Joe Duffy is going to save the country!

Guill

I saw this thread in the Bargain alerts section, i wanted to slag it off but it was not AH.

Joe Duffy is on at the moment, and they're talking about "Fiver Friday", Which is set for July 1st.
The idea, i think, is to encourage people to spend an extra Fiver on that day, to help the economy, by offering something that wouldn't normally be €5, for €5.

E.G. One guy in Finglas is offering a car tune-up for a Fiver, instead of the €45 regular price.

So Joe reckons if we all move a fiver around the country, the economy will be saved.

The guy offering the tune-ups for a fiver has to work 9 times as hard to make his money that day and then pray for return customers. That is where the economy will be saved, on the back of the workers not by some tubby beard on/beard off sack that gets paid 400k by the taxpayers, thats 80k fivers Joe! By your calculation you could probably save the planet.

Agh Jeasus Joe!

Nodin

Will this offset the number of jobs lost by Joes shite against the headshops?

Will it offset the crap caused by what his and the daws that get on to him want banned/kept illegal/As a mother, joe.....?

Daegerty

Joe only exists to calm the people down, to make them think someone is listening and trying to sort out their problems when in fact he's just gone home to enjoy his 440k a year or whatever he earns now probably has gone up cause he has done such a great job in preventing riots

Cookie_Monster

go ole Joe, how about instead of ripping everyone off doing stuff for only a fiver you give some of your frankly disgustingly large salary back to RTE, saving us all money.


though in you spirit I'll spend an extra fiver on friday, get a sneaky last pint in at about 12.03 tonight

YFlyer

We can use the word 'beards'

mikemac

He ranted and lead a crusade against headshops and cost jobs and tax.
But he happily chatted and laughed with "salt of the earth" Moore St sellers and their smuggled dodgy cigarettes which pay zero tax, hypocrite

Nodin

One might be tempted to start a campaign whereby fivers were used to wipe arses, and then posted to Joe, were it not for the fact the prick would have somebody else opening the envelopes.

TheZohanS

Joe needs a lesson in basic economics methinks.

policarp

Got a spare fiver, Bud?

RachaelVO

That's a bit hard to take from a dude who gets a fortune in the rip off licence fee!

Mike 1972

The idea, i think, is to encourage people to spend an extra Fiver on that day, to help the economy, by offering something that wouldn't normally be €5, for €5.

1) Hookers
2) Dealers
3) Joes salary

mikemac

Sack Joe Duffy and his 400k

Philip Boucher Hayes did a superb job filling in last year and he'd do it for a fraction.

Sonnenblumen

Nodin wrote: »

Will this offset the number of jobs lost by Joes shite against the headshops?

Thanks to Joe, medical staff which had been tied up dealing with headbangers are now more productively employed in our hospitals.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Thanks to Joe, medical staff which had been tied up dealing with headbangers are now more productively employed in our hospitals.

No they're just dealing with people who have taken illegal and often more dangerous drugs.

charlemont

Mike 1972 wrote: »

1) Hookers
2) Dealers

Thats a great idea..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Zebra3 wrote: »

Can people please stop listening to that fool so he gets the bullet from RTE?

What sort of morons listen to his show?

Voters, unfortunaely.

knird evol

As I was just saying to your researcher I'll be giving over a lot of five euro notes to the barman on Friday night Joe. Will that save the economy you fat imbecile parasite.

maringo

Aw guys give our Joe a break - he's not all that bad

RachaelVO

maringo wrote: »

Aw guys give our Joe a break - he's not all that bad

Ah no... but he is!!!

mikemac

Not enough puns in this thread

Joe loves a good pun

dr.bollocko

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Spread

Joe, with his manufactured outrage and ditto empathy is mental masturbation for the bleeding heart brigade. Wise up and Tune Out.

jimthemental

I've a solution for Duffy hatred and the national deficit! Pay a fiver to the government for the privilege of opening him with a thump. I'd pay everything I earn on punches and ice for my knuckles.

Nodin

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Thanks to Joe, medical staff which had been tied up dealing with headbangers are now more productively employed in our hospitals.

Yes, there is now no demand for drugs, no one on drugs, and no risk of quality controlled, measured substances being available that don't fund criminals. They should send joe to mexico, where he can doubtless have the same effect there.

Guill

If 5 fivers pass hands through Joe's plan would that mean 1 of those fivers will end up in Government Coffers through VAT?

The Joe tax!

Oh Joe you don't!

Sonnenblumen

Nodin wrote: »

Yes, there is now no demand for drugs, no one on drugs, and no risk of quality controlled, measured substances being available that don't fund criminals. They should send joe to mexico, where he can doubtless have the same effect there.

HAHAHA!

Well the criminals I don't see, worry me less. Plus most of those kippy outlets were an eyesore. Good riddance.

No need to worry about Mexico.

Hey Joe, what's coming up next? Bleeding Hearts!

My name is URL

There'll be some fella in Carlow selling venison burgers with red onion marmalade for a fiver too.. sounds delicious

Meh, it's not really the worst of ideas really. I don't think the aim is to just get people to spend a fiver on the day. It's about enticing people to spend that little bit extra on stuff they wouldn't normally. They were saying that if people spent just .5% of what they currently saved, then it'd pump over a billion into local businesses over the course of a year.

The retailers partaking in it seem happy enough.. nobody is forcing them to do so. If it gets people back into shops, even if they only spend a tiny bit extra, then it'll be a positive thing.

