[user104658]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Time to give the lad a break . He’s a kind soul


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LT won't give him a break, he stopped being performatively supportive of gay people years ago. The outright homophobia has ramped up a bit lately to be fair.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

we can all be superstars singing into the bathroom mirror

he failed his big test and got NO points

dud

You've clearly never heard me sing.

[Cherie]

IRELAND IN A NUTSHELL: THE 31 YEAR OLD TEENAGER
There’s a strange cultural paradox in Ireland in which the dominant culture, the one that is ever present in the media, politics, and entertainment, simultaneously believes that it is a culture of rebellion and subversion. This belief persists even though the people who embrace that culture are in a position of absolute dominance over the rest of us. I touched on this in an article last week where I mentioned that Ireland’s Eurovision entry, Bambie Thug, described the things that made her special as being the fact that she is “a queer” and “a witch” as opposed to anything innate or inherent to herself. Her performance was laced with devil horns, pentagrams, and images of summoning a demon from the earth. Speaking after her defeat in Sweden, Ms Thug said that her defeat was nevertheless proof that “the queers are coming, non-binaries for the ****ing win”.

Bambie Thug is a 31 year old woman, but hers was the performance of a teenage rebel. The bad loser attitude afterwards the whine of a teenage crybaby. And in many ways, it summed up the whole country, as it is today.

After all literally everybody with an Irish media job cheered: “Take a bow!” hollered Newstalk’s Henry McKean. “They could finish last tonight and Bambie would still be an Irish Eurovision legend” was the considered and sober verdict of the Irish Times.

Meanwhile, over on the BBC, as Ireland’s act took to the stage, Graham Norton was encouraging parents to avert their children’s eyes from a “scary” performance. Yes, that Graham Norton, the most famous gay man ever to have come from Cork, and not someone known for his prudishness or conservatism. While the Irish media was cheering the song, the BBC of all bodies was warning that it might not be suitable for children.

Evidently, we live in a country with many views and many competing tastes. It would be churlish to pretend that there was not an audience in Ireland and around the world that adored the Irish performance, and it would be wrong to suggest that those of us who aren’t into that sort of thing should have a veto over who the country sends. But equally: The pretence that this was some kind of Irish cultural triumph simply doesn’t reflect the reality that hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of people worldwide were watching and asking a single question: What the hell happened to Ireland?

Off stage, the Irish act hit the headlines for a series of weird and silly complaints targeting the Israeli act. The final dress rehearsal was boycotted because the Israeli national broadcaster had the temerity to call the Irish act “dark and occulty” during the semi-final. One wonders whether Thug will now refuse to appear on the BBC, after Graham Norton’s comments – I rather suspect not.

Then there was the “I cried with my team” reaction to the news that Israel had made it out of the semi final. That was followed by the bizarre “**** the EBU (European broadcasting union)” that came after Ireland’s (creditable) defeat was finalised. To a lot of people watching around the world, it came across as deeply weird, angry, and obsessive. It came across that way to a lot of people in Ireland too, not that you’d know to read or listen to any Irish mainstream media.

The irony of all this is that few people did more to aid the Israeli cause in the Eurovision than the Irish entry: Like it or lump it, this is how a significant portion of the global population see this country now – dark, lost, screechy, and weird. It’s hard to disagree with them. Voting for Israel was the clearest F-U to the Irish entry possible, and it’s fairly clear many people across the continent availed of it.

Ms Thug, it should be said, is not some rebellious teenager. She is thirty-one years of age, and until her middle twenties was a heterosexual woman called Linnea Lagerqvist – a name that will appear in no other Irish media outlet because that is now her “dead name”, and it is allegedly offensive to refer to non-binary people by the name given to them at birth, or even to mention the fact that they were once known by that name. The most you’ll get in the Irish media is a reference to the fact that she “was born to the Swedish Lagerqvist family”. If the facts offend, they must be suppressed.

This is, I’d argue, at the root of our cultural problem: “Why did she change her name?” is a question that many people might be interested to know the answer to – but the fact that her name was ever something different was dutifully omitted from all Irish coverage in accordance with progressive sensibilities, anybody else’s sensibilities be damned.

In addition, it is a simple statement of fact that most Irish reporters would be horrified at the very thought of asking her such a question, because to do so is now offensive in the social cliques that they inhabit. Every media outlet, without question, and without comment, referred to the former Ms. Lagerqvist with her chosen plural pronouns – “they performed, they said, they didn’t show up to their rehearsal”. To do anything else would have been considered beyond the pale.

But beyond the pale for whom? When did it become the law of the land that a basic thing like who you are and what gender you are became something it is forbidden to ask about, or report on? When did we vote on that? Only some of us, it seems, have a say in dictating what standards of behaviour, politeness, and conduct are, in this society.

