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Listen to Joe Duffy today(10/7/09)

  • 10-07-2009 12:01pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭


    If you get the chance listen in to Joe Duffy's Liveline at 1.45, a distressed mother has rung in after her 2 young sons have apparently become Addicted to "World of the Warcraft"

    Doubtless its going to be hilarious....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Lorcan 17


    What station this on?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    I dunon if youre joking on not. RTE radio 1


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Listening to it now... lol...

    She has a point, I agree with that... but the cheeky bitch, to say "I know some adults that are engrossed in it, pretty sad really when you think of it". Well most might think that your life is pretty sad... beatch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Ms Happy


    Just listening to it now...... I expect this to be hilarious:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Was about to post this it is hilarious.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    I am going ot be on the show haahhahaa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    im on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    OMG! you're on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    LOL

    Poor wow addicts.

    Ronan is on everyone!!!1! Sounding good dude!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭WellyJ


    You tell 'em Ronan!

    The silly bitch.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41 timmyotoole


    "whats a 27 year old playing games"
    lol muppet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    good man Ronan. :pac:

    I hate the way she's saying 'it's sad'. It's only a game. Same way people get thrills from solving a rubik's cube or something like that,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    I should have said I run naked through stormwind as a female elf luring kids into the land of evil

    I wanted to roarf leeroy down the phone :(

    now the nation knows im popular!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭2 Espressi


    Any idea if this is available online?

    Ronan, are you with Blizz in Cork?

    ETA: Found it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Fair play Ronan! Brandishing online gaming as an evil is retarded. If someone has an addictive personality then you're going to get hooked on anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭thecornerboy


    "Kids and young people in playing video games for hours at a time shocker"

    "Video game makers in charging for product shocker"


    Making it out to sound sinister. I remember getting my NES as a kid, playing it for 14 hours on Christmas Day and myself and my brother beating the head off each other over it. That's my best childhood memory.

    Joe Duffy show today makes me sad. If you've kids under 18 they're you responsbility, after that you can **** right off telling people what to be doing.

    Please WoW fans bombard Joe Duffy for the next 3 months with your opinions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Was about to post this it is hilarious.
    2 Espressi wrote: »
    Any idea if this is available online?

    Ronan, are you with Blizz in Cork?

    rte.ie/radio

    no Im afraid not Espressi I am but a humble welder from Roscommon :) Hope I can put down WOW and get back out to work :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    You are all sad, you know that :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭Sniipe


    ah, is it over?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    All over.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭BCawley


    Aww, I just caught the end of it :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Jiggy


    The amount of times that original caller used the word "sad" was ridiculous
    Also she sounds a bit of a crazy man to actually take away the cables and broadband.

    Also wonder how many of the 3 kids play nelf female hunters :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    ya can get the podcast the next day usually.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not over yet, cafting my long letter to the show regarding the negative portrayel of gamers on the show and the original callers uneducated view of gaming.

    I think that like so many other people she is blaming her inability to properly parent her children on games. I grew up with a games, from the ages of 5 years and 7 days I have never gone more than a few days without playing a game of some variety.

    Also I missed the start of it, did anyone mention that WoW is aimed at adults? All the ads are aimed at the over 20s, who the hell outside the 20-30 age group would recognise Van Damme?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭2 Espressi


    Still waiting for today's show to be uploaded to the site...

    ETA: just saw the post above, looks like i'll have to wait till Monday!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    I was gona call her a bad parent jokingly but she didnt seem like the laughing type... :)


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was gona call her a bad parent jokingly but she didnt seem like the laughing type... :)

    Some people don't appreciate the truth. Surely like my parents she could easily curb how long her kids play the game with a few rules. I know that when growing up at times I would only be allowed to play computer games when I had all my homework done, etc. I also recall that during the summer months TV and Computer Games were a no no, my parents would even cancel Sky in a bid to encourage me outside. The original caller is obviously unable to control her kids and rather than try to come to an agreement with her kids simply blames video games.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Goddammit I missed this, can't wait for the podcast...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Back onto WOW again. Saddos.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    so offer any advice?

    all things in moderation right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭WellyJ


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Back onto WOW again. Saddos.

