Marian Finucane Thread

zoobizoo

mgn wrote: »

What stats do you need, all you have to do is look at the traffic when the kids go back to school.

The kind of stats that would prove your assertion is true rather than your guesstimate based on you watching children on their way to school.

How many schools do you survey?

zoobizoo

mgn wrote: »

If the went outside a bit more often or walked to school, the might see a bit of nature instead of being stuck inside watching youtube. If the same kids were so concerned about the planet the might start by turning of lights when not in use or spending half a hour in shower, but their not gone to do that because no one will see them.

Are you stalking kids?

ShamNNspace

mgn wrote: »

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Lads listen to yourselves ffs.

They're children and you're presumably a grown man criticising their speech.

Stupid kids and their stupid accents and stupid, brainwashing science, yes that is an original and interesting point.

If the went outside a bit more often or walked to school, the might see a bit of nature instead of being stuck inside watching youtube. If the same kids were so concerned about the planet the might start by turning of lights when not in use or spending half a hour in shower, but their not gone to do that because no one will see them.

I'm in two minds about the whole thing
on one hand the whole thing feels a bit cultish on one hand with St Greta at its head. A child who should be doing childish things and not worrying about the planets future.. I genuinely fear for her future in the long run
then on the other hand I was that opinionated teenager once long long ago some of my views then make me cringe now and maybe just maybe some of those well-meaning teenagers will learn to question and look at things with an open mind and come to their own conclusions and take a greater interest in the future of the planet both politically and enviromentally. It will be theirs when we're long gone

mgn

zoobizoo wrote: »

The kind of stats that would prove your assertion is true rather than your guesstimate based on you watching children on their way to school.

How many schools do you survey?

You don't need a survey to see the difference in traffic when schools are open.
So either you don't drive or else you live in your own little fantasy world.

mgn

zoobizoo wrote: »

Are you stalking kids?

No,but it's the likes of you are pushing the world savior Greta agenda.
What's being done to that kid its nothing short of criminal and the people behind her should be ashamed of themselves, she's like a frightened rabbit caught the headlights of a car, I'm actually beginning to feel sorry for her at this stage.Shame on her parents.

zoobizoo

mgn wrote: »

No,but it's the likes of you are pushing the world savior Greta agenda.
What's being done to that kid its nothing short of criminal and the people behind her should be ashamed of themselves, she's like a frightened rabbit caught the headlights of a car, I'm actually beginning to feel sorry for her at this stage.Shame on her parents.

:rolleyes:

ShamNNspace

ShamNNspace wrote: »

maybe just maybe some of those well-meaning teenagers will learn to question and look at things with an open mind and come to their own conclusions

what conclusions? Sometimes disagreeing with a scientific concensus is grossly irresponsible, or just a bit thick, like people who don't vaccinate their kids or try to cure their cancer by eating paleo foods. Not a good example for the kids.

ShamNNspace

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

ShamNNspace wrote: »

maybe just maybe some of those well-meaning teenagers will learn to question and look at things with an open mind and come to their own conclusions

what conclusions? Sometimes disagreeing with a scientific concensus is grossly irresponsible, or just a bit thick, like people who don't vaccinate their kids or try to cure their cancer by eating paleo foods. Not a good example for the kids.

That they may draw their own conclusions on any range of issues not specifically the climate change one. BTW although there is a broad concensus that climate change is happening and that emissions etc need to be reduced there is no scientific concensus that it is a planatery emergency as for bringing that nonsense about cancer into it I know all about the damn thing or people not vaccinating their children. They've got nothing whatsoever to do with what point I was trying to make

serfboard

zell12 wrote: »

and did you hear the guy quoting someone else "f**kin" and "english c******er"
I was not expecting that.
Later Marian reminded him: This is R.T.E.Radio.One.

For people who didn't hear that was film director Jim Sheridan. He was quoting Harvey Weinstien.

