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Lovin Dublin Food Blog

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    #2
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,748 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    You'd have a much better chance of them being aware of your issue with the quality of their blog posts if you simply left a comment on their page.


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    rustyzip
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    You'd have a much better chance of them being aware of your issue with the quality of their blog posts if you simply left a comment on their page.

    I left one couple of months ago.


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    vibe666
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    rustyzip wrote: »
    Completely putting me off reading anything form it from now on.

    http://lovindublin.com/recipes/summer-evening-crab-soft-boiled-egg-avocado-soldiers/
    not being funny, but surely the obvious answer is going to be "then don't read it"?

    they are obviously working to a formula that works for them, so if you've mentioned it and they've ignored you then you're in a minority that doesn't interest them in catering to.


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    rustyzip
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    vibe666 wrote: »
    not being funny, but surely the obvious answer is going to be "then don't read it"?

    they are obviously working to a formula that works for them, so if you've mentioned it and they've ignored you then you're in a minority that doesn't interest them in catering to.

    I enjoyed all their posts until the hipster cursing "throw some fuc***g sugar in the fuc**** bowl and stir the fuc**** sh*t out of it" started happening.


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    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,748 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Ha! I just read through the whole recipe & the mind boggles...

    "Pretty ****ing simple so far you'd have to say!"
    "Chop the **** out of the coriander."
    "Slice up a few good thick slices of the bread and **** it into the toaster."
    "The egg will three minutes so you need to move your ****ing ass and get the avocado prepped."

    Aye, it seems a bit OTT to me. Maybe the blogger is trying for an "image". Nigella being the "Sultry Seductress with Spaghetti", Jamie as the "Pukka-pizza Essex Boy" & this person being the "Effing-'n'-blinding like a Docker Blogger".

    I've never looked at that blog before, but it comes across as written by a schoolkid who is trying to look big in front of his mates by swearing at every opportunity.


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    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    there's a popular blog that uses stick figures and a lot of swearing to make "man food", he's probably emulating something like that.

    either that or it's my mother in law, she curses like a sailor! :pac:


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    Dizzyblonde
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    I found the blog amusing for a while but got fed up with it pretty quickly. I have nothing against swearing (I do it a lot) but I feel like he's trying too hard.


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    miamee
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    He does love the shock value in everything he does and the more people talk about his use of expletives, the more likely he is to keep using them!


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    rustyzip
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    Dizzyblonde wrote: »
    I found the blog amusing for a while but got fed up with it pretty quickly. I have nothing against swearing (I do it a lot) but I feel like he's trying too hard.

    Exactly my feelings.
    Pics are great, variety is great but the incessant cursing is a turn off.


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    #11
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    That blog drives me up the ****ing walls. I can't even go into everything that bothers me about it because the post would break boards it would be so long but back when it was just the one guy writing it the *rubbish* he came out with about northside Dublin gave me a facial tic. He headed to Brother Hubbard (which, if you aren't from Dublin, is both gorgeous and on a street that is only in the last few years transitioning from being somewhere you could buy a) power tools b) "adult" magazines and c) the kind of couch you'd put in a bedsit on to a place with really nice cafés and bars) and wrote a post about how he'd never had food somewhere knowing there were people browsing porn dvds over the other side of the wall. Firstly - Brother Hubbard isn't beside a porn shop and secondly on the 'posher' side of the city on South William street, around the kind of area Lovindublin writes lots of crawling reviews about, there are lots of (god forgive me for typing this) hipster restaurants & also at least 3 adult shops.
    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Aye, it seems a bit OTT to me. Maybe the blogger is trying for an "image". Nigella being the "Sultry Seductress with Spaghetti", Jamie as the "Pukka-pizza Essex Boy" & this person being the "Effing-'n'-blinding like a Docker Blogger".

    Yes, definitely. They're trying to build the 'Lovindublin' brand and I think the sweary persona is part of that.


