Newstalk Megathread 22/08/16 to date

VonLuck · 04-06-2021 6:41pm

meeeeh wrote: »

The Covid ad for me. If I could squash it... Arghhh

If you could put it in a jar...

05-06-2021 3:28pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

Whatever happened to a hundred days of walking?

It's the 5th of June so I would assume that ended two months ago

Del.Monte · 05-06-2021 4:28pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's the 5th of June so I would assume that ended two months ago

I didn't realise it ended as it seemed to just go on and on and on like the Duracell bunny.

05-06-2021 4:38pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

I didn't realise it ended as it seemed to just go on and on and on like the Duracell bunny.

100 days is pretty self-descriptive Del

05-06-2021 4:40pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's the 5th of June so I would assume that ended two months ago

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

100 days is pretty self-descriptive Del

.... 100 days of walking...... As self descriptive as it is the start date isn't detailed.

05-06-2021 4:45pm

Augeo wrote: »

.... 100 days of walking...... As self descriptive as it is the start date isn't detailed.

I'm pretty sure, just from overheard snippets, that it starts on the 1st of January. Then, so as to include the maximum number of people, they are joined by people who start anytime later.

It sounds fairly straightforward.

I might very well be wrong, so if it didn't start on January 1, I must have misheard.

EmmetSpiceland · 05-06-2021 4:52pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm pretty sure, just from overheard snippets, that it starts on the 1st of January. Then, so as to include the maximum number of people, they are joined by people who start anytime later.

It sounds fairly straightforward.

I might very well be wrong, so if it didn't start on January 1, I must have misheard.

Mightn’t be the 1st but it’s there, or there abouts.

05-06-2021 5:16pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm pretty sure, just from overheard snippets, that it starts on the 1st of January. Then, so as to include the maximum number of people, they are joined by people who start anytime later.

It sounds fairly straightforward.

I might very well be wrong, so if it didn't start on January 1, I must have misheard.

I'd no idea when it started TBH.
The concept is indeed simple and the title informative but the start date isn't.

It seems Ciara can't be referred to unless favourably.... L

Del.Monte · 05-06-2021 8:11pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm pretty sure, just from overheard snippets, that it starts on the 1st of January. Then, so as to include the maximum number of people, they are joined by people who start anytime later.

It sounds fairly straightforward.

I might very well be wrong, so if it didn't start on January 1, I must have misheard.

And you're correct: https://www.newstalk.com/news/100-days-of-walking-is-back-from-january-1st-1126705 it just seems like it goes on forever.

05-06-2021 8:33pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

And you're correct: https://www.newstalk.com/news/100-days-of-walking-is-back-from-january-1st-1126705 it just seems like it goes on forever.

I hope it does go on forever!

I think CK had it in mind that 100 days is a sufficient length of time to develop a habit. They were quite open to people starting/ending on any chosen day. The organisers' only focus was 100 days. That might have muddied the campaign message.

The point was, once you had 100 days behind you, you were unlikely to give up your habitual walk.

Rarely does a radio programme genuinely contribute to population health.

Kelly sometimes deserves her detractors, but this was probably the brightest idea of her broadcasting career to date.

Big Daddy Kane · 06-06-2021 11:44am

All aboard the bandwagon.....

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/i-left-twitter-because-i-couldnt-take-any-more-ive-never-felt-so-low-i-thought-about-walking-into-the-sea-40491771.html

Such a narcissist.

EmmetSpiceland · 06-06-2021 11:58am

Big Daddy Kane wrote: »

All aboard the bandwagon.....

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/i-left-twitter-because-i-couldnt-take-any-more-ive-never-felt-so-low-i-thought-about-walking-into-the-sea-40491771.html

Such a narcissist.

I mean, is that really narcissism? Even going by this small forum, she managed to “attract” an awful lot of anger, resentment, hatred, spite and abuse.

Sure, you still have lads listening back to her show, in the evening, of course, to get “wound up” and angry over something she’s said.

Can only imagine how “magnified” that got on Twitter. Loads more oddballs on there.

meeeeh · 06-06-2021 12:08pm

She was defamed and vilified. Some people don't like women with opinion and some people don't like women with 'wrong' opinion. You can't win against the bitter and the sanctimonious.

06-06-2021 12:12pm

Big Daddy Kane wrote: »

All aboard the bandwagon.....

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/i-left-twitter-because-i-couldnt-take-any-more-ive-never-felt-so-low-i-thought-about-walking-into-the-sea-40491771.html

Such a narcissist.

