It’s Monday Mourning & we are in the midst of a Sahara Desert if Shocking Statistics:

ButtersSuki

Gods Gift wrote: »

For buttersuki suggestions ya mean

Don’t be jelly.

dvcireland

does the 5km limit apply to Irish airspace.

"...come in catmaniac your low on fuel..."

sligojoek

High flyin' bird, so to speak.

sligojoek

dvcireland wrote: »

does the 5km limit apply to Irish airspace.

"...come in catmaniac your low on fuel..."

Careful over Offaly. Mena might be out with the shotgun.

Mena Mitty

sligojoek wrote: »

Careful over Offaly. Mena might be out with the shotgun.

She'll be grand in Offaly and surrounding counties, she'll have a choice of landing strips for refueling.

There's a private one a couple of miles from my abode, she could come in for some light refreshments....tae and a curly bun :-)

ButtersSuki

Mena Mitty wrote: »

She'll be grand in Offaly and surrounding counties, she'll have a choice of landing strips for refueling.

There's a private one a couple of miles from my abode, she could come in for some light refreshments....tae and a curly bun :-)

I haven’t seen a landing strip in a while. All off is the trend these days.

ButtersSuki

Haven’t we suffered enough?

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/could-lift-the-nations-spirits-rte-plans-star-studded-telethon-coronavirus-fundraiser-39193511.html

Mena Mitty

Mena Mitty wrote: »

She'll be grand in Offaly and surrounding counties, she'll have a choice of landing strips for refueling.

There's a private one a couple of miles from my abode, she could come in for some light refreshments....tae and a curly bun :-)

Actually this brings to mind my “low flying” lesson, with the late lovely instructor Carsten Peterson who lived near Edenderry. My task was to fly out from Weston at 50ft over ground to his house and back to the airfield. Tbh I was terrified, although the aircraft I was flying was suitably “safe” for the very dangerous task low slow flying. We reached Carsten’s house and his wife was hanging the washing in the back garden. He got me to go down to within 20 feet of his garden in steeply banking turn, now that takes nerve and concentration to pull off safely as too many have died doing this trick. I wouldnt attempt it in anything but the Rallye/Koliber, which is very wobbly and wavery but as stall-proof as they cone, and if you crash the outcome tends to be much better in what was nicknamed “The Tin Parachute”. I wasn’t happy about the exercise, but it is something they introduce you to to make you appreciate such a situation should you be caught out by weather you had not properly apprehended before you set out.

Poor Carsten died flying blind into a mountain in Scotland when flying lobsters from Stornoway to London for the posh restaurant market. Some months/year earlier he had an oil leak/engine failure and was forced to land at Wormwood Scrubs where it was said the inmates fined on lobster. A terrible man to take chances himself, although he demanded a lot from his student pilots.

PieOhMy

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Haven’t we suffered enough?

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/could-lift-the-nations-spirits-rte-plans-star-studded-telethon-coronavirus-fundraiser-39193511.html

I could see Monkey tennis being pitched at the rte brain trust meetings. And it being rejected for not featuring Amy Huberman and also because it might actually be good! I'd watch it! It would be entertaining like! Better than watching Lottie do anything.

ButtersSuki

PieOhMy wrote: »

I could see Monkey tennis being pitched at the rte brain trust meetings. And it being rejected for not featuring Amy Huberman and also because it might actually be good! I'd watch it! It would be entertaining like! Better than watching Lottie do anything.

Monkey Tennis with Amy Huberman and Lottie Ryan, with commentary by Woke McDermott and the after party show hosted by Doireann Garrihy; and a Facebook live show hosted by James Patrice.

PieOhMy

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Monkey Tennis with Amy Huberman and Lottie Ryan, with commentary by Woke McDermott and the after party show hosted by Doireann Garrihy; and a Facebook live show hosted by James Patrice.

Average age of presenters on 2fm, the youthful station, must be well into the 30s. I'd say if you went in to many schools in the country the students wouldn't be exactly racing home to listen to 2fm or chat about the programmes at school!

Dan Jaman

Deleted User wrote: »

Poor Carsten died flying blind into a mountain in Scotland when flying lobsters from Stornoway to London for the posh restaurant market. Some months/year earlier he had an oil leak/engine failure and was forced to land at Wormwood Scrubs where it was said the inmates fined on lobster. A terrible man to take chances himself, although he demanded a lot from his student pilots.

Similar fate overtook an old instructor of mine.
Jim Beaton. Never one to take chances with anyone on board, he risked a lot with just himself there.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=jim+beaton+flying+instructor

thecretinhop

de padre pio bingo card slot was haunted so to speak so i dropped it. in true wonderful marvelous news check out irish independent 2 day for replacement lol.
yes de baby cretin is up. she cried on friday when i put on LL dats my girl..

zell12

Jeebus :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
Indo - Joe Duffy gets candid on losing his pension, coronavirus and a reckoning

thecretinhop

zell12 wrote: »

Jeebus :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
Indo - Joe Duffy gets candid on losing his pension, coronavirus and a reckoning

my eyes! de googles dont work!

