Sean O'Rourke Today Show

"who uses phone numbers nowadays?"

eh, people who make phone calls?? :rolleyes:

gawd, he sounds fierce childish.

wont answer the question

Lisa Hannigan has a spine chilling voice ... I thought it was Sinead O'Connor for a minute

Lapin wrote: »

Waters makes a very legitimate point about the erosion of freedom of opinion in Irish journalism.

How so? He's the one who sued when someone stated their own opinion?

John Waters wants a freedom of opinion so long as it's his opinion and not challenged in any way.

ThisRegard wrote: »

That's exactly it, he wants one way freedom of speech. He seems to forget that freedom of speech also allows those that oppose your view to express that fact.

If you oppose his view you're attempting to silence him, persecute him, are part of some lobby or agenda.

You can't possibly just not agree with him.

Just listening back to that interview with John Waters.
I gave it a second listen because I wondered if it really was as bizzare and inarticulate as I'd thought it this morning.

He sounds like someone in need of serious help handling his persecution complex & his inflated opinion of his importance in Irish life.

Cork water protesters - cue John O`Donovan.......

Not meaning to insult anyones beliefs but there's something very unseemly & tacky about this canonisation process - who tell "the man above" when someone has been promoted (do they have a HR dept in Heaven that keep these personell records I wonder?)

Very very difficult not to see it as anything more than a human construct - more or less the same as when a TD get the ministerial car! :rolleyes:

Callan57 wrote: »

Not meaning to insult anyones beliefs but there's something very unseemly & tacky about this canonisation process - who tell "the man above" when someone has been promoted (do they have a HR dept in Heaven that keep these personell records I wonder?)

Very very difficult not to see it as anything more than a human construct - more or less the same as when a TD get the ministerial car! :rolleyes:

I think that the RCC position is actually in theory pretty much consistent with that. (The Prods seem to have opted out of the business entirely, and the Orthodox have a somewhat different take, as I understand it.) The person isn't actually being "made" a saint: they're either in heaven or hell already (or are part of the unresurrected dead, or reincarnated as a binturong, or it's all bollix anyway, depending on your belief system, or lack thereof). The "canonisation" is the church giving itself "permission" to venerate them.

For "church telling god what to so", see the Catholic take on the sacraments. "Metaphysical change of state happens... (dramatic pause) ... now!"

Kathleen Lynch meets people who tell her Labour are doing a good job. Yeah right :rolleyes:

Socialist Joe, still clinging onto his glorious failure as he heads for the sunset.

After all those years, its the same message of "infinite spending, no taxes".

Callan57 wrote: »

OMG "we assumed" ... did that lady not have a solicitor dealing with the purchase of her house?
Purchasing a house is a major legal transaction - you can't assume anything

They looked at the land registry maps showing the driveway was theirs.

And in fairness, If I purchased a semi-d in a housing estate I too would assume the front garden was included with the sale also.

comongethappy wrote: »

Socialist Joe, still clinging onto his glorious failure as he heads for the sunset.

After all those years, its the same message of "infinite spending, no taxes".

One of Sean's more banal interviews. At one point asking Joe if he prepared for Dail session or did he just 'wing it'. Quite an insulting thing to ask of any person. A lesser man would have given Sean a good slap for that.

One thing we can say about Joe is that he didn't put his political career ahead of those who voted for him, like some people. Labour's way or Frankfurt's way - ha ha.

Joe did his bit for the common man/woman. I wish him well.