Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ya_JNZcbyU

A compilation of Eurovision winners from 1956. Very few are worth listening to for more than a few seconds. That's the problem with Eurovision: the songs are crap.

As a gateway to fame and stardom it stinks. Hardly any of the winning acts have been heard of since winning. So, you'd have to be pretty desperate to take part. If you were any good!

SingleSue

Brilliant night out last night, got back in just in time for them to announce the winner but I very quickly rewound the show (Sky live pause thingy) to watch from half way through the jury vote results. Not sure what I think of the new way to scoring, in some ways it increased the who will win it thing but in another, it showed up a very wide disparity between the public and jury voting..how can they be so different?

Wasn't too keen on the winning song to be honest, I heard better ones before I went out but it did have the feeling of being from the heart which I generally tend to like more.

Met an old school friend last night, the last time we saw each other was when we were doing our exams at high school when we were 16...so 30 years ago! Mind you, we never really spoke much back then as she was in a different social circle to me (I got on better with her twin brother) but all that melted away last night and we got on like a house on fire.

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

Plain also shows up stains much more than stripes would, which is an important factor for the hall in particular.

I won't be going for a light colour, probably mid grey. My current carpet is burned orange, so I like the stained bits as they aren't as hideous a colour:o. We had a flood a while back (boiler leak while on holiday) and quickly replaced the hall carpet with grey, so that's much nicer.

Plan is to pay off the mortgage and then worry about stuff like carpets and new windows, bought and paid for as and when we have the money. I know people say buy them now, but we've both had health scares so the challenge is to pay the mortgage off and to be financially secure. We've got savings, pensions and life cover in place, but would not fare so well if we required critical cover, hence the focus. Not being able to work is expensive.

michaels

CKhalvashi wrote: »

12 to Georgia from UK......wow!

I assumed CK was on the UK jury panel this year

vivatifosi wrote: »

The jury votes more accurately reflect what people thought of the song. UK.could definitely have done more on staging though.

I think the rules on political songs will be much more strongly interpreted next year so that we don't go into a downward spiral in which songs about history are used as a technique to win. I don't want to hear songs about the division of Cyprus, or Soviet control of the Baltics, or the French Resistance, or the Turkish genocide in Armenia... that would be highly cynical. Hopefully the genie has not been let out of the bottle.

Such a shame, you have just banned Waterloo which of course is one of the few songs that would have sold in its own right and the few acts that became anything after Eurovision....

chris_m

The thing I liked about Waterloo was last year. Belgium decided to mint €2 200th anniversary coins but France objected - not really sure why since the Battle of Waterloo was against Napoleon personally, not against France.

Anyway, not to be thwarted, the Belgians remembered the rule that allows eurozone countries to unilaterally issue coins if they are in an irregular denomination - so they minted €2.50 ones instead :rotfl:

Generali

chris_m wrote: »

The thing I liked about Waterloo was last year. Belgium decided to mint €2 200th anniversary coins but France objected - not really sure why since the Battle of Waterloo was against Napoleon personally, not against France.

Anyway, not to be thwarted, the Belgians remembered the rule that allows eurozone countries to unilaterally issue coins if they are in an irregular denomination - so they minted €2.50 ones instead :rotfl:

I'm not sure if it's still the case but until very recently the farmers where the Battle of Waterloo was fought paid a small sum to the Wellesleys (Dukes of Wellington) each year in gratitude for freeing them from Napoleon. Someone, probably the French, kicked up a stink about it but the farmers said they wanted to carry on paying.

I took the Generalissimos to see Angry Birds The Movie today. It was terrible although they enjoyed it. It's the worst film I've seen in a long time. Spoiler Alert: for a while it looks like the bad guys are going to win but the good guys win in the end.

Another glorious day today: warm (hot to you lot) and sunny and mostly cloudless.

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

Another glorious day today: warm (hot to you lot) and sunny and mostly cloudless.

Eh? Isn't 12:18 BST still the middle of the night down under?

Generali

chris_m wrote: »

Eh? Isn't 12:18 BST still the middle of the night down under?

It was a glorious day. It's now a nice, dry evening: 20C and dark. It's ten to ten at night here as we're 9 hours ahead of you (assuming you're in the UK).

chris_m

Ah, didn't realise you were only 9 hours ahead.

I was forgetting that the 180 degree longitude line is to the east of New Zealand.

Generali

chris_m wrote: »

Ah, didn't realise you were only 9 hours ahead.

I was forgetting that the 180 degree longitude line is to the east of New Zealand.

11 hours in your winter to NSW, 9 hours in your summer.

In Queensland (QLD) they don't have daylight saving although they did have a referendum on it. The reason? The extra hour of daylight fades your curtains.:rotfl::T:rotfl: