Pet Peeves

[The Heretic]

key phrase here is "people who moan over the price of everything without appreciating the value of it"

[Pedrito]

key phrase here is "people who moan over the price of everything without appreciating the value of it"

Ahh sorry..can't stand them. Not a fan of moaners in general though I do fall into it myself. Literally have to make a conscious effort to avoid it.

[Coscartac]

"Do you remember Sean that used to work in the shop?" (Partner) "No".

Reminds me of something else. "Remember Maureen that lived down the street from your granny?"

"No"

"Ah, you do!"

[No Remorse]

TV licence "reforms". Fucking bullshit. I don't have a TV and I don't watch the RTE fucking Player but yet I'm being penalised for having a mobile phone and laptop that may be able to watch TV.
I can see many people refusing to pay it.

[Ducky]

TV licence "reforms". Fucking bullshit. I don't have a TV and I don't watch the RTE fucking Player but yet I'm being penalised for having a mobile phone and laptop that may be able to watch TV.
I can see many people refusing to pay it.

Just having a read of this... They're reviewing if every individual that owns a phone will have to pay the licence... What the ever loving fuck.

[mickO)))]

Phone line customer service and the never ending bullshit that comes with it. It was bad enough before when the majority of the time you were connected with people who had no clue how to fix your issues but now the new trend seems to be to push people off to automated services and online "communities" to get answers and you need to know which secret buttons to press on the phone so you can actually speak to a human being. Not to mention constantly being on hold.

My current mobile phone company does not offer direct live support you have to call them then a digital assistant contacts you by text message and you have to go through 5 mins of back and forth with that thing to be able to set up a call with a rep which almost always is at the earliest the following day.

Uber does not even provide any live customer service for passengers just drivers. The passenger customer service is a bot that answers emails which they try to pass off as a real person.

All of this is of course just to hope you get fed up and go away so they don't have to deal with the problem.

[mickO)))]

TV licence "reforms". Fucking bullshit. I don't have a TV and I don't watch the RTE fucking Player but yet I'm being penalised for having a mobile phone and laptop that may be able to watch TV.
I can see many people refusing to pay it.

Just having a read of this... They're reviewing if every individual that owns a phone will have to pay the licence... What the ever loving fuck.

So if you have a household of 5 people who most likely will all have phones that house will be paying for 5 licences?

[Trev]

Think it'll still be one licence per household. Either way I reckon it's going to be completely unenforceable (which Bruton has pretty much admitted already) and will piss off more people into not paying.

The whole thing needs to be scrapped anyway, but if RTE was made to a paid subscription service it would be gone in a year since its utterly shit

[Ducky]

Sure who'd pay for Tub's €500,000 a year salary then? Yiz miss the bants on Friday night lads.

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

I think Love Hate was the last thing I watched from Irish TV in the last decade probably. 

This will be the same shite as the water charges.
They'll waste more time and money on it and it'll never happen

Shower a cunts

[John Kimble]

I think, like others, the issue of the licence itself isn't necessarily the problem. Ireland isn't alone in implementing such a charge, although there are plenty of other countries that don't require one or have abolished it. After all, you could make up the difference by increasing taxation in another area. The problem is really RTE itself, which represents a shocking indictment on the state of public service broadcasting. Fuck all homegrown content, and what little of it exists is of such poor quality. Take the Late Late Show for example, which is generally considered to be the flagship program of the station. The majority of guests appear to be plucked from the RTE canteen and recycled on an ongoing basis.

[Bogmetaller]

Would anyone here be in agreement that tg4 is the best channel of the four??

[Carnage]

Only channel.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Would anyone here be in agreement that tg4 is the best channel of the four??

It's the only one we watch the odd time we do watch the TV.

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

..shur don't they be only talkin foreign on dat yolk?