I'm not going to pay for an article on Independent.ie, but is that article not about thoughts of self-destruction?

I hope for her sake she doesn't read this forum, where the criticism is sometimes humorous and fair, but at times, absolutely ridiculous in its vitriol.

meeeeh · 06-06-2021 12:15pm

It's a good article. Ironically there are screen shots of it floating on Twitter.

06-06-2021 12:36pm

Utter bull**** IMO 'I thought about walking into the sea'.... Likely inspired by Bressie making a few quid out of the depression chat corporate circuit.

Don't post in this thread for a week -- Mod.

EmmetSpiceland · 06-06-2021 1:13pm

Funny how when George Hook talked about walking the length of a pier with thoughts of throwing himself in it was met with praise.

VonLuck · 10-06-2021 8:46am

I'm quite liking Mark Cagney in place of Ciara this week.

pc7 · 10-06-2021 8:54am

Imagine being from Ukraine and trying to understand this lad, I can't make a word out he's saying, if this was on Joe Duffy I'd think it was a boardsie ripping the p1ss

Aglomerado · 10-06-2021 8:55am

pc7 wrote: »

Imagine being from Ukraine and trying to understand this lad, I can't make a word out he's saying, if this was on Joe Duffy I'd think it was a boardsie ripping the p1ss

I'm from his neck of the woods, and I can't understand him either!

zerosugarbuzz · 11-06-2021 7:12am

God, bring Ciara back all is forgiven. Can not hack these two ageing middle aged men waffling on, wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth. What a moan fest.

whisky_galore · 11-06-2021 8:29am

Dry open air concert with some lad I'd never heard of singing watery covers. Didn't miss much.

What.Now · 12-06-2021 12:35am

Del.Monte wrote: »

Just in case you missed it, Dr.Ciara Kelly's has announced to a waiting world that she's getting a tattoo. Whatever happened to a hundred days of walking?

Hoping attachment went through

UsBus · 12-06-2021 10:48am

Jesus Bobby Kerr does not have a radio voice anymore. I appreciate he's had his health issues to overcome but he sounds like someone who was up half the night shouting and roaring. It sounds like he is straining his vocal cords and extremely off-putting to listen to.

whisky_galore · 12-06-2021 1:09pm

UsBus wrote: »

Jesus Bobby Kerr does not have a radio voice anymore.

He never had one.

Nice guy, but a concrete mixer is more pleasant to listen to.

suicide_circus · 18-06-2021 2:54pm

Newstalk Breakfast stung rapid manipulating a twitter poll regarding the teaching of "white privilage" in Irish schools

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTBreakfast/status/1405418848103321600

meeeeh · 18-06-2021 3:15pm

????

I don't get what the issue is except that Twitter pools and similar nonsense pools have absolutely no relevance.

18-06-2021 3:25pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Newstalk Breakfast stung rapid manipulating a twitter poll regarding the teaching of "white privilage" in Irish schools

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTBreakfast/status/1405418848103321600

30 likes and 12,700+ votes?

Seems legit.

meeeeh wrote: »

????

I don't get what the issue is except that Twitter pools and similar nonsense pools have absolutely no relevance.

Broadcasters use them as if they are, though, and they do lend credence to a perception of support, even if they shoudln't. Someone clearly thinks it was worth manipulating.

suicide_circus · 18-06-2021 3:26pm

meeeeh wrote: »

????

I don't get what the issue is except that Twitter pools and similar nonsense pools have absolutely no relevance.

Youre going off the deep end there

meeeeh · 18-06-2021 4:56pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Youre going off the deep end there

No I don't do twitter really so I didn't get what the issue was, but I see now that they manipulated a poll and triggered whole pile of people with the result.

My opinion of twitter or fb pools stands though. Anyone who actually takes them seriously should have their head checked.

EmmetSpiceland · 18-06-2021 6:11pm

Out of curiosity, is it easy to “manipulate” a Twitter poll? And, if so, should all Twitter polls be taken with a pinch of salt?

Is a number of angry posts after a poll result an “indicator” of a dodgy poll? I would have thought that was fairly standard, you see the same on the journal.ie whenever they do something similar. Lots of angry men railing against whatever the outcome is.

meeeeh · 18-06-2021 6:51pm

Twitter polls or any other polls without proper sampling should not be taken seriously at all. They are completely meaningless.

One does wonder if Newstalk manipulated the results to get more text reaction or to get more notice on twitter.

