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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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  • #3932
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    elperello wrote: »
    Easy there.

    Fine words butter no parsnips.

    "Wat colour are de parsnips, so to speak?"


  • #3933
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,440 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    "Wat colour are de parsnips, so to speak?"


    Couldn't resist that one, not often such an opportunity falls into ones laptop. :)


  • #3934
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,194 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    "Wat colour are de parsnips, so to speak?"

    Where's David McSavage's Joe Duffy when you need him?


  • #3935
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,207 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Where's David McSavage's Joe Duffy when you need him?

    Stuck in Amsterdam at the nipple clamp convention (NCC)


  • #3936
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Yes Nevin, that’s the major and substantive issue with that post alright, not the content.

    Backed off reading the content whin I seen the wall of print..It was very good when I tidied it up and read it.

    Don't mention it ....


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  • #3937
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »
    Backed off reading the content whin I seen the wall of print..It was very good when I tidied it up and read it.

    Don't mention it ....

    With respect sir "why do you pay attention to the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye, yet fail to see the plank in your own"


  • #3938
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    With respect sir "why do you pay attention to the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye, yet fail to see the plank in your own"
    Really like that quote.


  • #3939
    garrettod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,483 ✭✭✭garrettod


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Did you read the article

    “newsreader Anne Doyle, footballer Frank Stapleton, Eurovision star Johnny Logan, Mrs Brown’s Boys Star Rory Cowan, country singer Margo O’Donnell and World Champion Ballroom Dancer and 'Dancing With The Stars’ judge Loraine Barry.“

    Logan, Cowan and Stapleton are nothing to do with RTÉ. No idea on Barry and ODonnell

    Yes complaint can be made about RTÉ but no point complaining just for the sake of it

    Why not count out how many of the personalities have been on previous RTE shows?

    Thanks,

    G.



  • #3940
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    garrettod wrote: »
    Why not count out how many of the personalities have been on previous RTE shows?
    That's a bit of an exaggeration.
    Personalities? Really?


  • #3941
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    garrettod wrote: »
    Why not count out how many of the personalities have been on previous RTE shows?


    Why would i?


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  • #3942
    garrettod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,483 ✭✭✭garrettod


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Why would i?

    Because it might evidence one of the many points that have been made, here on the thread.

    Mind you, at this stage, I find myself wondering if you actually work for RTE, so may have a conflict of interest.

    Thanks,

    G.



  • #3943
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    garrettod wrote: »
    Because it might evidence one of the many points that have been made, here on the thread.

    Mind you, at this stage, I find myself wondering if you actually work for RTE, so may have a conflict of interest.

    Well according to other thread I’m a Finbot, a job in RTÉ would top up wages nicely

    You haven’t made a point, read back I’m fairly vocal on RTÉ and I have posted exactly what I think of all of them.

    So what point have you tried to make? To be honest I missed it, maybe it’s glaring me in the face


  • #3944
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I am fairly certain that Stapleton was a soccer pundit on RTÉ


  • #3945
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,970 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Elmo wrote: »
    I am fairly certain that Stapleton was a soccer pundit on RTÉ

    You mean ‘pundith’.



    ;)


  • #3946
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Elmo wrote: »
    I am fairly certain that Stapleton was a soccer pundit on RTÉ


    Not everyone watching soccer.....


  • #3947
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    With respect sir "why do you pay attention to the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye, yet fail to see the plank in your own"

    That 2 x 4 plank of knotty pine ?

    Pass me the lump hommer there Sham and we will get rid of it.

    Sorted ! :D


  • #3948
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Not everyone watching soccer.....

    I'd be one of those people and the question raised was RTÉ using people assoicated with them for a celeb show and the answer weather I like or you like it is, absolutely they are using retirees, former presenters and staff associated with RTÉ.

    Anne Doyle ... Not everyone watching RTÉ news...


  • #3949
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Elmo wrote: »
    Anne Doyle ... Not everyone watching RTÉ news...


    At the moment they do :p:p


  • #3950
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    George Lee, science correspondent on RTÉ, since when, this time last year he was up to his knees in cow****e in a byre in Roscommon!


  • #3951
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    jippo nolan wrote: »
    George Lee, science correspondent on RTÉ, since when, this time last year he was up to his knees in cow****e in a byre in Roscommon!


    cow poo is scientific


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  • #3952
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    jippo nolan wrote: »
    George Lee, science correspondent on RTÉ, since when, this time last year he was up to his knees in cow****e in a byre in Roscommon!

    A man who wouldn't be first on my list to man the trenches with me


  • #3953
    jelutong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭jelutong


    He is a tremendous bore. I can’t bear to watch him.


  • #3954
    garrettod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,483 ✭✭✭garrettod


    jelutong wrote: »
    He is a tremendous bore. I can’t bear to watch him.

    Left his job in RTE...

    Went onto politics, bottled it, ran off with his tail between his legs...

    Gets another job in RTE..

    How fortunite!

    It must be great to have friends in RTE, who can set you up with a good paying job, whenever you need one.

    Thanks,

    G.



  • #3955
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Wasn't his job held open for a year so he could come back if it didn't work out...am sure I read that at the time

    In fact don't they all have some clause in their contract they can go on a junket and come back to their job


  • #3956
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    George Lee
    Was a T.D.
    He said t'was a racket
    He couldn't hack it
    And then he had to flee.


  • #3957
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    George Lee
    Was a T.D.
    He said t'was a racket
    He couldn't hack it
    And then he had to flee.
    +
    Back to his job in RTE.


  • #3958
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,833 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Elmo wrote: »
    I'd be one of those people and the question raised was RTÉ using people assoicated with them for a celeb show and the answer weather I like or you like it is, absolutely they are using retirees, former presenters and staff associated with RTÉ.

    Anne Doyle ... Not everyone watching RTÉ news...

    Wasn't exactly too helpful to see that Brendan Courtney crap couldn't even get the geography of Ireland right.

    (Didn't watch it, saw twitter getting mad).

    Something about 'Ferns Co Wicklow', when Ferns is in Wexford.


  • #3959
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Wasn't exactly too helpful to see that Brendan Courtney crap couldn't even get the geography of Ireland right.

    (Didn't watch it, saw twitter getting mad).

    Something about 'Ferns Co Wicklow', when Ferns is in Wexford.


    Twitter going mad?


    Or 1-2 people posted about it :P


  • #3960
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,833 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Twitter going mad?


    Or 1-2 people posted about it :P

    I'd say it was people being like 'JESUS-DON'T BLAME ANNE DOYLE ON US!!!' :D


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  • #3961
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,504 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Noticed the last few weeks that rtes sports reporters are stealing a living.

    They are coming on every hour to tell us nothing. How long are they going to do that?


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