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^^ who cares, she's fit.
C'mon! Czech, Spain and Armenia!
Belgium's compere used to be the Mayor of Lazytown.
@theother - they paid, like everyone else. Eurovision is massively popular in Australia and we know they'd put on the campest show if they did win
@Pook Malta have the junior Eurovison hence the comment, enjoyed the video
Check out the hands on Lithuania!
Ukrainian judges 😀 😀 😀
"IF THERE'S ROOM IN THE HEART THERE'S ROOM IN THE BUTT"
says oober hot swedish judge.
Did she really say "If there's room in the heart there's room in the butt 😯 "
Is that a Swedish saying? If you really like someone then show them by taking them to Centerparcs (another great European tradition)
I recon Japans got it you know..........
South Korean actually.
Oooh, oooh!
Aussie Bjork lookalike "what did you do 5 minutes before going on stage"
I saw Bjork in the Sugarcubes at Newcastle Uni (might have been poly, can't remember) in about 1988. She was late on stage but apologised and explained: "sorry I'm late, I was shitting"
I was desperate for a similar answer just then.
poland = comeback kings
amazing
UKRAINE!!!!!!!!!!!
Screw you Australia!
politics, eh.
that format for voting is staying then
D'oh! The jolly Spanish song did not win and the swimsuit from Armenia did not gain any point either! Damn!
Polonium tea anybody?
I won the house sweepstake! (no. 1 daughter is gutted 8) )
Can't begrudge Ukraine (she's in tears) but Austrlian song was miles better
It'll be kicking off in Russia, Putin will not be happy.
Ya, Ukraine you are at war but do you have to sing about it?
This bette be worth it,I've just tuned in...
I like that.
Quite a grower I think. Not a bad result, as far as Eurovision music goes.
That's not a lesson I need to learn. 😀@tthew a life lesson for her then, youth and looks aren't everything
mrlebowski - Member
This bette be worth it,I've just tuned in...
Very good but at least it's not the Russian Pron star that won.
Well, she's got one hell of a pair of lungs that's for sure & it's plain to see it actually means something to her..
Chapeau..
Ya, Ukraine you are at war but do you have to sing about it?
Why shouldnt she?..
Yep. Was also the least europop so great
So, jury gave it to Australia by a country mile. Public give it to Russia. And yet Ukraine wins it. Not sure this system works.
New system of presenting the voting FTW. 😀
Late back from a ride out so missed most of it.
Shit in grip of the shoe of humanity.
[quote=MoseyMTB ]So, jury gave it to Australia by a country mile. Public give it to Russia. And yet Ukraine wins it. Not sure this system works.
Both the public and the juries had Ukraine in 2nd. Russia was 5th with the juries, Australia 4th with the public. Seems about the right result to me - if not, do you think the juries' choice or the public choice should win?
So, jury gave it to Australia by a country mile. Public give it to Russia. And yet Ukraine wins it. Not sure this system works.
A bit like sailing or golf, comsistency wins it
French TV have a special on the early days just had Petula Clarke and Puppett on a String 🙂
mrlebowski - Member
Ya, Ukraine you are at war but do you have to sing about it?
Why shouldnt she?..
Just thought she should be singing some abstract stuff, like three legged car or something, coz everyone knows the whole world is at war.
Puppet on a String was Sandie Shaw.
Petula Clark was rumoured to be doing Eurovision in 2013 but the star name turned out to be Bonnie Tyler.
(not sure if you were Euro-trolling there)
Incidentally, Cliff has done Eurovision twice, hence anyone associated with the contest is shortly in danger of being outed by JHJ. Do your own research though. Makes you think.
Jonathan King wrote 'ooh, ah, just a little bit ' for Gina G. I think I can see a pattern forming. We'll be on the steps of Elm house before lunchtime!
Public for me. Simple as that.
I lost interest, even though for the as long as I remember I've been a bit of a fan of the circus.
A few things still annoy me about it all:
1) Singers representing their country should sing in native tongue (and I'd like it if they wore their national dress too)
2) Any Woman that starts wailing like an un-controllable banshie, should have the microphone turned off.
