Just realised I'm missing the Eurovision Song Contest. Thank gawd for that!

[walpurgis]

I just noticed that the Eurovision Song Contest is on the box. I'll leave it to others to watch it, 'cos I can't abide the horrible event.

In my opinion it's always been pretty dreadful! :eek:

[Justjon]

Cheryl Baker whipping her skirt off when I was 10 left a lasting impression on me. Never watched it since.
I want to keep that memory pure :o

[struth]

Cheryl Baker whipping her skirt off when I was 10 left a lasting impression on me. Never watched it since.
I want to keep that memory pure :o

bucks fizz was it?

[Macca]

Yep Bucks Fizz.

They were simpler times. So little happened back then that Eurovision was actually a big deal. Like the continental 'It's A Knockout'. It was always at night for some reason. With lots of air horns going off.

[Justjon]

ABBA did ok though :D

[Macca]

ABBA were very good at what they did. Possibly the best.

[Joe]

I can't remember the last time I saw Eurovision; some time in the '70s probably. The young folk today like it though, in an 'ironic' way. Actually I think it's long gone beyond parody into some weird post-modern 'so bad it's good, but still crap' confection. So Wogan could mock it as a R2 DJ, some of whose audience were in on the joke, but Graham Norton, as a camp TV star, has to take it slightly more seriously, but not too seriously.

[VesaLato]

Well, I don’t like it at all. Not even back then when Finland did win[emoji779] Useless bollocks and it should be put end off it's misery....

[Virtual-Symmetry]

Here here

[Audio Al]

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THANK GOD :D

[Marco]

I never watch that bollox now... It was marginally tolerable in the 70s, but since then has deteriorated into nothing more than a showcase for tuneless, mind-numbing drivel and banal gay anthems, not to mention a source for expressing political protest, through music, highlighting just how unpopular the UK is in many other parts of Europe, which is precisely why they always do so badly in the competition! ;)

Such is level of dislike for the UK, in many of the competing countries (and these days what Britain stands for politically), you could reunite The Beatles (including the dead ones) to produce a UK entry for the competition, and it would still end up in the bottom three!!

Marco.

[Firebottle]

..... and it would still end up in the bottom three!!

Marco.

How true. I just don't get the insane optimism that we are going to do well this year :scratch:.....or any year for that matter.

I didn't watch it either

[rdpx]

When I was about eight I wanted to watch Von Ryan's Express but my sister and her friends exiled me to the attic, as Eurovision was on. I cried alone as Sinatra was shot in the back.

I suppose if we do all vote to leave Europe next month the only benefit would be that we might not be obliged to compete, but then again I think Australia were in it this year, so I guess even that wouldn't work.

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[Virtual-Symmetry]

I see it as a vehicle for Cheesy/Amateur dross imho

[Macca]

When I was about eight I wanted to watch Von Ryan's Express but my sister and her friends exiled me to the attic, as Eurovision was on. I cried alone as Sinatra was shot in the back.



In fairness he does piss about way too long in getting back on the frigging train. I remember watching that around the same age and thinking he bloody well asked for it.

[rdpx]

In fairness he does piss about way too long in getting back on the frigging train. I remember watching that around the same age and thinking he bloody well asked for it.
I'll never forget his outstretched hand and the hope and fear in his eyes...

You clearly have a heart of ice.

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[struth]

Aye he had left a bottle of bourbon on the train

[Macca]

He should have been more eager to get back to it then, instead of poncing about on the tracks for half a bloody hour.

If they'd all just waited in the POW camp they would have been liberated anyway with no loss of life.

I know this is o/t but it is far more interesting than Eurovision.

[walpurgis]

He should have been more eager to get back to it then, instead of poncing about on the tracks for half a bloody hour.

If they'd all just waited in the POW camp they would have been liberated anyway with no loss of life.

I know this is o/t but it is far more interesting than Eurovision.


I think that was the point of the thread! ;)

[Yomanze]

I watched it, and had a good chuckle. ;)

[anubisgrau]

i liked italian sweetheart this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfnhDfy8AjU

[Macca]

I like all Italian Sweethearts. Any year. Or mileage (within reason, bodywork must still be in good nick too).