LIVELINE Thread - (05/10/11 to 14/02/2012)

pc7 · 15-12-2011 4:08pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

funny friday tomorrow?

No they are saving for a bumper one christmas eve, that brendan o'carroll fella off the bbc will be there lol funny friday me hole.

Wertz · 15-12-2011 4:09pm

syklops wrote: »

You think cutting social welfare and a 'small' increase in income tax wouldn't give people a chance to make an issue out of it? If they had done that then we would be onto week two of the budget moaning with everyone bearing the brunt. Both people in employment and not.

This tax is paid by home owners. Be out of work, or be struggling to pay bills and I will feel sorry for you, but I wont feel sorry for the security you have of having your own roof above your head, and for that you now have to pay a small premium.

Of course they could make an issue out of it...but probably find it a lot harder to avoid it, less handout, more PAYE grab. Self declaration and high fines and threat of court is giving people soemthing to rail against.

"Owning" a home (that you're likely paying large mortgage on) may not provide you the security that you'd think it does... for many it may in fact be a liability and having to cough up another few quid a week might make it more so.

I agree with a property tax in essence (although those paying stupidly high stamp duty in recent years should be somewhat exempt) and a water charge for that matter , but it should be a progressive system and other taxes that currently pay for the water provision should fall in line with the new tax...but we all know that won't happen.

europa11 · 15-12-2011 4:14pm

kitsy13 wrote: »

Brek as a premier league footballer wtf..

mickydoomsux · 15-12-2011 4:16pm

"Urban markets" aren't a new thing, we used to call them carboot sales, sales-of-work or bric-a-brac sales before they started selling organic, environmentally-friendly, locally produced, loe GI cheeses to arseholes for 20 quid a pop .

bijapos · 15-12-2011 4:36pm

Cardinal Richelieu wrote: »

Joe should mention that this guy is the Green Party new spokesman on Food.

Its his brother Seamus thats the GP guy. The company was set up by the two of them, that was Kevin on the radio earlier. Good cheeses, something thats bizarrely lacking here with all the cattle we have.

mickydoomsux wrote: »

"Urban markets" aren't a new thing, we used to call them carboot sales, sales-of-work or bric-a-brac sales before they started selling organic, environmentally-friendly, locally produced, loe GI cheeses to arseholes for 20 quid a pop .

We used to call them markets or fairs, each town had it once a week, they sadly went by the wayside from the 70's onwards whilst France, Italy etc kept them on. Good to see them make a revival, and no its not just...

organic, environmentally-friendly, locally produced, loe GI cheeses to arseholes for 20 quid a pop

You can set up whatever stall you want, buy off a wholesaler and flog it on, it doesn't matter what.

Jaymac1 · 15-12-2011 5:52pm

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

This is a petty point. but how does a Kerryman wind up with that accent

He is originally from Cabinteely in Dublin 18 and the family moved down about 7 years ago.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 1:55pm

Any chance of a Christopher Hitchens Liveline today? Liz Taylor got one.

Welsh Megaman · 16-12-2011 2:12pm

pc7 wrote: »

No they are saving for a bumper one christmas eve, that brendan o'carroll fella off the bbc will be there lol funny friday me hole.

Funny Saturday? :eek:

padd b1975 · 16-12-2011 2:18pm

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Funny Saturday? :eek:

Saturday.

syklops · 16-12-2011 2:24pm

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Any chance of a Christopher Hitchens Liveline today? Liz Taylor got one.

I dont know if your average Liveline caller knew who he was.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 2:25pm

syklops wrote: »

I dont know if your average Liveline caller knew who he was.

Or Joe, for that matter :pac:

bijapos · 16-12-2011 2:29pm

I reckon Joe knows perfectly well who he is, but it wouldn't do his image of the "common man" much good if he was speaking on someone whose train of thinking is above most of us. Joe likes to play the confused man of the people card a lot, he went to Trinity, he is actually very well read when he bothers his arse to read up on a topic.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 2:32pm

bijapos wrote: »

I reckon Joe knows perfectly well who he is, but it wouldn't do his image of the "common man" much good if he was speaking on someone whose train of thinking is above most of us. Joe likes to play the confused man of the people card a lot, he went to Trinity, he is actually very well read when he bothers his arse to read up on a topic.

Ah yeah, agreed, twas only a little joke.

IvyTheTerrible · 16-12-2011 2:35pm

bijapos wrote: »

I reckon Joe knows perfectly well who he is, but it wouldn't do his image of the "common man" much good if he was speaking on someone whose train of thinking is above most of us. Joe likes to play the confused man of the people card a lot, he went to Trinity, he is actually very well read when he bothers his arse to read up on a topic.

It would go against his very religious profile too.

Wertz · 16-12-2011 2:37pm

A mix of property/household tax and Mrs Quinn and her wayward peann luaidhe today?

Or more grange gorman woe and misery?

steelcityblues · 16-12-2011 2:37pm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

It would go against his very religious profile too.

Agreed. The auld Catholic ones, who make up a fair chunk of his listenership, liked Liz Taylor because she was from their generation.

Doubt many listeners had an affinity with a baby boomer atheist like Hitchens.

Wertz · 16-12-2011 2:43pm

Festive hilarity and japes in the Dáil chambers... laugh it up lads and lassies.
This lot are starting to piss me off as much as the bunch we had last year...

Big Daddy Cool · 16-12-2011 2:45pm

i hope its funny friday!!!

oh god joe sounds depressed, it wont be good

joe316 · 16-12-2011 2:46pm

Ah ffs!!!

RIP that poor lady

edit: that ffs is for that poor woman and our sh1tty health service, not the topic

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

i hope its funny friday!!!

Masochist :eek: Just like Joe

county · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

i hope its funny friday!!!

oh god joe sounds depressed, it wont be good

you said it,suicide the first topic.

SEPT 23 1989 · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Was that on the Malahide line yesterday?

syklops · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Look after your mental health. Don't listen to Liveline.

Stripey Cat · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

i hope its funny friday!!!

It's a mental health theme...

JonathanAnon · 16-12-2011 2:47pm

Oh for FKKKKK sake.. enough with the misery RTE... :mad::mad::mad:

That ad should say .. "Protect your mental health. TURN OFF THE FKN RADIO"

Big Daddy Cool · 16-12-2011 2:48pm

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Masochist :eek: Just like Joe

ha i bet you'd take funny friday now over this.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 2:49pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

ha i bet you'd take funny friday now over this.

Neither, switching to the film show on BBC 5 in ten.

syklops · 16-12-2011 2:50pm

She took her life yesterday afternoon?

This is too early to be on the radio. He must still be in shock.

Skid · 16-12-2011 2:50pm

Should this man be on the air making allegations so soon after his Mother committed Suicide?

Stripey Cat · 16-12-2011 2:50pm

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

ha i bet you'd take funny friday now over this.

I'd take Christopher Hitchens funeral mass over this.

LIVELINE Thread - (05/10/11 to 14/02/2012)

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