Your line is weak but your point is strong: Liveline from 10th January

goose2005 · 22-01-2021 11:02PM

KaneToad wrote: »

The assumption that everything said by someone who was in a mother & baby home is true, is a dangerous assumption.

The symphysiotomy scandal is a good example. More than 1/3 of women, who applied to the state for compensation due to being a victim of this horrible procedure, never had the procedure at all. These women were not liars nor were they trying to pull a fast one. They were highly traumatised and were firm believers that they had the procedure.

The commission had to investigate based on the testimony and available evidence.

There is no question that the majority of people that passed through these institutions were traumatised from their experience.

It reminds me of Holocaust survivors - so many awful things happened that to get attention you had to exaggerate or even entirely invent ridiculous claims, and now it's at a stage where only a neonazi would dare to question even the most implausible stories (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Holocaust-related_hoaxes). Like, much of what Edith Eger writes about seems exaggerated or fabricated -Dr Mengele must have personally met all 6 million Holocaust victims if half the stories are true. And what's worse, the fantasists make it possible to claim that nothing at all bad happened.

23-01-2021 04:02AM

TheHomeService wrote: »

Yes he did.

Sums him up, really.

Tell me he didn't.

I'm so glad I save myself 170 a year by not fuelling his Jag.

zell12 · 23-01-2021 05:06AM

Daily Mail opinion piece

ButtersSuki · 23-01-2021 07:04AM

I’m sitting in de hostibble waiting to have the first of two lens transplants on me eyes so to speak. I’m surprisingly calm. After de paaaaain i went through last week with the flexible cystoscopy dos should be a breeze so to speak.

Looks like de Grief Vampire has been loading up on de misery did week? I expect dis to continue for a while...

ButtersSuki · 23-01-2021 07:10AM

goose2005 wrote: »

It reminds me of Holocaust survivors - so many awful things happened that to get attention you had to exaggerate or even entirely invent ridiculous claims, and now it's at a stage where only a neonazi would dare to question even the most implausible stories (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Holocaust-related_hoaxes). Like, much of what Edith Eger writes about seems exaggerated or fabricated -Dr Mengele must have personally met all 6 million Holocaust victims if half the stories are true. And what's worse, the fantasists make it possible to claim that nothing at all bad happened.

Tru dat. I’ve read extensively on both WWs and the Holocaust. Many of the more prominent Jewish (nationality) investigators and Nazi Hunters have been widely discredited, or their work has, for exaggeration and fabrication. You don’t hear much about that though.....the most famous, Simon Wiesenthal, has in particular been discredited. Worth a google.

23-01-2021 08:56AM

zell12 wrote: »

Daily Mail opinion piece

Any mention of the author? Wouldn't surprise me if it was either Joe or Dee Forbes. Is he shagging her or something?

Odyssey 2005 · 23-01-2021 09:15AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Any mention of the author? Wouldn't surprise me if it was either Joe or Dee Forbes. Is he shagging her or something?

No he's shagging us,as are the rest of the NK stable,every time they receive a cheque from RTE payroll office.;)

Odyssey 2005 · 23-01-2021 09:19AM

Just flicked through the thread from yesterday. Jesus that's shocking. He's surpassed himself as the misery ghoul.

PieOhMy · 23-01-2021 10:09AM

zell12 wrote: »

Daily Mail opinion piece

At face value I dont really disagree with anything said in the opinion piece. I think liveline is a great platform for people to have their voices heard on and is of benifit.

What's not said however is that it is a medium that has been hijacked by some biased unprofessional deranged pervert for his own personal pleasure who exploits genuine and vulnerable people. That's where I take issue with the it. For instance if Katie was at the helm the last 2 weeks would have been dealt with in a more appropriate tone.

PieOhMy · 23-01-2021 10:10AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Any mention of the author? Wouldn't surprise me if it was either Joe or Dee Forbes. Is he shagging her or something?

