are you gonna watch the eurovision songcontest

Van Geel · Post by **Van Geel** » Mon May 17, 2004 7:20 pm

Ernst wrote:I thought it was very strange that your TV presenter talked in English, yes I saw that it was TV1, but after all French is one of your national languages.

Why do you think that's strange? When the Flemish TV sends a candidate they always give the points in English. That's our right, isn't it?

Tiverius · Post by **Tiverius** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:25 am

Ganymede wrote:I love watching the Eurovision Songcontest. Or actually I love to hate watching the Eurovision Songcontest. Weren't they all excruciatingly bad?

I haven't had such a laugh in a long time...

As my friend Callum concludes,via SMS,the last five years (while we are watching and critisizing the contest):
Only perverts watch.That's us!

Ganymede · Post by **Ganymede** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:20 pm

proud to be a perv!

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:39 pm

Tiverius wrote: As my friend Callum concludes,via SMS,the last five years (while we are watching and critisizing the contest):
Only perverts watch.That's us!

Hey, I was offended by that. The fact that I don't like watching the Eurovision song contest doesn't make me any less of a pervert, OK?

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:03 pm

BogPoet wrote:
Tiverius wrote: As my friend Callum concludes,via SMS,the last five years (while we are watching and critisizing the contest):
Only perverts watch.That's us!

Hey, I was offended by that. The fact that I don't like watching the Eurovision song contest doesn't make me any less of a pervert, OK?

Don't be, it's just a joke.

I watch it every year too...

Annie_in_exile · Post by **Annie_in_exile** » Wed May 19, 2004 11:24 am

Well, at least this perversion is not a dangerous one, we're unlikely to hurt anybody. Except I probably damaged my neighbours' ears

. One of them rang my doorbell in the middle of the night, asking me to turn down the volume because they couldn't sleep in that noise. The funny thing was that I had fallen asleep in the front of my tv, the loudspeakers blasting the music. Hah, it didn't disturb my sleep at all!

Ganymede · Post by **Ganymede** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:57 pm

Did you tell them "I should be complaining to you for waking me up in the middle of the night."

coastal · Post by **coastal** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:31 pm

Hey, brilliant, another year, another night of Eurovision fun and I'm going to watch it for the first time in quite a few years. Got the beers chilling in the fridge ready for nine o'clock. Fantastic!
Of course the music is utter shite, but it still makes you proud to be European, doesn't it?

coastal · Post by **coastal** » Sat May 21, 2005 9:43 pm

This is excellent. Some truly laughably bad songs and then along comes Moldova with their fantastic drumming grandmother. That certainly gets my vote so far!
I wish they'd go back to the rule of only singing in national languages. Understanding the words when they sing in English takes away 90% of the fun

Ahora España. ¡Olé que arte!

Sorry, I really do love this shit.

N0W1K · Post by **N0W1K** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:17 am

Congrats to Greece

No comments about Spain

Fonzie · Post by **Fonzie** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:01 am

The Eurovision Songcontest once was a nice idea: Every country made a contibution in their native language and the songs were compared by a professional jury from each of the countries. Sadly the quality of the songs was hardly ever high.

The ESC was completely ruined by televoting (a commercial activity) and the possibility to perform each song in english (spoken in only 2 European countries)...

Nice item in the Dutch radionews: The Dutch gave most votes to Turkey... Well, my dear newsman... The voters mentioned are not even remotely dutch... but Turkish, of course... now how can I watch a competition in which public juries vote for themselves?

daniellez · Post by **daniellez** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:36 am

I didn't watch and I am glad I did it. Like Fonzie says, the original idea was quite nice, but it has been turned into a political game in which especially eastern European countries are quite good. Good singers are now beaten by the most unbelievable crap! I would advise the Dutch organisation who sends a singer to this contest to do the same as Italy: QUIT!

Licht & Feuer · Post by **Licht & Feuer** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:05 pm

We watched the ESC with some friends together, I don't take this event so serious and do not want the old jury-times back, just a big show all over europe and very entertaining at all

My favourite song was Switzerland (Vanilla Ninja) followed by Croatia (??? feat. Lado). The worst was Bosnia I guess with a really

ABBA-clone...
Was the german song really so bad? Last place with only 4 points from the MoMo-connection (Monaco and Moldavia)

...but at least we're pope

giberski · Post by **giberski** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:31 am

I love the Greek song, really really nice. Only the singer was a bit arrogant, but you probably need that in that world.

Venga · Post by **Venga** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:41 pm

My favourite was Romania, to be honest.

The Netherlands have sent a very good singer (as always), but the song s*cked.

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