Rose of Tralee "Orish Fun" or Cultural Armageddon?

mike65

Its on tonight and tomorrow night on RTE for about 5 hours in total, does this gabfest of lovely girls derserve its pre-eminent
position in our summer season? Or should Tralee be nuked at about 8 pm?

Discuss!

sceptre

Nuke the place. Oh I may well flick over for a few moments during the commercial breaks in Hunt for Red October on UKGold tonight at 9 in the hope of spotting some hottie but I've better things to be doing (like hair washing, making little sculptures out of butter or armpit massaging)

I don't begrudge tralee the tourism blip they obviously need but the show was a throwback even when it started.

claire h

*shudders* Nuke away!

Stephen

They have yer man Ryan Tubridy off 2fm presenting it this year instead of Marty "studmuffin" Whelan. Wonder if he's any good.

DMC

We'll find out in 13 minutes.

I hope he pulls the piss. There is the chance he'll die on his orse....

Vader

pitty your man Dermot Morgan is dead cause a 5 hour show like father teds lovely girls competition would really be worth seeing.

Sarky

There's no way to tell if they have lovely bottoms in those f*cking dresses. Tralee would be better off as a nuclear wasteland. I hate these beauty show things with a passion.

Although, that said, Miss Ireland was in my class last year in college... Very nice, sound person.

Mossy Monk

RTÉ1 seems to have been nuked off the local transmitter tonight and Sky is being used for cricket. what a shame. TV3 havew a good lineup tonight though

Lukin Black

What the Rose of Tralee needs is a real life Kirsty Alley outta Drop Dead Gorgeous.

I really don't know what is worse - Eurovision or the RoT. I will do anything and everything to avoid both. Though I did have a peek at Eurocrap when I heard that England had nil points

dod

Originally posted by Lukin Black
Kirsty Alley outta Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Heheh, I know nothing about films, but inadvertently caught this movie on TV a few months ago - absolutely top class stuff. If that sort of thing was going on, the RoT might be worth watching.

Since that sort of thing isn't going on, Nuke the damned thing.

Vader

does RoT have a swimsuit competition?
No what it really needs is a wet T-shirt competition. As Jack would say: MORE WATER

dod

There's an old lady who lives next door, and she's slightly deaf, with the result that when she's watching TV you can hear it all through the walls- the theme tunes to the soaps, the late late show, the camp guy who does the continuity announcements on UTV etc. etc. Right now you can hear the harp playing from the RoT. Out of a spirit of tolerance, doesn't the RoT keep lots of old people around Ireland happy for a few days going "Aah isn't she lovely....God doesn't she look great in that dress....Oh, if only I was younger, I wouldn't mind a go of that...."

Lukin Black

Originally posted by dod
There's an old lady who lives next door

[snip]

doesn't the RoT keep lots of old people around Ireland happy for a few days going "Aah isn't she lovely....God doesn't she look great in that dress....Oh, if only I was younger, I wouldn't mind a go of that...."

And she let's you know that? How progressive for an old lady

simu

It is sooo sad. All the contestants have to pretend (at least, I *hope* they're pretending) to be lovely, innocent nice "girls" in whose mouths butter wouldn't melt. No single mothrs allowed - very sad.

Tha Gopher

Was reading in the Indo that they banned one girl a few years ago after it was discovered she was an unmarried mother. Great to see such progressive attitudes.
Re the dude who was in school with the Miss Ireland one-they had a picture of her in the paper a while back at some fashion do in UCD with basically her baps out with only the nipples obscured by something. I wonder what the unmarried mother hating people of Tralee would have made of her:D
I only saw a bit of it this year,but any other year i watched it there was always a slightly insane looking one with a bad hair do that really made an arse of themselves. Any like that this year?
That would have been a good idea though to have Dermot Morgan present it.



"They all have lovely bottoms"

Ebonyks

Saw the Galway Rose there earlier

Bit of a minx, maybe a bit green, but very do-able

GRAHAM2002

I think it should be an outdoor contest on a breezy evening so I could at least see their nipples before I nuke the mainly bunch of foreigners pretending that there parents were once Irish.

No offence to the lovely Irish girls who entered.

The Sweeper

I think it's a bit of harmless craic to be honest. Yes it's utterly cringeworthy but again it's a bit of a tradition now and I'd like to see it keep on going.

It could be worse, we could have a tradition of an annual bull-baiting competition... yeah actually, if Derek Davis was presenting the Rose of Tralee we could...

GuanYin

Originally posted by simu
No single mothrs allowed - very sad.

Thats a bloody disgrace.

I don't get it anyway, the innocent girls thing wears thin when you hit the mid-twenties....

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by simu
No single mothrs allowed - very sad.

that is outrageous. imagine what would happen if black people weren't allowed to enter

bloggs

Ah what harm is it, a bit of Irish culture, it's only of the only things we have left.

dod

Originally posted by bloggs
a bit of Irish culture

If I ever get to write my Magnum Opus (a small tract promoting Eugenics under limited circumstances) do you mind if I use this suggestion to support my argument that it would benefit society in general were certain elements of the gene pool not allowed to propogate any further?

Vader

What I think would help is if we combined tje RoT with the fleadh.
Think about it free music and lots of pretty, drunken lasses!

DMT

Originally posted by Sarky
I hate these beauty show things with a passion.

The Rose of Tralee isn't a beauty contest - it's a personality contest - as can be seen from some the mingers who have won it in previous years.

Originally posted by simu
No single mothrs allowed - very sad.

Next thing you'll be wanting married women to be allowed to enter. Damn your political correctness filth.

At least they don't have to be virgins anymore....


UP THE KINGDOM!!!

Vader

Damn your political correctness filth.

Be careful what you say to this one about political correctness she got my last thread shut down

DapperGent

I would just like to say that I love the phrase Cultural Armageddon (good man Mike65 ) and that I hate the ****ing Rose of Tralee (though the festival isn't bad).

Sarky

Originally posted by DMT
The Rose of Tralee isn't a beauty contest - it's a personality contest - as can be seen from some the mingers who have won it in previous years.

But from what I see, the majority have all the personality of a week old corpse.

skipn_easy

Originally posted by Vader
What I think would help is if we combined tje RoT with the fleadh.
Think about it free music and lots of pretty, drunken lasses!

There was free music on during the festival, and lots and lots of drinking on the street. Unfortunately the roses are escorted around 24/7 so you wouldn't be able to get near any of them even if you wanted to.

I enjoyed the whole thing, its all a load of s***e but its a good excuse to get hammered

and please don't nuke tralee - its my hometown!

bloggs

Originally posted by dod
If I ever get to write my Magnum Opus (a small tract promoting Eugenics under limited circumstances) do you mind if I use this suggestion to support my argument that it would benefit society in general were certain elements of the gene pool not allowed to propogate any further?

Expand on that please.

dod

Nothing underhand about it, it's just that my own humble opinion is that the view that the RoT is "a bit of Irish culture" is a little off target.

I would have thought that we have plenty to offer when it comes to culture without having to scrape the bottom of the barrel and lump the RoT into our list of cultural events.

Vader

I would have thought that we have plenty to offer when it comes to culture without having to scrape the bottom of the barrel and lump the RoT into our list of cultural events.

well our cultural calander includes things like orange men marches, may-day protests(theres always something wrong) so I for one am happy to have a few days of light hearted fun