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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #1262
    elastico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,592 ✭✭✭elastico


    I wonder what RTE staffer they have on standby to fill the 15 minute slot tomorrow night. The late late may have been worth watching back on RTE player for once.


  • #1263
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,273 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    seamus wrote: »
    Well he's made at least one good PR move by turning down the invitation to appear on the LLS. Clearly somebody isn't afraid to give Paddy some home truths and advised him that an appearance on the LLS would be a disaster for him.

    I dunno, sounds like it was set up to be an armchair ride from Tubs:
    "They're living in a world where ambition, creativity and cajones are considered admirable and celebrated," Mr Tubridy said of Mr Cosgrave and the Web Summit organisers.

    "They've come to Ireland - we're a nation of wing-clippers. Honestly if we see wings spanning out too much, we'll clip them, and I think they're suffering from that. I think the media need to back off a little bit. I also think the Web Summit guys might need to rein their necks in a little. And we could have peace and love and get this back here where it belongs."


  • #1264
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Eoin wrote: »
    I dunno, sounds like it was set up to be an armchair ride from Tubs:

    Imagine the Twitter response though. An easy interview would compound that.

    When Roy Hattersley pulled out of Have I Got News For You, they replaced him with a tub of lard. The Late Late should replace Cosgrave with a massive heap of bull shit.


  • #1265
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭BMMachine


    Its shite now anyway and we dont need it
    and the guys that run it made a show of themselves
    and the taxpayers money joe
    and I just bit my stupid nose off because I wanted to spite my face

    IIIIRRRREEELLLAAAAANNNNND! IIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEELLLLLLLLLANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD!
    SHOULDER TO SHOULDER!


  • #1266
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Someone's drunk


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  • #1267
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    RayM wrote: »
    Imagine the Twitter response though. An easy interview would compound that.

    When Roy Hattersley pulled out of Have I Got News For You, they replaced him with a tub of lard. The Late Late should replace Cosgrave with a massive heap of bull shit.

    ^
    Post of the week


  • #1268
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    RayM wrote: »
    Imagine the Twitter response though. An easy interview would compound that.

    When Roy Hattersley pulled out of Have I Got News For You, they replaced him with a tub of lard. The Late Late should replace Cosgrave with a massive heap of bull shit.

    RTE should be able to supply that easily from its vast reserves of same.


  • #1269
    sid waddell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭sid waddell


    An infallible confidence in himself, a vast superiority complex, is what made Cosgrave. He's basically a marketing man with no special talent. There's always been a large portion of bull**** mixed in with that confidence, but now the bull**** has taken over entirely and made him look like a prize idiot.

    Six weeks since Cosgrave announced the Web Summit was moving to Lisbon, he still hasn't managed to put any flesh on the bones of what his problem with the Government was.

    Jose Mourinho should console himself with the fact that no matter how big a tool you're making of yourself, there's always somebody, somewhere making a bigger tool of themselves.


  • #1270
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    elastico wrote: »
    I wonder what RTE staffer they have on standby to fill the 15 minute slot tomorrow night. The late late may have been worth watching back on RTE player for once.

    Tommy Tiernans wife maybe


  • #1271
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    BMMachine wrote: »
    Its shite now anyway and we dont need it
    and the guys that run it made a show of themselves
    and the taxpayers money joe
    and I just bit my stupid nose off because I wanted to spite my face

    IIIIRRRREEELLLAAAAANNNNND! IIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEELLLLLLLLLANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD!
    SHOULDER TO SHOULDER!

    Is that the Web Summit or the Late Late Show you're talking about???


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  • #1272
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    BMMachine wrote: »
    Its shite now anyway and we dont need it
    and the guys that run it made a show of themselves
    and the taxpayers money joe
    and I just bit my stupid nose off because I wanted to spite my face

    IIIIRRRREEELLLAAAAANNNNND! IIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEELLLLLLLLLANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD!
    SHOULDER TO SHOULDER!

    Such a pity Paddy's not paying the volunteers


  • #1273
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    Pulls out of the late late. Nothing but coward and bellend.


  • #1274
    Crimsonforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Crimsonforce


    Its amazing how this thread has turned and everyone can see the bull****ter. He not a tech savy person who creates things but is basically a promoter. Give him nerdy night in coppers on a Tuesday to promote, he'll be grand.


  • #1275
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    sid waddell wrote: »
    An infallible confidence in himself, a vast superiority complex, is what made Cosgrave. He's basically a marketing man with no special talent. There's always been a large portion of bull**** mixed in with that confidence, but now the bull**** has taken over entirely and made him look like a prize idiot.

    Six weeks since Cosgrave announced the Web Summit was moving to Lisbon, he still hasn't managed to put any flesh on the bones of what his problem with the Government was.

    Jose Mourinho should console himself with the fact that no matter how big a tool you're making of yourself, there's always somebody, somewhere making a bigger tool of themselves.