100% Noel Kelly connected

zell12 · 23-01-2021 10:14AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Any mention of the author? Wouldn't surprise me if it was either Joe or Dee Forbes. Is he shagging her or something?

Shane McGrath wrote it

sligojoek · 23-01-2021 11:19AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I’m sitting in de hostibble waiting to have the first of two lens transplants on me eyes so to speak. I’m surprisingly calm. After de paaaaain i went through last week with the flexible cystoscopy dos should be a breeze so to speak.

Looks like de Grief Vampire has been loading up on de misery did week? I expect dis to continue for a while...

If you can read this, best of luck.

23-01-2021 11:45AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I’m sitting in de hostibble waiting to have the first of two lens transplants on me eyes so to speak. I’m surprisingly calm. After de paaaaain i went through last week with the flexible cystoscopy dos should be a breeze so to speak.

Looks like de Grief Vampire has been loading up on de misery did week? I expect dis to continue for a while...

Very good luck with that procedure. Sadly can't have this myself, and oh how I would love it, because of corneal scarring from primitive eye surgery I had to try and regain pilot's license in 80s. Only when it would become absolutely essential could I have lenses implanted as a result of cataracts, as they said touching my corneas to perform any further surgery is risky and might necessitate a corneal transplant, so they won't do it. Can't wear contacts either because of irregular corneal surface. For swimming etc I would just love to be able to have vision, and to be able to try scuba diving. Maybe, just maybe when I'm in my 70s or 80s, or when further advances have been made to treat my type of corneal issues.

23-01-2021 11:50AM

sligojoek wrote: »

If you can read this, best of luck.

He can have it read back by de staff or de missus. Actually if the surgery isn't a success (which it WILL be) we could get away with saying all sorts here. If his vision were too blurred for a couple of days we could have a great chat behind his back and then I could do my mod trick of making it disappear

Unfortunately I believe the results are excellent pretty quickly :pac:

23-01-2021 11:54AM

Will have to create an appropriate gif in honour of BS' surgery.

23-01-2021 12:09PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Will have to create an appropriate gif in honour of BS' surgery.

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notwhoyouthink · 23-01-2021 02:58PM

I'm very sorry I have had a few busy weeks, and have not been as loyal to Joe as I should be. I know all his episodes are wonderful, but if one were to single out a show from this week, what should I listen to.

Brian Scan · 23-01-2021 03:31PM

notwhoyouthink wrote: »

I'm very sorry I have had a few busy weeks, and have not been as loyal to Joe as I should be. I know all his episodes are wonderful, but if one were to single out a show from this week, what should I listen to.

They were all equally wonderful.

Atlantic Dawn · 23-01-2021 04:06PM

notwhoyouthink wrote: »

I'm very sorry I have had a few busy weeks, and have not been as loyal to Joe as I should be. I know all his episodes are wonderful, but if one were to single out a show from this week, what should I listen to.

Terrible week to listen back, I'd use the time instead to practice some mad dangerous skill like knife swallying.

23-01-2021 05:24PM

My cat's name was just called out on RTÉ radio 1 by Neil after he requested names for pets of de pandemic! Ye may have heard it there, he was the first in the list. Neil remarked that he had suggested names of 4 legged pets but his first caller has 3!

KevRossi · 23-01-2021 06:17PM

So COVID has taken Larry King from us. There won't be too much fawning over him as he was sympathetic to Trump in his last years. Back in the day on CNN he used to be one of the programmes to be seen on. Could be a bit of a tosser, a good mate of mine sat beside him on some internal flight in the US in the 90's, they started to discuss the Gulf War, he took King to pieces on it. King's response was to threaten to get him arrested on landing if he didn't shut up.

Anyway, Joe Duffy modelled his wardrobe and promo pics on Larry, pity he didn't try to learn a bit about his interviewing style.

