It might be just me …
… but if I were in a train station and loud music started playing and then people started dancing around the place and I discovered later that it was all to film a commercial for a mobile phone company I’d be pretty fucked off.
Firstly these dancers are not spur of the moment, spontaneous types. They’re hired guns who’d dance in a train station or even in an Eighth Wonder video as long as they got paid. And you have to question anyone who’d dance with or around Patsy Kensit.
Secondly, they’d be sure to be in my way with their twirling and lepping about and crowded train stations are hard enough to navigate without that kind of carry-on.
Thirdly, unless serious attention was paid to the system this music was being played from then it would sound truly awful. What’s that, music over the tannoy? Get to fuck. None of us have gramaphones at home do we, so why would anyone think this is acceptable?
Plus it’s an ad for a mobile phone company in a flash-mob style.
Ads are shit, mobile phone companies are shit and flash-mobs are shit. All the evidence points to it being a holy triumvirate of shit yet people go on as if they’ve witnessed something fantastic.
I just don’t get it.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Wtf is this all about?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
It’s about this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM
January 19th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
yeccchhh
that’s horrible
January 19th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Fisher King gushing sentimental feel good shite. It’s January, I want to be annoyed.
Anyway, if it was just a dance performance funded by the British Art Council purely for the purpose of a bit of fun then I could be more sympathetic.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Ah, people knew Twenty. They were told. They’d have seen the cameras, surely. Reaction afterwards – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jv6rHJiNhQ – obviously edited to only show the good reactions and not those late, but sure still.
Anyways, the English – if the TV shows like I’m a Celebrity Strictly Come Joseph The Ready Steady Cook’s Brother are anything to go by are mad into all of this. It’s different there.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
If I had a euro for every marketing dick that thought using dance as a metaphor for their shitty product I’d have around 400 euro. Then again, if I had a euro for every gimp that thought those ads were, in fact, “so awesome”, then I’d have around 50000 euro. Barf.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
It’ll end up one of those overly popular viral videos just because people link to it through sites and blogs like this.
If you don’t like it, ignore the fucking thing.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Can I have my two euro back?
January 19th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Yeah. We should all just ignore stuff that’s shit. Why didn’t I think of that before?!
January 19th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I thought it was great. A good idea, pulled off well.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I’d love to flash mob a funeral.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I’d love to flash at a mobsters funeral
January 19th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Flash a flash mob at a mobsters funeral.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
yeah you’d be within your rights to batter the fuck out of anybody dancing in your way as you try to get home….bunch of cunts the lot of them
January 20th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Uch, fail at making an effective promotion…
January 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I dont know why you guys are getting so uptight. This kind of thing happens most evenings in Bus Aras.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:06 am
You’re a grumpy old git and no mistake! Cheer up, you’re going all emo on us, shall I pass you a razor?
January 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am
A Triumvirate of shite? That’s excellent.
I don’t think you have to be an emo to be annoyed at people lepping round in front of you. Poor Twenty, struggling home through the crowds after his day of hard 9-5 graft. Having people…dancing at him! What fresh hell is this?
It’s enough to make you hire a troup to follow him around. That would be great publicity for the book. Get Twenty repeatedly flash-dance mobbed until he cracks and does something that’ll get him in the papers.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I’m pretty sure battering an entire mob of people to death with an arm ripped from the first in the group would get the odd headline.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Nah,happens all the time in Mullingar..
January 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Liverpool St station, no Muslims, and some of the dancers are giving the Nazi salute, check it out.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Right, next Friday, we all go on a drinking binge up, down and all around Abbey Street, knocking them back like billy-o.
At precisely 10:00 we all hit Busarus and proceed to puke our guts up in unison. (They can’t do you for that, can they?)
We film it. We promote it.
Point made.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:45 am
A Flush Mob, in the jax in the Shelbourne Hotel.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Well, well, well. That didn’t last long did it?
Bald Devil still loves you all.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Neither did you, you witless banned cunt.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Heh…
He was a bit slow though wasnt he?
I’ve seen a pic of his Twenty Major Room.. Scary..
A bit like….
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YUlcyPXLo
January 20th, 2009 at 11:57 am
The question is not whether people dancing around in a train station annoys others or not, the question should be are Patsy Kensits eyes crossed.
Ok ok it’s annoying but the question still stands.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Are they?
January 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I always suspected they were, but could never be fully sure.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00428/travel-graphics-200_428196a.jpg
January 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“If you don’t like it, ignore the fucking thing.”
Wow. I think my outlook just changed.
Oh, hold on, that wasn’t outlook, it was Hotmail.
Anyway, if I had a point, it would be that that was the most redundant comment ever. I loves it.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
heh, but I’m heartened by the fact Maxi practices what he preaches – http://maxicane.com/?p=323
January 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Oh jesus,i forgot about Nightlive..
Did you see the “Podge n Rodge” rolled into one but calling sports guy a Kiddy fiddler on that last night..
Horrifically unfunny…
January 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Do as I say, don’t do as I do.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Ah, the Haughey edict. Good work.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
It’s all I know!
January 20th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I’d love to be part of a flashing flash mob at a mobsters flash funeral.