Eurovision Song contest
by planetparker
The Eurovision song contest is a pathetic joke., It always has been, but it is now an embarrassment. So why do we continue to take part and bring down upon ourselves humiliation? Are the denizens of RTE land so desperate for a junket? It seems that the subtle humour of Dustin the Turkey was too much for the voters. Maybe they didn’t understand the lyrics. I suggest that if Ireland really wants to get into the contest next year they should enter a song, maybe with a Middle Eastern flavour, performed by a girating semi-clad female and sung in heavily accented English by a non-native speaker.
I only viewed the semi-finals for brief temporal segments, never exceeding two minutes, and what I saw did not impress me. I particularly disliked the injection of Serb patriotism, but I heard nothing of such events of which Serbs are no doubt inordinately proud as Srebrenica, or the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian natiionalist Gavrilo Princip which led to the deaths of millions throughout Europe and the permanent physical and psychological injury of millions more.
