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Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

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  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭tintin67


    A far-right Joe? Could some super-smart AI expert do up an image of Mr Duffy in a blueshirt goose-stepping up Parnell Street giving a Nazi salute? Do we have anyone out there?





  • *Health warning - this post might mention my female parent

    Thankfully I wasn’t sent on any retreats or encouraged to go on any of them. My parents were always particularly suspicious of adults too willing to take on young people. Other people kind of thought they were slightly overly paranoid, but they knew stuff that could go on, my father was abused by a Garda when he was a bhuoy; and a Scottish priest, long time family friend, was in support of their paranoia and strongly advised against my *mother’s idea of considering boarding school for me to help with socialisation (as I was a single child).



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭Tow


    A half day in de CIE wurks in Inchicore or maybe de lads got time to cash their cheques?

    Post edited by Tow on

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭3d4life


    I had an Aunt who had a Yorkie....A shockingly savage little bit of a hound.

    To such an extent that he ended up being locked up in a wickerwork cage for at least 20 hours of each day !

    Thing about the 104 Pugs was that it was necessary for the driver to have very small narrow feet to avoid one foot pressing two of the pedals at the same time :(


    "...huge house with massive gardens,....." was it just another typical pre-war house. Most of them were like that......anddd..... the walls were hopeless at keping the heat in........ Brrrrrrrrr......

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley




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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Peadar Toibin mentioned The Joe Duffy show (yes he called it that) on The Tonight Show VMTV. Saying about a year ago Joe covered the gender issues on the show and women rang in about concerns about trans in women prisons.

    He used some big words to say that the show was not liked and a pride group cancelled their contract with RTE because of the show.

    We will never get open discussion on this show again and all Joe has to do is chat his chosen subjects until his contract is up.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Whoa: me too. But one day, no overnights. (Also Opus Dei were in evidence at NUI Galway hinterland - but Esker was run by Redemptorists, right?)



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭squonk


    Surprised he doesn’t sound to have covered the Maryland bridge collapse with the usual octegenarisn cawlur telling us all how they should have really built that bridge based solely on their experience of building their garden shed by hand in nineteen hundred and fifty two and it’s still standing despite years of kids and grandkids kicking balls against it and it also survived hurricane Charlie!

    Im basing this off probably the most stupid call I remember from Liveline just after the terrible German Wings incident where a rogue pilot locked himself into the cockpit and deliberately flew his plane into a mountain in the alps killing all on board. Joe took a call from some old geezer who was obviously a hardcore IT professional after the few computer lessons he’d had saying that you can network computers so you should be able to do that with the planes and then they’d have been able to override the pilot. Anywhere else tge guy wouldn’t have gotten on air or at least been challenged with some critical thinking about how it’s not such a great idea or even practical but good old Joe chuckled along no doubt giving his big arse a good scratch while he was at it. I somehow think the same cawlur probably showed up again months later telling Joe about all his savings going missing after he answered a mail from his bank!!





  • It was a like an estate house in a very salubrious suburb. Re Yorkies, my own experience is that most are absolutely sweethearts. Some of the larger ones are semi-breeds with eg, Jack Russells and I’ve noticed they can sometimes be a bit challenging. The tiny little ones are all movement would tend to lick you to death!





  • The beauty of Liveline when it actually works as a relatively spontaneous call-in radio show (versus a Joe’s chosen topic & guests episode) is that anyone can get on with the most preposterous ideas. They’d need a Brendan O’Connor style presenter to keep ruining it and telling callers “that’s your own notion of how things work, we haven’t any way of verifying your version of facts”. 🤣



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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,859 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    Early contender for self published buke of the year:

    Flying High by Riley Helpless Grapevine

    A look back at a well travelled life.

    "...a bleeding deadly buke..."

    Whacker, a customer of the Dublin City Council Library

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.





  • I missed hearing any recent Liveline episodes, only saw the thread during rest times. Any clues as to what might be co I g up today, callers?



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭Tow


    Misery and Death Cawlur, for we have a Funny Friday tomorrow! What with Good Friday being a non Wurking Day in Montrosa.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?





  • Don’t steal my Title Thunder, so to speak, I have dat reserved for me Real Buke, cawlur.





  • Was doing da googling about phone-in radio and Wikipaedia threw up this little beauty:




  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,724 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    moderator: we are concerned about the level of trolling and off topic posting in this thread. if it continues, we will have to strictly police this thread to ensure it is only about the show.

    we have alwayd allowed a certain amount of latitude in this thread to keep things light and fun. in the past couple of days it has become more sinister. any more of this and we will change the rules for everyone. please remain vigilant in reporting problematic posts.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,973 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    Sounds like "The Thread with no Name" could soon become "The Thread with no Future".

    RIP



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,960 ✭✭✭furiousox






  • JOE

    Opus Dei - wimmens being trained into servitude

    Opus Dei Hostel around the corner from me

    Cheap trip to Croatia - OD

    Suicide in your 70s

    2 Cillians toed together would be needed to play Joe in de Moovie of his life.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭squonk


    I didn’t listen but I’m not getting this Opus Dei stuff. Surely if you arrive for a job, find out you’re not going to be paid svd the work crew are generally weird you can just leave before you’re pressed into anything!



  • Registered Users Posts: 20,429 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    more about opus dei. was yesterday not enough of that shite



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭Tow


    Today in Studio S7.1:

    • Command Chair: Joe
    • Guest Chairs: Empty

    Possible Topics:

    • Opus Dei: More from Yesterday - Women wurking as a servant for no money or rights. Deirdre stayed as a Student and escaped. Still recruiting in Schools with cut-price holidays.
    • Mother in 70's: What to do when de auld ma is suffering from de nerves?


    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    They'll need 3 different actors to portray the three ages of Elvis Joe,



    The crusading Stewdent... approx 12 stone



    The gopher for Gaybo... approx 14 stone



    The day time Radio giant paycheck ... exact weight is unknown but gravitational pull is generated


    Post edited by littlevillage on




  • They have always been subtle in their approach, like online scammers looking for the people who will allow themselves to be roped in, due to lack of the vigilance needed to stop oneself being taken for a fool.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭johnbarrett35


    Like most cults, they know their targets, usually young vulnerable women or men from dysfunctional families. Both the Irish girls were 15 and 16 respectively.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭calculator


    But it's from half a century ago (or yesterday in Joe's book)so those terms mightn't have applied.



  • Registered Users Posts: 20,429 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    is it a hamster manning the controls of mattie mcgrath ?



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭squonk


    That’s even more pointless if it’s what happened 50 years ago. Lots of stuff happened 50 years ago that has been weeded out of society today. Unless Joe has a Time Machine to go back and yell “STOP!” as these ladies are going fur their interviews, I don’t see the point.

    Obviously though modern Ireland is a utopia with no serious issues going on so I suppose he has to drag up these pointless past issues to make the show!



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