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Bobby Kerr Businessman on Newstalk.

  • 26-02-2013 9:26am
    #1
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Some people have way too much to complain about.


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


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


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


    Outrageous, it really is


  • #5
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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?


  • #6
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Love his coffee though!


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  • #7
    doubledown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #8
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


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


    It's ENda, not Inda!


  • #9
    The Barefoot Pizza Thief
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭The Barefoot Pizza Thief


    Should never have been dropped as Ireland manager.


  • #10
    ColeTrain
    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.


  • #11
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


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


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  • #12
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,161 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Bobby Kerr should do less broadcasting and make fresher sandwiches


  • #13
    TwoShedsJackson
    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!!


  • #14
    jossnjuice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jossnjuice


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


  • #15
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio


  • #16
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #17
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Bobby is the worst broadcaster in the history of radio

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


  • #18
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    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*


  • #19
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    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


  • #20
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

    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.


  • #21
    JonathanAnon
    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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  • #22
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    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.


  • #23
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #24
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    super_furry wrote: »
    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


  • #25
    D1stant
    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.


  • #26
    YellowFeather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


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

    :D


  • #27
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    super_furry wrote: »
    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.


  • #28
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


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

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


  • #29
    Yamanoto
    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70


  • #30
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    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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  • #31
    D1stant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    dark crystal wrote: »
    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


  • #32
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    D1stant wrote: »
    You mean Dill Everyones-racist-against-me-because-Im-a-SriLankan-Lesbian?

    Yes. Good call

    I don't know her name, but the show is called Global Village. Jesus, it's dire.


  • #33
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    D1stant wrote: »

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

    Sean's surely morphed into Elmer Fudd - his delivery oft-punctuated by a series of staccato eh, em, uh, b.b..but's etc.

    I used to enjoy Moncrieff and I know it's a minority view, but the show kinda grates when I catch it now.

    It reminds me of a drawn out version of 'And finally...' on ITN News - too much fluff like alien abductees, hipster American authors and myriad other wacky but all too familiar items. It's mildly amusing on occasion but the way some people go on, you'd think Sean was a frickin' comedy God.


  • #34
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    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
    Cant we just agree that they are both dire?


  • #35
    ad83
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭ad83


    dark crystal wrote: »
    I don't know her name, but the show is called Global Village. Jesus, it's dire.

    I was sent on a corporate ethnic sensitivity training course some years ago given by a certain woman ( i believe the afternoon( 2 - 5) course cost somewhere in the region of 10k - boom times )

    I would be a fairly quiet person but could not bite my lip any more when she accused the class of being racist because they worked for a company who hired qualified candidates over unqualified

    when I and some others questioned her on this she unleashed a list of similar issues she has(with Irish people I believe ) which she considers as racism including people who has an issue with welfare fraud

    not sure if this is relevant to this thread but have waited since 2007 to tell this story as i don't know anyone who listens to any show on newstalk on saturday nights with whom i could share this


  • #36
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    ad83 wrote: »
    I was sent on a corporate ethnic sensitivity training course some years ago given by a certain woman ( i believe the afternoon( 2 - 5) course cost somewhere in the region of 10k - boom times )

    I would be a fairly quiet person but could not bite my lip any more when she accused the class of being racist because they worked for a company who hired qualified candidates over unqualified

    when I and some others questioned her on this she unleashed a list of similar issues she has(with Irish people I believe ) which she considers as racism including people who has an issue with welfare fraud

    not sure if this is relevant to this thread but have waited since 2007 to tell this story as i don't know anyone who listens to any show on newstalk on saturday nights with whom i could share this

    Was this course given by the same woman who does this show?


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  • #37
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    he does a lot for the irish economy like buying all the sandwiches for insomnia from a company in newry


  • #38
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    It reminds me of a drawn out version of 'And finally...' on ITN News - too much fluff like alien abductees, hipster American authors and myriad other wacky but all too familiar items. It's mildly amusing on occasion but the way some people go on, you'd think Sean was a frickin' comedy God.

    These "wacky stories" which have usually been on a minimum of BBC, theJournal.ie and Broadsheet.ie for at least three days before one of his "researchers" passes them to him to read on air.


  • #39
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    The mans an idiot.


  • #40
    surferdudz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭surferdudz


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    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*

    +1

    Tom Dunne mentions his missus EVERY show...


  • #41
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    surferdudz wrote: »
    +1

    Tom Dunne mentions his missus EVERY show...

    Blokes on the radio that mention their missus all the time are usually cheating and on cocaine.
    Probably.


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  • #42
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    stoneill wrote: »
    Blokes on the radio that mention their missus all the time are usually cheating and on cocaine.
    Probably.

    Ray D'arcy took it one step further and started playing happy families with his co-presenter. Needless to say, I don't listen to his show anymore.


  • #43
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    syklops wrote: »
    Do you mean Joe Duffy? He's pretty shocking too.

    No, Keith Duffy. As in the guy from Boyzone.

    Every now and then, he pops up on 98fm for a couple of weeks. For sheer comedy value, he's worth a listen.


  • #44
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    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!!
    Haha never knew that! He always struck me as someone who spoke a lot of sense but this certainly lowers his credibility somewhat


  • #45
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Ray D'arcy took it one step further and started playing happy families with his co-presenter. Needless to say, I don't listen to his show anymore.
    What happened there actually? Gory details please


  • #46
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    dark crystal wrote: »
    I don't know her name, but the show is called Global Village. Jesus, it's dire.

    I really like that show!! And Dil!


  • #47
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I really like that show!! And Dil!

    Me too. She can be a bit too 'right on maaaaaan' and there's sometimes an element of community radio to the show but she usually has interesting guests and topics.


  • #48
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    What happened there actually? Gory details please

    Well, when a man and a woman love each other very very much....


  • #49
    Rastadoyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Rastadoyle


    i know bobby's brother well - Wan


  • #50
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Should have gone for Wayne. It's a proper name too.

    Ahh, you're young, you'll learn.


  • #51
    johnr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭johnr1


    Bobby Kerr on newstalk right now.


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