Michael Flatley in Kettle and Pot Incident

mike65

Sean Moncreiff is talking about Chicago hoofer Michael Flatleys declaration that Ireland needs to shed its begorrah/leprechaun image the vox pop on the street of Navan is brilliant

He wants Ireland to be 'more Irish' and less foreign and a global Irish TV station.

He was'nt high or drunk as he gave his thoughts to an audience in New York.

WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5i8-QKkKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFCUjovRb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFCUjovRb4

Die Flatley Die!

Mike.

star-pants

Only watched a min or two of the first link there....
not sure I could watch any more

Anyway -- people wouldn't visit ireland if we told them there were no leprechauns...

silly Flatley and his odd tan...

tampopo

Yeah it's a bit rich innit? He who wouldn't be as rich as he is, had he not mined that stereotype for years.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i don't understand..

star-pants

Mordeth wrote: »

i don't understand..

I think what he's trying to say ... is Michael Flatley is a bit mental...

watna

It's his cold eveil eyes that scare me.. and his oddly perfect hair. He seriously gives me the creeps!

MooseJam

Michael Flatley is sexy as hell, I'd love to experiment with him

Outer Bongolia

that 1916 thing is hilarious!! Oh I bet the audiences in America would love it.. they probably think it happened exactly like that

Big Tone

Strange Orange-faced dude, slightly podgy, groomed to within an inch of his life, gets Freedom of Cork City...now that IS a laughing matter...begorrah and begob!

The Hill Billy

Big Tone wrote: »

Strange Orange-faced dude, slightly podgy, groomed to within an inch of his life, gets Freedom of Cork City...now that IS a laughing matter...begorrah and begob!

QFT - A real Langer.

Steoob

does anyone else think that the 1916 rising link was ****ing amazing? i did anyway

Dizzyblonde

MooseJam wrote: »

Michael Flatley is sexy as hell, I'd love to experiment with him

Surely you mean experiment ON him???

He makes me vomit with his pseudo-Oirish accent.

ziggy

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FranchisePlayer

Outer Bongolia wrote: »

that 1916 thing is hilarious!! Oh I bet the audiences in America would love it.. they probably think it happened exactly like that

Yeah probably would:rolleyes: correct me If I am wrong were the Redcoats over here aswell thought that was an earlier period and was it not the Black and tans??

Fooz

Ok, I haven't watched the you tube thing due to my comp not having an update something or other - but there's nothing wrong with promoting Irish culture a bit more. I'm very aware that we're becoming very like everywhere else - the same big shops, coffee places, restaurants, music, tv programmes, etc.
I could go on but have to stop now as I'm quite uncomfortable with the thought that I actually might agree with Michael Flatley.

DublinWriter

mike65 wrote: »

He wants Ireland to be 'more Irish' and less foreign and a global Irish TV station.
...
Die Flatley Die!

It's still funny that as a nation, we love to criticise ourselves, but if a 'foreigner' does it, we're up in arms and standing on our desks orating the 1916 Declaration of Independence.

I didn't realise that post Celtic-Tiger, we were still that insecure about ourselves.

The big problem for me is admitting that Flatley is basically right.

As we are so fond of saying here on boards, play the ball, not the man.

We've whored ourselves at the corporate gang-bang, and now our punter has his eye on a cheaper and more attractive partner - i.e. China.

I could whinge on for hours about how we've lost our national identity, but the basic fact is less that 5% of us could cobble together an intelligible sentence in our own national language. End of story.

Outer Bongolia

FranchisePlayer wrote: »

Yeah probably would:rolleyes: correct me If I am wrong were the Redcoats over here aswell thought that was an earlier period and was it not the Black and tans??

I'd answer you good sir, but thanks to my school not allowing me to take history after Leaving Cert I am not the strongest on Irish History.

Michael Flatley probably knows a lot, I am glad that he is educating people like me, who don't know much about the Rising. I think it is a sign of how tragic the whole thing was, that two civilised peoples could not put their differences aside and come together to truly unite in dance

WindSock

Outer Bongolia wrote: »

two civilised peoples could not put their differences aside and come together to truly unite in dance

Ahahaa. Let us lay down our arms and kick up our heels

Outer Bongolia

I don't know why but I was extremely turned on when I watched that... Maybe the sight of the explosions going off in the background coupled with those strong men doing aggressive dance moves....

beans

So I'm not the only one who thought that first video was actually ok?

It's like he got the Neptunes involved at some point, if not for the cheering it would be rapa

And the finale... the man's not a cnut at all at all - if I were his wife, I'd let him beat me all over the place

Lirange

I thought Michael Flatley was a leprechaun.

Or was that an Oompah Loompah?

The Chessplayer

Michael Flatley is completely crazy.

Imagine trying to have a conversation with that lad, you'd just end up beating his head off a door.

EamonnKeane

was it not the Black and tans??

NO! (they came after, in 1916 it was the DMP and the army)

Gone West

Mordeth wrote: »

i don't understand..

Stop self medicating then :P

FranchisePlayer

EamonnKeane wrote: »

NO! (they came after, in 1916 it was the DMP and the army)

Yeah fine but redcoats???? I don't think so.

Mr.Micro

FranchisePlayer wrote: »

Yeah fine but redcoats???? I don't think so.

Is it only now people realize that Flatley is off with fairies.

Pigman II

Yes yes yes! I loved the way the English just got served there! Historic recreation thru the medium of dance is clearly the way forward. Flatley is a genius.

I suppose it would be too much to hope for a reinactment of the 2006 "Siege of O'Connell St.", where brave Celtic (jersey wearing) Warriors defended our nations capital from the maurading Orange menace?

Man I feel so patriotic right now.

tech77

Aw man i thought this was going to be another "man has sex with bicycle threads".
Damn misleading thread titles.. :cool:

lostexpectation

just watched the first 1916 video, its flashy and well staged/lighted but shouldn't it show the few irish that did have go at the english getting the **** kicked out of them

Capt'n Midnight

MooseJam wrote: »

Michael Flatley is sexy as hell, I'd love to experiment with him

are you a vivisectionist ?

lostexpectation

riverdance etc was always just a trade show sideshow, a handy corporate outing, for the IDA whiley tried to sell our meat or bribe a pharmaceutical company to open a factory here.

the yankey doodley ending is appropriate flately knew what he was doing.
(dervish too)

Terry

I'd do Michelle Doherty.
Tall chicks rule.

JIZZLORD

trawling through beta found me this earlier.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5527/chicagoimg00658oq.jpg