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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
I've never watched Eurovision, so I found this helpful:
The voters have spoken...
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Nope. The voters got nothing to say if the "Jury" says so:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...o-9351644.html
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It has been hailed as victory for tolerance and a counterblast to a creeping tide of homophobia.
But, it seems, the Great British public was less enamoured by Austria?s 'Bearded Lady', Conchita Wurst, who swept to Eurovision victory preaching a parable of trans-continental camp, than they were by the amply displayed décolletage of the group of rustic milk churners that accompanied Poland?s 14th-placed entry.
For the first time yesterday Song Contest organisers revealed both the public and the jury votes for each act.
Yet whilst the official UK panel gave the maximum 12 points to the disarmingly hirsute cross-dressing Conchita, it relegated Polish duo Donatan & Cleo to the lowest place in the order.
By contrast the tele-vote result in the UK saw the Poles named as runaway winners. Ireland also followed suit, with the public similarly awarding first place to We Are Slavic compared to the last position given by its panel.
The Norwegian and Ukrainian public were also impressed by the Polish entry voting it their favourite song again contradicting the findings of their national juries which placed it 19th and 25th respectively.
Tele-votes in the Netherlands and Iceland ranked the Poles in second place whilst Austria, Macedonia, France, Germany and Sweden put them third.
A Eurovision spokesman denied this was evidence of a cultural disconnection between the popular winner and that favoured by the official judges in what has become an increasingly fractious and politicised contest which saw teenage Russian entrants booed by sections of the audience.
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There you have it, folks. Great victory for tolerance lol