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Too soon? Is there another thread already? Anyone watching the semis? Who else thinks Denmark are a stick-on to win?

Lah lah lah

Rightly or wrongly, I don't touch Eurovision until the final. Mainly because it would mean buying three times as much alcohol.

Mol

MONTENEGRO FTW!

You just missed an awesome, Eurovision-esque entry from Montenegro. Rapping astronauts no less.

seriously, if Montenegro don't go through, I'm going to cry.

Belarus - that's ear-worm music if ever I heard it.

Blimey, Moldova have sent a singing toilet roll cover doll thing.

Go-Go-Gadget Legs

That's Serbia's EU membership application getting lost in filing if the EU Commission see that.

sheesh, seriously. Hello Kitty dressed Destiny's Child?
Described on Twitter as an explosion in an ice-cream parlour.

My view? It's like the Serbian singers covered themselves with glue and ran through a dressing-up box

Pfft, Montenegro didn't make it through. I call shenanigans.

Cyprus didn't get through either - I call that good taste! What a bleeding dirge!

Not that they could afford to host it anyway...

Apparently gay people watch Eurovision. Who knew?
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/bonnie-tyler-gays-watch-eurovision-i-might-win140513

TRiG.

Isn't Eurovision basically a Pride festival without all the walking?

no dancing spacemen?
I'm not sure if I want to watch any more

When the Eurovision was held in Azerbaijan, the authorities didn't want any gay people to turn up at the event and appear on camera acting in a gay way, because it might give the impression that there were gay people in Azerbaijan, so they rounded them all up and put them up in a hotel for the night, with lots of TVs so that they could watch the show.

That's quite scary if the implication is that the authorities know people's sexuality and can then "round them up".

I'm sure there's no science behind it. They'll just round up anyone who acts in a way they consider a threat.

Just like that guy who was banned from Dubai (I think) for being 'too handsome'.

It's also odd that they could fit all the gay people in Baku, a city of a million people, in one hotel. If we take the normal estimate of 10% of the population, that's 100,000 people.