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Anything that makes you switch off in any media or discussion

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  • #32
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Everything GAA related.
    Strictly come dancing/Dancing on ice etc
    Fair City
    Farming programmes
    Recession/Austerity/Banking fiasco discussion on TV/radio etc


  • #33
    IK09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭IK09


    Nicole Schwashinton from xfactor. Every time she opens her mouth i wanna punch the tv. She is the epitome of everything that is wrong with pop culture and people in general.


  • #34
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    sok2005 wrote: »
    I am a parent but I can't stand getting stuck in conversations with other parents about children, schools, toys, what our kids can do etc.

    This drives me up the wall. Talking to some parents with kids the same age boasting about what their kids are doing. I let it go over my head most of the time.


  • #35
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Anything sean quinn


  • #36
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Gay Headlines.

    The second biggest headline on BreakingNews.ie is about who a English gay swimmers boyfriend is. Seriously though, dfaq is that headline news?

    Yeah, cause nobody's interested are they? That's what news editors do, isn't it? They find somehting that "nobody" cares about and put it on their front page.

    I couldn't give a toss, btw, but there are clearly large numbers of people who do.


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  • #37
    irish bloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭irish bloke


    geeky wrote: »
    Great thread

    - Rugby, especially of the Leinster variety.
    - Partly related, but George Hook. It's like listening to Jabba the Hut without the pizazz.
    - Agree on Irish political debate. Truly dismal stuff (the referendum debates last time out may have been the least edifying things I've ever witnessed)
    - The word 'Artisan'. I mentally substitute the word 'charlatan' whenever I hear it.
    - The never ending 'dole scrounger' red herring. There are lots of people on the dole because of unfortunate circumstances, and plenty of people on it as a lifestyle choice because they've no chance of making a better living with honest work. You won't cut down the latter number unless you cut the dole down to bare survival levels, or deliver better opportunities for low-skilled workers. Does it really take a new threat every day to discuss that?

    There's lots of other stuff I'm sure.

    Very long posts.
    I'm disinterested after 2 lines


  • #38
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Your one Dil Wickremasinghe from Newstalk... can't bear to listen to her drone on about how Ireland is full of great injustices


  • #39
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Your one Dil Wickremasinghe from Newstalk... can't bear to listen to her drone on about how Ireland is full of great injustices

    Is that the thing that sounds African, has to be the most painful person on radio, I listen to newstalk but switch off the minute it comes on.


  • #40
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Eamon Gilmore.


  • #41
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    People caught up the annual "new iPhone/Pad" trend.
    I don't know if i find the people who openly go on about it worse, throwing in a mention of it whenever they can or those that rather obviously make a veiled attempt to show it off ie: photos taken with the thing in front of a mirror.


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  • #42
    tree_tall
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭tree_tall


    any mention of that dreaded word " equality "


  • #43
    sammy37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭sammy37


    When sportsmen refer to their fella players with these cute baby words like Dricco ,Rog, Giggsy, Scholesy and so forth it sends the shivers down my spine.Man up ffs.


  • #44
    tree_tall
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭tree_tall


    sammy37 wrote: »
    When sportsmen refer to their fella players with these cute baby words like Dricco ,Rog, Giggsy, Scholesy and so forth it sends the shivers down my spine.Man up ffs.

    that really only happens in rugby


  • #45
    Pique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭Pique


    Vincent fcuking Browne!


  • #46
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,006 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Joan Burton's voice. She could be telling me I'd won the lotto and I still wouldn't notice her.

    Any discussion of celebrities or reality television.

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  • #47
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    The mention of Northern Ireland makes me zone out.

    Anything on TV3 really, especially anything connected to Expose. It has to be the most irritating show ever produced for Irish television screens.

    If I read/see the word epic used in an article or tv show. You can almost be guaranteed that what is being referred to as epic is not.


  • #48
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Anything like "take to the streets" or moaning about the lack of protesters.

    Get a bit of perception, compared to most of the world you are up near the top of the pile!


  • #49
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Fix my house up/property shows
    Cookery shows
    Soaps
    Any hospital-related shows
    'Celebs' seems like a show is unwatchable unless it has a 'celeb' featured.


  • #50
    Lofty123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Lofty123


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Fix my house up/property shows
    Cookery shows
    Soaps
    Any hospital-related shows
    'Celebs' seems like a show is unwatchable unless it has a 'celeb' featured.

    That doesn't leave you with much left to watch on tv


  • #51
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Mary O'Rourke. What's strangest is that I couldn't tell you one of her political views or ideas, yet I've seen her show up on a thousand programmes yammering about nothing and making crap jokes


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  • #52
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    David Quinn feat The Iona Institute


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