Herb Powell

Nodin wrote: »

Yes, there is now no demand for drugs, no one on drugs, and no risk of quality controlled, measured substances being available that don't fund criminals. They should send joe to mexico, where he can doubtless have the same effect there.

lol, that's pretty much the opposite of what was in headshops

AskMyChocolate

If Ming is selling off his crop at bargain basement prices, now that he's knocked it on the head, I may be willing to part with a fiver. Otherwise I'll be passing it on to jimthemental as I presume he'll be giving Joe nine punches for the price of one.

exscusethepig

jimthemental wrote: »

I've a solution for Duffy hatred and the national deficit! Pay a fiver to the government for the privilege of opening him with a thump. I'd pay everything I earn on punches and ice for my knuckles.

Yeah throw him in with National Fish and Chips day and the country will be saved, imagine portions of battered Joe for a fiver - I'll pay a tenner.

Nodin

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

HAHAHA!

Well the criminals I don't see, worry me less. Plus most of those kippy outlets were an eyesore. Good riddance.

No need to worry about Mexico.

Hey Joe, what's coming up next? Bleeding Hearts!

An answer bereft of merit, seemingly designed with the intent to annoy. What a change for the books there.

Sonnenblumen

Nodin wrote: »

An answer bereft of merit, seemingly designed with the intent to annoy. What a change for the books there.

Joe, Joe, Joe, just read some piss artist crap about Nigerian asylum seeking, I could do with a good book.

oppenheimer1

Plenty of pubs are getting in on this lark I see... Selling pints for €5... great value:D

Gunmonkey

Two questions:

1) Will Joe be only working for €5 on that friday? (Im thinking no, his solid gold mansion aint gonna build itself!!)

2) Is the inverse of this true, so items that are worth less than €5 would now be worth €5. If so, gonna hope its a warm one and buy a box of ice-creams, sit with them in a cooler on Grafton St and sell em on for €5 each. If anyone objects......."Sure its to save the country, boss..."

While the idea is novel, getting people to spend an extra €5 a week rather than saving it, its pissing in the wind compared to the scale of changes needed to drag this country back.

Absurdum

this is a fantastic idea, I saved a fiver today, to spend tomorrow

how can this possibly not work?

Joe 4 Prez

Wolfe Tone

Joe must want to get his car serviced or something else on the cheap.

Biggins

mikemac wrote: »

He ranted and lead a crusade against headshops and cost jobs and tax.
But he happily chatted and laughed with "salt of the earth" Moore St sellers and their smuggled dodgy cigarettes which pay zero tax, hypocrite

Yep, says it all about the man.

Dangerous Man wrote: »

<snip>.

You people?
..And what have YOU done then? Eh?
You do know that actually some of us in our own way, are actually trying to invoke change!
...But naaa, lets conveniently overlook that for the sake of a rant and generalising stupidly too much!

Dangerous Man

Biggins wrote: »

Yep, says it all about the man.



You people?
..And what have YOU done then? Eh?
You do know that actually some of us in our own way, are actually trying to invoke change!
...But naaa, lets conveniently overlook that for the sake of a rant and generalising stupidly too much!

I think, with respect, you might have missed the point of my post...

orourkeda

fiver on a friday joe. it's a disgrace

Guill

Happy Fiver Friday one and all!!!

lucylu

Guill wrote: »

Happy Fiver Friday one and all!!!

Its next Friday 1st July..also the lower VAT rate of 9% kicks in.

dr.bollocko

To re-iterate my earlier warnings. Pointless streams of invective will be removed / actioned.

tightropetom

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

No they're just dealing with people who have taken illegal and often more dangerous drugs.

We already had to deal with those anyway. The amount of my time wasted on people Taking legal highs was a joke and we were seeing a lot more of the latter while it was legal.

Logical Fallacy

I'll do Joe's job for free tbh.

A nice warm studio to sit in and his big fat arse groove in the chair, comfy as **** i reckon.

Indignation is easy to do.

"That's terrible...."
"Clontarf"
"Shocking story there...."
"Clontarf"

Funglegunk

Joe Duffy: Porn for moaners.

Think he needs to have a chat with Eddie Hobbs.

Guill

lucylu wrote: »

Its next Friday 1st July..also the lower VAT rate of 9% kicks in.

Boy is my face red!



:mad:

policarp

Guill wrote: »

Boy is my face red!



:mad:

You could get a little practice in today.
Flashing the fiver.

Guill

policarp wrote: »

You could get a little practice in today.
Flashing the fiver.

Well i suppose, spending my fiver wont save the economy but it will et the ball rolling!


<Looks around>

<Guill spots a boy>


Events from this point on may be dramatised..

Hallo, my fine fellow.'

'Hallo.' returned the boy.

'Do you know the Poulterer's, in the next street but one,
at the corner.' Guill inquired.

'I should hope I did,' replied the lad.

'An intelligent boy.' said Guill. 'A remarkable boy.
Do you know whether they've sold the prize Turkey that
was hanging up there -- Not the little prize Turkey: the
big one.'

'What, the one as big as me.' returned the boy.

'What a delightful boy.' said Scrooge. 'It's a pleasure
to talk to him. Yes, my buck.'

'It's hanging there now,' replied the boy.

'Is it.' said Guill. 'Go and buy it, offer him a fiver, tell him Joe Duffy said it was okay.'

The boy was off like a shot!

Nodin

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Joe, Joe, Joe, just read some piss artist crap about Nigerian asylum seeking, I could do with a good book.

..and that had even less to do with the topic and reality than the last. If you are going to try to snipe at me in various threads, you might at least make some effort.

prinz

Joe Duffy is actually very useful at times. If you have a customer service issue or complaint, the Joe Duffy threat works incrediby well.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

prinz wrote: »

Joe Duffy is actually very useful at times. If you have a customer service issue or complaint, the Joe Duffy threat works incrediby well.

It does in it's arse! You just have to ask said customer "who's Joe Duffy?" and they nearly have a heart attack.