Last one of the week

I cant believe how fast this week has gone. We're all gone blogging mad, so make sure you check out the links at the side for some serious RedFM Bloggin action! Who knows what you'll find out. Some of it may even make you cry! Absolutley savage show last night, if I do say so myself. Up the walls busy!

One of the topics was "Does TV encourage teens to have underage sex". Personally I dont buy into it. If theres something dodgy on after 9pm and some 12 year old is watching it, then its the parents fault. Its as simple as that! Its the exact same as the idiotic parents who allow there 12 year olds to watch an 18s flick. I do accept that some 18s flicks are nothing but violence and bad language, but theres a reason that little Johnny wont be let into an 18s movie at the flick house.When I was growing up I used to have a TV in my bedroom, which was set up for the southcoast tv thing! Anytime there was anything dodgy, one of the parents were out to the room wondering what I was watching. So any filth watching for the night was abandoned. As most of you will agree, the male of the species are horny period! Sure there was nights that I probably escaped with getting to see a pair of boobs on the TV, but I never decided "Right Im off out to have sex" One thing that did stick in my mind was a documentary about AIDS! That planted the whole "protect yourself before you wreck yourself" attitude in me little brain. It worked. Never had an STI! Teenagers are naturally curious, christ we all were and it really grind my gears when I hear parents avoiding the birds and the bees talk! Armed with a bit of knowledge teenagers are sorted! Maybe some parents are living in the land where babies are delivered by storks!

One of our callers on Tuesday night was invited out to try a blind food test last night. Basically she would only shop in Marks and Sparks and had, as far as I was concerned a certain snobby air about her. Well she arrived last night, and we fed her. Olives, Bread, Ceral, Coffee and Crackers. Everyday food. Admittingly it was a bit bizarre staring at someones face while they ate and ate. She thought all the items had either been purchased from The English Market or Marks. Risteard arrived in with 2 lots of reciepts, and its a pity we're not on the TV because the look on her face was priceless. Everything she ate and drank had been from Lidl and Aldi. The amount of texts that came in were huge. As one listener txt in "The nile isnt just a river in Egypt"

Last night in between everything else I managed to play 2 tracks off GMC's new album "Diggin a Hole". The plan is to play 1 or 2 more this evening. Its been on in the car for the last few days and its really rockin stuff. Great to see another Cork guy enter into the legends of Cork music!

My copy of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the Xbox 360 arrived yesterday. I havent had a great deal of time to get into it, but first impressions are Wow. Its hard but really immersive! Hopefully over the weekend Ill squeeze in some serious Recon action! The Blazing Angels demo has also gone up on Xbox Live and its a 600mb+ download but its worth it. Really playable!

Nice wan for dropping by

2 Pics from last night. Unfortunately my battery was dead in the cinema, so no pics of the crowds, sorry! Next Tuesday night, for the Failure to Launch screening Ill have a full charge! Great crowd at the Inside Man screening though, and they all got a shiny RedFM mug to assist in their beverage (hot or cold) consumption.

Huge reaction to our Aqua Spa Kids to Mother Pamper Package giveaway last night. Its back again tonight and Thursday. The prize consists of a Balneotherapy bath and an Elemis Taster Facial. The Balneotherapy bath has 240 jets. I dont know how big it is, but 240 jets!!!!!

It was a really busy show last night with one caller in particular almost boasting about spending 250 a week on weekly shop in M&S! She wouldnt venture into any of the other stores, because she liked her quality. Hopefully on Thursday night she'll be in studio, and just for the crack we will have a blind food test! Its only when you move out of your Mammys home that you appreciate how difficult a weekly shop is. Im probably the worst person in the world when it comes to doing it. Im a real impulse buyer and throw more shite into the shopping trolley than is needed. It is hard to decide "What'll we have for dinner next Thursday" especially when its a Friday. We've tried it the weekly way, the daily way, the bi weekly way and none of them work. Why is the whole food shopping thing so difficult, maybe its just me! The times Ger goes shopping on her own its around €60 cheaper than if I go with her! Says it all really.

Thats about it for now, Ill try and squeeze in another update later this evening! Im running off to a meeting now!


Alright, Im driving to it!

