Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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With Nominative Determinism being a thing, and the fact that golf is a common pursuit among well-off men, there's actually a very good chance that he is a keen golfer. He's only 71, he could well be getting a few rounds in.
Interestingly, the Golf Course Manager of Exeter Golf and Country Club is a John Parr (https://exetergcc.co.uk/about/john-parr/). I assume no relation.
As a joke, it's certainly not a hole in one; probably a bogey, to be fair. But it's not like he'd take a Mulligan on it - it's fairly standard daytime radio fare.
Definitely slowing down.
I've yet to hear a single second of his Virgin show, just haven't had the interest, despite this thread.
TBH there's litte to be said about this sort of radio. If RT wasn't hosting I doubt even a regular listener would be able to stretch beyond a couple of sentences...
Since the start I've probably listened to about 8-10 of his links over the course of about 5-6 different days and won't be tuning in again as my previously held belief that Tubridy is an utterly useless broadcaster has been (in my mind) confirmed, and that once removed from the molly coddled cushion of angel farts that he existed in within RTÉ, he'd be shown up for being as much.
I'll still however enjoy this and any other threads that are opened on the subject matter, as they reaffirm to me that I'm not the only one that believes how utterly dislikable & talentless Tubridy is.
Yes, I really don't like him, but not in an unhealthy way as I actually enjoy not liking him. He doesn't 'live rent free' in my head, as the only thoughts I give to him are when I read/participate in this thread... outside of that he doesn't really exist in my world (thankfully).
What galls me is that someone so unsuited to presenting was paid soooo much for long.
Tubridy is a symptom of a much bigger abuse.
I can't be bothered tuning in either. I only ever heard his RTE radio show in waiting rooms etc. Even that made for tough listening at times because he seemed to have become increasingly insufferable over the years. I was curious to know what he would be like on a British radio station and if he'd change his style at all. We know the answer to that now. I'm pretty confident that if I was to listen any day this week it'll be more of the same. The only things of interest now are how long he'll last in London and what new tricks NK has up his sleeve. I'm sure there are fans who are happy to hear him back on the air. Most of us, I suspect, are looking at this and enjoying the drama. It is a great tale to be fair. How a limited broadcaster made it to the top of his profession and messed it up through hubris.
As someone who has helped pay his wages for years, I can't say I'm unhappy that RTE presenter pay has come under the microscope. If he doesn't do well in the UK, it's going to make those arguments for inflated presenter pay look increasingly hollow. I don't want to see anyone living in bedsits living in pot noodles but sanity has to prevail.
He'll be gone by Xmas.
When the NK stops astroturfing threads like this then it's over. Ryan will ring Noel and Noel will reply "new number, who dis?"
A mid-morning slot on Christmas FM? I think they call it the Sleigh Ride.
Yeah I definitely won't be even accidentally dialing in, the station is a stretch too far for me 😀
Actually my apologies to Garvan and the rest of the Xmas FM family. I only thought about it after posting 🤔
He must have killed everyone with his joke. :) We'll have to start referring to his show as "The Alan Partidge Project". (With apologies to Alan Parsons.)
Regards...jmcc
Maybe the NK Management staff party was on last night and his promotion staff are too hungover to post here today.
☹️ I was hoping to have a little flutter.
With apologies to Alan Parsons.
He wouldn't want to be like Tubes....... (cracking song by the way)
I wonder what vegetable we could use as a benchmark? He's not going to be a Liz Truss lettuce. Maybe a turnip? Something that'll hang around for a while but eventually reaches a sell-by date.
A Parnsnip
Absolutely stunned that you are trying to explain a Tubridy joke. Will you be doing this for each one Tubridy attempts? It might have worked with his dedicated Dublin listenership. How do you think this stuff goes down with a UK audience?
Which makes the theory about him paying for airtime more plausible.
Seeing as how he met his comeuppance maybe a leek?
If you have to explain the joke my advice is ...don't.
We're a quick lot here 😁😉
I'm refusing to listen to thean so dependent on updates here to keepe in the loop😁
I just don't want to add to his listening figures. Some find it difficult to count past 10🙃
I'm sure you have the real inside scoop.
Flicked on Q102 this morning as I was grinding my beans. Sustainable, fair trade coffee beans that is. Cheeky!
After a leisurely ad break and some god awful music, Tubs came on bleating about a book he saw in a bookshop. Hah! Standard, I thought.
Think the topic of the show may have been favourite cities to visit. Polly called in from Poshbury in Middleclass. She told Ryan she loooooved the show. He told her, oddly, he looooooved her. Then began a meeting of minds over the joys of travel. Ryan expounded on how he loved just wandering around seeing stuff. A particular highlight of his are all the blue plaques. He stumbled on one recently for Dwight D Eisenhower. "He was living there when they were planning D-Day or something like that, all around that kinda time anyway I think....HAH HAH" he said. "Amazing" said Polly. Amazing indeed I thought, as I got my steam wand going.
Then Ryan landed the big question we'd all wanted answered...... Where would Polly like to go most, if she could just go now? Would it be Rome or Paris, or were they just too obvious. Seville, said Polly. The cathedral there is "am. maze. ing" Polly's husband had been to Seville on business many times but never set aside an opportunity to see the sights. Ryan interjected to say, "this is one of the problems of being a native of an incredible spot, you really don't appreciate it for what it is" Revelatory.
With that, Ryan and Polly bid each other good day and Ryan played a little Maroon 5 to really bring the feelgood to a January Tuesday morning. I, reluctantly, flicked back to Newstalk and Pat Kenny, because I find hearing about genocide slightly less depressing than what I'd just listened to.
It's perfectly logical in the circumstances.
Regard, not jmcc
how do you know that he is a millionaire?
like a lot of joe soaps, he might have a hefty mortgage on his holiday home !!
Someone mentioned the Minack Theatre in Cornwall last week. He'd never heard of it, he googled it... "amazing, wow, you gotta see this..."
Eh, most people with a passing interest in the arts knows of The Minack.
Holy Moly.
I wonder if he thinks North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is set in the USA.
Except I didn’t explain the joke at all in my post, so I really don’t know what you’re on about. 🤷🏻
Do you for some reason think a UK audience won’t get a golf pun? Or that they all somehow have a highly sophisticated sense of humour over there?
They do have golf in the UK, and they also have Bradley Walsh. This kind of thing wouldn’t be alien to them at all.
Is it less logical than staying in Dublin and not being paid but not having a job?
Schrödinger's Presenter: He's hated by some because they don't like that he earned between half and three-quarters of a million euro a year for more than 15 years running, but he's simultaneously poor because the same people don't like him and want him to be.
He's most certainly not getting paid as he did on RTE. We all know that. But this idea that he's living in a bedsit in Kilburn eating dry pot noodle from his shoe with a fork he found on the tube while paying for his slot on national radio is patently laughable.
