Gerry Ryan Megathread!

ManFromAtlantis

boarddotie wrote: »

Hi all (and the Mods too),

Im just wondering can we GRyan fans say anything on this forum or is it just for negative stuff? I know its called the Gerry Ryan Megathread so surely some positives should be allowed in too?

Just a simple request from a simple non-brown nosed, not an auld wan, non-cretenous geek type of gal :pac:

hi gerry.!

kryptyk500

I was listening to the radio at about 2am last night because I couldn't sleep, and Ryan's show was repeated from earlier in the day. His rant about people in darkened rooms hunched over their keyboards slagging people off was very funny....in a sad way. He started by discussing how there were facebook groups set up for people who hate the X-Factor..then he started raving about how facebook and boards.ie were not controlled and that the 'people in darkened rooms' could say anything they wanted about 'people' i.e. himself.

The rest of the show was the usual innuendo-ridden tripe and discussion of bodily functions etc. He gets paid €600,000. I despair sometimes.

FlutterinBantam

kryptyk500 wrote: »

I was listening to the radio at about 2am last night because I couldn't sleep, and Ryan's show was repeated from earlier in the day. His rant about people in darkened rooms hunched over their keyboards slagging people off was very funny....in a sad way. He started by discussing how there were facebook groups set up for people who hate the X-Factor..then he started raving about how facebook and boards.ie were not controlled and that the 'people in darkened rooms' could say anything they wanted about 'people' i.e. himself.

The rest of the show was the usual innuendo-ridden tripe and discussion of bodily functions etc. He gets paid €600,000. I despair sometimes.

That's gross.:cool:

jonny oxford

kryptyk500 wrote: »

I was listening to the radio at about 2am last... ....then he started raving about how facebook and boards.ie were not controlled and that the 'people in darkened rooms' could say anything they wanted about 'people' i.e. himself.

Well in fairness for a long time people could and did say what they wanted about him on this thread.

I imagine some of what was written here was personally insulting to him I'm not surprised him talks about boards.ie in this way.

DublinWriter

kryptyk500 wrote: »

He started by discussing how there were facebook groups set up for people who hate the X-Factor..then he started raving about how facebook and boards.ie were not controlled and that the 'people in darkened rooms' could say anything they wanted about 'people' i.e. himself.

Ironic much, considering his canid-mic live-on-air calling of a Government Department in the early-90's that almost got him kicked out of Montrose and prompted the then DG to initiate a policy of taping and archiving *everything* broadcast on the two radio channels, a policy that's been in place ever since.

He symbolises everything that's wrong with modern Ireland...something that was vaguely entertaining in the 1980's that has since become vapid, bloated, self-important and over-paid.

If you want to really know the inner Gerry Ryan, forget the Alan Partridge analogies, go look at Oliver Stone's seminal 1988 film Talk Radio.

humberklog

boarddotie wrote: »

Hi all (and the Mods too),

Im just wondering can we GRyan fans say anything on this forum or is it just for negative stuff? I know its called the Gerry Ryan Megathread so surely some positives should be allowed in too?

Just a simple request from a simple non-brown nosed, not an auld wan, non-cretenous geek type of gal :pac:

Some have, like myself. Sometimes his show and his notions do appear to be poorly researched. A bit like your post.

deadhead13

kryptyk500 wrote: »

I was listening to the radio at about 2am last night because I couldn't sleep, and Ryan's show was repeated from earlier in the day. His rant about people in darkened rooms hunched over their keyboards slagging people off was very funny....in a sad way. He started by discussing how there were facebook groups set up for people who hate the X-Factor..then he started raving about how facebook and boards.ie were not controlled and that the 'people in darkened rooms' could say anything they wanted about 'people' i.e. himself.

I heard that last night aswell. He seems to grouping boards, facebook and bebo into one, but I suspect a facebook group started during his standoff with RTE over the pay cut a few months back is the real target. It had over 10,000 members before it was shut down and a lot of the comments on there just wouldn't have been allowed on boards.

