[TV] Good to see all those EU flags being waved . . .

[Pretty pink fairy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3ayTSQvwo
regards
DR

 

[rippleman]

1974, I was on a school trip to the Pavilion the day before, saw all the acts doing publicity stuff outside.

I was in the choir that recorded the Eurovision version of the Womble song with Mike Batt and appeared in the halftime video shot on the pier in my Great Uncle Bulgaria t-shirt!

 

[mikeyjh]

With Brexit gathering pace they will all give us minus votes if they could!

You mean we may have made ourselves even more unpopular?!?! Hard to imagine really!

 

[GT49er]

you mean like this little cracker?

Yes indeed............... but the song was utter crap!

 

[GT49er]

It would be the only good thing to come out of the shambles that is brexit.

It would certainly be a very good thing but sadly I doubt if it will be brought about by Brexit.

 

[Nixonator]

Europe is a continent.

The European Union (EU) is an utterly catastrophic and doomed to failure political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

Fixed for you.

 

[1066familyman]

Did the flag wavers whinge and whine then ask for the evening to be held again because their favourite act didn't win?

 

[GT49er]

Did the flag wavers whinge and whine then ask for the evening to be held again because their favourite act didn't win?

That gave me a good chuckle! Cheers!

 

[Rogero]

We chose our Song for Europe last night. Live from the Dome on BBC1.

BBC2 actually.

 

[GT49er]

Europe is a continent.

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

Just out of interest (genuine question) - aren't all the 28 member states located entirely in Europe? Turkey is, I think, partly in Asia, but they haven't joined (yet). Any other EU states all, or partly, outside Europe?

 

[lawros left foot]

Just out of interest (genuine question) - aren't all the 28 member states located entirely in Europe? Turkey is, I think, partly in Asia, but they haven't joined (yet). Any other EU states all, or partly, outside Europe
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[Buzzer]

If the Eurovision was a proper reflection of which countries produce the best pop music in Europe then it would be won almost every year by the British, Irish and Scandinavian countries. Europe knows this, the whole world knows this. The fact that there's a European-wide music competition every year, where we don't give a f*ck about always coming last because we regard the kind of music that is synonymous with Eurovision as a joke, should be worn as a badge of honour.

If a Romanian model yodelling vacuously to a Eurobeat or a Belorussian with an accordian duetting with a bloke dressed as a polar bear is the kind of thing that the EU flag represents and makes you a proud European eager to wave it then go for it matey.

I hate to break it to you though but you're really not selling it to the rest of us. Your most enthusiastic fans, gay blokes, are cheering ironically. That should tell you everything about what that show is.

 

[melias shoes]

. . . at the Dome last night.

Just that really.

Soon be waving goodbye to them. Tick-tock.

 

[GT49er]

Just out of interest (genuine question) - aren't all the 28 member states located entirely in Europe? Turkey is, I think, partly in Asia, but they haven't joined (yet). Any other EU states all, or partly, outside Europe
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[KZNSeagull]

Apparently it was the other way around - a report has shown that the lack of love for the UK at Eurovision tipped the balance in the Brexit vote. "A long tradition of rejection at Eurovision left Britons feeling like outsiders in Europe"

Isn't this rejection more to do with the fact that we always choose to enter the competition with shit songs?

 

[Sorrel]

Just out of interest (genuine question) - aren't all the 28 member states located entirely in Europe? Turkey is, I think, partly in Asia, but they haven't joined (yet). Any other EU states all, or partly, outside Europe?

France has constituent parts that are within the EU in South America, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. This page explains a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union

 

[Eeyore]

With Brexit gathering pace they will all give us minus votes if they could!

UK did well last year. Sounds like they're pleased to get rid of us.

 

[Eeyore]

Franco cheating Cliff Richard out of a deserved victory in 1968 still remains an injustice not righted.

 

[Buzzer]

Saying that....Sannie Carlson aka Whigfield is trying to become Denmark's entry this year. If she does, then I'll probably watch it.

 

[melias shoes]

Isn't this rejection more to do with the fact that we always choose to enter the competition with shit songs?

Partly. They do hate us though.