liveline

celticwe

Good afternoon and welcome to liveline .What a **** stirrer

Nalz

right

Latchy

Deals with mainly serious issues, right ?

patrickc

latchyco wrote: »

Deals with mainly serious issues, right ?

its supposed too


radio forum btw

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=613

emeraldstar

I. Hate. That. Show. So. ****ing. Much.

Fighting Irish

patrickc wrote: »

its supposed too


radio forum btw

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=613

:pac:


Every thread in AH could be proper suited to a sub forum here on boards, i don't understand why so many people on boards have to say "blahblah forum tbh" :rolleyes:

KnifeWRENCH

I've never actually listened to it. I'm guessing not many of ye would recommend it? :pac:

El Weirdo

I normally podcast the more controversial ones. You know, the ones such as "Priest objects to magic show" and "Drugs are bad"... Fcukin hilarious stuff... But sometimes you do have to try very hard not to get wound up by the muppets that call in...:D

sdanseo

Yes the show deals with many a serious issue, but the fact remains that Joe Duffy should be castrated.

With a spoon.

Dont be at yourself

Deals with mainly serious issues, right ?

Not even close. That show is singularly the most depressing broadcast in the world. It's a very poor reflection on the population of Ireland if the half-wits that ring in to complain about the latest triviality are in any way representative of the country as a whole.

I wrote this blog post on the subject last year:

With each passing week, I begin to wonder if Joe Duffy is not in league with the underworld, set upon us to herald in a new dominion of Beelzebub. At the very least, I assume he in their employment as a harbinger of doom - capable of whipping the entire nation’s housewives into a frenzy with one snide, ridiculous remark.

A few months ago, I had the displeasure to listen to Joe lead his merry band of housewives on a witchhunt against Debenhams. Debenhams, you see, were demonstrating a variety of kitchen utensils instore, and lucky shoppers could even walk home with free samples. Surely Joe’s Militia Mothers couldn’t find fault in that?

But, of course, they did. A veritable sign of the rot in society, apparently. It will drive people to murder, they said. One woman actually said that being presented with a free kitchen knife would be enough for someone to go and stab another human being to death. Forgive me, but I’m not sure that mentally-fragile sociopaths are hanging around Debenhams in the early afternoon looking at demonstrations of salad servers and garlic presses.

More recently, a woman rang up Joe, screaming PAEDOPHILE. While going about her daily business, she saw a man get out of particular type of car and have an altercation with a little darling boy whilst stopped at a particular junction at a specific time. The Liveline sprang to life, and this man was all but sentenced to life in solitude for his disgusting sexual perversions, when, miraculously, the accused could give his side of the story. It turns out that he wasn’t some reprehensible sex creep, but rather an upstanding member of the community who was attempting to discipline the little darling - who turned out not to be a little darling at all, but a vandal thug who had just trashed the man’s property. No harm done, unless the man’s boss, or friends, or family had been listening to the opening act of this story, and took these wild, unfounded accusations on board. So be careful what you do in public, Joe has eyes everywhere, and if you’re seen doing something innocent that can be twisted into a good story, it will make national radio.

And only last week, I turned on the radio as the frenzy was in full flow. “Joe, it’s an absolute disgrace that I’ve to travel to Dublin to do it!” said a zealot from Sligo. Initially, I empathized, figuring that he was a man awaiting cancer treatment or a personality transplant. Not so.

The disgruntled man, and his many supporters, were lambasting the fact that he had to go all the way up to the big smoke in order to collect his lotto winnings. What a bloody inconvenience, eh?

I’m often tempted to ring up Liveline to complain about the blight on human society that is Joe Duffy and Liveline. My hand is stayed however, because no will is strong enough to whitstand the Militant Mothers and General Joe if they’re on your case.

BraziliaNZ

Check out Marian Finucane and Joe Duffy on Youtube as portrayed by Apres Match - diamond TV!

briantwin

The number of times i've had a disgruntled old biddy customer threaten to name and shame me on Joe Duffy over something completely unreasonable.
The problem is that joe has become the Mammy of the nation. Whenever someone feels hard done by they decide "If you don't give me what i want I'm tellin on you!!"
So straight on to "Mammy Joe" and what better place to voice their annoyance than on a radio show that is listened to by the malcontents , the blue-rinse army and the television-less troglodytes that pollute our fair land.

His opinion is worth about as much as a pair of Jade Goodies soiled knickers!!

Steve_o

"I was on to a woman from...Clontaaaarf I think it was..."

Funny stuff!:D

ryoishin

Im sick of people treatening me with joe duffy in my job.

I might ring him up myself and give out about them.

Blisterman

ryoishin wrote: »

Im sick of people treatening me with joe duffy in my job.

I might ring him up myself and give out about them.

Do it, that'd be great.

kevmy

The fact of the matter is that if anyone has time to ring up Joe in the middle of the day and natter away about something irrelevant they saw the day before when wandering around town like a zombie has waaaay to much time on their hands.