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notwhoyouthink · 23-01-2021 07:34PM

KevRossi wrote: »

So COVID has taken Larry King from us. There won't be too much fawning over him as he was sympathetic to Trump in his last years. Back in the day on CNN he used to be one of the programmes to be seen on. Could be a bit of a tosser, a good mate of mine sat beside him on some internal flight in the US in the 90's, they started to discuss the Gulf War, he took King to pieces on it. King's response was to threaten to get him arrested on landing if he didn't shut up.

Anyway, Joe Duffy modelled his wardrobe and promo pics on Larry, pity he didn't try to learn a bit about his interviewing style.

RIP Larry King. After Regis Philbin (who he often interviewed), he was the last of a great era of broadcasting in the USA.

23-01-2021 10:13PM

Bit of a revolution starting in Russia. Putin made a mistake to poison Navalny etc. I do agree with the police, though, in their attempt to try and attempt people to wear masks etc. Wonder how the Sputnik vaccine is going. Some Yankee accents there! In theory, I'm due to revisit Russia this year in its Siberian Far East on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Last visit in 1979, Moscow, Crimea & St Petersburg, first self-financed summer holiday; got to experience one of final flights of the second ever passenger jet, the TU-104, the first one, the De Havilland Comet 1 having being grounded not long after entering service.

Hangdogroad · 24-01-2021 10:21AM

KevRossi wrote: »

So COVID has taken Larry King from us. There won't be too much fawning over him as he was sympathetic to Trump in his last years. Back in the day on CNN he used to be one of the programmes to be seen on. Could be a bit of a tosser, a good mate of mine sat beside him on some internal flight in the US in the 90's, they started to discuss the Gulf War, he took King to pieces on it. King's response was to threaten to get him arrested on landing if he didn't shut up.

Anyway, Joe Duffy modelled his wardrobe and promo pics on Larry, pity he didn't try to learn a bit about his interviewing style.

His final years were with RT, never a good sign.

goose2005 · 24-01-2021 11:52AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

His final years were with RT, never a good sign.

why? do you think other news networks aren't controlled by their owners?

ButtersSuki · 24-01-2021 11:56AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

His final years were with RT, never a good sign.

Ryan Tubridy’s influence in the US grows daily.....even from Dublin, Ireland! He’ll be running for President in 2024 against nasty Ivanka!

:pac:

ButtersSuki · 24-01-2021 11:58AM

My eye duz be very sore callers. I might call in to describe de pain ta himself tamarra and dat.....

24-01-2021 01:09PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

My eye duz be very sore callers. I might call in to describe de pain ta himself tamarra and dat.....

As an six-time veteran of de iSurgeries (all subsequent failures btw) I can testify to de soreness dat duz happen when de eye tissues do be penetrated. Thankfully Phakic Lens deze daze does be a great success, had it been around I would have gone straight for it. Go carefully as yer vision will be blurred until the tissue oedema subsides in a week or two.

Brendan Bendar · 24-01-2021 01:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

My cat's name was just called out on RTÉ radio 1 by Neil after he requested names for pets of de pandemic! Ye may have heard it there, he was the first in the list. Neil remarked that he had suggested names of 4 legged pets but his first caller has 3!

Will D’Arcy interview him on Monday ?

Will he be on the quiz..... first prize ..two stone bag of Dreamies.

:eek:

ButtersSuki · 24-01-2021 02:03PM

Noel Kelly & Co. busy again this weekend planting stories about their top talent:

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0119/1190671-the-books-in-my-life-with-anna-geary/

RTÉ in fairness answering the incessant call for an Anna Geebag Documentary (it’s mentioned in the article). :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Who commissioned this? Hardly a public interest story. Just another puff piece to bolster the career of one of NK’s clients. Utterly disgraceful use of public funds. No doubt complete with appearances on TLLS and every RTÉ TV and Radio show possible to launch this masterpiece.

Your line is weak but your point is strong: Liveline from 10th January

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