{"id":13619,"date":"2021-05-23T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2021-05-23T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T15:17:45","slug":"eurovision-what-have-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13619","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision: what have we learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not much! I think there were some takeaways from last night though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What the bloody hell were we thinking with Amanda Holden?<\/strong> Forget even the content for a minute, we constantly mock and get annoyed by the vote givers building their part, thanking the hosts for a great show, explaining how beautiful world peace is and whatever and nobody gives a toss &#8211; sometimes in French! Smile, give us the result, take your money, go away again. So why are we messing about now? It comes to something when potentially the most irritating one of the night, a ten year old Greek kid, is actually the least embarrassing of the lot.<\/li><li><strong>Big Wodge Voting remains fantastic and dramatic television<\/strong>. Yes it is a bit on the nose for people who don&#8217;t score well, but I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s a way around that, if you&#8217;ve scored zero you&#8217;ve scored zero, rip the plaster off and get it done with. There *may be* an argument for going back to how it started, with the televotes being revealed from worst to best quite quickly and building up the last few, but the way they do it now accentuates the drama for when the juries and the viewers don&#8217;t agree throughout and not just at the end. There is an argument for a <em>Pointless<\/em> style tower graphic reveal.<\/li><li><strong>We&#8217;re not going anywhere<\/strong>. It peaked at over 8m and in TV terms cost us peanuts, \u00a3300,000 is the figure going around as our contribution. That&#8217;s about 45 minutes of a weekly drama.<\/li><li><strong>Complaining about Eurovision is the British way of enjoying Eurovision<\/strong>. Whilst I have enjoyed reading largely irrelevant po-faced opinions on Twitter, we don&#8217;t necessarily want to win, we want to feel hard-done-by &#8211; there will be nothing worse for us than a respectable 10th place finish. If we haven&#8217;t finished top three or bottom three, it&#8217;s not been a worthwhile Eurovision.<\/li><li><strong>It&#8217;s not really about Brexit so get over yourselves.<\/strong> About half the countries involved in the Eurovision aren&#8217;t in the EU anyway, they still didn&#8217;t vote for us.<\/li><li><strong>We still sent a song nobody really bought<\/strong>. Number 42 in the charts, apparently. Majorly flopped in the televoting. We almost scored a point from Poland&#8217;s jury.<\/li><li><strong>What do we do next year?<\/strong> Enya, probably.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much! I think there were some takeaways from last night though: What the bloody hell were we thinking with Amanda Holden? 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