    What is it about Joseph Fritzl makes him your Idol, if I may ask?

    Seems slightly strange.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41 timmyotoole


    lol subliminal messages in wow,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I rang them up there, told them my story, I might get a call back, should be fun :)

    I don't agree with the origional caller calling people sad for playing the game. I am sure she does some things that most would consider to be sad. That's not fair really.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SUbliminal messages in WoW. Perhaps the caller should have his son checked out by doctors.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Jiggy


    Greetings young traveler !

    Ok kid now your parents have stopped looking at the screen I want you to get your parents credit card and enter the details here :P

    How subliminal can you get


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Heard the last 15 mins of this just had to laugh at the two gob****es at the end branding gaming evil.
    To think one of them was drip feeding his son with wow by subbing then unsubbing on and off over time, i mean FFS thats evil in itself :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭Zeouterlimits


    Has this been discussed anywhere else on Boards?

    Plenty of scaremongering there, wish there could have been a more leveled discussion. How about bringing one of their sons on, see what they have to say.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Splinter


    Larkin501 wrote: »
    good man Ronan. :pac:

    I hate the way she's saying 'it's sad'. It's only a game. Same way people get thrills from solving a rubik's cube or something like that,
    I'm a wow player...sitting in work..reading this...solving a rubiks cube :( all hope is lost isn't it? :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    I thought it was funny when some lad got on going yea i play you get guns and keep ranking up and up it never ends and i was thinking thats not warcraft ! then he goes im addicted to call of duty 4 !! :pac:

    I have to say tho if i had kids i wouldnt let them touch a mmo i knew a guy on bloodhoof from holland he got sent to some rehab clinic because he couldnt stop playing lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭Dexterm99


    Will someone please think of the children?!
    She's the sad one here.
    What an utter opinionated biatch she was who loved the sound of her own voice. I had to switch stations because I couldn't listen to that self righteous crap any longer.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Drakar


    I think we posted links a while back to a story about how some guy died because he was too busy playing to bother eating. Im sure that happened with counter strike too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    a woman who uses "dr phil" to educate her kids (she doesn't watch dr phil she just happened to watch it that day :rolleyes: ) calling people sad....those kids have bigger problems than gaming addictions.

    they're also born to moronic parents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 969 ✭✭✭sunzz


    Had something on so couldn't get around to listening, looking forward to the podcast!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    You know I meant ot listen to that but I said to myself, one more bg....

    What day is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭StinkyMunkey


    I guess everyone should conform to what she considers normal. And that it's Blizzard's fault for her being a total failure as a parent.

    It's easy to blame other's for your own shortcoming's, and this eejit is only happy to brand anyone who has an interest in something outside what she thinks as "normal" sad.

    Maybe she should send her childern out to play with the traffic. Or god forbid get off her lazy fat a$$ and bring them to the scouts/football/martial art's/boxing/rugby/gaelic/fishing etc etc etc....... But id say she is more than happy sitting at home on her oversized a$$ blaming the world for the fact she looks like the back of a bus.

    I know if my little fella ever take's an interest in WoW, that i'll be closely monitoring the time he is allowed to play on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Noodleworm


    I emailed in correcting some facts, they emailed me back asking me to talk on air but I had to catch a bus so couldn't

    I Though they could have used the opinion of a player who is
    17 years old, a girl, and not addicted. Actually I could have given plenty of tips on how I avoid addiction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    Oh bloody hell.

    Someone should have asked her if she comes home and watched soaps for 2/3 hours an evening. I'd consider that quite sad and a waste of time.

    To each their own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,528 ✭✭✭copeyhagen


    caught it in work, listen to joe (damo) every day and soon as it started all the lads in work started bombardin me with emails "world of gaycraft on joe duffy, quick quick" haha

    but the woman was blaming her failures as a parent on a game.

    yes the games addicitive but it takes an addictive personality for it to escalate.

    give an addictive kid anyhting with a bit of depth to it and they will wind up hooked.

    and yes, it is aimed at an older audience.

    non wow players can never understand!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 969 ✭✭✭sunzz


    appreciate if anyone can throw up a link where they normally sort the podcasts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J




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