In fairness, the radio, archives and website are free of the licence fee.
In the digital media age funding should come from central Government. It’s an unfair tax on people and the Law for it hasn’t even kept up with the times, people just use computer monitors or projectors and they can validly avoid the charge.
Pat Rabbitte did his best to protect them. Overruled a more sensible eircode system with the current one. There was no need to uniquely identify every unit in an apartment block with an eircode. One eircode for the relevant door with postboxes was all that was needed. Uniquely identifying them made it easier to track them for the licence fee. He almost got his Broadcasting Charge legislation through too.
Most of the few payers will continue to age out into the free fee system or pass away. They don’t have a new generation coming up who’ll replace them.
The content is staid and boring, drama is mainly imports one can watch anywhere else or home produced muck, ie Fairly Sh1tty. I can get current affairs online or radio without having to wait for a 6 or 9pm news slot.
I don't watch sport so the quality or otherwise of that is lost on me. I haven't regularly watched scheduled tv in years.
Why people pay to go to watch those England charity football games. awful football by fat old pros, useless celebrities and women on male teams.
How Premier league club scouts are so bad their clubs pay 80 million pounds for the likes of Harry Maguire when they could surely buy 10 players who are better for that money and have the whole world to find them in. same with how Arsenal are about to pay 100 million for the overrated Declan Rice.
I have subs for the Irish examiner and Irish times. same goes for the guardian for uk/world news. I watch channel 4 online to get see world news. I didn't even have a TV package in my last Irish apartment. I just stream everything I want.
Greed. I dont get it, the greed of people like sean quinn, ronaldo, messi, David Beckham, there is a wolves player now who is moving to saudi arabia at 26 even though barcelona want to buy him. Im sure other clubs in strong leagues would want him, why throw away your career for money, say barca or another team offter him 150,000 euro per week but this saudi team offer him 400,000 a week. would 150,000 per week not be enough? You would say no to this so you can go play in a $hit league in saudi arabia and and in a horrible country. ok but I dont get it.
Most people's careers are about making money. So saying why throw away your career for money makes no sense to me.
Yeah but not making money at all costs. That Wolves footballer would make a lot of money if he went to a team in a decent league. its just pure greed to go to Saudi Arabia.
you aren't testing yourself by playing in a pub league when you can play at a far higher standard.
Because the Saudi league is hardly CL standard and 150k per week is already an insane amount. How many private jets do you need?
Football careers are short. Not making as much money as you can while you can would be foolish.
See thats what I dont get greed and the obsession with making as much money as possible. And thats coming from a workaholic but its not money that drives me. would you want your kids growing up in Saudia Arabia? more to life than money.
If they are 26 they have about 6 years left to make good money. The money they make in their career will probably be the bulk if the money they have for the rest of their lives. Like I said, foolish not to.
We will agree to disagree.
Yes but 150k a week for any period of time is enough. It's not like they are paid 15 quid and hour.
Who are you to decide it is enough?
It's universally enough.
Really? Sounds pretty dumb to me.
Pretty simple maths.
The obsession with women with huge arses. Something thats crossed over from hip hop to mainstream. I like a shapely rear on a lady but not gone on the whole "butt" thing where theres this overt gravitiation towards bigger and rounder backsides.
is it just me , i noticed it the last 2 months, young women wearing semi transparent dress,s so you can see exactly what lingerie they are wearing .its the middle of the day, they are not going to a night club.also more women wearing tops ,where its obvious they are not wearing a bra. i cycle around every day .maybe its just a summer fashion trend i never noticed before
Why does our Govt persist with these non-sensical paper discs for our motor tax/insurance/NCT in 2023.
Its not exactly sustainable to be producing these things, along with the cost associated with making and distributing them.
A relative visiting from Aus last year couldnt believe the fact that we didnt just have 1, but 3 discs. They said they got rid of their equivilent physical disc system in 2005!
The Garda a few years back decided to finally joing the 21st centrury with widespread adoption of ANPR technology that makes use of the unqiue identification number placed upon all cars called a registration plate. The need for a physical disc is completely redundant.
Lip fillers, they make women look like cartoon characters. it looks awful so why spend your hard earned money on it? 99% of womens lips are ok so not sure why they get them.
Men wearing suits with no tie & the top button of the shirt open.
Always been that way as far back as I can remember once the summer reaches us. White transparent trousers with black panties.
In fairness ties are very uncomfortable.
People walking around holding a phone in their hand , people walking around with a phone in their back pocket what happens when they sit down ?
Young people smoking cigarettes , an expensive habit that's bad for your health .
This is the first time I noticed women wearing semi transparent dress,s that show underwear
Lip fillers look weird not attractive at all
Many things I'm Ireland are redundant but continue due to inertia also not every person has a smartphone not everyone uses apps
People using a phone held horizontally apprentice style.
Ditto doing it while walking around Tesco and struggling to do your shopping because of it.
The tie are the thing that I don't get. I've rarely had to wear one because in my school (back in the 80s), it was optional, and it was never necessary for work.
Personally, I'd say the best thing about wearing a tie is the satisfaction you get when taking it off. 😁
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