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BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sun May 17, 2026 6:07 am

I'm on holiday, we rented a house just outside a tiny village in the mountens of north Italy. Everything is perfect, except for the brutal shower and none of the lids fit on any of the pans. There is a very large flatscreen TV connected via SCART to a satellite receiver.

Side note: this satelite TV is in a sorry state, like a High Street with half the shop windows boarded up. I think I saw SAT.1 and bibel.tv, the other 2998 channels are for rent.

Oh, apparently I forgot to check while booking: this house has no WLAN, better known to you as WiFi. I have a limit of 5GB mobile data per month on my phone. The other night we watched some "home" news on the laptop via a mobile hotspot. It burned nearly a full gigabyte in fifteen minutes.

Under these conditions it's rather easy to boycot the Eurovision Song Contest. Yesterday evening we went to bed early.

<tl;dr> How did it end?

Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Sun May 17, 2026 7:03 am

In Eurovision, Australia came 4th and Israel 2nd.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Sun May 17, 2026 7:07 am

Look mum no computer (UK) came last with just 1 point (from Ukraine)

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sun May 17, 2026 7:50 am

SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:07 am Look mum no computer (UK) came last with just 1 point (from Ukraine)

I know the UK doesn't put in much effort lately.
But did he really deserve that?

Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Sun May 17, 2026 8:12 am

Hopefully next year it'll be Autechre or Carcass.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Sun May 17, 2026 8:59 am

BertKoor wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:50 am
SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:07 am Look mum no computer (UK) came last with just 1 point (from Ukraine)

I know the UK doesn't put in much effort lately.
But did he really deserve that?

As much as I love modular and all things synth, I think we have to admit it wasn’t a great song, it was like a 70s novelty record….

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun May 17, 2026 9:03 am

SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 8:59 am
BertKoor wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:50 am
SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:07 am Look mum no computer (UK) came last with just 1 point (from Ukraine)

I know the UK doesn't put in much effort lately.
But did he really deserve that?
As much as I love modular and all things synth, I think we have to admit it wasn’t a great song, it was like a 70s novelty record….

It was bloody awful - deserved every point

Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Sun May 17, 2026 9:38 am

SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 8:59 am
BertKoor wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:50 am
SLiC wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 7:07 am Look mum no computer (UK) came last with just 1 point (from Ukraine)

I know the UK doesn't put in much effort lately.
But did he really deserve that?
As much as I love modular and all things synth, I think we have to admit it wasn’t a great song, it was like a 70s novelty record….

Er, it's Eurovision..?

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Sun May 17, 2026 10:38 am

Teenagers have poor taste, except for Ukraine!

Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Sun May 17, 2026 10:57 am

Michael L wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 10:38 am Teenagers have poor taste, except for Ukraine!

Eurovision fans have no taste :-p

Constructed Identity · Sun May 17, 2026 7:30 pm

I would have voted for him.

look mum no computer ro represent uk in eurovision