Would anyone ever tell Blonaid what a god damn fool she's making of herself.

SuperInfinity

I hate everything about her. Everything she's ever in.

You're not supposed to go into a big complicated story about how they weren't going through, maybe a short "pretend they weren't getting through" isn't too bad, but this idea of telling them their voices weren't up to standard and all that crap, and THEN saying "but you're through lololololol", what a fool.

And I thought: isn't it amazing how the All-Ireland talent show has all the biggest failures in Irish television on it: Blonaid, Seoige, idiot Creedon, clown Daithi, ridiculous Dana...

All they need is to get rid of that blonde one and replace her with Craig Doyle to have a full house of the worst people that have ever been on Irish tv.

And how all of these total losers, television failures, who don't have the charisma of a household plant, and who shouldn't even be allowed in PUBLIC never mind on television are on my tv paid for by the public's money?

What a disgrace. But Blonad is the worst, god I HATE her.

H1ppy

All too true Supe, thanks for echoing my sentiments before the fact.

Gotta say though, the entire production team, by which I mean those responsible for brain-farting this rubbish and those who green-lighted it and those who decided on the editing of the final cut and the direction of the ongoings are a bunch of fookin clown-shoes.

I really can't believe how abysmally awful this show is turning out to be, from the arse-backwards decisions to let some of the alright talents go in favour of the granny-pleasing cabarret acts to the condescension dripping from every remark these yahoos make in what they percieve to be some kind of magnanimous bestowal of sage advice. Get a clue you freaks!

Nolanger

She reminds me of what I dislike about Irish women: fat, ugly, loud-mouthed, wears too much make up, and full of herself.

JonathanAnon

Not a huge fan of Blá either, but I have to say the whole talking heads thing... "We're gonna win it for the west" etc etc..... is sooo cringeworthy, and simply just a waste of show time..

Morgans

Simply the worst article ever penned.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/blathnaid-rebel-with-a-cause-2098809.html

I think Blathnaid is the thing I hate most about Ireland, except maybe Grainne Seoige's ever so Gaelgoir's correct pronounciation of Blahnidge.

Desperate program simply their to impress some 50 year olds somewhere that Ireland can produce its own X-factor. Even the ever so false animosity between the judges. I feel sorry for the people with genuine talent being judged by people with so little.

Kerry/Kilkenny/Dublin/Galway didnt do well in the Hurling/Football this year so I'm hoping I can do this for the south/east/west/north.

delta_bravo

Its such a bad show. Does anyone else notice that nearly every contestant has some sort of sob story that gets discussed before they perform?

mike65

Stop ****ing watching it!

Morgans

Thanks. I didn't realise that I had a choice. Lesson learned.

Dudess

Lol at the rage when you don't even have to watch it. Seriously, why would you watch that tripe at all, let alone when you dislike it...?

sh1tstirrer

mike65 wrote: »

Stop ****ing watching it!

How true. It's like the idiots on here that watch the late late show every week and comment about how bad it is. Same posters every week it has become a ritual for them. They must have very boring sad lives :rolleyes:

Technique

That guy Healy-Rae as well from last year. :mad:

What a horrible show.

H1ppy

Eh, maybe we like to keep informed about what the muppets in RTE are throwing our money away on, maybe we like to have an opinion and air it, maybe you suck.

Morgans

Well, cos its you Dudess, I'll explain my sunday nights usually consist of NFL on Sky, apart from a half an hour where I earn my brownie points by enduring Fair City. However, tonight fair city was late and was treated to fifteen minutes of Blatnaid.

I hope this circumstance satisfies those clever clogs who figured out that they can switch over channels and arent stupid enough to get stuck on RTE1 for whatever amount of time, and to have an opinion as a result.

I thank the clever people who do point out that there is more than one channel on tv when there are any complaints about a tv program on here. Its great to derive benefit from their superior intellect.

sh1tstirrer

H1ppy wrote: »

Eh, maybe we like to keep informed about what the muppets in RTE are throwing our money away on, maybe we like to have an opinion and air it, maybe you suck.

Are you American?

H1ppy

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Are you American?

What a weird, weird question. Are you prejudiced?

mike65

suck = american for "you're cat" (whatever happened to that phrase?)

sh1tstirrer

H1ppy wrote: »

What a weird, weird question. Are you prejudiced?

You answer a question with a question. You must be part American part Cork :rolleyes:

SuperInfinity

H1ppy wrote: »

Eh, maybe we like to keep informed about what the muppets in RTE are throwing our money away on, maybe we like to have an opinion and air it, maybe you suck.

Yeah, I hardly ever watch it (inb4 "omg how can u have an opinion when you don't watch it"), but as a person who pays for a tv licence, surely I can turn on one of the channels some time and expect to see a bit of quality, not self-righteous, self-absorbed therapy and playtime for the presenters who are really in a world of their own.

