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Bobby Kerr Businessman on Newstalk.

  • 26-02-2013 8:26am
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    How can a successful businessman go through life mispronouncing one of the biggest auditors in the world.
    His add for "Earnest" and Young is just bad.


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  • Some people have way too much to complain about.


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


    Also why do people call Goodbody Stockbrokers, 'GoodBUDDY Stockbrokers'?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Outrageous, it really is


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I would forgive Mr. Kerr given that his background is business and not broadcasting. Also, Newstalk is privately owned and so they can hire who they like, pretty much.

    I have a serious problem with the many MANY broadcasters on the state funded RTE who have a brutal grasp of basic grammar and pronunciation though.

    It can't be that hard to get people who can speak properly can it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Love his coffee though!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭doubledown


    stoneill wrote: »
    How can a successful businessman go through life mispronouncing one of the biggest auditors in the world.
    His add for "Earnest" and Young is just bad.

    How can some people go through life not knowing how to spell "ad" correctly?

    Oh well, never mind. Better luck next time, OP.

    And yes - Kerr is AWFUL on the radio.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Eh, sure our own Taoiseach can't pronounce his own name.


    It's ENda, not Inda!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭The Barefoot Pizza Thief


    Should never have been dropped as Ireland manager.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    SamHall wrote: »
    Eh, sure our own Taoiseach can't pronounce his own name.


    It's ENda, not Inda!

    I think he knows that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Earnest and Young wouldn't have let Anglo slip so much by them.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,907 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Bobby Kerr should do less broadcasting and make fresher sandwiches


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    His voice bugs the piss out of me, have to switch it over whenever he's on. Of course Newstalk do have Marc Coleman, author of The Best is Yet to Come as their Head of Business or whatever title he's carrying.

    This book, published late 2007, tells us all how, far from the bubble bursting, we are actually on the cusp of a Golden Age that could last 30 years or more!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jossnjuice


    I for one thoroughly enjoy listening to his programme whilst dying on a sunday morning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    jossnjuice wrote: »
    I for one thoroughly enjoy listening to his programme whilst dying on a sunday morning.

    It probably sounds ok when you are in that state:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio

    I beg to differ. Have you not heard Keith Duffy?


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


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio

    That accolade should go to George Hook, interrupting guests, spitting into the mike and going on and on about lovely Ingrid.
    Hate presenters discussing their families on air, as if we gave a sh*t. Tom Dunne is another offender.

    And pronounces the number 'six' as 'sex'....*shudders*


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That accolade should go to George Hook, interrupting guests, spitting into the mike and going on and on about lovely Ingrid.

    George Hook can string a sentence together


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred



    That accolade should go to George Hook, interrupting guests, spitting into the mike and going on and on about lovely Ingrid.

    George Hook is a legend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    stoneill wrote: »
    His add for "Earnest" and Young is just bad.

    Yeah I cringed when I heard this as well.. And the previous ad was just as bad... "The winner will get an interview with mwahhhhh".. (i.e. moi)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,317 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio

    He's not even the worst on Newstalk. Nora Casey on their breakfast show manages to be ignorant, patronising and ill-informed all in the same breath. She's unlistenable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Newstalk seems to be collecting together a sort of Avengers Ensemble of lousy speakers

    Chris Donohue - ball bearings in a biscuit tin.
    Nora Casey - giggle, hmm, yes, ahh
    Hooky - rambling gargly noises
    Moncreif - ah, eh, oo, hmm, mmm
    Kerr - mumbleybumblystuff
    Coleman - hack, krrrrr, cough, squlch


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He's not even the worst on Newstalk. Nora Casey on their breakfast show manages to be ignorant, patronising and ill-informed all in the same breath. She's unlistenable.

    No fan of Nora but Bobby is on a different level especially on one of his outside broadcasts,all thats missing is the circus music in the background


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    mike65 wrote: »
    Newstalk seems to be collecting together a sort of Avengers Ensemble of lousy speakers

    Chris Donohue - ball bearings in a biscuit tin.
    Nora Casey - giggle, hmm, yes, ahh
    Hooky - rambling gargly noises
    Moncreif - ah, eh, oo, hmm, mmm
    Kerr - mumbleybumblystuff
    Coleman - hack, krrrrr, cough, squlch

    I always get the impression Casey is playing footsy with Chris in the mornings. The flirting is vommit-inducing. She's fundamentally an airhead. Take away "business" and "woman" from her vocabulary and she has nothing to say

    Montcrief is the best thing on radio. All verbal ticks forgiven.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Great LinkedIn profile though! http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bobby-kerr/65/a02/269

    :D


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


    He's not even the worst on Newstalk. Nora Casey on their breakfast show manages to be ignorant, patronising and ill-informed all in the same breath. She's unlistenable.

    Come back Ivan, all is forgiven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    vitani wrote: »
    I beg to differ. Have you not heard Keith Duffy?

    Do you mean Joe Duffy? He's pretty shocking too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    While we're on the subject of mispronunciation, those 'Maraton Sports Travel' ad's annoy me more than they possibly should.



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio

    He's pretty bad, but the worst has to be the foreign lady who hosts a show on Newstalk either on a Saturday or Sunday evening. She's a terrible interviewer, misses links, leaves long pauses between links and is generally really amateurish when presenting.

    Never heard anyone as bad on the radio.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    He's pretty bad, but the worst has to be the foreign lady who hosts a show on Newstalk either on a Saturday or Sunday evening. She's a terrible interviewer, misses links, leaves long pauses between links and is generally really amateurish when presenting.

    Never heard anyone as bad on the radio.


    You mean Dill Everyones-racist-against-me-because-Im-a-SriLankan-Lesbian?

    Yes. Good call


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