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

Wife and i both won a nice chunk in our bets last night, normally we would use it to pay for a nice dinner but we will be donating it all to a very worthy cause this year to help feed places that are being blockaded and having famines inflicted on them.

Thanks for that… the eventual winners were only 4th in their Semi Final, even behind Armenia on the vote.

I know the Semis are televote only but that is some turn around.

Do we have those singers with a decent enough song to showcase their talents?

There's been no sign of them in our song competitions either.

Plus the Swiss singer did a lot of movement in the staging, it wasn't frenetic, but he wasn't just standing there and singing.

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10 points from the Irish public must be doing your head in x

Always, not just these days.

Except ABBA, who were the huge exception to the rule because they were exceptional and wrote and produced their own songs.

I think Switzerland was a real grower, didn’t have the instant appeal that others had. When I first saw the Swiss entry in the semi-final it kinda didn’t do anything for me (apart from wondering how they stayed up on the spinning yoke) until the song was over and I put the song and performance together and realized it was actually very good.

Then on the night last night I really saw it as a fantastic performance and worthy winner. I placed it second behind Croatia, which I felt was a nailed on winner, but that wasn’t to be!

Don’t worry @Iscreamkone , most of us know Israel has been acting the big bully and has needed vocal defenders on random international forums long before 2018 :)

maybe check the rest of the notes left for you on this particular account - some pretty horrible stuff has been said by it.

300,000 people were ethnically cleansed last year in Nagorno-Karabakh in a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Not one peep about this the entire time. Both countries were participants in this year's competition. No one said a word.

Israel always seems to be laser-like focus on anything and everything it does. One has to wonder why the only Jewish state gets this focus and other events and conflicts seem to be forgotten about.

The dirty secret is that there is a huge amount of Anti-Semitism around the world, especially in the Middle East. People wont admit to it of course, but its there and its there in many facets.

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Not because of sour grapes or not because of political views am I saying this but I think the public vote needs to be reexamined. I think “Rest of World” needs to be knocked on the head and voting restricted to EBU members and competing countries including Australia. I know at least there’s a charge for votes so it’s a fire break but Rest of World really exposes the competition to the winds of politics. Certainly allow the world to watch if they wish but if your country isn’t a competitor then I don’t think you should be voting.

Of course it’s very lucrative so won’t happen but if the EBU were serious about an apolitical ESC, it’d be the low hanging fruit to deal with first IMHO.

Palestine isn’t a real country and never was. It’s kinda like Connemara.

Why would Palestine enter Eurovision?

Is Lebanon there?

Syria?

Saudi Arabia?

Iran?

*it would be somewhat funny though, that people would line to vote for these countries which murder gays and homosexuals… how would they square that circle?

I didn't watch it, but I imagine Switzerland will be a lot more into ensuring that the ebu doesn't allow a rerun of this year's shyteshow.

By that logic they would have got an equal or higher score from Ireland when they actually won the contest with an objectively popular song in 2018 rather than a mere 7.

Their song this year was nothing special as evidenced by the average score it got from the juries. Even the people loudly trumpeting the high public vote total aren't trying to pretend it was about the actual song.

At a time when I get several phone calls a week on my phone from people/machines in other countries with spoofed Irish mobile numbers it would be relatively easy for a state actor, in desperate need of a PR win, to influence a public phone vote for a relatively small amount of money.

Celine Dion too