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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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    #242
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    Dudes in these parts have very long memories......very very long !


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    #243
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,191 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    sideboard wrote: »
    ...and this, from our (respected) 'serious scrutineer' :D:D...

    As my post outlining the parameters to trigger ‘serious scrutiny’ advises the reader,it’s quite obvious these conditions have not been reached, hence ‘serious scrutiny’ from this respected subscriber has not kicked in.


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    #244
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,205 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    It's his accent. I can only tolerate five minutes then I am off. 'Now like we'll have a look at da papers by?'
    Why is he using an upward intonation like American teenagers? He's a bit old for all that stuff.


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    #245
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    bobbyss wrote: »
    It's his accent. I can only tolerate five minutes then I am off. 'Now like we'll have a look at da papers by?'
    Why is he using an upward intonation like American teenagers? He's a bit old for all that stuff.

    That affected intonation isn't confined to O'Connor, Matt Cooper and Mary Wilson are similar graduates of that course.


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    #246
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,191 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Cooper has bigger diction issues than that.

    Stick to print Matt.......


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    #247
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Cooper has bigger diction issues than that.

    Stick to print Matt.......
    Brendan I suspect you are still walking around the garden ,as you have doing for years..try talking to the neighbours this time..really Brendan O Connor or other radio broadcasters are not your problem . Go figure


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    #248
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,191 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    southstar wrote: »
    Brendan I suspect you are still walking around the garden ,as you have doing for years..try talking to the neighbours this time..really Brendan O Connor or other radio broadcasters are not your problem . Go figure

    Southy, you got me there.

    Have no clue what ‘point’ you are trying to make.

    Do try to tell us.


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    #249
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Southy, you got me there.

    Have no clue what ‘point’ you are trying to make.

    Do try to tell us.

    To tell US ...who would us be Brendan...assorted obsessive crackpots., .,God bless ye though


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    #250
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Was pottering around the gaff this am, half listening, as you do.

    Heavy droning in the background, eventually wondered if the fcuker next door was
    cutting the back lawn again    , and the ride on was a bit ‘off’.

    Maybe you are just too lazy to check back on your own (recent) posts or you're exhibiting the 'goldfish-in-a-bowl' syndrome? I took it that southstar was referring to the above quote...


    Jesus has wept enough methinks....


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    #251
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,191 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    sideboard wrote: »
    Maybe you are just too lazy to check back on your own (recent) posts or you're exhibiting the 'goldfish-in-a-bowl' syndrome? I took it that southstar was referring to the above quote...


    Jesus has wept enough methinks....

    No idea what your ‘point’ is buddy.

    No idea.


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    #252
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    That Marie Louise o Donnell is a pure dose. Dos she ever listen back to herself I wonder


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    #253
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    That Marie Louise o Donnell is a pure dose. Dos she ever listen back to herself I wonder

    Fits in well with the general dowdy tone of Brendan's style. What's his wheeze this morning - the kids mental health will be irrevocably damaged by not being in school?? What an absolute load of mumbo jumbo rubbish. Who gave him that line - the teaching unions?

    This show needs rotation of presenters, put Brendan on for a week or two but ring the changes then. Otherwise he'll have the listeners in a coma.


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    #254
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    Ballsy sounds like a man desperately trying to NOT talk in a whiney Cork accent....but largely failing to achieve.

    Agree with the rotation of presenters ..that guy Cormac O Hara who does the lunchtime bit after Ballsy is finished always impresses me ...like to see him getting a stint ....


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    #255
    EmptyTree
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    What's his wheeze this morning - the kids mental health will be irrevocably damaged by not being in school?? What an absolute load of mumbo jumbo rubbish.
    This. I've never heard such nonsense.

    And the end of the Dee Laffan Restaurant section was absolutely cringe

    Dee:"and I'll post those recommendations up on my social media, on Instagram deelaffan..."
    *Brennan cuts straight across*
    Brennan:"well that will also be up on the RTE website because we want that traffic too"

    He actually said "we want that traffic too"

    It really was absolutely tactless.


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    #256
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    "Moaning about their commute is all part of life." I dont know who that contributor is but she says this as if it's a good thing. The point being made is about the benefits of being flexible, you can still have your office but there's no reason to be chained to it 40 hours a week.


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    #257
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    "Moaning about their commute is all part of life." I dont know who that contributor is but she says this as if it's a good thing.

    Yeah I don't think today was the right day to bring in Stephanie Preisner. She has struggled with the topics they have covered.


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    #258
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    That Stephanie one is truly insufferable


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    #259
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »
    Ballsy sounds like a man desperately trying to NOT talk in a whiney Cork accent....but largely failing to achieve.

    Agree with the rotation of presenters ..that guy Cormac O Hara who does the lunchtime bit after Ballsy is finished always impresses me ...like to see him getting a stint ....

    His left wing bias would ruin the show


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    #260
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    "I dont know why im contributing to this section because i have nothing to contribute..."

    At least she's honest anyway. Two minutes on she's still "contributing" though.


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    #261
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,083 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    That Stephanie one is truly insufferable

    My god...really nauseating. Never warmed to her, and this morning she really is cementing that...a fooking chancer if you ask me.


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    #262
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    His left wing bias would ruin the show

    It's incredible listening to Brendan this morning though. He used to be the man making the controversial and unpopular opinions. Now he is playing goalkeeper on RTE's Sunday team.


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    #263
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,993 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "Well we don't know"
    "They are not here to defend themselves"

    Ballsy terrified of being sued


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    #264
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    They need to change that RTE ad for COVID.

    "COVID 19 is a major emergency in Ireland. Unless you have a strong yearning for a strawberry"


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    #265
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    That Stephanie one is truly insufferable

    she's good looking though, so thats a pass from me:)


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    #266
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,083 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    fryup wrote: »
    she's good looking though, so thats a pass from me:)

    Not getting it...

    Lost 150 + lbs a few years back...


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    #267
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Not very familiar with her and dont think I've seen her but the host seemed to make a big deal of her youth, as if she was merely representing the Instagram generation. Sounded patronising but then she did come across as being well out of her depth on nearly all the issues.


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    #268
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Yeah I don't think today was the right day to bring in Stephanie Preisner. She has struggled with the topics they have covered.

    I won't comment because "I don't know the difference between public and private" sez she


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    #269
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    generalgerry wrote: »
    It's incredible listening to Brendan this morning though. He used to be the man making the controversial and unpopular opinions. Now he is playing goalkeeper on RTE's Sunday team.

    O Connor had his teeth pulled several years ago, to think he was once sort of edgy


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    #270
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    fryup wrote: »
    she's good looking though, so thats a pass from me:)

    She's alright, nothing special

    Better looking in any crap disco in provincial Ireland on a Saturday night


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    #271
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    generalgerry wrote: »
    They need to change that RTE ad for COVID.

    "COVID 19 is a major emergency in Ireland. Unless you have a strong yearning for a strawberry"

    I like strawberries !


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