Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

And all the team this and team that.

It's the Irish team, not Team Ireland ye gimps.

[Carnage]

Clannad gig in Galway on Saturday postponed because some of them have Covid. Fuck.

[Necro Red]

Expected to pay a TV licence when you don't watch or have TV channels. I can't be the only one that thinks this way? I haven't paid since I got rid of sky digital around 4 or so years ago

[nukeabuse]

In the UK you can waive having to pay it by registering that you don't watch any live TV or use BBC Iplayer, option to say you just watch on demand shows or use TV for gaming or just let them know you don't wanna give money to pedos. Not sure if you can do the same with RTE though

[Necro Red]

I read that alright. Seems pretty fair to me unlike here where you are black mailed into paying for it.  RTE should adopt a subscription instead for people who want to watch it.

[Caomhaoin]

Someone has to pay for Fair City and the toy show.

[StoutAndAle]

Expected to pay a TV licence when you don't watch or have TV channels. I can't be the only one that thinks this way? I haven't paid since I got rid of sky digital around 4 or so years ago

Same - it is mind melting what RTÉ spend/waste money on.

Similarly - it appears that once you get a job on RTÉ, you're employed for life. Are they seriously telling the people of Ireland that a scarecrow-like presenter with an ALLEGED Colombian pharmaceutical issue is THE best talent they have for their flagship TV and radio shows?!

[Carnage]

Filling out forms. I'd rather spend a day queueing to talk to a human than spend 10 minutes filling out forms.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Filling out forms. I'd rather spend a day queueing to talk to a human than spend 10 minutes filling out forms.

Same. I have a proper phobia about forms.

[Born of Fire]

I read that alright. Seems pretty fair to me unlike here where you are black mailed into paying for it.  RTE should adopt a subscription instead for people who want to watch it.

RTE will never be in favour of a subscription service. Sure they already get the licence fee and advertising revenue on top of it and still the head of RTE is always whinging about money and wanting to up the license fee.

It's ridiculous that there's no opt out for people who don't use the service and that the licence fee is based on having a television that could potentially receive a TV signal. So you could use a monitor instead of a TV to stream but they're looking to shut that down too and bring in a levy on any device that can stream too.

And what do you get in return for forking your money over to RTE? Dull, awkward presenters like Tubridy and D'Arcy, constant reruns of shit like Mrs Browns Boys and a deluge of fuckin mind numbing reality shows and bottom of the barrel 'celebrities'. There's almost nothing RTE related that would be worth giving money for. Even the news website has so many godawful gossip style segments on the home page.

[Caomhaoin]

The sports coverage, or more precisely, the punditry used to be class. They've hooked Brolly, Hook and Dunphy and replaced them with sycophants and boring bastards like Jamie Heaslip and McConville, Tom McGurk and Bill (RIP) with script reading pansies.

Nothing to offer now.

[Trev]

It's ridiculous that there's no opt out for people who don't use the service and that the licence fee is based on having a television that could potentially receive a TV signal. So you could use a monitor instead of a TV to stream but they're looking to shut that down too and bring in a levy on any device that can stream too.

I just have a monitor and chromecast, they've been talking about bringing in that streaming levy for years but I can't see it happening anytime soon

[Necro Red]

I read that alright. Seems pretty fair to me unlike here where you are black mailed into paying for it.  RTE should adopt a subscription instead for people who want to watch it.

RTE will never be in favour of a subscription service. Sure they already get the licence fee and advertising revenue on top of it and still the head of RTE is always whinging about money and wanting to up the license fee.

It's ridiculous that there's no opt out for people who don't use the service and that the licence fee is based on having a television that could potentially receive a TV signal. So you could use a monitor instead of a TV to stream but they're looking to shut that down too and bring in a levy on any device that can stream too.

And what do you get in return for forking your money over to RTE? Dull, awkward presenters like Tubridy and D'Arcy, constant reruns of shit like Mrs Browns Boys and a deluge of fuckin mind numbing reality shows and bottom of the barrel 'celebrities'. There's almost nothing RTE related that would be worth giving money for. Even the news website has so many godawful gossip style segments on the home page.

Agreed there, if RTE recieve money from advertising then why the Licence at all. They just want more and everyone to pay for it

[Eoin McLove]

Whoever invented jetlag should be forced at gunpoint to wake up at 3am and fall back asleep at 3pm for at least four days, if not five.

[Carnage]

Caught one of my favourite T-shirts on a loose nail in the pub last night, fucking raging. And can't get the T-shirt anymore to replace it.

To make things worse, it was a pub I generally don't go to, I was only there for an accumulator draw, 20 grand prize money, and it was won by a complete fucking waster.