Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729861#Comment_121729861

Very peculiar not to give respect ts to a former Taoiseach who was an extremely good guy too whether or not you liked his politics.

3d4life

@RtS P.O. ( de pension )

No J.B. mention - whole shebang recorded last week ?

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729864#Comment_121729864

Get your pension from the post office or go into the bank/CU to withdraw cash. Pay by cash. Pretty simple for them

golondrinas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729757#Comment_121729757

All dogs are descended from wolves. Believe me if he joins a pack he will attack just the same as the rest.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729900#Comment_121729900

But sure tis impossible most places to get cash over de counter these times. Yes some collect pension from post office, but banks shoo cash customers away from what I hear.

Do these folk pay their bills by postal order or what? Do none of them have a payment card of any type?

3d4life

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Dats whoy de PO is the place to go. 'tis the nearest ting left to de old type of bank

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729928#Comment_121729928

Yeah PO & CU are good for over the counter. In the bank some unfortunate staff member has to guide them through the steps to use the self service machine to withdraw cash but can't/won't do it for them.

Some bills paid in PO/CU with payzone or whatever it's called, others with cash. These aren't people with loads of bills/subscriptions now.

They've cards but prefer cash as that's what their used to/more comfortable with. On occasion when it's required, staff will again have to guide them in the steps to pay with card.

These are the ones that generally struggle with it, not the kind of people who are refusing out of principle.

Atlantic Dawn

I do hate the Post Office with a passion, every single time I decide to enter it I seem to win the asswhoype Lotto of being stuck behind a particular bellend who should not be allowed out on their own. Last visit about 6 months before Covid there's a woman not yet 'past the point of rescue™' agewise as regards being able to use Google is at the counter with a package roughly the size of 2 shoeboxes, she enquires how much is will cost to send it to Australia, then cashier unlocks entry door to take in package and weigh it, tells woman it will be something like €27.50 or thereabouts, woman sez that's a lot of money I was thinking it would be more like €7 (yeah it's only 10,000 miles away). They chat back and forth about costs, their relative in Australia etc etc etc for about 5 minutes before she decides she will hold off delivery for now. I only went in to get some forden exchange, would have been in and out in 1 minute but no I had to win the asswhoype Lotto. Could this idiot not have went on the An Post website to get an idea of postage costs before going to the Post Office so they knew what to roughly expect and not be somehow living in pricing in their head from 1976.

Rant Over.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729454#Comment_121729454

It then makes it absolutely meaningless if somebody phones in about an issue with an a goal CREDIT card, cause he seems to believe every card gives you potential credit. Just because he has a bottomless account I suppose his debit card would feel like it were a credit card.

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729830#Comment_121729830

In fairness, Joe's chauffeur takes care of that.

Actually, the parking machines in Dundrum Town Centre, have on display:

PLEASE PRESENT CREDIT CARD

No wonder there might be confusion. Back in the day before ATMs and that, the financial institutions issued two types of card: Credit Card, and “Bank Card”. The latter were used to present to shops etc when making a purchase by cheque as a kind of lightweight ID. Debit Cards were later arrivals to those of a certain generation. Overall Joe should make the clear distinction between them to avoid confusion, eg Pat Kenny etc would.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730241#Comment_121730241

I believe the charge to the retailer is higher for credit card transactions, whoever signed off so to speak on that signage should get the road.

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Exactly. Credit card has become a colloquialism rather than a specific payment type, being a loan of your account isn’t in - n

dvcireland

https://youtu.be/0BTCY5xhrIY?si=EJ5sFEyxrIjrummO

Good auld Bonzo, the sheep killer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730338#Comment_121730338

Those Temple of Shopping machines issue receipts with GST instead of VAT.

Going into The Temple of Shopping is almost as bad as you going into a Post Office. My worse experience with the Post Office was going into da GPO when it opened in de morning on 'Entitlement Day'. For my personal safety I made way for the dregs of Whacker Society, even though I was there before them.

SEPT 23 1989

You use a card to withdraw cash then you spend that wherever and whenever you please

pay your bills etc with a card but for personal recreational purchases

Never

Dr Karl

Possible dead body mix up. Too late for DNA!