It doesn't take more than a few minutes viewing before you see everything that goes on in the show (on the RTE/production side). Today it happened to be on in the background when I was using my laptop, and I thought I'd leave it on just to see the contestants and if people in it had talent.

Agonist

I ended up watching a fair amount of that show tonight and there was yards of guff and crap and I didn't hear one act perform. What kind of talent show is it where the only acts are the judges? And only one judge. I won't make that mistake again.

H1ppy

mike65 wrote: »

suck = american for "you're cat" (whatever happened to that phrase?)

suck = a sign that i'm under 40, not american, friend.

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

You answer a question with a question. You must be part American part Cork :rolleyes:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Lame.

Agonist

H1ppy wrote: »

suck = a sign that i'm under 40, not american, friend.



LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Lame.

Yeah, go back to America.

telekon

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

You answer a question with a question. You must be part American part Cork :rolleyes:

I'd rather be part american part cork than be from cavan.

Dudess

Nolanger wrote: »

She reminds me of what I dislike about Irish women: fat, ugly, loud-mouthed, wears too much make up, and full of herself.

Not exclusive to Ireland. Not applicable to all Irish women. Seriously, is that approach a contagious disease on Boards.ie? I can't stand Hector, Daithí etc but don't feel compelled to view them as representative of Irish men...

H1ppy wrote: »

maybe you suck.

Telling someone they suck because they disagree with you - are you 13?

Morgans wrote: »

Well, cos its you Dudess, I'll explain my sunday nights usually consist of NFL on Sky, apart from a half an hour where I earn my brownie points by enduring Fair City. However, tonight fair city was late and was treated to fifteen minutes of Blatnaid.

I hope this circumstance satisfies those clever clogs who figured out that they can switch over channels and arent stupid enough to get stuck on RTE1 for whatever amount of time, and to have an opinion as a result.

I thank the clever people who do point out that there is more than one channel on tv when there are any complaints about a tv program on here. Its great to derive benefit from their superior intellect.

It's not trying to be clever etc - a bit of a whinge about that utterly hideous programme is understandable, but just the sheer detail and anger of the opening post... screamed out for such a response.

sh1tstirrer

H1ppy wrote: »

suck = a sign that i'm under 40, not american, friend.



LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Lame.

So if you are under 40 you use American slang words As you say in your own words thats lame.

darrenw5094

Morgans wrote: »

Simply the worst article ever penned.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/blathnaid-rebel-with-a-cause-2098809.html

So you're a sex symbol for junkies? "They thought I was a bit kooky at times."

Quote from the above article.

Banji

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

So if you are under 40 you use American slang words As you say in your own words thats lame.

Living up to your name eh? People use the words suck, lame, awesome, etc. If you don't like it you know what you can do

What is wrong with being American anyway?

Ontopic.. yeah this show sucks!

H1ppy

Just for the record, I'm lovin the flame-wars and not personally offended by any of this, just nominally offended as an excuse to reposte.

Agonist wrote: »

Yeah, go back to America.

Aw, why you gotta saya laka dat?

Dudess wrote: »

Telling someone they suck because they disagree with you - are you 13?

It's not trying to be clever etc - a bit of a whinge about that utterly hideous programme is understandable, but just the sheer detail and anger of the opening post... screamed out for such a response.

No, love, not 13. I said not that they sucked because they disagreed with me, as you maintain. If you take the time to read the posts above mine you'll see in fact nobody had expressed any liking for the show at all, and so had not expressed the opposite view point to my own, and therefore had not actually disagreed. An enquiry had been made, however, as to the reason for posting an opinion about the show in the first place, which I endeavored to answer, and a comparison had been made to some or other group of idiots, or stupid persons, which I felt could do with a subtle rejoinder, hence the suggestion, but not the concrete assertion, of suckiness. Hope that clears that up for ya.

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

So if you are under 40 you use American slang words As you say in your own words thats lame.

Mm-hmm. No, again, let me explain for the slower of thinking. Maintaining that one is less likely to be over 40 if they use American slang is not equivalent to maintaining that if one is under 40 they therefore neccessarily make use of American slang. You need to work on your logical reasoning.

I'd also posit that a lot of so called American slang has over the past couple of decades been much more widely adopted in the English speaking world, or at least that part of it to which I am regularly exposed, than it had been previously, and could arguably be considered youth slang now, or just slang perhaps, as opposed to American slang.

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Heroditas

Morgans wrote: »

Simply the worst article ever penned.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/blathnaid-rebel-with-a-cause-2098809.html

I stopped after this bit:

By Barry Egan

I've watched the show a couple of times and just thought it was terribly twee. However, we seem to like to take foreign shows and make our own twee versions of the, i.e. America/Britain's Got Talent becomes the All Ireland Talent Show, Strictly Come Dancing becomes Celebrity Jigs and Reels.

