Community Chat – A Place for Weary Flingers

[ixan57]

These kids for eurovision. What do you think.

[Brian N]

Must admit I shall be giving Eurovision my usual swerve but I am concerned about this years event in light of @desperate-dan’s recent revelations.What if The Netherlands have a really good entry this year?(All things relative of course).What if they win?

I think Dan’s deep seated resentment over a miscarriage of justice that took place before he was even born could well tip him over the edge.The last headline we want to see is:

“Carnage in Bangor!”

Keep an eye on him guys.

Great stab at a Supertramp classic by those kids @ixan57.

[Desperate Dan]

Yes the kids are good but I think their cover of Glory Box by Portishead was creepy. Having an 11 year old singing that is well, just wrong, which seems to have gone over everyone’s heads.

The Portishead version makes my point precisely.

I can see @hunnybunny doing a good Karaoke version of this.

[Brian N]

This would have been my choice for UK entry for Eurovision 2021(nil point from Dan-and all other BP regulars I suspect).I think they overdid the sunburnt finish on the guitars.https://youtu.be/LVrDAmH_kPQ?si=Nv6ArvrrXdX2XfGt

[ixan57]

It’s those pesky kids again

[HunnyBunny]

Enjoying the sun, sea and cheap booze
Ignoring Brian (as always) and not listened to any Eurovision so far, sadly, if at home, I get rather addicted…

[Brian N]

Try and wean yourself off it @hunnybunny(Eurovision not  sun,sea and cheap booze).Plenty of that on offer here at the moment.

[Desperate Dan]

Twiggy working hard on her Eurovision prediction. Quite unconventional. Lies on her back with her paws in the air and snores.

[Brian N]

I inadvertently caught one of the Eurovision contestants as I was channel hopping.Some really fat bird wearing a diamante thong over skin tight leggings(I think her skin was pretty tight as well-cue more sausage jokes.)Her four companions were all wearing short skirts and fishnets(two of them were blokes) and I kid you not Dan at one point they lay on their backs waving their legs/paws in the air(no snoring took place).Basically it was porn for wimps…maybe I will watch it…with the sound off.

[Desperate Dan]

I have avoided it completely so far. Will there ever be a decent song…ever?  I can’t remember any since Sing Little Birdie.

[Desperate Dan]

Beaten by this!!! She was wind(mill) assisted. Very dodgy voting from the Italians.

[Brian N]

Like I say keep an eye on him.

[Desperate Dan]

Why is there a strange unmarked car parked outside my house?

[Desperate Dan]

Won a trophy today that someone had held for 9 years but 13 hours later it was gone. Not even the Challenge level.

[Desperate Dan]

Twiggy has chosen Austria for Eurovision, clearly sticking to her Germanic origins here. Can’t say I agree with her but perhaps her dog ears can hear things humans can’t.

[Desperate Dan]

An Austrian manager has won the FA Cup today. Will it be an Austrian double tonight? Or did Twiggy predict the wrong event?

Personally I don’t actually care. But two years ago Eurovision was the last thing my wife really enjoyed before she passed away. So it has a special significance for me regardless of how awful it usually is.

[Desperate Dan]

Wow, Twiggy called it correctly. Austria win. Double rations tomorrow

[Desperate Dan]

Happy Birthday @hunnybunny. Have fun.

[to mock a mockingbird]

Another of my long-held trophies (186,990 in BP-6-15) gone, thanks to @desperate-dan . Congrats to @anton249 for getting the trophy; to me on a par with his country (Land der Berge, Land am Strome…) winning eurovision. Overigens volkomen terecht dat Teddy Scholten won destijds, als je het mij vraagt, dat Engelse lied was niets. Ook niet verwacht hier een video in het Nederlands te zien (gepost om een reactie uit te lokken?).

[Desperate Dan]

Op het eerste gezicht leek ‘Sing Little Birdie’ een onschuldige deuntje, maar in werkelijkheid bevatten de teksten een diep verontrustende en alarmerende boodschap die ik hier vanwege moderatieproblemen niet kan bespreken.

[to mock a mockingbird]

in baume kerve is idd nie onschuldag. as ut dan toch mot geif mè maah y tú qué has hecho da’s teminste poeties.

[Desperate Dan]

I think that was worthy of Eric Cantona.

Netherlands 21 UK 16 (Cannes, 1959)

England 4 Netherlands 1 (Wembley 1996)

Let’s call it quits.

[to mock a mockingbird]

BTW Tried to learn English by writing down Supertramp lyrics in my youth and what do you know ended up in both England and logic, but you’re right I still have no clue about the hidden layers of meaning in English songs; climbed up to Solsbury Hill to check (three times even; completely flat though nowadays), but no city lights, watch kept on ticking, no eagle …. Portishead 2nd best on the page, after Teddy Scholten.

[to mock a mockingbird]

Not to mention England 8 Netherlands 2 (Huddersfield 1946). Still feel the pain ofc. (The only games I attended in 1996 were Ghana 3 Italy 2, and some Bayern München home game in the Olympiastadion.)

[Brian N]

It’s all double Dutch to me.

Anyway here’s the unofficial UK entry to the Anti-Eurovision Contest.https://youtu.be/rgaZ50cKEBU?si=j5nk2lhdO85SP32Q