The Pat Kenny Show

Technocentral

Pity about Shaw, great bar and food yard.

Tell me how

Technocentral wrote: »

Pity about Shaw, great bar and food yard.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Shaw is ticking me off a fair bit.

Outside of Dublin, and particularly in small towns and rural areas there have been at least 3 decades of stories such as this, coupled with dwindling populations as people have had to leave to follow work.

Many of the commentators bemoaning the loss of our cultural heritage over the last few days were perfectly fine with the recentralisation of Ireland to within the M50 until they realised this new society would be a boring shade of sameness.

And anyone who stood up against this was heretofore called a parish pump gombeen by people now posting 'don't @ me' along with their cries of loss about this pub.

Technocentral

Tell me how wrote: »

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Shaw is ticking me off a fair bit.

Outside of Dublin, and particularly in small towns and rural areas there have been at least 3 decades of stories such as this, coupled with dwindling populations as people have had to leave to follow work.

Many of the commentators bemoaning the loss of our cultural heritage over the last few days were perfectly fine with the recentralisation of Ireland to within the M50 until they realised this new society would be a boring shade of sameness.

And anyone who stood up against this was heretofore called a parish pump gombeen by people now posting 'don't @ me' along with their cries of loss about this pub.

Just saying I liked the place, hardly a crime.

Odyssey 2005

Technocentral wrote: »

Just saying I liked the place, hardly a crime.

Their prices probably were though

Technocentral

Evocative stuff from MLOD IMHO!

parasite

It's infuriating hearing these incessant dopey 'gotcha' texts about climate protestors having phones or driving cars etc.
Pat loves them though, such an intellect. It's reddit edgelord level of discourse, there's a bigger picture

serfboard

parasite wrote: »

It's infuriating hearing these incessant dopey 'gotcha' texts about climate protestors having phones or driving cars etc.
Pat loves them though, such an intellect.

I don't think it's as much a reflection of his intellect as it is of his political outlook.

kneemos

parasite wrote: »

It's infuriating hearing these incessant dopey 'gotcha' texts about climate protestors having phones or driving cars etc.
Pat loves them though, such an intellect. It's reddit edgelord level of discourse, there's a bigger picture

No good protesting if it's other folk you want to make the sacrifices.

Maybe they could start by teaching the youths not to leave a mess behind them everywhere.

parasite

kneemos wrote: »

No good protesting if it's other folk you want to make the sacrifices.

Maybe they could start by teaching the youths not to leave a mess behind them everywhere.

people are protesting for radical structural changes, you're not engaging with their demands, just irrelevant bad-faith nitpicking whataboutery
what is the level of sacrifice & perfect behaviour these 'youths' have to achieve before you'd deem them worth listening to ?
science is on their side, it's not going away

serfboard

parasite wrote: »

what is the level of sacrifice & perfect behaviour these 'youths' have to achieve before you'd deem them worth listening to ?

As Michael D Higgins said one time: "Just because I'm a socialist doesn't mean that I have to be going around town with the arse hanging out of my trousers!"

parasite

credit where it's due, Moncrieff has roasted a load of these texters today
Pat should be raising his level of debate, he's making himself look foolish, just don't encourage them

Technocentral

What a fcukwit "organic makes me switch off" wake up

PowerToWait

Henry McKean has one handy number for someone so one dimensional. Plummy accent has made his entire “career”.

Irish fans in Japan slot is so wearisome.

Ol' Donie

PowerToWait wrote: »

Henry McKean has one handy number for someone so one dimensional. Plummy accent has made his entire “career”.

Irish fans in Japan slot is so wearisome.

I caught literally 3 seconds of it, then I remembered from previous years that the rugby world cup is highly enjoyable if you don't hear any rugby fans, but absolutely intolerable if you do.

PowerToWait

Something that unreasonably grinds my gears, and is now seeping into colloquial language, is the nonsense expression "Sleep Hygiene". :mad:

PowerToWait wrote: »

Henry McKean has one handy number for someone so one dimensional. Plummy accent has made his entire “career”.

Irish fans in Japan slot is so wearisome.

Why is he a journalist? Why is he in Japan? What kind of dirt must he have on DO'B?

Grolschevik

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I caught literally 3 seconds of it, then I remembered from previous years that the rugby world cup is highly enjoyable if you don't hear any rugby fans, but absolutely intolerable if you do.

Not radio, but there was an Irish fan interviewed on the TV news last week, and it was such an absolute stereotype that I thought they were actually taking the piss. "Breffni" had the green jersey with the upturned collar and was on about how "the lads" (may have been Fionn and Lorcain, or I could be just imputing...) were coming over and that they'd be "going on the lash. It'll be absolute carnage!".

serfboard

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Why is he a journalist?

Henry McKean is not a journalist in any real sense of the word.

Ol' Donie

Grolschevik wrote: »

Not radio, but there was an Irish fan interviewed on the TV news last week, and it was such an absolute stereotype that I thought they were actually taking the piss. "Breffni" had the green jersey with the upturned collar and was on about how "the lads" (may have been Fionn and Lorcain, or I could be just imputing...) were coming over and that they'd be "going on the lash. It'll be absolute carnage!".

I saw that. Absolute cornage. That news was on in my house and everybody just burst out laughing.

mzungu

"Absolute carnage".

The fans will hopefully provide more comedy gold over the next few weeks.

BillyBird

serfboard wrote: »

Henry McKean is not a journalist in any real sense of the word.

I think he's going for that Louis Theroux vibe. Doesn't work for me, even
Theroux I can only stomach in small doses.

Ursus Horribilis

serfboard wrote: »

Henry McKean is not a journalist in any real sense of the word.

He's the luckiest man on radio. Only a station like Newstalk would let him near a microphone.

Loafing Oaf

mzungu wrote: »

"Absolute carnage".

The fans will hopefully provide more comedy gold over the next few weeks.

One of the current Second Captains 'stings' plays a clip of this

BillyBird wrote: »

I think he's going for that Louis Theroux vibe. Doesn't work for me, even
Theroux I can only stomach in small doses.

I've never cared for vox pops no matter who is doing them. Probably my innate intellectual snobbery, but I don't care what some randomer thinks about a no-deal brexit. To quote that fount of wisdom Sid Vicious, "I've met the man in the street and he's a c**t."

BillyBird

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Probably my innate intellectual snobbery

You're not alone, add call ins from the public.


We've Gerry an accountant from Swords on the phone, "Well Gerry how do you think we should solve the hospital crisis"

Technocentral

Yeah the Dart is a real treat, real classy. ðŸ˜

nomdeboardie

If he says "fetch up" once more I think I'll fetch up my breakfast, or, should I say, my breakfast will fetch up in my mouth

5555555555

I don't think I've ever heard anyone as enthusiastic about their job as this Irish mythology lady !!

mattser

PK left himself wide open at the end of that interview, and Sammy delivered a sucker punch.

What the hell is this??

zell12

"The boy puts his where his water comes from into where the girl's water comes from"

Grolschevik

zell12 wrote: »

"The boy puts his where his water comes from into where the girl's water comes from"

So Glenpatrick into Volvic?