Ryan Tubridy radio show thread

More Music wrote: »

Not really. RTE can't enforce personal responsibility.

Somebody addicted to gambling isn't going to be swayed by a horse racing/gambling lightweight like Tubbs.

Gambling, like alcohol can be a bit of fun. Unfortunately some people take it too far, and won't listen to friends, family or counselors. They are hardly going to listen to Tubbs.

Nonetheless, hearing a “lightweight” like Tubbs appearing to endorse Paddy Power and gambling makes it all the more like something the addicted gambler can dismiss from conscience. It’s only when a person has to actually face their conscience that any therapy or healing can happen. Hearing Ryan’s reassuring voice, appearing to say that gambling is a gas bit of fun, let’s the gambler further off the hook. I know people who spend tiny amounts on the horses and get great fun and entertainment out of it, and I know that this type of gambling would be in your and Ryan’s and most people’s, mind/habit. I am hoping one day to be one of those Euromillion winners by spending €2.50 every second week, which is fine and my dream is alive of a house in Dalkey with that little input.

But there are many (young men in particular) who are wrecking their heads/lives with the anticipation of a win or a further win with a bit more, and more and more money. Broadcasters are not directly responsible for every problem in society but they really need to make s better judgement call when accepting what amounts to a great lot of publicity and apparent endorsement of a company that exists solely to make money on gamblersand the more gambling the better for them.

A bit like having a nicotine company doing a promotion by sponsoring a couple of cheap short flights for a fun visit with entertainment, food etc to their factory location. We wouldn’t tolerate that too well. It would be indeed better if RTE itself or maybe one of the airlines etc were to sponsor it, than PP who seem to dominate the scene in a rather outrageous manner.

mistersifter wrote: »

Ah yes, the aul technology bashing. Computers, social networks and phones; all terrible things that an enlightened intellectual like Tubridy cant get his head around. Reading is the only thing anyone should ever do with their spare time.

He was spouting ****e about a lack of funding for school libraries the other day. Romanticized crap about how "gorgeous" books are. No consideration given to the fact that funds might be better invested in technological facilities that kids need to learn to use.

It's like we should just halt all progress and go back to the 1940s so satisfy his odd little nostalgic notion of what the world should be like.

I think he's a talented broadcaster but I hate this sentimental sh*te he comes out with.

Automation in public libraries has made local libraries viable, and the Internet has widened access to literature and information for school kids who rely on its resources.

But Tubs only seems to be concerned about the smell of an ink stamp on his Dickens novels, romanticising a time when children were chimney sweeps and books were for for the learnèd.

Then guest says that his wife died and how difficult a time it was.

Of course Ryan has to ask how she died and what she was she.

“Do you mind me asking (but I can’t desist)?”