#stage irish

[keofunkel]

Dan likes to watch a roll play game broadcast online

Most of them are pretty fun to listen to, but one called Swan song has a guy doing the most irritating stage irish accent of all time. It goes through my head and it's so annoying that I want to punch something. Dammit dan. It's a pity because the games plot is amazing

[ilivebetweenconcretewalls-blog]

'The tragic opening image of an old dying man singing an Irish folk song was guffawed through and an inappropriate celebrity cutaway showed Carol Vorderman singing the supposedly incomprehensible lyrics word perfect, suggesting the editor had some secret wish to undermine the piece. Already I was slack-jawed, thinking: "What are they going to do with Kirsty MacColl's vocal?" MacColl, part of the genetic fabric of folk, and an essential element of the song's appeal, died in a boating accident 11 years ago and it might seem rather tasteless to encourage a mass slur through her contribution. Instead, the backing track snapped into an instrumental, a young singer in hot pants came on, a troupe of stunned Irish dancers hoofed along and a cutaway to a happy Irish Eamonn Holmes reassured everyone this wasn't offensive.

On some level, the sequence was sincerely meant and 34 years since the last edition of The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show, it's good to see racially stereotyped dancing back where it belongs, at the centre of the seasonal schedules. But the song survives.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/08/stewart-lee-christmas-traditions-pogues?CMP=twt_gu

Fucking hell. I didn't see this and I hope I never will.

*edit, I caved and watched it a day later. It is SO much worse than what I had imagined.