RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

"One of the team here...drives?...a bike"

"delicious tennis match" coming up

"a lovely slide"

"A Smiths fanclub upstairs, complete with t-shirts"

Surely the rest of the day can only get better 🙄🤷‍♀️

Isn't it funny the way the emails from listeners 🤔, all write their emails the same way tubs speaks, with lots of beautiful, lovely. Fantastic , all of them agree with him and think he's hilarious

If i saw tubridys jaguar parked up....i would egg the hell out of it....

Maybe let the air out of one of the tyres (not all of the tyres though)

#bekind

Another pic for the pointing thread....obnoxious prìck...

Ah....I see.....2004....So he was always a wànker then......

You've got a way with words,,,😁

RYAN TUBRIDY: Pencil sharpeners

It was while working on his book JFK in Irelandin the National Library that broadcaster Ryan Tubridy rediscovered his love of pencils and sharpeners.

“You’re not allowed to use ink in the library, but they have little pots of pencils that are gratis and there’s also a sharpening facility. Bringing your pencils to the sharpener was like taking the car to the petrol pump.”

Tubridy discovered there was another advantage. “You find yourself spending a lot of time going to sharpen your pencil on a sort of study break. It’s like smoking a cigarette or making a cup of tea.”

But having an excuse for a break wasn’t the only good thing about using a pencil and sharpener. “It’s a very lovely thing to sharpen a pencil,” says Tubridy. “Not only are the parings pretty and pleasurable to see, but when you put the newly-sharpened pencil to the page, one tiny scintilla of lead pops off.

“You tap the pencil, then you get writing and then you flow for approximately two or three pages. Then it’s time to assess the lead levels and decide if you’ll go into the sharpening ceremony once more, or will you keep going? As you go on, the writing gets slightly less legible, more out of focus, and it’s now a different pencil. It’s the personality of the pencil, it changes with every sweep across the page.”

Tubridy still uses pencils for Late Late Showbriefing meetings. "It feels good. I like the scratch of it and it feels industrious and old school, which I like."

And he still appreciates the charm of a good pencil sharpener.

“I don’t like the metal ones you got in school – you’d get lead all over your hands. They do have a nice industrial revolution feel, but you can succumb to modernity enough to get a good plastic one, because you’ll get a better sharpening from it.”

These sad storys are to show you that there are people worse off than you,

And that you shouldn't be talking about an over paid riffer working less than an hour a day and hovering up freebies,

Did I hear him mutter "contradictory but beautiful "?