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13-04-2021 02:01PM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

3pm, misery slot over, Joe.

He hasn't climaxed just yet.

13-04-2021 02:01PM

That's nice that the mother had a happy variant of dementia where her troubles were forgotten.

gmisk · 13-04-2021 02:02PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's nice that the mother had a happy variant of dementia where her troubles were forgotten.

The happiest part of the story....her mother getting dementia....

That was so depressing

Real trauma, not some woman who eats too many sweets!

gormdubhgorm · 13-04-2021 02:04PM

shearforce wrote: »

this is all a bit heavy and is a bit of a move from chocolate addiction to here...how did we get here?

I don't know about anyone else but I feel traumatised after listening to this. I was grand this morning!

Petra's Mother raped, she was raped - rape was 'normal'

Petra's Mother was only happy when she got alzheimer because she forgot her trauma,

I suppose you could say Petra was one of the last casualties of WW2.

And icing on the cake Petra wanted to be a man? Was this a result of her rape trauma I wonder????

And poor auld Joe had to cut off Petra who would talk for Germany. Poor woman does not seem right in the ceann at all. Joe sounds like needs a drink after that call.

PieOhMy · 13-04-2021 02:06PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I don't know about anyone else but I feel traumatised after listening to this. I was grand this morning!

Petra's Mother raped, she was raped - rape was 'normal'

Petra's Mother was only happy when she got alzheimer because she forgot her trauma,

I suppose you could say Petra was one of the last casualties of WW2.

And icing on the cake Petra wanted to be a man? Was this a result of her rape trauma I wonder????

And poor auld Joe had to cut off Petra who would talk for Germany. Poor woman does not seem right in the ceann at all. Joe sounds like needs a drink after that call.

She was cut off from making the actual point she came on to make re the availability of treatment and was instead led through one of the traumatic life stories I have heard in a long time. If joe needs a drink after that it would be to savour that poor woman's story.

13-04-2021 03:01PM

gmisk wrote: »

Exactly 10 minutes ago it was all buttons and curly wurlys...

What was the story with the one over eating? Missed that bit.

13-04-2021 03:16PM

gmisk wrote: »

Obligatory 15 percent of your wages to health....that would go down well here...

If it would give us a proper fully encompassing health system that would be worth it. I remember some years back when taking a dip in lovely Lough Owel near Mullingar I got chatting with a local woman who was using the cool water as therapy for mending a complex arm break she had sustained in an accident on holiday in Germany, and she told me of her experience of their system. She was waiting an hour in casualty before getting a real bed as she waited for surgery that evening. Kept in overnight, she was discharged to a decent hotel (regularly used by the hospital) for recovery; accommodation, meals and taxis for outpatients and physio visits all paid for by the system, until she was declared fit to fly home in 10 days. She said the contrast with any experiences she or family had in Ireland was immense. They even apologised for the delay of keeping her waiting a full hour in casualty before allocating a proper bed in a room!

13-04-2021 03:23PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What was the story with the one over eating? Missed that bit.

A woman who couldn't stop eating chocolate, and thinking about it ALL the time :pac:

I don't have an obsession with chocolate most of the time, but I can actually taste it very distinctly in those fully-realistic dreams I occasionally have. In fact one of the ways I try to convince myself I am NOT actually asleep and dreaming is that I can taste sweet things like chocolate and can feel textures like shiny plastic in a totally realistic way.

13-04-2021 03:43PM

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So ButtersSuki has a collection of Hawaiian shirts, as confessed to on Tubbs thread. Odyssey too. Men of a kind.

ButtersSuki · 13-04-2021 03:56PM

Did I miss anything after I left or before I joined so to speak?

13-04-2021 04:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

she told me of her experience of their system. She was waiting an hour in casualty before getting a real bed as she waited for surgery that evening. Kept in overnight, she was discharged to a decent hotel (regularly used by the hospital)

Great idea. A night in an irish public hospital costs approximately €900, on average. What kind of rates could the Department get by block-booking budget hotels for the purpose of step-down beds during the winter flu season? Let's say a conservative €100, including taxes. Then allocate a couple of nurses, and care assistants. It wouldn't cost nearly half as much as a public bed, and free up significant medical resources.

Back to some other calculations: the German caller mentioned paying 15% of salary for private health insurance (mandatory). If you look at the proportion of the healthcare allocation in voted government expenditure in a normal year (say, 2018) about 37% of public expenditure goes on healthcare.

A person on a taxable income of €50,000 hands over 25% of their gross salary to the Minister for Finance every year. Of that tax, almost 5, 000 annual salary (nearly 10%) goes directly on healthcare — whilst getting S F.A.

