Miriam O Callaghans Recession Christmas !

EarlERizer · 22-11-2011 03:10AM

Helix wrote: »

the person earning the 1m will have bills, ongoing expenses and a mortgage relevant to their income though. people live to their means. obviously there's plenty that she can do here, she can sell the house, sell one of the cars, all the usual stuff that we can all do, in order to make things a little easier - but she is probably choosing not to for the same reasons that you or i choose not to

shes not saying shes broke, shes saying shes going to relax a good bit with the expenditures. you know, shes being sensible with her money. plenty of people, poor and rich alike, who could do with that kind of cop on

In fairness the peron earning the €1 million a year is probably a Banker or Bondholder or some other corrupt fooker who brought this latest round of misery on the country .........they wont be earning that kind of money without knowing how to squirrrel it away somewhere where nobody can get to it

As for poor aul Miriam, I wouldn't want to be her waking up Christmas morning feeling like a letdown coz the kids didnt get what they really wanted!

These coming weeks will have her clawing the table worrying about how they'll get by this year.

Helix · 22-11-2011 03:13AM

only corrupt people make over a million a year? really?

thats a really weird perspective

blackdog2 · 22-11-2011 03:14AM

EarlERizer wrote: »

In fairness the peron earning the €1 million a year is probably a Banker or Bondholder or some other corrupt fooker who brought this latest round of misery on the country .........they wont be earning that kind of money without knowing how to squirrrel it away somewhere where nobody can get to it

As for poor aul Miriam, I wouldn't want to be her waking up Christmas morning feeling like a letdown coz the kids didnt get what they really wanted!

These coming weeks will have her clawing the table worrying about how they'll get by this year.

Odd that all millionaires I know who have apparently "lost it all" seem to be living exactly as they were. It seems as if certain people are afraid to call in their debts, as if, god forbid, the house of cards resting on a stack of dominos were to come tumbling down...

Helix · 22-11-2011 03:17AM

sure almost everyone i know "seems" to be living exactly as they were too, whether they are or not i have no idea

i dont get this thread, would people rather o'callaghan was going mad spending a fortune or something? shes damned if she does and damned if she doesnt.

EarlERizer · 22-11-2011 03:35AM

Helix wrote: »

only corrupt people make over a million a year? really?

thats a really weird perspective

No, not just the corrupt, anally retentive types do too :rolleyes: ....... don't do much tongue in cheek do you?

Helix wrote: »

sure almost everyone i know "seems" to be living exactly as they were too, whether they are or not i have no idea

i dont get this thread, would people rather o'callaghan was going mad spending a fortune or something? shes damned if she does and damned if she doesnt.

No, i think people would just prefer not to hear about or read about this type of artical.Personally I couldn't give a fook what she is or isn't doing at any time of the year let alone Christmas.

I've volunteered during Christmas at hostels for homeless in the past, I've seen real hardship,then you see these over indulgent 'celebs' and they're crting about wage cuts and how they deserve the money they get......boll*x

I wonder with all these paycuts at RTE will there be any scope for a reduction in licence fee's?

(note to Helix - tongue firmly in cheek again)

Helix · 22-11-2011 03:42AM

EarlERizer wrote: »

No, i think people would just prefer not to hear about or read about this type of artical.Personally I couldn't give a fook what she is or isn't doing at any time of the year let alone Christmas.

see that's the thing, people DO want to read this kind of crap. if they didnt it wouldnt be published

amacachi · 22-11-2011 03:43AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I think the article said that there was a 30% pay reduction expected when RTE contracts are renewed in 2013. I do agree about the tone of the article though.

My point was more against Venom (and many other people on other threads) suggesting that at a certain salary level that recession and/or pay cuts doesn't affect you.
Whereas depending on the financial committments you made at your maximum salary you can be every bit as affected as Joe Soap. A mortgage, unwisely taken is out, is no longer manageable - bills have to be juggled, maybe every time the phone rings theres a dread that its a cred mgmt agency again etc.

Peoples 'schadenfreude' about this for the €300K earner, and comparative sympathy for the €30K earner, is perfectly understandable obviously.

I'd be fairly sure that if I had a third of the income that her family has that I'd be very well prepared for a 3.6% paycut.

EarlERizer · 22-11-2011 03:58AM

Helix wrote: »

see that's the thing, people DO want to read this kind of crap. if they didnt it wouldnt be published

I'm confused now.........are you been tongue in cheek here? or seriously suggesting the press only give us the news we want to see/hear?

Just getting back to the poor aul dear O'Callaghan , i've a novel idea for her to run by RTE........a fly on the wall type reality show "Christmas with the O'Callaghans" - we can all tune in and watch how this poor unfortunate lot get by on the run up to the festivities (or lack of given her financial constraints this year)

she'll rake it in and Christmas can be the festive indulgance it once was and no hardship to endure!

maxfresh · 22-11-2011 04:04AM

Oh no , now here poor little darling children will have to choose either ipad or iphone and not both, boo hoo :P

KeithAFC · 22-11-2011 04:18AM

Perhaps it is effecting her. I think RTE should be looking at actually paying Miriam more. She did a fantastic job during the presidential election debate and for me, she is one of RTE's finest presenters.

BBC or UTV should look to appoint her.

busyliving · 22-11-2011 04:22AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Perhaps it is effecting her. I think RTE should be looking at actually paying Miriam more. She did a fantastic job during the presidential election debate and for me, she is one of RTE's finest presenters.

BBC or UTV should look to appoint her.

I hope your being Sarcastic

TheUsual · 22-11-2011 04:27AM

Miriam is NOT a sex symbol. Really.

After 8 kids, it would be like throwing a welly up O'Connell Street.

