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dragonfly!

I've been away for two weeks
Just saw a post on Facebook about what to call a tweezers.
This was apparently the topic of the day on MOC show earlier this eewk.
Mother of divine!

johnire

I know...it’s really awful. There was another day and she was waffling on about putting rubbish into other people’s wheelie bins! To think this is what she and the likes of her(Fergal Darcy!!) get up for in the mornings and go to work for!! I’d be mortified to say that’s my job-talking about such absolute garbage.

dragonfly! wrote: »

I've been away for two weeks
Just saw a post on Facebook about what to call a tweezers.
This was apparently the topic of the day on MOC show earlier this eewk.
Mother of divine!

NIMAN

johnire wrote: »

I know...it’s really awful. There was another day and she was waffling on about putting rubbish into other people’s wheelie bins! To think this is what she and the likes of her(Fergal Darcy!!) get up for in the mornings and go to work for!! I’d be mortified to say that’s my job-talking about such absolute garbage.

Face it, we'd all love to have their jobs.

Paula McSweeney does it too on the Early Breakfast Show.
"today we are talking about ......." (insert totally random nonsense here: sweets you miss, wacky things you did at a wedding, embarrassing things to happen you in public etc etc)

No, you're talking about them....just talk less and play more music!

aroundthehouse

NIMAN wrote: »

Face it, we'd all love to have their jobs.

Paula McSweeney does it too on the Early Breakfast Show.
"today we are talking about ......." (insert totally random nonsense here: sweets you miss, wacky things you did at a wedding, embarrassing things to happen you in public etc etc)

No, you're talking about them....just talk less and play more music!

ah man, i can never get the promo ads they run for her, "today at stupid o clock we talked about what you did when you were seven and a half and what we all really think of clothes pegs.... tune in tomorrow from stupid o clock where we will be talking about more of the same guff"

aroundthehouse

Update from the Muireann O Connell show on twitter:

@MuireannO_C is chatting to Shauna from The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show about how she repeatedly loses her make up bag

The world has hit a new low

MikeyTaylor

aroundthehouse wrote: »

Update from the Muireann O Connell show on twitter:

@MuireannO_C is chatting to Shauna from The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show about how she repeatedly loses her make up bag

The world has hit a new low

Bring back Porter. Some of ye will no doubt disagree with me but he actually is entertaining and funny. And I do not believe the allegations made against him are true.

redbuck

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Bring back Porter. Some of ye will no doubt disagree with me but he actually is entertaining and funny. And I do not believe the allegations made against him are true.

Wow, just wow.

aroundthehouse

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Bring back Porter. Some of ye will no doubt disagree with me but he actually is entertaining and funny. And I do not believe the allegations made against him are true.

ah now i wouldnt go that far, thats like setting your hand on fire then trying to quench it by putting it in petrol...

he was outed as a sex pest and couldnt control himself, but that aside, he was never cut out for radio, actually he was dreadful.....nanny pat and disco or cisco.... good lord, when i think back i shudder

Ursus Horribilis

I am still convinced the inane "banter" is station policy and that it doesn't matter who's on the air. It's a moronic formula devised by the powers that be. The ones who are dumbing the station down.

Synode

They're pushing the type of people who in the past listened to Today FM all day long towards Newstalk. And positioning Today FM for the younger audience. I hate seeing it myself but in reality it probably makes sense from a business point of view

Ursus Horribilis

Yes but Newstalk doesn't have music. What about people who don't want chatter all day long?

Synode

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Yes but Newstalk doesn't have music. What about people who don't want chatter all day long?

Yep, I like a few songs myself. These days I listen to D&D then switch to Newstalk or Spotify, depending on my mood.

Ursus Horribilis

I think it's more that they've decided they don't want anyone over 30 listening and they can go elsewhere for their music. Which, depending on where you live in Ireland, can be OK or horrendous.

ButtersSuki

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Bring back Porter. Some of ye will no doubt disagree with me but he actually is entertaining and funny. And I do not believe the allegations made against him are true.

In fairness Mikey, your posts are nothing if not entertaining. That post alone made me laugh more than anything Porter has ever said or done.


