Dustin is going to Serbia...

Ronan H

...to represent Ireland in the Eurovision! What about that then... :eek:

Head

Irjudge1

What a country of messers!! But then this is exactly what the eurovision deserves.:D

Savman

Deadly.

quaidox

i phoned in some votes meself last night for the turkey, especially to piss off dana, whose ranting last night was a disgrace!

Grid.

Well if thats what the Eurovision is about now , they should scrap it!

seaner

2nd that!

Furious-Red

Gridlock wrote: »

Well if thats what the Eurovision is about now , they should scrap it!

agreed but i would say dustin has a better chance of doing better than the past couple of years.

Grid.

Sadly yes!!:( But the whole thing now has turned into The Muppet Show!!

Creamy Goodness

dustin's song though is just genius though.

it's a complete piss take of the whole eurovision and if people can't see that well then...

aac.conroy

We will win, but Europe will laugh at us!

unclebill98

Can't wait to see what happens!

RobbieMc

Dustin can't do any worse, the last couple of years Ireland got bugger all in the voting.
If a heavy metal band and a Lebanesee tranny can get good scores and win, why not a puppet.

Classic song, backing singer has a powerful voice, plus Dustin has recorded some records in the past.
Sure the UK used KC and the sunshine band ( or something like that) in the past and did well.

Sure the last number of years the eurovision has become a p*ss take .

come on Ireland, Come on Dustin!

http://www.songcontestvoting.com/eurovision/countries.asp

Here's how we did out of 40 appearances in the eurovision

Grid.

Think everyone knows its a piss-take at this stage......so whats the point in havin it!!!:rolleyes:

Creamy Goodness

because not everyone in europe can get rte.

:rolleyes:

Wishbone Ash

Head wrote: »

...to represent Ireland in the Eurovision! What about that then... :eek:

Head

Eh, he's only through to the semi-finals. What makes you so sure he'll get through to the finals?

Grid.

Yeah which makes us look like a nation of gob****es!!

Creamy Goodness

Gridlock wrote: »

Yeah which makes us look like a nation of gob****es!!

we don't need a puppet for that.

Grid.

Thats true!!:o

aidan24326

This is great imo. The eurovision has become a complete joke and we've responded accordingly by sending a puppet turkey. Brilliant!

And to be fair the song is actually quite catchy even if it is just a pisstake. What's more, the voting has become so rigged now that we could send U2 to perform and the Latvians and Lithuanians will still just vote for each other. The eurovision might actually be worth watching this year if Dustin gets through. Go on Dustin I say

Petey2006

The best thing about this whole debacle is my uncle unsuccessfully entered a song for the Eurovision. It says loads that his legit song aint even good enough to beat a puppet turkey's song.

pd101

Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end for the Eurovision Contest. It's not even a contest any more anyway.

FunkZ

I'm glad he's in it, I'll definitely be watching now! Heck we might even win it!

Terry

Gridlock wrote: »

Yeah which makes us look like a nation of gob****es!!

Oh no.
Our Eurovision entrant is going to make the whole country look stupid amongst our sophisticated European neighbours.

It's such a shame that none of them understand irony or have a sense of humour.

What ever will we do?

Sherifu

Gridlock wrote: »

Yeah which makes us look like a nation of gob****es!!

Bertie is taking care of that, don't worry.

It's only a bit of fun, Eurovision ffs.

berliner

I always thought only gay people watched eurovision......so is dustin coming out of the closet then? Say it's not true!!!

CuLT

aac.conroy wrote: »

We will win, but Europe will laugh at us!

Gridlock wrote: »

Yeah which makes us look like a nation of gob****es!!

The Eurovision is a joke, Europe can laugh, but we'll be laughing harder

bunny shooter

Result !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rock on Dustin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eastern European countries block voting, this is you're legacy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The song is a total pisstake but what they going to do have a go at a puppet ?

Podge & Rodge next year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fester & Ailling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grid.

Terry wrote: »

Oh no.
Our Eurovision entrant is going to make the whole country look stupid amongst our sophisticated European neighbours.

It's such a shame that none of them understand irony or have a sense of humour.

What ever will we do?

Lovely:rolleyes:

rubadub

Petey2006 wrote: »

The best thing about this whole debacle is my uncle unsuccessfully entered a song for the Eurovision. It says loads that his legit song aint even good enough to beat a puppet turkey's song.

It is nothing to do with the song writing ability, I wouldn't get upset about it.

I found it a little hard to hear the lyrics due to the accent, I reckon even the brits will have trouble understanding him let alone any other countries.

Probably will go fairly un-noticed, all full of mad stuff these days. I was saying in the other thread I wonder if Dustin Hoffmann will hear about this turkey using his name. Most people have forgotten about where the name Dustin came from, and I expect other countries presenting will have it listed in his bio. Hope they do a good intro/bio for him.

Hope he doesn't win though, RTE licence fees are used to pay for hosting it, so no decent films for the next year if he wins.

Fantastic.