Mabel

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Following on from last week's post so to speak as they say:
Not that any of you likely care (lol) but if you're looking for something to listen to for de next few days instead of death talk or the sound of one man fellating another "artist" on the radio I'm currently listening to the following:

Roxy Music: Complete Recordings 1972-1982
Deadmau5 Mau5ville
Wang Chung To Live and Die in LA (Soundtrack)
Cliff Martinez Contagion (Soundtrack)
Julien Marchal Insight (Series)
Prince Originals
Justice Woman Worldwide

This week (in addition to the above) I've been listening to:

Depeche Mode Violator
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygen Trilogy
Betty Blue Soundtrack
Chris DeBurgh......Lady In Red....had ye going there for a second!:pac::pac:

Have a great weekend folks.

Jaysis that's a great selection, Butters. Was listening to Depeche Mode and JMJ too last week.

ButtersSuki

zell12 wrote: »

Jeebus :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
Indo - Joe Duffy gets candid on losing his pension, coronavirus and a reckoning

Those photos indicate a man whose affection for himself knows no bounds.

bigroad

Yes a gouger with money and no class whatsoever.

barney shamrock

Poor fecker looks like he hasn't had a decent meal since L'Ecrivain closed!!

A timely planted article, do I catch a whiff of Noel Kelly? Perhaps Joe’s contract/emolument is under consideration (I know, I’m mad for even thinking that’s a possibility), but just in case....

ButtersSuki

zell12 wrote: »

Jeebus :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
Indo - Joe Duffy gets candid on losing his pension, coronavirus and a reckoning

I will read and dissect that article fully later. It’s written by Niamh Horan.....only professional fluffer Barry Egan could write a more sycophantic piece so to speak as they say.

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I will read and dissect that article fully later. It’s written by Niamh Horan.....only professional fluffer Barry Egan could write a more sycophantic piece so to speak as they say.

Have your smelling salts or a large gin and tonic (depending on the time of day) ready to administer

Atlantic Dawn

What colour were the coal mines...

He tells a story of taking his kids to see coal mines, with a message to take home: "I told them: Now that is work. Lying on your side with a pick. A lot of what people do is hard work." In contrast, he sees his position as "a privilege".

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/joe-duffy-gets-candid-on-losing-his-pension-coronavirus-and-a-reckoning-39194094.html

notwhoyouthink

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I will read and dissect that article fully later. It’s written by Niamh Horan.....only professional fluffer Barry Egan could write a more sycophantic piece so to speak as they say.

Wow! Thanks for alerting us. I went out and bought the paper for this reason. Its a great photo of Joe on the front. Like ButterSuki, I will read and will post an objective appraisal later today...stay tuned

Dan Jaman

Deleted User wrote: »

A timely planted article, do I catch a whiff of Noel Kelly? Perhaps Joe’s contract/emolument is under consideration (I know, I’m mad for even thinking that’s a possibility), but just in case....

A whiff? An absolute dump-truck load of BS, presided over by NK, as he desperately claws for grip on the cliff face that is forthcoming savage cuts to his stars' fees.


<nb. 'star' is used in a very loose sense>

Dan Jaman

notwhoyouthink wrote: »

Wow! Thanks for alerting us. I went out and bought the paper for this reason. Its a great photo of Joe on the front. Like ButterSuki, I will read and will post an objective appraisal later today...stay tuned

Oh, I can't wait.
<strokes cat>
So, tell us, Mr Notwho, what is your opinion?

ButtersSuki

notwhoyouthink wrote: »

Wow! Thanks for alerting us. I went out and bought the paper for this reason. Its a great photo of Joe on the front. Like ButterSuki, I will read and will post an objective appraisal later today...stay tuned

You could save yourself some time and just copy and paste my review as they'll be identical so to speak as they say....



