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Ross O'Carroll's guide to South Dublin

  • 27-05-2007 05:50PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭


    Did anyone else get this in the daily mail today?
    Hilarious

    I especially liked:
    "Many South Dubliners are pleasantly surprised to discover that these qualifications are recognised by their father's companies of their fathers' friends' companies, where many of them will spend the rest of their working lives.

    What did you think?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 poptart007


    I so love those books roysh they are so so funny and so so true


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    It's getting quite laboured at this stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭lemansky


    It's getting quite laboured at this stage.
    You'd think it would be,but it isn't really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭Blondie86Star


    He seems to be incorpoating pictures of irish "celebs" now... as well as randomers from the beach and trinity


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    I read it at work, Amusing to say the least.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    The books are still good but the stuff published in newspapers is generally quite poor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    I've never, ever heard someone say 'roysh'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Yes quite humourous especially the Yummy Mummy bit and their top heroes. For the record not all horse mad country protestants are up for it at the Dublin Horseshow (just incase ye were wondering)! I wish he would do one on the Northside of Dublin just to see his take on it. He had to get the bit in about the Leinster schools cup in didnt he lol :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭Blondie86Star


    Who's that girl on the third page with the coctail...is she a celeb?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    The writing was always too grating for me to be bothered reading. All that stupid phonetic English gives me a headache.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    Anyone know why it was given away with the Mail on Sunday rather than the Sunday Tribune?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dr. Seuss


    Who the fook is Ross O'Carroll?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Sangre wrote:
    I've never, ever heard someone say 'roysh'.
    Nor have I.
    Stopped reading R.O.C.K after the second last book, its gotten very old now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,620 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Sangre wrote:
    I've never, ever heard someone say 'roysh'.

    Roysh, yah I'm sure you haven't loike....hmmm

    Take a Dort trip to Dalkey and wander around the village, have a pint in Queens pub and see if that holds true.

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    R.O.C.K never gets old, the books are great, though the recent stuff in the tribune has been below usual standard. First book is still the best, pure genius!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Coo, must pop down and pick this up. Thought Sydney Parade was a return to form as Curious Incident was fairly poor, though it still wasn't a patch on the first two.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    always thought that The Miseducation Years was his best work myself..


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,829 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    B!ue sticks tongue in cheek while reading paper...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Sangre wrote:
    I've never, ever heard someone say 'roysh'.

    I'll introduce you to the only 1 guy I worked for that sounded very like that.

    But it was more of a "roIIIIth"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Den_M


    All you Ross haters can fock right off. Orseholes.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Den_M wrote:
    All you Ross haters can fock right off. Orseholes.

    Hillarious.Just like the man himself.In his own mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    Ross O'Carroll Kelly barely featured in it. It wasn't written in character as him. They just slotted him in in a couple of boxes. It was like a rehash of is it just me or is everything sh!t with ROCK stuck on the cover to help it sell well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    R O'C-K is Muck
    This stuff is just not funny.
    Why is it so popular?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I'm getting it on sunday, the author is doing a signing and I want to meet him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I wouldn't buy the daily/sunday mail, even with your money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Longfield wrote:
    Roysh, yah I'm sure you haven't loike....hmmm

    Take a Dort trip to Dalkey and wander around the village, have a pint in Queens pub and see if that holds true.

    I've had more than enough experience of the people he's trying to take the piss out of. I've never heard someone say roysh (his most famous phrase). Lots of loikes and roights and doirts. But no royshs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Sangre wrote:
    I've never, ever heard someone say 'roysh'.

    Yoor not saying it roight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭Obelisk29


    Overheard in south Dublin recently:

    Mother: "We're leaving at 2 o'clock on the dot".
    Daughter: "But Mum, you said we were driving!".

    Had to smile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭besty


    ROCK is painful to say the least. Seriously, it's so repetitive at this stage I can't understand how Paul Howard hasn't gotten the message and stopped flogging a dead horse! With that said, I'm sure sales are consistently high which has encouraged him to keep producing this tripe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭insafehands


    rb_ie wrote:
    Nor have I.
    Stopped reading R.O.C.K after the second last book, its gotten very old now.

    Wait. Wait. Wait!

    I recall a a thread ages ago where you and this bird were having a convo with "roysh", "totally", etc. all over the place!

    I think it was you anyway? I remember the guy was from Tallaght as well which was quite funny.

    Was it you?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Wait. Wait. Wait!

    I recall a a thread ages ago where you and this bird were having a convo with "roysh", "totally", etc. all over the place!

    I think it was you anyway? I remember the guy was from Tallaght as well which was quite funny.

    Was it you?

    Who cares?Its a load of smug,unfunny tripe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭Plissken1


    Didnt find it funny, then again I don't find gift grub funny anymore either. Come to think of it Dublin bores the **** out of me these days also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Did anyone else get this in the daily mail today?
    Hilarious

    I especially liked:
    "Many South Dubliners are pleasantly surprised to discover that these qualifications are recognised by their father's companies of their fathers' friends' companies, where many of them will spend the rest of their working lives.

    What did you think?


    I tried to read it, but whats the story with all the stuff in bold I think my eyes started to bleed around page 4.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Wait. Wait. Wait!

    I recall a a thread ages ago where you and this bird were having a convo with "roysh", "totally", etc. all over the place!

    I think it was you anyway? I remember the guy was from Tallaght as well which was quite funny.

    Was it you?

    Yeah, it was him all right. And a student nursie from trinners.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Degsy wrote:
    smug,unfunny tripe.

    In a nutshell. Degsy=legend


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    In another nutshell. O'Carroll Kelly=cnut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    The only people who seem to gobble this tripe up are the people who are being satirised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Ross O Carroll Kelly > than all you guys!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,227 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I wish he would do one on the Northside of Dublin just to see his take on it.


    How could he? He's never ever been across the Liffey.






    P.S. He doesn't realise Dublin Airport is on the northside, like Croker, the GPO and numerous other great Dublin institutions. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,534 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Ross O Carroll Kelly > than all you guys!

    Roysh......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,818 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    I for some reason keep reading them, even though I realise its just the same old crap over and over. The laughs are a lot less frequent than the early books though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭fluppet


    Longfield wrote:
    Take a Dort trip to Dalkey and wander around the village, have a pint in Queens pub and see if that holds true.

    I think you'll find 'roysh' is more of a 'D4' saying...

    The 'Daily Mail' ay? So it was intended for working class people to laugh at the middle class then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    Is the book available yet? Amazon says they don't have it yet, but not sure if it's not yet published or whatever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,534 ✭✭✭✭cson


    ROCK himself is signing copies in easons this weekend I think (Im an idiot, your location is Glasgow isn't it?)

    Anyway, its a no tracksuit affair apparently.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    The "Miseducation of", "Roysh here roysh now" and the "Miseducation Years" were definitely the best so far. The new one looks great, though loike.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Why would I read a book about rb_ie?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Why would I read a book about rb_ie?

    Lolllers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,400 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    I love the books to be honest, probably because I know one guy and his girlfriend who are exactly like him. Funnily enough, they don't find him funny and get very offended when the books are mentioned :D

    "He's such an orsehole, just because Mum drives a 4x4, Dad owns his own company and I sail at the weekends doesn't mean we're loike loaded or posh or anything!" :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    My other half loves his stuff, told me about it, I found the wiki quote amusing but when I started reading one of the books, after a few pages I got reeeaalllyyy bored, I might have read just 40 pages and just had to give up.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Why,everytime this dickhead is mentioned do people try to trot out their skills at imitating him?Its probably more annoying than his scabby books.


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