Graham ([info]tao_) wrote,
@ 2007-04-22 21:17:00
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Ah, Oireland



For the last ten years or so, every time I come back to Dublin from London I'm greeted by a huge poster for Westlife in Dublin Airport. It's extremely unpleasant; they might as well put up a huge poster saying "Welcome to the Land of Shit."

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[info]stellanova
2007-04-22 10:49 pm UTC (link)
I always find that poster (and its predecessor, which was equally hideous, if not more so, because it had Bri/yan McFadden on it) particularly depressing when coming home from a holiday. I'll just be at the stage of thinkiing "well, I'm sorry the holiday's over, but it's nice to be home, I suppose", and then I see Westlife's horrible faces smirking at me and it's like they're rubbing my face in the fact that I am (a) not on holiday and (b) that my native land is a country that believes showing vistors a huge picture of Westlife five minutes after they get here is a good thing.

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iamthewitch
2007-04-22 11:24 pm UTC (link)
They're not so much Irish as they are Aryan. I'm sure Hitler would have loved Westlife.

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yukimaster
2007-04-23 08:32 am UTC (link)
I *hate* the 'photoshop' work there :(

Ughhhhhhhhhhh!!

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[info]on_the_road_
2007-04-23 10:43 am UTC (link)
yes it's not exactly a nice welcome home is it?

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wow...
(Anonymous)
2007-04-23 10:48 am UTC (link)
that looks like a TERRIBLE film

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[info]nearside
2007-04-23 02:14 pm UTC (link)
Having just used Dublin Airport a few weeks ago for a visit home, I was actually pleasantly surprised by how nice their international terminal is now.

Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd had to endure the pictures of those wankers.

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Ireland needs a Manband!
(Anonymous)
2007-04-24 10:08 am UTC (link)
Forget the Westlife fairys. Here's a trailer for the Boysband from hell, Parazone.
A tale of a Manband filled with bad dancing, bad songs, and balls of steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOr_n5IbSvc

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(Anonymous)
2007-04-26 10:12 am UTC (link)
I think Westlife have been jettisoned now in favour of an O2 ad of wet rugger buggers emerging from a stream doing their very best sportsperson-in-an-ad-being-heroically-moody face. Brian O'Driscoll is disturbing in his asymmetry.

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Westlife
(Anonymous)
2007-04-30 12:34 pm UTC (link)
And the worst thing is, if you slag them off in public in Ireland there's always some twit who admonishes you because "they're very successful. Don't you know how much money they've made?"

Because rich people can't be criticised. This country's gone nuts.

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