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Mebh posted:Yeah, there's political BS voting and judges being lovely and the votes actually being rigged. oh fwiw they added a new system a couple of years ago where the country's popular vote and the country's "panel" were separated so that the panels could easily decide the winner against the popular will the first time I was aware of this was when we "won" in 2022 overwhelmingly on the popular vote of countries, but then the judges gave Ukraine an insane amount of points based on the judge panels across the EU I wasn't mad or anything because they just got loving invaded and I understand the political importance of the support, but I did think at the time "just because I'm okay with this now... this is a bullshit system that will absolutely be used badly in future"
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# ? May 12, 2024 01:07 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 22:24 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Here's a wiki on a few of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsfCnwJqqY this old chestnut?
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# ? May 12, 2024 01:09 |
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I'm guessing that Jaeluni meant Chuck Berry's ding a ling. Reminds me of finding some of my grandad's old Sam Cooke records a few years ago. "Well she was just sixteen" oh no "But I was just sixteen too" oh thank gently caress Always the risk of surprise noncery around every groove with that era of music.
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# ? May 12, 2024 01:18 |
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Guavanaut posted:I'm guessing that Jaeluni meant Chuck Berry's ding a ling. Yes, I meant the Chuck Berry song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlsi5SYkg
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# ? May 12, 2024 01:49 |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv7425gvwoquote:'Extreme' protest groups face ban under proposal We aren't on a very good timeline....
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# ? May 12, 2024 03:20 |
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Guavanaut posted:Always the risk of surprise noncery around every groove with that era of music. Every era of music has those songs. Heres drug songs form the 1940s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2WJqnK3gAY&list=PLo0G7TvyUYlwARpiLm_szqqXJYmNWy1wv&index=13 My personal fav is 'Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphys Ovaltine'. And here is some 30s sex songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPCmIxv-3k&list=PL63BIL1M7oLLYLdCe-UysxX3oxs-Uv_Z_&index=1 Just listen to the first line of the first song. These are better than Eurovision anyday imo happyhippy fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 12, 2024 |
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Tesseraction posted:oh fwiw they added a new system a couple of years ago where the country's popular vote and the country's "panel" were separated so that the panels could easily decide the winner against the popular will It was the other way around. Ukraine effectively got 12 points from everyone in the popular vote.
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# ? May 12, 2024 06:59 |
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Mebh posted:Is there like, an actual legit chance that Eurovision voting is and has always been a sham? yes, rumours are that the 1968 eurovision was fixed by the spanish dictator franco and knocked our boy cliff richard off the top spot with one of the few good songs we’ve ever sent “congratulations “
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# ? May 12, 2024 07:17 |
SixFigureSandwich posted:I mean I do wonder why any of it is funny and if it's not just Anglos having no concept of languages beyond english again To be fair, my German partner also finds Dutch hilarious. I could see him grinning every time he saw a sign, when we were passing through the Netherlands.
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# ? May 12, 2024 08:00 |
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Tesseraction posted:oh fwiw they added a new system a couple of years ago where the country's popular vote and the country's "panel" were separated so that the panels could easily decide the winner against the popular will The popular vote gave Israel 323 points so thank gently caress for the juries imo
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# ? May 12, 2024 08:02 |
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fuctifino posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv7425gvwo Imagine getting paid to be a fascist oval office every day. I'd probably smash my own head in, and I'd recommend Penis Penispenis do the same.
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# ? May 12, 2024 08:23 |
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Paging Lord of the Llamas to the charts thread for this absolute doozy of a venn
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# ? May 12, 2024 10:47 |
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Men with Venn
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# ? May 12, 2024 10:57 |
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fuctifino posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv7425gvwo
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:03 |
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if you’re gonna get 12 years for holding up a sign you might as get 12 years for bringing a hammer and actually causing serious damage to some delicate equipment
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:09 |
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Microplastics posted:Paging Lord of the Llamas to the charts thread for this absolute doozy of a venn
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:11 |
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TACD posted:I describe my relationship using this diagram but the other members of my polycule use a conflicting diagram
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:12 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Men with Venn Men going their own venn.
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:20 |
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Men Without Sets?
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:24 |
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Nettle Soup posted:To be fair, my German partner also finds Dutch hilarious. I could see him grinning every time he saw a sign, when we were passing through the Netherlands. It goes the other way too but only when I drive past Wankum
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:27 |
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I hardly know 'em!
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:33 |
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Jel Shaker posted:if you’re gonna get 12 years for holding up a sign you might as get 12 years for bringing a hammer and actually causing serious damage to some delicate equipment Big Qin Dynasty executions for everyone energy going on.
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:40 |
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Z the IVth posted:Big Qin Dynasty executions for everyone energy going on. I think the worst was the Yongle Emperor. Managed to do the 10 Exterminations and wasn't just the parents, children, grandparents, students, sworn friends and brothers but any of those peoples relatives as well. If they'd up'd it to 11 they may well have wiped out himself.
