Christmas DEADLINE spells death knell of Covid: Yuletide Liveline

ButtersSuki · 20-12-2020 08:41PM

I just turned on TG4 and who is staring out at me hosting “Réalta & Gaolta” (a talent show as Gaeilge so to speak) but Woke McDermott himself.

He’s dressed......well, as you’d expect. Let’s just leave it at that - I’m taking inspiration from Tubs there and being kind.

His Irish is what native speakers would call “learned Irish” so to speak. It’s better than I expected to be fair so to speak, but has that distinctly non-native speaker rigidness to it.

zell12 · 20-12-2020 09:06PM

gaeilge scoile mar a dearfá, caller.
He does have good gaeilge, nice to see someone trying harder than gurrameelahmoyahgut

zell12 · 20-12-2020 09:07PM

Although he looks like this TG4 weather guy
https://twitter.com/CaitlinNicAoidh/status/961364124629393408?s=20

ButtersSuki · 20-12-2020 09:11PM

zell12 wrote: »

gaeilge scoile mar a dearfá, caller.
He does have good gaeilge, nice to see someone trying harder than gurrameelahmoyahgut

Tá ‘s ‘am! Tá ‘s ‘am! Tá ‘s ‘am!

As I said it was better than I expected, and yet still very unnatural and stiff (fnar! fnar!).

ButtersSuki · 20-12-2020 09:12PM

zell12 wrote: »

Although he looks like this TG4 weather guy
https://twitter.com/CaitlinNicAoidh/status/961364124629393408?s=20

I may be mistaken but yet man in the picture might have been the male judge on the show.

sligojoek · 20-12-2020 09:18PM

Did you just assume his gender?

zell12 · 20-12-2020 09:37PM

Poor Joe had had few breakeens this year, his holiday chateaus must be colonised by creepy crawlies by now

mountain · 20-12-2020 09:44PM

Joe must be rubbing his hands with glee,

Ferries and flights cancelled,
Should knock the week out of the sad stories.

Atlantic Dawn · 20-12-2020 10:32PM

mountain wrote: »

Joe must be rubbing his hands with glee,

Ferries and flights cancelled,
Should knock the week out of the sad stories.

Holyhead will be like a warzone, it's a good thing the Welsh boozers are all shut down or all hell would break loose, particularly for those not paying attention to any news so to speak.

mountain · 20-12-2020 10:41PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Holyhead will be like a warzone, it's a good thing the Welsh boozers are all shut down or all hell would break loose, particularly for those not paying attention to any news so to speak.

Holyhead is grim at the very best of times.

20-12-2020 10:59PM

Joe is finished with stories "from callers" until after Christmas. It's all gonna be fluff stuff this week, eg Lidl Lahvlahn an dat.

20-12-2020 11:00PM

mountain wrote: »

Holyhead is grim at the very best of times.

Welsh Megaman can take them all into his shack on de mountain overlooking de port

20-12-2020 11:04PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I just turned on TG4 and who is staring out at me hosting “Réalta & Gaolta” (a talent show as Gaeilge so to speak) but Woke McDermott himself.

He’s dressed......well, as you’d expect. Let’s just leave it at that - I’m taking inspiration from Tubs there and being kind.

His Irish is what native speakers would call “learned Irish” so to speak. It’s better than I expected to be fair so to speak, but has that distinctly non-native speaker rigidness to it.

Dat's de way most of us speak a learned second language, caller, unless we speak it like a native so to speak.

ButtersSuki · 20-12-2020 11:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Dat's de way most of us speak a learned second language, caller, unless we speak it like a native so to speak.

Yeah, but still....