StevenToast · 18-06-2021 10:49pm

Newstalk is absolute dogshiit these days

Patrick2010 · 21-06-2021 4:16pm

I notice about Ciaran Cuddihy that he adopts a medical issue and campaigns on it in every programme until he drops it for another. A while ago it was a certain woman was waiting for her vaccine so she could see her mother. Before that it was a child overdue for a procedure. Both featured every day for about a week.
Now its about John who wasn't allowed in to see his wife after a miscarraige in hospital. I know its a terrible situation but you get the impression Cuddihy is just using it to add to his previous campaigns. Today is I'd say its the fourth day in a row he's started with it.

Faugheen · 21-06-2021 7:15pm

Patrick2010 wrote: »

I notice about Ciaran Cuddihy that he adopts a medical issue and campaigns on it in every programme until he drops it for another. A while ago it was a certain woman was waiting for her vaccine so she could see her mother. Before that it was a child overdue for a procedure. Both featured every day for about a week.
Now its about John who wasn't allowed in to see his wife after a miscarraige in hospital. I know its a terrible situation but you get the impression Cuddihy is just using it to add to his previous campaigns. Today is I'd say its the fourth day in a row he's started with it.

It's about putting pressure on authorities to do something.

So many of their campaigns have ended with positive results for those who needed their help. I really, really don't see what the problem is with that.

Del.Monte · 23-06-2021 7:57am

Yet again the topic of mispronunciation of certain words is wheeled out on the breakfast show - the irony is lost on Coleman and Kelly as they continue to mangle the language every day. Ciara even said she might be guilty of saying noos instead of news.

As for Shane who every day that he's on the show starts with 'this is Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman wid you'....the sports reporters who insist on trying to be hip by pronouncing Budapest as Budaphest - would they refer to Paris as Paree?

EmmetSpiceland · 23-06-2021 7:59am

Del.Monte wrote: »

As for Shane who every day that he's on the show starts with 'this is Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman wid you'....the sports reporters who insist on trying to be hip by pronouncing Budapest as Budaphest - would they refer to Paris as Paree?

The sports guys tend to say ‘paree’ when referencing the PSG soccer team. Definitely not exclusive to Newstalk. George Hamilton is mad for local pronunciations.

2smiggy · 23-06-2021 8:03am

'Pride' is gone too main stream as well it seems.

Baffling really ?! Do they want a bit more flag burning like Waterford ?

VonLuck · 23-06-2021 11:11am

2smiggy wrote: »

'Pride' is gone too main stream as well it seems.

Baffling really ?! Do they want a bit more flag burning like Waterford ?

It's probably a good sign that people are feeling it's oversaturated. Means that it's so commonplace that it has become an annoyance for some!

Those incidents like in Waterford on beside Panti Bliss's place in Dublin will always happen, regardless of how accepted the LGBT community is. There'll always be idiots who pick on people that are different than they are.

2smiggy · 24-06-2021 8:51am

Who is in for Ciara this morning ? She is somehow way more annoying.

On now a combination of her, Coleman and now Paul Murphy. The radio was close to being fired out the window.

BPKS · 24-06-2021 9:09am

2smiggy wrote: »

Who is in for Ciara this morning ? She is somehow way more annoying.

On now a combination of her, Coleman and now Paul Murphy. The radio was close to being fired out the window.

You should have - sure Paul would have made sure you got a free one to replace it

Odelay · 24-06-2021 10:43am

Was there an apology read out on the breakfast show this morning? Something about her opinion and not fact? Didn’t hear the start of it.

SureYWouldntYa · 24-06-2021 1:12pm

Odelay wrote: »

Was there an apology read out on the breakfast show this morning? Something about her opinion and not fact? Didn’t hear the start of it.

There was a bit on at some stage about how a complaint to the Ombudsman (iirc) from Dec 2020 was partially upheld, it was where a presenter wasn't impartial regarding the 8th amendment and a debate around it

There may be another piece but I heard that at one stage

whisky_galore · 24-06-2021 2:15pm

God Moncrieffs stand in is like listening to drying paint.

26-06-2021 12:15pm

Jumping spiders on Jonathan McCrea

cmac2009 · 27-06-2021 11:32am

Anyone know if Vincent Wall has stepped away from his Sunday morning show 'Taking stock'. I recall hearing the current presenter - unsure of name - stating he was covering for the next few weeks, but that seems like months ago now. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to Vincent.