Reeling In The Years

iffandonlyif

Billy Ocean wrote: »

I'll respectfully disagree that was a huge story, the passing of Amy Winehouse and the crash of the Belfast to Cork flight not big stories either?

If Gordon Brown's bigot gaffe was worthy of inclusion, the culmination of the phone hacking scandal certainly was.

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean wrote: »

I'll respectfully disagree that was a huge story, the passing of Amy Winehouse and the crash of the Belfast to Cork flight not big stories either?

Osama bin Laden too! Unreal that they didn't even give that a mention, he was probably the world's most wanted.

Kunta Kinte

Billy Ocean wrote: »

I'll respectfully disagree that was a huge story, the passing of Amy Winehouse and the crash of the Belfast to Cork flight not big stories either?

Look a celebrity dies every year. As far as I recall the only music related ones whose deaths have featured in RITY have been Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jackson. You think Amy Winehouse was on the same global level as any of those to deserve a mention?

Billy Ocean

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

Look a celebrity dies every year. As far as I recall the only music related ones whose deaths have featured in RITY have been Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jackson. You think Amy Winehouse was on the same global level as any of those to deserve a mention?

tbf she was only 28 so taught based on that alone it would be included,no taughts on the leaving out the plane crash?

Billy Ocean

Wonder what we'll see next week, there was a US presidential election and we were rubbish at Euro 2012. There was series 3 of love hate which I taught was the best series, the IRA series you could call it.

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean wrote: »

tbf she was only 28 so taught based on that alone it would be included,no taughts on the leaving out the plane crash?

27, she's in the 27 club.

Billy Ocean

[Deleted User] wrote: »

27, she's in the 27 club.

tip of the hat to you, 27 and 10 months according to wikipedia.

Say Your Number

Amy Winehouse had sold over 6 million albums while alive and I remember her songs were all over the radio between 2006-8, she was a big cultural figure at the time, I suppose Kurt Cobain's death wasn't mentioned in the 1994 edition either.

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean wrote: »

tip of the hat to you, 27 and 10 months according to wikipedia.

Honestly I only know that because of the legend of the "27 club".

Pauliedragon

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Yeah nice thread, derogatory comment about a female politician and then another about a female musician. Looks like little has changed since the first run of the programme featuring the 1960s.

The appearance of Armin Tamzarian on the thread cheered me up though.

If you are talking about my comment on a female politician I would have typed the exact same thing if it was a male politician.

new92

i certainly be left reeling in those years.

Kunta Kinte

Billy Ocean wrote: »

tbf she was only 28 so taught based on that alone it would be included,no taughts on the leaving out the plane crash?

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain etc etc all died at a young age too and none of their deaths got a mention on RITY. As for the plane crash OK it was tragic but only so much can be fitted into a 25 minute running time programme. As I stated previously it should probably be extended to 45 minutes and even then a lot of big stories of the time would be left out.

angel eyes 2012

Pauliedragon wrote: »

If you are talking about my comment on a female politician I would have typed the exact same thing if it was a male politician.

Why didn't you then, James Reilly who was the then Minister for Health and Noonan former Minister in the same Department hardly represent the best examples of a fit and healthy Minister in the health brief, more significantly their policies and performance in the Department were quite detrimental to the public health system.

Kunta Kinte

Say Your Number wrote: »

Amy Winehouse had sold over 6 million albums while alive and I remember her songs were all over the radio between 2006-8, she was a big cultural figure at the time, I suppose Kurt Cobain's death wasn't mentioned in the 1994 edition either.

No it wasn`t.

iffandonlyif

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

more significantly their policies and performance in the Department were quite detrimental to the public health system.

Is that right?! I’ll take your word for it.

Pauliedragon

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Why didn't you then, James Reilly who was the then Minister for Health and Noonan former Minister in the same Department hardly represent the best examples of a fit and healthy Minister in the health brief, more significantly their policies and performance in the Department were quite detrimental to the public health system.

I'm not going to argue with you I get your point but we don't know each other but I can can promise you every female in my life will tell you I have never been derogatory in my 41 years on this planet towards any woman. I'll leave it at that as I don't want to de rail the thread.

breezy1985

Deleted User wrote: »

RTE love Miggledy-Piggeldy. They even engineered a fake tweet to help get him into the Aras. No surprise they will devote time to his victory

That election was great craic. Glad it got plenty of time

Deleted User wrote: »

Far bigger story than Niall Horan buying his ma a car.

The always have a bit of this light stuff thrown in

Deleted User wrote: »

If the ""musician "" ( halirious) didnt prance around with her tits out in a field in Belfast I wouldn't have made a derogatory comment , she showed absolutely no respect for herself and why should I?

Why is getting naked not showing respect for yourself ?
Its my lack of respect for my body that makes me put clothes on and the day that DUP lad who owned the farm kicked off about a naked Rihanna was the day I knew for sure that unionists were gone beyond reason
Of all the people too to throw this ""musician"" crap at I wouldnt say its her. Its not a type of music I like but she is good at it

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

RTE have only ever shown one Rugby World Cup clip on RITY which was when Ireland came close to beating Australia in the 1991 QF. I doubt there will be any in this series either.