Just a real quickie. Just came across the latest trailer for the Da Vinci Code. Check it out here

Not being a good 12 hours technically. More PC issues and this morning, the phone lines were dead. Fair enough, problems happen. Ireland would be regarded has having one of the finer telecommunications systems in the world, but there is an exception. When you ring Eircom you get to talk to a machine, and it reads out a list of options, followed by more options, followed by even more options...slight pause...and then even more options! All the time your roaring Yes, No and the odd Feck sake like. Its really a clever system, it even asked me for my phone number and then went off and done a line test. During the line test, it spoke again and I got more options. At this stage, I was actually mildly excited in anticipation of the line test results. Then, I get put through to an operator, who explains the network in the area is shot and that was the end of the conversation! Im still waiting for the machine to tell me the results of the line test! Maybe they'll come with the next bill!

Failure to Launch is the latest rom com to hit these shores when it opens Nationwide on Friday week! Every night this week on the show we have some pairs of tickets up for grabs for our special preview screening next Tuesday night at the Gate cinema.
The Inside Man screening is happening tonight as well. Yours truly will be there roraring and shouting. I also do believe that the Haribo are back!!!!! Ill take a few pics for the blog as well!Speaking of giveaways Ive just got an email about another giveaway for the remainder of the week. Lets just say we might have the best ever Mothers day present ever!

One of the topics on the show last night was creches in the city and county. A report in the Examiner yesterday didnt instill any confidence in me and after hearing what some callers had to say last night I dont think Id be landing a child in a creche anytime soon..thats if I had a child of course! 4 year olds with black eyes, no hygene, slaps. This is a creche, not a prisoner of war camp. Thats the impression I got of at least one creche last night. You would think for paying some serious bobs for childcare that you would actually get value for money, not your 4 year old coming home with a shiner. One caller told how her daughter hated going, and would cry at the thought of going in! Its a creche, not a school. I think we all bawled at the thought of going into school at some stage, feck it, some of us were still crying in sixth year!

On a different note, for any of you Xbox 360 owners theres a demo of the latest Burnout game on Xbox Live. I was a big fan of the original games, but this is no more next generation than bird growing robotic wings. If you've absolutely nothing else to do have a nose off it, but to be honest its much the same as before. By the end of the week I should also have put Ghost Recon 3 Advanced War Fighter through its paces on the 360, so keep your eyes open for a review on here and the show!

Thats about it for now, Im a bit behind due to the phone line problem. Check the show out later on from 9pm on Corks RedFM 104-106, or click the listen to live button! See ya at the sreening!!!

Another weekend over with, but probably the biggest weekend of the year. According to our text poll last night, 55% of you rang in sick to work this morning. Shame on you all! I would think of all the 52 Mondays in the year, this is probably the worst one you could pick for a sickie! Im not sure who bad or good Patricks weekend was, but if Shane McGowan was anything to go by on the Late Late, then you can draw your own conclusion. Shane looked well; but there was a certain Marilyn Manson look about him, which frightened me to be honest! Im surprised that the whole Late Late set didnt explode or go up in flames. The "lemonade" Shane was holding, seemed to have a life of its own. It was constantly climbing out of the glass and hurling itself onto the floor.

My own Paddys weekend wasnt bad. I didnt hit the city on Friday night, becasue it was absolutely bonkers. Maybe its my "old" age, but my days of queing for 40 minutes, paying 5 times over the odds for a drink and to have some drunk clown spill it before its drank...are over!!!! That said, I didnt watch the Late Late at all. It came on by accident..apparently! I did hear that Brendan Gleeson tore the government a new asshole and then proceeded to tear another one out of that. In between movies, maybe he could run the country! A few weeks a year is all thats needed..apparently

