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balaam
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I as wrong, Molly isn't wearing dog. It's a cast off Lion King costume.
But another gold dress...
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Doublethink.
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Hmm, drinking, passive violence - that sounds like us ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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They ambushed Graham !
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Doublethink.
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I voted Iceland and Austria.
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Paul.
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Well my vote goes to Iceland. Conchita was a close second.
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Doublethink.
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The interval act is murdering Beethoven - which is particularly horrific for music composition competition.
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balaam
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Austria have the best ballad. Conchita Sausage could win.
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Paul.
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
The interval act is murdering Beethoven - which is particularly horrific for music composition competition.
True - it should be treated with more respect
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Doublethink.
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I thought the last supper in their song about 12 was pretty dodgy too.
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Doublethink.
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Originally posted by Late Paul:
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
The interval act is murdering Beethoven - which is particularly horrific for music composition competition.
True - it should be treated with more respect
That was sooo much better than the interval act.
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balaam
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Worst song of the competition, including semis, goes to France, I'm thinking of something positive to say about it....
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... no can;t think of anything.
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Doublethink.
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Right voting drinking game required.
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Doublethink.
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One sip per Conchita vote, from deeply suspect martini.
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Doublethink.
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Voting starting any minute now ...
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The Rogue
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I voted Iceland.
Do you think that next year the UK will form a band round Nigel Farage.
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Doublethink.
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Woot 12 for Conchita !
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Doublethink.
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
I voted Iceland.
Do you think that next year the UK will form a band round Nigel Farage.
I could see him doing, Do you ken John Peel ?
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The Rogue
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France are still on nil points.
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balaam
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Russia have given points to Ukraine, didn't see that coming
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The Rogue
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How come the sky is so light behind the Netherlands man?
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Doublethink.
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Austria doing well ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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balaam
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Austria doing well
Ms Sausage is top
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The Rogue
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Iceland also has a light sky but I guess that's not a surprise.
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Doublethink.
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Come on Conchita !!
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Doublethink.
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Wooooohooooo !!!
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The Rogue
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Well done, Conchita.
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Doublethink.
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Georgia gave 12 to Conchita which was mildly surprising.
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balaam
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The sausage has won. well done Conchita.
Which were the two tome deaf countries that gave a point to France.
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The Rogue
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Georgia gave 12 to Conchita which was mildly surprising.
It appears there were a few such surprises today. Perhaps the voting is becoming more about the song in some places.
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Wesley J
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One comment on the BBC News site has it: quote:
The Wurst act won, no different from usual.
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Gee D
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How long, O Lord, how long. It's even on the news sessions here, though the only thing less newsworthy is a story of a fire brigade rescuing a cat from a tree in Ohio.
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Banner Lady
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Can I just say sorry.
I actually like Jess Mauboy and most of her songs - but that was an utterly cringeworthy interval performance.
If this is how the majority of citizens from other nations feel when their songsters take to the Eurovision stage, I am so very glad we don't have to do this ever again.
I suspect Europe feels the same way. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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ecumaniac
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I didn't even realise Australia was "in" this year. I usually only watch the final. Must go look it up online.
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shamwari
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For myself I thought the backing acts, gymnasts et al were far better than any singers.
The whole thing was a cheap extravaganza apart from the cost of staging it.
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balaam
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Yes. The trapese artist in particular. Shame the camera stayed on the singer for most of the song.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Jay-Emm:
and the flags are interesting.
Too many tricolours. It could have been amazing with some more complex designs
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loggats
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And the crown goes to C*nt Sausage. Europe gets the Eurovision Queen we deserve.
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Jay-Emm
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by Jay-Emm:
and the flags are interesting.
Too many tricolours. It could have been amazing with some more complex designs
I was only half paying attention so missed enough to get away with it, but I can see what you mean
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Gill H
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Eurovision Final Review
And so at last we come to the final. Our household has been stricken with colds and so this report comes to you courtesy of Beechams and Benylin.
We begin with a flashback to last year’s contest, followed by a Bond-style chase from Malmo to Copenhagen, some acrobatics performed with national flags, and rather a lot of indoor fireworks. All 26 entries then walk on stage to be introduced. Worst swimsuit round ever. And then our hosts introduce themselves, and one of them starts making inexplicable jokes in Chinese, for some unexplained reason.
I won’t recap the countries which have already been described in the semis, as frankly I’m not sure I can summon up enough sufficiently deathless prose. Instead I refer you to my previous recaps, m’lud.
We work our way through eleven qualifiers before we meet the first of the big six:
Germany: three ladies who have clearly been influenced by the works of Brecht and Weil. Or maybe it’s just Weil. The lead singer is trying to channel Pink but it doesn’t really work with an accordion.
Then hello again to Sweden, before the second big six country:
France: oh dear. Twin Twin are three lads who clearly think ‘I’m Sexy And I Know It’ is the funniest song ever. They’re trying to pull the same trick here with a song about wanting to have a mustache. Yet more proof that this year’s Eurovision is, in one way or another, all about the hair.
