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On the other hand I would like to show some solidarity with AK

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(Am not happy or gloating about it, it's just what I despondently find myself thinking)

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On Labour am all for optimism, but genuinely struggle to see anything we have in common these days.

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Don't worry. Only another 4 to go.
And Sweden's will be short. Believe me.

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I generally like a bit of flamenco, which can sometimes even have the capacity to brighten a clanger mood. But not so much Spain's Blanca Paloma's song "Eaea" which sounds pretty much as you'd imagine. For my taste, swapping hardcore flamenco moves for sitting on chairs and looking at cand...

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Slovenia's "Carpe Diem" was inexplicably ace. Joker Out pose as a bunch of youths checking into the Hotel Carpe Diem, where every lift and guest room turns out to be a nightclub. The musical style is classic Eurovision for which it should be heartily applauded. Plus there are glitter balls...

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Penny Mordaunt looks like she's being arrested for moonlighting as a human statue.

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Eurovision - only 6 more to go

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Meanwhile in EuroWorld, Samo Mi Se Spava is a bit different. It starts off with a bloke with ill-advised hair lounging around in a shell and then switches gear a bit and the "dancing" starts. Things that came to mind during this brief experience were: - Oh! there's more of the Star Trek/Dr...

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It's pretty bad. But this is why Labour bringing in PR is so critical. For some reason the serf mentality in the Brits remains strong. They vote Labour in when the Tories have become monstrous, and then vote them out again as soon as they've forgotten about it. Only PR will stop the Tories in the lo...

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Is it nearly over? (I remember saying the same that night that the fishpointer was voted in along with his undead bezzie mate, George. This time I'm talking about our Eurovision Odyssey.) Suffice it to say that San Morino failed to hold my attention for very long with this one, which was basically: ...

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Turns out Romania's Theodor Andrei is every bit as sleazy as his first impression suggests (books, covers, whatever). Again the colour scheme for the banal "Off and On" is black and red (no white), and there's a strong focus on a particular type of lingerie that just makes me feel sad. Of ...

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Speaking of Liza Minnelli (as Sky was the other day) Portugal's Mimicat bring more than a touch of the old cabaret to our Euroextravaganza. They were wearing black and red, but there was no white so top marks for visual individuality. And at least we were spared some kind of tearful fado - which wou...

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Poland's Blanka stars in a 2 minute moving selfie while she sings the song "Solo" (or does Solo sing "Blanka"? who knows.) The scene set in the cake shop perked my interest briefly, triggering a quick "we want cake and the finest wines known to humanity", but to be hone...

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Moldova has gone completely over the top with Pasha Parfeni's Scandi-noir-meets-Midsomer-Murders video, accompanied by folk-pop music inspired, somewhere in the distant past, by the likes of Yothu Yindi. The whole rigamarole brings to mind my longstanding mistrust of the tediously hackneyed "d...

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I can confidently say I have absolutely no idea what's going on in Norway's "Queen of the Kings". Euromeme-wise it's got a black, white and red colour scheme and a generally sinister feel. It starts off with a Borg pyramid and ends with a scene from Dr Who (post Christopher Ecclestone) via...

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Should it ever transpire that you're going to a dinner party in the Netherlands, and Mia Nicolai and/or Dion Cooper are on the guest list, make sure in advance that you're not sat next to either of them. Talk about making you want to pull your eyes out. "Don't know what made me happy before&quo...

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I guess everyone's got party plans for Charles getting his new hat?

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Oh god - Bank holidays - I've never ever known when they are.

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Oh dear. Another Eurodowner. Moldova has gone completely over the top with Pasha Parfeni's Scandi-noir-meets-Midsomer-Murders video, accompanied by folk-pop music inspired, somewhere in the distant past, by the likes of Yothu Yindi. The whole rigamarole brings to mind my longstanding mistrust of the...

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Wake up to trivia with TC2

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Morning

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Just checked - 14 to go

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Je ne (le?) sais pas

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From one extreme (Lithuania) to another (Malta). Malta has another potential winner with The Busker's "Dance (our own party)". Opening with a nightclub scene worthy of a Dick Wolf drama, I was surprised by the opening sax. And then, after a brief segue into a genre I don't like, I was agai...

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Shared use pathways anyone? This clanger is a committed pedstrian who regards (almost) anything on wheels as more similar to each other than they are to someone moving on foot. I hadn't realised that footpaths can be indescriminately turned into shared paths (ie: converted into cyclepaths). It's al...

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Anyroad. Step up Lithuania's Monika Linkyte to sing "Stay" in a linguistic combination of English and another language I don't recognise, but assume to be Lithuanian. (Apologies if this is incorrect, and I've offended thousands, simply by not knowing something.) The short story with "...

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I realise this is alien to most politicians but they are there to represent our interests not their own.

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They do, but engaging in some long-term thinking is the only honorable thing to do.

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(ITCHO)

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If Labour doesn't go for PR there is literally no point in voting them in.

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Shared use pathways anyone? This clanger is a committed pedstrian who regards (almost) anything on wheels as more similar to each other than they are to someone moving on foot. I hadn't realised that footpaths can be indescriminately turned into shared paths (ie: converted into cyclepaths). It's alm...

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I thought I'd detached a retina or something. It was indeed an unsettling experience.

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Latvia's song name "Sudden lights" immediately brought to mind the migraine aura I had a few times when I tried dieting and exercising at the same time. I gave up both during covid and haven't had any such problems since. If you've never had them they're quite freaky in the sense that you ...

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Latvia later - and that's all I'm saying.

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Hello!

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gilsey wrote: ↑Wed 26 Apr, 2023 10:22 am
Those crossing tend to have completely different lifestyles and values to those in the UK ....

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Replace "crossing" with "Tories, and aristocrats" or even just "career politicians".

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At first glance I thought Italy's Due Vite was going to bring us a 21st century rerun of this little gem https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EXmABxvHTG4 But sadly it was not to be. Marco Mengoni may be dressed like a modern day Ryan Paris, but his attire turns out to be a complete red herring. This is muc...

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Israel's black, red and white writheathon takes a musical form that makes me feel vaguely homicidal. Not only that, but Noa Kirel is singing earnestly about "the power of a unicorn". Clanger rating: Was it fun: it was bland beyond measure Was it dancey: it was bland beyond measure What wou...

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So Labour wouldn't reverse anything - even if voters demanded it?
Am honestly not sure who Labour are the party of any more (sorry AK, nothing personal, it's just hard to see where their policies align with my values these days.).
As ever, am willing to persuaded.

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In Ireland's Eurovision extravaganza, four men in sequinned masks remake this Mike Flowers video in black-and-white to accompany a cover of a U2 track. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfZshkNZRw Clanger rating: Was it fun: if it had been Mike Flowers doing a U2 cover it might have been Was it dancey:...

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I have a sneaking suspicion that Iceland's Dilja is a keen fan - though perhaps not an avid practitioner - of Les Mills' popular fitness programme "Body Combat". The advantage of this is that Iceland's dance routine is the sort of thing that most of us could aspire to - even (especially?) ...

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anyway here goes...

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if I were indeed advertising

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sorry about the big build up - I think I could be done for false advertising

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bringing you ... ICELAND

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It's only me

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Hello

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sky last night wrote:she spoke with the kind of absolute certainty that comes only with insanity

splendid

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