3) The vote should be 80% Public (mobiles FOC), 10% Judges & 10% Graham Norton.
4) The last place entry after the vote should host the event for the following year.
5) The crowd should be handed VuVuZellas, and if the contestant is rubbish then the crowd should react by hooting like Owls.
Sweden should have won.
That's Putin told.
As a closet Eurovision fan for many years I have to say that last night was rubbish.
Next year I'm going to enter with this.
Putin is a * (lyrics and music by Harry the Spider)
[i]Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a *[/I]
[i]He's a *, he's a *, he's a great big *[/i]
[i]Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a *[/I]
[i]He's a *, he's a *, he's a great big *[/i]
[i]Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a *
Putin is a ****[/I]
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Well, I think it's fair to say, the people of Europe have spoken and our popularity remains low.
If we now follow this and leave the EU, would this now also mean we can stop bank rolling the event too? Or would that mean we would never ever get past the qualifiers, ever again?
We should definitely stop paying for the bloody thing. Even if they didn't hate us already, the fact we can just waltz into the final without qualifying will make sure they do.
The over-production of the music and staging (as well as the near-universal English lyrics) is robbing the Eurovision of the very thing that made it entertaining. I want to see some bloke dressed as a heron singing a Greek lament.
Instead it's just a boring procession of sub-par anthems, most of which have the same fake uplifting themes, with dull songs disguised by computer wizardry or pyrotechnics - the Russian entry was a prime example there.
The best song was the one the presenters did in the interval before voting - and that was supposed to be a parody.
@martin we go straight into the final as we pay a large amount of money to put the show on.
@theother - just an error from me, it was about 2am here when I posted. If I may say so you should take on-board I am never trolling. I am not big on political correctness and I may make the occasional poor attempt at a joke or be insenstitive but I am never trolling.
They tried singing in national languages but it was rubbish. English is the common language so that makes the most sense.
@martin we go straight into the final as we pay a large amount of money to put the show on.
I know that. My suggestion was that buying our way into the final doesn't help our general popularity in the contest. Then again, neither does our general demeanour, crap song and standoffishness about the whole thing.
I'd much rather the BBC spent the money on something useful, even if it meant we failed to qualify. It's not like our presence in the final adds anything, really.
They tried singing in national languages but it was rubbish.
What's wrong with that? Hilariously crap is better than bland as hell.
@martin I think we can agree the bbc shouldn't be using our money on Eurovision. A commercial channel should put it on
Put it this way, if things back in 1945 had turned out differently, we'd all be speaking German.
Nah, we'd be speaking Russian.
@theother - just an error from me, it was about 2am here when I posted. If I may say so you should take on-board I am never trolling.
I knew that, I was just amazed that anyone didn't know it was Sandie Shaw hence I though it had to be a deliberate baited hook.
Although me calling you on it makes me seem like a Euro-spod, I need to point out here that I had to look up to check Petula Clark hadn't been an entry back in the day, which is where the Cliff and Bonnie Tyler info came from. I didn't need to look up Sandie Shaw though, I'm certain of that. Some other Sandie Shaw facts:
1/ She was gorgeous
2/ She still is
3/ She created my favourite TOTP moment. My Dad heard the presenter announce her in about 1984, glanced over his paper announcing 'at last, someone decent' only to see her writhing about on the floor doing Hand in Glove with the Smiths, who remain the best band in the world, fact.
4/ Her cover version of Jeane is even better than the Smiths original. So in some ways, that makes her the best artist in the world as well.
Look at all the countries that didn't have to pre-qualify, they all did pretty poorly (France and Sweden the exceptions). We need some reason to get a sympathy vote to do well I think, maybe we're just better off not doing very well.
If things turned out differently in 1945 we'd still be speaking English. Very few of the Eastern European countries effectively controlled by the USSR for all those years speak Russian (although they might have an understanding). In the years the Germans invaded the rest f Europe there was no wholesale programme to get the natives speaking German.