A slight case of overblogging

antinomy kindly posted the rules to the Eurovision Song Contest Drinking Game. This differs from my version only in that hers is slightly more lethal - I only count one drink's worth of each offence per act, not per individual item (so three performers in sparkly folk costume would be two drinks, not six). Since I can't drink at the moment (I'm limiting myself to a small glass on special occasions) I made notes as we went along instead. Here they are. I use the word "bling" throughout to refer to any form of spangle/lurex/glitter/sequins.

( Rather long... )

And thankfully that's the lot. I can see why Norway did well (a nice sentiment, well executed, cute singer in a cheeky chappie sort of way, but I found the English just a tiny bit simplistic in places, as if obviously written by a fluent but non-native speaker), and also Iceland and Turkey. I have no idea how we came 5th, or why Azerbaijan was popular and Germany not. Moldova nearly scraped into the top half, and deserved better. And France were much better at singing a straight song than we were.

And if you judge it on Eurovision clichés as embodied by this game then Germany and Ukraine were clear winners, with France coming last.