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sid waddell
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They don't have to buy a ticket. The point is Paddy spams start-ups making great promises about the benefits that will accrue to them from being there, which is all bullsh*t. Paddy doesn't care about helping start-up enterprises. He cares about bringing €€€ for himself. He exploits people through his persuasiveness and charisma. They way most con artists do. Now making grand promises to people in the way he does, and failing to back it up is not against the law or anything, but he paints himself an altruist, when in reality, he's a rapacious, exploitative capitalist and nothing else. He paints himself as anti-establishment when in reality he's the epitome of the establishment. Any small bit of digging will tell you that. There's a long list of people who say they'll never work with him again. There are good reasons for that. |
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ShamtheRam
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Thats mad. It nearly makes it sound like a massive pyramid scheme. I'm fully convinced its not all its cracked up to be.
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'The FAI are the dysfunctional body that other dysfunctional bodies call Galacticos' - Declan Lynch (Sunday Indo) |
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How does it exploit them, they don't have to buy a ticket.
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Citizen
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this event is actually mainly for posers who are happy to part with over 1000 euro for a ticket so they can say they were there. It actually exploits small businesses.
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ShamtheRam
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Probably at home counting all the money he managed to swindle from people over the last 3 days.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Paddy Cosgrave and his ego have pulled out of their Late Late Show appearance.
Perhaps even Paddy can no longer believe his own bullsh*t. I hope Sharon Ni Bheolain steps in as a guest in his absence.
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sid waddell
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I'm hearing that the road from the RDS to the city centre has been closed for the rest of the day in order to ensure safe transport of Paddy Cosgrave's ego.
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SuperDave84
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Well, yes, Sharon did interrupt him a few times, but in most instances he had either finished answering the question asked and had moved on to try and blow his own trumpet, or else hadn't even answered the question properly in the first place.
It was a hard hitting interview that asked the questions that needed to be asked, the ones that questioners at the tittywank in the morning with Paddy Cosgrave hadn't asked. Long and short of it, they come out of it looking like chancers who want loads of sh*t for free, including a load of sh*t the Taoiseach has little enough control over (like hotel prices). I guarantee you if the Web Summit had stayed in Dublin next year, it would still have made him a fortune, free leap cards or not. As it is, he's now been offered a whack of cash up front by Lisbon and has decided to piss off.... and off he can piss. Best of luck to him, but big business can't hold the Government to ransom just because they bring a bit of cash into the economy. |
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Devrozex
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Yeah don't get me wrong I'm no fan of Cosgrove and his pal. I'm not much of a fan of the government either but in this instance I don't really think (apart from an email exchange which they could have handled a little better) they've much of a case to answer for. Cosgrove tried to milk the sh*t out of them (and therefore the taxpayer) just like he is milking the sh*t out of all the attendees at his Summit. Having said that, I don't have much time for Kay Burley style interviews which are more akin to interrogations with constant interrupting of the interviewee either. No-one has come out of this whole escapade looking well. Pettiness on all sides really. |
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roverstillidie
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She is dead right that emailing a head of government on Friday after office hours with an RSVP for Sunday for an event is actually offensive. We are beyond arrogant.
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sid waddell
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I thought it was an extremely professional interview from Sharon. The reaction has been hilarious . The Web Summit nerds are outraged that that gimp was actually questioned and not soft-soaped like they wanted. They're happy to be interviewed as long as it's for a powder puff PR piece. But question them and they go mental. No wonder that chicken Cosgrave chickened out of the interview at the last minute. What a chicken. The nerds really don't like it up 'em. |
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http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/never-mind-the-web-summit-peripherals-feel-the-content-1.2416029
Jaysus between that and Sharon absolutely grilling the bollox off yer man on 6.1 last night they really don't seem to have much sympathy from the media anyway.
Foodgate or whatever they're calling it was a huge f*ck up considering they were moaning about excessive hotel prices in the lead up.
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roverstillidie
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bhob
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They make an absolute fortune and don't even run it well which is mental.
#foodgate is gas, it was €20 to get into the Food Summit but you got something to eat accompanying it, needless to say the accompanying food was a small small portion. Shocking carry on from web summit considering the food was free last year. Again major wifi issues this year i believe
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Bitored
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I don't think it's aimed at Joe soap on the street though. It's mostly for businesses. So if a company goes to it and ends up finding a cost saving computer system or makes contacts at it that they wouldn't have made otherwise, a couple of grand for a ticket could be extremely cheap. |
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I won the Player of the Century award thanks to the people.Pele was second.He also came second behind Aryton Senna as Brazil's greatest sportsman.The award FIFA gave Pele isn't worth sh*t - Maradona
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That is mental. |
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