The figure is higher again for middle income earners on a slightly higher salary, obviously.

We aren't terribly far off that 15% the caller referenced. Something, apart from funding, has gone terribly wrong with healthcare costs.

Healthcare costs to the taxpayer are greater in the likes of France, Italy and Germany, but not hugely so.

Given Duffy's dual preoccupations with illness and personal taxation, I'm surprised he isn't more vocal on this. Two birds, one stone, etc.

ButtersSuki · 13-04-2021 07:49PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Great idea. A night in an irish public hospital costs approximately €900, on average. What kind of rates could the Department get by block-booking budget hotels for the purpose of step-down beds during the winter flu season? Let's say a conservative €100, including taxes. Then allocate a couple of nurses, and care assistants. It wouldn't cost nearly half as much as a public bed, and free up significant medical resources.

Back to some other calculations: the German caller mentioned paying 15% of salary for private health insurance (mandatory). If you look at the proportion of the healthcare allocation in voted government expenditure in a normal year (say, 2018) about 37% of public expenditure goes on healthcare.

A person on a taxable income of €50,000 hands over 25% of their gross salary to the Minister for Finance every year. Of that tax, almost 5, 000 annual salary (nearly 10%) goes directly on healthcare — whilst getting S F.A.

The figure is higher again for middle income earners on a slightly higher salary, obviously.

We aren't terribly far off that 15% the caller referenced. Something, apart from funding, has gone terribly wrong with healthcare costs.

Healthcare costs to the taxpayer are greater in the likes of France, Italy and Germany, but not hugely so.

Given Duffy's dual preoccupations with illness and personal taxation, I'm surprised he isn't more vocal on this. Two birds, one stone, etc.

Herr Duffy has de gold plated inshuredance for de private hostibble, as well as de means to go “pay as you go” if required. I suspect that’s why.

joeysoap · 13-04-2021 08:00PM

Afew (lot?) of the Mater Private patients overnight patients use a hotel (usually the Maldon) to save on expenses.

joeysoap · 13-04-2021 08:03PM

A few (lots) of the mater private patients spend overnights
in the Maldon to save on expanses

13-04-2021 08:13PM

joeysoap wrote: »

A few (lots) of the mater private patients spend overnights
in the Maldon to save on expanses

All makes a lot of sense. When I had the knee replacement I spent one week in Caritas where physio and meals etc were available. Couldn't honestly see a second week being helpful in an institution environment t (having spent so many weeks previously in hospital) so booked myself for three nights into the Radisson St Helens, an extremely wise decision. It was winter time, so at a bargain rate, had the essential physio ice in the corridor, room service for meals, nice grounds for exercise, and people were able to visit me in a most pleasant environment!

Beatty69 · 13-04-2021 08:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok, I feel genuinely sorry for the woman having an unwell
Mum with dementia far away at home in South Africa, and I 100% understand why she went to see her. BUT this year I have spent many weeks entirely confined within my apartment when symptomatic of respiratory symptoms (by recommendation of the health services/government) and though it was tough I understood why I was doing it. There was nobody delivering me food of any kind, not that I was hungry tbh. In respect of others i declined offers of help. The entitlement of some is beyond my comprehension.

Ah to be fair now, there's no comparison. You were in an apartment with cooking facilities and I presume you had some groceries or deliveries or otherwise you would have gone hungry.

Being in a hotel is a different story altogether.

Welsh Megaman · 13-04-2021 08:48PM

With the pandemic looking as if it’s coming to an end, does this mean the ‘Funny Friday’ crew will be back soon?

:eek:

13-04-2021 09:01PM

Beatty69 wrote: »

Ah to be fair now, there's no comparison. You were in an apartment with cooking facilities and I presume you had some groceries or deliveries or otherwise you would have gone hungry.

Being in a hotel is a different story altogether.

Tbh I couldn't actually get a delivery early in the pandemic, and I genuinely have cardiac issues so am not at all exaggerating my position. I had enough to eat for my needs, and I had already prepared to an extent. But I have genuine health issues, so my life is no picnic.

13-04-2021 09:04PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

With the pandemic looking as if it’s coming to an end, does this mean the ‘Funny Friday’ crew will be back soon?

:eek:

Dydd Gwener Doniol

Will be restored ASAP, gawkyr.

13-04-2021 09:08PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

With the pandemic looking as if it’s coming to an end, does this mean the ‘Funny Friday’ crew will be back soon?

:eek:

I can't see them every bringing back Funny Friday. This pandemic is the perfect excuse for the producers to bury it.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-04-2021 10:38PM

One for Joe tomorrow, the Dobuoy 2 are released this evening from their hotel, rather 'interesting' clothing for April in Oireland...

