Eurovision 2008

Its on this weekend. Usually good for a laugh... anyone gonna watch?

Saw some of the semi finals last night, the Spainish rapper was gold!

I am goin to a eurovision BBQ.  Last year we had sweeps and all.

all over this. haven't missed one in about 5 years.


only have one tip. greece will give cyprus 10 votes and cyprus will give greece the same.

just to keep them from not being relegated.

apparently finland rocked!!! i missed it tho watching the mockumentary about the fictional norwegian band, boysvoice, tonite...super funny!!!

we will be at a GUILTY PLEASURES party tomorrow nite, and will have a private party on sunday to watch the finals. YAY eurovision! the points tally is the funniest bit!!! well, almost

I've only watched what's on youtube but Ireland have the best song IMO.

YES the videos are on sbs!!!

http://www.sbs.com.au/eurovision/country/322

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ftw

Never watched it.

Am I missing something? If they're all like the video Khem just posted I'm guessing "no".

they are mostly crap, all the countries vote for their neighbours or political allies, but the dude doing the commentary is one of the most sarcastic bastards on the planet - enough to turn something that makes you wish you were deaf and blind into something that is barely watchable.

EuroVision. Israel is in there? Russia is in there? Azerbaijan?

I liked the Bulgarian breaks and their decks of fire 

That kind of thing happens more than you'd think surprisingly!

Russia, Turkey and Israel are three Asian nations (there's some more as well I can't think of right now) that compete in the UEFA (European) region for football tournaments for instance. Probably lucky for the Socceroos actually, because they're better teams than most in Asia. Israel is probably only chucked into the Euro group to avoid playing Middle Eastern nations tbh!

Russia and Turkey are in BOTH asia and europe!
Israel is a bit dodge. Probably put on a german accent or something to sneak in.

whatshisname again?


apparently he has also written more of the winning eurovision songs than anyone else too.

Yeah I know they call it Eurasia or something right?

Fuck that this isn't a George Orwell novel and that continent doesn't exist imo! 

I believe that as the majority of their land mass is in Asia they should be classed as belonging to the continent of Asia...

Was an ammusing night again. I was stuck with Israel and when the song started I was like "Yes a chic hope she's hot, I might have a shot". But as it panned down it was a dude with a shaved head a bulging bisceps. There went my chance. I thought Lithuania was good and Finland had managed to draft in Sebastian Bach as their lead singer. But the winner as with last year was rubbish. They had some figure skater who looked like Owen Wilson doing circles around the singer, so lame.

And Jayar the host in the UK is Terry Wogan, seriously funny man.

nah, not eurasia
europe AND asia. :mrgeeen:

turkey straddles both (across that straight - istanbul is officially on the european side) and the europe line runs somewhere through russia, so st petersburg and moscow are european. fuck knows where the line goes though, thats a short coming of my geographical knowledge.



yeah tony - i think they play the same dude here. funny prick makes it almost watchable

Terry Wogan! He is a bbc radio person and stuff. Usually he's drunk He only commentated the final nite, sunday!! Was loads fo fun to watch, some classic songs (Aijerbaijan, Finland, SPAIN!!! hahahaha) and yeah its all about the political voting. So cheesy it hurts!!!!!!!!!!!

Eurasia describes the european and asian landmasses, combined

There it is again.