Most normal people are working, in college, looking for work, minding their children, feeding their animals, washing their car, seeking employment, picking their hole, staring into space etc. and have no time to waste in ringing in to make an eejit of themselves on national radio.

celticwe

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Check out Marian Finucane and Joe Duffy on Youtube as portrayed by Apres Match - diamond TV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94TkEHTVlVM

Class

TobyZiegler

He is the king of one sided debates and exaggeration. The people with no lives that ring in are bad enough but he is worse for encouraging them and for turning their minor irritations into debacles of national importance.

I had the misfortune of hearing the full show twice and was actually disgusted at some of what he did.

In one show he got a clip of Enda Kenny in the middle of a sentence speaking to one of the opposition saying something along the lines of “You’ll regret this Deputy X ” in an angry kind of ominous tone. He didn’t tell us the context of this statement or play any of what came before or after this sentence but continued to play this one line all day long saying it was a disgrace that the leader of Fine Gael could speak like this.

Then for every listener who rang up about totally different issues he played the clip for them and asked them to comment. Most said it was hard to know because it wasnt in context and then he would push them asking did they not think it was completely unreasonable for Kenny to say such a thing. Then a Fine Gael councillor from Galway rang up about a play he had objected to in Galway and Joe ambushed him and asked what his stance was on Kennys 'outburst' since he was in Fine Gael – the councillor obviously didn’t have a clue what it was all about as it had only happened in the dail that morning. He said he felt ambushed and Joe acknowledged that somewhat but then still kept on questionning him about it.

tomred1

I'm one of the people that does the voices.

Rob_l

I think half the people on the show are just bored and lonely and so they ring joe just for the buzz of talking ****e and having a laugh!

celticwe

tomred1 wrote: »

I'm one of the people that does the voices.

what

Bros123

Today is "Funny Friday" and for those that have been fortunate not to hear "Funny Friday" it is in no way funny whatsoever.

El Weirdo

Bros123 wrote: »

Today is "Funny Friday" and for those that have been fortunate not to hear "Funny Friday" it is in no way funny whatsoever.

QFT. I mean, Brush Sheils?!

briantwin

Yeah someone should ring up with one of those funny anecdotes that starts all light hearted and funny then ends horrendously.

For example,
Ahhh Joe I'll ya what so i will, I was out puttin the washin out and you'll never guess what. My neighbours cat ran into the kitchen when i left the door open. Sure wasn't i only demented chasing the bloody thing around the kitchen. knockin stuff everywhere. If the priest had of seen me he would of performed an exorcism.
cue false laughter from Joe
Sure didn't the bloody thing go into the dining room then....i couldnt find the thing for an hour. Runnin around waving an umbrella over me head like an apache. But didn't i get him out eventually. I had to get the neighbour to pay for all me delf that i broke so i did.
Joe:Thats a great story Mary........
Sure didn't the young fella crawl into the dining room then and get the cat muck all over himself.Into his eyes and all, the poor fella was permanently blinded so he was. Jaysus i'm blessin myself now Joe. And the same neighbour who owned cat didn't he go and knock the young fella down then about 2 years later when he'd wandered out into the street thinkin it was the bathroom.
Jaysus its shockin Joe.
Dead silence.....
Straight into a rant about road safety!!

keen

Fighting Irish wrote: »

:pac:


Every thread in AH could be proper suited to a sub forum here on boards, i don't understand why so many people on boards have to say "blahblah forum tbh" :rolleyes:

Wanabe mods tbh.

Rob_l

briantwin wrote: »

Yeah someone should ring up with one of those funny anecdotes that starts all light hearted and funny then ends horrendously.

For example,
Ahhh Joe I'll ya what so i will, I was out puttin the washin out and you'll never guess what. My neighbours cat ran into the kitchen when i left the door open. Sure wasn't i only demented chasing the bloody thing around the kitchen. knockin stuff everywhere. If the priest had of seen me he would of performed an exorcism.
cue false laughter from Joe
Sure didn't the bloody thing go into the dining room then....i couldnt find the thing for an hour. Runnin around waving an umbrella over me head like an apache. But didn't i get him out eventually. I had to get the neighbour to pay for all me delf that i broke so i did.
Joe:Thats a great story Mary........
Sure didn't the young fella crawl into the dining room then and get the cat muck all over himself.Into his eyes and all, the poor fella was permanently blinded so he was. Jaysus i'm blessin myself now Joe. And the same neighbour who owned cat didn't he go and knock the young fella down then about 2 years later when he'd wandered out into the street thinkin it was the bathroom.
Jaysus its shockin Joe.
Dead silence.....
Straight into a rant about road safety!!

I heard about that young fella me heart goes out to him

briantwin

Does anyone have the proper link for that youtube video? I cant find it...The joe duffy apres match one.

Sherifu

briantwin wrote: »

Does anyone have the proper link for that youtube video? I cant find it...The joe duffy apres match one.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=94TkEHTVlVM

It's been fixed above also.

Can't beat the woman from Clontarf.

Robertttt

well now joe i couldnt believe my eyes......