You would have thought that Marian didn't need to remind him that it was Radio One he was on, or about the station's etiquette regarding acceptable language.

After she reminded him, he was talking more about his dealings with Harvey Weinstein and he said that Weinstein used "language that I can't(won't?) repeat here" or words to that effect.

generalgerry

Marion is gonna be fairly traumatised about the result in Japan. When she arrives in studio and the researchers tell her the result.

Dan Jaman

1. More fecking sport.
If I want fecking sport, there's no shortage of fekcing sport programmes. This is just lazy time-filling.

2. Banski? Who is Banski?
I thought at first she was on about someone I'd simply not been aware of.

BANKSY... FFS.

generalgerry

Dan Jaman wrote: »

1. More fecking sport.
If I want fecking sport, there's no shortage of fekcing sport programmes. This is just lazy time-filling.

But shur don't you know that Marion is a great supporter of the Irish team. Eddie O'Sullivan must be billing for the whole day today. He was on the TV earlier as well.

Ten Pin

Cormac O'Hara: Wouldn't a four day working week be great Marian...


Not as great as a four day fortnight

Callan57

Ten Pin wrote: »

Cormac O'Hara: Wouldn't a four day working week be great Marian...


Not as great as a four day fortnight

Ah you had an open goal there :D

generalgerry

Seems like there is a change in tactic here. Having seemingly failed in their attempts to scare everybody back in to another vote, they are now trying to portray all the BREXITers as a "bunch of deplorables".

I found it sort of funny when I heard the news RTE News celebrating the plucky pro democracy supporters in Hong Kong, and we then proceed to the Marian Finucane Show where it seems every contributor is lobbying against the democratic vote in the UK.

blinding

generalgerry wrote: »

Seems like there is a change in tactic here. Having seemingly failed in their attempts to scare everybody back in to another vote, they are now trying to portray all the BREXITers as a "bunch of deplorables".

I found it sort of funny when I heard the news RTE News celebrating the plucky pro democracy supporters in Hong Kong, and we then proceed to the Marian Finucane Show where it seems every contributor is lobbying against the democratic vote in the UK.

The British people will not give up their Democracy for the Eu . They would be crazy to .

ShamNNspace

So they dig up the most stupid comment by a French guy in the lead up to discussing Greta Thunburgs speech and her "message". Playground stuff drag everything to the edges instead of having an adult discussion

generalgerry

ShamNNspace wrote: »

So they dig up the most stupid comment by a French guy in the lead up to discussing Greta Thunburgs speech and her "message".

Sorry, had to mow the lawn, what comment was that?

blinding

ShamNNspace wrote: »

So they dig up the most stupid comment by a French guy in the lead up to discussing Greta Thunburgs speech and her "message". Playground stuff drag everything to the edges instead of having an adult discussion

Rte drive their own agenda . Impartiality doesn’t come into it .

robertpatterson

zell12 wrote: »

and did you hear the guy quoting someone else "f**kin" and "english c******er"
I was not expecting that.
Later Marian reminded him: This is R.T.E.Radio.One.

That was Jim Sheridan talking about Weinstein

sligojoek

Guest: I was 35 weeks pregnant at the time.

Marian: And did you knoooooow you were pregnant?

That's like something Duffy would come out with.

Callan57

"I say again" ... John Banville is too polite, he should have suggested to Marian that she actually try and listen to her guest's responses & not ask the same question repeatedly.

That said John Banville would have been a more than deserving winner of the Nobel ... love all his books including the Benjamin Black books.

citykat

There's no fool like an old fool...

blinding

sligojoek wrote: »

Guest: I was 35 weeks pregnant at the time.

Marian: And did you knoooooow you were pregnant?

That's like something Duffy would come out with.

Too much life there for Joe ! :eek:

Ready4Boarding

sligojoek wrote: »

Guest: I was 35 weeks pregnant at the time.

Marian: And did you knoooooow you were pregnant?

That's like something Duffy would come out with.

