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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Eurovision 2024 (Was Re: Doctor Who: The Return of the
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:16:48 +0100
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On 14/04/2024 00:07, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <uvf35f$389o5$1@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> On 14/04/2024 00:02, The Doctor wrote:
>>> In article <xn0okj6wg28q3hn002@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <xn0okisq91piack000@post.eweka.nl>,
>>>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The stupid turkey was intended as a deliberate insult to
>>>>>>> Eurovision and the Eurovision has still not forgiven Ireland
>>>>>>> for that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dustin was a super star in Ireland! He's had six Number 1 hit
>>>>>> singles here, six! Dustin was BIG. (On our little island
>>>>>> anyway.) Winning the public vote to represent Ireland was
>>>>>> not a surprise or done as an insult per se. But not everyone
>>>>>> gets our quirky Irish humour.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sending Jedward OTOH... I think the plan there was to send
>>>>>> them to the Eurovision in Germany and hope that they stayed
>>>>>> there!
>>>>>
>>>>> Which way to vote.
>>>>
>>>> Well... I have never voted in any of the public votes to select
>>>> our Euroweirdo entry and never will. I might have been tempted
>>>> to vote for PiL last year if John Lydon could still sing. But
>>>> his singing voice is past its best, plus the song was shit.
>>>>
>>>> I don't vote for anyone on Eurovision night either. If I'm at
>>>> home and it's on I just laugh at all the odd-balls prancing
>>>> around like peacocks and watch the carnage as the various
>>>> countries announce their votes and settle old scores with their
>>>> politically motivated decisions!
>>>>
>>>> It's entertainment Jim, but not as we know it.
>>>
>>> The English Entry ...
>>
>> There is no English entry. This isn't the World Cup or European football.
>>
> 
> the UK is composed of 4 nations.
> 

The UK is one country, unless you think Texas is an independent state in 
North America.

>> -- 
>> The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw
>>
>> "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
>> stands for." -William Shatner
>>
> 
> 

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