Dustin for Eurovision

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

I am all for Dustin doing his stuff for Ireland

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Naaah. I think if that happened, Id be all in favour of a "Not in my name" campaign. It'd be a bit too embarrassing.

Very few countries would 'get' the joke. Of those that did, none (with the possible exception of some pockets of the UK with Hibernian sympathies) would find it funny.

The rest would either think we're entering this shyte cos we're sulking because we dont win anymore, or that a puppet turkey with an annoying voice and a very limited comedy repetoire is the very pinnacle of our creative achievements as a nation.

Many people forget that Finland won with an unprecedented pan-european majority, with even it's traditionally unfriendly & unco-operative Nordic neighbours, many of whom long considered Finnish culture embarrassing, scoring it highly, and Serbia's winning entry last year, (a passable middle of the road AOR ditty, with real music and lyrics and a band and everything...) may have got the expected "block votes" from Montenegro etc, but what actually enabled their win was the High marks from the Big 5 western nations (UK, Germany, France, Spain and someone else...) and Ireland. Sometimes a decent-ish song can actually win...

Ireland , if they're interested, should try finding a decent song instead of using the selection process as a typical Rte 1550 SCAM U type moneyspinner (Note to RTE Lads - Don Givens is available for selection processes now, you know. If you're lucky, he may know more about music than he does about football...) and if they aren't interested, they should just pull out of the damn thing altogether, like Monaco & the Italians did.

Give it to Samantha Mumba.
We really need to get the bloc-vote out.

Would be brilliant, hilarious, and in my opinion shows the disgrace of a competition has actually turned into.

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Originally Posted by Bondvillain

(UK, Germany, France, Spain and someone else...)

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There's a lot of Serbian immigrants in France, Germany and Austria as well as some in the UK and Sweden as well as those of other ex-Yugoslav states. That can help skew the voting pattern too. You only have to look at how Ireland apportions its points, it reads a list of the largest immigrant groups in the republic.

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Originally Posted by Poor Student

There's a lot of Serbian immigrants in France, Germany and Austria as well as some in the UK and Sweden as well as those of other ex-Yugoslav states. That can help skew the voting pattern too. You only have to look at how Ireland apportions its points, it reads a list of the largest immigrant groups in the republic.

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A large cross-European Serbian diaspora there may be, I can neither confirm nor deny such a fact.

However, for the above fact to have resonance in a democratic (yet fundamentally profit making) situation such as the Eurosong vote, you'd have to assume that a massive majority of these expats, in each of their new nations of residence, voted en masse on their mobiles for their home nation in the Eurovision enough times to make a difference in a population base the size of any of the above 'big five' mentioned...

I personally would hazard that this did not occur on the scale required, as I reckon many ex-pat Serbs would be more concenred with more significant things like, say, paying the rent or surviving in a foreign country, than trying to play a machiavellian part in making sure their country had the best song in a Saturday night pan-European tops of the towns talent show.

Realistically, the general consensus amongst European radio stations & broadcasters was that the Serbian entry was just "a decent oul tune" that people liked, (considering it was a Eurovison song) and nobody found too annoying.

Sometimes there is no conspiracy. :)

Well, Dustin appears to have made the shortlist....

The words "Oh" and "dear" come to mind...

...Stick your money on the entry written by the Slovenian gang...

Currently being discussed on Liveline.

The words "Embarrassment" "Disgrace" "Stupidity" and "Shame" are being bandied about with even more regularity than usual when the Eurovision is being discussed.

Frank McNamara is furious, Duffy is bemused, and Shay Healy appears to be on some kind of medication.

The song itself was played and is mildly melodic and uncomplicated, with a smattering of witty lines (although probably only witty if English is your first language) but will no doubt grate after verse 3. It also bears some uncanny similarities to the Lithuanian joke entry from 2006 "We are the Winners (of the Eurovision)"

However it's better than Dervish. Still a poor idea though.

Already the bloc are up in arms. "Disgrace", "nonsense", "illegal" :rolleyes:

They've had it all their own way for yonks now, they claimed the top 17 spots last year, now when someone threatens their dominance, they cry foul.

Yes, it's a joke song, yes it will probably do well, yes it shouldn't be in Eurovision, but what harm??

Ireland were drawn in 4th place in the first semi-final, yes first one this year. We're on the Tuesday night. New countries are Azerbaijan and San Marino, featuring a song in Italian for the first time in 15 years.

Right, there goes Malta's 12 points...... :o

San Marino? That's a strange one. Maybe we could get the Vatican City entry and get the Pope singing a hymn, that may get a cr@pload of votes.