| JoxerTheDeityPirate 25.05.2010 04:20 |
yes folks,another year has passed and its time to dig out the lederhosen,tune up the accordians and dust down Cheryl Baker [Bucks Fizz] and tut at the tv for the wonderful nonsense that is the Eurovision Song Contest from Oslo. the first of the semi-finals [curse the fall of the Soviet Union] with all the countires ending in "onia" is on tonight 8pm UK time BBC3 with the 2nd semi-final with the countries ending in "akia" on thursday same time,same channel. this year the UK has decided to "Rick roll" you all and is sending a Rick Astley wannabe to see if we can get lower points than Gemini did.. so,what dreadful dirges are we set for this year I wonder? and do i need an extra bottle of Jack Daniels to compensate the appaling lack of taste from the continent? |
| its_a_hard_life 26994 25.05.2010 09:38 |
I never watch it. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 25.05.2010 13:59 |
^ you are missing out on the wonderful naffness of European music..and lederhosen..and accordians.its worth it just for playing the "accordian drinking game" :-D |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 25.05.2010 16:46 |
first rant: how the hell did that Russian dirge get into the final and not the Malta one with the 'bird man'? |
| its_a_hard_life 26994 25.05.2010 17:00 |
;) |
| shannonsealy 25.05.2010 18:28 |
It's bullshit,the whole thing. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 27.05.2010 16:46 |
gutted the dutch girl and the song by father abraham [the smurfs] didnt qualify :-[ |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 29.05.2010 18:29 |
i dont want to spoil it for anyone who hasnt watched it yet but... there were only 5 countries that can afford to host this nonsense at the moment and the UK was one of them but Europe hates us so we dont have to bother.i Wonder what other countries pay for this every year no matter who wins?..hedge your bets anyone,ok,i narrow it down to France,Germany,Spain and Azererbejan.. guess who won out of that? oh,btw,it always makes me giggle when Israel gives "nil point" to the Germans when every other country gives 12 :-D |
| pma 30.05.2010 02:03 |
I once again managed to fall asleep during the show. Obviously I didn't miss anything, other than the whole point of why anyone would want to hear that German song ever again. The winning song is bordering on a pastiche of everything that's wrong with music today. Perhaps that's why it won. I am gutted and bitter that my personal favorite, that androgynous Serbian did not win, that haircut was a winner. My second favorite: Greece, they did fairly well, but not as well as I had expected. Another winning combination, an aged balding machoman from Greece, looking like he was full of hidden rage, with a stage performance where he was surrounded by younger male dancers. Now that was a Eurovision classic in the making! I was also puzzled by the Danish song, it sounded like some DJ had mixed together "Every Breath You Take" and the chorus was taken from "The Best". And the new voting system, how did it prevent countries from favoring their neighbours? With national broadcasting companies deep in debt, why is this nonsense still alive, year after year? |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 30.05.2010 05:56 |
the Greek bloke kind of reminded me of Paul Rodgers but the reason that did kinda well in the contest had nothing to do with him but the 5 buff tattooed dancers around him.i was watching it with a bunch of women and they couldnt get their fingers on the dial pad quick enough to vote for them which probably explains why the UK gave them 12 points :-p i hope everyone is sitting down when they read this next bit... i wanted France to win :-p |
| Mr Mercury 30.05.2010 09:15 |
So the UK came last............. tbh I wasnt surprised when I heard the actual song. Typical Pete Waterman shite....... |
| YourValentine 30.05.2010 14:46 |
pma wrote: I am gutted and bitter that my personal favorite, that androgynous Serbian did not win, that haircut was a winner. Did you vote, Pete? ;) |
| Holly2003 30.05.2010 15:19 |
Once again Britannia is shafted by Johnny Euro when clearly our song was the best. We should now do a Dunkirk and withdraw our forces back to Blighty until next year, when our song should be the Dambusters Theme. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 31.05.2010 04:09 |
