TONIGHT With Vincent Browne

Skid · 05-08-2011 12:19am

Do you remember when TV3 started, they had a female Australian Newsreader.

Pat went on 'The Panel' (Or possibly 'Don't Feed The Gondolas') and complained that she was pronouncing his name as 'Pet Rabbit'.

She was quickly dropped, haven't seen her on Irish TV since.

Lapin · 05-08-2011 12:20am

Just tuned in.

Who's the young chap beside Rabbitte ?

Is he blind ?

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 12:20am

MrsD007 wrote: »

She owns Lily O'Brien's chocolates and she is a Senator too.

Didn't she get nominated by Enda?

irishh_bob · 05-08-2011 12:21am

Skid wrote: »

Do you remember when TV3 started, they had a female Australian Newsreader.

Pat went on 'The Panel' (Or possibly 'Don't Feed The Gondolas') and complained that she was pronouncing his name as 'Pet Rabbit'.

She was quickly dropped, haven't seen her on Irish TV since.

she was a kiwi and anyone who has been to kiwiland will know exactly where her problem with the ministers 1st name came from

12345 sex

milosh · 05-08-2011 12:21am

Good to see a labour minister looking for cuts in Education and Social Welfare and he implied he wanted teachers wanted teachers wages cut. Probably the only right of centre labour party in the world.

Its no real surprise that Labour got the bad PR Departments. Nobody wants cuts in either Health or Education and Fine Gael also gave them the Minister for (cuts) publc sector reform.

ShamoBuc · 05-08-2011 12:23am

MrsD007 wrote: »

There have been lots of reports in our newspapers about special neeeds kids that have been refused places because the boards of management have concerns about their safety in the absence of an SNA.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/stopped-in-his-tracks-157926.html

It's terrible to see that happening - first time I've seen that article or one like it. The reduction in the numbers of SNA's will not save a whole lot of money - in the grand scheme of things.

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 12:23am

steelcityblues wrote: »

Didn't she get nominated by Enda?

Yes, how did you guess????

irishh_bob · 05-08-2011 12:24am

milosh wrote: »

Good to see a labour minister looking for cuts in Education and Social Welfare and he implied he wanted teachers wanted teachers wages cut. Probably the only right of centre labour party in the world.

Its no real surprise that Labour got the bad PR Departments. Nobody wants cuts in either Health or Education and Fine Gael also gave them the Minister for (cuts) publc sector reform.

cuts to teachers salarys and cuts in education are not one and the same despite what the arse covering prig from the ASTI would have you believe

ShamoBuc · 05-08-2011 12:25am

irishh_bob wrote: »

if you go fishing but decide to spend all your money on a pair of wellingtons , you may end up having to make do without a rod

Main thing in education - teachers and children.
Main thing in fishing - rod and fish?
Wellies

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 12:26am

MrsD007 wrote: »

Yes, how did you guess????

Now I know.

Harry Angstrom · 05-08-2011 12:26am

Isn't it great to see Lily O'Brien as a senator these days? How very fcukin representative of the ordinary Irish man/woman? :rolleyes:

The sooner that stinking house of cronies and lick @rses is shut down, the better.

PS Doesn't yer wan in red look very like Diane Keaton, circa Annie Hall?

jos28 · 05-08-2011 12:29am

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

PS Doesn't yer wan in red look very like Diane Keaton, circa Annie Hall?

Ah Annie Hall, first time I ever heard of a VPL

blackdog2 · 05-08-2011 12:31am

scargill wrote: »

lots of googling - took a while - it was 7 years ago that it was brought up !!

Rabbitte dismisses school criticism
Monday, May 24, 2004

By Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter
LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte yesterday dismissed criticism from Junior Justice Minister Willie O’Dea of his choice to send one of his children to a private, fee-paying school.

Minister O’Dea criticised the Labour leader because Mr Rabbitte’s daughter had completed the last year of her Leaving Certificate in the €5,000 per annum Ashfield College. Mr O’Dea said this highlighted a conflict between Labour Party policy and Mr Rabbitte’s actions.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2004/0524/ireland/rabbitte-dismisses-school-criticism-332980353.html#ixzz1U6WioqYW

One year of one daughter(of many), can't blame him for that. In fairness, it was a kip of a school!

milosh · 05-08-2011 12:39am

irishh_bob wrote: »

cuts to teachers salarys and cuts in education are not one and the same despite what the arse covering prig from the ASTI would have you believe

Of course they are linked. At what wage do you think a teacher would lose some motivation to do the best they can. Is it at the point they have to take a 2nd job so thatthey can pay the mortgage? The value that government puts on health and education as a % of gdp shows the real worth of a country. Ireland has never funded education properly from the day they put it into the church's control till today.

