Eurovision Song Contest : Talking Turkey
Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008RTE have finally acknowledged what a load of old shite the Eurovision Song Contest is. This year they’re going to send a couple of their cronies a turkey glove puppet to compete.
The song is the usual RTE compendium of parochial in-jokes that nobody outside Ireland will understand. In fact, nobody outside Dublin will understand a word of it, but I forgot: RTE thinks it broadcasts exclusively to Dublin anyway. The rest of us taxpayers are just lifelike mechanical dummies in some theme park. Irelandworld.
Not that I give a flying fuck about the Eurovision, you understand. It’s a joke, and it’s always been a joke. But if you’re going to send a turkey to represent Ireland, at least send something funny. Not something that made a crowd of drunken incompetents RTE executives laugh.
At least the Serbs sent a bunch of fucking maniacs when they won it last year.
Stumble it!
February 4th, 2008
Don’t forget Lordi the year before. I was seriously impressed by the collective irony of Europe that day - the US would never do that, they’d take it all far too seriously :-)
February 4th, 2008
Bock, RTe don’t think they are broadcasting only to Dublin. Instead they just think only Dublin people have a choice about what they get to watch and so they have to compete for the Dublin viewer with the likes of BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Sumo TV. All those outside the Pale are thought to only have access in RTe alone like it was in the Golden area in the 70s and 80s.
February 4th, 2008
The biggest thing that surprised me about John Waters when I first heard about him recently is that he wrote Ireland’s eurovision entry last year and that anyone at all could still take him seriously after that. Eurovision is to music as Fanta is to fine wine, um, sweet and orange. Um.
February 4th, 2008
Christ, how could I have forgotten that?
February 4th, 2008
Well if we had a turkey write last years entry, why not have one sing this years one!. The good news is that this may finally seal RTE’s participation in this junket……if only.
Suppose they’re expecting 12 votes from Turkey for this stunt.
February 5th, 2008
I thought that pic was of the spice girls for a minute.. another bunch of maniacs. :)
February 5th, 2008
I like Fanta.
February 5th, 2008
I used to love Eurovision, and it’s only the block voting that’s made it a bit dull. There was always craptastic songs, woeful singers and about as much camp as a row of pink tents - but it rocked, for me anyway.
These days it’s all about the spectacle - men pounding big drums (probably in an effort to induce some sort of tribal trance, so that you vote for the bloody thing) or lots of semi-naked women belly dancing.
If a turkey puppet isn’t a spectacle, I don’t know what is.
February 5th, 2008
Can you still get Fanta?
February 8th, 2008
Wouldn’t be the first time Ireland sent a Turkey to the Eurovision.