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Sean O'Rourke Today Show

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  • #632
    CountyHurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    I'd say it was the first day in her life that Mary Shaw truly regretted not having a second arm..

    hands-over-ears.jpg


  • #633
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,368 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Did MLOD come back from a previous life as a thesaurus :eek:

    In fairness, yoga is brilliant, she's just reminded me to enrol for classes again :D


  • #634
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Great to hear Seamus Mallon again & he's absolutely right - all this revisionism is benefiting nobody. Paisley always was and still is nothing but a bully with a massive ego. What a shame we haven't more people with the integrity of Seamus Mallon ... a true statesman IMO


  • #635
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    If Joan Burton spent less time admiring they way things are done in Austria, Finland and Germany and more time sorting out the mess in her own backyard, people might take her seriously.


  • #636
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    The endless justification of the jobbridge scheme is a bit sickening.


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  • #637
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,127 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Lapin wrote: »
    If Joan Burton spent less time admiring they way things are done in Austria, Finland and Germany and more time sorting out the mess in her own backyard, people might take her seriously.

    But shes afraid that if she makes changes that copy these countries she,ll upset some group/minority/trade union


  • #638
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Ugh. Saying that the press don't ask Hollande about his affair is because it's like a monarchy. What a load of rubbish. It's because most people don't care who he's sleeping with, they care about the fact that the economy is down the toilet.

    And they asked if Mme Trierweiler is first lady because it is technically a public position so it is not an infringement of anyone's private life to ask.And he didn't answer because also Trierweiler is in hospital because of stress.


  • #639
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,127 ✭✭✭✭neris


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Ugh. Saying that the press don't ask Hollande about his affair is because it's like a monarchy. What a load of rubbish

    Imagine what the Irish media would do if the taoiseach or president had a mistress........................... oh yeah forgot, theyd say nothing at the time


  • #640
    Boroso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 79 ✭✭Boroso


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Great to hear Seamus Mallon again & he's absolutely right - all this revisionism is benefiting nobody. Paisley always was and still is nothing but a bully with a massive ego. What a shame we haven't more people with the integrity of Seamus Mallon ... a true statesman IMO

    In the context of the times and environment in which Paisley lived, to have only been "a bully with a massive ego" seems to be quite a compliment. To have stood up to murderers, thugs, armed paramilitaries, bombs, car bombs, assaults, knee-cappings and all the rest, to have just been viewed as a bit of a bully with an ego seems quite restrained and mild, in context.


  • #641
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    neris wrote: »
    Imagine what the Irish media would do if the taoiseach or president had a mistress........................... oh yeah forgot, theyd say nothing at the time

    Especially if the mistress in question was a high profile media personality herself writing a gossip column for the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country. ;)


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  • #642
    Evan DietrichSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭Evan DietrichSmith


    Lapin wrote: »
    If Joan Burton spent less time admiring they way things are done in Austria, Finland and Germany and more time sorting out the mess in her own backyard, people might take her seriously.

    So she is not trying to do that, is she not?:confused:


  • #643
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Watched this last night. Good show, some very decent people on it like the Romanian farm workers...not so much the Roma stealing electricity and dumping their bins in the street.


  • #644
    Boroso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 79 ✭✭Boroso


    artful_codger wrote: »
    Watched this last night. Good show, some very decent people on it like the Romanian farm workers...not so much the Roma stealing electricity and dumping their bins in the street.

    I thought this was a radio show?


  • #645
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,127 ✭✭✭✭neris


    thats twice this week seans watch has gone off at 12


  • #646
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    neris wrote: »
    thats twice this week seans watch has gone off at 12
    I heard it last week several times as well.


  • #647
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,127 ✭✭✭✭neris


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    I heard it last week several times as well.

    Wonder then how Joe Duffy knows when its 3 oclock. No alarm or buzzer on a gold Rolex


  • #648
    Boroso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 79 ✭✭Boroso


    neris wrote: »
    Wonder then how Joe Duffy knows when its 3 oclock. No alarm or buzzer on a gold Rolex

    More inverted snobbery about radio presenters!!


  • #649
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Boroso wrote: »
    More inverted snobbery about radio presenters!!
    Hardly. On a salary of 300K a year, he hardly got his watch from a lucky bag.


  • #650
    Boroso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 79 ✭✭Boroso


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Hardly. On a salary of 300K a year, he hardly got his watch from a lucky bag.

    inverted snobbery

    Line breaks: in|vert¦ed snob|beryPronunciation:

    noun

    [mass noun] • derogatory the attitude of seeming to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position.


  • #651
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Boroso wrote: »
    I thought this was a radio show?

    Sean was talking about Benefits Street, as opposed to RTE which is on the posher Benefits Avenue.


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  • #652
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Not everybody on a good income has an expensive watch.


  • #653
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Boroso wrote: »
    inverted snobbery

    Line breaks: in|vert¦ed snob|beryPronunciation:

    noun

    [mass noun] • derogatory the attitude of seeming to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position.
    Thanks! I love learning something new. :rolleyes:


  • #654
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭serfboard


    artful_codger wrote: »
    Sean was talking about Benefits Street, as opposed to RTE which is on the posher Benefits Avenue.
    Are either of them anywhere near Entitlements Row (on the northside) or Entitlements Mews (on the southside)? ;)


  • #655
    constitutionus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    just around the corner from increments junction.

    :D


  • #656
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,127 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Boroso wrote: »
    inverted snobbery

    Line breaks: in|vert¦ed snob|beryPronunciation:

    noun

    [mass noun] • derogatory the attitude of seeming to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position.

    As a newbie around here you should know that theres alot of sarcasm and pi55taking on the radio forum. If your going to be such a sensitive soul about comments made about radio people and rte in particular youd be better finding a more polite forum. After hours is definitly not for you


  • #657
    Boroso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 79 ✭✭Boroso


    neris wrote: »
    As a newbie around here you should know that theres alot of sarcasm and pi55taking on the radio forum. If your going to be such a sensitive soul about comments made about radio people and rte in particular youd be better finding a more polite forum. After hours is definitly not for you

    I wasn't planning on being a sensitive soul. I thank you for your unasked for advice, although have often found, myself, that unasked for advice rarely is offered by those people who one seeks out for the quality of their advice.

    For your notes, inverted snobbery can come in many forms, even sometimes as sarcasm, and the two are not mutually exclusive.

    As an "oldie" around here, I assume you expect new entrants from time to time, and it seems particularly insensitive of you to think being an "oldie" gives you extra rights or privileges


  • #658
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Public Health Warning: Tom Parlon, property bubble shill ahead.


  • #659
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    artful_codger wrote: »
    Public Health Warning: Tom Parlon, property bubble shill ahead.


    They haven't gone away you know - Parlon is enough to spoil my weekend :mad:


  • #660
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Callan57 wrote: »
    They haven't gone away you know - Parlon is enough to spoil my weekend :mad:

    Why why why does the Today Show think it's appropriate to have a Construction lobbyist on to talk about housing?


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  • #661
    delaad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    Boroso wrote: »
    In the context of the times and environment in which Paisley lived, to have only been "a bully with a massive ego" seems to be quite a compliment. To have stood up to murderers, thugs, armed paramilitaries, bombs, car bombs, assaults, knee-cappings and all the rest, to have just been viewed as a bit of a bully with an ego seems quite restrained and mild, in context.

    So Paisley stood up to the UDA and UVF!


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