Eurovision

[darmstadt]

Nope.

Graham decided the voting had gone a bit weird yesterday as it was less political than normal. Though I thought it odd the UK had given Poland and Bulgaria lots of points.

Plus Ireland give us SFA to make up for Oz.

Tories didn't like that: 'You can keep your f****** gypsies' - councillor suspended over offensive Eurovision tweet - Coventry Telegraph

 

[PurpleGorilla]

The winning song was terrible though?

It was absolute vomit. So many better songs.

 

[darmstadt]

The winning song was terrible though?

To put it bluntly, it was ******* tulip...

 

[stek]

... and the winner is


PORTUGAL


:b anana::ban ana::banan a:

It was a bit old fashioned...

 

[SueEllen]

To put it bluntly, it was ******* tulip...

The two great song writing nations for popular music in Europe are the UK and Sweden so we need to allow the others to win at some point.

 

[darmstadt]

The two great song writing nations for popular music in Europe are the UK and Sweden so we need to allow the others to win at some point.

Strange that as far as I can tell UK and Swedish songwriters have only won Eurovision 4 times whereas France have won it 5 times...

 

[SueEllen]

Strange that as far as I can tell UK and Swedish songwriters have only won Eurovision 4 times whereas France have won it 5 times...

The people who write the songs aren't necessarily from the nation that performs them.

One of the two people who wrote the British 2017 entry was born in Denmark and is part Danish and Swedish.

 

[darmstadt]

The people who write the songs aren't necessarily from the nation that performs them.

One of the two people who wrote the British 2017 entry was born in Denmark and is part Danish and Swedish.

Really, could have fooled me I was actually talking about the songwriters, not the performers

 

[shaunbhoy]

Really, could have fooled me

Not hard in all fairness.

 

[darmstadt]

Not hard in all fairness.

You're a little bit thick aren't you? Actually, maybe you're not a little bit thick, just thick...and about as funny as Bernard Manning crossed with Roy Chubby Brown...