Six in the City

BobMc

Well Gang, anyone catch this show on RTE2 last night, opinions thoughts on the portrayal of Limerick, surprised their wasn't a thread started already,
as a show i thought itt was a pretty good idea, some poor commentary and not as slick as a full time production of the show would be BUT, as per usual I feel a little let down by the view if gave on Limerick, any thoughts people ?

MHalberstram

BobMc wrote: »

Well Gang, anyone catch this show on RTE2 last night, opinions thoughts on the portrayal of Limerick, surprised their wasn't a thread started already,
as a show i thought itt was a pretty good idea, some poor commentary and not as slick as a full time production of the show would be BUT, as per usual I feel a little let down by the view if gave on Limerick, any thoughts people ?

From what I've heard, I think I'm glad I missed it.

Beaver1

they were a holy show, your one is from the arsehole of Limerick moved to corbally and has a half an english accent, that keeps breaking in and out. she is on 95fm at the moment, jesus wept

MHalberstram

Beaver1 wrote: »

they were a holy show, your one is from the arsehole of Limerick moved to corbally and has a half an english accent, that keeps breaking in and out. she is on 95fm at the moment, jesus wept

Apparently she named her first child Tavern after her favourite pub. Wonder is it The Glen Tavern. They should rename the place if it is.

BobMc

I agree was a bit of a horror show alright, was not impressed but the complete lack of manners and respect, my wife and I cringed through most of it was most disappointed that its making all of us as citizens of limerick look like a pack of skobes

timesnewroman

What bugged me the most was the blatant stereotyping of the three cities.

Limerick => Ruffians.
Dublin => Well to do sorts/snobs.
Galway => Flakes (yer man was a musician and she was an American free spirit).

The joke is on the licence fee payer however, the shower from Limerick are off to Benidorm with the prize money I think she said.

BobMc

timesnewroman wrote: »

What bugged me the most was the blatant stereotyping of the three cities.

Limerick => Ruffians.
Dublin => Well to do sorts/snobs.
Galway => Flakes (yer man was a musician and she was an American free spirit).

The joke is on the licence fee payer however, the shower from Limerick are off to Benidorm with the prize money I think she said.

they might even be too low brow for benidorm

timesnewroman

BobMc wrote: »

they might even be too low brow for benidorm

Ha. You're probably right. When handed a glass of wine last night she did say "I only drink wine to get langers luv".

BobMc

and for colds as medicine !

donfers

i think the show won't have done limerick's reputation any good, i don't think the limerick couple are necessarily a fair representation of limerick people but as someone said the show wanted to portray limerick types as knackers, galway types as crusties and dublin types as snobs

whereas the reality is you get all these types in all cities

you could say the contestants were manipulated to an extent, but the lack of self-awareness particularly from the limerick couple was amazing

timesnewroman

donfers wrote: »

i think the show won't have done limerick's reputation any good, i don't think the limerick couple are necessarily a fair representation of limerick people but as someone said the show wanted to portray limerick types as knackers, galway types as crusties and dublin types as snobs

whereas the reality is you get all these types in all cities

you could say the contestants were manipulated to an extent, but the lack of self-awareness particularly from the limerick couple was amazing

Agree completely. I think the Limerick couple were exploited and were too thick to notice.

This is what the RTE website had to say about them....


Unemployed Karaoke addict Danny and his partner Tammy, a full time mum, are unapologetic party monsters.  They like drinking, raucous sing-a-longa Rhianna sessions and their idea of a slap-up meal is an all-you-can eat buffet; although they can stretch to a nice buzzy western-themed steakhouse if they’re out to impress.

http://www.rte.ie/presspack/2012/09/13/format-farm-six-in-the-city/

um7y1h83ge06nx

Yeah they definitely manipulated that couple, it's fairly cringe worthy.

I feel embarrassed for them.

IMO the Limerick stereotype is the worst of the three.

Skuxx

Just had a look at the Limerick part of it on the RTE player......quite shocking alright!! Fairly painful to watch!!

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10052674 (if anyone wants a look)

donfers

Mary Long Lock wrote: »

Yeah they definitely manipulated that couple, it's fairly cringe worthy.

