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    WEll, at least it was reciprocated. nowadays no one wants to even give any 'friendship' points to the UK!

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    And without looking, any guesses who Cyprus gave douze pointes to?

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    When did Eurovision evolve exactly from being a reasonably entertaining evening to a complete farce (from a UK entry point of view)? I refuse to believe that most of the entries submitted by the UK over the last few years are the best we can come up with.

    Get Graham Norton out of the picture for a start and let's have a proper Britain's Got Talent style process going. It's becoming embarrassing and it doesn't need to be this way at all.

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    Well - they used to have a pre-show show to select the UK entrance. It's how acts like 'Scooch' (the awful airline parody song) were chosen. But the UK audience and voters do like to take the mickey (a la Boaty McBoatface) so the acts were always poor and they did away with it.

    This is funny if you havent seen it yet from a few years ago in Sweden. This parody is already so much better than a lot of serious entries!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tgnx6jTQ

    Last edited by Shiojiri Hiro; 24-05-2021 at 05:43 PM.

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    Why do Eurovision still allow the UK to enter the competition? Clearly the British public have a humorous disdain for the actual competition and revel in the absurdity.

    Perhaps it is a long term plot by the Republic of Ireland to send the UK humourous hosts to shape the nations irreverent individualistic approach to this competition that should be about instilling national pride in a co-operative way?

    Clearly Iceland should have won

    https://youtu.be/1zTbVRPh5EI?t=151

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Why do Eurovision still allow the UK to enter the competition? Clearly the British public have a humorous disdain for the actual competition and revel in the absurdity.
    Just like why they let the UK stay in the EU for so long even though it moaned about everything...

    I'm sure the answer to your question is about the $$$ at the end of the day

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    Apparently the top ten songs were written in a minor key. The bottom four were written in a major key.

    The UK was both written in a major key and sung off key.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenmark:
    Apparently the top ten songs were written in a minor key. The bottom four were written in a major key.

    The UK was both written in a major key and sung off key.
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    It is odd that a country that should be in the running for winning an international competition given its long history of success in genre of entertainment enjoys coming last so much.

    Hard to imagine many countries revelling in such failure year after year.