"Is your Europeaness okay?"

[mrv3000]

Every year DW is quite rudely given a bye-week due to something called Eurovision. So I did a little hunting on the youishtubish and watched the winning performance...

*EYES THAT WHOLE GENERAL EUROPEAN REGION*

You're putting me on, right? Okay, now I know why half the flist gets drunk to watch it because that was... I'm a bit speechless right now. I'm not sure if it was the spaz ice skating around the singer or if it was the moment of ripping open the shirt that did it.

I...

I need to go watch some MST3K.

ETA: Ah, nothing like mellowing out with a little Ben Murphy. Is there such a thing as starring Ben Murphy? Isn't it more honest to say that most of the time the camera is pointing at Ben Murphy?

Comments

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

Oh...but the ice skating was genius! Only if by genius I mean insane. And then the shirt ripping with the all male trio! The slash fiction writes itself. Hee! It probably is better if you're drunk!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

There were so many jokes there that I think I sprained something.

[asgaja.livejournal.com]

Ah... yes, well do I get out of this by blaming I was working and didn't have time to vote? Or should I just blame it on most of Europe apparently forgetting to start their brain yesterday? Seriously though, that song... was not even among the best ones.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

You're free from blame, yes.

[asgaja.livejournal.com]

\o/ Thank you~
You should watch 2006 if you want to see a worthy set of winners of the ESC. Anytime anything remotely amusing has won.

[yorunohime.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I've been avoiding Eurovision for the past few years...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's just...OMG.

[misssimm.livejournal.com]

If only that was the more ridiculous thing, have a search for Spain, Bosnia and Latvia's entries.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

[syokhan.livejournal.com]

You're putting me on, right?

Unfortunately, no. I didn't even dare watch our country's performance last night... But I had the TV as background noise, and actually it's not that bad that way XD

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*pats* Well, I guess we do have the Academy Awards over here, which is just as excruciating...

[doddlebot.livejournal.com]

Ah, Eurovision. Theres only two reasons to watch it 1) Terry Wogan; presenting legend, getting slowly drunker and more offensive towards the acts throughout the night, and 2) The really really random acts; like the angel and devil one last night (with a guy would could hit notes most female sopranos would struggle with) or the Bosnian entry with the knitting brides.

Theres also the spot the transvestite game which passes the time.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HA!! The presenter actually gets drunk while watching? :D

And seriously, from the clips I saw you'd have to be drunk off your ass or stoned to dig those acts. o_O

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

I saw absolutely nothing of Eurovison. Except for Ireland's entry on the news one morning last week. YouTube that one... (Background: The winner of Eurovison hosts next year's event. Ireland has won it a stupid amount of times (with songs that were actually good - this is most definitely not usually the case). The rumour is that this year they had a deliberately bad entry as they couldn't afford to host it again; I think that it always makes a loss.)

At any rate, Eurovision has become (or always was?) something of a joke. The songs are traditionally bad (on purpose?! I don't know!), with a few exceptions, and the voting is always political.

[fairygnomes.livejournal.com]

I *love* Eurovision. It's cheesy, and the UK never do well because the rest of Europe hates us. I watched it at my parents, with us predicting the votes as they were announced. It was Russia's turn to win apparently. I liked the Ukraine's entry, and the Latvian Pirates. I have a bad feeling Terry won't be commentating next year, and then it won't be worth watching :(

[woodface]

It's more like none of the Western European countries will ever win again if they don't change the structure of voting. It's Eastern Europe from now on.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

The pirates! OMG. The parts I saw - pure crack. :D

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It kind of boggles the mind. So it's meant to be a sort of parody? Almost? These people cannot be serious.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

These entries make me glad I didn't get to see any of it. Can't stand most shows like this to begin with so why would I actually go out of my way to youTubeIt???

I want my Doctor back...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I know! DW got preempted for this? HMPH.

[woodface]

See, I find the whole Eurovision thing stupid... and yet, everyone wants to win and there's always outrage at how political or unfair the voting is. I didn't watch, but... maybe it just goes with being European? I mean, how do you think ABBA got so big? Because they won there!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's just so...bizarre! :D It's like the Irony Olympics or something!

[woodface]

Except that they're completely serious!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

O_O

[jai-23.livejournal.com]

Ah, Eurovision. It's such a joke. Eastern bloc voting! It's not so musical any more and hasn't been for quite a few years, the politics is where it's at! ;) The UK's entry wasn't as bad as last year but Russia's was just ridiculous. They were so plastered at the end.

Spain got the laughs from me, that Elvis wig and 'chiki chiki'...oh, it's just insane! :D

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

So it's basically throw whatever crap out there, make sure someone in the Eastern Bloc wins and has a LOLZ.

...

You guys are ridiculously cute, you know? :D

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh Eurovision is excellent - if only for the drinking games and Terry Wogan's commentaries.

Since the introduction of the semi finals it's just become an even bigger game. Search You Tube for the Irish entry. It involves turkeys.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Search You Tube for the Irish entry.

WHAT. THE. HELL.

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely brilliant. Even more so when you consider that Ireland had a three year winning streak, and Irish songwriters have penned more of the winning entries than other nationalities (I think).

But it's perfect Eurovison.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Oh, Eurovision....

England typically plays to lose and I think the only reason it's still on is because ABBA won with "Waterloo" one time and it gives everyone else false hope.

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

Katrina and the Waves won it for us too. Years ago again.

It's like the World Cup...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Damn you, ABBA!

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. The only time I've seen a majority of the finals is when I was in Australia. I'm not sure how it is actually in Europe, but the commentary is absolutely hilarious! We also had a large group of about 20 people watching (and drinking), which made it even funnier.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Alcohol would definitely make this hysterical. :D

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

*Cracks up*

Oh, but Russia didn't win for skill or for crack, they won because they're Russia and all of Eastern Europe, who want Russia to like them, voted for them.

If you want to see some really *bad* crack, look up Spain's entry. Or Latvia, who had pirates. Or Azerbaijan, who had... well, let's not go there.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how you weren't MORE drunk than you were!

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

Don't let my coherent typing fool you into thinking I was sober!