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Us not winning or even coming on the right column is a strong argument for brexit imo.
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TinTower posted:Israel's Eurovision jury gave twelve points to a song about ethnic cleansing and genocide. What, you think that genocide (or mistreatment by Stalinists) doesn't resonate with the Israeli public?
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May 14, 2016 23:56
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TinTower posted:Israel's Eurovision jury gave twelve points to a song about ethnic cleansing and genocide.  v
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May 14, 2016 23:57
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TomViolence posted:What, you think that genocide (or mistreatment by Stalinists) doesn't resonate with the Israeli public? It should, but the same Israeli public keep voting for Benjamin "Hitler did nothing wrong" Netanyahu, so… 
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May 14, 2016 23:59
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Considering the shitheads our public routinely vote for (including libdems of all things) it's maybe unwise to tar a nation's people with the same brush as their leaders.
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TomViolence posted:What, you think that genocide (or mistreatment by Stalinists) doesn't resonate with the Israeli public? Depends who it's genocide of. Remember, there's only four years left until the Gaza Strip, which contains 1.8 million people, becomes totally uninhabitable, and it's set to run out of drinkable water this year.
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winegums posted:Us not winning or even coming on the right column is a strong argument for brexit imo. It's actually a strong argument to split the UK into seperate entities.
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Extreme0 posted:It's actually a strong argument to split the UK into seperate entities. Aye, I think Scotland, Wales and Northern Island would do fine in Eurovision. It's only the English everyone hates.
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May 15, 2016 00:18
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Oh I dunno. I think it's by the powers of these isles combined that we produce a truly detestable union. More dislikable than the sum of its parts.
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Mega Comrade posted:Aye, I think Scotland, Wales and Northern Island would do fine in Eurovision. It's only the English everyone hates. Im not sure they'd get through the qualifying rounds.
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May 15, 2016 00:31
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Pissflaps posted:Im not sure they'd get through the qualifying rounds. I'm surprised that something as low quality as Eurovision even has qualifying rounds.
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May 15, 2016 00:43
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Split British entries in eurovision would at least give us the ability to do a somewhat meaningful level of neighbour voting.
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Spain would have none of that.
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Mega Comrade posted:Aye, I think Scotland, Wales and Northern Island would do fine in Eurovision. It's only the English everyone hates.
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FinalGamer posted:I think so, but then again Ireland never does really well either so... ireland is the most successful country ever in eurovision terms
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Pissflaps posted:Im not sure they'd get through the qualifying rounds. Getting automatically through to the final has of course been a brilliant recipe for Eurovision glory.
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May 15, 2016 01:47
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TinTower posted:Ukraine's song, sung by a Crimean Tatar and totally not about forced deportations under Stalin, wins.
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May 15, 2016 01:55
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TinTower posted:Ukraine's song, sung by a Crimean Tatar and totally not about forced deportations under Stalin, wins. I'm annoyed at how "nothing political" at the eurovision is a blatant lie, but I don't care about this song. I'm more annoyed that they consider the flag of the country of Palestine to be forbidden because politics, but you can wave the LGBT rainbow which is explicitly a political flag.
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FinalGamer posted:I think so, but then again Ireland never does really well either so... At one point we were winning so often the RTE deliberately chose a rubbish song because it was costing too much to host the events. That backfired and we went on to win again.
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HorseLord posted:I'm annoyed at how "nothing political" at the eurovision is a blatant lie, but I don't care about this song. I'm more annoyed that they consider the flag of the country of Palestine to be forbidden because politics, but you can wave the LGBT rainbow which is explicitly a political flag. p. much I get that the criticism of Stalin could be considered apolitical in theory but the timing is pretty transparently a 'Russia bad, Ukraine victim' entry.
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It's impossible to be apolitical in a competition that by its very nature favours the existence of modern nation-states. 
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V. Illych L. posted:ireland is the most successful country ever in eurovision terms I did sorta forget Ireland once won three times in a row and that is absurd to think about 
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May 15, 2016 04:36
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We did vote to send a singing turkey to the Eurovision in 2008. We've had a string of failing to qualify and last places since then. I think the rest of Europe hasn't forgiven us for making a mockery of their song contest.
