{"id":7315,"date":"2013-05-19T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2013-05-19T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T12:43:48","slug":"poker-tonight-8pm-5-50-to-play-open-to-all-also-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7315","title":{"rendered":"Poker tonight, 8pm, $5.50 to play, open to all. Also: Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eurovision! Loved the staging (noticed we had a March of the Athletes this year, #legacy2012) and\u00a0loved Petra the host but this is actually the first year in ages I’ve not really felt the need to buy the official album, or indeed download a few individual tracks from it. It was a pleasant<\/em> and largely inoffensive<\/em> set of songs, but very little pushed my pop buttons. We enjoyed Romania and Norway at our house party last night, but whilst both had a good sound, personally I thought they lacked a killer tune. Interestingly one of my favourites was France’s opener, which was never going to get anywhere. Finland’s seemed to be what the British would think is a good Eurovision song but didn’t really have much killer about it, which then hilariously got no votes from us.<\/p>\n

I’m completely baffled as to what everyone saw in the Danish winning entry, we’d have happily accepted pretty much any of the five or six next entries over it. It wasn’t a runaway winner in its semi either, Russia was only 11 votes behind it. Intriguingly we only gave Ireland 6 points in the semi (and only 1pt in the final!) proving that that British sense of fair play is alive and well, or something.<\/p>\n