Eurovision

[communistworkethic]

we lost so we're going to invade.

[Worthy4England]

Why is a thread on Eurovision talking about aeroplanes?

That could have only come from someone who didn't listen to any of the music...

[Westhoughton Dave]

Saw an interview with Wogan at the airport on News 24, he reckons we will never come anything but last because we only have 1 neighbour, Ireland, who will vote for us, and Russia only won because the old USSR all vote for each other..

He's been going on about that for years, and i remember last year astounding my family by sitting there and predicting which country will give points to who, although i did luck out as i can never remember whether its Turkey or Greece who always gives Cyprus 12 points..

Anyway, heres the link to the story and video of the interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7418940.stm

I didn't even bother this year, but i reckon it will be a sad loss for eurovision without Terry's commentary

[Lord Kangana]

Me and my mates did that with an atlas in front of us a few years ago. Quite an interesting game, considering the need to distract you from the music (well more interesting than it reads, anyway....).

[bobo the clown]

Me and my mates did that with an atlas in front of us a few years ago. Quite an interesting game, considering the need to distract you from the music (well more interesting than it reads, anyway....).

You need an atlas with you to know which European countries are neighbours ?!?!?!?

Nil points, LK.

[Lord Kangana]

Me and my mates did that with an atlas in front of us a few years ago. Quite an interesting game, considering the need to distract you from the music (well more interesting than it reads, anyway....).

You need an atlas with you to know which European countries are neighbours ?!?!?!?

Nil points, LK.

We're not talking France and Germany here Bobo - more like wherethef*ckisitistan and boloxedifiknowarus (well not for me anyhow, I can't speak for my mates....)

And since when were Turkey, Israel et al in bloody Europe anyway?

[TANGODANCER]

And since when were Turkey, Israel et al in bloody Europe anyway?

Not my words but it explains it well enough:

"The Eurovision Song Contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) which now consists of most of the countries on the European continent (before the end of the Cold War it only operated in western Europe - the communist countries had a similar organisation called Intervision), plus most of the countries around the Mediterranean sea, including Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and most of the countries in North Africa. Any EBU member country can broadcast and enter into the Eurovision Song Contest provided they agree to show all the songs and voting - Lebanon once entered, but couldn't participate because they wouldn't show Israel's song.

You could have asked the same question about how come Israel and Israeli teams play in the UEFA football competitions, to which the answer is that they used to play in the Asian confederation but moved because the Arab countries wouldn't play them; for a time they ended up playing against CONCACAF (North and Central American) sides before they eventually became part of Europe for football purposes.

[hisroyalgingerness]

My word the Eurovision bashing is still continuing. Has the contest ever been debated or discussed 4 days after the event before? What is the big issue precisely, is it that the voting is done on favouritism or that nobody likes us? I think the latter

[TANGODANCER]

My word the Eurovision bashing is still continuing. Has the contest ever been debated or discussed 4 days after the event before? What is the big issue precisely, is it that the voting is done on favouritism or that nobody likes us? I think the latter

Purely political, vote-wise, and a waste of everyone's time as a competition. "Friends and Neighbours" might be a better title for the show. Denmark gives the three sets of points to Iceland, Sweden and Norway, the soviet bloc all vote for Russia and
Greece, Cyprus and Turkey all vote for each other. Same-old, same-old. We didn't have a prayer and may as well have stayed home. As anything that needed the definition "Euro" it died years ago. Just a political pop extravaganza.

[hisroyalgingerness]

I just find the fact that nobody likes us a lot more worrying than losing some pop competition, I think this tiny indication hasn't been picked up on

[Lord Kangana]

Its always been a regional love-in. The only problem we now have is that we have less friends than every village-that-has-its-own-state Eastern Europen countries. And that our small group of 'friends' has decided they can't be arsed with it.

[TANGODANCER]

I just find the fact that nobody likes us a lot more worrying than losing some pop competition, I think this tiny indication hasn't been picked up on

I think there's a large element of "Just dare not to vote for us" in it all. As songs went, ours certainly wasn't the worst. Spain's was an insult to any form of music. Not how it used to be at all.