Comments on: Bombed http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/ Another Fine Edition of Me Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:30:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Britain: Boors at the Eurovision Party http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/comment-page-1/#comment-5443 Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Britain: Boors at the Eurovision Party Mon, 14 May 2007 20:19:13 +0000 http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/#comment-5443 [...] Roschekno at Smokewriting has similar feelings: “The subsequent massive failure of the song may have had something to do with said eurotypes having got used a long time ago to the increasingly smug unfunniness of official British ‘humour’.” [...] [...] Roschekno at Smokewriting has similar feelings: “The subsequent massive failure of the song may have had something to do with said eurotypes having got used a long time ago to the increasingly smug unfunniness of official British ‘humour’.” [...]

]]> By: John http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/comment-page-1/#comment-5439 John Mon, 14 May 2007 10:02:04 +0000 http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/#comment-5439 Ironic appreciation of the horror show that is Eurovision surely ran it's course a long time ago? It used to be funny watching countries voting for, or against, each other in hugely predictable blocs and knowing that we could always rely on little Malta giving us a reciprocal thank you for the George Cross we awarded them in 1942. But the naked nationalism and regional bias that has been underlying the show in the last decade or so has made it unpleasant and depressing viewing. It now seems to be a simple competition of grotesques, with each nation attempting to demonstrate it's ability to laugh at itself by parading the most ludicrously dressed individual to represent them. Lordi, lordy, indeed. Not for me anymore. Ironic appreciation of the horror show that is Eurovision surely ran it’s
course a long time ago?

It used to be funny watching countries voting for, or against, each other in
hugely predictable blocs and knowing that we could always rely on little
Malta giving us a reciprocal thank you for the George Cross we awarded them
in 1942.

But the naked nationalism and regional bias that has been underlying the
show in the last decade or so has made it unpleasant and depressing viewing.

It now seems to be a simple competition of grotesques, with each nation
attempting to demonstrate it’s ability to laugh at itself by parading
the most ludicrously dressed individual to represent them.

Lordi, lordy, indeed.

Not for me anymore.

]]> By: Rochenko http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/comment-page-1/#comment-5437 Rochenko Mon, 14 May 2007 08:45:15 +0000 http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/#comment-5437 Bloody hell, you don't do things by halves, do you? I only caught a few moments of the Serbian entry, but it seemed to have Roland Browning out of Grange Hill on vocals. All the best - and email me the story behind this! You must have made your mind up sometime since last Saturday... Bloody hell, you don’t do things by halves, do you? I only caught a few moments of the Serbian entry, but it seemed to have Roland Browning out of Grange Hill on vocals.

All the best – and email me the story behind this! You must have made your mind up sometime since last Saturday…

]]> By: Allistair http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/comment-page-1/#comment-5431 Allistair Sun, 13 May 2007 21:58:09 +0000 http://www.smokewriting.co.uk/2007/05/13/bombed/#comment-5431 I knew there was something that disturbed me about Scooch's backdrop. I couldn't quite place it at the time, but you're right you know, it was akin to a squadron of bomber command flying o'er the streets of Belgrade. It wasn't the reason why we did so badly though. Afterall, why should subliminal messages of overt nationalism or imperialism necessarily disturb the great swathes of Eastern Europe that regularly churn out their nationalistic shite for our edification. If anything, it could have turned some of them on. We did so badly because, in fact, those eurotypes didn't get the joke. It is telling that the only votes we got came from Malta and Ireland, the two most sophisticated Eurovision peoples. The rest, let us just despair because they delivered Serbia as the winners. Good grief. Lamentable bollocks on a night full of 'em. Scooch were poor, but not so poor as all that. I'm off to teach English in Korea in about a month. Wish me well. I knew there was something that disturbed me about Scooch’s backdrop. I couldn’t quite place it at the time, but you’re right you know, it was akin to a squadron of bomber command flying o’er the streets of Belgrade. It wasn’t the reason why we did so badly though. Afterall, why should subliminal messages of overt nationalism or imperialism necessarily disturb the great swathes of Eastern Europe that regularly churn out their nationalistic shite for our edification. If anything, it could have turned some of them on.

We did so badly because, in fact, those eurotypes didn’t get the joke. It is telling that the only votes we got came from Malta and Ireland, the two most sophisticated Eurovision peoples. The rest, let us just despair because they delivered Serbia as the winners. Good grief. Lamentable bollocks on a night full of ‘em. Scooch were poor, but not so poor as all that.

I’m off to teach English in Korea in about a month. Wish me well.

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