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Re: Eurovision 2008?

That afgani is totaly pwnage tongue. Wish I could do that. Probably a great conversation starter: "Hey look what I can do with my armpits".

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Paul McCartney should compete, who'd dare vote down the last Beatle ?
even if he did sing "Crazy Frog"

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Ringo is still alive!

I'll never know if it was worth the pain, but I still loved it more than anything in the world - it was my life.

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Oh. He is?  Hrm.

Hey too bad they didn't do a tontine for the music rights!

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Not only is he alive, he looks more alive than McCartney!

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Ok Ringo and McCartney doing a cover of "Yellow"

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Why bother watching the Eurovision song Festival? I prefer seeing domestic freaks, long live the Gay Parade!

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There is only one reason to ever watch Eurovision, and that is Terry Wogan. We all know it's nothing to do with the songs anyway, the Balkan states all vote for each other, the former soviet states all vote for each other, the scandinavians all vote for each other and nobody votes for the UK because we have no friends sad

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I watched on BBC for a bit for Terry Wogan, and frankly, I expected a drunk limey slagging of everyone not-english, but what I got were half-funny dry tongue-in-cheek remarks that an elderly gentleman of leisure would make, claiming about 5% of all comment.

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Terry Wogan is the only reason to watch it tongue

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But he wasn't that great. What did I miss about Terry Wogan?

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What the hell is Eurovision?

I dont watch much TV and we dont get any euro channels anyways x(

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest

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more song contests? they're the spam of the television world..

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Yes, but this is nothing like Pop Idol or anything else. It's like the Eurocup for bad music.

And indeed, all scandinavian countries and all slavic countries vote for eachother. Untill 20 years ago, they murdered eachother every few years, but now they vote for eachother, how odd is that? Are they trying to backrupt their old foes by letting them organise the contest? tongue

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Apparently its the UK, France, Spain and Germany who contribute most to Eurovision, so we're essentially paying for their contests.....
I reckon we should pull out and then see what happens to it....

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maybe it wont come back next year big_smile

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ZOZ, Terry Wogan is Irish so he is not at all "limey", and it is exactly the dry tongue in cheek remarks that are funny. Maybe you have to be British to know hum properly but he is a total national hero.

Orangeautumnwindz, Eurovision has been going for about 40 years and is an annual event, it is not a X factor style talent show.

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btw, apparently Wogan has had enough of the geographical voting and thinks the whole thing is a sham, he won't do it next year. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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He's not exactly sure of it yet though..

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I think he'll be back

my reaction as an American was "Who's Terry Wogan?"

so I doubt he's got anything bigger going for him

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Ok what about Sting, Ringo, Paul, Elton John, Mick Jagger performing "Cafe del Mar" on their armpits?  that's surefire!

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it has to be a new song Chris tongue

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"There is only one reason to ever watch Eurovision, and that is Terry Wogan."

Exactly! He's brilliant. Indeed, he said that he may chuck it in, and not bother next year. He said (at one point during the show) that everyone was voting for their friends, and England had no points because Engalnd had no friends. Sadly true.

The UK manages to shame itself every year. The only time I've ever cheered when a Eurovision song started was Lordi's Hard Rock Halleluia! I wondered if, since we the UK get automatically put through, we put some of our worst music on for the sake of it? I'm sure if we had to go through "qualifying" we'd not get through. I think the fact that we gave Turkey, (they did do the rock one didn't they?) 8 points because there's still a rock following in this country. There are a number of British rock bands still around from years ago with an incredible world-conquering amount of rep and massive talent, skill and following. Why are these not our foremost competitors? Probably because they're the intelligent ones who don't want to make themselves look so silly!

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Bump

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