Oh No -- Not the Eurovision Song Contest Again

Kennine
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edited May 2016 in Entertainment #1

IMO     ---- That's Saturday Evening's TV ruined.  Frown

Glad I have a host of recorded programmes to watch. Smile

 

 

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  • milliehull
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    edited May 2016 #2

    Same here K. We will be trawling through what we have recorded. Can't abide Eurovision Song Contest.

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2016 #3

    In my van in deepest Shropshire with no TV.  Other people on the site don't feel sorry for me and invite me as I'll have to sadlyFoot in Mouth decline.
     

  • huskydog
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    edited May 2016 #4

    I thought that every Saturday night TV was ruinedUndecided

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited May 2016 #5

    Had already decided to go out, haven't got a kitchen so it's a necessity. Laughing

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2016 #6

    Saturday evening - TV - ruined? What's to ruin? It's just about all dross anyway!

    Just hired a couple of good DVDs from our local library so this will be a Eurovision/Ant&Dec free zone! Wink

  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2016 #7

    Only could get BBC world news on my TV in the apartment and even that seems to have died now. Out with the Scrabble.

  • DSB
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    edited May 2016 #8

    Well..... I've got another bottle of wine at the ready!!!   

    David 

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited May 2016 #9

    Not sure yet if we are watching or recording Undecided

  • groovy cleaner
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    edited May 2016 #10

    misrable lot I'm watching it ,the lady at the beginning said it started in 1956 to bring together countries after the wars with thier love of music ,then she said with all the troubles now it still applies .you lot that poo poo it want to remember what it represents 

  • ChrisRogers
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    edited May 2016 #11

    Now on my 3rd glass of Latvian Vodka and just listened to the Latvian song, it is very good, better than Russia. Latvia will be getting my vote.SmileSmile Pouring
    my 4th glass now.

  • Firedragon
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    edited May 2016 #12

    I confess I am not watching it but it seems quite a few of my friends and family on Facebook are, can't even have a quiet catch up there without some comments popping up about or by Graham Norton or some song or other. One comment did get me thinking though...
    apparently Australia are honorary europeans for one year only - so what happens if they actually win it ??? Undecided

    Alison

  • trellis
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    edited May 2016 #13

    That Armenian lass will get my vote . Mind you the song was rubbish !! .

  • KJLC
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    edited May 2016 #14

    misrable lot I'm watching it ,the lady at the beginning said it started in 1956 to bring together countries after the wars with thier love of music ,then she said with all the troubles now it still applies .you lot that poo poo it want to remember what it
    represents 

    It sounds to me that the lady in the beginning was talking a load of tripe and poppycock, the war had ended eleven years previously. The notion that it brought countries closer together
    eleven years later after the war is in someones wildest dreams and purely an invention IMO.

  • KJLC
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    edited May 2016 #15

    misrable lot I'm watching it ,the lady at the beginning said it started in 1956 to bring together countries after the wars with thier love of music ,then she said with all the troubles now it still applies .you lot that poo poo it want to remember what it represents 

    Furhtermore, Just how many countries were involved in the 1939-1945 war?!!!!! and how many countries took part in the Eurovision song contest!!!!, the greatest number of countries that took part in the song contest had absolutely nothing to do with the war and had never distanced themselves from each other in the first place so how could the Eurovision song contest bring them closer together some eleven years after the war had ended and long gone? It's amazing how gullible people are.

  • groovy cleaner
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    edited May 2016 #16

    it was created in 1956 by the European broadcasting union as an atttempt to bring together European countries together after the trauma of World War 2

    so all you slating my comments as an untruth hang your heads in shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Navigateur
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    edited May 2016 #17

    it was created in 1956 by the European broadcasting union as an atttempt to bring together European countries together after the trauma of World War 2

    After 61 goes at it, it still does not work.

  • KJLC
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    edited May 2016 #18

    it was created in 1956 by the European broadcasting union as an atttempt to bring together European countries together after the trauma of World War 2

    so all you slating my comments as an untruth hang your heads in shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The intention is not to slate your comments but to question the reason given for the start of the Eurovision song contest in the first place as it took some eleven years after the war to come about and then use the war as an excuse. I find that hard to accept.
    As said all those many, many other countries that are in the contest had nothing to do with the war whatsoever.

  • groovy cleaner
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    edited May 2016 #19

    in the early days there wasn't as many countries in the contest as there is today ,doesn't matter if you accept it or not ,you said the lady was talking tripe and poppycock and I was gullible to believe it ,it was also done to get a broadcast going simultanely
    in different countries at the same time 

  • Camdoon
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    edited May 2016 #20

    No mention of the war in their story 

    http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/the-story

     

     

  • KJLC
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    edited May 2016 #21

    No mention of the war in their story 

    http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/the-story

     

     

    That was my point the reason previously given about bringing countries closer together as a result of WWII was poppycock and confirms how gullible people are. It happens in every walk of life people listen to gossip that other people say without foundation
    and pass it on without any proof at all and swear that it is the case. I'm not that gullible never have been.

  • groovy cleaner
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    edited May 2016 #22

    I googled it and there's where I found the imformation regarding the war so I think your comments are out of order !!!!!