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Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

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  • #422
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    As far as I can see the only reason why Dubliners want an elected mayor:

    1) Have gardaí on the streets and shamed into keeping the streets free from violent attacks, drug taking, and other crimes.

    2) To stop calling him/her the "Lord" Mayor.

    Or maybe they just want rid of the cosy little arrangement the larger parties in the council have in which they agree upon who becomes the mayor every year.


  • #423
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    An artist ! What did I tell you yesterday, whenever there's a disaster (they see every little incident as a disaster) there's an artist to be found !


  • #424
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Okay, I'm done

    I'm done with shrill nutters, the core of joes listeners

    It's a disease and Joe is curating and nurturing the negativity

    Best avoided. Just as the advertisers and sponsors do.


  • #425
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    No relevance to my life.

    But wait for her to start complaining about government policies like taxes etc, all made the the politicians which she claims have no relevance to her life.

    And there you go again, claiming they speak for the majority of us. Nutters, France again.


  • #426
    CountyHurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    "You'd see it in the playground... "

    yeah I was passing by a school the other day and I overhead one of the kids saying "no, you're Michael Martin... I want to be Enda Kenny".


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  • #427
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,994 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Or maybe they just want rid of the cosy little arrangement the larger parties in the council have in which they agree upon who becomes the mayor every year.

    The councils will still be made up of the usual suspects.

    But the mayor nominees will have to have an issue to get elected.

    So far, the mayors have been uninterested in crime and anti-social behaviour.


  • #428
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Ha ha French people !

    Does she know how long ago the revolution was?

    Someone like Mags shouldn't be allowed pollute children with her potty mouth attitude?


  • #429
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,829 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    Step this way for a Grand Sale of Titanic deckchairs...


  • #430
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,994 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Why don't people elect councils who will lower rates, and in return have less council services?

    Will people do this? No.


  • #431
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,829 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    We could always have a Beet Tribunal.


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  • #432
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    Why don't people elect councils who will lower rates, and in return have less council services?

    Will people do this? No.

    My local County Council has a County Manager that is not elected -god Knows how he got the Job .. he holds the purse strings not the councillers


  • #433
    CountyHurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    It seems to me at this stage that Joe just looks down through the callers on his screen and puts on the ones who have very similar opinions to him on topics that he wants to discuss...


  • #434
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    English dole head


    Crusty on your taxes


  • #435
    CountyHurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    "The lunacy we called the Celtic Tiger".

    I dont remember him coming out against it at the time.. I dont remember him going in to RTE management and saying "400k, ah jaysus I cant expect the people of Ireland to give me that much just for presenting a radio show. Have ye all gone mad"..


  • #436
    baldbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,636 ✭✭✭baldbear


    my friend wrote: »
    English dole head


    Crusty on your taxes

    How do you know shes English?Did you see her passport?


  • #437
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,829 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    "I'm not a great lover of your programme."

    <bad line>

    Oops, seems to have ended the show on a sour note, there Joe.


  • #438
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    "I'm not a great lover of your programme."

    <bad line>

    As it's April Fools Day, Joe will give him the benefit of the doubt


  • #439
    DownBeaten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭DownBeaten


    I don't listen to liveline very often, but I caught the last caller today, calling for electoral reform by not voting.

    I won't be listening to liveline much in future either. Logic like that they can keep to themselves.


  • #440
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    baldbear wrote: »
    How do you know shes English?Did you see her passport?

    She either is or she is of very weak character and picked up the accent.

    She has a nasty crusty attitude too.

    Your move.


  • #441
    LandonRicketts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭LandonRicketts


    Just downloaded the full show on the lifeline podcast feed on iTunes(weird in its self as its usually broken into sections and is NOT ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS) I looked at the shows description. Is Joe's researchers trying to troll us for April Fools? :pac::pac::pac:

    2zflms9.png


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  • #442
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    signostic wrote: »
    We heard from Susanne from Limerick and her new house, it would be great to get an update from Renee and if she got her new Romanian hip...
    If anyone knows her, tell her to call Joe


  • #443
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    my friend wrote: »
    Re the elected Mayor for Dublin Joe believes democracy involves placing a further burden on taxpayers

    I say well done to the councillors of Fingal CC for rejecting the profligate proposal.

    Are you kidding me? The real reason is that any reform of local government, the first thing to go will be the army of powerless and useless councillors.
    CountyHurler wrote: »
    "The lunacy we called the Celtic Tiger".

    I dont remember him coming out against it at the time.. I dont remember him going in to RTE management and saying "400k, ah jaysus I cant expect the people of Ireland to give me that much just for presenting a radio show. Have ye all gone mad"..

    Interesting also how he conflates the very real economic progress made 1990-2003, with the later property bubble.


  • #444
    withless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭withless


    A stupid show for stupid people in a stupid country. Except us of course.


  • #445
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,123 ✭✭✭✭neris


    turned off after the first caller today. she was whinging that stena line werent selling her products anymore, then giving out that there were new start up companies she had to compete against then giving out the supermarkets cut her products if they were poor sellers. The jist of her call " i dont want competition and supermarkets should stock my stuff if it doesnt sell" meanwhile at the other end of the call Joe "the callers drive the agenda" Duffy is on a totally different tangent about the government and how alan shatter is affecting this lady caller. Dont know if i turned out because of a stupid caller or duffy blatantly trying to drive his own agenda and topics he wanted to talk about


  • #446
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    How many times was the word 'authentic' used in that programme. I was roaring ffs at the radio, then copped on and switched off.


  • #447
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,994 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Prediction:

    Today's Liveline will involve the outrage regarding the GAA deal with Sky Sports.

    With ordinary people. YAY!

    And how people in Australia will be able to see free GAA matches, but people in Ireland will, there is a good chance, have to go to a neighbour's house or send their children to a pub to watch GAA matches, - unless they want to pay a foreign broadcaster.


  • #448
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    Prediction:

    Today's Liveline will involve the outrage regarding the GAA deal with Sky Sports.

    With ordinary people. YAY!

    And how people in Australia will be able to see free GAA matches, but people in Ireland will, there is a good chance, have to go to a neighbour's house or send their children to a pub to watch GAA matches, - unless they want to pay a foreign broadcaster.


    Where's D'amo when we need him?


  • #449
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,123 ✭✭✭✭neris


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    Prediction:

    Today's Liveline will involve the outrage regarding the GAA deal with Sky Sports.

    With ordinary people. YAY!

    And how people in Australia will be able to see free GAA matches, but people in Ireland will, there is a good chance, have to go to a neighbour's house or send their children to a pub to watch GAA matches, - unless they want to pay a foreign broadcaster.

    joes currently cramming the gaa encyclopedia trying to figure out which is football and which is hurling. After his 1130 coffee he,ll move on to knowing which stadium is the aviva and which is croke park


  • #450
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    Prediction:

    Today's Liveline will involve the outrage regarding the GAA deal with Sky Sports.

    With ordinary people. YAY!

    And how people in Australia will be able to see free GAA matches, but people in Ireland will, there is a good chance, have to go to a neighbour's house or send their children to a pub to watch GAA matches, - unless they want to pay a foreign broadcaster.

    bingo already


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  • #451
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    The Gah!


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