20-12-2020 11:20PM

zell12 wrote: »

gaeilge scoile mar a dearfá, caller.
He does have good gaeilge, nice to see someone trying harder than gurrameelahmoyahgut

The teaching is pretty woeful of it here. My mother went to Louise Gavan Duffy's Scoil Bríde on Earlsfort Terrace in 1920s/30s, and quite honestly she never used it again in her life, but DID enthusiastically use the Niçoise French that Louise, as a native speaker, taught her. Louise also was an excellent English teacher. Her grandfather (died before she was born) from Easky had been a native speaker, but he, like anyone in the social ascendancy, had dropped it for the language of progress. When my mother started working for the largest rail/ferry transport company, it was French she exploited, sometimes in her job, but also during her post-war travels to France. She had a cousin who was a professor of French, so had opportunities to speak it, and could rattle of the Marseillaise when the happy mood would take her. Sometimes she would do a Parisian whacker accent for de fun. She was never any help to me at all with Irish, as in her heart she despised it. Would just start speaking French instead, that brought her out of the greyness of Ireland to more exotic places. It certainly was never cool in her day or in my young day. It later started to become cool especially among middle class people for a couple of reasons.

20-12-2020 11:27PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Tá ‘s ‘am! Tá ‘s ‘am! Tá ‘s ‘am!

As I said it was better than I expected, and yet still very unnatural and stiff (fnar! fnar!).

Not all sent to Gaelscoil, caller.

20-12-2020 11:28PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Yeah, but still....

???

20-12-2020 11:31PM

DE TWELVE DAZE Of YULELINE

On de Twelfth day of Christmas
Moi Liveline sent to me
Twelve twats a talking
Eleven eejits calling
Ten Tombs a breaching
Noine nuns a (Magdalen) laund'ring
Eight Marys moaning
Seven Shades of Shoy-it
Sixt dodgy hire cars...
Foive Ee-uu-ro Froiday!
Paul’s whacker accent
Anto's old golf bag
Texas Tom in Tulla-More-Ray
And some Garbage to do with Magee

20-12-2020 11:38PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Welsh Megaman can take them all into his shack on de mountain overlooking de port

Not a lot of room in his shack...

zell12 · 21-12-2020 10:57AM

I have to share this, simply cos it made me laugh and laugh, nothing to do with Lahvlahn
https://twitter.com/TG4TV/status/1340671625860173825?s=20

ButtersSuki · 21-12-2020 12:40PM

Deleted User wrote: »

???

It’s very forced and unnatural so to speak. I don’t think someone with Gaeilge like this should be hosting a show on TG4 so to speak. Just my opinion and dat.

ButtersSuki · 21-12-2020 12:41PM

Self-published bukes.

My advice is to do something else between 1:45-3pm twoday so to speak.

dvcireland · 21-12-2020 12:42PM

WARNING ! - This is not a Drill

Self Published Bukes, have the emergency tablets / whiskey at hand.

sligojoek · 21-12-2020 12:42PM

Self published books

Hyperbole central.

Man met two wives at Bagatelle gigs.

Ronan trolling him.

ford fiesta · 21-12-2020 12:45PM

sligojoek wrote: »

Man met two wives at Bagatelle gigs.

Both were Holy nights

dvcireland · 21-12-2020 12:48PM

i see one of the one of the tractor protestors from a last year wrong a buke

Dan Jaman · 21-12-2020 01:04PM

Looks like I'll be giving it a miss then.

Utterly execrable radio.

21-12-2020 01:15PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

It’s very forced and unnatural so to speak. I don’t think someone with Gaeilge like this should be hosting a show on TG4 so to speak. Just my opinion and dat.

Didn't watch it, I didn't realise he was hosting it so to speak, just appearing in it. I would have an issue, so to speak, with folk who have an issue with Gaeilge not being spoken like somebody from Galway/Donegal/Kerry etc. One of my mother's teachers (from Cark) said to her, breaking into English (verboten) "You and your Doobalin accent, Deirdre", and she answered back "it's better than the Cark one anyway" in a Cark accent. Got sent to front of class where she drew an unflattering picture of said teacher on the blackboard. Letter got sent to her parents who couldn't read Irish

21-12-2020 01:21PM

Will Joe be telling us "we can't get de mew-tay-shun, we're an island"?

21-12-2020 01:26PM

All de coughing on de radio! Not long out of Supervalue Churchtown, man coughing his lungs out there, complete un-self-aware.

Christmas DEADLINE spells death knell of Covid: Yuletide Liveline

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