If you're genuinely serious in your adulation you know that newspapers will sell you prints of any photo their photographers take? You could get prints of those wunderful fantastic pictures you reference and maybe even get Mr. Duffy to sign them for you next time you're in RTÉ. You can add them to your "Wall of Joe"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFrVmCZzWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8tciBFpCI

I think from now on I'll just call you Jed.

neris

Another weekend another Joe Duffy media vvankfest. The British media & tabloids are a shower of c**** but at least parts of them can quickly take down the ego of the mediocre who are getting notions above their ergo. Over here it's just one continuous media circle jerk

ButtersSuki

Joe Duffy gets candid on losing his pension, coronavirus and a reckoning
STAYING PUT: Joe Duffy has no thoughts of retirement, despite approaching his 65th birthday. Photo: Mark Condren
Niamh Horan

May 10 2020 02:30 AM

The first time Joe Duffy was ever conscious of his Dublin accent, he was speaking at Trinity College when a boy started goading him from the audience. Another made up anecdote - it would have occured to him long before then that he had a difference so to speak from an accent perpsctive when in Dubalin City Centre wurking as a chisler in de Gresham Hotel so to speak or at the very latest on his first day in Trinners. One of only three people at the time to make it from Ballyfermot to its hallowed halls, he lived on the last stop at "the other end of the bus route". As I have oft pointed out back then if you wanted to go to University, you got in. No points system, no CAO. I'd love to see his Leaving Cert Results, but I'd say they're guarded more zealously than Trumps tax Returns.

On the second, he was in Doheny & Nesbitt He wasn't long acclimatising then was he if he was going to Donnehy & Nesbitts? telling friends about his new trainee job in RTE when a man interjected: "Do they know you're from Ballyfermot?"

In the 40 years since, he has taken this vulnerability and turned it into gold. Vulnerability? Get a grip. He's certainly cashed in alright, that part is accurate.

The man of the people An act, as any regular listener will attest to. , the nation's agony aunt Bollocks., his humble roots long forgotten enable him to identify with the sidelined.Again, politley, bollocks. He identifies more with the Ivan Calories, the Gerry Ryans, the Bryan Tubridys, the Bertie Aherns, and the Pat Hickeys more than de ordinary peeple so to speak. Look at how he's treated his own brudder.

While other presenters dealt with experts and politicians and celebrities and 'men of standing', Joe found that real power lay in the voice of the everyman. The broken-hearted, the scared, the flawed, and, of course, the nation's critics. Pity he doesn't listen to them then isn't it?

He thought he had seen it all. And then the pandemic struck: "Without doubt, this is easily the biggest issue I have ever covered, and I was on the airwaves when the Twin Towers was hit on 9/11. I remember saying 'this day will be remembered as the day that changed the world' and it did. But this is different. In terms of its longevity, its reach, its deviousness, its virulence, it is really, really frightening." Still waiting for the apology from the man who mocked Trump on twitter for talking about disinfectant yet mr. Duffy has stated that:
We can't get the virus as we're an island AND even if it does come here no-one will die.

As he talks about it, even Duffy sounds scared. He sees the pain can you describe de pain? on his morning walks: "I have seen people walking, crying, with tears streaming down their cheeks. They aren't looking for solace or intervention. They are just thinking. Maybe about their children, their grandchildren, their children, their future ... it's a really difficult time."

As a nation, he says, we will be traumatised. "There will be a reckoning at the end of this. Some of it will be good, and some of it will be really traumatic - mentally, physically, socially, politically and economically - for so many people. But not for Mr. Duffy or de fat cats in RTE who'll carry on regardless. "

The one hope we do have to see us through is close to being extinguished - but it's there: "Ireland is still, and it is hanging on by its fingernails, but we are still a country that can have a conversation. You can still get somebody in Donegal exchanging stories with someone in Darndale with similar experience."

On why it's in thin supply, he points to social media and "the way people interact is changing", Yeah, just don't criticse him on social meeja or you'll be blocked although he still feels it adds to the "communicative experience" and is "part of the rich tapestry" buzzword bingo again from the limited vocabulary of de telephone operator - he left out "of life" .

To keep his own head level, he has started to meditate. "I am doing it every night. At 8pm there is an organisation called mindfulness.ie and I sit down on my own and try to get everything out of my head. You are not identified and you don't have to show your face or speak and it is led by someone for a half an hour of silence and contemplation. I find it uplifting in my work anyway just to sit there and focus on you and what you are doing and how you are thinking."


What he is not thinking about is retirement. His colleague Sean O'Rourke may have highlighted the ageist laws which prevent people from continuing on as staff at the national broadcaster once they reach 65, but, for Duffy, who turns 65 next January, that isn't a problem.

"I am not on staff," though he omits to mention the fact this is purely to his advantage as he benefits enormously through the fees arrangement and tax avoidance this offers he says, and you can detect a hint of a bemused laugh when he recalls "they wouldn't let me go on staff way back".

"I am a contractor and part of the deal is they can let me go tomorrow on my mother's 91st birthday and there is no comeback. So other forces will determine whether I go or not but I have no intention. I've no wish." Love the way this is portrayed as a sacrifice - humble to the end. The reality is he'd not leave as he has such an unbelievably cushy number. The "they could let me go tomorrow" is also bollocks - he has a contract and it's not terminable at a day's notice. Such a charlatan in how he presents this.

