chapotraphouse

Mossad rigging Eurovision in the belief that it will change public opinion on an active genocide is the most Israeli thing ever

Euro-peons

The final score is split between the public vote and a panel of judges from every country. The votes you see from the presenters are the judges votes, then the televotes are added on at the end in reverse order, ending with the one who got the most votes from the public.

That's in the final, in the semi-finals they just say who goes in the finals and then the scores are posted online after the final.

Are you talking about the "technical glitch" in Italy?
Or did something else happen?
Broadcasters aren't even supposed to know the tally so idk what's going on there but it sure smells mighty fishy.

If they don't do anything about it and Israel wins the "public" vote then the contest will have likely have to be hosted in Israel the next year.

Will be difficult given that it won't exist by then

Third one is for real though, China will have to do an operation paperclip before the fall of the EU to keep that shit going

Also a good place for industrial music

Waffles?

You're forgetting PTB-PVDA: the only marxist-leninst party in Europe with amazing poll numbers. Currently around second place (in a landscape with twelve parties) in the polls for the election in June.

One of my most firmly held convictions is that Belgian beer is thoroughly overrated.

They’re either too heavy or they have weird fucking flavors. Why the fuck do I want chocolate or cherry flavored beer? When have you ever drank a beer and thought “I would love to eat a bar of chocolate while I’m drinking this.”

No. Fuck no.

And even the non-Trappist beers are just ok, usually too heavy bodied.

Vedet is ok. That’s all.

Let's not go that far