On the case(s), wow, where to start? I'd imagine a whole slew of people made up stories to get him because they were jealous. And he admitted being in the wrong. And his employers (TV3 and Tpday FM) accepted his "resignation" because they wanted rid of him I suppose? But hey, in your eyes, he's a comic genius so that's ok I guess?

MikeyTaylor

aroundthehouse wrote: »

Update from the Muireann O Connell show on twitter:

@MuireannO_C is chatting to Shauna from The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show about how she repeatedly loses her make up bag

The world has hit a new low

She should be on Newstalk.

ButtersSuki

One of the journal's SJWs was in for Matt again today. She made a right balls up of the intro to the show so I switched on that alone. Anyone stick around for the Feminazi Love Island TV Slot?

Brock Turnpike

20 years of Today FM, and the last of those years has undone almost everything good about the station.

aroundthehouse

paul collins fairly lost the run of himself this morning, he was like a young lad attending his first 21st

prunudo

ButtersSuki wrote: »

One of the journal's SJWs was in for Matt again today. She made a right balls up of the intro to the show so I switched on that alone. Anyone stick around for the Feminazi Love Island TV Slot?

Its like ty in there at the moment. Who is the shouty replacement for Paula this week. Following the policy of text in about your 'insert todays topic' mad exciting experiences.

Synode

aroundthehouse wrote: »

paul collins fairly lost the run of himself this morning, he was like a young lad attending his first 21st

Yeah the state of him. I enjoyed the celebrations though. Was nice hearing the old clips of Dempsey

aroundthehouse

Synode wrote: »

Yeah the state of him. I enjoyed the celebrations though. Was nice hearing the old clips of Dempsey

indeed, it was very nice, gas when you look back and it made the 6 o clock news, ian dempsey moves from RTE to an Independent station, it all worked out very well, but you would fear for the way its now going

JoeA3

Yeah Dempsey's show was really good this morning. Nice bit of nostalgia, remembering when the station was actually good!

Iano is a bit of a legend really... 20 years in that slot and 10-12 years before that doing it on 2FM. He's one of the last old school guys left on daytime radio.

Irishdaywalker

19 years with 2FM & 20 years with Today Fm . . Fair play ! Can't see many these days having that sort of career, really enjoyed this morning's show on the way into work.

Pussyhands

JoeA3 wrote: »

Yeah Dempsey's show was really good this morning. Nice bit of nostalgia, remembering when the station was actually good!

Iano is a bit of a legend really... 20 years in that slot and 10-12 years before that doing it on 2FM. He's one of the last old school guys left on daytime radio.

Comes across as a bit of an airhead who hasn't a clue what's going on a lot of the time though.

MikeyTaylor

jvan wrote: »

Its like ty in there at the moment. Who is the shouty replacement for Paula this week. Following the policy of text in about your 'insert todays topic' mad exciting experiences.

Tara Harrison

aroundthehouse

Pussyhands wrote: »

Comes across as a bit of an airhead who hasn't a clue what's going on a lot of the time though.

yea i do have to agree, he doesnt seem to have any awareness of whats going on in the world and subsequently doesnt have an opinion on anything, i'd say his life revolves around going to work in the middle of the night, coming home in the middle of the day and going for a big snooze then going to some function of sorts with celebrities from the 80's like brush shields....

He does come across as a nice guy though

prunudo

Pussyhands wrote: »

Comes across as a bit of an airhead who hasn't a clue what's going on a lot of the time though.

There's plenty more in the station that I'd class as airhead before Ian.

aroundthehouse

fergus darcy below at trip to tipp revisited, school days nostalgia overload i'd say

JoeA3

Pussyhands wrote: »

Comes across as a bit of an airhead who hasn't a clue what's going on a lot of the time though.

I think that's harsh. 20 years at the top of his game... if that's an airhead, I'll have some of that please. Eventually he'll be replaced by some Alison Curtis / Ferg D'Arcy clone and we'll be longing for Ian to come back!

Brock Turnpike

Pussyhands wrote: »

Comes across as a bit of an airhead who hasn't a clue what's going on a lot of the time though.

A mealy-mouthed post