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150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭GSF


    maybe Bryan could get his bus driver licence and do a shift for TfL in the afternoons? Since doing a radio show on a smaller station and a hobby podcast isn’t really a way to make a living in the longer term.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi


    I thought he’d be given them free he is such a big force in the international broadcasting & media world as he says on his website.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hawley


    That right there is the very essence of Brat Summer - a season to go wild in whatever way you want… but there are rules to a Brat Summer if you want to do it right. Going through all the rules, our Brat Summer expert Ryan explained: “When you’re out-out outfit is a strappy white top - that’s it! That’s Brat Summer. Even when the sun isn’t now, you’re grabbing for the black wraparound sunnies, it’s so Julia!”

    Next up, it’s the much-needed summer sips. Ryan added: “The Brat Summer is a drink, and it’s sipping on neon orange drinks on the beach, according to the track Everything is Romantic. You’ve re-branded neon green highlighter as 'brat green' and it’s chic. Don’t be surprised if all the brat green highlighters are gone in the office,” he said.

    https://virginradio.co.uk/music/151750/ryan-tubridy-brat-summer-explainer-rules

    He had a Brat Summer last summer. Got caught acting like a brat last summer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,384 ✭✭✭mountain


    to think that RTE were at one stage paying 500+k for that type of nonsense, and 9 months ago pay 250k, shows how out of touch they were/still are.

    With Duffy running liveline like his private fiefdom, Darcy waffling on and on, shows RTE don’t have an quality control



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,834 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Pierce Brosnan was at Wimbledon modelling a dapper Ralph Lauren suit. Looked fab!

    Surely NK could’ve sneaked Tubs in to promote bog roll or bin liners or something -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭leath_dub




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,803 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    It wasn't great, but at least he wasn't asking the old LLS questions (do you like Ireland? How did you feel when your mother died?).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    Don't forget "How old are you?".

    He saves that one for the ladies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,233 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Only if they are 30 playing 16 year olds (Not that the inbetweeners ever faced that question!)


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Challenge of the day. Watch this from 9mins 30seconds and see how much of the cringefest name dropping ("just happened to be outside a pub talking to Russell Crowe as I glanced and said hey, that looks like Sinead O'Connor walking down the road") you can withstand. Sickening stuff, unless you're Bobson et al.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Brian Scan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    I'd love to, but that would count as a download and I'm not giving him that



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Understandable! But don't worry too much, only about 280 views across the UK for Tubs top tips so far.

    Oh and he manages to get in Ed Sheeran giving him a guitar too. Same modis operandi not able to deviate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    I did add to the YT count and gave it thumbs down.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    An odd view here on there won’t make any difference folks. If you want to go and have a good hate watch then knock yourself out. YouTube views are absolutely no reflection of the popularity of a podcast.

    I’ll never understand hate-watching and hate-listening but it seems it’s a thing amongst some folks. So many books that could be read, shows that could be watched, albums and shows that could be listened to. Mystery.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,941 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    I ❤️ this thread. Genuinely. It’s brilliant.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,233 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    I have never see you express a real view, like do you think Dee Forbes did a good job? and shouldn't your anger at Tub's loosing his job be directed at her and Moya Doherty? What are are opinions of RTÉ Management over the years? Good, bad are are you indifferent to them, instead insisting that other put up and shut up?


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Assuming this is the portion of Abbey Road that the Beatles crossed (as is his obsession), I would be guessing that the "funny looks" he was getting was from people trying to take the famous photo and wondering what this spanner was doing hanging around making it more difficult for them.

    Regardless. What is this fool doing taking selfies at Abbey Road with a SuperValu bag for?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,714 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I don’t read or watch any of his fare apart from some inquisitive listens early on to confirm what I already knew (he’s useless), but I still thoroughly enjoy this thread. I don’t watch any soaps on TV (or any TV for that matter apart from some live sports), but Tubridy’s downfall, and the pathetic depths he’s been forced to limbo himself down to in the most excruciatingly cringy ways possible to attempt to stay relevant is my soap, it’s my Eastenders and Fair City….. And just with the soaps, I know they exist, yet have no care to watch them because I know they are sh1t. Similar to Tubridy. So knowing his downfall is well and truly under way, I have no care to watch it, but I greatly enjoy the fact it’s happening, because I simply don’t like the man.

    I’m not bitter towards him and would never wish him ill health, but I just think he’s a Grade A, USDA certified, Limited Edition Ar$ehǒle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭yagan


    I would have some sympathy only he seems to have an ego that steamrolls humility.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭GSF


    nobody gives a damn what your carrier bag says if you walk around London. It’s pretty cheap looking so maybe that’s why he got the looks in what is a Waitrose part of town



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,349 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    There's still a few of these across Boards, it's just someone with a 'persona' account who thinks they're infinitely more clever than everyone else and chimes in with stuff like that. It's pointless engaging with them, and assuming you reply to me Bobson Dugnutt, I'm not going to engage with you either but work away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hawley


    He's trying to copy Matt Damon with the SuperValu bag. He thinks it will go viral and become a massive hit across the UK and Ireland.

    https://extra.ie/2020/05/13/entertainment/celebrity/matt-damon-supervalu-bag



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Pop me on ignore there, Frank. Might be good for your blood pressure.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,233 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    And we should ignore Dee Forbes time at RTÉ, she did after all cause Ryan to leave RTÉ in the end.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    I used to live on Belsize Rd (just around the corner) years ago - Yeah, really nice area alright. Nobody would give a toss about your bag unless it were making cries of 'help' and there was blood dripping out of it…and it's London ffs, a city where taxi's drive around people lying in the street

    He's a really sad, desperate little man at this stage

    Has Maura1278 commented 'Loved the SV bag story Ryan, you're so funny xxx' yet



  • Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭nonetheless


    His show and content presentation is so out of kilter with what Virgin Radio UK is supposedly trying to target or appeal to. Most of their listeners are not really interested in some British author, btw this is no reflection on her, they have simply selected the radio station for music, hence will tune out if the music output turns to waffle. Brute forcing Ryan Tubridy onto their mid-morning schedule was a bad decision by NewsUK CEO. It makes no sense for an experienced radio PD to dollop a pseudo music/chat show - post breakfast with an unknown and unproven (in the UK) presenter onto a formatted music radio station and it is evident that they are trying to recover listeners by introducing a dedicated 80's hour immediately following his slot.

    Irrespective of whether folks are interested in books or not, Virgin Radio UK's core listeners are not tuning into the radio station for this.

    Furthermore, Tubridy is really not interested in winning over the UK listener. He has not altered his presentation or displayed any compatibility, resulting with some of their listeners having difficulty understanding or not being able to follow what he is saying.

    Going around St Johns Wood with a SuperValu bag and posting images on Instagram from last week gives the impression that he really misses home. I would think the novelty of London has well worn off at this point, he doesn't want to be there and Virgin Radio UK listeners really couldn't care less about him. The Paddy Power sponsorship is his safety net but even they will not continue to flog a dead horse, pardon the pun.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭CollyFlower


    Posting "happy" moments on Instagram is often a facade that helps people escape their true life, posting images to try to make them appear more successful and happier than they truly are.  This is what RT is doing.



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