Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

yop

I'll give George one this, his dignity and respect for the others callers is 2nd to none on this show. Hats off to him.

constitutionus

what a load of racist bollocks that song is !

sligojoek

More stage Irish sh!te.

Harry Angstrom

What do ya think of this one Joe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y61KHgvnVr4

Woodville56

Mooney is a smug git , much preferred Shay Byrne who did his show for the past few weeks !

Sligo Quay

yop wrote: »

I'll give George one this, his dignity and respect for the others callers is 2nd to none on this show. Hats off to him.

George reminds me of my own late Father, an individual that had digity and respect for others, he'd sit in front of the TV and roar laugh at that BBC comedy show ''last of the summer wine'' I never got it, but whatever floats your boat. My Father never shouted anybody down and never used the ''f'' word, but I guessed that's the way he was reared, and so was I.

CountyHurler

yop wrote: »

I'll give George one this, his dignity and respect for the others callers is 2nd to none on this show. Hats off to him.

I was FUMING on the way back in the car today....

The usual oul boll*x from Joe Duffy...He brings on air a caller who is presented to the listener as being a "random caller who phoned in", who conveniently happens to share amazingly similar opinions to Joe Duffy himself about the topic being discussed.. the topic in this case being a show that Duffy himself has worked on, and used his own resources to endlessly promote...

The man with the contrary opinion is presented as being a luddite, and has to endure being shouted over (which Duffy qualifies by saying that it's an "open forum"), abused and mocked by the presenter's smugly facetious questions.. A woman rang in saying that her FOUR YEAR OLD was allowed to watch Mrs Brown's Boys, which the presenter let go unchallenged, in spite of the fact that even the BBC puts the show on after the watershed and as such does not consider the program to be appropriate for minors.....

I actually get a laugh out of Mrs Brown's Boys, so I'm not a hater.. But Joe Duffy's presenting is gone way beyond being just subjective.. The show is his own little soapbox at this stage... Even if he does it by proxy..

*blood pressure returns to normal *

endas donkey

an hour and a quarter of radio turned over to promoting his mates new movie. Impartiality went out the window when George disagreed with duffys view of things so he hauls in the bullys to tackle george. We are probably going to have this for the rest of the week.

as mentioned above this show should be renamed Duffys Soapbox and personal agenda show and feck everything else.

with the way the government/ eu are running this country why not discuss issues like this or is he afraid to go there

vicwatson

Obviously the sun has gotten to Duffy's brain after today's drivvle of a show

Hitchens

endas donkey wrote: »

an hour and a quarter of radio turned over to promoting his mates new movie. Impartiality went out the window when George disagreed with duffys view of things so he hauls in the bullys to tackle george. We are probably going to have this for the rest of the week.

as mentioned above this show should be renamed Duffys Soapbox and personal agenda show and feck everything else.

with the way the government/ eu are running this country why not discuss issues like this or is he afraid to go there

Afraid of his shadow is Joe!

Last week or so he had a caller on who had been a friend of the late Noel Browne and during the discussion Joe mentioned Mary Robinson getting the Presidency.

The caller then said that Noel Browne had hated Mary's 'light in the window of the Áras' shtick.

Instead of asking him why this was, Duffy said goodbye and thanks.

Intrepid reporter he ain't, and some 'open' forum he runs :rolleyes:

Woodville56

endas donkey wrote: »

an hour and a quarter of radio turned over to promoting his mates new movie. Impartiality went out the window when George disagreed with duffys view of things so he hauls in the bullys to tackle george. We are probably going to have this for the rest of the week.

as mentioned above this show should be renamed Duffys Soapbox and personal agenda show and feck everything else.

with the way the government/ eu are running this country why not discuss issues like this or is he afraid to go there

