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Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1, 1263, 1610**

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    #5492
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    Just looking at the RTE website today. Can't think that Mr Ray "Crusade Against Sugar" D'Arcy will be happy with it. I wonder will he carry out some sort of protest the same pious way that he does with Cheltenham/gambling.


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    #5493
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    I mean no offence to it, if it does good that's fine...but does Operation Transformation ever end? I can't even remember the last series finishing...but they're already talking about the next one. Do they have to keep it going all year long because otherwise Kathryn Thomas would have nothing to do or something?


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    #5494
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    Any mention of the million pound drop challenge when he was talking about operation transformation. In the middle of November surely we must be close to the target now


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    #5495
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    djemba djemba wrote: »
    Any mention of the million pound drop challenge when he was talking about operation transformation. In the middle of November surely we must be close to the target now

    They succeeded in the million pound drop challenge. They gave Ray an advance on his wages.


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    #5496
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    I mean no offence to it, if it does good that's fine...but does Operation Transformation ever end? I can't even remember the last series finishing...but they're already talking about the next one. Do they have to keep it going all year long because otherwise Kathryn Thomas would have nothing to do or something?

    I don't watch that programme as I don't like that Thomas one. But you are right. I would be vaguely aware that they are always talking about that bloody programme. It seems to be always there like a big black cloud in the distance. Same goes for that fittest family programme thing. I bet you Ray was talking to all of those and their pet dogs as well. That's about where he is at. Just promoting programmes and friends.


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    #5497
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    I mean no offence to it, if it does good that's fine...but does Operation Transformation ever end? I can't even remember the last series finishing...but they're already talking about the next one. Do they have to keep it going all year long because otherwise Kathryn Thomas would have nothing to do or something?

    Eat less, exercise more. No mystery to losing weight at all, it's easy if you make two simple lifestyle changes. How RTE can squeeze so much airtime out of such a simple concept is baffling. I suppose some attention seeker types need some sort of feel good, happy clappy movement to belong to in order to loose weight.. That and it fills up RTEs schedule with fat people in lycra.


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    #5498
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Eat less, exercise more. No mystery to losing weight at all, it's easy if you make two simple lifestyle changes. How RTE can squeeze so much airtime out of such a simple concept is baffling. I suppose some attention seeker types need some sort of feel good, happy clappy movement to belong to in order to loose weight.. That and it fills up RTEs schedule with fat people in lycra.

    Excellent take there James, you just missed out one thing.

    It keeps various Z-listers in pecuniary stability, both as participants and 'presenters' and feeds to the voracious appetite of the 'great unwashed' for the vacuous 'reality' crap they seem to love so much.


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    #5499
    somesoldiers
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    djemba djemba wrote: »
    Any mention of the million pound drop challenge when he was talking about operation transformation. In the middle of November surely we must be close to the target now


    I'd say it was far too ambitious, was only up to 100K or so last I heard & that was during the Celebrity OT. Am guessing we won't here mention of it this year unless they want to extent the target time to 10 years


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    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Excellent take there James, you just missed out one thing.

    It keeps various Z-listers in pecuniary stability, both as participants and 'presenters' and feeds to the voracious appetite of the 'great unwashed' for the vacuous 'reality' crap they seem to love so much.

    True, but I'm sure people don't tune in just to see Karl Spain for example. I'm convinced the main reason it's viewers tune in just to see fat people stuffed into Lycra. There is a certain voyeur element that permeates the whole thing. Fat people in Lycra juxtaposed with Kathryn Thomas dressed like she is off to the Oscars.. It is all rather bizarre.


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    #5501
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    True, but I'm sure people don't tune in just to see Karl Spain for example. I'm convinced the main reason it's viewers tune in just to see fat people stuffed into Lycra. There is a certain voyeur element that permeates the whole thing. Fat people in Lycra juxtaposed with Kathryn Thomas dressed like she is off to the Oscars.. It is all rather bizarre.

    Hmmmm a visit to most Shopping Centres would satisfy that er...element!

    Some amazing sights to be seen I tells ya.


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    #5502
    PeterTheNinth
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Fat people in Lycra juxtaposed with Kathryn Thomas dressed like she is off to the Oscars.. It is all rather bizarre.

    I heard Karl Henry justifying it on the basis that you can see the person's shape change as they lose weight. And that Elaine Crowley was a perfect example of this as you could see her waistline getting smaller. But I can't shake the feeling that this reason is a bit disingenuous. I think the producers would probably pull out if they got rid of the lycra.


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    #5503
    Jan_de_Bakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    Sorry has Brian Cox been on yet ?


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    #5504
    Utah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Utah


    Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »
    Sorry has Brian Cox been on yet ?

    Nope


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    #5505
    Jan_de_Bakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    No not out of nowhere Ray you f*cking plonker ..


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    #5506
    Utah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Utah


    What's infinity?


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    #5507
    Jan_de_Bakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    Yes how not to think like the BBC/NYT/CNN globalists want you to think ...


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    #5508
    Joe_ Public
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    A show about cooking christmas dinner. In November!


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    #5509
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    A show about cooking christmas dinner. In November!
    Of course...makes great radio, listening to 24 people cooking!!

    Next, it's 5000 runners doing a 5k run with Ray introducing them all one by one..


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    #5510
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Ray: Agus anois an nuacht le Peadar Ó Cualáin
    Léitheoir: Go raibh maith agat a Ray, seo an nuacht le Máire Áine Ní ...


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    #5511
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    The laugh on Yer Wan!!!!


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    #5512
    TheHomeService
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭TheHomeService


    You tube on the radio. Again.


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    #5513
    Odyssey 2005
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    I've a pain in me hole with this idiot shoving operation transformation down my neck. Seems if it doesn't interest him it doesn't get on the show.


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    #5514
    PeterTheNinth
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    I'd love to know what Usain Bolt think's of Ray D'Arcy's TV presenting


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    #5515
    PeterTheNinth
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    You have to switch the computer on, Ray.


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    #5516
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    Just heard ray reading out a list of the top 5 shows his listeners want remade. Dallas was on the list. If you want it remade why didnt you watch it a few years back when they actually remade it.

    Also its kates 10th birthday. Suprised he didn't take the day off.


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    #5517
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    djemba djemba wrote: »
    Just heard ray reading out a list of the top 5 shows his listeners want remade. Dallas was on the list. If you want it remade why didnt you watch it a few years back when they actually remade it.

    Also its kates 10th birthday. Suprised he didn't take the day off.

    If I had a tenner for every mention of his family (including dogs) I'd be singing!


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    #5518
    PeterTheNinth
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    Any chance that somebody in RTE saw the show on Saturday night and gave him his P45. If he doesn't get his marching orders after that show then he never will.


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    #5519
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    Any chance that somebody in RTE saw the show on Saturday night and gave him his P45. If he doesn't get his marching orders after that show then he never will.
    No, Ray said if the pope ever announced he was coming to Ireland, he'd leave the country....


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    #5520
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    Any chance that somebody in RTE saw the show on Saturday night and gave him his P45. If he doesn't get his marching orders after that show then he never will.
    No, Ray said if the pope ever announced he was coming to Ireland, he'd leave the country....


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    #5521
    somesoldiers
    Registered Users Posts: 13,845 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    Any chance that somebody in RTE saw the show on Saturday night and gave him his P45. If he doesn't get his marching orders after that show then he never will.


    oh what did he do Peter? Same as Duffy then, make a balls up, take a few days off and hope everyone will forget


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