Eurovision Song Contest

hahaha! I have not seen the songs..just the scoring.. a hoot!

Totally agree Anagram

Annobel how could you have fallen asleep through such a dark story

Gosh look at this guy from Finland..nutter!

Finland

Well.. UK at least not last!!!!

Well we might as well have been last think we should give it up as a bad job !!!!

I just kept telling Graham Norton to shut up

Well ...as there were 42 countries voting ...I assume that 16 countries didn't make it pass the semis???

So that might make us 25th out of 42??

No, because we, as founder members, automatically qualify. If we had to we would at least be spared the humiliation, as we would never reach the final.

Every year we turn up at an event where we are warmly welcomed because we are suckers for humiliation. Nobody else wants to be the rejected kid in the playground. Will we never learn? Can the Beeb not find something better to waste shedloads of licence payers' money on? Oh. They did. The Voice. Silly me!

Does anyone know why the Beeb unilaterally decided on EH?
Please don't tell me it was because 'he goes down well' in countries like Lithuania ...they gave us 'nil point'

Well, they must have done some research and decided that this was a good way to ensure that they wouldn't be obliged to stage the show next year. Simples!

I normally give anything to do with Eurovision a miss, it is such a travesty; but my son came down yesterday and as he was staying overnight and he and his wife usually watch it, I gave in, opened a bottle of wine, squirmed at our appalling song, badly sung and produced, and tried to numb myself to the rest of it! DS very accurately predicted who would vote for whom, and I got up this morning with a bloody hangover!

Oh you miserable lot

It's a good song and Englebert performed it well.

Was a good evening's entertainment!

Pity Loreen chickened out of making the political statement that she said she would if she won.

Well, it's a matter of opinion whether Englebert's song was good. I thought it was a horrible dirge.

It's not a matter of opinion. It was good as a pop song.

Catchy, tuneful, pleasant, well sung.

What more do you want?

I didn't like it.

So I didn't think it was a good song.

I'm with nag on this. It was bad luck to be drawn to sing first. It was not a song to raise the spirits. But no matter what we do, we aren't going to get votes. We've tried all the perky Euro-pop stuff. Let's just wallow along at the bottom and not risk having to stage it.

I know Anagram. Each to his/her own. x

I'm just feeling a bit grumpy. Will drag family out of sun loungers and insist on being taken out.

Good idea, jingl! Put your foot down!

Now's the time to make a dignified exit of the Eurovision Song Contest!!

OH did not want to watch ESC so we watched a DVD instead..then when that finished he switched to the scoring...

I hadn't realised that Eurovision was still going; I assumed that it had ceased decades ago. I hadn't realised that Englebert Humperdink was still going either. He must be nearly 100. I was out on Saturday evening. Who won this travesty of a contest? How many non-European countries were included this year? Does Israel still have honorary European status for the occasion? Shall we ever hear the winning song again or has it already disappeared into oblivion?