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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    rick_chasey said:

    morstar said:

    I think the UK no longer understands what is required to win and has scatter gunned every type of content over the last few years.
    We have tanked with both camp and serious stuff whilst both camp and serious stuff has won.
    I think we’re on the outside looking in.

    Most of the favourites are already circulating the charts (on the continent) long before they end up on Eurovision.

    The winners this year had over 30m streams heading into the competition.

    The (left biased metropolitan elite, as per others' world views) BBC was pushing 'Embers' hard on R2 the past couple of months. Shame it was just pants.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sure but radio two is for people who find radio one and six too edgy.

    The fact it’s on radio two is half the issue.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,408
    morstar said:

    I think the UK no longer understands what is required to win and has scatter gunned every type of content over the last few years.
    We have tanked with both camp and serious stuff whilst both camp and serious stuff has won.
    I think we’re on the outside looking in.

    Very probably true, but this is one competition where I think most people really don't give a t0ss.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited May 2021
    shortfall said:

    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?

    I can see why a fun excuse for a party with 3 minute pop songs from around Europe and parts of the Middle East (and of course Australia) is your idea of a bit sh!t.

    After all, it’s supposed to be fun.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,408
    rick_chasey said:

    shortfall said:

    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?

    I can see why a fun excuse for a party with 3 minute pop songs from around Europe and parts of the Middle East (and of course Australia) is your idea of a bit sh!t.

    After all, it’s supposed to be fun.
    There are so many better excuses for a party.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Stevo_666 said:

    morstar said:

    I think the UK no longer understands what is required to win and has scatter gunned every type of content over the last few years.
    We have tanked with both camp and serious stuff whilst both camp and serious stuff has won.
    I think we’re on the outside looking in.

    Very probably true, but this is one competition where I think most people really don't give a t0ss.
    Oh I don't know Stevo, a lot of camp young men seem to enjoy it.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo_666 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    shortfall said:

    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?

    I can see why a fun excuse for a party with 3 minute pop songs from around Europe and parts of the Middle East (and of course Australia) is your idea of a bit sh!t.

    After all, it’s supposed to be fun.
    There are so many better excuses for a party.
    Thatcher can’t die every year 😉
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,408
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    shortfall said:

    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?

    I can see why a fun excuse for a party with 3 minute pop songs from around Europe and parts of the Middle East (and of course Australia) is your idea of a bit sh!t.

    After all, it’s supposed to be fun.
    There are so many better excuses for a party.
    Thatcher can’t die every year 😉
    :smile: Thats quite witty for you Rick.

    I do at least get an excuse for a party around election times :)
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    rick_chasey said:

    shortfall said:

    Does anybody care that we aren't successful in Eurovison? I mean it's just a bit sh-it isn't it?

    I can see why a fun excuse for a party with 3 minute pop songs from around Europe and parts of the Middle East (and of course Australia) is your idea of a bit sh!t.

    After all, it’s supposed to be fun.
    I can accept how mixing with a lot of similar aged people with similar taste in music, slowly getting off your face as the night goes on can be fun.

    But watching people do it is sh1t telly.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited May 2021
    shortfall said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    morstar said:

    I think the UK no longer understands what is required to win and has scatter gunned every type of content over the last few years.
    We have tanked with both camp and serious stuff whilst both camp and serious stuff has won.
    I think we’re on the outside looking in.

    Very probably true, but this is one competition where I think most people really don't give a t0ss.
    Oh I don't know Stevo, a lot of camp young men seem to enjoy it.
    Haha show your true colours Short. All those metropolitan cities with their gays eh? All that awful liberalism.

    Foreigners and gays, whatever next. 😄
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,318
    Stevo_666 said:

    morstar said:

    My mrs only got 3 songs in before switching over.
    As I stated earlier, unless you actually like euro pop, there is nothing of interest to see.
    It’s a cavernous venue with no atmosphere and scripted wooden hosting.
    Without the random acts and novelty entries, what is the incentive to watch it?

