sour grapes @ BBC

hussey

Friends and fellow democrates,
>
> Here we go again ........ please cast your vote and pass this on:
>
> Now the BBC are doing a poll to see if people agreed with the previous
poll
> (it seems they suspect that certain groups may have organised campaigns to
> manipulate the original results).
>
> They ask: "Do you think this poll accurately reflects the Top Ten songs
> around the world?"
>
> Click on the link to cast your vote:
>
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/ >
> I really don't know what they hope to prove by asking such a ridiculous
> question, as the number of voters for every other song voted for is bound
to
> exceed the number of voters for the winning song! And how are people in
one
> part of the world expected to know if the poll "accurately reflects" the
top
> song in another part of the world?
>
> What do sour grapes smell like?

Stephen

Here we go again

Yes ( 81%)
No ( 19%)
Total so far: 14603

elexes

a well its a irish song we gota vote yes

leeroybrown

As we can see from the figures, the people who originally voted are sticking to their guns

sceptre

Originally posted by hussey
> (it seems they suspect that certain groups may have organised campaigns to
> manipulate the original results).

That'll be all those tikes that voted for Dil Dil Pakistan

Mossy Monk

is the poll closed because it wont leave me or any of my friends vote :mad:

John2002

From the Beeb website:

The Top Four Songs in our survey are all similar in that they were voted for in an organised and passionate way by listeners who felt strongly enough that their song should be chosen as the World's Favourite Song

lol

Stephen

I notice no reference was made on that site to the "800 years of oppression" comments that went with a lot of the Wolfe Tones votes

Mark

I notice no reference was made on that site to the "800 years of oppression" comments that went with a lot of the Wolfe Tones votes

753 years actually .

Tis nice to see Wolf Tone up there, a friendly way to piss them off

Pepe LeFrits

Cher - Believe - wtf

DapperGent

Is no one else really embarrassed by the Wolfe Tones? They make me cringe.

It's funny to have an obscure Irish song up there but it's sad that it's from a bunch die hard nationalists that attempt to validate the IRA's worst atrocities through song.

El Marco

Wait to suck the fun out of this thread DapperGent!

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by DapperGent
Is no one else really embarrassed by the Wolfe Tones? They make me cringe.

It's funny to have an obscure Irish song up there but it's sad that it's from a bunch die hard nationalists that attempt to validate the IRA's worst atrocities through song.

So what you're trying to say is that you're embarassed by the men and women who fought for Irish independence?

The song is hardly obscure, just about every person in Ireland has heard it.

ballooba

I don't think that you are going to solve 800 years of disagreement (or 735 or whatever) here.

So what you're trying to say is that you're embarassed by the men and women who fought for Irish independence?

Firstly, I think the poster was referring to the manner in which the IRA has carried out their struggle for a 32 county republic and the way that the Wolfe Tones have 'allegedly' given support financial and otherwise for terrorism.

Secondly, i think that the poster was referring to the fact that the song is obscure on a global scale seeing as the total population of Ireland is somewhere under 5 million and that the total internet population of the world is somewhere around 400 million.

BTW, I am not saying that i am embarassed by the Wolfe Tones.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by ballooba
I don't think that you are going to solve 800 years of disagreement (or 735 or whatever) here.



Firstly, I think the poster was referring to the manner in which the IRA has carried out their struggle for a 32 county republic and the way that the Wolfe Tones have 'allegedly' given support financial and otherwise for terrorism.

Secondly, i think that the poster was referring to the fact that the song is obscure on a global scale seeing as the total population of Ireland is somewhere under 5 million and that the total internet population of the world is somewhere around 400 million.

BTW, I am not saying that i am embarassed by the Wolfe Tones.

Yes but the song has nothing to do with the present day IRA and their aims in N. Ireland, despite what they have done to use it for their own purposes. Also the song is known outside of Ireland, the UK, USA, Australia etc. I've even seen a chap from Scandanavia who had it in his fileshare a bit ago.

ballooba

I was referring to the Wolfe Tone's 'alleged' links with the present day IRA.

I acknowledge that the song is popular with people worldwide. If you consider that the number 2 song on that list would be the Indian equivalent of 'The Fields Of Athenry', the Wolfe Tones song is relatively obscure.

DapperGent

It's the band rather than the song itself that gets on my nerves.

Bunch of trogladytic hate-mongers.

Ryo Hazuki

I spent about an hour doing that! Clearing Cookies and entering a new email address, quite funny actually.