I feel embarrassed for them.

IMO the Limerick stereotype is the worst of the three.

The thing is, they'll say, they don't care, they get their week in Benidorm or whatever but for years to come they'll have the piss mercilessly ripped out of them and then they'll care and then they'll realise they were manipulated.

Certainly the portrayal of Limerick was by far the most damaging, the tourism people won't be happy.

Out of interest, what did the Limerick woman say on the radio?

Stab*City

She loves "Volka" though!

Catxscotch

That was awful. Im only living in Limerick a short while and Im blue in the face telling people it's not that bad, then these pair of pure knackers are the ones representing Limerick. They hadn't a brain cell between them. Imagine taking them to a michelin restaurant only for them to gag and scream about how they couldn't eat it and was there no chips?!

Mc Love

I only saw a few mins this morning before I went to work and believe me that was enough! Shocking programme, wasnt even funny! Glad to see our taxes getting spent wisely...not!

um7y1h83ge06nx

"We'll keep the cheque but you can have the publicity" Thanks :rolleyes:

Just listened to the audio here in work through the RTE player, they came across very, very badly in fairness, they didn't want to move outside their comfort zone at all. They were the most vocal when it came to criticising people and complaining about food etc.

Car crash TV.

Skuxx

donfers wrote: »

Out of interest, what did the Limerick woman say on the radio?

Basically that they don't care that people thought the other couples were posh and they weren't, that if people got to know her they might think differently of her and at the end of the day, they won the prize so everyone else can fcuk off with their opinions!!

Or at least that's how it seemed to me

docrock

The rocky horror show wouldnt get a look in - the two from Limerick were off their trollies & as common as **** - good crack though if you could get a word in. The two from Dublin were full of crap -complete snobs, how they appeared on the show is beyond me & your man from Galway was ok but she was full of it.
It was a bit like watching the Republic of Telly without the plastic bags:eek::eek:

Berty

timesnewroman wrote: »

Agree completely. I think the Limerick couple were exploited and were too thick to notice.

Definately exploited.

Her accent is the extreme Limerick accent and the one most Limerick people cringe about when they hear it in the Media. Her accent includes her pronunciation of certain words and placements of the wrong words in a sentence. The strong Limerick accent is truly weird. :rolleyes:

I just didn't like her unwillingness to explore new foods and was shocked when she asked for chips in that Dublin restaurant.

And Benidorm, what a choice but then again I know we are different peas in different pods.

Her partner. I could take him or leave him, just very loud.

Dublin fella. Michael Flatly anybody?

timesnewroman

I heard on the radio this morning that the Dublin fella was on Come Dine With Me last year. Likes the spotlight methinks.

EMTFlynn

Nice house too for people unemployed :rolleyes:

docrock

timesnewroman wrote: »

I heard on the radio this morning that the Dublin fella was on Come Dine With Me last year. Likes the spotlight methinks.

He wouldnt need a spotlight with the green shirt he'd on - he'd just glow in the dark. I was wondering how he did the karaoke in Limerick alright - they probably had to drag the microphone away from him off camera.

GHER

The stereotyping was cringeworthy but without a doubt the Limerick couple came off the worst. I was almost in tears watching it, laughing at first then my mood changed halfway through when they got nasty. I have a garden gnome with a higher level of emotional and social intelligence. "I was just being myself" is no excuse for the lack of respect they showed towards the others, even if they were ar**holes. You can't justify your behaviour by "boasting" about the fact you have the "courage" to be yourself. Apologies about the quotation marks by the way, I just didn't know how else to phrase it.

But if the aim of the show was to cause controversy then mission accomplished. Once again we're in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Cheers RTE.

Berty

GHER wrote: »

IMO they disgraced the city, even if there was some manipulative editing.

Most people wouldn't consider the making of a city to revolve around the actions of a traveller(said it herself) and an English guy.

As a friend of mine watching it and posting at the same time posted up on Facebook saying, "I bet they end up in the Chicken hut".

Skuxx

Beer Baron wrote: »

Most people wouldn't consider the making of a city to revolve around the actions of a traveller(said it herself) and an English guy.

