Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

Did these artificial women not feature on Tomorrow's World back in the 60's? Ideal for doing the house work etc.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of AI and Progress ™!

Caller has now moved on to the creation of virtual women robots. I'm surprised she hasn't blamed this 80's movie yet.

remember in the days of yore on Liveline, a simple phone number mix up was a typical story:

it's wimmum in danger day

Was her cat dead or virtually dead?

Any penny put towards trying to combat deepfakes or chat or whatever online is wasted.

Every spare penny needs to go towards combating the terrible sexual abuse by priests, rapists and people who abuse others in real life. The numbers aren't going down, that's where the focus needs to be.

It does, but that's not the point. It's all she writes about.

Delighted that this undeserving topic is a footnote on today's show, only getting 2 minutes of airtime.

"It's a crazy world." Billy from Aslan, made sure to get a plug in for an upcoming concert.

Well done. Well done.

The first rule is actually “Don’t talk to Joe”.

"Kip needs a reset". It really does!

SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence have been using radio telescopes for years to try and find signs of life out there in the universe and so far have found none.

Theres about 3 theories as to why not.

1. Theres no life out there. Plausible, but mathematically unlikely.
2. There is life out there but they have advanced far beyond using radio communications.
3. There is life out there but they havn't developed radio technology yet. We only invented it ourselves about 130 years ago, so thats plausible. SETI could be hearing ET's answer to the Archers theme tune any day now.
4. No civilisation has survived much long past our current technology level.
5. As this is the liveline thread, Aliens have heard Joe and his Joe-isms, and yer one complaining about being groped in the meta-verse and decided Earth is a planet that needs to be left alone.

I suspect climate change is a lot worse than we realise, and Israel/Iran/Russia/US could actually lead to nuclear war considering 3 out of 4 of them do have nukes. Iran to China: Here's an idea, how about you start selling nukes on Temu for a couple of billion each and we buy them off you?

I did like a bit of Eurotrash and Antoine and Jean-Paul’s zany presentation style (Antoine also fronted a teenage favourite, Rapido).

The show was unapologeticly ludicrous and bordered on depraved (by the standards of the time). I’ve long been an admirer of erotic kitsch and absurdity, and the show delivered this in spades. It was art meets fashion meets satire meets absurdity meets supermodels meets vanity meets surrealism - and delivered in a hyper camp style.

I was in recent years gifted for a birthday “The Complete Eurotrash DVD Collection”. I was surprised such a thing existed and I will rewatch it all at some stage in the future - esp. to see how it’s aged. And for Adriana Sklenarikova and Victoria Silvestedt.

i assume there was no crossover between Liveline and Eurotrash? It would have been interesting hearing Bernie from Ballyer giving out about Boris in Berlin’s Bondage Party.

Joe always kinda reminded me of Eddy Wally. Eddy is famous for his “wow”:

Eddy was fond of the hats, cravats, and “interesting” clothing choices like Joe: