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Location: manchester UK
well i never normally watch it but i decided to this year. luckily i missed all the songs so i jus watched the voting
i had such a laugh! terry wogan has a new place in my heart. some of the things he was coming out with were quite amusing ... complaining how long the voting was going on for, commenting on the predictability of voting and generally taking the piss out of the whole contest with his sly digs.what got me thinking was the fact that all the competitors take is so seriously. do the europeans really think that this is good music? and do any of them/you take it as a totally serious competition?
i know that its pretty much a joke in the uk. even if we did win it (which is never gonna happen) the artist would maybe get a bit of admiration but would fall very quickly into the pit of musical nothingness. ok it was different int he old days when bucks fizz (???) won it but its changed
why is it that the biggest countries also being the largest contributors came last (uk, spain, germany, france)? do you not like us or was our song really that bad?
i dont see why we cant get a decent act togetheri think its more of a political contest now. germany dont vote for us (uk), we dont vote for them. we vote for the countries we like to go on holiday (turkey greece spain), and they vote for us.
anyway ill be watching all the fun and games next year ...
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WOOOO FINLAND ARE STORMING IT SO FAR
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I'm here on the edge of my seat....
Very precarious...
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lol that bird from malta!! WOW!!!!
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Ooh I knew it, just so half of you dont run the risk of looking 'un-cool' you say you only watch it for Terri Wogan lol
. Ide say it was 50% polotics, 30 stage theatrics (especialy this year and 20% talent.Yeah the baltic countrys all vote for each other, but you have to remember 30 years ago when Europe was mainly western countrys, western songs won because that was the audiance. Now that Europe has more eastern Europian countrys if you want half decent points you have to give the eastern europian countrys a style they like, acoustic guitars are out (sorry Ireland), belly dancing is in (lucky turkey eh)
Which was the second to last one? The slightly matcho woman with the tatoo's, woof wouldnt wanna piss her off after a few drinks. I really liked that song tho, I hope that one wins
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Location: Cornwall, UK
Er...ok.
Finland are gonna win. And I too am on the edge of my seat. I have a vested interest too, as I actually text-voted for them.
It's true though, that without Wogan (who's quite pissed this year, you can hear it) it wouldn't be worth watching, but hopefully someone with the same dry wit will get the gig when Tel pops his clogs. Maybe Jimmy Carr?
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"You don't need a microphone!" Wogan in response to the Armenian bird.
I nearly choked on my spliff.
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FEARNE COTTON i almost creamed!! i was expecting the wogan! aaah she's pretty!!
lol mags i texted in too
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Nah, Wogan never does the vote, cos he's the in-studio commentator. He's in Greece, drinking Ouzo.
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Location: Cornwall, UK
Finland, we salute you!
Feckin wicked.
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yay Lordi!!
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Craaaap lol
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Haha, wooo. Good for Lordi. Bloody glad they won.
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Lordy LORDI!
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How bad was LT United, we are the winners.
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LOL I LOVED IT!
esp the harry hill lookilikey!!
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I liked Germanys white trash hill billy entry, well in the last minute it grew on me I thought it was cute!
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Location: Finland
I still can`t believe we won
i couldn`t stop laughing when they kept giving the points to finland. not that i wouldn`t like the song, but still.
this is little something i like to call my "victory dance" :
, i promise it looks a lot better when i do it myself. If we can`t live in peace then fu*k it, let`s die.
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Peace -Fyre-
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Location: Edinburgh
Go Finland!!!!
I'm so f***ng Drunk!!!
Whooo!!!
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Well done for Lordi!! I dont know whether the majority of the votes came from people who were just like what the hell lets vote for them. But for anyone interested go here and click on the 'see lordi talking to the press video' and watch the short 6 mins interview after they won, its an excellent press interview and it really lets you into what the guys are about, and the main singer is a very interesting guy, watch it
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Location: Limoges (France)
That was soooo fun
Unfortunately commentators on French TV were real fools and they did not respect neither the music itself nor the choice of the European audience. They first said they would never win (missed
) then they were whining each time Finland got 12 points. They couldn't stop telling bullshit, that was indecent... they even didn't stop chatting when Lordi replayed the song, telling people in the audience did not like it, explaining that 2 thirds of Finland was above the Arctic circle, blablabla... a good lesson of intolerance and narrowness of mind. 1,363 posts
Location: Nuneaton
That was one of the greatest things I've EVER seen heheh,, quite like the 'We are the Winners' song aswell,, got me bopping somewhat lol
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go Lordi, hehe will be funny to see the state of eurovision next year, after that won!
but Lithuania should have won quite frankly... they were clearly taking the pish. I was practically crying with laughter
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Location: Edinburgh
The Ukrainian singer had very nice thighs I thought.
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I was actually rather pleased that the rest of the uk thought the same as me and voted for both Lordi and the Mad Lithuanians aswell
Had to go download 'Vote' this morning hehe,, damn things jammed in my head
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lol pen ME TOO!!
its not the same without the crazy harry hill lookalike!
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yeh what was with him. He was all cool, calm, and collected untill it was his turn to dance. Then talk bout a spring waiting to go off. The guy was a nutter. Think he must have been on something.
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hehe, apparently he's famous in lithuania for his "freaky" dancing, check out their website...
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Watching the Sky
453 posts
Location: Cambridge(ish)/Bath Spa Uni, United Kingdom
what an AMAZING night it was! the crowd was AMAZING the performances we AMAZING!
couldnt she think of another word!
its all so AMAZING!
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Location: Melbourne - home of pirates
I say Go team Lordi...
I want to see more cheezy metal on Eurovision.. Maybe this is opening a new door as far as the competition is concerned and some good stuff will get on..
But then we'd lose the cheesy charm which makes it so special...
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They are truely hilarious.
They won the Eurovision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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