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Marenghi posted:At one point we were winning so often the RTE deliberately chose a rubbish song because it was costing too much to host the events. That backfired and we went on to win again. https://youtu.be/jzYzVMcgWhg vvvv Nah, increasingly bizarre remixes of My Lovely Horse namesake fucked around with this message at 08:20 on May 15, 2016 |
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Marenghi posted:We did vote to send a singing turkey to the Eurovision in 2008. We've had a string of failing to qualify and last places since then. I think Father Ted had it right, Ireland have been submitting "My Lovely Horse" since the 90s.
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Pissflaps posted:Im not sure they'd get through the qualifying rounds. I dunno, a decent male voice choir singing Calon Lan (or for the comedy angle, Sospan Fach) would probably rack up more points than a typical UK entry. e: can you imagine international translators trying to explain what Sospan Fach is about. Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 08:24 on May 15, 2016 |
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Tesseraction posted:p. much It's also interesting that Israel, Australia, Armenia and Georgia get an invite each year but no other country that's detached from Europe does. I'm not sure hoovering up all the light-skinned/christian countries in the middle east and then skipping 10,000 kilometers to find the next one along is particularly tasteful or apolitical.
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Nika Kocharov and the Young Georgian Lolitaz
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Darth Walrus posted:Depends who it's genocide of. Remember, there's only four years left until the Gaza Strip, which contains 1.8 million people, becomes totally uninhabitable, and it's set to run out of drinkable water this year. Nah, that's technically not genocide because it's helped by climate change, which is the best kind of not-genocide.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Paul.Power posted:I dunno, a decent male voice choir singing Calon Lan (or for the comedy angle, Sospan Fach) would probably rack up more points than a typical UK entry. I'm imagining this and its hilarious.
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FinalGamer posted:I think so, but then again Ireland never does really well either so... They won five times in a row or something
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-a7027446.html Tories have been caught not declaring mass mail out letters on local expenses too.
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serious gaylord posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-a7027446.html A hahaha loving hell we are such a corrupt poo poo hole built on money stolen from the people of the world. They only didn't stuff ballots because it wasn't needed.
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Ignoring the politics, the song for Ukraine was just dull and I can't even remember how the tune goes.
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WMain00 posted:Ignoring the politics, the song for Ukraine was just dull and I can't even remember how the tune goes. With the exception of the joke entries, Eurovision songs are so artlessly produced by committee that they all blur into one bland, lifeless wall of noise with occasional words like 'love' and 'emotion' thrown in, if only to give actual representation to two concepts effectively removed from the song-writing process. namesake posted:A hahaha loving hell we are such a corrupt poo poo hole built on money stolen from the people of the world. Don't worry, Serious People will say that Lessons Have Been Learned, everyone in the media will nod sagely, Rafael Behr will write an article saying 'if only Labour could be so honest  ' and everyone will move on.
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Also, hot takes on the most important news at the moment, only in The  
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Extreme0 posted:It's actually a strong argument to split the UK into seperate entities. Eurovision 2020: After their 4th straight win, can anyone stop the juggernaut that is The Proclaimers?
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Pesmerga posted:Also, hot takes on the most important news at the moment, only in The So no-one else has to read the column, the argument* behind the headline is "Kuenssberg is a woman, ergo anyone who dislikes her is sexist" in an example of Poe's Law for the MRA crowd. It also assumes that the petition was taken down for sexist comments, when that's been shown to be a lie. *Sort of. The article is meandery as gently caress and doesn't really have anything to say other than "Sometimes people support things I don't like and that's bad"
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/boris-johnson-the-eu-wants-a-superstate-just-as-hitler-did/quote:Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did
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LemonDrizzle posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/boris-johnson-the-eu-wants-a-superstate-just-as-hitler-did/ Maybe he's hoping it will play well to his idiotic audience that would agree with such a sentiment?
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