I rarely listen to Liveline and after today's offering, I don't think I'm missing much - blatant promotion of MBB movie by Joe, who just happens to star in same movie and is a friend (it appears) of Brendan O'Carroll, likewise Derek Mooney who regularly promotes MBB. There are so many local hardworking community arts groups who would kill for the type of the exposure MBB gets from Duffy, Mooney etc and whose earnest artistic endeavours far exceed the populist bawdyism of MBB. Was Duffy challenged at all about his partisanship in promoting the movie or on his connection with same ? The least he should have done was to declare his interest ! I made a decision a few years ago not to listen to Liveline because of it's regularly onesided harangues and Duffy's agenda driven presentation style, for which he is handsomely remunerated by the taxpayer 😡 A live phone in programme has merit on our national broadcaster ok but moderated by an impartial chair, which Duffy certainly isn't, on many topics discussed - self promoting more like !

curioser

Only heard the beginning of today's show (thankfully, having read the thread) - maybe JD might like to know where BOC gets his material. Roy Chubby Brown was mentioned earlier. He wasn't the only English night club comedian he has plagiarised. Compare and contrast the following -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzbVhp7Ir74

now have a look at this from 5.26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4QqsfJlt0

Ash.J.Williams

to paraphrase Stuart Lee "if your material can be plagiarized by Brendan O'Carrol maybe it's time to write better material".

Hitchens

why does BOC use the 'childhood poverty' vibe, wasn't his mother a TD?

...and does Doreen ever get an 'oul mention? :pac:

SEPT 23 1989

Hitchens wrote: »

Afraid of his shadow is Joe!

Last week or so he had a caller on who had been a friend of the late Noel Browne and during the discussion Joe mentioned Mary Robinson getting the Presidency.

The caller then said that Noel Browne had hated Mary's 'light in the window of the Áras' shtick.

Instead of asking him why this was, Duffy said goodbye and thanks.

Intrepid reporter he ain't, and some 'open' forum he runs :rolleyes:

There have been so many times where callers have gone off the beaten track and given golden nuggets of information not heard before giving Duffy an open goal on a topic and what does he do? he moves along unless it's the corpse of a hundred year old child driving a fire brigade around a model railway,,then he is all ears

HeidiHeidi

Lapin wrote: »

I'm with George all the way on this one.

Not for his prudishness or taste in comedy.

But for the dignified manner in which he has handled all these inarticulate shouting women being egged on by Duffy like the bully in the playground.

I also only tuned in for about 10 minutes early on in the show, and had to switch off before I had a stroke or a heart attack or something. All I could hear was Dubs out-shouting/abusing each other (including Joe, the supposed impartial host), with one vaguely sensible voice (whom I now know to be the sainted George, bless him) calling BO'C out on his incessant use of foul language for cheap laughs.

I don't get Mrs. Brown's Boys. At all. I appreciate that lots and lots of people do. It puzzles me.

But why in the name of god was almost a full Liveline (according to this thread) allowed to be given over to shameless and blatant promotion of this film. Did BO'C pay for the publicity? Because it sounds like he should have.

I feel like I'm coming to a point where I actually voluntarily will give up on Liveline. It's worse than the Sunday News of the World or Sun or Sport (or whatever tabloid is the absolute bottom of the barrell) at its worst.

It's a shame because on the very odd occasion (becoming odder all the time) he actually does manage to produce a good show with an interesting topic and gives people a forum to air their grievances/opinions and maybe shake things up a bit.

But today's show (or the 10 minutes I caught of it anyway) illustrates all that is WRONG with it.

CountyHurler

Can I just say, that having read all the posts here today...

WE ARE ALL COLLECTIVELY OUTRAGED, JOE

:pac::pac:

neris

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

There have been so many times where callers have gone off the beaten track and given golden nuggets of information not heard before giving Duffy an open goal on a topic and what does he do? he moves along unless it's the corpse of a hundred year old child driving a fire brigade around a model railway,,then he is all ears

then theres the callers he deliberately pushes off the discussed topic so he can get them onto a topic he wants to discuss.

Welsh Megaman

If anyone wants to watch back on the BBC Player Brendan O'Carroll was on 'The One Show' earlier...pre watershed.











He's still not funny.

HeidiHeidi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

If anyone wants to watch back on the BBC Player Brendan O'Carroll was on 'The One Show' earlier...pre watershed.











He's still not funny.

Thanks - but no thanks!

