Newstalk - Breakfast Show

davef1000

I just thought it was funny, that's all.

wnolan1992

Fair enough. :-)

Speaking of funny, I for one can't wait for Ivan on Monday given his certainty that Man C would put Leicester in their place today! :pac:

Radio is for life

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Fair enough. :-)

Speaking of funny, I for one can't wait for Ivan on Monday given his certainty that Man C would put Leicester in their place today! :pac:

IM just surprised that newstalk and Funny are in the same sentance.

PeterTheEighth

Pathetic stuff from Niall Collins. Trying to make political points over the recent murders in Dublin. And when it's put to him that his party closed Templemore, he says "well FG should have re-opened it sooner".

wnolan1992

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Pathetic stuff from Niall Collins. Trying to make political points over the recent murders in Dublin. And when it's put to him that his party closed Templemore, he says "well FG should have re-opened it sooner".

And if they'd opened it sooner, he'd have been on saying "They opened it too soon!", or "The resources were poorly deployed!", or "They should have radically changed policing in the country in the past 4 years so that this didn't happen!", or "Why didn't they use mind powers to anticipate these attacks?".

Basically, all politicians are conceited, lying, hypocritical douchebags. Without exception.

jooksavage

wnolan1992 wrote: »

And if they'd opened it sooner, he'd have been on saying "They opened it too soon!", or "The resources were poorly deployed!", or "They should have radically changed policing in the country in the past 4 years so that this didn't happen!", or "Why didn't they use mind powers to anticipate these attacks?".

Basically, all politicians are conceited, lying, hypocritical douchebags. Without exception.

Nothing like an election to send douchebaggery levels into overdrive. No incident too big, small or crass to exploit for some cheap point-scoring.

nomdeboardie

Pat Kenny shilling the "food intolerance" industry and York Test again :rolleyes:. I don't know that there is nothing to these ideas, but PK's totally unquestioning delivery is galling (not so much as it would be if he was still on the public purse, though); update - he read a question on that from a listener, but did not dwell on it. He's generally a good inquisitor, but sometimes drops the ball on what should be asked or fails to follow up to a satisfactory answer. More so since transfer to Newstalk, I wonder... More frantic energeticness, less substance?

PeterTheEighth

Chris embarrassing himself again. He was only short of saying "Well Taoiseach if you dont answer my question, I'm going to scream and scream and squeam".

Baggy Trousers

He was dead right. Our esteemed leader is let off answering simple questions time and time again - in public and in the Dail.
That is not democracy.

PeterTheEighth

"There was a report this morning that there are x number of people on trolleys this morning. Minister, are you proud of that?"

Chris needs a smack in the mouth. Somebody in NT needs to talk to him about his childish, petty, immature, populist manner of interviewing.

wnolan1992

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

He was dead right. Our esteemed leader is let off answering simple questions time and time again - in public and in the Dail.
That is not democracy.

Agreed, but reiterating the same question over and over again in a petulant tone just comes across as childish. If Chris had just said "Taoiseach, I'm not asking whether you're actively thinking about going into government with FF, I'm asking whether you'll outright rule the possibility of doing so out?", allowed Enda to weasel out of it, then just said "Your lack of an answer is answer in itself, thank you." I think it would have been far more impactful than just shouting "WILL YOU RULE IT OUT!" while one of the handlers is saying "Chris..." in a very condescending tone.

PeterTheEighth

If that gobsh1te says "Battlebus" one more time. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Floppybits

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

If that gobsh1te says "Battlebus" one more time. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Any pictures of this Battlebus?

wnolan1992

gimmick

Stop saying battlebus.

wnolan1992

gimmick wrote: »

Stop saying battlebus.

Apt username is apt when discussing Battle Bus. :pac:

Gwynplaine

That Dublin scobie / New Yorker accent hybrid is the worst I've ever heard.
Why are there so many Americans on Moncrief's show? Most of them spouting nonsense.

PeterTheEighth

You've got to laugh at Newstalk telling the audience to "make sure and tune in for" Yates' predictions, as if he didn't want us to be denied these golden nuggets of wisdom. While speaking to George Hook last week, I think Vincent Browne summed it up best - "This fella (Yates) went in to the prediction business and lost a fortune, proving conclusively that his predictive abilities are close to zero."

PeterTheEighth

And now John Fitzgerald, another man who has proved conclusively that his predictive abilities are close to zero as well.

wnolan1992

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

You've got to laugh at Newstalk telling the audience to "make sure and tune in for" Yates' predictions, as if he didn't want us to be denied these golden nuggets of wisdom. While speaking to George Hook last week, I think Vincent Browne summed it up best - "This fella (Yates) went in to the prediction business and lost a fortune, proving conclusively that his predictive abilities are close to zero."

Well he predicted something like 150/166 correct in the last election...

PeterTheEighth

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Well he predicted something like 150/166 correct in the last election...

Maybe he should have taken more bets on politics than sport then.

wnolan1992

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Maybe he should have taken more bets on politics than sport then.

I thought the point you were trying to make was that his "prediction abilities are close to zero", yet now you seem to saying he does know what he's talking about and can predict politics?

Your attempts to have a childish dig at someone you don't like are confusing.

PeterTheEighth

wnolan1992 wrote: »

I thought the point you were trying to make was that his "prediction abilities are close to zero", yet now you seem to saying he does know what he's talking about and can predict politics? Your attempts to have a childish dig at someone you don't like are confusing.

I'm sorry for confusing you.

Claude Burgundy

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

You've got to laugh at Newstalk telling the audience to "make sure and tune in for" Yates' predictions, as if he didn't want us to be denied these golden nuggets of wisdom. While speaking to George Hook last week, I think Vincent Browne summed it up best - "This fella (Yates) went in to the prediction business and lost a fortune, proving conclusively that his predictive abilities are close to zero."

Browne isn't the best business man himself.................

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/vincent-browne-slashes-debt-at-his-firm-by-over-260000-28892367.html

Vorenus400

Claude Burgundy wrote: »

Browne isn't the best business man himself.................

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/vincent-browne-slashes-debt-at-his-firm-by-over-260000-28892367.html

At least Vincent is paying his debts unlike Mick Wallace or going off to the Britain like Ivan.

gimmick

Didn't Yates offer to pay something like 90c on the €1 but was refused leaving him with little other option?

or is that a myth?

Vorenus400

gimmick wrote: »

Didn't Yates offer to pay something like 90c on the €1 but was refused leaving him with little other option?

or is that a myth?

Wow, if he genuinely made that offer then I am impressed. But did he just say that after coming back from the UK?

Claude Burgundy

gimmick wrote: »

Didn't Yates offer to pay something like 90c on the €1 but was refused leaving him with little other option?

or is that a myth?

Ye she has said that a number of times that he made that offer but the bank refused.

Ol' Donie

Why does Oliver Callan's Michael D Higgins do that f*ckin squeak noise all the time?

Faugheen

Is it just me or does Chris like to mention that the Taoiseach didn't do an interview with them a lot?