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Switzerland 2024: Welcome to the show, let everybody know, I'm done playing the game.

TBH I don't know if there will be a Eurovision next year, and if there will be, how many countries would be willing to take part in the most expensive country in Europe, especially after the complete shitshow that was this year (Israel's participation and everything that came with it, JOOST 😭😭😭), and again the juries disproportionally favouring one entrant. Most Swiss people are not excited about next year's contest either.

"Hey, I'm a big boy now, I'm ready to leave, ciao mama ciao" seems like an appropriate ending to this post. As a lifelong Eurovision fan, it's sad to say this.

The first lyrics of recent Eurovision winners

Sweden 2012: Why? Why can’t this moment last forevermore?

Denmark 2013: The sky is red tonight.

Austria 2014: Waking in the rubble

Sweden 2015: Don’t tell the gods I left a mess.

Ukraine 2016: The strangers are coming.

Portugal 2017: Se um dia alguém perguntar por mim (If one day someone asks about me)

Israel 2018: Rrrrrr. Ouch. Hey. Hmph. Laaa.

Bonus:

Azerbaijan 2011: Oh oh, oh oh, oh, oh oh

UPDATE

My Dutch brain, 2019: IT HAS BEEN 44 YEARS *emotional singing* A bRoKeN hEaRt Is AlL tHaTs LeFt

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2020: 

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Baby, I can’t wait to know… *sobs*

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Italy 2021:  Loro non sanno di che parlo ([The juries] don’t know what I’m talking about)

Ukraine 2022: Stefania, my dear mother, Stefania 💙💛

Finland Sweden 2023: Let’s wrap up five long hard days and drink piña coladas at the bar I don’t wanna go

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POV: You are being interviewed while Léon Marchand is swimming a medal race

Context: Marrit Steenbergen (NED) has just missed out on a medal in the preceding race.

Translation:

Marrit: I don't know [what exactly went wrong], I think we need to analyse video footage of the race to find that out.

She is awed by the loud cheers in the stadium for the home boy, and hesitates to continue speaking.

Interviewer: I can hear you. Go on.

The crowd becomes louder, and both Marrit and the interviewer have increasing trouble understanding each other.

Marrit: (speaking louder to overcome the crowd) The first section went well, but at one way or another it did not go as I had wanted.

Interviewer: How much nerves and excitement did you have before the race?

Marrit: (shakes head) I can't hear you anymore (laughs).

The interviewer repeats the question, leaning forward and speaking more slowly to make himself more audible. In response to the increasingly rowdy crowd (Marchand was about to overtake his biggest rival in his race), Marrit laughs and shakes her head in disbelief.

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rocket goes boom

Source: How Not To Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

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Now that you say it...

Käärijä has his own page on Elite Prospects (aka the place where all the big hockey scouts go to)

the takeover continues. (Cha Cha Cha playing during the NHL playoff game between Dallas Stars and Seattle Kraken)

Viaplay Urheilu twitter

+ some nice additions from reddit that i have to share:

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“If [the engine compartment] starts pointing toward space, you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today.“

- XKCD, Up Goer Five

Image credit to Jack Beyer and NASASpaceflight.com

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Honestly didn’t expect the King’s Guards to bear the same rifles as American (military) action movie characters

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This moment

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Moldova jumping from bottom 7 to 3rd place, LET'S GOOOOOOOO

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After all those years, Spain and the UK getting 12 points feels surreal, let alone being in the top 3

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they probably did this on purpose

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Als Nederlander zijnde, deze video is cursed

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Sad that the Kyoto Tachibana SHS Band couldn't be there in person, but at least we could hear their excellent harmony

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PORTUGAL NGKKTYJTIRYIDFF I CAN'T

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The shirtless man from Tonga is back

And he brought his brother from Vanuatu

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Does anyone know any anime or Japanese video game music, cameos or references in this opening? List below or reblog and put in the tags