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    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Yeah, I think my own thoughts are being mirror hear.
    I'd swear a fair bit in casual conversation, but it just seems really forced and doesn't add any "character" if that's the intention.


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    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    It has the potential to be a decent site. New reviews are always good, and the recipes are tasty. But as others have said, the liberal use of curse words just starts to really grate after a bit. It's not the bad language itself; rather it makes the writer come across as a bit of a ballbag who is trying too hard to be 'hip' and 'with it'. And failing spectacularly.


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    OldBean
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    It's the Daily Mail equiv. to a food blog.


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    MissFlitworth
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    Mmmmm, tasty!

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    fiddlechic
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    I liked it a lot initially when just reviews and recipes from Niall himself. I could deal with the cursing.
    But now, the "brand" and the carry on, and the other randomers making random lists turns me off.
    Still check it out every so often and just select reviews.


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    allandanyways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭allandanyways


    OldBean wrote: »
    It's the Daily Mail equiv. to a food blog.

    Couldn't agree more.

    There are some really fantastic food blogs out there that don't need to rely on cursing to get attention/be cool/whatever.

    The lad is a great food photographer, he should hone in on that instead of trying to work out how many times he can fit the words f**k and sh*t into a sentence about poached eggs.


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    MissFlitworth
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    allandanyways wrote: »
    t how many times he can fit the words f**k and sh*t into a sentence about poached eggs.

    crack the f**kin eggs into a f**kin cup then heat a sh*t load of water in a f**ckin pot. Not too much of a sh*tload cos you don't want to drown the f**kers, tip the eggs gently into the f**kin water ...

    Hmm. Maybe I should apply for some free lance swearing about food writing.


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    Slaphead07
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    the reality is that this guy is making a decent living out of writing this juvenile nonsense. How that happens I don't know or care but this is not quite the amateur blogger we've been used to.


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    rustyzip
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    Slaphead07 wrote: »
    the reality is that this guy is making a decent living out of writing this juvenile nonsense. How that happens I don't know or care but this is not quite the amateur blogger we've been used to.


    Wow.

    http://lovindublin.com/announcements/lovin-dublin-seeks-savagely-good-general-manager/


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    #21
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Slaphead07 wrote: »
    the reality is that this guy is making a decent living out of writing this juvenile nonsense. How that happens I don't know or care but this is not quite the amateur blogger we've been used to.

    Oh yeah - that guy makes big money. He sold his PR firm for a million or something a few years back. He's still irritating as f*ck though.

    He claims on his bio to have "been touted as one of the driving forces behind Ireland’s recovery."

    I don't know who touted him as such but I suspect they were talking out of their hole.


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    allandanyways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭allandanyways


    rustyzip wrote: »
    Wow.

    http://lovindublin.com/announcements/lovin-dublin-seeks-savagely-good-general-manager/

    Something Mark Zuckerberg-ish about him.

    Which can be a good or a bad thing.

    He's clearly an entrepreneur with a big vision, but whether or not Ireland is ready for this level of hipster enthusiasm remains to be seen. I still cringe every time I read one of their posts, regardless of the content, just because they are trying *so* hard to be cool.


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    #23
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,613 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Ha! I just read through the whole recipe & the mind boggles...

    "Pretty ****ing simple so far you'd have to say!"
    "Chop the **** out of the coriander."
    "Slice up a few good thick slices of the bread and **** it into the toaster."
    "The egg will three minutes so you need to move your ****ing ass and get the avocado prepped."

    Aye, it seems a bit OTT to me. Maybe the blogger is trying for an "image". Nigella being the "Sultry Seductress with Spaghetti", Jamie as the "Pukka-pizza Essex Boy" & this person being the "Effing-'n'-blinding like a Docker Blogger".

    I've never looked at that blog before, but it comes across as written by a schoolkid who is trying to look big in front of his mates by swearing at every opportunity.

