The Slate Magazine

fisty · 22-02-2003 5:27pm #1

I was in Zaytoon in temple bar, across from the porter house
the other week,
(Their Chicken Shish meals are King of all Kebabs.)
anyway, back on topic - sat down at the bar when a magazine caught my eye called The Slate.
Someone had left it in there obviously - so I started to read it while munching away on my kebab. I can honestly say I never laughed so hard in my life, people were looking at me, the magazine just takes the piss out of everything and anything in Irish culture.
I'm sure a lot of you know this publication, and that was a few months ago now?

Few Questions, who writes it?
Where can I buy it regularly?
Is there a website? (theslate.ie is under construction)
Cheers.
Fist-o-matic ©

imp · 22-02-2003 5:42pm

Its a magazine written by students at UCD, I think you can only get it in the campus shops.

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DapperGent · 22-02-2003 6:03pm

Yeah it comes out about every month or so when they can be arsed.

It is truly ****ing hilarious and you are also correct in stating that the Zaytoon chicken shish is the daddy of all kebabs.

It's written by a couple of former Trinity students, they also did Piranha when they were in college which was also just brilliant. It's an independant freebie mag - they try to get by on the adds though I think it's mostly targetted students and clubbers so that's why they paper the colleges with it.

I always pick it up in DNC round the corner from Zaytoon. They should start charging a quid or something for it I know I'd buy it.

Though they'd probably have problems with shops agreeing to sell it -anyone remember the issue where they said that Pete Waterman was thinking of signing up the killers of Jamie Bulger for a boy band.

Comedy gold.

fisty · 22-02-2003 6:12pm

man! they should sell it in easons!
I'll check dnc next time im around that area...
cheers for the info.

nesthead · 22-02-2003 6:18pm

its free

you can get it in different shops in dublin, the independent record shops, sub city etc.

indeed it is the funniest magazine out, i often burst out laughin on the bus on the way home. is it the rugby player issue you got or is it a new one?

(hehe paedo top-trumps

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imp · 22-02-2003 6:21pm

hrm... someone has been misinforming me... thought it was a purely UCD thing... ah well.

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fisty · 22-02-2003 6:23pm

Oct issue 02
magic mushroom madness
Sub City? - Ah a friend of mine works there.
great ill get it from him.

spaczed · 22-02-2003 6:40pm

yeh, its absolutely hilarious. i had an ex-pat relation of mine over and he took it a copy back to show his american son-in-law some real irish pisstaking.

if you want to be sure of a regular supply of the magazine, you can have it deliverd by subscription to
your chosen address for a very reasonable sum- only 20 euro, (i think) for a year-IMHO its a a great deal for 12 great issues a year. the details of it are in each issue ,usually near the front i think.

ballooba · 22-02-2003 6:56pm

To subscribe to their mailings or any other queries send a message to.
email :: editor@theslate.ie

Mag is available at tower records, Sub City and several other shops around TB.

Banned from UCD and TCD campuses but can be found floating around these campuses and also DIT campuses.

Giblet · 22-02-2003 8:29pm

You can pick it up free in Musician Inc, beside Georges st. arcade.

xx · 22-02-2003 10:50pm

I've seen that fine publication knocking around trinners for the last while. Its fookin deadly!!!

Tusky · 23-02-2003 1:45pm

excellent mag..i pick it up from dNC... they had an issue to show you how to pick the right musshies

lordsippa · 23-02-2003 1:53pm

It's been a bitch to get lately <I've been finding>. Last few haven't seemed to have been in Tower or Secret Book Store.

I blame those damn culchies!

Robbo · 23-02-2003 3:08pm

Apparently Tower received a call from their parent company asking to take it off the shelf. They reckon some of the material is to hot to handle.

I need to get some copies down here in Galway...

DapperGent · 23-02-2003 5:01pm

Apparently the writers don't want "****ing culchie ****s" reading it.

So I don't think thats allowed.

PiE · 23-02-2003 5:11pm

Yea wish they'd get off their arses and get the site online so I can read the issues I've missed.

Sangre · 23-02-2003 5:24pm

Yeah they put up center page from the rugby issue in my school

Very good, would like to read it moe often

monument · 23-02-2003 5:47pm

Originally posted by DapperGent
Apparently the writers don't want "****ing culchie ****s" reading it.

So I don't think thats allowed.

That would be hard sense there’s a FEW culchies in Dublin

Being one my self, I pick up a copy in dNC any time I visit Dublin.

Last time I read it, I saw something about getting it delivered ANY where in Ireland as well as abroad.

D-Generate · 23-02-2003 5:48pm

They weren't lieing about The Slate being available down in Cork in the Rugby issue. In Cork I have found the Slate in a couple of shops, it is an okay magazine, nothing amazing though, more suited to the intellectually chalanged people of Dublin

eth0_ · 23-02-2003 8:37pm

Does anyone know where the Slate originated from for sure? I always thought it was DCU...

But I think the Slate has lost its edge a little lately...used to be far funnier at the start.

The "Blacks in the jacks" issue was great, it was so funny to see all the red-tops go ape over something that was obviously tongue in cheek humour.

fisty · 24-02-2003 4:59am

All i know is i laughed.
Thats pretty priceless in this ages of desencitisation.
excuse my pellling. drunk. dot stop waht stop stop exit hahaha

DapperGent · 24-02-2003 9:00am

Originally posted by eth0_
Does anyone know where the Slate originated from for sure? I always thought it was DCU...

A friend from college is one of the editors. He used to edit Piranha (a Trinity satirical magazine) as did the other editor/ founder member of the slate.

The Slate is much the same in style to Piranha (though Piranha never had reviews) so I guess you could say it originated in Trinity. Though they're as likely to call Trinity students ****s as anyone else.

DeVore · 24-02-2003 4:48pm

Hate to be the only fly in the ointment but I've read it a few times and I just dont find it that funny. Bill Hicks... Monty Python... Brass Eye... I find all of them hilarious.
The slate just struck me as humour for people who find the word "penis" funny in and of itself

(I'll get my coat).

DeV.

hussey · 24-02-2003 5:03pm

"penis"

ROFL

DeVore · 24-02-2003 5:17pm

lol , yeah I s'pose I should have considered the audience for my post

Havent posted on Afterhours in ages... /me has a look around...

DeV.

hussey · 24-02-2003 5:29pm

But seriously

I do think this is (or was-as I have not read it since i left college) funny,
though there style was more slag everyone in site rather than satrical comedy

saying that, the 'Black in the Jacks/Nogs in the Bogs' article was pure gold .. maybe cause no-one else would dare say anything like that

PH01 · 24-02-2003 5:48pm

"This site is under construction and will be available soon "

Can't wait!

monument · 24-02-2003 6:00pm

Its being that way for a long time!

Cake Fiend · 24-02-2003 6:27pm

Originally posted by D-Generate
more suited to the intellectually chalanged people of Dublin

perhaps those who can't spell "challenged"?

token smiley

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D-Generate · 24-02-2003 7:48pm

Touché

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