Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1** 27th Jan Forward

How can one person screw up so often and get away with it.

He is the most boring and beige person in the media

His program never changes its format

Mess up buttons

Same intro “551”

Same drawn out promo for the Quiz of the day

Song

Misery interview

Nuacht

Stupid identical Quiz with questions that are never relevant to this day

Short crap Z list interview

Money for nothing

But, he was distracted!

I have a feeling he’s doing it on purpose in order to have “button buffoon” personality quirk in lieu of having an actual personality.

Possibly suggested by Niamh who has already trolled him by getting him to proudly admit he has the skill of a wedding DJ and to perform that toe-curling Fresh Prince of Bel-Air “rap”.

I did’nt listen to the total show re the wasp! Episode , so I do’nt know if he fully exploited the experience on the radio. It goes to show how dangerous he is with his opinions and they being pontificated AS GOSPEL - when he said that he got stung by a wasp and that a wasp can only sting once. He said this even though he said that he pulled/got the sting out and it had this feathery piece to it. I would question that for two reasons. First of all, it was , I think, on his lip and by the time he squeezed it/caught it to get it out with possibly saliva involved , it would be very, very hard to establish what it was . Also was he aware ,beforehand, what a wasp sting looked like? I recall that he mentioned that he saw the sting on the ground - after it being squeezed. Got bless his eyesight if he saw the sting on the ground amongst all the other ‘bits ad pieces’. And he being ‘100% composed’ in all the hustle and bustle having got the sting and to see it on the ground.

fact is a wasp can sting a number of times whereas a bee can sting ONLY ONCE because after having stung it then dies. The piece of the bee’s body left on the human constitutes the actual needle of the sting ,a feathery piece and a sac that contains venom which causes the pain.

If you catch ALL OF THIS to remove it you are more than likely going to squeeze some of the venom into the human body and therefor get a more painful sting. TRICK is to remove BEE sting by scraping it off with a sharp edge eg penknife, Visa card. Lean a little on the skin to ‘get under ‘ the sac to scrape it off

ANOTHER POINT Think the V/W car when you get a sting re wasp or bee and what you could do - apart from scraping a bee sting if that’s what it is. Put Vinegar on a Wasp sting and a paste of bread soda on a bee sting.

Maybe Ray covered all of the above - as it was a ideal opportunity to use the programme for something useful to the general public. It would be a change from being told what he and his family get up to, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Brilliant touch there Ray to leave the quiz of today music on the whole time through the ad break

More amusing was Mrs D'Arcy's tweet "Well done to the hardest working team"!!

Spot on dude.

I wonder what the definition of a "magazine show" actually is?

I only really listen to Radio 1, but if Claire, Ryan and Brendan are in this category as opposed to "current affairs" then Ray would just about win for me. I know he's crap but he's just less rehearsed and more spontaneous than the other lot which kind of suits a magazine show at that time.

The fact that he is on immediately (when he can get the buttons right) after the deathfest that is Liveline is also an advantage.

The Ray D'arcy Show came out on top against Sean Moncrieff, Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna (both Newstalk), The John Toal Show on Radio Ulster and The Hub on iRadio.

It must be remembered that it's basically a demo tape competition. Edited entries are judged so there's great opportunity there to cut out all the **** ups, inane questions etc.

Some very fine programmes and presenters won awards, I have no doubt but The Ray D'arcy Show winning a Gold award - or any award - cheapens every one else's win.

It looks like Ray will only have to do his "Award winning magazine programme" to extract his ridiculous salary from RTE:

Its a shame about the Den, in all fairness i thought Darcy was very good at that

This is a comment someone made about Don Bongino a Fox News host.

“Don Bongino always makes me think he should be wearing a little blue striped vest with a little red fez while he grins mindlessly and smashes two little cymbals together”.