Eurovision Rewatch: 1997 18/04 (20.00 BST)

[dmlaw]

Hi everyone, I've already had my tea (from the chippy) and now I'm drinking some shit purple WKD.

Is purple WKD a thing now or did you pour a blue one and an orange one into the same glass?

 

[Soldi]

Dressed for Di’s funeral

 

[Dark Carnival]

RONAN KEATING

 

[Iguana]

This is quite futuristic and high spec considering it's a Eurovision that's over a decade old.

Two decades!

 

[ButterTart]

Is purple WKD a thing now or did you pour a blue one and an orange one into the same glass?

Fucking Hell that's a great idea.

 

[Lucille]

I didn't know it was Ronan K. hosting!

He looks about 12!

 

[Tisch]

I had NO IDEA Ronan did this

 

[Dark Carnival]

Ronan was one of my first ever teenage crushes!

 

[Beverley]

She's PRETTY

 

[octophone]

Ronan Keating looks like he's been dropped from a gantry and landed awkwardly.

 

[Beverley]

Ronan was one of my first ever teenage crushes!

VILE!!!!

 

[Dark Carnival]

what an ugly language!

 

[COB]

The crowd shots looking like a Gladiators semi final

 

[AGinAg (37)]

So many newly unemployed Tories at this point in time

 

[Beverley]

I'm here for Ronan attempting to speak French

 

[Tisch]

YES! At the stoic well dressed audience.

 

[Dark Carnival]

VILE!!!!

OH SHUSH

 

[VoR]

I'd forgotten about Ronan. I hope that means he's largely inoffensive.

God the Irish were SMUG by this stage though. It makes knowing about the spiral to follow all the sweeter.

 

[Madison]

What an ugly language!

 

[win_the_game]

If I remember our rewatch, I wouldn't describe 1996 as a huge success. A HOMOPHOBIC HATE CRIME maybe.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

what an ugly language!

IRISH ACCENTS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

 

[octophone]

I do have a bit of a thing for curly auburn hair....

 

[Beverley]

The crowd shots looking like a Gladiators semi final

OMG!!!

 

[ButterTart]

Margaret Thatcher taking time out of her busy schedule of setting fire to disabled children for fun in order to make a cameo in the audience.

 

[Iguana]

I didn't know it was Ronan K. hosting!

Yeah I wouldn't have bothered if I'd known

 

[Dark Carnival]

IRISH ACCENTS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

IN ENGLISH

 

[Dark Carnival]

Omg the Spice Girls??

 

[ButterTart]

I had NO IDEA Ronan did this

I think he'd have denied it even if you asked him.

 

[D5K]

I've just had five minutes of Lucille-style panic where my wifi decided to break. Think it's fixed now thank god.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Oh it's him

 

[OutSynk]

Ronan's hair looks WASHED.

 

[octophone]

IRISH ACCENTS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

Well, there's two types - the soft ROI accent and the Norn Irn accent which sounds like a dot matrix printer filled with tin foil.

 

[Alla]

Already hating Ronan, ugh.

 

[Tisch]

Girl Power reference

 

[VoR]

Eimear Quinn- the Geri Halliwell of County Mayo

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I FANCIED Ronan in the 1990s.

 

[Suomi]

I'd forgotten about Ronan. I hope that means he's largely inoffensive.

God the Irish were SMUG by this stage though. It makes knowing about the spiral to follow all the sweeter.

“The Home of Eurovision” - the absolute cheek! I hope when Belarus eventually win they use this line

 

[Dark Carnival]

LOL at the days when Ireland was a Eurovision powerhouse!

 

[Dark Carnival]

I FANCIED Ronan in the 1990s.

THANK YOU

 

[octophone]

Margaret Thatcher taking time out of her busy schedule of setting fire to disabled children for fun in order to make a cameo in the audience.

She's better not stay the whole thing - Satan's cock won't suck itself.