^ how about we send Pete Waterman to check for land mines in Afghanistan instead? we will win it next year as the Germans wont want to host it twice or they will be as skint as the Greeks and good ol' Blighty/BBC are the only other Country/organisation that can afford it now :-p |
| Mr Mercury 31.05.2010 05:34 |
Joxerthedeitypirate wrote: how about we send Pete Waterman to check for land mines in Afghanistan instead?I agree to that. Not only was it a piss poor song, it was sung by a piss poor ""Rick (Gh)Astley" check out "Rick's" crap dancing as well.... link |
| pma 31.05.2010 14:21 |
[quote]YourValentine wrote: pma wrote: I am gutted and bitter that my personal favorite, that androgynous Serbian did not win, that haircut was a winner. Did you vote, Pete? ;) [quote] Of course I voted, I bought 25 pre-paid mobile phone plans to cast several votes, learned basic Serbian/Greek to sing along with my favorites and studied their dance routines carefully. However, my wife was strictly opposed to the idea of getting Milan Stankovic-haircuts for the entire family. |
| YourValentine 01.06.2010 00:52 |
Great, Pete :-) Finland gave Germany 12 points, thank you very mucho. Now they celebrate the winner like a national saint who redeemed the country after 28 years of failure at the Eurovision Contest. I heard there will be a Lena Meyer-Something statue in Berlin soon ;) |
| pma 01.06.2010 03:51 |
YourValentine wrote: Great, Pete :-) Finland gave Germany 12 points, thank you very mucho. Now they celebrate the winner like a national saint who redeemed the country after 28 years of failure at the Eurovision Contest. I heard there will be a Lena Meyer-Something statue in Berlin soon ;) Hold on, someone actually celebrates Lena Myer-LandmineSomething? Germans should be celebrating their fantastic 4th place in the Hockey World Championships, and almost making it to the final. Or Michael Schumacher's 4th place in the Turkish GP last weekend (he drives well for a 109 year old 7time world champion), or celebrate Dschinghis Khan, the greatest German ESC group ever. To be serious, I do think the ESC has been rigged for several years. I think nowadays they ask for a countries to volunteer to win the damn thing. It explains why Finland won. Just look at the list of winners from 2001 onwards... Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, Ukraine, Greece, Finland, Serbia, Russia, Norway and Germany. Something is wrong with that list, if we consider that these are winning countries of a "song contest". |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 01.06.2010 04:44 |
^ its been rigged since at least 1968 when Franco rigged it for Spain to win however,i had forgotten that Germnay hadn't won since Nicole back in 1983,makes the UK's woeful run in ESC seem ok now :-D ps,did anyone else in Europe see the bit where Graham Norton was being interviewed in his boothe by the host and chatting to the UK "live" at the same time..naughty ESC :-D |
| YourValentine 01.06.2010 05:37 |
Sorry Jon, but the English song was really bad - it might have had a chance in 1965! Here is my all-time fave British Eurovision act: An early appearance of Freddie's good friend and co-writer of "Barcelona" Mike Moran with the lovely Lynsey de Paul : Rock Bottom link |
| Mr Mercury 01.06.2010 06:49 |
I still like this song. Even if it is a bit cheesy..... link |
| The Mir@cle 01.06.2010 07:12 |
I must say... the German singer is not only a talent singing. xD link Not bad not bad. How do they say that in Greek? Opppppaaaaaaaaaaaa!??? |
| Rick 01.06.2010 11:24 |
My personal favourite was the one from Slovenia: link Didn't make it into the final, though, but it's kinda catchy and the female singer is cute :) |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 01.06.2010 14:06 |
YourValentine wrote: Sorry Jon, but the English song was really bad - it might have had a chance in 1965! Here is my all-time fave British Eurovision act: An early appearance of Freddie's good friend and co-writer of "Barcelona" Mike Moran with the lovely Lynsey de Paul : Rock Bottom link reply: i actually thought of this song when Romania were playing theirs at the weekend with the double piano gimic. and yes,the UK song was really bad i agree,in fact its probably the 2nd worse UK song we've sent after Jemini 10 years ago :-[ |
| FlorianS 02.06.2010 09:35 |
Allthough I'm from Germany I would have prefered the guy from Belgium to win! Loved his voice!! |