them, from sarcasm to che guevara, as if they are dumb.

And nobody would treat an african that way, they'd be too afraid of being racist: however, african americans still get that routine: yo bro, fight the power, want some spliff etc.

HOWEVER:

Des Bishop is an annoying moron, and he should realise that when people treat HIM as stupid, it's different. He *is* stupid.

The only time that idiot ever made me laugh was when he had to apologise to a heckler for calling him an asshole, cos the heckler was a keith wood sized person ;-)

simu

Good show - made me laugh and cringe.

There's at least one place like that in every town in Ireland and anybody who's ever done a minimum wage job will be familiar with managers like the two they showed. "Don't have to pay for their uniforms" indeed! They deserved to be shamed on TV. I wonder if the show will have more far-reaching influence on the behaviour of clubbers and fastfood managers though. Somehow, I doubt it.

D!ve^Bomb!

i thought it was a geat show too, minimum wage is a joke, my first job was in burger king and i started on £3.67, but after a YEAR it went up to £4.10, woo hoo!:D

simu

Think that's bad? I was earning £2 an hour working in a café kitchen in 1997!

Exit

So was I in what was then Quinnsworth, also 1997.

By the way, there's also a thread about the programme here - http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137568

Wolfie

Yeah, it was a good show alright.. really highlighted the ****ty working conditions of the fast food workers... a job I never did and wouldnt want to!! It also, unfortunately, shows the Irish for the drunken, moronic scumbags that many of us are... A nation that has lost its identity, and decided to pick up the yobbish culture instead of the old noble irish one. Cead mile failte? If someone foreign is doing a job for us though, they can expect to have racist and idiotic insults thrown at them... Sometimes I really think we're all **** in this country nowadays. Sign of the times eh?

Auburn

I didn't find Des Bishop that funny but I appreciate what he's trying to do. It really highlighted the way a lot of people are treated and the sh!t they have to put up with from the general public in the workplace. Also the things managers think they can get away with.

I've worked in supermarkets, etc. part-time while going to college where people seem to have this superior attitude to you. They're better than you because you're just a lowlife working in a crappy job getting minimum wage. Whereas the opposite is probably true in a lot of cases