The Eurovision rant thread
27-05-2012, 10:50
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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Do people actually watch this dross? I thought it was mostly aimed at bored housewives and children that need nationalism drilled into them?
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I went to the cinema like any sane person would, rather watch that pile of poo. 
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27-05-2012, 10:53
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
Quote from BBC:
There were high hopes for Humperdinck - affectionately known as "The Hump" - given his huge global fanbase, but his draw as first to sing in the contest seemingly proved detrimental.
In reality going first had nothing to do with it - what was critical was that "The Hump" is way past his best (given that Eurovision has been the graveyard of many a career was he the only one we could get to agree to do it?), there was no gimmick factor (like the Russian Grannies) and the song was from another era (though I'm not quite sure which). Those factors along with the buddy voting that goes on and the expansion of the competition to countries who have no love for ex-empirical nations (having just gained there independence from one) meant that the surprise was not that we did not do well but that we managed to avoid both getting "null points" and being last.
So I suppose we got a result after all - roll on next year. 
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27-05-2012, 11:05
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
The rest of the world hates us. and who can blame them.
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27-05-2012, 11:53
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
I went to the cinema like any sane person would, rather watch that pile of poo. |
I watch a prog that I had recored on my TIVO.
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27-05-2012, 12:05
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
i like it :P
I think it might be a good format for elections to party leaders singing regional juries or telephone votes (depending on how intelligent the area is and if they can be trusted to vote the right way )
and then all the fun of watching the points board
cant think of anything better 
and yay sweeden maybe we have a new abba 
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27-05-2012, 12:40
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
I watched bits...in between flicking through channels
So not a real fan..and wouldn't miss it if it wasn't here...but you can say that about almost all of BBC programmes
Ditch the license fee...make them sink or swim for commercial income...let life go on
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27-05-2012, 12:41
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I watch streaming news from an American tv news network, because of that, I have to pay the TV license fee, which pays for trash like this
Interesting.
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27-05-2012, 13:01
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
AdamD, so you don't watch, listen to, or browse any BBC programmes, radio, or websites?
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27-05-2012, 13:10
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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AdamD, so you don't watch, listen to, or browse any BBC programmes, radio, or websites?
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My mate reckons you have to buy a TV licence if you're listening to someone elses radio, or if you visit any BBC websites.
mad.
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27-05-2012, 13:50
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
This is not a TV licence thread. There are plenty of those already. If you want to discuss that, go and bump one of them, or start a new one.
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27-05-2012, 13:52
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
It's rubbish, it's always been rubbish and it always will be rubbish.
Thank the Lord for other channels and PVR's.
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27-05-2012, 14:14
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Who the hell really remembers the rest? |
Sadly I remember Cliff with Congratulations 
It came second after a political vote from Germany after leading all the way through
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27-05-2012, 14:45
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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Originally Posted by yesman
Sadly I remember Cliff with Congratulations
It came second after a political vote from Germany after leading all the way through |
I also remember Puppet on a String sung by Sandy Shaw which incidentally was a winner..However it has to be said that few people remember either song quite as much as Waterloo..a Swedish entry.
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27-05-2012, 14:50
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Waterloo...so simple...bound to be flushed with success...waterlessloo..now..that would be risky
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27-05-2012, 17:36
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Re: The Eurovision rant thread
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
The only truly successful song to come out of the whole 40 years plus of the contest was Waterloo by Abba.It's still played somewhere in the world every day to this day.Who the hell really remembers the rest? |
What about this one?
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Eurovision Song Contest victory
On 20 May 2006, Lordi made history by winning the Eurovision Song Contest held in Helsinki with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah", becoming the first Finnish group to win the contest. The song scored 292 points, which was an all-time points record until Alexander Rybak broke it in the 2009 contest with 387 points. Only three countries - Armenia, Albania and Monaco - did not give a single point to Finland. Eight countries gave Finland a full 12 points. Lordi was also a semi-final number one and even got 292 points, which was historic, as they were the first competitors to win both the semifinals and the finals. Pasi Rantanen from the band Thunderstone performed backing vocals for the performance, wearing a Gene Simmons Kiss mask.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi#E...ontest_victory
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