J. Marston · 22-11-2011 04:33AM

Should we have a whip-round for her?

randylonghorn · 22-11-2011 05:02AM

Is this suffering from newspaper spin though?

She never actually complains about her salary, and says she's fully prepared for a cut.

She also says that she thinks Christmas "is all a lot of fuss, it's too much."

Her actual words could just as easily be read as someone who thinks there's too much commercial hype around Christmas, and is using the opportunity to point out to her kids that bad times come along the way too ... and for that matter doesn't want her kids going back to school after Christmas boasting about the big, expensive presents they got when their classmates may be from families who the recession is actually hitting hard, and who may not have been as lucky.

If she was buying them big expensive presents people would be giving out about her, if she's trying to teach her kids a few lessons about thrift and common sense and reasonable expectations people will give out about her ...

amacachi · 22-11-2011 05:05AM

randylonghorn wrote: »

Is this suffering from newspaper spin though?

She never actually complains about her salary, and says she's fully prepared for a cut.

She also says that she thinks Christmas "is all a lot of fuss, it's too much."

Her actual words could just as easily be read as someone who thinks there's too much commercial hype around Christmas, and is using the opportunity to point out to her kids that bad times come along the way too ... and for that matter doesn't want her kids going back to school after Christmas boasting about the big, expensive presents they got when their classmates may be from families who the recession is actually hitting hard, and who may not have been as lucky.

If she was buying them big expensive presents people would be giving out about her, if she's trying to teach her kids a few lessons about thrift and common sense and reasonable expectations people will give out about her ...

Huge spin. Even at the start they say she said something with a quote at the end of a sentence that she said was something her son said.

mconigol · 22-11-2011 07:44AM

Love to see the Hearld work the AH masses up into a tizzy over a non-story. :rolleyes:

thee glitz · 22-11-2011 08:04AM

amacachi wrote: »

Even at the start they say she said something with a quote at the end of a sentence that she said was something her son said.

Ye wha?

Ellis Dee · 22-11-2011 08:06AM

Vego wrote: »

Id give miriam a large wedge

And I'd say you'd need a jumbo one by now.:D:D

Ellis Dee · 22-11-2011 08:08AM

Helix wrote: »

only corrupt people make over a million a year? really?

thats a really weird perspective

It's a hoor being a millionaire in Ireland. Fortunately, not too many of us have that problem. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

pickarooney · 22-11-2011 09:47AM

Is there really any need for the constant references to the size of Mrs. O'Callaghan's vagina?

Dyr · 22-11-2011 09:54AM

Could she not go on the game for christmas?

Dyr · 22-11-2011 09:55AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is there really any need for the constant references to the size of Mrs. O'Callaghan's vagina?

It disgusting carry on, people should focus on her ample diddies instead

efb · 22-11-2011 10:00AM

I bet she does her exercises and keeps it good and tight

Crazy Horse 6 · 22-11-2011 10:06AM

She should have kept her legs firmly shut and Xmas would be cheaper for her. She is one of the elites i don't feel sorry for her at all. Let her try and live on a below average industrial wage.

cock robin · 22-11-2011 10:07AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is there really any need for the constant references to the size of Mrs. O'Callaghan's vagina?

Your dead right, it's below the belt.

Absurdum · 22-11-2011 10:27AM

This is outrageous, I'ma gonna buy two TV licenses now.

Giselle · 22-11-2011 10:41AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is there really any need for the constant references to the size of Mrs. O'Callaghan's vagina?

At least if they do it lets us know who's ignorant of basic biology.:P I suppose her husbands penis is worn away to a stub after eight kids too.

I don't see the problem. Ms O' Callaghan doesn't complain anywhere, and makes the point that her children are aware there's less money generally this year and have lowered their expectations.

I'd say that woman seems to have raised her children well, as they obviously don't have any inflated sense of entitlement.

Irish people and begrudging are natural bedfellows. If she spent vulgar amounts of money, and her children were spoilt rotten, people would complain about that even more, only that time they might have a point.

Freddie59 · 22-11-2011 10:51AM

A cut to €290k. No wonder this country's in the state it's in. And that RTE are so out of touch with reality. And protected from that reality by successive Governments. Including the current one.

xsiborg · 22-11-2011 11:38AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is there really any need for the constant references to the size of Mrs. O'Callaghan's vagina?

makes a change from the usual AH discussion of yore... actually, never mind...

texidub · 22-11-2011 12:13PM

Giselle wrote: »

Irish people and begrudging are natural bedfellows.

I hate this sort of response. It's far from begrudgery. I work in media too. My wages exceed hers --in dollars AND when converted into Euros. I work for US outlets and have the size of audience an entitled, amateurish RTE gobsh(te like Miriam could only dream of.

If you want to get into hierarchies (which you obviously do), Miriam is below me both in media terms and money terms. (Ugh. I hate hierarchical thinking, but begrudgery implies some sort of Nietzschean resentment which does not apply here.)

There is a whole world out there --RTE presenters (and a whole host of other establishment gombeens) should know their place (hierarchies are great aren't they?) and instead of complaining and whining like delusional, spoiled ninnies, should be very, very thankful for what they have managed to plunder from such a small population.

Here's a reality check for you and all the other grovelling gobdaws that perpetuate the insane levels of inequality in Irish society:

RTE are a poor excuse for a TV station but that can almost be forgiven given the size of the country and the high levels of 'careful now'-conformity that prevail here. (Typified by your begrudgery reference, which is a lazy,bland, safe, conformist response to any criticism of anyone in authority.)

What can't be forgiven are the huge wages these people are paid. And what can't be forgiven is them doing the poor mouth when so many people are f*ed in the country.

/rant

*runs off screaming again* :pac:

Miriam O Callaghans Recession Christmas !

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