I wouldn't be surprised if he wins, though I prefered the 'fake' version. Even though its similar

mikemac

Noone can laugh at us, we're the most succussful country EVER in this competition.

Dustin has had some decent, funny songs in the past. He got a Christmas No.1 back around 1999 by adapting a well know song "A lemon tree". That was a good album, loads of decent tunes to make you laugh

Edit: Here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplucked
Some realy funny ones and they get singers like Bob Geldof to cooperate

Jaysus just watched that on the RTE website and it's ****e! He's done better than that in the past.
And wasn't Dana raging, she was in serious bad mood

Time to scrap the Eurovision, it was a masterpiece of technical ability to broadcast to multiple countries back when it launched. Something for TV broadcasters to be proud of. Who cares anymore??

Potential-Monke

If they got someone to sing it properly, then it might win, but all the other countries may not be able to understand english, let alone a turkey taking the piss in a dub accent.

Get him to sing it properly, and i'd say it could win.

Senna

rubadub wrote: »

I wonder if Dustin Hoffmann will hear about this turkey using his name.

Completely forgot about that. it's because of his big nose.

This is excellent, nobody gives a flying feck about the eurovision and this is a fitting entry. But i'll bet viewing figures in Ireland will be huge this year, i'll head to the pub to watch that.;)

Terry

Potential-monke wrote:

If they got someone to sing it properly, then it might win, but all the other countries may not be able to understand english, let alone a turkey taking the piss in a dub accent.

Get him to sing it properly, and i'd say it could win.

Indeed.
Let's get all the entrants to sing properly so that we can understand them.

Wait.
What's regarded as properly?

JavaBear

I can't understand the song and I am from Dublin :rolleyes:

It's terrible and not catchy at all. When I heard he was doing it I was hoping for something as good as christmas tree (yeah I know that wasn't exactly original...)

I think a better way to show they we know the eurovision is a joke, is to not enter at all.

Vertigo100

in fairness i voted for him by text as well and i have never voted for anything by text or phone. Come on the plastic turkey that was prob made in taiwan!

kieranbates

he even has fans in an Irish bub in Austria! Is he really in with a chance?

http://www.theolddubliner.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=51

unplucky for the other entrants!
Kieran

kieranbates

"Irish Pub" I meant to say!

Manic Moran

Hell, of the six songs I heard, I think Dustin's was even the best.

Or least worst.

or something.

Still, nowt wrong with a short skirt, mind.

I can't wait to hear Wogan's commentary. Might as well go with 'piss-take': Playing 'serious' hasn't done Ireland any favours in the last while, they can give this a crack and go back to serious again next year.

NTM

randylonghorn

Dana: "At worst, we could have a copy-cat senario next year and find we have a Eurovision where there are more puppets than humans!!!"

And this would be different how, exactly? :rolleyes:



(link to full interview)

cm2000

rather lose with some dignity than win with that farce. if thats what it takes to win then its not worth winning

Senna

cm2000 wrote: »

rather lose with some dignity than win with that farce.

LOSE WITH DIGNITY??? its the fecking eurovision, not the fecking battle of the Somme!!!

cm2000 wrote: »

if thats what it takes to win then its not worth winning

Its not worth winning.

randylonghorn

cm2000 wrote: »

rather lose with some dignity than win with that farce. if thats what it takes to win then its not worth winning

You're right, it's not!

Jeez, this isn't the Irish Rugby or Soccer team we're talking about, 'tis Euro-bloody-vision, the competition that defeats most attempts to parody it simply by being an ongoing parody of itself.

Crumble Froo

haha, he's made it to the 6 o clock news in new zealand

togster

Haha he made CNN last night too and they commeneted he was "one of the favourites"!! WTF

GerryRyan

I can see it now - Ireland banned from the Eurovision indefinitely - but we'll win it first

eldeabroad

made it to spanish national news last night too - with the comment tthat "...the Irish must be fed up with the eurovision..." all the same, I was morto. Will defo not be putting it on in de bar.

At least the rugger team had a good win:D

Crumble Froo

eldeabroad wrote: »

made it to spanish national news last night too - with the comment tthat "...the Irish must be fed up with the eurovision..." all the same, I was morto. Will defo not be putting it on in de bar.

At least the rugger team had a good win:D

... didn't hear about that on the news :P

Dun laoire

The Eurovision song contest is a big pile of fuking sh1te. It's for big aulwans with big grey knitting needles and smelly tights.


My lovely horse running through the field,
Where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?
I want to shower you with sugarlumps,
And ride you over fences,
Polish your hooves every single day,
And bring you to the horse dentist,

My lovely horse,
You're a pony no more,
Running around with a man on your back,
Like a train in the night,
Like a train in the night.

Degsy

Brilliant idea to take the piss out of the whole sorry affair.I hope the big-nosed bastard walks away with it.THEN i hope Dana is thrown in jail for being a dead-eyed,whinging nordy bible-basher.

gcgirl

Did you hear someone asked Dustin about going to Serbia and its current conflict and he replyed that he has been to Bray and got out of there alive!! Class