Thursday night, as I mentioned on the show last night, knocked me for six. Not only was it nipple hardening, it was one of the coldest nights Ive felt for some time! But what shocked me, was the amount of women around town...wearing absolutely nothing. All this was well and good for the hot blooded gentleman, but ladies dya not feel the cold! Somebody pointed out last night, that all women want to do is look nice. I dont know, wear next to nothing in freezing conditions and spend a week with the flu. As Risteard pointed out last night, maybe it was a desperate act to grab the attention of the passing droves of men, who would decide "Ah love you must be cold, take me coat". That didnt happen either from what I could see. Most of the fellas out on Thursday night obviously didnt hear of the coat idea either. Like a migrating herd of Wildebeest, the paraded through Pana all wearing the exact same rigout. I guess if theres a scatter, culprits are less likely to be arrested, due to the similar look. Short check shirt (Ben Sherman possible), jeans and either tan or black shoes. There must be a uniform shop in each suburb, where all the lads go every night to "dress up"

Lots of people emailing and texting about bebo and myspace. As I said Im a blogger, not a spacer. Please feel free to add me to your myspace or bebo accounts! Remember though, all the gossip happens on this page though!

Laters

Hopefully the blog people have got the ongoing problems sorted. Just my luck to be stuck on the server with the issues!

As Promised

A couple of photos from today. Stayed local and didnt even stick around for the parade in Cobh, too feckin cold!











Lots of people running around the place in green (not that you can tell from the photos) and if you look carefully at one of the shots, you can see the tail of Barney. Obviously alot warmer than the rest of us! Thats about it for now, hopefully you all will survive whats left of tonight, provided you havent been sent home in a cab!

On a final note, I know the blog has been on and off over the last few days. Again this is the blogger folks doing some work, so touch wood, its all A-Ok again!!!!!

Have a good one!

Late ‘N Live Top 5 things St. Patrick would say tomorrow if he were alive today (160306)

5 – Have they changed the drinking age limit to 12?

4 – What dya mean I need ID to get in

3 – In my day, it was impossible to buy a breast n a bun

2 – Look out, Snake…gotcha!

1 – Id give anything for a pint that isnt green

Have a great Paticks Weekend folks. Ill hopefully be blogging over the weekend with soem photos and the likes! Keep it real ;)

- V

Looks like tis starting to snow. It'll make a change from the rain for Paddys Day. Today has been a really long day. Nothings going right! Ive spent 3 hours hauling through DVDs for stuff for the Fan Attack tomorrow. My problem is I get caught up in the movie and start watching it. Most clips are only a few seconds long, but I seem to take an hour to get each one! No one said twas easy.

Even more coverage of the Pyramid schemes last night, this time they're in schools! Everyone seems to have caught the pyramid infection, even those in secondary school. No doubt it'll reach the Montessori's next. Toddlers will be buying into pyramid schemes with liga and maloopa!

There seems to lots of folks reading the blog recently, so thanks for dropping by. Today I managed to add a Listen Live button to the right side bar. Just click it, and you can listen to RedFM Online!!!! Speaking of blogs, it was only yesterday I realised that I read a fair few of em everyday, from motoring to video games and everything else in between! I came across a handy newsreader called Omea Reader. It keeps everything in one spot and its straight forward to use. Might be of use to any of you multi blog readers!

All the press are covering the PS3 launch and the delays that go with it. Personally speaking, Im not too pushed about it to be honest. Some technical jargon heads have said the Xbox 360 and the PS3 are more or less identical hardware wise! Apparently to get best out of the PS3 its proving rather difficult. Ive been playing video games and using computers since I was 5 and its the games that sort this kinda thing out, not the hardware. Over the next few weeks Im also going to be adding the occasional video game review on the blog, so all you gamers beware!

In 24 hours time, some people will be pissing, puking and farting all at the same time as they find there second wind for Patricks Day. Theres tonnes of stuff going on for the Cork St.Patricks Festival. Check out the official site here. I came across this photo today of the Chicago River.

Only in America, we have our own green rivers here. No dyes or anything. There just naturally green! Im not sure what Im doing for Paddys weekend yet. Ill probably take a wander around town tonight and maybe tomorrow!

On a different note, I just saw Kate Moss wandering around the garden. Bizarre you might ask, but at least I know its still snowing! Terrible joke, its a fine line this humour business. Apolgies again!

Tonight on the show, we're more than likely going to take a run around the world visiting Irish pubs on the way. We normally do this and in past Paddys shows we've gone from China to New York and back again! Thats it for now, Ill get some more blogging done later....possibly. Im off to stare at the snow and wonder why it isnt sticking to the ground. Laters!