Though still one of the most listened to shows on the airwaves, his pay was cut to €389,988 in 2016 from €416,893 the previous year. More spin. No mention of the 3 months holidays, no mention he could have worked less in the year with the reduction in fees - this is not a man working 40 hours a week with 20 days off. Duffy is prudent That's one word for it. and anything he has goes towards the future

"Any spare money goes into the pensions in our household. I don't have a pension from RTE, You could haver if you opted to become staff, but you would never do that. Don't present it like iyou're at a loss as a resulkt - you are not. I don't have sick pay Yes, but you complained about not having sick pay despite being a contractor previously - you want it every way. and I don't have a safety net BOLLOCKS - RTE don't let "talent" go. One defection in . the last 20years basically. You're being paid as a contractor with all the additional security of a full time staffer. And well you know it. - and the pension is gone again. Yeah, right. Penmsions have bounced back enoprmously. ANd I refuse to believe your money isn't diversified. In shorty - don't you be giving me any of yer auld guff. It disappeared 10 years ago with the crash and now with Covid-19. Far too early to tell what effect this will have on pensions, but I suspect you're well diversified. It was invariably invested in stocks and shares." But he says: "It's not a worry in my life. Why would it? You're a multimillionaire. The worry in life at the moment is people's health."

He has collected two key pieces of wisdom from the seasoned broadcasters who have gone before him.

The first was from the late Gay Byrne. Sitting at his kitchen table after telling his mentor he had been offered a Sunday morning show, he wondered if he should take it on. He already had a six-day workload. Noite: in Mr. Duffy's mind 75mins is a day's workload.

"So what?" came the reply. "It is what we do. Do it while you can, it won't last forever."

The second was from the late Larry Gogan.Liveline may be 20 years old this year, but Joe won't hear it mentioned. "Larry said 'don't ever let them have a programme to mark your [milestone] because someone on the third floor will hear it and say he is doing that for 15 years? It's time for a change!'"

I recount a tale a colleague once told me about the late Sunday Independent editor Aengus Fanning. He would often come barrelling out of his office cursing the broadcaster to the heavens because the phone lines were hopping. Invariably an article had been picked up by a concerned caller who phoned in her dismay to Liveline, stirring the nation from its slumber once again. You mean the Irish Independent that publishes "articles" about the day's cranky caller on Lahv Lahn? Pulitzer prize-winning work that.

Duffy's ability to turn what might have been a simple 'tut tut' across marmalade and toast at a breakfast table into a national outcry is legendary. Such as "WHOY didn't you turn your gun on de journalists?" or "I'll calm down if you calm down".

Even his own station isn't exempt. Lol, most callers who dare criticise RTE might disagree. Most recently he had the nation in a sweat when a group of pearl clutchers called in to complain that RTE's Normal People was "like something out of a porno". But Duffy refuses to call out the puritanism when asked what it says about Ireland's attitude to sex. "We have matured dramatically," he says, perhaps knowing which side his own toast is buttered on. You can chalk that one down so to speak as they say

Say what you want, but those 75 minutes are unmissable when in full swing. Sure, for all the wrong reasons as we laugh at the host. Duffy is Twitter without the venom Lol. or defamation or anonymous stone-throwing. And even a fool could see RTE won't want him to go anywhere soon. But he just sad he has no security and could be let go tomorrow on his mudder's birthday de poor petal. Which is it?

He tells a story of taking his kids to see coal mines, with a message to take home: "I told them: Now that is work. Lying on your side with a pick. A lot of what people do is hard work." In contrast, he sees his position as "a privilege". WHOY not donate a few months fees then to buy PPE for hostibles Mr. Duffy?

He and his team write to many callers on a hand- painted card I wunder who de wunderful fantastic "artist" who did drew de picture was? :rolleyes: long after they have come off air. The messages come in from listeners, too. Albeit not in a way you might expect.

"They drop notes in my front door, they ask: 'will you please take up this issue?'" he says. He has no fear ideas might dry up: "Everyone has 10 stories in their lives - and that's just at any one time."

It seems the world may be changing and full of uncertainty, but the nation will cope so long as they can talk to Joe. Niamh Horan you are a disgrace to journalism.

NO mention of the artist's exemption for writin' de bukes. No mention of the blatant and constant plugging of his own wares. No mention of the face dat is FunnyFryday - a vehickle that has given airtime to Syl Fox AND Al Porter. No mention of his refusal to condemn Gerry Ryan for his part in funding the drug trade. No mention of the use of vulnerable callers. No mention of the complaints upheld by the BAI. I could go on but I'm going to walk the dog. The dog is white btw.

ButtersSuki

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Oh, I can't wait.
<strokes cat>
So, tell us, Mr Notwho, what is your opinion?

That's his (or her - we have to be woke and inclusive remember) latest name so to speak.