Watching the Eurovision Song Contest for many is a perfect time for a party, with nibbles and drinks. I know many people have so called drinking games to help them through the three hour spectacular. For many years, the standard drinking game in the UK for Eurovision was \u201cdrink whenever Terry Wogan said something rude.\u201d<\/p>\n
That game got particularly dangerous in the last few years.<\/p>\n
So what can you do instead, given that we are in Magic 8-Ball territory on Graham Norton\u2019s coverage (<fx: shake<\/em>> Unclear, ask again later<\/em>) and don\u2019t know yet what we can latch on to?<\/p>\n I know someone twittered this on Thursday at me (please remind me by mail who you were so I can acknowledge you!) but having watched the acts, and the order of tonight\u2019s final, this should work well.<\/p>\n Take a drink whenever you see a live pyrotechnic effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Simple as that \u2013 flames on the LED display don\u2019t count, and a shot with three sparks can be considered just one drink,but the longer shots will require constant slugging. As tonight\u2019s show starts off with a rather gentle pace, you\u2019ll be able to ease yourself into it with some gentle songs. The fun will really start with Sakis Rova and the Greek entry, and then you can argue if lasers count during Armenia.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll then be on a cycle that will build up throughout the evening to a massive crescendo during Finland\u2019s \u201cLose Control.\u201d That\u2019s assuming you get past the Boyzone-esque delights of Brink (Denmark) and the longest continuous pyro shot in Eurovision history\u2026 probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watching the Eurovision Song Contest for many is a perfect time for a party, with nibbles and drinks. I know many people have so called drinking games to help them through the three hour spectacular. For many years, the standard drinking game in the UK for Eurovision was \u201cdrink whenever Terry Wogan said something rude.\u201d That game got particularly dangerous in the last few years. So what can you do instead, given that we are in Magic 8-Ball territory on Graham Norton\u2019s coverage (<fx: shake> Unclear, ask again later) and don\u2019t know yet what we can latch on to? I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[595,22,392,23],"tags":[1097,1096,371,1098],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-595","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-gaming","tag-drink","tag-eurovision-drinking-game","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-pyro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-zM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62307,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/62307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n