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What's your take on An Post's Fr. Ted stamps?

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  • 08-09-2020 9:08pm
    #1
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭


    I'm a big fan of the show, but...stamps? total cringe.


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    #2
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    If they have one of Fr Stone's portrait of Ted, I'd buy that for a dollar.


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    #3
    I Was VB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Something that captures the Irish psyche completely, alcoholics, the Catholic Church, nepotism, irregular financial transactions.

    It should of happed sooner tbh.


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    #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Paddywhackery

    Same as the Irish football jersey


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    #5
    Atlantic Dawn
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    An Post know lots will be collected and never used, means they get almost free money.


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    #6
    Charlie19
    Registered Users Posts: 11,728 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Sure it wouldn't sit right with me, unless someone had an issue with the stamps.


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    Thelonious Monk
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    It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later


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    [Deleted User]
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    That would be a philatelistumenical matter.


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    expectationlost
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    JasonStatham wrote: »
    I'm a big fan of the show, but...stamps? total cringe.
    https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
    didn't expect them to be quotes


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    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    expectationlost wrote: »
    https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
    didn't expect them to be quotes
    Ah what a copout :mad: I thought it would be portraits of the characters.


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    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭Eleven Benevolent Elephants


    I'll buy some and WD40 the franking off regular stamps and reuse them to recoup the cost.


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    Snowc
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    Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?


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    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,880 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    They aren't great tbh.

    I got ones a while back celebrating computer games which I liked a lot.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mario-sonic-and-pac-man-get-philatelic-stamp-of-approval-1.1966834


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    s1ippy
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later
    The only problem I have with them being made is that it's not even an Irish-made show because our national broadcaster was and is a pile of manure.

    Blindboy Boatclub and Francis Higgins being prime examples of people who should be given massive budgets and left to their own devices to produce quality programming, but aren't because RTE is run by 300 year olds or something and their niece wants to do a travel show.


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    #15
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,917 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    If you say that to me again I'll post your head through the letterbox.


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    nthclare
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    s1ippy wrote: »
    The only problem I have with them being made is that it's not even an Irish-made show because our national broadcaster was and is a pile of manure.

    Blindboy Boatclub and Francis Higgins being prime examples of people who should be given massive budgets and left to their own devices to produce quality programming, but aren't because RTE is run by 300 year olds or something and their niece wants to do a travel show.

    Blindboy Boatclub ?

    Are you serious ?

    Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
    Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

    Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs


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    Nexytus
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    Snowc wrote: »
    Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?

    It's already been sent that way.

    Should take roughly three working days to arrive.


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    PsychoPete
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    They didn't even include "Ted, the Chinese are coming" or "and now to ride Mrs O'Reilly"


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    colm_mcm
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    nthclare wrote: »
    Blindboy Boatclub ?

    Are you serious ?

    Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
    Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

    Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs
    They could put him on the Spar savings stamps


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    expectationlost
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    nthclare wrote: »
    Blindboy Boatclub ?

    Are you serious ?

    Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
    Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.
    scripted by who?


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    #21
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    expectationlost wrote: »
    scripted by who?

    He doesn't just come up with all those platitudes out of thin air, it's all well rehearsed in his head before hand.
    Unlike Billy Connolly or other comedians he's not so sharp on his own two feet :)

    Sorry I sometimes mix up rehearsed rather with scripted...


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    jk23
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    "Because of the beast. They say it's as big as four cats and it's got a retractable leg so's it can leap up at you better. And you know what, Ted, it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears. Its claws are as big as cups and for some reason, it's got a tremendous fear of stamps!


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,598 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    expectationlost wrote: »
    https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Father-Ted-Booklet-of-5-Stamps
    didn't expect them to be quotes

    They look very small.


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    #24
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Very dull


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    NickNickleby
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    They look very small.

    ok, I'll bite :pac:

    No, they're far away.....


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    dulceetdecorum
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    Snowc wrote: »
    Mods maybe this would be more suited to the stamp collection forum ?

    Snitches get stitches


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    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

    Channel 4 produced it.


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    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    nthclare wrote: »
    Blindboy Boatclub ?

    Are you serious ?

    Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
    Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

    Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

    He should be stamped on, repeatedly. Then the bag put in the bin.


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    #29
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    nthclare wrote: »
    Blindboy Boatclub ?

    Are you serious ?

    Some guy from middle class Limerick guy with a bag over his head telling men they should all be femminists...
    Met him a few times before it's all scripted and he's not as intelligent as he leads you to believe.

    Blindboy Boatclub on a stamp ffs

    If we're going Limerick, how about Willie O'Dea pointing a gun; it would make a savage stamp. It could be part of a collection of political cock ups.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #30
    Hyzepher
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hyzepher


    What's a stamp?


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    #31
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,410 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    It just shows how bad we are at producing comedy if we're still banging on about this show decades later

    No it doesn't.

    The stamps are commemorating a classic comedy not a modern one.

    Also, it's just an attempt by An Post to raise money by appealing to collectors.

    I don't get why people would be bothered by them.


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