The Jedwardifaction of Irish Dancing

ClovenHoof

These Irish Dancing troupe with the 'street' attitude are so over done at this point.

I am not knocking the ability to dance with such precision and skill, I am talking about the sour puss faces and the 'in your face!' pretentiousness.

It's going on decades since Riverdance and we get it!

But the whole need to 'yeah we Irish dance and we are cool!' thing is getting as twee as wee colleens in garish dresses with orange curly wigs. They are not cool at all no matter how 'serious' they look and how tight their jeans or short their skirts. It comes across about as 'street' as Jeward and Vanilla Ice.

Enough Already.

fatknacker

Yes, Woody Allen makes an awful dance choreographer

me_irl

Hardly "street" if they can't cross their arms to show their "cred".

My name is URL

Those damn Jewards, up to no good as usual

whisky_galore

Fashions change and Irish dancing is full of invented traditions for well over a century.

mad muffin

First they came for our babies. Then our money. And now our dancing.

darkpagandeath

Damn Jedwoods making trouble in my Neighbourhood.

tigger123

Is this thread antisemitic?

maudgonner

Hold on a minute, Vanilla Ice is not street all of a sudden?! :eek:

kneemos

WTF is a jeward?

Birneybau

kneemos wrote: »

WTF is a jeward?

A jewish steward

Special Circumstances

Birneybau wrote: »

A jewish steward

Jewish bare knuckle boxer?
Daniel "the Jew" Ward.
He won't fight on Saturdays.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

ClovenHoof wrote: »

These Irish Dancing troupe with the 'street' attitude are so over done at this point.

I am not knocking the ability to dance with such precision and skill, I am talking about the sour puss faces and the 'in your face!' pretentiousness.

It's going on decades since Riverdance and we get it!

But the whole need to 'yeah we Irish dance and we are cool!' thing is getting as twee as wee colleens in garish dresses with orange curly wigs. They are not cool at all no matter how 'serious' they look and how tight their jeans or short their skirts. It comes across about as 'street' as Jeward and Vanilla Ice.

Enough Already.

I've never encountered this. Are they armed?

Nodin

ClovenHoof wrote: »

These Irish Dancing troupe with the 'street' attitude are so over done at this point.

I am not knocking the ability to dance with such precision and skill, I am talking about the sour puss faces and the 'in your face!' pretentiousness.

It's going on decades since Riverdance and we get it!

But the whole need to 'yeah we Irish dance and we are cool!' thing is getting as twee as wee colleens in garish dresses with orange curly wigs. They are not cool at all no matter how 'serious' they look and how tight their jeans or short their skirts. It comes across about as 'street' as Jeward and Vanilla Ice.

Enough Already.

A link to a video would have been nice. We could have all mocked them together. But no, you're a bad man. Bad.

kneemos

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I've never encountered this. Are they armed?

They are but they don't use them.

Duckworth_Luas

If Jedward are philistines does that make Jeward Palestinians?

maudgonner

I googled and came up with this link.

Some crowd went onto a train in Perth on Thursday morning (St Patrick's day - but a normal Thursday commute in Perth) and did a flash mob of Irish dancing. With hard shoes. To line dancing music.

I would have beaten them to death with those hard shoes.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

kneemos wrote: »

They are but they don't use them.

As long as they hold the gun sideways, that's all that matters.

Jayop

maudgonner wrote: »

I googled and came up with this link.

Some crowd went onto a train in Perth on Thursday morning (St Patrick's day - but a normal Thursday commute in Perth) and did a flash mob of Irish dancing. With hard shoes. To line dancing music.

I would have beaten them to death with those hard shoes.

Oh my that blonde!!:eek:

Samaris

I was really wondering if it was a Jewish invasion of Irish dancing or Jedward by the link.

I'm kinda disappointed that it was Jedward now.

But on another note, the sourpuss faces is the traditional way Irish dancing is done. It's only since Riverdance that one is allowed to look like one might be enjoying oneself. It's SUPPOSED to look like purgatory with spinach.

kneemos

Samaris wrote: »

I was really wondering if it was a Jewish invasion of Irish dancing or Jedward by the link.

I'm kinda disappointed that it was Jedward now.

But on another note, the sourpuss faces is the traditional way Irish dancing is done. It's only since Riverdance that one is allowed to look like one might be enjoying oneself. It's SUPPOSED to look like purgatory with spinach.

To quote Chandler Bing "it looks like the legs are independent from the body".

ancapailldorcha

Thread title amended to what I assume the OP intended it to be.