As a friend of mine watching it and posting at the same time posted up on Facebook saying, "I bet they end up in the Chicken hut".

When they were getting off the bus at that area of O'Connell Street I was full sure that's where they were going!!! They said it wasn't going to be Indian or Chinese, I would have put money on for chicken hut!!

Silentcorner

Catxscotch wrote: »

That was awful. Im only living in Limerick a short while and Im blue in the face telling people it's not that bad, then these pair of pure knackers are the ones representing Limerick. They hadn't a brain cell between them. Imagine taking them to a michelin restaurant only for them to gag and scream about how they couldn't eat it and was there no chips?!

Welcome to our nightmare friend, the second I heard they were planning this kind of programme I knew what was coming

You should have seen the few "Prime time Investigates" episodes on the city, you know the same Prime Time Investigates that was taken off the air in disgrace for their episode on Fr Reynolds ( who would never have been vindicated were it not for the fact they claimed he fathered a child, had he been accused of rape he wouldn't have had a leg to stand on)

Creighons Cities recently did a job on us recently also ( not as bad as other admittedly )

Pat Kenny ( the presenter who is paid €900k per annum ) found a young fella carrying a gun live on his morning show while he was broadcasting his show from Moyross...

This is our national broadcaster who we all pay our tv licence to

RikkFlair

I echo Bock The Robbers sentiments on Twitter:

Where did they get these ****ing waahs in Six in the City? Did RTE search Limerick for the two thickest gob****es they could find?

bazz26

It's good to see our TV licence money is spent on making top quality programs like this. I won't even comment on the trash that took part in it.

kenoconnell

Another nice little stitch up from RTE...

first of all the Prime Time...

Now this... They must have been creaming in there pants when they got to pick the completely different chaulk and cheese. Perfect crap car crash TV to get some lame ratings... complete embarrassment for people of limerick.

I AM NEVER PAYING MY TV LICENSE......

daveob007

typical RTE they should have picked 3 couples with the same sort of backgrounds to make it fair,as usual it did limerick no favours,2 skangers and yer one with de worst knacker accent you can hear.
As one poster pointed,nice house for 2 unemployed people, probably regenerated from some ****ehole.By the way did she call one of her kids Tavern or Tavrin?????

Clareman

Folks, there's a TV Forum on here if you want to discuss TV, also, not paying your TV License is against the law if you have a device capable of receiving a signal.

timesnewroman

daveob007 wrote: »

typical RTE they should have picked 3 couples with the same sort of backgrounds to make it fair,as usual it did limerick no favours,2 skangers and yer one with de worst knacker accent you can hear.
As one poster pointed,nice house for 2 unemployed people, probably regenerated from some ****ehole.By the way did she call one of her kids Tavern or Tavrin?????

Tavern after her favourite pub, The Tavern Inn. The other kid was called Levi after the third son of Jacob the famous demin manufacturers.

The_Dave

timesnewroman wrote: »

Tavern after her favourite pub, The Tavern Inn. The other kid was called Levi after the third son of Jacob the famous demin manufacturers.

You sure? Perhaps it is Levy after the income, or pension, levy that she pays, oh, wait...!;)

daveob007

timesnewroman wrote: »

Tavern after her favourite pub, The Tavern Inn. The other kid was called Levi after the third son of Jacob the famous demin manufacturers.

it was just the accent that made it sound like tavrin....

danny and tammy

hahahahaha we love the way people going on about our nice house.....it doesnt cost ANYTHING to be clean.......everyone is blowing the whole show out of proportion and to be honest if it was as bad as you all think why the hell did you watch it........we know we are not going to please everyone but my god you really must have not got anything exciting in your lives at the moment to be sitting there writing things for your own enjoyment .....it makes you no better than us......so please before you judge anyone ...MAKE SURE YOUR PERFECT FIRST.....we are not going to waste anymore of our quality time reading anymore of these comments because they really aint getting to us and in fact are boring yet entertaining...so you guys just work away ......hahahahahahahaha

heresjohnnie

How much did the house cost to buy and who bought it I believe is what they are highlighting, however thats neither here nor there.

