Eurovision Song Contest

Subject: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 03:30 PM

Watched 4 songs so far and the 1st one will take a lot of beating.

I am bored already, but my family will not let me turn it off.

Help.

Another glass of wine and the pain gets less

Where is Terry Wogan?

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 03:39 PM

help the arguments are starting

The Belgium singer sounded a bit like Seth Lakeman

Serbia's entry is pretty good and a bouncy number. I like it

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 03:42 PM

120 million viewers. Obviously not folkies :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 03:51 PM

Irelands version is OK

The next is George Papavgeris's country Greece.

George, It's time you went on it. You would do a much better job. :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 03:56 PM

United Kingdom is on.

Brilliant



NOT

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:00 PM

My money's on Ireland. Not that I'm interested.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:04 PM

Well George, Turkey are pretty crap :-)

Azerbaijan's entry is the best so far IMHO

Of course not Smokey :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:18 PM

Didn't catch Azerbaijan, but my prediction is based on tonal quality and not the song itself. I've never won on the horses either..

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:20 PM

If it's any consolation, France is crap

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:31 PM

After Russia, I think I'm losing the will to live..

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:33 PM

just accidentally landed on Romania male female duo shrieking at a double glass piano and the backup vocal chicks with ankle length feather tails

shudder

almost dropped the remote


now I am watching Top Gear and even that is sane by comparison.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:36 PM

Armenia Cleavage. Forget the song :-)

Kruits next

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:39 PM

Germans not too bad

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:47 PM

Ireland and whoever was immediately before them were the best but a poor crowd of crap, really. UK were especially awful as were Belgium. And Israel.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:47 PM

Israel's dreadful.. Though a great relief when it stops.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:48 PM

Indeed CJ

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: s&r
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:50 PM

And it's on at the same time as Britain's Got Talent.

Thank Heavens for Sky+

Stu

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:50 PM

Denmark is a cross between The Police and Abba.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:51 PM

Oh dear Stu :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:53 PM

Yes I thought the same CJ

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 04:54 PM

This is terrible, admitting to watching this crap :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:00 PM

Greece are my favourites. Go Greece. Go home everyone else. Britain's entry is truly shit. A Rick Astley B-side.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:02 PM

Azerbaijan will win.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:13 PM

I used to think it was strange we had Irish men presenting this show in the UK, but last year I watched it in Dublin and Lenny Henry presents it in Ireland so all square.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:24 PM

Ireland will win.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:27 PM

Denmark has 24 points already

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:32 PM

You guys posting to this thread are way more entertaining than the show. I know that and I am not even watching the show.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:35 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:36 PM

May day may day

The kruits are winning.

We can't let that happen :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:39 PM

Kruits? Salt'n'Peppa?

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:39 PM

No points from the Russians.

Nobody loves the UK :-(

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:40 PM

2 points for UK yippe

Hello BBP

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:42 PM

Krauts

Thanks BBP. My enthusiasm is overtaking me :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:51 PM

UK last but 2
Ireland last but 1

LMFAO :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Alan Day
Date: 29 May 10 - 05:57 PM

Well I liked the Portuguese song. It's getting nowhere.
Looks like Germany are going to win it at halfway point.
The French tune was very danceable.
As usual some laughable songs, but nothing different there.
I reckon we should get up a team and enter next years song contest.
Al

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:03 PM

Just as well USA aren't in it. They would come last.

OMG Ireland have shot ahead of us. We are last but one. However i did say that the Uk entry was aweful.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:09 PM

OMG we just got 3 points. Come on Uk

Oh bugger Belarus just got 12 points.

That will teach us to suck up to USA :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:13 PM

I demand a recount.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:13 PM

UK are the strongest. We are holding up everybody else.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:15 PM

Germany spit spit

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:19 PM

Going to bed. Can't take it anymore.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:21 PM

She sounds horribly like Bjork, does that German lass. I'm allergic to Bjork.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:32 PM

Why the USA is not in the eurovision aong contest.

1 we are not in Europe (duh!)
2 we have better taste (Bjork rocks)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:43 PM

But it's mainly because the USA isn't in Europe :-)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: skarpi
Date: 29 May 10 - 06:57 PM

Smokey , Björk is Björk , she never pretends to be some one else
same with Lena from Germany .

I know Björk for many years , since her boy and mine has been
friends ...

I like people who are what they are.

Go Germany ...go Lena ...hope you do well in the future .

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smedley
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:03 PM

Israel isn't in Europe either.

Ironically, though the UK came last, the winning German song was deliberately tailored to sound like contemporary British pop (Lily Allen etc). So British pop is popular as long as Brits don't sing it!

(To be fair, the Brit entry was also about 25 years behind the times, sounding very 1980s.)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Smokey.
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:10 PM

I know, Skarpi - but I can't help not liking the sound I hear. I don't mean it judgementally.

(That'll teach me to keep my mouth shut..)

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Tootler
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:16 PM

I'm not surprised UK did not win:

• The song was crap. It was locked in the past because it was a typical Waterman product - exactly like all his other hits in the 1980's



• The singer was not the best one. I saw the show where they chose the singer and he was no way the best.



• The Eurovision song contest has become highly political and UK has no friends in Europe because of our governments' lukewarm attitude to Europe generally.

Added to that. It was reported earlier that even Pete Waterman did not have much faith in the song and he wrote the d****d thing.

I have been out at a folk club this evening - much better way to spend an evening.

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 May 10 - 08:27 PM

There have been evenings in the past when I have regretted not having a television ! Tonight was NOT one of those times , except for Morris - A Life With Bell On , of course !

Subject: RE: Eurovision Song Contest
From: LadyJean
Date: 29 May 10 - 11:20 PM

How did Norway do?
I know the singer's grandmother.