Ross O'Carroll's guide to South Dublin

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 05:50PM #1

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?

poptart007 · 27-05-2007 05:52PM

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

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 27-05-2007 05:57PM

It's getting quite laboured at this stage.

lemansky · 27-05-2007 06:00PM

sean_keevey wrote:

It's getting quite laboured at this stage.

You'd think it would be,but it isn't really.

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 06:01PM

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

Agent Smith · 27-05-2007 06:05PM

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

jesus_thats_gre · 27-05-2007 06:41PM

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

Sangre · 27-05-2007 06:43PM

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

Mrs. MacGyver · 27-05-2007 06:44PM

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

Blondie86Star · 27-05-2007 06:51PM

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

zuutroy · 27-05-2007 07:53PM

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

Stargal · 27-05-2007 07:57PM

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

Dr. Seuss · 27-05-2007 08:01PM

Who the fook is Ross O'Carroll?

Rb · 27-05-2007 10:07PM

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.

Supercell · 27-05-2007 10:26PM

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.

Limerick Dude · 27-05-2007 10:30PM

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!

Pepe LeFrits · 27-05-2007 10:33PM

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.

Peyton Manning · 27-05-2007 10:36PM

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

Black Swan · 28-05-2007 12:06AM

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

Sparky · 28-05-2007 12:29AM

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"

Den_M · 28-05-2007 12:42AM

All you Ross haters can fock right off. Orseholes.

Degsy · 28-05-2007 09:03AM

Den_M wrote:

All you Ross haters can fock right off. Orseholes.

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

pwd · 28-05-2007 09:10AM

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

kmick · 28-05-2007 09:11AM

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

phasers · 28-05-2007 09:25AM

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

Stephen · 28-05-2007 09:25AM

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

Sangre · 28-05-2007 09:47AM

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.

po0k · 28-05-2007 09:51AM

Sangre wrote:

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

Yoor not saying it roight.

Obelisk29 · 28-05-2007 10:17AM

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.

besty · 28-05-2007 11:19AM

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.

insafehands · 28-05-2007 11:26AM

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?

Degsy · 28-05-2007 11:59AM

insafehands wrote:

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.

Plissken1 · 28-05-2007 12:28PM

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.

pred racer · 29-05-2007 08:48PM

Blondie86Star wrote:

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.

Mr. Presentable · 29-05-2007 08:56PM

insafehands wrote:

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.

Mr. Presentable · 29-05-2007 08:57PM

Degsy wrote:

smug,unfunny tripe.

In a nutshell. Degsy=legend

Pighead · 29-05-2007 09:01PM

In another nutshell. O'Carroll Kelly=cnut.

monkeyfudge · 29-05-2007 09:16PM

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

Limerick Dude · 29-05-2007 09:36PM

Ross O Carroll Kelly > than all you guys!

Pherekydes · 29-05-2007 09:38PM

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

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.

cson · 29-05-2007 09:42PM

Limerick Dude wrote:

Ross O Carroll Kelly > than all you guys!

Roysh......

Mushy · 29-05-2007 09:44PM

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.

fluppet · 29-05-2007 09:54PM

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?

tallaght01 · 29-05-2007 10:05PM

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

cson · 29-05-2007 10:08PM

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.

Red Alert · 30-05-2007 08:07AM

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

Tar.Aldarion · 30-05-2007 08:13AM

Why would I read a book about rb_ie?

Degsy · 30-05-2007 09:10AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Why would I read a book about rb_ie?

Lolllers!

r3nu4l · 30-05-2007 09:21AM

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

"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:

azezil · 30-05-2007 09:22AM

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.

Degsy · 30-05-2007 10:37AM

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.

Ross O'Carroll's guide to South Dublin

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