Late Late Valentine Special?

Feisar · 11-02-2017 01:08AM #1

What S H wan T!

It was so crude and classless. I'm as up for a laugh as the next however it wasn't funny at all. I found it really kitsch. The "celebs" Crystal Swing and whoever was in the RTÉ canteen? Terrible effort.

Yes I know, I'm not forced to watch it but is that the best they could come up with?

BTW Croghan Hill isn't an extinct volcano, it's a volcanic plughole. Which in itself would have offered an oblique joke. Plughole mentioned with sexual undertones = butt plug.

freshpopcorn · 11-02-2017 01:10AM

Deano's still happy out!

Feisar · 11-02-2017 01:12AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Deano's still happy out!

DEANO!

cruais · 11-02-2017 01:15AM

There was so much mention of ploughing championships and tractors that I was waiting for crystal swing to sing...

ive got a brand new combine harvester and im giving you the key

Grandeeod · 11-02-2017 01:17AM

Who was the dude on at the start with Linda Martin??

Grandeeod · 11-02-2017 01:22AM

Apologies. It was Al Porter. Is he gay?

Feisar · 11-02-2017 01:22AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Who was the dude on at the start with Linda Martin??

Al Porter the GF tells me

freshpopcorn · 11-02-2017 01:32AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Apologies. It was Al Porter. Is he gay?

I don't see him tonight but generally that's all he talks about!

JupiterKid · 11-02-2017 01:38AM

Al Porter was pretty funny but the rest was cringeworthy. Linda Martin was trying to look like a cross between Suzi Quattro and Courtney Love

The "Blind Date" bit was especially cheesy. If I wanted to see Blind Date I'd get a time machine set to 1991.

Grandeeod · 11-02-2017 01:39AM

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

ygolometsipe · 11-02-2017 01:44AM

Feisar wrote: »

but is that the best they could come up with?

PARlance · 11-02-2017 01:44AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

Too much Porter?

TallGlass · 11-02-2017 01:45AM

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

cruais · 11-02-2017 01:49AM

TallGlass wrote: »

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

the incestual family from ballygobackwards

Grandeeod · 11-02-2017 01:52AM

PARlance wrote: »

Too much Porter?

Too much Al.

PARlance · 11-02-2017 01:58AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Too much Al.

Artificial Insemination?

Grandeeod · 11-02-2017 02:09AM

PARlance wrote: »

Artificial Insemination?

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

Feisar · 11-02-2017 02:36AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"

readyletsgo · 11-02-2017 02:44AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

As a gay meself, I fooking hate him! Terrible stand up. Terrible person. Durt.

#notmyhomo an all that

Canis Lupus · 11-02-2017 03:19AM

TallGlass wrote: »

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

Where have you been?

annmc882 · 11-02-2017 08:55AM

Feisar wrote: »

What S H wan T!

It was so crude and classless. I'm as up for a laugh as the next however it wasn't funny at all. I found it really kitsch. The "celebs" Crystal Swing and whoever was in the RTÉ canteen? Terrible effort.

Yes I know, I'm not forced to watch it but is that the best they could come up with?

BTW Croghan Hill isn't an extinct volcano, it's a volcanic plughole. Which in itself would have offered an oblique joke. Plughole mentioned with sexual undertones = butt plug.

Totally agree! Nobody forced us to watch it but at the same time it was so poorly put together and the letters of complaint will be flying in next week.
The guest line up was a joke and the 'game' played with the pigs trotters etc was petty.
overall, an epic fail for RTE.

annmc882 · 11-02-2017 09:01AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

I have starting following Al lately, he is genuine and humble.
Hes very honest and was remarkable on the Cutting Edge in November talking about depression, another time he explained his 600 points in the LC and described how hard he worked and that its a memory test etc.
While he may be OTT at times, hes very humble and hard working.
I think hes a breath of fresh air but that is just me.
It's his raw honesty that has won me over.

annmc882 · 11-02-2017 09:04AM

haha
love this comment!

11-02-2017 09:15AM

annmc882 wrote: »

I have starting following Al lately, he is genuine and humble.
Hes very honest and was remarkable on the Cutting Edge in November talking about depression, another time he explained his 600 points in the LC and described how hard he worked and that its a memory test etc.
While he may be OTT at times, hes very humble and hard working.
I think hes a breath of fresh air but that is just me.
It's his raw honesty that has won me over.

He speaks about his sexuality and his depression?

Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist. All he's got left is to plug a diet.

annmc882 · 11-02-2017 09:20AM

Deleted User wrote: »

He speaks about his sexuality and his depression?

Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist. All he's got left is to plug a diet.

He's an open book, we all know the Irish love a gabber, he's around for a long time I'd say. :P

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-02-2017 09:26AM

I'm not easily offended but i was really shocked (and not in a funny way) about his comment re: asking his mother to give him a good seeing to with the wooden spoon. It's the same old ****e with him

vicwatson · 11-02-2017 09:38AM

Anyone that watched that crap should should have their eyes gouged out. Car crash tv.

Parchment · 11-02-2017 10:01AM

Any mention of Crystal Swing and i think of this right away. Still hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-8bLAQIrI

Wibbs · 11-02-2017 10:10AM

And yet another time in the long history of the Late Late Show where people are talking about it, but latterly it's usually for the wrong reasons.

LordSutch · 11-02-2017 11:07AM

Feisar wrote: »

Late Late Valentine Special?

Rude, crude, vulgar, loud, tasteless & Crap (with a Capital C) :mad:

It really was a total and utter disgrace.

Crystal meths more like . . . .

mrsdewinter · 11-02-2017 11:19AM

Another year, another shambles thrown together by people more interested in the craic they were gonna have post-show in Coppers than in what the viewer at home wd experience.
It was just about watchable for me because I was in a group setting and the 'OMG' moments came thick and fast. But for the likes of pensioners - the Late Late's core audience - what a slap in the face.

Late Late Valentine Special?

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