omg when is it actually on and can I watch it online?!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)
I can't seem to get subtitles on. TELETEXT USED TO NOT ONLY PROVIDE SUBTITLES BUT TRANSLATE ALL THE SONGS INTO ENGLISH. This digital age is rubbish.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)
Argh
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)
xxphttp://www.eurovision.tv/esctvit's on now
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)
ENBB it's on now! I posted links upthread!
Albania! I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:22 (fourteen years ago)
Tender ballad! Maybe.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)
The wailing bit it the word "cry" in Albania, according to the subtitles.
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:24 (fourteen years ago)
little bit of Bjork Yoga
kinda off key though... not so kinda
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:24 (fourteen years ago)
I kinda like this, actually. Impressive whale noises.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:24 (fourteen years ago)
Only thing tender is the audience's eardrums after her vocal heroics.
― gyac, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:24 (fourteen years ago)
lol, subs just read 'cos this is what I do best now' during the high pitched wailing
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)
Why can't I get subtitles? Grargh smash
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)
Subs are kind of laggy and rub tbh. And I'm watching via the TV card on my PC, so I can't really help anyone else.
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:27 (fourteen years ago)
JEDWARD SPOTTED
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:27 (fourteen years ago)
KEEL THEM!!!
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:29 (fourteen years ago)
Not the best Costi song of the year, by a long shot, but i like it.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:30 (fourteen years ago)
Moonwalking bagpipes! Yay Romania.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:30 (fourteen years ago)
Romania the best so far IMO.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)
i think her earphones were off (not that it really mattered)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)
Okay finally some pyro.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)
BRITPOP
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)
xp Azerbijian's natural gas reserves being put to good use.
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)
Switzerland is the usual Eurorock with a touch of Muse.
Swiss = "We love the Killers"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)
FOWOWING YUH WOWDEST DREAM YUH WOWDEST DREAM
I'M BREAKING BALLS
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:34 (fourteen years ago)
crying
― gyac, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:35 (fourteen years ago)
very serious looking chick on bass
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:35 (fourteen years ago)
Okay no
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:38 (fourteen years ago)
Belgium you are boring, silence.
i kinda liked it, but i am 10 km away from Belgium so i dunno
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:39 (fourteen years ago)
Finnish entry in Swedish, why not
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:40 (fourteen years ago)
Lordi this is not.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:41 (fourteen years ago)
Pleasant though.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:43 (fourteen years ago)
Another competent but boring song. Maybe Jedward will win this, just by being one of the few exciting entries.
― banal like a null (snoball), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:43 (fourteen years ago)
Israel ring has earring in wrong ear to win
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:45 (fourteen years ago)
Israel you are...strange.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:45 (fourteen years ago)
brings older sister to give him a good luck kiss
This man is terrifying.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:45 (fourteen years ago)
"You're the man in my playground"
this is amazing.
― gyac, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:45 (fourteen years ago)
how creepy is it that michael jordan is still wearing that LONE, GOLD HOOP EARRING?
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:46 (fourteen years ago)
He looks like Dexter Fletcher's creepy uncle.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:46 (fourteen years ago)
I like the Israel song! It's like a cheesy '60s proto-indiepop thing.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:47 (fourteen years ago)
Mel C
― Ludo, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:48 (fourteen years ago)
Israel has a certain...something, can we all agree? Hypnotic awfulness perhaps?
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:48 (fourteen years ago)
"JAM SESSION"
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:48 (fourteen years ago)
Warnings already sounding about San Marino here.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:48 (fourteen years ago)
"Are you ready for a little text?"
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
i liked ukraine, romania, moldova..... is the whole thing a stitch-up or what?? i.e. sweden can afford to host it yadayada - forgive me if this has already been answered
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:06 (fourteen years ago)
This year's UKR was teeth-on-edge HORRIBLE to me, but that is of course just a matter of taste. ROU and MLD I cannot honestly say I remember, so they were probably OKish.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:38 (fourteen years ago)
Gaitana will struggle to top the song she did about Shakhtar Donetsk winning the Ukrainian league. She's really quite fascinating - she came to prominence, as i understand it, not as a contestant on a TV singing show but on a terrifying-sounding Russian version of the Krypton Factor. She's apparently a phenomenal athlete with a spectacular IQ.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:43 (fourteen years ago)
As a child, Gaitana displayed smartness, good imagination and business qualities making her pocket money by selling hamsters. I used to always have the best and the most expensive hamsters, recollects Gaitana proudly, because I painted them and combed them. They looked fat and beautiful.