As a parent I would like to know how much you think that the most important people (after parents) in the development of children should be paid.

Harry Angstrom · 05-08-2011 12:46am

milosh wrote: »

Is it at the point they have to take a 2nd job so that they can pay the mortgage?

Would that be the mortgage on the second house that they bought during the boom? :rolleyes:

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 12:50am

milosh wrote: »

Of course they are linked. At what wage do you think a teacher would lose some motivation to do the best they can. Is it at the point they have to take a 2nd job so thatthey can pay the mortgage? The value that government puts on health and education as a % of gdp shows the real worth of a country. Ireland has never funded education properly from the day they put it into the church's control till today.

As a parent I would like to know how much you think that the most important people (after parents) in the development of children should be paid.

Teachers get paid about €50 per hour and have 4-5 months holidays a year, it's not too bad.

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 12:52am

Ask pretty much anyone who attended a Christian Brothers school in past decades at about how 'influential' any of them were in their development?

Even as an eighties kid, I can say that most teachers I had did not give a stuff about the development of the majority of students. A few exemplary, well respected figures, but that was it.

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 12:56am

steelcityblues wrote: »

Even as an eighties kid

Jaysus, Steelcityblues you need to change your avatar, I was convinced you were the same vintage as my dad.;):)

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 12:57am

MrsD007 wrote: »

Jaysus, Steelcityblues you need to change your avatar, I was convinced you were the same vintage as my dad.;):)

No, I just have a grumpy, middle aged man mindset at times.

Birth year is 1982, btw.

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 1:00am

steelcityblues wrote: »

No, I just have a grumpy, middle aged man mindset at times.

Birth year is 1982, btw.

You are ever so slightly younger than myself. The guy on your avatar looks 60 plus IMO

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 1:01am

MrsD007 wrote: »

You are ever so slightly younger than myself. The guy on your avatar looks 60 plus IMO

Jason Alexander had barely turned 30, when he started Seinfeld.

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 1:07am

steelcityblues wrote: »

Jason Alexander had barely turned 30, when he started Seinfeld.

You have another year to go.... you need to change that avatar though.....seriously.....;):)

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 1:09am

MrsD007 wrote: »

You have another year to go.... you need to change that avatar though.....seriously.....;):)

Costanza says nada chance though.

Actually, the faces rarely load on my computer.

Skid · 05-08-2011 1:17am

MrsD007 wrote: »

You have another year to go.... you need to change that avatar though.....seriously.....;):)

Not a fan of George Costanza, MrsD?

He's a legend, don't listen to her, SCB.

MrsD probably doesn't even celebrate Festivus (like the rest of us)

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 1:20am

Mrs D007 - welcome to the legend of Costanza!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gjxnxKmaVQ

JonathanAnon · 05-08-2011 1:52am

steelcityblues wrote: »

Mrs D007 - welcome to the legend of Costanza!

Never got in to Seinfeld.. think it's just cos I hate Jerry, but I loved "Constanza" in King Of Queens..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ehYpdXwTAc

Lady Chatterton · 05-08-2011 1:52am

Ok, I admit it, I didn't recognise that it was George Costanza in your avatar. The penny finally dropped when you posted the video

To be honest the guy on your avatar looks like a 60 year old hack

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 1:55am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Never got in to Seinfeld.. think it's just cos I hate Jerry, but I loved "Constanza" in King Of Queens..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ehYpdXwTAc

Jerry Stiller is great and Leah Remini is even better.

JonathanAnon · 05-08-2011 1:57am

steelcityblues wrote: »

Jerry Stiller is great and Leah Remini is even better.

well it's Jerry Seinfeld I have the problem with, I think Jerry Stiller is great..

steelcityblues · 05-08-2011 2:02am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

well it's Jerry Seinfeld I have the problem with, I think Jerry Stiller is great..

While I think the real life version is not the most likeable guy, Jerry got better as the show went on in being the 'straight man'. Costanza will always be my favourite though.

To get a bit back on topic, remember the Vinny B and Kramer comparisons?

TONIGHT With Vincent Browne

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