Ireland, as it happened, gave 10 votes – just two short of the maximum – to the Israeli act on the night, through the public vote. I myself voted for Israel the maximum permitted number of times. Not because the Israeli song was the best – it was very good, but France and Ukraine were better in my estimation – but because for many of us it was the simplest and easiest way of sticking a finger in the eye of everything this juvenile Irish entry, and increasingly juvenile Irish society, stands for. We’re sick of being a country run by 31 year old teenagers whose answer to every single policy problem is to cry and whinge and blame somebody else – the British, the “far right”, various isms and phobias, the Israelis, misinformation, you name it. Everything in this country is someone else’s fault, per the people who run it and the people who dominate its conversations.

On June 7th, in the local and European elections, it is this same Ireland that is on the ballot. If you feel well-represented as an Irish person by Bambie Thug, then our establishment politicians have made clear that they’re on your side, and deserve your vote. But if you feel poorly represented by this kind of thing, it should be clear to you by now that while Israel might not be on the ballot as a two-fingers option, there are many others who are.

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Bambie is 31? I would have said 17 at a guess....very immature

[Crimson Dynamo]

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what a pretty lady she used to be

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The girl on the left is the Irish singer off Eurovision?

What happened?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

The girl on the left is the Irish singer off Eurovision?

What happened?

far-left woke mind virus

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

far-left woke mind virus

But the appearance is... Different.

[Niamh.]

Oh.my god, she's 31???!!! How embarrassing I mean I liked her song/act but her interviews were so childish and cringe worthy.

[Crimson Dynamo]

An immature attention-seeking brat as demonstrated at the event and after. Its funny that all the press love to print Tommy Robinson's real name ( and he changed if for the security of his family and not for some made up reason) but heaven forbid they do if for this wee girl. Its down to fear of the pink-haired activists and not much else.

Good article

[Zizu]

I hated the song and the performance in equal amounts !!


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[Niamh.]

I was reading an article on her and I scrolled down to read the comments, there was only one but I thought LT will love this one

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/iris...ision-32753308

shanekelly
5 DAYS AGO
She’s very similar to Kate Middleton

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was reading an article on her and I scrolled down to read the comments, there was only one but I thought LT will love this one

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/iris...ision-32753308

shanekelly
5 DAYS AGO
She’s very similar to Kate Middleton

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was reading an article on her and I scrolled down to read the comments, there was only one but I thought LT will love this one

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/iris...ision-32753308

shanekelly
5 DAYS AGO
She’s very similar to Kate Middleton

….ahhhh, I like that there were no negative comments in the Irish Mirror for her and that the only one was complimentary…(…I assume it was complimentary, not….ugggghhh, similar to that ENGLISH woman….…)….

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….ahhhh, I like that there were no negative comments in the Irish Mirror for her and that the only one was complimentary…(…I assume it was complimentary, not….ugggghhh, similar to that ENGLISH woman….…)….

I'm sure it was meant as a compliment

[Cherie]

So brought up in Macroom, but in London for 11 years, where did the fake American accent come from

[bots]

i don't have a problem with anyone having their own style. Life is too short, and there just isn't the world supply lines for everyone to wear one of LT's tweed jackets

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i don't have a problem with anyone having their own style. Life is too short, and there just isn't the world supply lines for everyone to wear one of LT's tweed jackets

I have no problem with her look or her singing, though neither are to my taste, but she was very immature at the competition and didn't represent Ireland very well in my opinion, and bullying a contestant 11 years her junior is never a good look

Eurovision is meant to be a fun contest, she and a few others did their best to spoil it for everyone

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I have no problem with her look her her singing, though neither are to my taste, but she was very immature at the competition and didn't represent Ireland very well in my opinion, and bullying a contestant 11 years her junior is never a good look

Eurovision is meant to be a fun contest, she and a few others did their best to spoil it for everyone

Yeah totally agree with that, I'm still in shock to learn she's 31 though

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah totally agree with that, I'm still in shock to learn she's 31 though

Originally that was why I gave her a pass as thought she was 17 or so, cannot believe she is 31 and acting in such a spoiled way, but as she says herself she likes the spotlight so I suppose any publicity is good publicity in her eyes

[bots]

At least a "certain group" of the eurovision performers and support staff were intimidating and bullying the Israel girl. Lets not pretend its an unusual occurrence, it's happening every day across europe

[Crimson Dynamo]

She is the embodiment of a nasty woke leftist infected with a woke mind virus

And a narcissistic

[Black Dagger]

Don’t watch it next year then. You’d be doing us all a favour.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

Don’t watch it next year then. You’d be doing us all a favour.

and myself, as if i cannot play my own little eurovision Nickyvision with me, myself and i




i been playing these with myself, long before i joined these forums tbh



now i just have some extra knowledge, regarding predictable public voting tastes, and what juries usually tend to like



and in my contests, no politics for real, i also have Russia, Israel, Turkiye, Hungary


the more countries, the better in my contest, the more fun too

[Crimson Dynamo]

how did your picks do this year nicky?