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The Pat Kenny Show Thread

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    #2672
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    If the people who regularly campaign here against broadcasters got their way, there would be nobody left.

    If that means saying goodbye to Mary Louise O'Dramatic, Brenda Donaghue, John Murray, Ronan Collins, Paddy O'Gorman and his dog and the ubiquitous offerings of wisdom from Mary O'Rourke, I won't lose much sleep.


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    #2673
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Lapin wrote: »
    If that means saying goodbye to Mary Louise O'Dramatic, Brenda Donaghue, John Murray, Ronan Collins, Paddy O'Gorman and his dog and the ubiquitous offerings of wisdom from Mary O'Rourke, I won't lose much sleep.
    Of course not. There would be little on air to keep you awake.


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    #2674
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Something faintly sickening about MLOD saying that Leahy made "interesting and controversial remarks about how money is used"

    If she is as talented as Enda seems to think, then she should be giving her full time to the Seanad... I dont understand how she has time for a storytime slot on the Pat Kenny show if she is really earning that 70k from the Seanad... And that's before DCU get her to justify her wages out there.


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    #2675
    serfboard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Good loser wrote: »
    There's no way there are 100,000 people earning over €100,000 per annum.

    At an even €100,000 per person per annum their total income would be €100,000,000,000 or €100 billion.

    Total wage/salary income in the economy is about €70 bn.
    100,000 * 100,000 = 10 billion, not 100 billion.

    Now do you believe it?


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    #2676
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    Yakuza wrote: »
    ...The "banter" between PK and Cahill always seems forced, with Cahill always looking for ways to trump PK on his knowledge of this that and the other...

    Like this, for example?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyP8tzt7RY8


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    #2677
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,500 ✭✭✭touts


    Good loser wrote: »
    There's no way there are 100,000 people earning over €100,000 per annum.

    At an even €100,000 per person per annum their total income would be €100,000,000,000 or €100 billion.

    Total wage/salary income in the economy is about €70 bn.

    Individually no way there are close to 100K people earning €100K.

    However dual income households where say both earn 50K or one earns 60K and the other 40K. Those are quite common and those are what the Shinners and other socialists have in their sights.


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    #2678
    Dirigent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    This item needs a simultaneous translation!


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    #2679
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    No money for her children's clothes so she goes with the kids to McDonalds to wallow in the fact...


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    #2680
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Have to say Pat Kenny was very poor on falling for the FG distraction re killing Jean McConville


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    #2681
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Pat thinks that being robbed is an inconvenience for must people. Planet plank must be a great place.

    Ah poor man there with paddy now. Social won't give him money coz he's on the hop from mountjoy. My heart bleeds u fcukin low life scumbag


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    #2682
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Michael Collins wrote: »
    Like this, for example?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyP8tzt7RY8
    Bang on!


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    #2683
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    God, Paddy O'Gorman's items are starting to sicken me.


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    #2684
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Jaysus, Valerie. Someone post when she's done rasping.


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    #2685
    Good loser
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    serfboard wrote: »
    100,000 * 100,000 = 10 billion, not 100 billion.

    Now do you believe it?

    No, I don't believe it. Your maths is wrong.


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    #2686
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭Good loser


    telekon wrote: »
    No money for her children's clothes so she goes with the kids to McDonalds to wallow in the fact...

    Was passing time with a pizza shop manager around lunchtime there a few years ago. I asked him what kind of customers he got at that time of the day.
    He said he often gets two or three mothers with their kids - in a group. He said they could feed themselves in Lidl for a week with what they'd spend.


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    #2687
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Good loser wrote: »
    No, I don't believe it. Your maths is wrong.
    No, your maths is wrong.
    100,000 * 100,000 is 10,000,000,000, you're out by a factor of 10.
    10^5 * 10^5 is 10^10 or 10 * 10^9 or 10 billion.


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    #2688
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is your husband dead?


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    #2689
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    mike65 wrote: »
    Is your husband dead?

