Winning Streak

davet82 · 24-01-2012 05:36PM #1

I know i'm probably gonna get alot of stick here for culchie (anyone outside dublin imo) bashing but how is that there are very few dubs on winning streak but with nearly half the population in dublin should there not be at least 2 dubs a week on it by averages?

is this a culchie conspiracy?

Teyla Emmagan · 24-01-2012 05:42PM

Only culchies watch it/would be caught dead appearing on it.

mikemac1 · 24-01-2012 05:43PM

Bring back Mike Murphy

Chuck Stone · 24-01-2012 05:49PM

Maybe rural people buy more tickets?

davet82 · 24-01-2012 05:54PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Maybe rural people buy more tickets?

damn you chuck, you just ruined my thread

Chuck Stone · 24-01-2012 06:12PM

davet82 wrote: »

damn you chuck, you just ruined my thread

Sorry!

It was actually a question cos I don't know the answer!

But it does seem likely.

Fart · 24-01-2012 06:17PM

I think the show has to cater for the different dialects. No point in having most contestants from Dublin as most of the country folk would be like:

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quietriot · 24-01-2012 06:25PM

'Cause the city folks are too busy, you know, running the country while you country folk play scratchcards, beat one another at bog-ball matches with handbags and argue over the price of cattle.

Duckworth_Luas · 24-01-2012 06:32PM

quietriot wrote: »

'Cause the city folks are too busy, you know, running the country while you country folk play scratchcards, beat one another at bog-ball matches with handbags and argue over the price of cattle.

Is "running the country" code for injecting heroin and begging for change?

mikemac1 · 24-01-2012 06:35PM

Dubs are too busy watching BBC and ITV, West Brits the lot of them

IM0 · 24-01-2012 06:36PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Is "running the country" code for injecting heroin and begging for change?

then why do you bastards give it to us so. :mad:

IM0 · 24-01-2012 06:37PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Dubs are too busy watching BBC and ITV, West Brits the lot of them

because rte is that good

quietriot · 24-01-2012 06:37PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Is "running the country" code for injecting heroin and begging for change?

Nah, just the business, political and tourism capital of the country, besides being the actual capital and only noteworthy city.

Rocky_Dennis · 24-01-2012 06:42PM

quietriot wrote: »

'Cause the city folks are too busy, you know, RUINING the country while you country folk play scratchcards, beat one another at bog-ball matches with handbags and argue over the price of cattle.

FYP

Fourteen · 24-01-2012 06:42PM

lol OP, I was thinking the exact same thing the other day.

isn't Marty Whelan from Dublin, though? why isn't he sorting this out?

Judas!

bordsie · 24-01-2012 06:48PM

I'd rather not appear on a TV show where most contestants are toothless simpletons with eyebrows on their cheeks.

Pacing Mule · 24-01-2012 06:50PM

Winning streak threads = boring.

Streak FAIL = so much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZR5rfyT7Q

Jesus Wept · 24-01-2012 08:22PM

Yes, they weight it. It's not proportional or 'fair'.

mr.jingle · 24-01-2012 08:33PM

bordsie wrote: »

I'd rather not appear on a TV show where most contestants are toothless simpletons with eyebrows on their cheeks.

I wouldn't give a flying f**k what i looked like on TV if i was getting a near guaranteed €30,000 for buying a scratchcard.

Robus · 24-01-2012 08:37PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Yes, they weight it. It's not proportional or 'fair'.

Proof Please!

quietriot · 24-01-2012 08:40PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Yes, they weight it. It's not proportional or 'fair'.

Seriously? Where is this written?

I could understand if from a marketing point of view but essentially rigging a game of chance in favour of some people based on location would be worthy of it being shut down.

muracan · 24-01-2012 09:33PM

Whatever about the contestants the wheel is rigged.
Watch the ball "shiver" as it slows down.It certainly doesn't fall naturally.
Magnets I reckon!

If you don't believe me,watch it!

Agus · 24-01-2012 09:43PM

davet82 wrote: »

with nearly half the population in dublin should there not be at least 2 dubs a week on it by averages?

[Quibble starts]

Not that it affects your point much but Dublin is just over a quarter of the population, not nearly half (1,187,176 out of 4,581,269 in the 2011 census, apparently).

If you include Kildare, Meath and Wicklow in the Greater Dublin region you get 39.3% of the state's population.

[Quibble finishes]

Celly Smunt · 24-01-2012 09:45PM

The Culchie state of mind

Buy 2 tickets for €4
win €2
WINNER!!!

Mr Benevolent · 24-01-2012 09:47PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Dubs are too busy watching BBC and ITV, West Brits the lot of them

But you're west of Britain too.

Sky King · 24-01-2012 09:47PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

The Culchie state of mind

Buy 2 tickets for €4
win €2
WINNER!!!

Yeah. We're an awful shower of fuckin eejits, really.

Arnold Layne · 24-01-2012 09:49PM

Saw an explanation for this some years ago. One bag of tickets is selected for each county irrespective of how many bags per county there are. Then the five tickets are randomly selected from these.

Mr Trade In · 24-01-2012 09:49PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Dubs are too busy watching BBC and ITV, West Brits the lot of them

Better West Brits than old Brits, you lot pretend to be the real Irish but are really the dregs of the old British landowners enjoy your dead no value lands and ****e b/w TVs while we live it up in civilization.

Celly Smunt · 24-01-2012 09:50PM

Arnold Layne wrote: »

Saw an explanation for this some years ago. One bag of tickets is selected for each county irrespective of how many bags per county there are. Then the five tickets are randomly selected from these.

so i'd be on every week if i lived in roscommon?

mossyc123 · 24-01-2012 10:05PM

Don't get the hate for Winning Streak myself.

Bunch of random punters go into a TV studio and come out an hour later with a 5/6-figure sum each... obviously not the most original or stimulating piece of Television but what's not to like?!

It's certainly better then some other options for Saturday night TV, e.g. The X Factor which seems to amount to the humiliation of deluded people and ridicilous hyperbole surrounding mediocre talents.

Arnold Layne · 24-01-2012 10:08PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

Arnold Layne wrote: »

Saw an explanation for this some years ago. One bag of tickets is selected for each county irrespective of how many bags per county there are. Then the five tickets are randomly selected from these.

so i'd be on every week if i lived in roscommon?

How so? There would still be tickets from 25 other bags

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