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Eurovision Song Contest'06

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Someone should get a grant to write a paper on the geo-political significance of the Eurovision Song Contest. Still if Lordi wins its a triumph of music over format.

    Mike.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭futuredeath


    i love iceland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    54 points ahead 7 countries to go Terry saya the game is up.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭futuredeath


    monace should get **** all votes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Hehehe looks like Lordi have won me a few quid :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    We're doing alot better than we have done in the past few years!

    Hope we non't win, it could bankrupt the country :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Israeli girl = babe.

    Lordi's night - a triumph for music!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    id pay good money to see the russian "singer" get beaten to death by lordi or anyone else


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    Dracula is in albania


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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 398 ✭✭Benny-c


    dingding wrote:
    Dracula is in albania


    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    49 ahead now


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 398 ✭✭Benny-c


    How about asking Slipknot to represent us next year...............:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭smog


    mike65 wrote:
    Someone should get a grant to write a paper on the geo-political significance of the Eurovision Song Contest. Still if Lordi wins its a triumph of music over format.

    Mike.

    Think its just people protesting against the electro pop crap its being throwing out over the last while.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭futuredeath


    all of your victory are belong to lordi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    2 countries left the have it in the bag.:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Benny-c wrote:
    How about asking Slipknot to represent us next year...............:D

    LOL yeah next year will be full of copycats and Marilyn Manson wannabies :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭dloob


    Lordi take the win!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    \m/_(>_<)_\m/

    HARD ROCK! hallelujah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Good stuff - well done Lordi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    We are in 10th place, we won;t have to qualify next year. They just won.


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    mike65 wrote:
    God the voting patterns are so obvious for the most part. No western country will ever win the event again, as we don't have enough neighbours.
    Agreed, unless the EBU revert to jury voting.

    But is that likely to ever happen?


  • Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭smog


    heh go lordi !!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 398 ✭✭Benny-c


    Well done Lordi!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭dingding


    Karsini wrote:
    Agreed, unless the EBU revert to jury voting.

    But is that likely to ever happen?

    They would loose to much revenue from the texts and calls


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    well, that was certainly different! Bloody hell! I can see Jonny Logan screaming at the Tv where ever he is nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Rock on :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,067 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    G'wan the Lordi!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Well done Finland :)


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rock rules, well done Finland :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    crosstownk wrote:
    Good stuff - well done Lordi.

    New low for the eurovision, that is appauling!!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,344 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Someone's quick off the mark. From Wikipedia:
    Lordi is a melodic theatrical hard rock band from Finland and winners of Eurovision Song Contest 2006.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 sinead_t


    Ah thats just mad...i cant stop laughin! I can just imagine my granny and great aunt watchin that together in the old folks home, poor things! They're 86 and 96! If that doesnt kill them i dunno what will!! I'm def gonna go visit them 2moro 2 hear what they have 2 say!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    do yall actually think that they deserved it...THey were ****!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 sinead_t


    What and u think the other songs were good or something?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭Julesie


    I broke the habit of a lifetime and actually text voted for something... I plumped for Lithuania...i'm taking credit for the 12 we gave them. But go on the Lordi, might get rid of some of the pap next year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,067 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Yes.. they deserved it!

    Didn't think much of the song but it's not my taste... but c'mon, it's definantly the most original song the Eurovision has seen in years.

    And hopefully it will set a trend for more diverse music in the Eurovision from now on... what about next year... speed-garage? Barbershop quartet?
    Julesie wrote:
    'm taking credit for the 12 we gave them.
    You mean 10 we gave them.

    EDIT: Apologies.. thought you meant Finland. I stand corrected!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    sinead_t wrote:
    What and u think the other songs were good or something?!

    Not exactly, most wer terrible too, but i coulda picked several more worthy winners


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    ROFLCOPTER

    Oh jebus that was f*cking hysterical ..... Eurovision shall never be the same again!! Maybe we might actually start getting substance over style ....

    I believe Monkeyfudge put it best ...

