Late Late Show 8th Jan 16

PeterTheEighth

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Bobby Ballagh looks like one of the criminals who fought Adam West's Batman

POW! BAM!

Oops69

Strazdas wrote: »

Ballagh talks about the "tyranny" of British rule in 1916. What tyranny? Dublin was a calm city at ease with itself before the Rising erupted.

not quite but the poor of Dublin were certainly under the tyranny of the 'catholic' middle classes and still are.

Atlantic Dawn

He has his generation spot on.

coolhull

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

If the 6 counties were handed over at the time what would the level of deaths have been?

It's too soon to say :P

Atlantic Dawn

The best about it is the old exploiters are fooked because the young can't breed.

PeterTheEighth

Tubridy compared the Rubber Bandits 1916 program to Horrible Histories. Has anybody ever seen Horrible Histories, I happened to catch it a few mornings. It's an amazing program. It's for kids and I found myself in stitches laughing at it. Fair play to the (albeit) English :mad: people who made it.

Martypants1

Ah blindboy talking pure tripe there. Plenty of jobs here for skilled workers in this country.

Ally Dick

I've been dreading this year, all because of stupid debates like this

Roger_007

Oops69 wrote: »

not quite but the poor of Dublin were certainly under the tyranny of the 'catholic' middle classes and still are.

The 'tyranny' of London was replaced by the tyranny of Rome.

The Talking Bread

i have a feeling this speech from Blindboy was set up. It was just too neatly fitted in.

ProudDUB

Strazdas wrote: »

Ballagh talks about the "tyranny" of British rule in 1916. What tyranny? Dublin was a calm city at ease with itself before the Rising erupted.

I'd say if you were an affluent, member of the Protestant merchant class, you were a lot more at ease with yourself & your place the world and the Empire, than if you were a Catholic living in an inner city tenement, with 45 other families. :rolleyes:

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He has his generation spot on.

Nope, much of his generation got free 3rd level education and were only too delighted to travel, work for google,facebook etc in Dublin and bought houses for sfa in recent years compared to the boom.

He's trying to engage with the water protester of his generation.

He mentioned not being able to afford children, no single parent families with parent under 35 about?

GoldFour4

Ah jesus what is BB talking about here.

Say Your Number

Say Your Number wrote: »

He might look like he's taking the piss with a plastic bag on his head, but Blindboy is spot on.

Actually tbf and in contrast to my earlier comment he is the only one talking sense which is a poor indictment of the other 3 prats

Atlantic Dawn

Martypants1 wrote: »

Ah blindboy talking pure tripe there. Plenty of jobs here for skilled workers in this country.

Yes but you can't afford a house, you can't afford to have a child so the country is out and out fooked as there won't be enough people to sustain it.

Ol' Donie

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Fair play to the (albeit) English.

Get him!

Skid X

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Tubridy compared the Rubber Bandits 1916 program to Horrible Histories. Has anybody ever seen Horrible Histories, I happened to catch it a few mornings. It's an amazing program. It's for kids and I found myself in stitches laughing at it. Fair play to the (albeit) English :mad: people who made it.

yeah, Horrible Histories is very well done. Almost wasted on the kids!

Also, RTE are some shower, but that Rubber Bandits 1916 programme was excellent.

GoldFour4

The Talking Bread wrote: »

i have a feeling this speech from Blindboy was set up. It was just too neatly fitted in.

Absolutely. The rubberbandits are no fools. Two highly educated lads who know how to get their point across.

Ally Dick

Will all of this crap go away after Easter ? Thank god Easter is early this year

paleoperson

malistheman wrote: »

Ah jesus what is BB talking about here.

He needs to settle down a little, he's after getting a bit excited.

Skid X

I'd love to see BlindBoy BoatClub on the Vincent Browne panel.

This guy is making incredible points. While wearing a plastic bag.

I'm so confused.

Martypants1

Augeo wrote: »

Nope, much of his generation got free 3rd level education and were only too delighted to travel, work for google,facebook etc in Dublin and bought houses for sfa in recent years compared to the boom.

He's trying to engage with the water protester of his generation.

Agree. Talking ****e.

I'm 24 and I think this country isn't so bad.

Blindboy is just speaking out for people who aren't educated and put all their eggs in one basket.

GoldFour4

This was supposed to be about the rising I thought? It's gone so so far off topic.

Roger_007

Ballagh is soooooooo full of sh1te!

PeterTheEighth

Okay, I've been searching furiously here and I think I've found out who Robert Ballagh was when he fought Batman.

In the episode An Egg Grows in Gotham, there was the following character "Egghead". What do ye think? There he is there, looking nefarious.

Samsgirl

malistheman wrote: »

Absolutely. The rubberbandits are no fools. Two highly educated lads who know how to get their point across.

Blindboy has a masters in psychology

Oops69

Yates needs to read a bit of history , he's very poorly informed .

Balmed Out

ProudDUB wrote: »

I'd say if you were an affluent, member of the Protestant merchant class, you were a lot more at ease with yourself & your place the world and the Empire, than if you were a Catholic living in an inner city tenement, with 45 other families. :rolleyes:

Probably as much or more chance of being wasted at the somme etc

As much as ive always found him annoying yates making most sense.

Ally Dick

How can Yates lecture anybody, after turning his back on all of that debt ?