Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

14-12-2021 12:56AM

My day is a life’s wurk maintaining so many social media accounts 😉 getting more followers than I can cope with in any one session so to speak😉 😂 De younger mens love de louder wimmens so to speak 😉😂

Pelvis Parsley · 14-12-2021 01:11AM

What the hell is going on in Montrosia?

14-12-2021 01:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318061#Comment_118318061

Tis all such a magical myster tour , cawlur.

Oh thanks Gawd I’m not on the mind benders, like cannabis, it did my wonky head in and o be long ago made other party only “I miss you “ between joints, so to speak. It’s antisocial stuff. Best aphrodisiac is plain sobriety.

Dan Jaman · 14-12-2021 01:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118316582#Comment_118316582

Thank him for his service, an dat.

I'd seen a lot of round towers and thought they seemed to be in very good order for their age. Now I know why.

Dempo1 · 14-12-2021 09:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318061#Comment_118318061

It's a perplexing question, Misery to be found on the Late Late, Scare Byrne both on Radio and TV, of course its a speciality of our Erstwhile host on da live line.

It doesn't end there, RTE seem to be obsessed about the health, illness, Travails of current, Retiring and death of former employees, it doesn't even end there, Marty Morriseys mothers Death (RIP) was not just covered but morbid photos of the funeral, Coffin leaving the church was covered, WTF is the purpose of such coverage.

Recent documentaries on past employees and the ongoing Charlie Bird health decline are just disturbing, I sympathise of course but my god is it really necessary.

Is it a journalist/media thing, I'm not sure, but disturbing it certainly is.

Why RTE thought covering assisted suicide two weeks before Christmas is beyond comprehension and actually extraordinary and Not in a good way.

There's a saying, "No one does death like the Irish", this needs updating to "No one does Death like Montrosia"

Hitchens · 14-12-2021 09:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318410#Comment_118318410

"The great Gaels of Ireland were the men that God made mad,

For all their wars were merry and all their songs were sad"

Dempo1 · 14-12-2021 10:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318460#Comment_118318460

I'm sensing another Nobel prize for literature coming on 😁

bottlebrush · 14-12-2021 10:03AM

When I started working from home last year I was really looking forward to being able to listen to the radio in the background. In the past whenever I was on annual leave and wasn't going away, I really enjoyed radio 1. But one/two months into the pandemic I couldn't listen to it any more! The only show I listen to is liveline because of this thread and It's on during my lunchbreak. Can't watch anything on rte TV either in the evening due to the constant diet of misery, death etc. And I've had my own fair share of illness, deaths, misfortune to deal with in the past and I'd be a good candidate to talk to Joe but god when I turn on the radio and the TV I just want to hear and see uplifting things. The misery and death we all have and inevitably will have in real life.

Dempo1 · 14-12-2021 10:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318526#Comment_118318526

I feel exactly the same 😏 I rarely ever listened to or watched Irish TV or Radio but the pandemic changed that, more so catching up on news, pandemic etc but mother of God, the actual reporting was more depressing than the pandemic itself .

And yes, when I came across this fantastic thread, it lifted my spirits, so to speak 😁

ShamNNspace · 14-12-2021 10:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318410#Comment_118318410

I think I should give up commenting because you have put my thoughts on this obsession with misery and death on the national broadcaster far more articulately than I... Nothing to add

Dempo1 · 14-12-2021 10:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318699#Comment_118318699

I used to be a Philosopher but , honestly I'm OK now 🤣 and no, I don't have a Trinity Degree so to speak 😁

Dan Jaman · 14-12-2021 01:31PM

I suspect the death fetish is more to do with the difficulty (in normal times) of serving up a rich and varied diet around the clock, and lord knows we got on top of RTE often enough for failing in that pre-pando.

The pando and everything to do with it, was like manna from heaven for the newsroom and current affairs depts, even the general programming slots, as the stories created themselves, saving journalist from having to make up the news as normal.

Lazy bastard journalism is the main thing.

14-12-2021 01:44PM

Christmas Boggertown Tractors again 🙄 from yesterday

€300 voucher arrived through UK, An Post want €75 VAT

Parking in city centres prohibitive

0818 715815 Get it right

withless · 14-12-2021 01:45PM

If its bereaved it leads as they say

14-12-2021 01:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318110#Comment_118318110

He was thanked oh so many toymes for his service, I’m de fambily archiver an dat.

dvcireland · 14-12-2021 01:47PM

shure wat would you know about tractors #culchiefm

14-12-2021 01:53PM

https://twitter.com/joeduffyrte/status/1470738692151074816?s=21

Didn’t he get a great user-handle all the same?

Losty Dublin · 14-12-2021 01:54PM

On todays Liveline....

More on the tractor run. Even though it was dealt with yesterday and ended up being a non issue, shure lets regurgitate here once more only this time pipple does like it and not give out about it.

https___memoriesfunerals.co_.uk_wp-content_uploads_2020_07_country-vintage-tractor-funeral.jpg

Only in Ireland* does somebody buys a voucher then An Post want VAT on it cos it didn't come from Ireland.
Parking in Dublin. Somebody parked somewhere for 71 minutes with the Chiselurs and was charged €8.10. A stealth tax.

See you in an hour.

*This hasn't anything to do with Ireland bar this tenuous Only in Ireland comment.

14-12-2021 02:21PM

So there’s no technical glitch so to speak re vaccines, but a management glitch. In that there’s zero management. Michéal Martin trolling us by saying we don’t want vaccines.. they just don’t have remotely sufficient numbers of vaccinators available. No forward planning.