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:51 |
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Josef bugman posted:I think the worst was the Yongle Emperor. Managed to do the 10 Exterminations and wasn't just the parents, children, grandparents, students, sworn friends and brothers but any of those peoples relatives as well. If they'd up'd it to 11 they may well have wiped out himself. The Qin dynasty thing was making every crime punishable by death as some crazy attempt at "deterrence". This meant when an otherwise well meaning cop lost a few rebel prisoners (punishable by death) he decided that in for a penny, in for a pound and joined the rebellion (also punishable by death). Worked out pretty well as he ended up the future Han Emperor.
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# ? May 12, 2024 12:59 |
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Yongle sounds like one of those games like Jenga except everyone either gets killed or becomes a bandit king.
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# ? May 12, 2024 13:09 |
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Z the IVth posted:The Qin dynasty thing was making every crime punishable by death as some crazy attempt at "deterrence". This meant when an otherwise well meaning cop lost a few rebel prisoners (punishable by death) he decided that in for a penny, in for a pound and joined the rebellion (also punishable by death). Worked out pretty well as he ended up the future Han Emperor. May have already been posted in this thread but didnt something like this happen in Mexico when they made the punishment for kidnapping death so instead of just kidnapping people and releasing them once they got paid they just shot them.
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# ? May 12, 2024 13:16 |
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Yongle Emperor is definitely a soundcloud rapper.
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# ? May 12, 2024 13:39 |
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Nettle Soup posted:To be fair, my German partner also finds Dutch hilarious. I could see him grinning every time he saw a sign, when we were passing through the Netherlands.
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# ? May 12, 2024 13:59 |
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Rarity posted:The popular vote gave Israel 323 points so thank gently caress for the juries imo I think it’s likely that this is a vocal but small plurality of voters in most countries going hard for Israel, e.g. a solid 20% of committed arseholes, while the remaining majority of 80% is spread across a a whole host of other countries. It’s not like you can vote against Israel, you can just vote for someone else.
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# ? May 12, 2024 14:03 |
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team overhead smash posted:I think it’s likely that this is a vocal but small plurality of voters in most countries going hard for Israel, e.g. a solid 20% of committed arseholes, while the remaining majority of 80% is spread across a a whole host of other countries. It’s not like you can vote against Israel, you can just vote for someone else. Also a lot of the committed arseholes are people who don't normally vote at all, but nobody was saying "I don't normally care about eurovision but this year I really want Israel not to win so I'm signing up for the first time to vote for idk Croatia"
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# ? May 12, 2024 14:23 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Men with Venn Venn Men Venn Men Venn Venn Venn Men Men
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# ? May 12, 2024 14:52 |
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I imagine the anti-israel vote was also stunted a bit by those strongly pro-palestine boycotting the whole thing altogether, particularly with how voting involves actually giving money to eurovision. i dunno if they publish turnout numbers
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# ? May 12, 2024 14:53 |
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:06 |
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Eylon Levy was on a eurovision fuelled unhinged rage trip. wonder how much of israels vote was aipac money lol some of his takes are just amazing eurovision does say something about western civilization i think, but it's probably doesn't validate this take
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:08 |
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lol @ all the posters hailing the destruction of a massive and important event for the queer community. Please try to not be miserable pricks for 5 seconds. Went to an alternative Eurovision thing, lots of queer performers doing a mix of genuinely impressive and silly as gently caress stuff, was a lot of fun. Bought a keffiyeh, finally, and it’s extremely soft and comfy which is a bonus I’d not expected.
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:13 |
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Jakabite posted:lol @ all the posters hailing the destruction of a massive and important event for the queer community. Please try to not be miserable pricks for 5 seconds. Hating eurovision is a perfectly legitimate response based on its content and how hard it is to avoid it I think. But yeah it's got a lot of importance beyond EBU money source, there's such a thing as hating it respectfully
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:18 |
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I don't know that I would enormously want to be associated with eurovision just because I'm bi tbh.
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:22 |
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know that I would enormously want to be associated with eurovision just because I'm bi tbh. That’s fine for you, but it is undeniably a big event and an important touchstone for many of your fellow queers, like myself. And to be a bit less high horsey about it, it’s a lot of silly fun performances with a weird fun voting format and a ton of pageantry, and when people hate on it it has the exact same vibe as the miserable emo kid at school constantly talking about how awful Britney is or whatever.
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:25 |
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Jakabite posted:lol @ all the posters hailing the destruction of a massive and important event for the queer community. which posters, what hailing?
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# ? May 12, 2024 15:26 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 22:24 |
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know that I would enormously want to be associated with eurovision just because I'm bi tbh. when it started it was mostly straight, it's a great example of gay appropriation
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