We qualify automatically and then do FA when we get there. Would be like if they showed the Irish cycling team be average at the world championships every year

onform wrote: »

That Imelda May song ("Inside Out"). How many people would think of that as one of the big hits of 2011? I don't remember it at all.

When its a popular song people whinge and when its obscure well people whinge. I think some watch this show just to put it down

Deleted User wrote: »

Osama bin Laden too! Unreal that they didn't even give that a mention, he was probably the world's most wanted.

Surprising and maybe it could have been stuck in next to Gaddafi and I think it shows that with all the footage available for modern seasons it should be a 45min show. Great episode all the same

angel eyes 2012

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I'm not going to argue with you I get your point but we don't know each other but I can can promise you every female in my life will tell you I have never been derogatory in my 41 years on this planet towards any woman. I'll leave it at that as I don't want to de rail the thread.

I don't intend to derail the thread either but I thought there was no need for the comment and I will always call out anyone making cowardly comments about women. I may not agree with her political views but it's challenging enough attracting females into politics without having to be judged on appearance also.

I'll leave it there too.

Say Your Number

Next weeks music, I'll guess:

We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson
Some Rihanna, she was ubiquitous at the time
Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Ho Hey - Lumineers

Billy Ocean

Say Your Number wrote: »

Next weeks music, I'll guess:

We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson
Some Rihanna, she was ubiquitous at the time
Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Ho Hey - Lumineers

A Calvin Harris tune potentially and always an obligatory song or 2 from an Irish act.

Newbie20

Say Your Number wrote: »

Next weeks music, I'll guess:

We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson
Some Rihanna, she was ubiquitous at the time
Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Ho Hey - Lumineers

Gangnam Style

iffandonlyif

I cringe so badly every time I hear Mary McAleese say wow when the Queen says her token Irish.

iffandonlyif

iffandonlyif wrote: »

I cringe so badly every time I hear Mary McAleese say wow when the Queen says her token Irish.

And then the queen just stands there waiting for the applause to stop like "Doesn't take much to impress you lot, does it?"

AllForIt

iffandonlyif wrote: »

I cringe so badly every time I hear Mary McAleese say wow when the Queen says her token Irish.

She was talking about this recently in an intervew. It was her idea but didn't go down too well, she thought. So she was quite surprised when the Queen did it in the end becuase she wasn't told in advance.

Hangdogroad

2012 should be interesting with the revelations about Jimmy Saville and Operation Yewtree.

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean wrote: »

you can't fit in everything but you can devote less time to the recession and presidential campaign to fit it more.

The recession was the biggest thing to happen to us up until this next one after the pandemic and we’re still paying for it (usc). Cut that down for Amy Winehouse? When you consider other entertainment deaths that have been left out, she wouldn’t even have been close to consideration.

iffandonlyif

AllForIt wrote: »

She was talking about this recently in an intervew. It was her idea but didn't go down too well, she thought. So she was quite surprised when the Queen did it in the end becuase she wasn't told in advance.

So it wasn’t even their idea? Surely there is only significance if it had been said spontaneously? It’s not as if the British have refused to recognise the Irish language (they’ve long called our country Eire, much to our chagrin).

I think what irritates me the most is that I don’t believe McAleese was actually wowed. It felt performative, which I think is confirmed if she’d suggested it in advance, even if she wasn’t entirely expecting it. Was she saying wow because of its significance or because they’d taken her suggestion?!

breezy1985

iffandonlyif wrote: »

So it wasn’t even their idea? Surely there is only significance if it had been said spontaneously? It’s not as if the British have refused to recognise the Irish language (they’ve long called our country Eire, much to our chagrin).

I think what irritates me the most is that I don’t believe McAleese was actually wowed. It felt performative, which I think is confirmed if she’d suggested it in advance, even if she wasn’t entirely expecting it. Was she saying wow because of its significance or because they’d taken her suggestion?!

Of course it was all planned. Tell em you love Guinness throw in the cupla focal and add in a picture of you with a hurley and the Paddys will go wild.
Obama had the full card ticked off too


Nothing makes me more embarrassed for the country than when the crowd goes nuts at a gig because the performer takes a sip of Guinness

HBC08

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

I don't intend to derail the thread either but I thought there was no need for the comment and I will always call out anyone making cowardly comments about women. I may not agree with her political views but it's challenging enough attracting females into politics without having to be judged on appearance also.

I'll leave it there too.

Is this is in relation to somebody saying Mary Lou has gotten fat?
Thats just a fact.
Not a massive talking point just an observation.

freshpopcorn

I was doing my Leaving Cert in 2011 and I remember people posting in Facebook how 2011 was going to be some episode of Reeling in the Years with the Plane Crash, Queen and Obama visits and then Bin Laden dying.