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Late Late Toy Show = Ireland a Nation of Simpletons?

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    #122
    Big Bag of Chips
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    kunst nugget wrote: »
    She'll be too busy reading to be on the Toy Show. She reads and I mean really reads. It's very unusual.

    She'll have read all the books by then.


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    #123
    kunst nugget
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    Big Bag of Chips wrote: »
    She'll have read all the books by then.

    That'll be very unusual!!!


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    #124
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    I love the toy show. Always did. It's a bit of harmless fun and merriment in an otherwise gloomy world. Now that I live abroad a load of us irish get together in someone's apartment and watch it, it's a slice of home for the night.

    Some people need to stick a light bulb up their arse and lighten up.


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    #125
    _Jamie_
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    What age are you? Seriously. Do you have kids? I made a very basic point about my own child NOT being consumed by watching the LLTS and usually reading a book on a friday night. Im not wondering about it. I encourage it. She will watch it this Friday, just like I said she would.

    Yes, to slag it off apparently. :confused: Your kid doesn't have to like the show, of course. But you appear to making some correlation between your child enjoying reading and not liking the toy show (remember what you said - only watching it to stay up later and slag it off). Enjoying the show has no correlation to not enjoying reading, none at all. Kids can do both. Liking toys and salivating over them doesn't convey a lack of brainpower. And nope, reading is not unusual for children, especially not Roald Dahl.


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    #126
    _Jamie_
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    Well there is a pattern here...the previous presenter's nickname 'Pat the Plank' sounds like an instruction a paedophile would issue to kids. :eek:

    :eek::D


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    #127
    ClovenHoof
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    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.


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    #128
    My name is URL
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.

    What great things are you going to achieve tonight so?


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    #129
    ChikiChiki
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.


    Ah would you relax. The kids like it, that's the main thing.


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    #130
    alchemist33
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.

    Jesus, you're easily embarrassed.


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    #131
    Ulysses Gaze
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.

    https://media.tenor.co/images/3e3e3e90da3e32b6e0fbf259567d9e96/raw


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    #132
    snowbabe
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    Loving the innuendos,thinks he's doing a great job really. Wish my girls were small again :( must be a competition for the best dressed in audience though, never seen them looking so festive! Or maybe I've just never noticed with the wine :)


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    #133
    rob316
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    the last young one was fairly hyper. way too much coke


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    #134
    snowbabe
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    A little known fact that I'd thought I'd share with you all,quite a few of the kids have different disabilities,learning and physical but not very obvious to everyone , that's why I love it .Ryan tubridy has insisted on this, and to the gentleman whose daughter loves reading, my daughter does too and was on the LLTS, talking about dolls but she also reads one book and listens to another simultaneously,at 14 not that unusual :):)


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    #135
    muddypaws
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    Tubridy is also a huge advocate of reading, and makes sure there is always a book section on the toy show.

    I usually think he is great with the kids on the toy show, but that was just plain nasty with the little boy and the lamb, to keep pushing it like that was wrong.


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    #136
    Edups2.0
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    rob316 wrote: »
    the last young one was fairly hyper. way too much coke

    Jaysus she was clear mad.


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    #137
    PucaMama
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    A fcuking national embarrassment. Lol!

    The famine clearly did not kill enough of us.
    Stop looking for attention.


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    #138
    Tsipras
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Am I the only Irish person who absolutely cringes when thinking that this is the annual cultural highlight of an easily spellbound nation?

    Other countries produce opera, pagents, fiestas, etc.

    We produce an RTE welfare case shooting his load on the latest Fisher Price Playstation (activity set)
    cultural highlight :) wtf are you on about? nobody thinks it is .. I won't criticise people who watch it either though


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    #139
    _Jamie_
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    muddypaws wrote: »
    Tubridy is also a huge advocate of reading, and makes sure there is always a book section on the toy show.

    That was always pushed on the show. Nothing new there!


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    #140
    _Jamie_
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I watched a half hour of it tonight and I stand by my original post. Any adult who is entertained by this ****e needs help.

    Half an hour is a lot to watch when you have no interest in it. For example, I watched zero minutes of the show.


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    #141
    buried
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    The toy show should have a podcast/audiobook section to go along with the reading section. Lots of great educational and scientific podcasts/audiobooks being broadcast that young people could delve into and enjoy, can make their own presents for themselves through immediate and enjoyable knowledge learning. Some young folks probably utilize them anyways but the toy show should tap into it and help broadcast it more to those that maybe don't

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #142
    hatrickpatrick
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    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    We produce an RTE welfare case shooting his load on the latest Fisher Price Playstation (activity set)

    Out of curiosity, does that void the warranty, or...?


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    #143
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    It's a pity Pete Doherty and the Baybyshambles weren't on after. I was told that they were going to give a set. A live version of The Lost Art of Murder.


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    #144
    Mena Mitty
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    Too much singing snd dancing and not enough toys.


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    #145
    ClovenHoof
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    muddypaws wrote: »
    Tubridy is also a huge advocate of reading, and makes sure there is always a book section on the toy show

    Great to see the editorial department of the Daily Platitude chime in.


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    #146
    Arcade_Tryer
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    While I can understand why Tubridy is there (€€€), and I can understand why the kids are there, I simply cannot understand why random people choose to attend this train wreck of a show.


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    #147
    Big Bag of Chips
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    For the free stuff. People came home with about €1000 worth of stuff last night. And the people in the audience are the children of 20-30 years ago who loved watching it, who probably have their own children now.

    If people don't like it you don't have to watch it. There is plenty of choice on telly these days. Freesat gives you any amount of channels for nothing. It's a bit of light hearted entertainment. It's not meant to be taken seriously. It's not billed as "the cultural highlight of the year"... It's a bit of harmless fun that makes memories for an awful lot of children.

    Turn it off and go to an opera if it's too low brow for anyone.


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    #148
    JimmyTClarke
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    In fairness to the Toy Show, it's not the most cringe worthy TV institution in Ireland. No, that award goes to the Rose of Tralee.


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    #149
    5rtytry56
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    Mena Mitty wrote: »
    Too much singing snd dancing and not enough toys.
    1. Like this since I watched it first in December 1984
    2. Tell that to the Singers and dancers of all ages. You'll be scoffed at.


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    #150
    5rtytry56
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    Arcade_Tryer wrote: »
    I simply cannot understand why random people choose to attend this train wreck of a show.
    Because in the wisdom of some goons in the Public Relations, it's a GREAT IDEA to give some LLTS tickets to randomers.


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    #151
    Synode
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    Arcade_Tryer wrote: »
    While I can understand why Tubridy is there (€€€), and I can understand why the kids are there, I simply cannot understand why random people choose to attend this train wreck of a show.

    Because they get a trailer full of giveaways. The amount last night was very impressive


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