    An economics and politics graduate, no actual qualifications in IT (at least to my knowledge) - but his skills would aid in manipulation/bulls******* and ripping off people as he has demonstratively shown.


  • #1276
    sid waddell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭sid waddell


    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    An economics and politics graduate, no actual qualifications in IT (at least to my knowledge) - but his skills would aid in manipulation/bulls******* and ripping off people as he has demonstratively shown.
    It's a Trinners BESS thing. Another prize tool and bull**** artist, John McGuirk, was a contemporary of his there.


  • #1277
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭BMMachine


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Such a pity Paddy's not paying the volunteers

    why do I have to be associated with web summit in your guys view?
    is it not entirely possible that I just think you are small minded, full of crap and enjoy the smell of each others farts?
    but here, you have a nose to bite off - get on it and stop mucking around with me


  • #1278
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    VinLieger wrote: »
    He brought everything on himself with the web of lies he spun and then collapsed around him, if he had stayed quiet and done nothing with the emails none of this would have happened, but he couldnt keep his ego in check

    I see what ya did there :pac::pac::pac:


  • #1279
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    wowy wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/business/tdechnology/web-summit/tubridy-on-web-summit-wars-ireland-is-a-nation-of-wing-clippers-and-paddy-has-fallen-foul-34173107.html

    It looks like Tubridy might not be too hard on him....

    So, all of Tubridy's kowtowing to Cosgrave has
    come to nothing, now that Paddy had chickened
    out of the LLS!!


  • #1280
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    Being threatened by Cosgrave is most likely similar to being 'bought out' by Bill Gates ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE


  • #1281
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    BMMachine wrote: »
    why do I have to be associated with web summit in your guys view?
    is it not entirely possible that I just think you are small minded, full of crap and enjoy the smell of each others farts?
    but here, you have a nose to bite off - get on it and stop mucking around with me

    Should you not be out lobbying at Leinster house against Catholic schools or something?


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  • #1282
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Just..... wow.

    Like i completely agree with him but hes basically standing on stage and shouting "look over there"

    He's actually beginning to sound deranged!


  • #1283
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    Double or nothing.

    Honestly, I love this thread. It's like looking at a suicide bomber, in an orgy, on a minibus, in a car crash about to happen in slow motion.

    :):):)


  • #1284
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    BMMachine wrote: »
    why do I have to be associated with web summit in your guys view?
    is it not entirely possible that I just think you are small minded, full of crap and enjoy the smell of each others farts?
    but here, you have a nose to bite off - get on it and stop mucking around with me

    Are you associated with the Web Summit?


  • #1285
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    mhge wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy must be delighted to be shown the finger after all the fawning over creative Paddy and his cojones he did earlier today!

    Wasn't that really sickening?! Or, maybe, he was setting up PC for a fall, as someone already suggested. Shucks, we'll never know now. :(


  • #1286
    dubscottie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    Sure in 2017 there will be a thread here in AH about "what ever happened to Paddy Cosgrave".

    The man is a A1 wanker. I have no interest in computers but when this bellend is all over the news you cant help but read.

    He comes across as nothing but a conman.

    What he runs is not unlike the timeshare things you get bombarded with on holidays.

    Sure you might just get something out it but in reality you will be €1000's down because you got sucked in by some twats sales patter.

    In the UK it maybe be borderline fraud. The sort of thing you see on Watchdog on the BBC or Dispatches on Ch4..


  • #1287
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    An economics and politics graduate, no actual qualifications in IT (at least to my knowledge) - but his skills would aid in manipulation/bulls******* and ripping off people as he has demonstratively shown.

    Glenstal and Trinity must be very proud of him! Not!!


  • #1288
    Tivoli1300
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Tivoli1300


    brooke 2 wrote: »
    Glenstal and Trinity must be very proud of him! Not!!

    Following in the footsteps of Breffni o 'Brien - also a BESS graduate


  • #1289
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭BMMachine


    griffdaddy wrote: »
    Are you associated with the Web Summit?

    not in any way shape or form.
    but the lads having the ha ha's and being all "take it easy paddy a hurr hurr hurr" oh After Hours and its top top humour

    edit - and of course, there will be an obligatory "take it easy paddy" reply cos you guys are just mad banter


  • #1290
    dubscottie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    BMMachine wrote: »
    not in any way shape or form.
    but the lads having the ha ha's and being all "take it easy paddy a hurr hurr hurr" oh After Hours and its top top humour

    edit - and of course, there will be an obligatory "take it easy paddy" reply cos you guys are just mad banter

    What? Do you want to type that again so us that did not attend the rip off, summit or other can understand the bollox you just posted?


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  • #1291
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    VinLieger wrote: »
    By all accounts the real business is done over a couple of pints well away from the night summits, lisbon is gonna have a very different culture that will find it hard to replicate that
    This is the case at all conferences; some companies don't even bother getting tickets to these things and just turn up to the known watering holes in the evening or set up dinner 'dates' instead.

    Lisbon, like most cities will have plenty of options. Whether the locals have a pub culture or not is irrelevant.


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