One of the top dogs from TV3 was on Newstalk a while ago and had to defend some of the shows like X-factor and Take Me Out. His response for Take Me Out was "it's a successful show in the UK so why would we put an Irish spin on it when we can take the format and use Irish contestants"
He had the same argument for an Irish version of X-factor, i.e. use the exact same format and use Irish people in it instead of producing something like the All Ireland show.
I can see where he's coming from and I'd agree with him. However, there is a large market for shows like The All Ireland Talent Show, judging by the ratings.
Loads of Irish people seem to love that sort of show, particularly when it plays on the whole parochial rivalry.

Mrs Shuttleworth

Heroditas wrote: »

I stopped after this bit:




I've watched the show a couple of times and just thought it was terribly twee. However, we seem to like to take foreign shows and make our own twee versions of the, i.e. America/Britain's Got Talent becomes the All Ireland Talent Show, Strictly Come Dancing becomes Celebrity Jigs and Reels.

One of the top dogs from TV3 was on Newstalk a while ago and had to defend some of the shows like X-factor and Take Me Out. His response for Take Me Out was "it's a successful show in the UK so why would we put an Irish spin on it when we can take the format and use Irish contestants"
He had the same argument for an Irish version of X-factor, i.e. use the exact same format and use Irish people in it instead of producing something like the All Ireland show.
I can see where he's coming from and I'd agree with him. However, there is a large market for shows like The All Ireland Talent Show, judging by the ratings.
Loads of Irish people seem to love that sort of show, particularly when it plays on the whole parochial rivalry.

Don't forget RTE's new yoof strand. Instead of T4, we're getting TRTE.

Genius.

sh1tstirrer

If you don't like it you know what you can do No, please tell me.

What is wrong with being American anyway? Nothing

Ontopic.. yeah this show sucks! Another want to be American :rolleyes:

sh1tstirrer

H1ppy wrote: »

Mm-hmm. No, again, let me explain for the slower of thinking. Maintaining that one is less likely to be over 40 if they use American slang is not equivalent to maintaining that if one is under 40 they therefore neccessarily make use of American slang. You need to work on your logical reasoning.!

Stop contradicting yourself

Dudess

When all else fails, resort to condescension.

H1ppy

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Stop contradicting yourself

Oops, sorry, my bad.

Dudess wrote: »

When all else fails, resort to condescension.

Done, and done.

SuperInfinity

They're going to be ringing in the New Year with this **** again this year.

What a cod. :mad:

My real New Year's Day ringing comes on when it hits midnight in Times Square in New York and Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin ring in the New Year like they properly should on CNN.

Colmo52

SuperInfinity wrote: »

They're going to be ringing in the New Year with this **** again this year.

What a cod. :mad:

My real New Year's Day ringing comes on when it hits midnight in Times Square in New York and Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin ring in the New Year like they properly should.

Our country is broke. This is all rte can afford these days.

telekon

Colmo52 wrote: »

Our country is broke. This is all rte can afford these days.

This is RTE's way of making money these days with all these gullible simpletons texting in their votes to the All-Ireland Non-talent Show.

It must be getting fierce difficult to get the old license fee off people in the past couple of years...

SuperInfinity

telekon wrote: »

This is RTE's way of making money these days with all these gullible simpletons texting in their votes to the All-Ireland Non-talent Show.

It must be getting fierce difficult to get the old license fee off people in the past couple of years...

And then they constantly impose ads on us telling us that we won't get away with not paying our tv licence. Hence the question: why the hell do they have the ads in the first place, shouldn't they delight in the new revenue from the penalties if they were that sure of making people pay? It doesn't even make sense logically.

Oh noes! Daddy was in court for standing up for something he believed in!!! Oh Holy Mary Mother of God the shame... THE SHAME!!!!!

flutered

just do what i do never watch it.

eagle10

Everytime I see her I fell like vomiting!

All of those chins make me feel like I'm in china.

She is an obnoxious lump of mould.

sandbear

I once saw blathnaid ni chofaigh in the Blackrock shopping centre. I never saw such a stuck up cow in all my life. Rotten. She gave off a very negative vibe. :mad:

The savage eye did a great parody of her, finally a bit of quality satire to show up likes of what we have to endure on TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1YTmmE3a6I

major bill

dont know much about the talent show as i dont watch it but your wan bla?? id rather get up on a monday morning than get up on her the irritating bitch.

SuperInfinity

sandbear wrote: »

I once saw blathnaid ni chofaigh in the Blackrock shopping centre. I never saw such a stuck up cow in all my life. Rotten. She gave off a very negative vibe. :mad:

The savage eye did a great parody of her, finally a bit of quality satire to show up likes of what we have to endure on TV

She's like some wicked witch. You couldn't make her up in fiction. I can't think of anyone as bad as her. I hate that "thoughtful" and condescending voice she puts on most of all.

I think The All-Ireland Talent Show is almost a parody of a crappy RTE talent show itself. "let's do it for the north lads".

I wonder if the GAA could sue them for the obvious allusions to GAA all the time. I doubt the GAA want to be connected with that sort of rubbish.

Motley Crue

Once again Irish Media have failed, for shame