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2015-05-23 09:13 4401432 Anonymous Eurovision (Eurovision-2015-flag.png 1500x845 1150kB)
Question /lgbt/, why is there always controversy over pro-lgbt songs and acts when Eurovision is literally the gayest thing on television?

5 min later 4401454 Anonymous
I watched it solely for Terry Wogans mocking commentary. He's gone now. So I don't watch it.

7 min later 4401461 Anonymous
>>4401454 Graham Norton is 100 times more mocking, i genuinely think he hates them all, but the pay is good

10 min later 4401473 Anonymous
Quote from Graham just a few seconds ago about Slovenia's act "she's wearing headphones, don't know what she's listening to, hopefully not this"

16 min later 4401494 Anonymous
>>4401473 Lol Are you from the UK? Too bad our German commentator isn't funny at all even though this is the most ridiculous and flamboyant show existing

19 min later 4401512 Anonymous
>>4401494 of course Apparently the Israel guy is meant to be 16, Graham said he looks 30, its true

28 min later 4401543 Anonymous
Lol UK. You invented pop music, so why always so shitty at esc?

51 min later 4401666 Anonymous
>>4401432 Isn't Russia the 2nd highest funder for the event?

52 min later 4401671 Anonymous
>>4401666 i don't know Satan

1 hours later 4401717 Anonymous
>>4401432 controversy is good for ratings

1 hours later 4401722 Anonymous
is there seriously not a eurovision live thread on this board i mean even /sp/ has one

1 hours later 4401731 Anonymous (loicnottet_photography_and_art_work_by_josh_brandao13_copy.jpg 600x400 17kB)
That Belgian guy is hot

1 hours later 4401732 Anonymous
>>4401717 no but why would it be controversial? Eurovision is gay as fuck, why would it be a surprise when some of the acts crossdress, or sing about marriage equality? Thats just what Eurovision is like

1 hours later 4401743 Anonymous
>>4401722 trannies get triggered to much, but srsly dunnow get the fags here dont know fun or are on other boards for the vision

1 hours later 4401744 Anonymous
>>4401722 searched 'euro' and 'eurovision' before making the thread, nothing came up

1 hours later 4401776 Anonymous
>>4401722 the mods have been banning people on /sp/ that are making eurovision threads. Considering this board is essentially unmoderated I don't see any reason why you couldn't make a thread here, or just use this thread as is.

1 hours later 4401856 Anonymous
>>4401776 It's LGBT related, its a legitimate thread for this board, Eurovision is gay as fuck More Graham Norton "she must be a good actress, because she's smiling" and "dressed as a novelty toilet brush"

1 hours later 4401896 Anonymous (media.jpg 719x960 199kB)
>>4401732 just because the media is claiming there's a big controversy doesn't mean there actually is. sometimes when networks need a controversy but can't get enough people riles up they exaggerate stories to make it seem like something small is something big. there might not be any actual controversy to Eurovision and they're exaggerating how many homophobes actually care about it to get progressives to stand up to them by watching it

1 hours later 4401937 Anonymous
>>4401896 i think 200 million people watch Eurovision worldwide, i don't think it needs much more publicity

1 hours later 4401953 Anonymous
>>4401937 it needs something to keep it from getting stale.

2 hours later 4401992 Anonymous
>>4401953 how about stop shitting it up with euro "talent" and let real american entertainers perform? it'd certainly be worth watching then.

2 hours later 4402056 Anonymous
>>4401992 I think the purpose is to promote European artists. We've got enough American influence here. To be fair it's obviously hard to find good musicians to take part for some small and poor countries.

2 hours later 4402062 Anonymous (1410191175017.jpg 410x316 31kB)
>>4401992 as soon as there's too many Muslims on it or it becomes a threat to Israel's safety then we'll invade Eurovision and bring democracy and freedom to it

2 hours later 4402064 Anonymous
>>4401992 Eurovision is just a giant 'fuck you' to America. We all hate you, only America thinks America is great, or good at literally anything

2 hours later 4402074 Anonymous (1432134169799.jpg 934x527 96kB)
>>4402064 >implying the US of A isn't the greatest country in the world

2 hours later 4402135 Anonymous
>>4402074 it's not. And if you think that you genuinely have problems. >>4401992 Nice troll. The point of Eurovision is to bring European countries closer together and watch European talent perform. Nobody gives a shit to see Beyonce or whatever perform there. >>4401937 His point, with which I agree with, is that the controversy over Conchita was greatly exaggerated. It was mostly some really right wing ancient (as in, really old) Austrian politicians and some neo nazi groups, the general public had no problem with Conchita winning.

2 hours later 4402141 Anonymous
>>4402056 It's not to promote European artists, these acts will barely be seen again. Commercially successful artists would not do Eurovision.

2 hours later 4402159 Anonymous
>>4402135 >(as in, really old) are people so socially inept here that we need to point this out?

