http://youtu.be/GcfLzuBQADs
i cried laughing at this
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcfLzuBQADs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
rolling is this racist, but holy shit
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
there are a few bits that i am actually dying with laughter at. the "selectaaaa" and obv when he eventually starts rapping, it's just fucking ridiculous.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
got bored of all the hold tights 6 mins in tbh
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
just cut to 12 mins 30...
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
ok lol
― less of the same (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
and 8.50
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Rumours aboud that Terry's favourite band was the Velvet Underground.
Citations?
― Mark G, Monday, 1 February 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
neither, both are entirely contemptible― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 08:03 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink
^^^^^^
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 1 February 2016 10:25 (eight years ago) link
Largely how I feel tho maybe a tad strong for my feelings about Wogan
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 February 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
i love wogan tbh.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Monday, 1 February 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
ross is so so so much worse than tel could ever be.
definitely, but I listened to Wogan a lot as a kid and I've never really connected to him - too glib for me, albeit in a different way than Ross
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 February 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link
The Secret Pirate Radio thing above, which is all over my Facebook, captures something though, about how he's always seemed more audience-focussed than a lot of his peers (despite never as far as I know actually doing any old school pirate radio - he was straight RTE->BBC).
I'll go one further than LG - I liked him doing Eurovision, and can barely listen to Graham Norton.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 February 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Agree with LG, Wogan was charming and comforting, Wossy is mostly an obnoxious bore.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 1 February 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Also apparently (true story - I definitely read it) - Wogan was the first person to play Reggae on the BBC in 1968.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 February 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/31/terry-wogan-intriguingly-subversive-national-treasure
Such sharp humour was most apparent on air in Wogan’s laconic television commentaries on the Eurovision Song Contest, which were reputed to have brought protests to the BBC from the broadcasters and even ambassadors of some of the countries whose competitors he skewered. He escaped discipline, though, because these voiceovers were another example of his clever use of found material. Most often, he was merely reciting, with a slight inflection of scepticism, the descriptions of the host nations or songs distributed by publicists.
Anyone talked about his eurovision meltdown or was it all part of this subservise act?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 February 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
did he have a meltdown?
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Monday, 1 February 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
He quit live on air didn't he? Accusing Eastern Euro/Russia of bloc-voting iirc
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 February 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Ruined it more like, insisted on treating it as a big joke long after it had ceased to be a joke, xenophobic old fart, and what's with these Union Jack waving Irishmen and who are more British than the British, sure didn't a few of youse die so you didn't have to wave the Union Jack anymore?
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 1 February 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
He quit live on air didn't he? Accusing Eastern Euro/Russia of bloc-voting iirc― xyzzzz__, Monday, February 1, 2016 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― xyzzzz__, Monday, February 1, 2016 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He stayed to the end of the particular show.
So, bloc-voting means that the same countries win every year, right?
― Mark G, Monday, 1 February 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
People forget that his chat show was a total dog too, and the Beeb kept dragging it on and on in the hope that it would get better, but it never really did. I hear he was good on radio though.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 1 February 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
That's why it was stupid. iirc someone did a few sums and there was no conspiracy as such. It was just xenophobic shit.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 February 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Of course, still better than Jonathan Ross.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 1 February 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
Exactly. xpost.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Wogan statue unveiled in Limerick yesterday. the state of it
https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/nintchdbpict000334099076.jpg?strip=all&w=650&quality=100
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
Och, not so bad. They're always terrible. These statues.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
I was there. Briefly, and hungover, but I witnessed
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Microphone size and placement looks... wrong
I guess it's no worse than the average but the brown leather jacket colour is pretty nasty
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 26 June 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link
Not only is the microphone slightly, er, odd looking it's not even the microphone associated with Wogan, that would the long thin one he used on Blankety-Blank. Of course it would be forever being snapped off by assorted scallywags and wrong 'uns which I'm sure are as prevalent in Limerick as they are anywhere else - maybe more, I know nothing of Limerick tbh.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 26 June 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
you're on the right track
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
It's missing a certain something
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04/08/article-0-01F9E19F000004B0-441_468x348.jpg
― nate woolls, Monday, 26 June 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
XP more, more more
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link