Speaking of which, we then see the Russian twins and their intertwined hair again, before the third of the automatic qualifiers:
Italy: they’ve delved deep into their country’s history for this one. ‘La Mia Citta’ is delivered by a girl in a white dress with panels of gold sequins, wearing a gold laurel wreath on her head. The whole band are wearing the laurels too. At one point, the singer, Emma, crawls around on the floor. Perhaps this is the decline and crawl of the Roman empire.
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Gill H
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After a return visit from Slovenia and Finland, we meet our next big six country:
Spain: she’s Ruth Lorenzo, and she’s singing with wet hair, about dancing in the rain. Add your own ‘Rain in Spain’ joke if you wish. It’s a standard issue X Factor song (indeed, she was once an X Factor contestant) and she does it well.
Then we get Swizerland, Hungary and Malta, and then the host country:
Denmark: a sweetly dorky boy band singing ‘Cliché Love Song’ which is, yes, a love song full of clichés. It’s all very Bruno Mars, done with a great deal of enthusiasm, and has a ridiculously catchy scat-singing chorus.
Then we have Netherlands and San Marino, before the night is wrapped up by:
UK: Molly is dressed in a cut-down gold dress. Don’t tell me she’s been rifling through Conchita’s cast-offs too? However, she’s chosen to add a rather bizarre faux fur collar, so she looks like she’s auditioning for the Lion King. The song mixes Florence and the Machine with Wolfie Smith, with its ‘Power to the people, oh-oh’ refrain. She sings with gusto and the song seems to go down well in the hall, but I still want an extra ‘oh-oh’ at the end. Perhaps I’m still thinking of Iceland’s ‘Teletubbies go punk’ entry.
Before the interval, the hosts ambush Graham Norton by exploding confetti all over his commentary box. Good job they never did that with Terry Wogan, it would have ruined his whisky.
The interval acts manage to be incredibly bizarre and mind-numbingly dull at the same time. We get ‘Ode to Joy’ sung by various people in white standing at the top of enormous ladders. Then we get a song composed by one of the hosts, dedicated to the maximum Eurovision score of 12. Has this turned into Sesame Street now? There are more jokes about Chinese and China. Are they going to enter next year, or something? I still don’t get it.
The winner of the Junior Eurovision (yes, that is actually a thing), a young girl from Malta called Gaia, demonstrates her impressive voice, and then there’s a sketch about a Eurovision museum. Somehow they have persuaded Johnny Logan to take part. I hope they paid his expenses.
Then the hosts prowl the ‘green room’ distributing various food items to the hungry performers, and Emelie de Forest brings on some dancers wearing tree branches (Forest … trees … I see what she did there) to sing her song again. It’s followed by another song called Rainmaker, which begins with people drumming on water, and ends with half the dancers splashing about in the pool. They obviously don’t have a ‘no divebombing’ notice in Danish swimming pools. Finally the full company come back on stage yet again. Presumably a ploy to keep them all relatively sober up to this point.
And so to the announcing of the votes. There are several instances where countries seem to have voted for a song they actually like, rather than their best mates. Having said that, we certainly don’t complain when we get 8 points from Ireland – our highest score. We get points from nine countries in all, and manage to finish 17th, which is at least better than the last few times.
However, the night belongs to Austria. Even the hosts know this, announcing the inevitable result before the last few countries have even reported in. Conchita is overwhelmed, but manages to pull it together and deliver the song with as much power and panache as previously. We might just be looking at the first ever bearded Bond girl.
And so with that, we retire to our sick beds to recover, and spend the rest of the weekend watching a recording of NBC’s live broadcast version of ‘The Sound of Music’. Ah, there’s nothing like watching heroic Austrians battling against oppression and winning song contests. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight.
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Doublethink.
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Originally posted by loggats:
And the crown goes to C*nt Sausage. Europe gets the Eurovision Queen we deserve.
I think you will find that that is not normally how the first name is translated, or it wouldn't be turning up as a school name in Miami.
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lilBuddha
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Or, indeed, used as middle name.
Though the vulgar translation is very likely why it was chosen by Conchita Wurst.
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Gee D
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Originally posted by shamwari:
For myself I thought the backing acts, gymnasts et al were far better than any singers.
The whole thing was a cheap extravaganza apart from the cost of staging it.
If you cut out the cheap and tawdry bits, then we would not be at the end of the show, but a day or 2 before it was due to start.
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Doublethink.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Or, indeed, used as middle name.
Though the vulgar translation is very likely why it was chosen by Conchita Wurst.
Yes, I just suspect the linguistic impact in her language culture is closer to Fanny Wood, or Cynthia Hiscock than cunt sausage.
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leo
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The drag queen from Austria sang a good song.
As opposed to the sexist and blatant rubbish from Poland.
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Pomona
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Leo - Conchita is not a drag act. She identifies as gender-neutral/genderqueer but uses female pronouns.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Leo - Conchita is not a drag act. She identifies as gender-neutral/genderqueer but uses female pronouns.
Jade - Every reference I can find describes Conchita as precisely a drag act. Tom Neuwirth uses male pronouns in "real life". When portraying the Conchita persona, he uses female pronouns.
Perhaps "drag" isn't quite the right word for a man portraying a "genderqueer" persona such as Conchita, but it's close.
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Gee D
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Dame Edna is a drag act. What description other than "drag act" applies to Conchita Wurst?
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