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I had to rehearse with a band yesterday so I missed the entire semi-finals, but I heard both the Netherlands and Belgium didn't do so well and most of the participating Eastern European countries made the finals. No surprises there...

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The Dutch song was plain shit, anyone could see that. I was watching the Flemish commentary:
"Well the Dutch said something very sympathetic about Kate Ryan (Belgian entry), now we're going to have to say something good.."
"Well, I thought it was... ehhm... fresh, certainly different..."

I was surprised to see Lithuania go through, since their entry (or for that matter, all their entries so far) was very, very poor, just like the one last year. But most of the acts have more or less deserved it. Armenia had a very nice song, and Slovenia and Bulgaria had put up quite a good performance. Bosnia was great, too.

I was so happy Greece won last year, because it kept all those complot-theorists quiet. Sure, there's voting for neighboring countries, who's given 12 points to Belgium last year, the year before, and the year before that?
There's no preventing stuff like that from happening. Even judges were known to be preferring countries over others (Netherlands always got points from Austria and vice versa).

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LOL, that entry from Lithuania is both hideous and hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSpFwUs ... =lithuania

I hope either they or Lordi win this year. Sure, these songs are bad too, but it 'll be a nice change from the lifeless muzak that usually wins.

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Lordi from Finland are the ones for me...fuckin shit song though.

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Well... I preferred that song over any other in the contest...

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England had a masterpiece this year..... Holy fucking shit, that was bad!! :D

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Did any of you see the guy who gave the points from Holland?
I love Paul De Leeuw, he's fucking crazy!

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Moderator here said he had too much Heineken because he made a joke about the number 69. Did you also vote for the turkish song ?

What an imbecile contest. Haha. I'll turn off tv right now.

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He's ridiculing every other commentator, man!

I voted for Lordi, ofcourse! I can find myself in their standpoint.
Holland is way too politically correct .

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Well, I think in this case it's the only way to stand it.

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I love that guy. He's been banned by many tv stations and many times came back because he's succesful. He really avoids all rules and says things others won't say to fellow tv personalities and the fun thing is, many times he's right.

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He needs a slap that turd does. "Daz" hahahaha, what a total twat. Does anyone else thinks he looks like that murdering bastard Ian Huntley?

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I dunno. I wouldn't trust this guy near my kids, though...

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Hell no, I really thought that stupid song was a bit in bad tatse, no matter how much good old Daz protests otherwise. Didn't like it at all.

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"Listen to that noise! It's like Barry White eating wasps."

Did he protest?

What did he drink?

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Yeah he was interviewed on many programmes during the build up to the Eurovision, and asked whether he thought the song was a bit "below the belt" and on the verge of Paedophilia as he used school kids in the stage performance and the recording. He has denied it strongly.

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Well, I hope and pray the schoolgirls can only look back on it as nothing more but a frivolous thing....

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Willing Suspension of Disbelief:

Good god - I didn't know whether I was watching Spinal Tap or the real deal. It was fun as hell. Completely insane. Especially the part that they fucking won!

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I hope this is signalling a change, but I'm afraid it might not....

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Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, who wear monster costumes and use pyrotechnics, have won the Eurovision Song Contest.


More than 18,000 fans packed an Athens arena to watch the 51st competition.


Rapper Daz Sampson represented the UK with his song Teenage Life, accompanied by dancers dressed as schoolgirls.


Lithuania's group LT United tried to persuade the world that We Are Winners (This was my favourite song, funny funny funny)


A ballerina appeared from a piano during Russian entrant Dima Bilan's performance of Never Let You Go.


Germany's entry was country and western song No No Never by Texas Lightning.


Israeli soul singer Eddie Butler performed Together We Are One for his country.


Arsenium featuring Natalia Gordienko and Connect-R flew the flag for Moldovan pop with their song Loca.

Oh man what a cheesefest!!!

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More like a jizz fest in our house!! Fuck me what a pair of shorts, showing off the old camels toe in all it's splendour!!

Here's the clip of that crazy-ass Dutch presenter giving the votes, Paul De Leeuw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZNh9OJHGA

I'm a big fan of him, he's crazy as fuck.

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Hahahaha! Cheers for the pics, Micro! Yeah, I shamelessly admit now that I watched it and treasured every minute of this year's cultural highpoint. Lithuania was absolutely my fave too, although I thought Germany did a very catchy little country number, and Latvia performed that a cappella song really well too and should've got more pwun... Finland deserved it for originality and it's nice to see Roy Wood gainfully employed again. The UK were as shite as ever, of course.

What a show! Spectacular set & lights, an AMAZING Greek hostess who wasn't at all born & bred in California, the one and only time when Terry Wogan stops being an insufferable prat and actually makes you laugh, and every male & female contestant looking like a refugee from "Eurotrash"! See you in Finland, pop-pickers!

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