Eurovision

[huncamunca]

Will the populace of ED be getting down the Eurovision this weekend ?

The Guardian seems to approve, so there is the pavlovian trigger

[????]

Post modern irony and of course a calender event in many gay households, means SE22 will be watching ;-)

[Guest]

Not for me thanks - best left as a seventies childhood memory, along with tank tops, tinned spaghetti and greasy hair.

[HonaloochieB]

Blue are never going to win, thsong is utterly awful.

Now all I have to is hear it.

[Jeremy]

I would rather eat my own ears.

[huncamunca]

Irony aside, it rather good viewing when comapred to the usual production line of shite thats makes up the Saturday schedule

[GSJ57]

Ms B - we have lived a strangely parallel life.....

[maxxi]

like first european holiday - strange young people in clothes you thought you couldn't get any more saying 'yeah' and 'baby' a lot

[Guest]

Remember when Abba won? All downhill from there.

[Ridgley]

Do people still watch Eurovision it a bit OTT.

[Otta]

Apparently some 120 million people will be tuning in for jedward.

[Loz]

Sadly, I think the Jedward song may do well. It has Eurovision stamped all over it.

The UK has never quite understood what a Eurovision song should be.

[????]

I think Brotherhood of Man and Bucks Fizz would disagree there Loz, and Sandie Shaw won it with a classic (er, didn't she?)

[huncamunca]

Sir Cliff would have won it if it hadnt been for the Iberian Fascists

[HonaloochieB]

Ms B Wrote:

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> Not for me thanks - best left as a seventies

> childhood memory, along with tank tops, tinned

> spaghetti and greasy hair.

With you on the tank tops and hair Ms B, but tinned spaghetti (Heinz of course) on toast makes a regular showing on the menu at Honaloochie Acres.

Mind I am very much 'of the people'.

[Loz]

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> I think Brotherhood of Man and Bucks Fizz would

> disagree there Loz, and Sandie Shaw won it with a

> classic (er, didn't she?)

You're showing your age, Quids. And, erm, mine... (it was Puppet on a String)

Eurovision is a rather different beastie these days. Cheesy, camp Europop is the formula and though the UK excels in cheese and camp is just about every other facet of culture, they just can't get it into their Eurovision songs.

[HonaloochieB]

Quids, Sandie Shaw may have done some good work but Puppet On A String was arse on toast.

[????]

...bet you're tapping your feet Honnie

[Loz]

Puppet on a String is one the first songs I can remember due to Dad buying the family a record player for Christmas and one of the album he picked up feature a bunch of British female singers of the time.

The other one I remember was Mary Hopkin's "Knock Konck, Who's There", mainly because I thought she sang 'Take off your clothes and come inside" which I found hilarious, as any five year old would. (She actually sang 'coat', which isn't funny at all. My version was much better.)

[HonaloochieB]

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> ...bet you're tapping your feet Honnie

Actually POAS is more of 'head wagger', Quids.

[HonaloochieB]

And you're right of course Loz, fancy telling someone to take off their clothes and then come inside, catch their death they would.

[Atticus]

No spoilers pls, as I shall be watching late on Sky +, bottle of Lambrini at my side, complemented with the obligatory packet of Kleenex...

It's such a tear-jerker!

[aquarius moon]

I love Eurovision, so will definitely be watching.

I've heard all the songs & expect the UK to do well, as it's the best entry we've had in years.

However, I think France will win, as it is the best song.

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huncamunca Wrote:

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> Sir Cliff would have won it if it hadnt been for

> the Iberian Fascists

And the dastardly Luxembourgers in 73 - or was it that very weird bendy knees type dancing?

[Guest]

But spag hoops are from the era when food had no texture, before we knew about fibre or that you were supposed to chew and include vegetables. The same era in which the Ronco Buttoneer was the cutting edge of technology and a trip to the new and exotic MacDonalds was unbearably exciting - possibly as we had to go up to London, which was 30 miles and several hours away due to the state of the roads, or perhaps the state of the car, though I think not as Lord B had an E-type to go with his denim suit and sideburns. And don't get me started on my mother's home haircuts; I still have panic attacks at the hairdresser. Isn't it funny how when the fashion people revive the seventies it's nothing like the really crap version the rest of us lived in?

I'll make an exception for fish fingers, though. They're as good as they ever were.

Apologies for being consistently off-topic. I'll stop now.

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Ms B Wrote:

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> > Not for me thanks - best left as a seventies

> > childhood memory, along with tank tops, tinned

> > spaghetti and greasy hair.

>

> With you on the tank tops and hair Ms B, but

> tinned spaghetti (Heinz of course) on toast makes

> a regular showing on the menu at Honaloochie

> Acres.

>

> Mind I am very much 'of the people'.