High praise indeed.

generalgerry

Oh get up the yard, another rich Brit telling us why the retarded, racist plebs were mislead in to voting for BREXIT. Why are RTE facilitating this every day of the week?

blinding

generalgerry wrote: »

Oh get up the yard, another rich Brit telling us why the retarded, racist plebs were mislead in to voting for BREXIT. Why are RTE facilitating this every day of the week?

RTE really want to keep their Eu funding . How else are they going to pay RTE Royalty like Marion , Ryan etc etc .

generalgerry

I see John Le Carre has a net worth of 100 million. He's hardly likely to be fighting off a Polish plumber for a crust of bread.

blinding

generalgerry wrote: »

I see John Le Carre has a net worth of 100 million. He's hardly likely to be fighting off a Polish plumber for a crust of bread.

I wasted my time reading one of his books once ( thinking it would come good ) .

I wanted to kill him for wasting my time .

blinding

generalgerry wrote: »

I see John Le Carre has a net worth of 100 million. He's hardly likely to be fighting off a Polish plumber for a crust of bread.

Another Elit-est plugging for the Eu = Shocker , Not .

Brendan Bendar

generalgerry wrote: »

I see John Le Carre has a net worth of 100 million. He's hardly likely to be fighting off a Polish plumber for a crust of bread.

Hmmmm doubt if any plumbers are fighting anyone off for crusts, my friend.

Seems you haven’t tried to get one recently?

Or pay for plumbing repairs?

A wee bit of hyperbole there if I may be so bold to say.

blinding

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Hmmmm doubt if any plumbers are fighting anyone off for crusts, my friend.

Seems you haven’t tried to get one recently?

Or pay for plumbing repairs?

A wee bit of hyperbole there if I may be so bold to say.

Eu-Philes suffer from Foggy Brain . No plumber is going to fix that .

generalgerry

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Hmmmm doubt if any plumbers are fighting anyone off for crusts, my friend. Seems you haven’t tried to get one recently? Or pay for plumbing repairs?

You are correct, I have not tried to get a plumber from the UK.

Callan57

blinding wrote: »

RTE really want to keep their Eu funding . How else are they going to pay RTE Royalty like Marion , Ryan etc etc .

What EU funding does RTE get?

blinding

Callan57 wrote: »

What EU funding does RTE get?

Advertising .

Brendan Bendar

generalgerry wrote: »

Oh get up the yard, another rich Brit telling us why the retarded, racist plebs were mislead in to voting for BREXIT. Why are RTE facilitating this every day of the week?

Ever hear of discussion and debate?

Or do you just want a polemic.

Dan Jaman

generalgerry wrote: »

Oh get up the yard, another rich Brit telling us why the retarded, racist plebs were mislead in to voting for BREXIT. Why are RTE facilitating this every day of the week?

Why not go over there and make the Bold New British Empire work?
I'm sure they'll welcome you.

Ready4Boarding

Jennifer Cassidy on today. One of my least favourite commentators. Not only do I usually disagree with her bland opinions, but I think she's conceited and quite obviously a mediocre intellect. How on earth was she employed by any university, let alone Oxford?

generalgerry

Given it's definition, I think it tells you a lot about a person when they use the word populist as a pejorative term. And gives you a good idea as to why the term is always used in the pejorative when spoken by any contributor to an RTE panel show.