    I know and agree. Funny thing is I'm pretty sure it is written by Niall Harbison. He worked for years as a personal chef to lots of Hollywood a-listers, cooked dinner for presidents, all that jazz. Then went into some FoodTV venture, not sure how that worked out but last year he sold his share of the digital media agency he founded called Simply Zesty for up to £5m (performance related) to UTV.

    So despite all the cussin and hollering this schmuck ain't no schoolboy, he's a godamm multi millionaire who loves ranting on about food while cussing and blindin'!

    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/06/utv-media-acquires-british-social-media-agency-simply-zesty-for-up-to-5-million/

    He's selling his Ranelagh pad too at the moment if you want a nose
    http://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/niall-harbison/


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    YumCha
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    but last year he sold his share of the digital media agency he founded called Simply Zesty for up to £5m (performance related) to UTV.

    Shareholders got 1.6M in cash, and the rest was based on performance - UTV wrote down that amount and bought them out for 200k... Guess the house selling is just a coincidence!


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    #25
    fiddlechic
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭fiddlechic


    And you can preorder his book from amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Sh-Done-spare-boardroom-ebook/dp/B00J9YME2K/ref=kinw_dp_ke

    Fair f**ks to him all the same!


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    #26
    rustyzip
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    http://lovindublin.com/reviews/posh/sunny-seafood/

    Charming.... When the sun shines there are certain places that you just know will be packed. The Barge is probably the most obvious place to head but for years it was Ocean Bar. 100s of people would sit outside happily supping pints and watching knackers play their favourite sport of bridge jumping wearing wet suits. It really is amazing how long the little bastards can keep themselves entertained jumping into water and how the local crime rates plunge when they are all busy having their annual wash.


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    MissFlitworth
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    Wow. The 'knackers' he's talking about are kids, from children up to teenagers. It's like Richard Littlejohn moved to Dublin and started writing about food.


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    fiddlechic
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭fiddlechic


    Followed your link and then saw this article in sidebar "7 Things That Restaurants Do That Really Piss Me Off".
    Wow to the 1st lines: "I spend a fair amount of time eating out. I’d say I have a good 10 meals a day out and about in a city given that it kind of is my part time job and all. When you eat out that much things start to crop up that really piss you off. ".
    10 meals A DAY. I wish I had his metabolism.

    http://lovindublin.com/opinion/7-things-restaurants-really-piss/


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    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Well, he's apologised for the comments, apparently
    watching knackers play their favourite sport of bridge jumping wearing wet suits. It really is amazing how long the little bastards can keep themselves entertained jumping into water and how the local crime rates plunge when they are all busy having their annual wash.

    is his way of marking his concern about their safety [which, on a non Food & Drink related note, it really is SCARY watching those kids and it is only a matter of time before someone badly hurts themselves, no one should be jumping off buildings and bridges into the Liffey or swimming in a canal/lock, doesn't make you a criminal/knacker though]. Also, he hears other people using those words all the time and his mistake was writing them down. Also he's sure the apology won't be enough for 'some people'

    Ugh.


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    #30
    miamee
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    He has also sacked himself from writing any more opinion pieces :D Probably a good move.
    http://lovindublin.com/opinion/apology/


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    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I think it's great that there's a site that focuses on food in Dublin, and I love reading about that sort of thing. The problem with Lovin Dublin is that because a lot (most?) of the content is written by Niall, the readers are getting the opinion of someone who has very stereotypical views about certain parts of Dublin, and who comes across as a massive snob. This will of course appeal to many people who share his opinions, but he seems to be forgetting that there are a hell of a lot of people who live in the areas that he mocks who he is alienating with his comments. The best thing he could do to help the site grow would be to hire someone unbiased, someone who doesn't care where the restaurant is as long as the food is good. Maybe they can't afford to employ someone else until the site grows a bit more, and that's fair enough, but if they're losing readers because people don't like the writer then the site can't grow.

    I prefer the vastly superior Stitch and Bear. Obviously it doesn't have the same amount of content because it's not a full time blog like Lovin Dublin is, but the reviews are always well constructed and trustworthy.


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