Cringe Moment

impr0v

If anyone has been listening to Ray D'arcy's show on Today FM this morning you'll know he's doing an outside broadcast from a listeners home in the wilds of Monaghan. Cue load of very interesting interviews with family members on the couch while all the neighbours stand around and bleat with canned laughter.

Eventually he gets around to the crusty oul fella who's claim to fame is that he can grape the most silage per hour in Monaghan. He isn't very talkative and D'arcy is struglling a bit to sustain the interview. Somebody pipes up from the assembled friends and neighbours and says 'Bridie saved his life' (i forget if it was Bridie or something else). Ray's ears perk up and he says 'why wasn't I told about this? how did she save your life??' The oul lad hesitates for a second or so, live on national radio and says in a matter-of-fact way 'well I cut my wrists and I didn't want anyone to know..'

And now the nation does.

To Ray's credit he managed to carry on and get through the story about how he was staggering in the back door to get bandages without anyone seeing him and he collapsed and Bridie heard him faintly and managed to get him to hospital, but the desire to get past this and get some music on quick was plain to hear.

woosaysdan

dont you just hate when things like that happeb to you!!!

opr

Ahhhhhhhhhh ... thats horrible.

JoeSchmoe

i thought he just cut his wrist in some kind of farming accident, I didn't read it as a suicide attempt or whatever

impr0v

Yeah, it's possible, but it was just left hanging there. Ray certainly wasn't going to ask for clarification in case the answer was '...well i didn't make the silage graping qualifiers that summer and decided to end it all.'

PH01

impr0v wrote:

Yeah, it's possible, but it was just left hanging there. Ray certainly wasn't going to ask for clarification in case the answer was '...well i didn't make the silage graping qualifiers that summer and decided to end it all.'

LOL, I was about to say that!

Doya remember on the Late Late Show that if you wanted to say hello to the folks back home you had to sing it? Cringe or what?!

Blisterman

That sounds funny. Did they just sing "hello" or "hello Ger, maggie and all the people in Ballykillduff

simu

It's nice to hear such frank views on the radio.


but I'd still like to be garth

Kêrmêttê

PH01 wrote:

LOL, I was about to say that!

Doya remember on the Late Late Show that if you wanted to say hello to the folks back home you had to sing it? Cringe or what?!

I remember watching the Late Late one night and Gaybo rang up this auld dear in the back of the beyonds to tell her she had won the postal quiz.
The poor woman answered the phone to him very distraught and confused and Gay eventually got out of her that her husband had died that very same day!
I've never seen the man so uncomfortable in my life before or since!
Fair play to him though, she won the car and he was sensitive... for once!

Trojan

I said "How's the wife?" to a guy whose wife had been just fine a couple months previously. She wasn't - she had sadly passed away 6 weeks ago.

It wasn't just cringeworthy, it was deadly! It was during a rugby match and his teammates tried to kill me - one of the idiots thought I said it in an attempt to psyche him out of it (I just actually happened to have had a few beers with the guy several occasions before, and was asking out of banter while the ball was away).

Some luck...