    Best laugh of the day ... Paddy the Hat wouldn't even ask that :D


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    #2690
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It was so crass I thought it was Paddy!


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    #2691
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Yakuza wrote: »
    No, your maths is wrong.
    100,000 * 100,000 is 10,000,000,000, you're out by a factor of 10.
    10^5 * 10^5 is 10^10 or 10 * 10^9 or 10 billion.

    You are right. I was wrong.

    However the over 100k earners with the Revenue includes joint incomes.

    So the total income of this cohort would be significantly less than €10 bn.

    See post 152 and 153 in Irish Economy thread 'How do all the dissenters propose to close the deficit'


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    #2692
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Poor paddys got a stalker


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    #2693
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Kieran Allen was on yet again as a member of Pat's "Friday Panel".

    He is usually introduced as a lecturer in sociology in UCD (which he is). I don't think his political affiliation has been mentioned in the past (important player in the SWP, and its new manifestation, People Before Profit). Of course his contributions to the programme are political, and I think it wrong that somebody who essentially performs as a PBP spokesperson is not intruduced as such.

    There was a small step forward today: he was introduced as a lecturer in sociology and a member of People Before Profit.

    I'd be happier if he was introduced as a People Before Profit representative who is also a lecturer in sociology.


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    #2694
    JonathanAnon
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    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    I'd be happier if he was introduced as a People Before Profit representative who is also a lecturer in sociology.

    I agree. Personally, I find the guy extremely rude and self serving... "tax the rich, tax the rich"... he's another one of our sacred cow academics so he must be on ~100k, plus all of his private work... Another one of that elite group of supposed socialists who preach "socialism for the masses, but capitalism for me personally"

    I also think that PK should acknowledge at some stage that Noel Whelan ran for Fianna Fáil..


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    #2695
    wrbedzinski
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    :eek:
    Poly wrote: »
    Another riveting episode of "ditch watch".
    It's like "murder she wrote" except with old nappies.

    I wonder what happens?


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    #2696
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    **Michael Healy-Rae in making sense shocker**.
    I normally dismiss his ravings as those of a parish pump gombeen politician, but his input today on the segment about the closing of 100 Garda stations actually made sense to me. It seems there won't be any substantial savings (on the contrary, it looks like it would cost more) made by closing down these stations (which will have to still be heated and secured), so what is the point?


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    #2697
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Yakuza wrote: »
    **Michael Healy-Rae in making sense shocker**.
    I normally dismiss his ravings as those of a parish pump gombeen politician, but his input today on the segment about the closing of 100 Garda stations actually made sense to me. It seems there won't be any substantial savings (on the contrary, it looks like it would cost more) made by closing down these stations (which will have to still be heated and secured), so what is the point?
    And then people will be crying when elderly people in isolated areas are beaten and robbed in their own homes.


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    #2698
    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    The only thing we have left in the country is the churchs and even they are closing....

    We can always pray the bad guys to death. That'll learn 'em.

    Love the way Healy Rae lathers on the accent at times when he is firing out a rehersed line or two. Priceless.


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    #2699
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    themadchef wrote: »
    Love the way Healy Rae lathers on the accent at times when he is firing out a rehersed line or two. Priceless.

    Can anyone tell me where roo-ar-itill oir-lint is? Sounds like it's going to the dogs according to Mr H-R.


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    #2700
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Yakuza wrote: »
    **Michael Healy-Rae in making sense shocker**.
    I normally dismiss his ravings as those of a parish pump gombeen politician, but his input today on the segment about the closing of 100 Garda stations actually made sense to me. It seems there won't be any substantial savings (on the contrary, it looks like it would cost more) made by closing down these stations (which will have to still be heated and secured), so what is the point?
    You mean that you actually believed his financial analysis?

    I could equally invent figures that proved him wrong.


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    #2701
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    You mean that you actually believed his financial analysis?

    I could equally invent figures that proved him wrong.

    They seemed to be corrobrated by the GRA president (who, I'll admit, wouldn't be impartial in this matter) after which I posted.


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