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X Factor affecting restaurant trade

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  • #62
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Obviously not solely on that, but partially, yes. Obviously people's tastes reflect their personalities/interests/values, no ?


    Wow


  • #63
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Obviously not solely on that, but partially, yes; people's tastes reflect their personalities/interests/values, no ?

    Would you not factor someone's liking of Daniel O'Donnell or Crystal Swing or whatever into your opinion of them ?

    So what do your viewing habits say about you then?


  • #64
    Hiace.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Hiace.


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Get back to the motors forum, dont like your sort around here

    :D


  • #65
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    dark crystal wrote: »
    So what do your viewing habits say about you then?


    He wouldn't lower himself to watch the idiot box id say


  • #66
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    So what are you saying exactly?

    That it is "just a TV show" and therefore should be treated just like any other TV show - no endless mentions all day long on air.


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  • #67
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Prime time saturday night tv on any major station is where the viewing figures and money are at so what better way to appeal to the masses than tacky shows that don't tax the brian and being going on for decades ,remember Blind Date ?

    Oh yeah guess what , it''s just another tv show .


  • #68
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    That it is "just a TV show" and therefore should be treated just like any other TV show - no endless mentions all day long on air.


    So, you're not going to watch it nah? I rest my case


  • #69
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Why are people getting worked up over a TV show, if you like it watch it and if not switch the channel. It is a very popular show.


  • #70
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dark crystal wrote: »
    So what do your viewing habits say about you then?

    As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so that's up to whoever is hearing about my viewing habits to decide.

    Favourites include(d) :
    - Chuck (Seasons 1 & 2 - season 3 is crap)
    - Qi
    - The Big Bang Theory
    - Family Guy
    - Frasier

    and I've just spent 2 hours watching Stephen Fry's "100 Greatest Gadgets"

    So judge away!


  • #71
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    That it is "just a TV show" and therefore should be treated just like any other TV show - no endless mentions all day long on air.

    Like, say, football?


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  • #72
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    hondasam wrote: »
    Why are people getting worked up over a TV show, if you like it watch it and if not switch the channel. It is a very popular show.

    This is the issue; it's pretty much impossible to avoid due to all the coverage that it gets.

    If it were just a case of avoiding the show itself then there wouldn't be an issue.


  • #73
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so that's up to whoever is hearing about my viewing habits to decide.

    Favourites include(d) :
    - Chuck (Seasons 1 & 2 - season 3 is crap)
    - Qi
    - The Big Bang Theory
    - Family Guy
    - Frasier

    and I've just spent 2 hours watching Stephen Fry's "100 Greatest Gadgets"

    So judge away!



    Wouldn't judge you by what you watch on tv bud, id take the time to get to know ya


  • #74
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Floodric wrote: »
    It's true. I work in the bar of a busy restaurant in Dublin and it really is true. Last two weeks it really is noticable.

    So that would be nothing to do with the fact that children are going back to school, young adults heading off to college,traditional annual holidays????


  • #75
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dark crystal wrote: »
    Like, say, football?

    Donegal v Dublin was pretty ****e alright, but at least that's genuine reality!


  • #76
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Obviously not solely on that, but partially, yes; people's tastes reflect their personalities/interests/values, no ?

    Yes, but I wouldn't say it reflects 'badly' on someone if they like watching X-Factor. If people want to watch whatever they want, then they are entitled to.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Would you not factor someone's liking of Daniel O'Donnell or Crystal Swing or whatever into your opinion of them ?

    I wouldn't judge them for it or look down on them, that's their own business.


  • #77
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    This is the issue; it's pretty much impossible to avoid due to all the coverage that it gets.

    If it were just a case of avoiding the show itself then there wouldn't be an issue.

    granted but it is advertising, you could say the same about any show, if it's popular it will be talked about.


  • #78
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Wouldn't judge you by what you watch on tv bud, id take the time to get to know ya

    And what someone watches, reads or listens to is all a part of who they are.

    I mean, if I was with a girl whose interests included Xposé and X-factor and stuff like that, there would be no point in being with her, because there'd be nothing to talk about.


  • #79
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    hondasam wrote: »
    Why are people getting worked up over a TV show, if you like it watch it and if not switch the channel. It is a very popular show.
    Every popular tv programme in British tv history has come in for some criticism ( oppurtunity knocks being the best example and now in hindsight , well deserved )


  • #80
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    And what someone watches, reads or listens to is all a part of who they are.

    I mean, if I was with a girl whose interests included Xposé and X-factor and stuff like that, there would be no point in being with her, because there'd be nothing to talk about.

    What about men who are interested in sport, if their partner has no interest where does that leave the relationship ?


  • #81
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    And what someone watches, reads or listens to is all a part of who they are.

    I mean, if I was with a girl whose interests included Xposé and X-factor and stuff like that, there would be no point in being with her, because there'd be nothing to talk about.


    Oh man, im out............ Thats from dragons den by the way, but you probably wouldn't know that


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  • #82
    Hiace.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Hiace.


    I blame simon cowell's high waistband trousers.

    As I said, if X-factor keeps the wimen of ireland quiet for a few hours each week, don't knock it.

    Unlike Desperate Shagbags, Knobenders, Fairly Sh1tty and such like, it's a good clean harmless family programme.


  • #83
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Think about this. It's on for a quarter of the year.

