Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (Mod warning, see OP updated 10/05 and post #3477 11/05)

People Like Bambo ruin the competition, thst is a laugh. The demonstrations on the streets of malmo are not against them. The increased security and political nature of this competition is not related to them.

Just take the show at face value of being a song contest, most people won't even care about eurovision next week. Throwing abuse at 20 year old woman about something that's completely out of her control who's just there to sing a song isn't right. Even if you ban Israel, it won't make an ounce of difference to what's happening in Gaza just like banning Russia except for Ukraine getting a sympathy win. If someone is offended by what's happening then just don't watch eurovision, the contest will continue without them

Some pics of our past winners!

There is never an excuse for genocide, I fully support anyone who withdraws from this grotesque contest.

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You know that Sky News FYI show where news topics are presented by youths? Well they just said good luck to the UK entry and said whatever happens 'we think it's brilliant'. Erm no they don't, they were made say that. Because it's fecking awful 🤣

If the artist doesn't want to participate there's nothing the BBC can do about it.

My view - Unnecessary drama from many of the EV entrants now. FFS be a pro, "the show must go on".

You can't go around pretending to be a witch and when someone calls you "scary" you throw your toys out of the pram like a child. She should grow up, cop on and put her energy in the performance tonight

I agree.

Judging from the comments and chat about her and her song its like Bibi himself wrote it and is performing tonight.

She alone has next to no say on what policies Israel has when it comes to defence and foreign policy. Indeed often she and people like her, who would be on the left of the Israeli political spectrum we need to empower so there is a longer-term solution to the issue with Palestine. The left in Israel hates Bibi more than we in Ireland do FFS!

But instead, we have just alienated them and cast them all as one homogenous group. I wonder when did we ever do that with Jews before, eh?

For the record, people have done that with Muslims too post 9-11

She cannot win either way, so she just puts her head down and does her best and that is all that is expected of her. If she wins or comes last, it affects not one thing in the Middle East, a region none of us live in, never mind understand or experience.

To be fair they just saw one of their fellow professionals turfed out on the morning of the contest over what many are reporting as a minor incident. It's not them who are causing the drama.

Williamhill odds shortening on Ireland. In to 12-1

is all the drama an effort to cover the low standard of the actual acts ?

i mean i know its all ment to be a bit kish euro trash but the pathetic efforts to make it all political seems to be an effort to mask the lack of talent from the contestants

hopefully Israel wins anyway

(sticks head up from behind couch)

So…will ABBA be appearing tonight?

(ducks back down)

The behaviour of the israeli delegation has changed things, they have been specifically goading and intimidating other countries acts to try and get a reaction from them, the EBU has claimed a zero tolerance policy and yet nothing is being done