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-13051487/SALLY-SORTS-op-funeral-husband-ashes-wrong-name.html?ico=mol_mobile_home-newtab&molReferrerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fhome%2Findex.html

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729864#Comment_121729864

Maybe Joe will get his old pal Bertie on the line - he was fairly good at this, had it off pat.

ShamNNspace

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/joe-duffy-could-set-leave-32050881?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121731084#Comment_121731084

I doubt Sean Moncrief will need to be lighting candles down the local church to save his job from Joe 🤣

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730940#Comment_121730940

Joe would love that job sorting through ashes, labelling and boxing them. Except it would pay peanuts.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730990#Comment_121730990

Or Mattress Mick, purveyor of bouncy cash storage units

Jeff2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730940#Comment_121730940

Joe did a show about funerals and cremation but didn't say the full cost would be. He could have done a lot better on that subject tbh.

An post advert on RTE for furenal insurance but there is a clause I think.

Credit union also do some sort of furenal thing if you have an account.

But I think only a widow or partner can claim the above two things. So if you are single these are worthless to you.

Jeff2

I remember Gay Byrne doing Liveline show many many years ago about the cost of weddings and someone from I think Ballymun paid £60 for their wedding and got a prize for doing so.

Jeff2

Joe regards every bank card as a credit card from listening to him regardless of if it is a debit card.

Re Funeral Pre-Payment Plans, my mother prepaid my faaader’s and her funerdals a good few years ahead of their demise, she didn’t want to see me troubled or out of pocket or anything, she knew I had health issues and wanted to reduce stress I might suffer. World’s most thoughtful mother, she was.

Bank of Ireland had a scheme for it back in the 1990s, and there was an agreement with Fanagans, not sure how many undertakers took part in these. So she dragged me along “coffin shopping” to Fanagans in Aungier St., and discussed the various expenses and signed the documents.

She had a very black and wicked sense of humour and asked for “a light coloured coffin for myself as I’m light hearted, a dark one would suit my husband’s personality as he sees the dark side of life”. My faaader was ailing with recurrent heavy smoking related strokes from age 65, but clung on until age 79, actually looked terrific when laid out, good looking man that he was. She had requested that “neither of us should look dead when laid out”.

When my mother entered the mortuary chapel to see him laid out, myself and his two sisters in tow, said exclaimed “HE’S GOT MY COFFIN!” The sisters burst out laughing, It was the most surreal scene as the chaplain entered and looked stunned as my mother argued about the colour of the coffin! “HE’S GOT A LIGHT ONE, I DONT WANT A DARK ONE, MR FANAGAN!” The whole chapel was in stitches at this stage.

When my mother died 8 years later, Fanagans said “your mother was a one-off, we don’t get many laughs in our profession but she certainly gave us one to remember. I have a nice singer lined up for her, Eurovision winner, Eimhear Quinn”.

The obituary from the altar included how she set up a Fawlty Tower lookalike scene as a practical joke on another family member, the one where Polly dresses up as Mrs Fawlty in a dark room, curtains pulled, pretending to be indisposed.

In spite of my father’s very serious side, he was known to draw the very odd cartoon, or pen funny caption across photos.

Both my parents funerdals would entertain Joe no end if I ever get the chance to speak with him about them, real Liveline stuff.

In those days ya got the funerdal grant, and though I’d not paid a penny for either funeral I was about to claim it, lol. 😁

Dan Jaman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121730940#Comment_121730940

Wrong rake used in the ashes bin.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121729861#Comment_121729861

The silence on John Bruton was deafening. The 1pm news dedicated the entire show to it, but not a mention of it from Joe. But if some obscure poet from the 1950s were to die in near obscurity, Joe would be right onto it.

"Maura from Inis Meain" by Seamus Sheaney

Oh Maura a stoir,

I met in Inis Meain,

You poured me pints,

But the best gift, even better than the electric blanket,

I got in 1975,

Was the smile you gave me

That chilly morning,

As the rain fell upon us, and I asked for the ride

You gracefully smiled at me, and while,

Your lips said no,

Your eyes, said read my lips.

Joe: Beautiful! Beautiful!

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121733195#Comment_121733195

Sally O'Brien