<3
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:48 (fourteen years ago)
Albania has always had reasonable diaspora turnout, this year they obviously managed to get the juries on board as well.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:56 (fourteen years ago)
Crowd favourites round our way: Malta, Sweden, Russia, Moldova, Turkey.
How did Azerbaijan do so well though? Bribery?
― nagl lack (seandalai), Sunday, 27 May 2012 01:00 (fourteen years ago)
* I love the Albanian goth entry* The Swedish song was unutterable shite* We were really hoping the UK would come last just to shit up the whole incumbent-contentment thing for the Tories.* Azerbaijan are totally corrupt nutbags* I still wish Rambo Amadeus had made it
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 May 2012 03:42 (fourteen years ago)
Oh, I forgot the most important thing... I totally shouted "too much time on ilx" when the word 'nakhchivan' came on screen. I am an idiot.
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 May 2012 03:53 (fourteen years ago)
I did raise my eyebrows when they mentioned that Malta had given 12 points to Azerbaijan three years in a row. I certainly don't think they'd be above wanting to bribe juries or rig votes but i'm not sure it would be all that easy to accomplish and it would be pretty risky.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Sunday, 27 May 2012 06:18 (fourteen years ago)
Austria came last in their semi. Fuck you Europe.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 27 May 2012 06:29 (fourteen years ago)
Wow, Norway really did just scrape through the semi-final - tied for tenth place with Bulgaria.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Sunday, 27 May 2012 06:33 (fourteen years ago)
No idea Austria came last in the semi... it was a shit song though...
They should have picked bearded tranny Conchita Wurst instead of those shittrackkers - at least people would have remembered the entry..
― Talcum Mucker, Sunday, 27 May 2012 07:29 (fourteen years ago)
Conchita Wurst would have been delightfully wtf. But her song did not feature the line "Your bum has an opinion".
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 27 May 2012 09:40 (fourteen years ago)
"University of Surrey in London" ffs Norton, it's in Guildford.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:18 PM (Yesterday)
lol
http://news.uk.msn.com//blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=94aed414-e4f5-4970-be97-ecf7f46b65b9&_nwpt=1https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22University%20of%20Surrey%22
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Sunday, 27 May 2012 10:32 (fourteen years ago)
That "up up up" bit in the Swedish song is annoying as hell. I love Eurovison but there's too much anonymous Europop written by Swedish hacks clogging up the competition these days.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:01 (fourteen years ago)
Having said that the worst songs were Germany and Denmark, which were sort of snootily anti-Europop singer songwriter bollocks that sounded like they were written on the back of a fag packet
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:08 (fourteen years ago)
the german song was written by jamie cullem
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 27 May 2012 21:25 (fourteen years ago)
per comments upthread, I had to remind myself that I was watching Eurovision with friends, rather than on ILX, when this appeared:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2w4jubk.jpg
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:57 (fourteen years ago)
The guy reading out the votes for Finland during this contest is officially my new hero!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:53 (fourteen years ago)
It was one of previous Eurovision winners Lordi, wasn't it? Ah, how I yearn for those glory days...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:56 (fourteen years ago)
Yes that was Mr. Lordi, of Lordi.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 09:56 (fourteen years ago)
from the meme resuscitation department:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCyYyjkL9U
― nagl lack (seandalai), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:11 (fourteen years ago)
after a while it starts to sound like the new Daft Punk single
― Ludo, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:52 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXhJZ9ceUc
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS, RIGHT?
Lordi made a horror film called Dark Floors a Finnish friend described as "terrible, absolutely terrible". It's streaming on Lovefilm in the UK so i'll probably end up watching it, though.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:42 (fourteen years ago)