    I think a suitable and relevant alternative to watch instead of the Eurovision would be a re-run of that old series 'Eurotrash' with Antoine de Caunes.
    pinno said:

    I liked Eurotrash with Monsieur Antoine but Eurovision isn't on the same scale.

    Keep up at the back!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    Eurotrash. More fun, more trash, better music and more boobies.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    briantrumpet said:

    ballysmate said:

    And some people regard it as a serious music competition.
    Bless.


    Do they? Seriously??
    Have you not seen the absurd Tom Harwood tweets? The poor dear has taken our defeat very much to heart.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    ballysmate said:

    And some people regard it as a serious music competition.
    Bless.


    Do they? Seriously??
    Have you not seen the absurd Tom Harwood tweets? The poor dear has taken our defeat very much to heart.
    No, I haven't. Happy to remain ignorant. In the spirit of the question about Sarah Vine, is it Tom Harwood or his tweets that are absurd? Or both??

    I am reminded of the times when intelligent friends of mine get all hot under the collar about some plot twist in The Archers... I've just no idea why they are wasting brain cells on such second-rate and obviously manipulative airtime-filling tosh, and then (even worse) talking about it as if it matters.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,318
    It was Billy Connelly that said that the Archers tune should be our national anthem.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Having just bought myself a USB DVD drive for my newish laptop (which didn't have one), I've at last installed one of my most well-used bits of software: Print Music 2002. It still works for everything I need it for, so why would I update it? :)
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  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    pinno said:

    It was Billy Connelly that said that the Archers tune should be our national anthem.

    Is that because there are no words with it,
    or because he’s bored with flower of Scotland?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    Charlie_Croker said:

    pinno said:

    It was Billy Connelly that said that the Archers tune should be our national anthem.

    Is that because there are no words with it,
    or because he’s bored with flower of Scotland?
    Safer to bet that he wasn't being serious.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    ballysmate said:

    And some people regard it as a serious music competition.
    Bless.


    Do they? Seriously??
    Have you not seen the absurd Tom Harwood tweets? The poor dear has taken our defeat very much to heart.
    No, I haven't. Happy to remain ignorant. In the spirit of the question about Sarah Vine, is it Tom Harwood or his tweets that are absurd? Or both??

    I am reminded of the times when intelligent friends of mine get all hot under the collar about some plot twist in The Archers... I've just no idea why they are wasting brain cells on such second-rate and obviously manipulative airtime-filling tosh, and then (even worse) talking about it as if it matters.
    You should look them up. They're at the level of performance art 😁
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Dom the weirdo warming up his vocal chords ahead of his select committee gig

    https://mobile.twitter.com/politicsjoe_uk/status/1396778690629996549?s=21&fbclid=IwAR0yIsBFFdGY-3fHFOOl6glV3tNAHPjcRARf-UJ9kASWNRRcRigIk7iFm64

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    edited May 2021
    orraloon said:

    Dom the weirdo warming up his vocal chords ahead of his select committee gig

    Pedantry alert (sorry) - they are 'vocal cords'

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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Just discovered that one of the directors at the company I joined is called Siegfried W@nker.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Are you working on HS2?
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    briantrumpet said:

    orraloon said:

    Dom the weirdo warming up his vocal chords ahead of his select committee gig

    Pedantry alert (sorry) - they are 'vocal cords'

    Thanks Pedant. I typed 'cords' first then thought nah, that's not right... 🤨
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Pross said:

    Are you working on HS2?

    I am now.

    Sorry.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    elbowloh said:

    Pross said:

    Are you working on HS2?

    I am now.

    Sorry.
    Oooh, which bit?
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    rjsterry said:

    elbowloh said:

    Pross said:

    Are you working on HS2?

    I am now.

    Sorry.
    Oooh, which bit?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    elbowloh said:

    Pross said:

    Are you working on HS2?

    I am now.

    Sorry.
    Have to admit they aren't a company I've heard of before but it was easy to find them from the bloke's name. Was surprised to see it even had the 'r' at the end, J assumed it would just be Wanke.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    Mark Lawson Talks To....David Bailey on BBC4 & iPlayer.
    Most entertaining interview I've seen in some time.
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