2 hours later 4402171 Anonymous
>>4402141 you clearly do not know Eurovision. In countries other than the UK their acts tend to be fairly popular already, and if they win they become very famous

2 hours later 4402176 Anonymous
>>4402171 Yeah I'm from the UK, we're under the impression all the acts are joke acts?

3 hours later 4402329 Anonymous
>>4402141 >Commercially successful artists would not do Eurovision. Lel, Eurovision has THREE times the viewership of Superbowl and every "big" American artist begs to do Superbowl every year.

3 hours later 4402332 Anonymous
>>4402329 Guess this is just the UK viewpoint, no serious British artist would do it.

3 hours later 4402343 Anonymous
>>4402332 I don't know about Brit's opinion on Eurovision but I know any artist would be completely insane to miss out on appearing before some 300 million people worldwide. That's more than Superbowl and around the level of fucking World Cup finals.

3 hours later 4402347 Anonymous
>>4402343 The guy who won the German competition to represent decided they didn't want to?

6 hours later 4403027 Anonymous (1432424379339.gif 462x290 2653kB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1 rec2H5nw watch at 2:36 I can actually understand now that Russia feels like there is a "propaganda"

6 hours later 4403070 Anonymous
>>4403027 what's he saying? i can't understand his accent

6 hours later 4403080 Anonymous
>>4403027 I don't usually believe or care about conspiracy theories but this years Eurovision is honestly making me wonder about vote rigging/vote buying. The whole thing ended far too cleanly and perfectly with everyone being right where it would be good for them,

6 hours later 4403104 Anonymous
>>4403070 ... from Turkey [Polina: I just arrived from Turkey] So your country is a little bit bad famous about LGBT rights so why still didn't you have a LGBT song? You can sing song about LGBT rights... maybe to change and repay your [?] Why you didn't? Or maybe next year that I now You don't do that

6 hours later 4403116 Anonymous
>>4403080 when it comes to a TV show i always assume it's rigged so the to create the best outcome for the network's interests. whether it's ratings, PR, funding, or a political agenda i always assume the winner has been chosen long before the final episode airs

8 hours later 4403561 Anonymous
>>4403116 Russia's song was shit, i have no idea how they came 2nd

8 hours later 4403572 Anonymous
>>4403561 maybe to tease Putin?

8 hours later 4403593 Anonymous
>>4403572 i did love the Russian guy joking that Russia had decided to give 12 points to themselves. Me and my friend were literally joking seconds before that Putin would appear and say "No, we keep all the points, go away"

8 hours later 4403615 Anonymous
>>4403593 >Me and my friend were literally joking seconds before that Putin would appear and say "No, we keep all the points, go away" I don't know how to feel about the fact that me and my friend were making the exact same joke at pretty much the exact same time. I guess originality really is dead? Or maybe it was never alive but we had allusions it was because of lack of fast global communication system.

8 hours later 4403641 Anonymous
>>4403615 Maybe theres just a universal perception of Russia

12 hours later 4404162 Anonymous
>>4401432 Wait, people actually watch Eurovision? I thought it was just some sort of international joke that I wasn't in on. Why would you want to watch a bunch of wankers do a song and jig for some dumb fucking contest while getting jeered at by people?

15 hours later 4404502 Anonymous
>>4404162 Literally every talent show ever. But its pretty serious business, for properly European countries, they really try, and the voting is all politics rather than about who was best

16 hours later 4404526 Anonymous
>>4401543 because we literally don't care

16 hours later 4404530 Anonymous
>>4401992 This is why America will never be allowed to have a guest participant. You just don't get it america. Much like you don't get cheeky nandos.

17 hours later 4404595 Anonymous
>>4404530 quality bantz

17 hours later 4404640 Anonymous
>>4404526 You're not even the country who cares the least. Italy didn't even send a participant for 20 years and re-entered only after being begged by the organisation big bosses

17 hours later 4404692 Anonymous
>>4404640 That's because Italy went butthurt about getting always shit scores and ragequitted. If they didn't care I'd doubt they'd send a fucking huge popular band to perform in eurovisions.

17 hours later 4404695 Anonymous
>>4404640 We used to care more and then other than sending Andrew Lloyd Webber we've not cared since nul points

20 hours later 4404970 Anonymous
>>4402347 Apparently he felt he 'wasn't ready'.

20 hours later 4404983 Anonymous
>>4401896 Hrey I am from france and this man, Mélenchon is supporting the LGBT rights against the fascist party here in France! Please don't use him like that! When there are thousands inthe streets for Marine Le Pen you know it's important to care about solidarity even if it's little.

20 hours later 4405015 Anonymous
>>4404983 >Please don't use him like that! i wasn't. he did it to himself. at any time he could have pointed out how small that group in the pic really was the that the network was using camera tricks to make it seem bigger.

27 hours later 4406817 Anonymous
Tbh, I stop caring about eurovision when Portugal had "Homens da Luta" and some after them...Shame...

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