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0413/1209727-niamh-mulreany-kirstie-mcgrath/

joeysoap · 13-04-2021 11:14PM

There’s no real point in hotel isolation. Just walk out or appeal and it’s over.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-04-2021 11:32PM

joeysoap wrote: »

There’s no real point in hotel isolation. Just walk out or appeal and it’s over.

It's too late in the day for quarantines now, we have bet the house on the vaccines, they are the only show in town. If the vaccines don't work they should open up suicide vaults for people no longer wanting to live under this level of control or else set up internment camps for the vulnerable, there is no middle ground.

ButtersSuki · 14-04-2021 02:49AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

One for Joe tomorrow, the Dobuoy 2 are released this evening from their hotel, rather 'interesting' clothing for April in Oireland...

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0413/1209727-niamh-mulreany-kirstie-mcgrath/

Careful now, that could be construed as clothes shaming or worse, body shaming.
:rolleyes:

14-04-2021 10:15AM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

With the pandemic looking as if it’s coming to an end, does this mean the ‘Funny Friday’ crew will be back soon?

:eek:

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Could be expanding his horizons to a place very near you

withless · 14-04-2021 10:16AM

Kerry priest proposes TV licence boycott over 'Fair City' storyline

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40265354.html

A Kerry priest has questioned whether Catholics should continue to pay their TV licence fee after a “disturbing, inaccurate and disrespectful” storyline on RTÉ's Fair City.

And according to Fr Kevin McNamara, parish priest of the north Kerry parish of Moyvane, it is not the first time the long-running soap has inaccurately reflected Confession.

“It really downgraded the sacrament at a very sensitive time,” Fr McNamara said of the episode.

Fr McNamara said the Confession breached all kinds of protocols. It was made to seem it would take place in front of an altar, there was drink involved, and the priest donned a stole, to name some of the issues.

In the offending scenes, Ger Lynch (played by Tina Kellegher) had asked Fr Liam Plunkett (Phelim Drew) to hear her Confession, but went on to remind him of a night they had shared when in their teens many years previously, and made the shock revelation that he is the father of Ger's daughter, Hayley. and so on...

Elmo · 14-04-2021 10:20AM

withless wrote: »

Kerry priest proposes TV licence boycott over 'Fair City' storyline

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40265354.html

A Kerry priest has questioned whether Catholics should continue to pay their TV licence fee after a “disturbing, inaccurate and disrespectful” storyline on RTÉ's Fair City.

And according to Fr Kevin McNamara, parish priest of the north Kerry parish of Moyvane, it is not the first time the long-running soap has inaccurately reflected Confession.

“It really downgraded the sacrament at a very sensitive time,” Fr McNamara said of the episode.

Fr McNamara said the Confession breached all kinds of protocols. It was made to seem it would take place in front of an altar, there was drink involved, and the priest donned a stole, to name some of the issues.

In the offending scenes, Ger Lynch (played by Tina Kellegher) had asked Fr Liam Plunkett (Phelim Drew) to hear her Confession, but went on to remind him of a night they had shared when in their teens many years previously, and made the shock revelation that he is the father of Ger's daughter, Hayley. and so on...

I see Fair City is keeping up to date with the news.

All I want to know if Mr. Burgess knows?

14-04-2021 10:28AM

This thread is not a newsdump.

ButtersSuki · 14-04-2021 10:29AM

withless wrote: »

Kerry priest proposes TV licence boycott over 'Fair City' storyline

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40265354.html

A Kerry priest has questioned whether Catholics should continue to pay their TV licence fee after a “disturbing, inaccurate and disrespectful” storyline on RTÉ's Fair City.

And according to Fr Kevin McNamara, parish priest of the north Kerry parish of Moyvane, it is not the first time the long-running soap has inaccurately reflected Confession.

“It really downgraded the sacrament at a very sensitive time,” Fr McNamara said of the episode.

Fr McNamara said the Confession breached all kinds of protocols. It was made to seem it would take place in front of an altar, there was drink involved, and the priest donned a stole, to name some of the issues.

In the offending scenes, Ger Lynch (played by Tina Kellegher) had asked Fr Liam Plunkett (Phelim Drew) to hear her Confession, but went on to remind him of a night they had shared when in their teens many years previously, and made the shock revelation that he is the father of Ger's daughter, Hayley. and so on...

I’m deeply shocked......to hear people still watch Fair City...

14-04-2021 10:38AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I’m deeply shocked......to hear people still watch Fair City...

No doubt this could feature on Liveline before the week is out, it's tailor-made for the show.

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