    \m/_(>_<)_\m/

    HARD ROCK! hallelujah!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭BMH


    Have some Terry Wogan quotes:
    (credit to another forum for this)

    "That's the same song the French have been singing since they hung the washing up on the Maginot Line"
    "It's much more fun to sing along to than listen to" (about the Croatian entry)
    "Looks a bit like Roy Wood, that lead singer" (about Lordi)
    "Let's hear it for Scandinavia. They'll all vote for each other anyway."
    "This song brings suspenders to and entirely new level" (about the Armenian entry)
    "I'll be amazed if someone doesn't say this is amazing" (about the presenters over-use of the word "amazing")
    "A Britney Spears impersonater" (About the Moldovan girl)
    "For goodness sake." (About the Latvian entry)
    "I don't think Spain cares anymore"
    "If they go for eyebrows this is it" (About the Maltese singer having unnaturally large eyebrows)
    "Good old football chant from Lithuania"
    "I'm not sure France cares anymore either"
    "Not a word about an alien flu though" (about the strange Greek dance at the end which had something to do with birds)
    "Nobody voted for them so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't vote for anyone else" (about Israel)
    "We're losing the plot here" (about the presenters, uh, losing the plot)
    "You've had a few haven't you?" (Dutch vote reader)
    "Who in heavens name picked that eejit?" (Dutch vote reader again)
    "You'd be fairly close then would you?" (about some countries votes)
    "Your makeups beginning to run, son (about Lordi)
    "Have a look at the map and see how close these countries are" (voting again)
    "You're wearing that shirt for a bet" (abbout Latvian vote reader)
    "It's the old pals act again" (voting tactics)
    "We don't want them to close the Andorran border now, do we?" (About Andorra voting for Spain)
    "Just give us the points you eejit" (About the Slovenian vote reader rambling on)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,067 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Ha.. good oul Terry!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    that finland song was crap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    He he well done Lordi and Finland. I knew the minute I saw them on Thursday evening the title was theirs. (sorry now i didn't bet on it) Excellent song as the controversy it caused in Finland (people asking the president to ban them etc.) A bit of proper Music (I found it a song good, costumes questionable, but good none the less). At least things are headed slightly westwards. Monaco FTW and our 10 points. I guess Poland would have got 12 from us had they made the final. Our Immigrant population now heaving its weight.

    I reckon if we got ten farmers from Connamara and dress them up in mucky Wellingtons with baling twine holding up their pants etc. and have Irish music mixed in with a little rap and speedy dance and a few *cough* riiaades of luvly irish ladies with mini skirts leaving little to the imagination :D . To add to it have hatred lyrics of either England (We have something to hate them for) or else something else controversial. Top up the Connamara Farmers with Potcheen and make a scene. Then and then alone I think will we eventually finish in the top five of not win it. Sending out single male singers is farcical Mickey Harte, Chris Doran, Brian Kennedy, for feck sake do something stupid Father Ted style. Wreck a few hotel rooms or whatever. We can win this thing again. I reckon it would work. The block voting is a total hames the former Yugoslavian countries and soviet bloc are especially bad. Adding to that Montenegro may be an Independent country next year if their referendum is passed in favour of it. Another 12 points to Serbia I suppose.

    Where the heck was France going also?? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    yeah, we should get the US in so that all the irish decendants can start earning their keep


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭BMH


    yeah, we should get the US in so that all the irish decendants can start earning their keep
    Meh, they did give a couple of million to de Valera for the War of Indepence. Anyway, I think it would just be France, nil points.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 sinead_t


    Yep i reckon we need something MAD next year! Not feckin linda martin and pat kenny sittin in a studio pickin a song...i think we should send podge and rodge next year!!!!! How class would that be :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    BMH wrote:
    Meh, they did give a couple of million to de Valera for the War of Indepence. Anyway, I think it would just be France, nil points.
    yeah but thats offset by them invading us with mcdonalds and ruining our children!!!!. wont somebody think of the children.


    still. finland totally deserved it. ive been saying it all week and been getting strange looks

    think, what would have happened if lordi had auditioned in eurostar two years ago?
    feckin 13 year old girls and their txts


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭BMH


    Yeah, Podge and Rodge rapping as Gaeilge would rock harder than those Finnish feraks.
    Just somethong completely random and off-the-wall.

    Oh, oh, oh, that guy who did "Aon focail dó focail, trí focail..." kitted from top to bottom in farmer's gear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    iFight wrote:
    do yall actually think that they deserved it...THey were ****!!!!
    My grandfather used to say "there's no accounting for taste", you didn't like it, a few voters did.

    As entertainment goes, it entertained me. Energetic, the Lord of the rings look - excellent, a bit of magic and that's what the eurovision is about.

    In fairness it's not Thin Lizzy's Chinatown, Sex Pistols Bodies, Stiff Little Finger's Bloody Sunday, or anything esle, but I don't care what it's not, it was the most enjoyable of what I saw tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Highlight of the evening - your one reading out the votes from Iceland. Douze points.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Finland..well done :D

    I like Romania as well, and can't believe Bosnia Hertozgovina did as well as they did. Ah well..that's that done for another year ;)


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