It is a shame that RTE would do this - I think every person I've met or talked to about the show is in complete shock at some of the behaviour they aired and how they wrapped it around as being the "best" of Limerick city. The fact that they went with 3 extreme sterotypes shows that they were trying to create shock TV which is a shame because a show like this has potential to promote tourism to Ireland's cities. Shannon Development and Failte Ireland really should be reaching out to RTE and asking them not to portray Irish cities in overly negative ways.

At least when TV3 attack Limerick they highlight the problems as pockets of gang activity in the city, whereas RTE are hell beant on making it seem that scumbuggary is the norm in Limerick - shows like this are far more damaging then highlighting the gang problem!

In saying all that although the couple obviously highlighted the extreme negative sterotypes and I dont for a second condone their disgusting behaviour/attitude and lack of respect (nor RTE's selection of them and airing of their antics) I do think that their selections werent as bad as the show made out. The tour bus into the city was a fantastic idea and while Texas Steakhouse doesnt represent the finest Limerick has to offer, its a good solid restaurant and was criticised a bit too strongly, in my opinion. The trip to Limerick Greyhound Stadium didnt go down well at all with the Dublin couple but it is a brilliant venue and highlights Limerick's Sporting mentality. Going to the rough pub - I really dont know why they would bring people from out of town there, nevermind a camera crew - but sure each to their own.

Thinking about it afterwards, what would you do to highlight the best of the city? The tour bus would deffo stay, aside from the greyhound track its hard to think of evening 'events' to bring people to in Limerick (which represent the best of the city), maybe organise night tour of Thomond Park (??), eat in Freddies, Hamptons or Cornstore and then go back into cornstore or savoy bar or somewhere for cocktails or something?!? Its tough to make the city seem cosmopolitan within the parameters of the show...

Id be interested to hear what others would do??

danny and tammy

who in gods name said our house was bought???? and even if it was which it aint wahat bloody bussiness of anyone???? is your house bought???? how much is it worth??? u wont tell me because its none of my bloody bussiness...like whys its no one elses bussiness.....god people make us laugh

source

danny and tammy wrote: »

who in gods name said our house was bought???? and even if it was which it aint wahat bloody bussiness of anyone???? is your house bought???? how much is it worth??? u wont tell me because its none of my bloody bussiness...like whys its no one elses bussiness.....god people make us laugh

I don't know if this is really the people from the show, but I will say one thing I've said on here before in relation to Rich Anton.....If you put your self in the public light, expect to have talk about you, also expect that some will have negative comments to make about you.

While there were some negative comments here about the couple (still not sure if it's actually you or someone trolling) the majority of the comments are about the format the producers of the show used. Which limited the view of each city to a stereotype, instead of truly allowing the show to display the best that each city has to offer.

Beaver1

danny and tammy wrote: »

who in gods name said our house was bought???? and even if it was which it aint wahat bloody bussiness of anyone???? is your house bought???? how much is it worth??? u wont tell me because its none of my bloody bussiness...like whys its no one elses bussiness.....god people make us laugh

how did ye afford to hire the bus, pay for the meal, a night at the racesand a night in the pub all on social welfare

apc

source wrote: »

I don't know if this is really the people from the show, but I will say one thing I've said on here before in relation to Rich Anton.....If you put your self in the public light, expect to have talk about you, also expect that some will have negative comments to make about you.

While there were some negative comments here about the couple (still not sure if it's actually you or someone trolling) the majority of the comments are about the format the producers of the show used. Which limited the view of each city to a stereotype, instead of truly allowing the show to display the best that each city has to offer.

Thats not the real Tammy and Danny as they couldn't speak so I would imagine their spelling wouldn't be too good either unlike what was posted bar the couple of "obvious" mistakes in the second post:D

danny and tammy

shows how much people really actually know....if you read the ad for the show when they were looking for couples to enter it clearly states ALL EXPENSES PAID for 3 weekends...even down to the off licence to buy the cocktails for them.....they paid for everything including putting us up in the G hotel in galway....travel and everything.....thats why we went on it.....r u telling me you wouldnt go for all expenses paid nights out......we both feel rte let all the couples down because there was a hell of alot recording done but they took the bits they wanted and yes they did manipulate us but you know what...at the end of the day we WON stop bloody moaning about things you clearly know nothing about.......there have been far more positive comments than negative and we want to thank the non narrow minded people for their support....and to the rest of you you will have something else to talk about next week so get over it xxx

Mc Love

Where are all the positive comments???

