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Bedford Roughyed

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1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Ukraine not getting a big slice of the jury votes. Might change later with the public votes, though.

I think they might do better with the public votes.

 

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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Bit late to post a reaction... it's taken me that long to recover from hearing 'Royaume Uni, douze point' for the first time in what seems a lifetime. A vodka shot after every one, I was nearly under

The Hallucinating Goose
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Well we were never gonna beat a country that has been illegally invaded and ravaged by war. Congratulations to Ukraine! 

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I won't be watching John but I didn't want you to get lonely on this thread.

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Germany's entry must be feeling rather British right now...

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Armenia are the first jury to give the UK nothing. Must send them some anti-tank missiles in time for the 2023 contest.

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We are suddenly paying attention to the results....

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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Portugal quietly climbing the ladder, without any individual big scores. Probably won't do so well with the public votes. The opposite is likely to apply to the Norwegian banana-wolves.

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F U Australia

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With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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Just now, Bedford Roughyed said:

F U Australia

Is that just Eurovision-related, or a general observation? :kolobok_cool:

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UK leading after the jury votes are all in!

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14 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

F U Australia

The convicts only got 2 points from the public vote, tee hee.

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Ukraine... 439 points! Crikey!

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Second place for the UK. I'll take that over "nul points" in a heartbeat, thanks!

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I couldn't help noticing that all the countries close to or bordering Russia that might be next in the firing line and looking for some free rocket launchers gave us particularly high points! 😉 It does help sometimes to be one of the world's largest arms dealers. 😜

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24 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Well we were never gonna beat a country that has been illegally invaded and ravaged by war. Congratulations to Ukraine! 

I think it was the correct result. Particularly as it was the public vote that made the difference. 

 

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6 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Ukraine... 439 points! Crikey!

Out of a potential 468, I think?

Enjoyable night. No particularly awful songs and a few that were genuinely decent. Ukraine were always going to win and it's absolutely right that they did.

As for the UK, perhaps it shows that if you do get a song that people like and actually engage with and enjoy the Eurovision process then the 'politics' seems to vanish.

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One newspaper headline "wave of love from across Europe lifted them to victory in defiant message to Putin, handed UK shock 2nd place"

So it's not about the song. Still I trust all lovers of pantomime enjoyed it. 

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26 minutes ago, JohnM said:

One newspaper headline "wave of love from across Europe lifted them to victory in defiant message to Putin, handed UK shock 2nd place"

So it's not about the song. Still I trust all lovers of pantomime enjoyed it. 

I was a bit aggrieved that we didn't win because of a political situation, but the reality is that that in itself is quite rare.

What last night did do, was answer all those people who say that the UK can't win because everyone hates us.

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15 minutes ago, Maximus Decimus said:

What last night did do, was answer all those people who say that the UK can't win because everyone hates us.

A very rough and ready calculation shows that I think 34/40 countries voted for the UK in the televote and 35/40 in the jury vote.

I've just watched a 'reaction' video from the German broadcaster to the UK entry (and, for comparison, the one for the Ukraine entry) and several of the comments about the UK are along the lines of: you see, when the UK actually make an effort, we get good songs like this. That said, I'm not sure that Sam Ryder is the new Freddie Mercury, however hard a couple of the speakers want to believe it.

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