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posted by [personal profile] panik at 01:47pm on 12/05/2007 under
Tonight, of course, live from Helsinki. I haven't watched the previews so I'm going in blind here, though hoping for good things from Finland again this year after the magnificent Lordi won it against all the odds last time, but I gather a lot of the best stuff has already been eliminated in the semis in the usual round of partisan voting we've come to expect from Eurovison these days.

Terry Wogan will make it unmissable, as always, but I am starting to tire of the contest itself. It's way, way too big now and the voting's a joke with all of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states forming a self-congratulatory bloc that's made a mockery of the notion that this is a song contest.

I really think the time has come to divide Europe in two, let the Eastern Bloc have its own contest and the rest of us can get back to the glory days when countries like Monaco  would win regularly. I mean Ireland, for god's sake, which won year after year, hardly makes it through the semis now (and, franlkly  when you need to hold a semi-final, there are too many countries competing!). The UK and Germany always get in by default merely because, between us, we're bankroling the darn thing. And the 'new' countries all take it way too seriously for my liking.

Ah, how I ache for Katie Boyle; "La Norge, nul points." That was your catchphrase...

I think my favourite Eurovision song is still  Tu te reconnaĆ®tras... sung by Anne Marie David which won in '73. Luxembourg, douze points.(o:  Closely followed by Monaco's 1971 winner; 'Un banc, un arbre, une rue'  Will there be anything half so good on show tonight? I doubt it ::sigh::

So what's your favourite, Oh Estimable Flist? - Go check out You Tube; it's incredible, they're all up there!
 
Mood:: 'excited' excited
Music:: Eurovision!
location: Resting after a hard morning (o:
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 03:55pm on 12/05/2007
I shall be glued to the set tonight. I was totally entranced by last year's winners - as in mouth hanging open - so I'm just hoping for more of the same. And Terry Wogan is so so evil, you just can't miss it really, can you? *g*
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 04:18pm on 12/05/2007
Ah, God bless the evil Terry, though I feel even he's getting tired of the silly-buggery around the vote. But hey, it's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts. Just as well, considering our own entry...

::grins eevily::
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 12/05/2007
Just as well, considering our own entry...

I've managed to avoid it completely up until now - our entry would be the camp boys and girls making like aeroplanes I'm guessing?

We're doomed, right? *g*
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 04:25pm on 12/05/2007
"We're doomed, right?"
I'm afraid so.

It's apparently meant to be a joke, a parody of a Eurovision song aka Bucks Fizz. As Jonathan Ross said on his radio show this morning; "the powers that be have just totally given up on the idea that straight people watch Eurovision, haven't they?"
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 12/05/2007
::high fives Mr. Ross::

I'm already getting excited *g*
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 04:40pm on 12/05/2007
Me too!

EUROVISION SQUEEE!!!!!!
 
posted by [identity profile] b1chvj39.livejournal.com at 05:33pm on 12/05/2007
Gilly, I've been banned from the website again!!! I tried using my spyware to get rid of some viruses. It usually works but now I'm still banned. Is there another spyware program that you use that would work?
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 05:39pm on 12/05/2007
It's very unlikely you're actually banned. Since you're on dial up you've probably logged on using a banned ip - Just try logging off, logging on again and see if that works(?)

I use Avast spyware, but I seriously doubt if it's your spyware that's doing it. If you really think it might be your spyware, temporarily disable it and try logging on then - but I'd be *very* surprised if that's it.

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