I think boarddotie has a point. Whether you like or dislike Ryan, and I would definitely be in the dislike camp, you have to accept he does have alot of fans and around 300,000 listeners. Some of them posting on here would add a bit of balance, I think.

Having said that, during the discussion on X-Factor yesterday a girl who runs a fashion website rang in. His comments to her at the end the conversation were just pure sleaze.

Meeja Ireland

deadhead13 wrote: »

I think boarddotie has a point. Whether you like or dislike Ryan, and I would definitely be in the dislike camp, you have to accept he does have alot of fans and around 300,000 listeners. Some of them posting on here would add a bit of balance, I think.

I agree completely with this. The thread really needs some fans for balance.

I would have loved to mix it up with some contrary views, but I agree with all the distaste that is expressed here. Over and over again he proves himself unable to resist even the most microscopic invitation to drive things into the knicker drawer.

1. Someone mentions that her husband is a gynoecologist. "Sure, I'm a gynaecologist", he says, to her evident discomfort. What does he even mean? "I also look up vaginas"? He's like a child wiping snot on the walls for attention.

2. Someone mentions hunger. He swoops off into a swoony fantasy about eating Sophia Loren's buttocks, and invites us to speculate about whether we would have sex with a given bottom instead of eating it.

3. What was that weird auto-erotic rhapsody today about how women listeners love him because he mentions "vaginal dilation" all the time? Is that a sane self-image for any broadcaster?

4. A child disappears. The child dies. Count the seconds until Gerry wonders, to the town's mayor (?!) whether the poor thing had been raped first.

If this was a friend of ours, we would be sitting around a table discussing what kind of help to get him. The fact that all of these examples are drawn from the last week of shows is intensely disturbing.

And Gerry, if you're going to malign the faceless hordes who post nasty stuff about you on the internet, could you address their points next time? While you're at it, could you try defending the "snowballing and twigging" jokes to a concerned mother? If you really believe that the proper response to concern about a teenager's sexual activity is to speculate comically about her sucking faeces from someone's penis, by all means make your case. Till then, please allow us to find you disgusting.

tbh

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

I agree completely with this. The thread really needs some fans for balance.

just to point out - there are no posting restrictions in place.

eightyfish

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

I agree completely with this. The thread really needs some fans for balance.

I have to say I like bits of his show. I listen to the first half hour where he reads the papers. Usually that's followed by an interesting story of some kind.

The topics he usually covers - parents/kids, U2, RTE/IrishTV related stories, U2, his kids, U2, Ireland being full of violent scumbags and U2 don't really interest me however, so I switch off fairly early.

Also he has the most annoying (usually D4) female contributors.

This room's very dark. I can hear my keyboard clicking away but nothing else.

SEPT 23 1989

here we go:D

bilko1234

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

here we go:D

I'm hearing this...!!!

dolittle

he`s in his element now.....a girl giving a boy a hand job in the cinema

I LOVE YOU GERRY
WORRY WHEN THEY STOP TALKING ABOUT YOU

ibarelycare

OMG. I'm cringing.

bilko1234

I think he's massaging himself at the moment!!!!!!

Meeja Ireland

"So what do you do? Do you look up some invented perversions on Urbandictionary, and subject your 14-year-old to a horrendously embarrassing conversation about them? Yes. Yes, you do."

"Well, Gertrude, you're entering Junior Cert now. It's time to talk about pork-gargling."

dolittle

bilko1234 wrote: »

I think he's massaging himself at the moment!!!!!!

oh my god thats so funny

Meeja Ireland

Rainbow! This is funny stuff. There is something almost heroic about his dedication to the vulgar.

It is refreshing too that he doesn't put on any mock outrage. You never really get the impression that he gives a damn what teenagers are doing to each other in the cineplex. If you think of the conniptions Damien O'Donnell would be having, there is something a bit healthier about this.