MHalberstram

danny and tammy wrote: »

shows how much people really actually know....if you read the ad for the show when they were looking for couples to enter it clearly states ALL EXPENSES PAID for 3 weekends...even down to the off licence to buy the cocktails for them.....they paid for everything including putting us up in the G hotel in galway....travel and everything.....thats why we went on it.....r u telling me you wouldnt go for all expenses paid nights out......we both feel rte let all the couples down because there was a hell of alot recording done but they took the bits they wanted and yes they did manipulate us but you know what...at the end of the day we WON stop bloody moaning about things you clearly know nothing about.......there have been far more positive comments than negative and we want to thank the non narrow minded people for their support....and to the rest of you you will have something else to talk about next week so get over it xxx

RTE didn't make you behave in such a shameful "zero class" manner. Winning doesn't excuse your behaviour either. Frankly, to the decent people of this city, you are nothing but a disgrace.

Silentcorner

danny and tammy wrote: »

shows how much people really actually know....if you read the ad for the show when they were looking for couples to enter it clearly states ALL EXPENSES PAID for 3 weekends...even down to the off licence to buy the cocktails for them.....they paid for everything including putting us up in the G hotel in galway....travel and everything.....thats why we went on it.....r u telling me you wouldnt go for all expenses paid nights out......we both feel rte let all the couples down because there was a hell of alot recording done but they took the bits they wanted and yes they did manipulate us but you know what...at the end of the day we WON stop bloody moaning about things you clearly know nothing about.......there have been far more positive comments than negative and we want to thank the non narrow minded people for their support....and to the rest of you you will have something else to talk about next week so get over it xxx

You're "open mindedness" was there for all to see in the restuarante in Dublin

You won by virtue of giving your compeditors a fraction of the points they gave you

chris2008x

danny and tammy wrote: »

who in gods name said our house was bought???? and even if it was which it aint wahat bloody bussiness of anyone???? is your house bought???? how much is it worth??? u wont tell me because its none of my bloody bussiness...like whys its no one elses bussiness.....god people make us laugh

danny and tammy wrote: »

last comment .....thanks for your views.....we aint listening everyones got their own opinion as for we cant spell well obviously we can so have a nice life peeps coz i know we will xxxxxx

Please spell business

They answered with bussiness.

I doubt it is them. Probably some troll with a micro p**is

I challenge you to prove your identity.

Mc Love

Silentcorner wrote: »

You're "open mindedness" was there for all to see in the restuarante in Dublin

You won by virtue of giving your compeditors a fraction of the points they gave you

I have seen people do this before on CDWM and the show made them change the score they gave the other contestants albeit not by much!

Its absolutely rude and ignorant to not treat other contestants with respect

Hooked

On a side note... I'm just watching come dine with me on Channel 4... Irish version. Must be a re run.

Guess who's hosting the final night?

Iiiitttsssss.... MARTIN! (of the Dublin couple on Six in the City). The wife must have made him dress younger and grow his hair as I almost missed it was him.

The camera whore!

Berty

Hooked wrote: »

Iiiitttsssss.... MARTIN! (of the Dublin couple on Six in the City). The wife must have made him dress younger and grow his hair as I almost missed it was him.

The camera whore!

Divorced in Come Dine With Me and different house. In Six in the City you'd think he was with his new missus for much longer than a few months.

Ccate

timesnewroman wrote: »

I heard on the radio this morning that the Dublin fella was on Come Dine With Me last year. Likes the spotlight methinks.

Yes, the just showed The come dine with me on Channel 4 and the Dub oldest Swinger Martin was on it, bar the Mrs! Jays us what are they like.... Swing back from the 70's... He obviously thinks he is TV material... Someone like him makes me want to puke and his silly lady... How he rescued her from Drogheda OMG... She is obviously v naive and sheltered .