    Like mobile phone subscription scams, it exists because there are enough idiots out there who buy into it. And by idiots, I mean the people who queue up to be "the next star". How have the last few winners got on?

    Those who watch it...I'm not gonna criticise you cause then I'd have to do the same to all soap opera watchers. Each to their own...I like watching golf and football...others like the x-factor.

    However, for those that watch it....you know it's exploitive telly don't ya? You do? Grand so.


  • #84
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so that's up to whoever is hearing about my viewing habits to decide.

    Favourites include(d) :
    - Chuck (Seasons 1 & 2 - season 3 is crap)
    - Qi
    - The Big Bang Theory
    - Family Guy
    - Frasier

    and I've just spent 2 hours watching Stephen Fry's "100 Greatest Gadgets"

    So judge away!

    I love QI and Frasier and also watched the Gadget programme. I will be watching the X Factor on Saturday with immense enjoyment too.

    It is pointless judging someone by their viewing habits, because most people enjoy a wide spectrum of TV shows and it's hard to pigeonhole someone based on just one TV show they watch.

    It's the smug, superior attitude of people belittling others based on something so trivial, when they themselves may not watch the most mentally stimulating shows themselves, that grates a tad (not singling you out, btw, more other posts implying that X Factor viewers were less intelligent)


  • #85
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Oh man, im out............ Thats from dragons den by the way, but you probably wouldn't know that

    You're right - I wouldn't have. Apparently that's another "reality" TV show :rolleyes:


  • #86
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    You're right - I wouldn't have. Apparently that's another "reality" TV show :rolleyes:


    LOL yes Liam, yes it is


  • #87
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dark crystal wrote: »
    It's the smug, superior attitude of people belittling others based on something so trivial, when they themselves may not watch the most mentally stimulating shows themselves, that grates a tad (not singling you out, btw, more other posts implying that X Factor viewers were less intelligent)

    I can appreciate that, and as I said it's not so much the show itself (as I said, the main issue that grates on me is the importance that people put on it, updating their Facebook status with it while not, for example, updating their FB status with the latest developments in Fair City or some other tripe) as the blanket coverage of it that makes it impossible to avoid.

    That's what causes the grating; well, that and the fact that it spawns the likes of Jedward who themselves appear on everything despite being 100% talentless and 100% annoying, and being the target of false "if they get through I'm never watching X-factor again" posts on Facebook.


  • #88
    Latchy
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    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    That's what causes the grating; well, that and the fact that it spawns the likes of Jedward who themselves appear on everything despite being 100% talentless and 100% annoying, and being the target of false "if they get through I'm never watching X-factor again" posts on Facebook.
    That pretty much sums up X-Factor for me and I'm sure many others ,you don't have to have much talent or be able to sing ( they don't have either ) but they had the clown appeal and got through on a hairstring , which then opens the flodgates for them to appear on another 25 crappy shows .

    Then for same reasons RTE expolits them to appear on the Eurovision which sunk that event ( and RTE) even lower than Dustin the Turkeys appearence .Thing is these boys are on a roll but fcuk knows what their appeal is but they quite rightly are going to milk it ( whatever it is they do ) for all it's worth .


  • #89
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I can appreciate that, and as I said it's not so much the show itself (as I said, the main issue that grates on me is the importance that people put on it, updating their Facebook status with it while not, for example, updating their FB status with the latest developments in Fair City or some other tripe) as the blanket coverage of it that makes it impossible to avoid.

    That's what causes the grating; well, that and the fact that it spawns the likes of Jedward who themselves appear on everything despite being 100% talentless and 100% annoying, and being the target of false "if they get through I'm never watching X-factor again" posts on Facebook.

    Yeah, I get where you're coming from (I'm not Jedward's biggest fan myself - believe me), but there are people from other TV shows that get on my goat, just as much as Jedward get on yours.

    My FB is clogged full of guys ranting about the latest football/golf/hurling/rugby results every weekend and I have all the interest in those comments as I do about what they might have sh@t out in the toilet that morning.

    Still, although I can't stand sport and couldn't care less who won or lost what, I wouldn't judge them because they enjoy/obsess about it. Each to their own ;)


  • #90
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Why do you think it gets so much coverage? people are obviously interested in and enjoy it, you're in the minority, so you should just put up with it and relax, you're thinking to much about it, its just a TV show.

    It is far from just a TV show.

    It has turned into an all consuming cultural phenomenon.

    Would easily believe in Taxi's/Pubs/Restaurants losing out on Saturday night trade especially closer to the finale in November/December.

    You seem very sensitive to criticism of it judging from all your posts.

    Could you not recognize that many, many people see it with a cynical eye?

    There is little or no criticism of it in mainstream media outlets so message boards are really the only place you can have a good moan about it apart from with like-minded friends.


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  • #91
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    mossyc123 wrote: »
    It is far from just a TV show.

    It has turned into an all consuming cultural phenomenon.

    Would easily believe in Taxi's/Pubs/Restaurants losing out on Saturday night trade especially closer to the finale in November/December.

    You seem very sensitive to criticism of it judging from all your posts.

    Could you not recognize that many, many people see it with a cynical eye?

    There is little or no criticism of it in mainstream media outlets so message boards are really the only place you can have a good moan about it apart from with like-minded friends.



    I couldn't care less about the show, its the snobby attitudes that annoy me. To question someones intelligence because they may watch and enjoy it is ridiculous


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