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Post by Fairsociety on May 14, 2023 8:35:29 GMT
From the pictures I've seen of the event it looked more like a LGBT fest, if I hadn't have read the headlines I would never of guessed it was the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Post by walterpaisley on May 14, 2023 8:41:11 GMT
It has been for years. It's baked into the DNA. Here at Chez Paisley, too, straights were in the minority.
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 14, 2023 8:57:37 GMT
From the pictures I've seen of the event it looked more like a LGBT fest, if I hadn't have read the headlines I would never of guessed it was the Eurovision Song Contest.
LOL! It's been the campest thing going since forever.
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Post by sheepy on May 14, 2023 9:00:38 GMT
It has been for years. It's baked into the DNA. Here at Chez Paisley, too, straights were in the minority. Once upon a time a hormonal imbalance was thought a cure for practicing homosexuals, hence the pumping them full of hormones which removed sexual urges and chemically castrating them, I doubt somehow the irony has even been noticed. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 14, 2023 9:02:19 GMT
Meanwhile... A new YouGov survey asked people how much they cared about Eurovision. 45 per cent said 'not at all', 32 per cent said 'not very much', 13 per cent said 'a fair amount', and just six per cent said 'a great deal'.
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Post by walterpaisley on May 14, 2023 9:23:54 GMT
That doesn't surprise me one bit. I'd bet that even in its heyday the Contest was of limited interest.
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Post by vlk on May 14, 2023 11:42:45 GMT
I wonder has there ever been a situation in the Eurovision that a country receives huge amount of international sympathy and everybody would like to see them win the Eurovision but their song is just so hopelessly crap that despite all the sympathy they can't be allowed to win.
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Post by Orac on May 14, 2023 11:51:34 GMT
Perhaps such a tie would be decided by how gay the country was or, failing that, how gay the entry was?
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Post by walterpaisley on May 14, 2023 12:47:03 GMT
I wonder has there ever been a situation in the Eurovision that a country receives huge amount of international sympathy and everybody would like to see them win the Eurovision but their song is just so hopelessly crap that despite all the sympathy they can't be allowed to win. Of course that's happened. It happens that (courtesy of helping out in Ukraine), Britain is pretty popular across Europe right now. And last night we were represented by a very ordinary singer performing a terrible song, who came in at 35. |
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Post by see2 on May 14, 2023 12:56:07 GMT
I used the quote facillity and wrote my reply in the wrong place, it was an unintentional mistake - sorry Easily done, I've done it myself but fortunately recognised the mistake before posting. |
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Post by colbops on May 14, 2023 13:03:32 GMT
I wonder has there ever been a situation in the Eurovision that a country receives huge amount of international sympathy and everybody would like to see them win the Eurovision but their song is just so hopelessly crap that despite all the sympathy they can't be allowed to win. Of course that's happened. It happens that (courtesy of helping out in Ukraine), Britain is pretty popular across Europe right now. And last night we were represented by a very ordinary singer performing a terrible song, who came in at 35. I wonder how much better it would have done had they been a flamboyant ginger disabled, mentally ill transsexual. Surely the UK organisers could have found one of those to knock it out. |
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Post by vlk on May 14, 2023 14:31:56 GMT
The Swedish winning song was probably the most professional but it was boring. It will be forgotten very soon when as the Finnish runner-up will still be remembered for years to come.
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Post by sandypine on May 14, 2023 17:50:13 GMT
Very enjoyable night. Had to give up on the idea of "take a shot every time someone says how great Liverpool is" because we'd have been risking alcohol poisoning after the first half hour, but the contest was the standard parade of forgettable trash with the occasional nugget of lunacy. No point at all in either trying to praise the thing or trash it - it's just a bit of daft fun. And this morning, we're all paying the price, and watching Grant Shapps on Kuenssberg, or the (roundly rejected) offer of Cilbir are doing little to help matters.. If that production, and I freely admit I watched the first half hour and the last half hour only, is the summit of an 'enjoyable night' then I have moved into miserable old fart mode without even noticing. Tell me honestly as an entertainers producer or whatever do you expect your audience to only have a less than 2 second ability to watch without becoming bored, would willingly employ light shows that induced painful vision and have an opening sequence so lacking in any coherence and with 'dancing' that was at best ill formed and with sudden noises booms and bashes to the light flashes that even without the multiple camera angles and changes it would have been difficult to follow. Is this progress I am missing? |
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Post by vlk on May 14, 2023 18:28:12 GMT
It was nice and unlike some World Cup you will have forgotten about it a couple of days later.
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Post by walterpaisley on May 14, 2023 18:40:28 GMT
Forgotten what?
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