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TODAY FM HAD a “stern” talk with the Fergal D’Arcy show team after a discussion that led to the use of the term ‘weak cock’.
A complaint was made to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which stated that two DJs were discussing the German term ‘Schlappschwanz’, which is used to describe a person as a ‘wimp’ During this conversation, presenter Fergal D’Arcy mentioned that it can literally be translated as ‘weak cock’.
The complainant felt this type of language was “not acceptable” on live radio. The BAI rejected the complaint, noting the remark was made in passing and was in line with the general approach of the programme. The authority also said that while some people listening may have found the humour offensive, the content was not likely to have caused widespread offence.
In its response to the BAI complaint, Today FM said it was “confident no innuendo was used” and that the mistranslation was delivered in “a mostly factual tone”.
Though the radio station said it was satisfied that it had not breached regulations, it had “spoken with the team very sternly about having a better content filter and to avoid such a juvenile approach in the future”.
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Might have been a good idea to check all that out before offering it to our kids luckily my wife was against it
Awh great, i knew there was a reason why i shouldn’t of got this.
At the time in Poland the Polish Health Minister would not grant permission for use because as a Doctor she said it had not been fully tested. Looks like she was right in some cases.
What about pregnant women being given this vaccine – wonder if they really know its effects on the unborn child.
I go it, as did my partner when the twins were getting their 6 months vaccinations. We both felt so desperate after it that we decided we weren’t going to give it to them at all…Boy am I happy now :)
Great now the idiots that are against vaccines will think they’re right all along just because of this little issue (in the big picture of things)
Of course many of these fools will claim vaccines cause autism but then they will convinently forget that the research they refer was proven to be false and misleading.
If these people think vaccines are so evil then they should take their chances with polio etc and see how their lives are
Let people look up “narcolepsy”, then “swine flu”, and decide which is worse. I’m still glad I got the jab last yea…zzzzzzzz.
IT AINT JUST A LITTLE ISSUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
I was always against this flu jab. How many people went like lemmings to their doctors with their kids without checking the back round. Its actually banned in a number of european countries! I’m sorry but I just don’t trust GPs to give me safe medicines. Drug company’s force pharmacies and doctors to administer certain drugs by withholding best selling painkillers and other medicines. A pharmacist told me this on the record.
I’m 18 and got the swine flu jab in school earlier this year. Less than 5 hours later, I was completely paralysed on my left hand side, right from my face, my arm and hand and leg, with severe chest pains. I was rushed to hospital to get a morphine injection and thankfully I was ok afterwards. I wouldn’t recommend the swine flu jab to anyone and no one else in my family got it. My family doctor seemed very against it after he found out what happened, but it was brushed aside after.
Wasn’t there a story about this from last year ? The risks were widely known and the links proven in other European countries already so why has it taken the HSE so long to respond and only recently remove it after tens of thousands of people, including children, have already had the vaccine here ?
Shockingly inept but that’s nothing new for the HSE.
I never got the jab and worked through two winters in a&e dept’s , the first year particularly bad with every 3rd patient suspected swine flu. Im def pro vaccines but for anyone who is young fit and healthy surely the jab is totally unnecessary .
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