Dammit, he's winning me over.

dolittle

everyone here "hates" him but they all listen to him
still cant listen to the fiona lunny bit though

SEPT 23 1989

he is really raising the bar this morning

Meeja Ireland

A tenner to the first one who can get him to mention Postman's Oboe, or the Becher's Brook, or Gumballs. You'll have to make up what they are, but there seems to be no limit of credibility.

dolittle

thats the taxi man gerry wants from now on
the show this morning is surreal

Meeja Ireland

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

he is really raising the bar this morning

That's a good one.

"What they do, Maura, is they describe more and more contorted sexual activities to some poor woman on the phone. They go into unimaginable detail, so they do. I suppose it titillates them. They call it raising the bar. I guess we know what bar they're raising too. Shocking stuff, isn't it?"

Degsy

So he's a wanker in the most accurate sense of the word...

bilko1234

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

Rainbow! This is funny stuff. There is something almost heroic about his dedication to the vulgar.

It is refreshing too that he doesn't put on any mock outrage. You never really get the impression that he gives a damn what teenagers are doing to each other in the cineplex. If you think of the conniptions Damien O'Donnell would be having, there is something a bit healthier about this.

Dammit, he's winning me over.

But,but,but...I get the impression that he DOES give a damn about what teens are doing to each other in the Cineplex. Too much of a damn.He could ,and does, talk for HOURS on the subject. I find there is something very UNhealthy about this.

Meeja Ireland

bilko1234 wrote: »

But,but,but...I get the impression that he DOES give a damn about what teens are doing to each other in the Cineplex. Too much of a damn.He could ,and does, talk for HOURS on the subject. I find there is something very UNhealthy about this.

I didn't pick that up today, in fairness. He seemed more ironically amused than prurient.

Maybe it just depends on what mood he's in, or whether he's already had a quick Bonaparte's Retreat before the broadcast.

SEPT 23 1989

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

I didn't pick that up today, in fairness. He seemed more ironically amused than prurient.

Maybe it just depends on what mood he's in, or whether he's already had a quick Bonaparte's Retreat before the broadcast.

he is trying to tone it down because he knows there are people in quiet,darkened rooms listening and typing just listening and typing

DublinWriter

bilko1234 wrote: »

But,but,but...I get the impression that he DOES give a damn about what teens are doing to each other in the Cineplex. Too much of a damn.He could ,and does, talk for HOURS on the subject. I find there is something very UNhealthy about this.

From enfant terrible to dirty old man in a single career arc.

Meeja Ireland

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

he is trying to tone it down because he knows there are people in quiet,darkened rooms listening and typing just listening and typing

I think you're right. Look at that piece about "twigging" today. That's not really what it means, is it? I think he was re-running the earlier conversation to make his part in it look a little more innocent.

The reality was he was making crude jokes over the head of a woman who was worried about her daughter. Today he pretended that his motive was concern - that he was pointing out real dangers. To do this he had to change the meaning of what he said.

There's not much you can do about "snowballing", as the definition is widely known - but does he seriously assert that this is a likely danger for a fourteen-year-old Irish girl? Something that her mother needed to be warned about?

There's nothing you can do about twigging, except pretend it means something else. The explanation of twigging he gave today was considerably toned down from the reality, which is presumably what he was joking about a couple of days ago.

This is breathtakingly dishonest, if I'm right, but it also means he's rattled enough to cover his tracks.

Of course, I may be completely wrong. What does anyone think? Is "twigging" ever used to mean fingering someone on a dancefloor? I can't find a single reference to it, but my porno-slang search skillls are weak.

Hands up if I'm wrong. It just strikes me as the only possibly reason for him to revisit the conversation today from a decidedly different angle.

SEPT 23 1989

When i first heard todays call i thought it was someone from here winding him up:) but as she talked and the strange way he reacted(not that perverted) it made me think it was totally staged