Eurovision Song Contest

padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Leo said:
love of hazelnut-chocolate is universal
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it is not. continental Europe can keep its chocolate spread along with its mayonnaise on french fries.

the problem being not its Europeanness but that no one anywhere needs chocolate spread of any kind

especially America, blessed by the grace of God to be the home of the greatest spread in the history of the world, peanut butter

espresso, now there's a continental innovation we can all get behind
 
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you're right, of course. although I will say Hershey's, the all-American chocolate, is like earwax compared to good English chocolate.

like thousands of others, my family once took a tour of the Hershey's factory in Hershey, Pennsylvania (where, yes, the street lamps are the shape of Hershey's kisses). enormous open vats -- which to a little kid looked the size of a football field -- of gloopy chocolate being mixed by huge metal bars that went back and forth, the slow-rolling waves of chocolate made me nauseous.
 
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Apparently America has a reputation for appalling chocolate. I remember seeing a thread on the UK Politics subreddit discussing a trade deal and even the people defending chlorinated chicken etc were saying how bad it was.
 
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ok, you don't have to rub it in. I'm sure there's some small-batch artisanal chocolate maker in Brooklyn or Austin or Portland producing quality product, wrapped in 100% recycled paper.

btw, back in America's manufacturing heyday, it was common for factories to be open to free daily guided tours. we once toured a electric power plant and I got a free "Reddy Kilowatt" coloring book at the end.

 
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I went on a school trip to a factory and they had giant bars of the stuff in these big trolleys and we were offered some without any sugar in it which was fucking horrible.
 
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my wife once left an open package of cooking chocolate in the fridge, looked just like a regular chocolate bar. I wasn't paying attention, I broke off a piece and ate it...yeah, unsweetened chocolate is pretty bad.
 
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Spain's was the only decent tune I heard on Saturday, incredibly it came 17th. Who have they pissed off recently?

Other than that, piss-poor. UK up to usual abysmal standard, though wasn't so glaringly obvious this year with the bar set so low.
 
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martin

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Guess the UK entry won't be the lowest ranked this year, even though the video looks like a crack addict having a seizure.
 
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martin

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Watched it just in case a protestor self-immolated and raced across the stage in flames. Swiss winner inexplicably popular with the jury and public - very lame song, more proof this contest is rigged. Did Spain's GILF entry swipe a Mike Mareen sample? No clue why Spain did so badly, considering the entire stadium was hollering the lyrics.

My dad used to roar "Terry Wogan...makes awful poor of the real Irish!", so fuck know what he'd have made of Bambie Thug. It was like a cross between a Grimes wannabe and something from 2001. Worst entry was Latvia: some boring nobhead in blue body armour.

Tommy Robinson and Lawrence Fox were running an evening Twitter campaign to get everyone to vote for Israel. Seems to have worked - the UK televote results handed Ireland 10 and Israel 12. UK entry got zero from the public vote, which was more than it deserved.
 
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thirdform

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the dutch 2019 Duncan Lawrence winner is the most awful thing in the history of awful. like the fucking fraye. and yet i know american new yorkers who attend this travesty.
 
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thirdform

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historians studying why @thirdform wanted to forceably islamise @craner will be puzzled as they won't be able to find an antecedent in his childhood.

but they would be wrong. I was appalled, utterly appalled by this travesty.

 
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thirdform said:
historians studying why @thirdform wanted to forceably islamise @craner will be puzzled as they won't be able to find an antecedent in his childhood.

but they would be wrong. I was appalled, utterly appalled by this travesty.

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The Islamists liked a bit of Teutonic militancy, didn't they? They thought Adolf had the right idea.
 
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craner

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Not forgetting, of course, how much the Turkish military establishment learnt from the German army generals while being trained by them.
 
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