The Eurovision 2021 Mega Thread

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The semi-finals are over and the main event is tomorrow night, where so many questions will be answered: Which country has developed the best music during the pandemic? Which has gone stir crazy tried to create its own entirely new genre? Will the UK come last yet again? Will Iceland get the win they clearly deserved last year? Will Israel’s efforts be affected by political fallout (assuming they didn’t get knocked out in the semis already – I don’t watch those)?

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Dave

What the actual fuck were we doing giving Lithuania 12 points in the public vote?

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lorcan_nagle

The Swiss guy’s face is redder than the Italian guy’s trousers.

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Ben, lorcan_nagle

Leather fetish always does well at eurovision.

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Ben, lorcan_nagle

A good song won, and the U.K. got absolutely humiliated….So overall, a good night 😀

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Bruce, Ben, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Hmm, yeah better Italy than France or Switzerland.

Germany did a song Don’t Hate Me – so everyone did, three points.

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lorcan_nagle

Good to see Iceland and Ukraine high up there too. Must be hard for Iceland who seemed like they would have done even better last year. I am totally baffled by the popularity of Switzerland. France, not entirely my thing, but I can see the appeal. But the Swiss song was utter shite.

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Dave, lorcan_nagle

Martin Smith wrote:

Good to see Iceland and Ukraine high up there too. Must be hard for Iceland who seemed like they would have done even better last year. I am totally baffled by the popularity of Switzerland. France, not entirely my thing, but I can see the appeal. But the Swiss song was utter shite.

I’m guessing he has a significant percentage of the continent’s population rigged to explode or something

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Rocket, Dave, Ben

That’s that anyway. This has been as fun as ever and it was a good Eurovision that could have only conceivably been improved if Madonna had appeared dressed as a space pirate.

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lorcan_nagle, Martin Smith, Ian Smith

Well that was fun as always…See ya next year 🙏

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Martin Smith, Ben, Dave

Which country was it that got the 3 points – Ben thought it was Germany, couldn’t remember!!!

Was great being able to be part of this, thank you everyone, really enjoyed all the comments from you all!

Tommorow – Ben + I are attending Glastonbury Festival (Virtually)!!!  Makes life so much funner being able to join social things like these from the comfort of the sofa!!!

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Rocket, Bruce, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Thanks for joining us Mrs Ben!

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Rocket, Ben, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Ben wrote:

Which country was it that got the 3 points – Ben thought it was Germany, couldn’t remember!!!

Was great being able to be part of this, thank you everyone, really enjoyed all the comments from you all!

Tommorow – Ben + I are attending Glastonbury Festival (Virtually)!!!  Makes life so much funner being able to join social things like these from the comfort of the sofa!!!

It was indeed Germany, poor bastards

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Dave

Thanks all – Sandie really enjoyed watching it while posting stuff here.

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Dave, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

lorcan_nagle wrote:

It was indeed Germany, poor bastards

Now I feel kinda sorry I didn’t watch this year. That would’ve been fun.

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Dave, lorcan_nagle

lorcan_nagle wrote:

France have yet to get the message that nobody else in the world likes chanteuse any more.

I would just like to say that this one got my vote

 

 

DavidM wrote:

lorcan_nagle wrote:

France have yet to get the message that nobody else in the world likes chanteuse any more.

I would just like to say that this one got my vote

 

 

Yes, but your taste in Eurovision songs is notoriously shit

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Rocket

I have now read the entire thread and I now realise I understand you guys even less than I thought I did. The two best songs were France and Switzerland, while Iceland was irredeemably awful in every respect. Were you all watching a different contest?

So Switzerland got to you too, eh?

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lorcan_nagle, Rocket

I love coming to work and reading this thread. Always good for laughs and sometimes I just like taking some posts out of context imagine them said to a random stranger.

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Ben, Dave, Martin Smith, Todd, njerry, lorcan_nagle

Eurovision has banned Russia from this year’s contest.

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Todd

That’ll show them.

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Todd, Rocket

It does seem somewhat inconsequential and futile in the face of things currently happening but I do genuinely thing that, long term, this kind of cultural boycott en masse would help drive discontent in Russia and push for change.

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Todd, Ben

I think discontent is Russia is already pretty high. Every Russian I personally know (admittedly that isn’t too many) says that they and everybody they know opposes the current events.

Unfortunately, it’s difficult to change an armed dictatorship. Yes, they actually did manage it 30 years ago, but look where that got them…

30 years ago they had a leader who wanted to end that type of government. Sadly, they now have someone who wants a return of the Iron Curtain, not Glasnost.

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Todd

Oh, for all that he did end it, Gorbachev wasn’t intending to.  Glasnost was to make the soviet system more open, while perestroika was to restructure it.  Of course, it didn’t work out like that.

[Todd]

Rocket wrote:

Eurovision has banned Russia from this year’s contest.

But is that really a punishment?

Wouldn’t it be more punitive to make them do more songs, which would open them up to more mockery?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Todd.

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Martin Smith wrote:

It does seem somewhat inconsequential and futile in the face of things currently happening but I do genuinely thing that, long term, this kind of cultural boycott en masse would help drive discontent in Russia and push for change.

I think we saw it with South Africa. It was not all by any means but nobody there will deny the cultural boycott accelerated change. A sports mad country that could no longer compete at rugby and cricket was a big deal, that artists stopped playing Sun City too.

With countries like Iran or North Korea that kind of thing is less effective as the cultural links weren’t well established but Russians have had 30 years of being used to that exchange.

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Rocket, Todd