Dan Jaman

curioser wrote: »

Only heard the beginning of today's show (thankfully, having read the thread) - maybe JD might like to know where BOC gets his material. Roy Chubby Brown was mentioned earlier. He wasn't the only English night club comedian he has plagiarised. Compare and contrast the following -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzbVhp7Ir74

now have a look at this from 5.26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4QqsfJlt0

Plagiarising Manning is just so... bankrupt.
Still, it's not exactly new, and Manning likely stole it from someone else.

ThisRegard

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I feel like I'm coming to a point where I actually voluntarily will give up on Liveline.

Do it, come over the to the bright side, your blood pressure will thank you for it.

ButtersSuki

Just read the thread as I didn't listen yesterday. That said, I must have been channelling my inner psychic (a la Joe in Mrs Browinz Boyiz) when I wrote this on the "Fillum" forum last week:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90876076

Watched the trailer with a relatively open mind.looks awful.

I see Brendan was cute enough to give Joe Duffy a scene - that'll be about €500k he'll get in free advertising from Joe for the rest of the summer as Joe will plug it to death with his audience of coffin dodgers, and probably at least one whole show dedicated to the "fillum" on top of that.

MammaZita

Just listening to the Today show- topic is prolific use of swearing and refers to the BOC film mentioning the F word 30 times. The linguist being interviewed says BOC is so popular in the UK as the audience develops a superiority complex regarding the working class Irish.

The word in question is a Latin word meaning to violently penetrate.

Interesting to see if liveline will mention any if this later...

neris

Joe has enough difficulty with English, think Latin might be a bit much for his Trinity educated brain

sligojoek

More free advertising for MBB on Today with Keelan.

Joe said in the promo that the movie is a tonic for us all in these recessionary times. He must think we're all eejits.

snubbleste

I'm on me holidays Joe

pc7

No recession in her house Joe, I thought we were all on cornflakes and water these days.

PauloMN

No foo-id. I'd be raging if I had no foo-id.

Lapin

People like this are the reason I would never go back to the hellhole called Salut.

Oops69

A bit irresponsible to be going away on holidays with feck all resources in an emergency , I suppose the community welfare officer can always send her a couple of grand on western union , just like at home.

neris

maybe she should have stayed at home if she cant afford to go on holiday

Harry Angstrom

Its a disgrace Joe. The Spanish don't speak English.

SEPT 23 1989

hold on I came back from Majorca one year during a French strike we flew around France it took an extra hour

Roger_007

Lapin wrote: »

People like this are the reason I would never go back to the hellhole called Salut.

I Salut you.:pac:

pc7

Hang on, they tried to book an extra few days before this and couldn't. Would you stop spoofing missus.

Robert2012

Get your man with the Air Ambulance on again

BPKS

Oops69 wrote: »

A bit irresponsible to be going away on holidays with feck all resources in an emergency , I suppose the community welfare officer can always send her a couple of grand on western union , just like at home.

First stop when she gets back is the community welfare officer. Followed by the credit union. Followed by the local money lender.

neris

fecking spanish not speaking english joe its a disgrace.

PauloMN

How can you have no spare baby foo-id?

Roger_007

Bringing an 8 month-old baby on holidays.:eek:.......wtf.

pc7

Does she not get the planes have to come and start from somewhere, its not just that they are too cheap. ffs she is annoying me no end.

pow wow

Um hello, the lack of foo-id is a medical issue!

snubbleste

"And what happened that plane?"
dropped the to

Lapin

Hey Joe,

How about asking her why she went off with an eight month baby old and a three year old child to a foreign country without making adequate provision for them in the case of emergency.

THIS IS NOT RYANAIR'S PROBLEM.

Ronan|Raven

Hello

cocoman

Roger_007 wrote: »

Bringing an 8 month-old baby on holidays.:eek:.......wtf.

And not bringing enough baby food aswell!!

califano

haha id say you droolers are loving this today!

Possedion

hello Joe ... hello hello ... this is a bit awkward Joe....
if your stuck ringing Joe you may start walking to the ferry.

Robert2012

This is a ridiculous topic