What's your take on An Post's Fr. Ted stamps?

JasonStatham

I'm a big fan of the show, but...stamps? total cringe.

the purple tin

If they have one of Fr Stone's portrait of Ted, I'd buy that for a dollar.

I Was VB

Something that captures the Irish psyche completely, alcoholics, the Catholic Church, nepotism, irregular financial transactions.

It should of happed sooner tbh.

SEPT 23 1989

Paddywhackery

Same as the Irish football jersey

Atlantic Dawn

An Post know lots will be collected and never used, means they get almost free money.

Charlie19

Sure it wouldn't sit right with me, unless someone had an issue with the stamps.

Thelonious Monk

It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

That would be a philatelistumenical matter.

expectationlost

JasonStatham wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the show, but...stamps? total cringe.

https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
didn't expect them to be quotes

the purple tin

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
didn't expect them to be quotes

Ah what a copout :mad: I thought it would be portraits of the characters.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

I'll buy some and WD40 the franking off regular stamps and reuse them to recoup the cost.

Snowc

Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?

gmisk

They aren't great tbh.

I got ones a while back celebrating computer games which I liked a lot.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mario-sonic-and-pac-man-get-philatelic-stamp-of-approval-1.1966834

s1ippy

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

The only problem I have with them being made is that it's not even an Irish-made show because our national broadcaster was and is a pile of manure.

Blindboy Boatclub and Francis Higgins being prime examples of people who should be given massive budgets and left to their own devices to produce quality programming, but aren't because RTE is run by 300 year olds or something and their niece wants to do a travel show.

Hangdogroad

If you say that to me again I'll post your head through the letterbox.

nthclare

s1ippy wrote: »

The only problem I have with them being made is that it's not even an Irish-made show because our national broadcaster was and is a pile of manure.

Blindboy Boatclub and Francis Higgins being prime examples of people who should be given massive budgets and left to their own devices to produce quality programming, but aren't because RTE is run by 300 year olds or something and their niece wants to do a travel show.

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

Nexytus

Snowc wrote: »

Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?

It's already been sent that way.

Should take roughly three working days to arrive.

PsychoPete

They didn't even include "Ted, the Chinese are coming" or "and now to ride Mrs O'Reilly"

colm_mcm

nthclare wrote: »

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

They could put him on the Spar savings stamps

expectationlost

nthclare wrote: »

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

scripted by who?

nthclare

expectationlost wrote: »

scripted by who?

He doesn't just come up with all those platitudes out of thin air, it's all well rehearsed in his head before hand.
Unlike Billy Connolly or other comedians he's not so sharp on his own two feet

Sorry I sometimes mix up rehearsed rather with scripted...

jk23

"Because of the beast. They say it's as big as four cats and it's got a retractable leg so's it can leap up at you better. And you know what, Ted, it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears. Its claws are as big as cups and for some reason, it's got a tremendous fear of stamps!

dxhound2005

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
didn't expect them to be quotes

They look very small.

DavyD_83

Very dull

NickNickleby

dxhound2005 wrote: »

They look very small.

ok, I'll bite :pac:

No, they're far away.....

dulceetdecorum

Snowc wrote: »

Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?

Snitches get stitches

weldoninhio

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

Channel 4 produced it.

weldoninhio

nthclare wrote: »

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

He should be stamped on, repeatedly. Then the bag put in the bin.

Montage of Feck

nthclare wrote: »

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

If we're going Limerick, how about Willie O'Dea pointing a gun; it would make a savage stamp. It could be part of a collection of political cock ups.

Hyzepher

What's a stamp?

murpho999

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

No it doesn't.

The stamps are commemorating a classic comedy not a modern one.

Also, it's just an attempt by An Post to raise money by appealing to collectors.

I don't get why people would be bothered by them.

Church on Tuesday

They are pretty safe uninspired stamps tbh, very disappointing.

nthclare

Maybe a stamp of the locations with a funny quote would be nice.

After all everyone loves Co Clare ðŸ˜

Hego Damask

It's great I got the stamp book collection, I do wish there was some pictures tho, and not just phrases ...

whisky_galore

A crowd pleaser, like the Ché stamps, that's all they are.
I'm tired of endless parroting of quotes from a show so old it should be buying a first house.

jimgoose

cruizer101

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

An Post know lots will be collected and never used, means they get almost free money.

They get the money, but they don't have to supply the services. It's nearly like the money is just resting in their account.

Edgware

And none of Dinny and Miley. A disgrace

Aglomerado

It's my money. I just didn't want to fill in the forms.

rtron

I'm not reading any posts in this thread.

Church on Tuesday

Hego Damask wrote: »

It's great I got the stamp book collection, I do wish there was some pictures tho, and not just phrases ...

It could be a licensing issue.

jimgoose

Aglomerado wrote: »

It's my money. I just didn't want to fill in the forms.

"BIRD!!"

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

nthclare wrote: »

Blindboy Boatclub ?

Are you serious ?

Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

How triggered a coterie of people on boards.ie get by Blindboy is endlessly amusing to me.

Keep it up, Blindboy, keep it up.

topper75

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

How triggered a coterie of people on boards.ie get by Blindboy is endlessly amusing to me.

Keep it up, Blindboy, keep it up.

Coterie sounds like a word he would use and all! That Limerick chap is a failed comedian/intellectual pseud. You'll hear more sincere musings from Henry Sellers after he has been at the sherry.

Cyclonius

JasonStatham wrote: »

What's your take on An Post's Fr. Ted stamps?

Down with this sort of thing.

Losty Dublin

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Very dull

No Ted, they're fyne.

Hangdogroad

Edgware wrote: »

And none of Dinny and Miley. A disgrace

The petition for a stamp of Miley and Fidelmas roll in the hay starts here.

Hangdogroad

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

How triggered a coterie of people on boards.ie get by Blindboy is endlessly amusing to me.

Keep it up, Blindboy, keep it up.

Hi Dave.

pgj2015

fr ted quotes on stamps are very cringy in fairness, who would buy them?

Fr_Dougal

pgj2015 wrote: »

fr ted quotes on stamps are very cringy in fairness, who would buy them?

That’s the spirit.

They should be Dougal stamps!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Hi Dave.

With a cool, dry wit like that, you could be an action hero.