Populist - relating to or characteristic of a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups."party leaders plan to reprise the populist rhetoric that they used in the tax fight"

newcavanman

RTE obviously go to some lengths to recruit the panel for the Marian Finucane show. They are always consistent in their views, being totally in support of any and all left wing views. The entire show so far this morning has been one unending lecture, on immigration and fundamentalist muslims, and our many failings as a nation to acccomodate them and to understand their world views . I thought i was listening to RTE , the national broadcaster, allegedly reflective of a broad spectrum of national opinions, however, apparently, i was listening to Migrant FM

generalgerry

Each one trying to out-bleeding heart each other.

blinding

newcavanman wrote: »

RTE obviously go to some lengths to recruit the panel for the Marian Finucane show. They are always consistent in their views, being totally in support of any and all left wing views. The entire show so far this morning has been one unending lecture, on immigration and fundamentalist muslims, and our many failings as a nation to acccomodate them and to understand their world views . I thought i was listening to RTE , the national broadcaster, allegedly reflective of a broad spectrum of national opinions, however, apparently, i was listening to Migrant FM

But of course ; None of this for the Wealthy Areas . They talk the talk but won’t walk the walk .

Ready4Boarding

generalgerry wrote: »

"A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded."

Just because you appeal to ordinary people doesn't make you virtuous. Donald Trump appealed to such people, for instance.

blinding

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Just because you appeal to ordinary people doesn't make you virtuous. Donald Trump appealed to such people, for instance.

People need Politicians that will honour their commitments .

Not Politicians pretending to be virtuous , like Blackface for example .

hotmail.com

newcavanman wrote: »

RTE obviously go to some lengths to recruit the panel for the Marian Finucane show. They are always consistent in their views, being totally in support of any and all left wing views. The entire show so far this morning has been one unending lecture, on immigration and fundamentalist muslims, and our many failings as a nation to acccomodate them and to understand their world views . I thought i was listening to RTE , the national broadcaster, allegedly reflective of a broad spectrum of national opinions, however, apparently, i was listening to Migrant FM

It's funny how people see things..

Whenever I hear Marian and her dinner table panel, the last thing that comes to mind is left wing.

Bellbottoms

blinding wrote: »

like Blackface for example .

Wait, what? Are you saying someone is wearing blackface or saying that politicians condemning black face are just pretending to be virtuous. I am very confused.

Are they talking about Blackface on Marian?

blinding

Bellbottoms wrote: »

Wait, what? Are you saying someone is wearing blackface or saying that politicians condemning black face are just pretending to be virtuous. I am very confused.

Are they talking about Blackface on Marian?

The fella that cannot remember how often he Black-Faced pretends to be very Virtuous . He is of course a hero to our hypocritical “ Virtuous "

Callan57

hotmail.com wrote: »

It's funny how people see things..

Whenever I hear Marian and her dinner table panel, the last thing that comes to mind is left wing.

More smoked-salmon socialist I'd have thought :rolleyes:

jay0109

I'm listening on the radio player and oh my, the first 40 minutes are LiberalsRUs on speed! Not 1 voice against the consensus...the only issue being which of them can get in to speak over the other to display their greatness.
The security 'expert' has even gone as far as to say we need to set aside security concerns and let any ISIS prisoner an their children who hold Irish citizenship back into the country asap. Only in Ireland!
The Journo said that on his his walk to work through D1, he passes through the area with the highest concentration of asylum seekers in the State and that it hasn't ruined the culture of the area. And not one member of the panel even managed a chuckle at such an obvious lie.

If the chat on migration went on any longer, I can only imagine the scale to which the lies would have reached in a bid amongst the Panelists to outdo each other with their righteousness

blinding

jay0109 wrote: »

I'm listening on the radio player and oh my, the first 40 minutes are LiberalsRUs on speed! Not 1 voice against the consensus...the only issue being which of them can get in to speak over the other to display their greatness.
The security 'expert' has even gone as far as to say we need to set aside security concerns and let any ISIS prisoner an their children who hold Irish citizenship back into the country asap. Only in Ireland!
The Journo said that on his his walk to work through D1, he passes through the area with the highest concentration of asylum seekers in the State and that it hasn't ruined the culture of the area. And not one member of the panel even managed a chuckle at such an obvious lie.

If the chat on migration went on any longer, I can only imagine the scale to which the lies would have reached in a bid amongst the Panelists to outdo each other with their righteousness

Hypocrites R-us . RTE is a sick organisation .