Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Baku - Well here we are again
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[B]THIS YEAR [/B][B]IRC CHAT LOG: [URL]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1285798/2012_eurovision_log.txt[/URL][/B]
[B]And again it's time for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. This year it's being hosted in Baku. Long first post ahead![/B]
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The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to represent their country in the international competition. The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world,with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally.Eurovision has also been broadcast outside Europe to such places as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay despite the fact that they do not compete. Since 2000, the Contest has also been broadcast over the Internet, with more than 74,000 people in almost 140 countries having watched the 2006 edition online.
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[B]Semi-Finals: 22 & 24 May
Grand Final: 26 May[/B]
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[URL="http://www.eurovision.tv"]Official website[/URL]
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78E2A578122E10B1&feature=plcp"]Youtube playlist with all contestants[/URL]
[URL="http://www.eurovision.tv/esctv"]Official livestream of all events[/URL]
[URL="irc://irc.gamesurge.net/fp_eurovision"]Our IRC channel for the event[/URL]
[URL="http://www.aleth.talktalk.net/eurosong.html"]The Eurovision drinking game[/URL]
[URL="http://facepunch.com/threads/1086707"]2011 thread[/URL]
[URL="http://facepunch.com/threads/935064"]2010 thread[/URL]
Hey look, it's that music contest that isn't outdated and everyone takes seriously.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgbM8k_wNg[/media]
Russia's entry this year.
Fucking world is in a horrible financial state and these fuckers spend a shit ton of money on this bullshit.Always thought that this contest is stupid as fuck
Ahh, our yearly dose of political voting!
Oh god, Ireland's entering Jedward :v:
Maybe next year we could have The Prodigy representing the UK and Rammstein representing Germany? Give everyone a heart attack and have a chance of winning.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;35774424]Fucking world is in a horrible financial state and these fuckers spend a shit ton of money on this bullshit.Always thought that this contest is stupid as fuck[/QUOTE]
The only reason I would go out of my way to watch it is simply because of how stupid[sp]-ly entertaining[/sp]it is. You're laughing at it for a lot of the songs, not with it.
[QUOTE=samframpton;35774064]Hey look, it's that music contest that isn't outdated and everyone takes seriously.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgbM8k_wNg[/media]
Russia's entry this year.[/QUOTE]
And we've overcome Soviet Union for [b]this[/b]?
Country: Finland
Song language: Swedish
Oh for fuck sake
Jedward: because we hold the record for most wins and are too afraid of failure to try seriously.
[QUOTE=Hullu V3;35775493]Country: Finland
Song language: Swedish
Oh for fuck sake[/QUOTE]
Hey fuck off, it's an official language, and it's a beautiful song.
Also this is gonna be really interesting.
[editline]30th April 2012[/editline]
Also the guaranteed 12 points from sweden are nice.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;35774424]Fucking world is in a horrible financial state and these fuckers spend a shit ton of money on this bullshit.Always thought that this contest is stupid as fuck[/QUOTE]
It isn't that expensive and its good for boosting the public image of the countries involved.
And it makes everyone watching it a bit happier, that is a good thing on its own.
[editline]1st May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;35776363]Jedward: because we hold the record for most wins and are too afraid of failure to try seriously.[/QUOTE]
Wait you are entering Jedward again? Is that even allowed?
[QUOTE=Croix;35776425]Hey fuck off, it's an official language, and it's a beautiful song.
Also this is gonna be really interesting.
[editline]30th April 2012[/editline]
Also the guaranteed 12 points from sweden are nice.[/QUOTE]
...but its Finland. Finland=Finnish not Finland=Swedish speaking minority
[editline]30th April 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;35774424]Fucking world is in a horrible financial state and these fuckers spend a shit ton of money on this bullshit.Always thought that this contest is stupid as fuck[/QUOTE]
Who pissed in your cereal.
Russia will win
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Wait you are entering Jedward again? Is that even allowed?[/QUOTE]
I think we entered Johnny Logan more than once, he always won.
It's just not the same without
[img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/presenters/terry-wogan/media/wogan448x252.jpg[/img]
I don't recommend any Facepuncher to come here(Baku) for this contest. You know there are lots of r4dic4l Mu5lim5 and they just gone crazy after we won ESC 2011. And our own NSM isn't so good at anti-t3rr0r thing, so they are taking some(all security of ESC2012) help from M0554D. And 15R43L just wants a little excuse to start war with 1R4N.
If these r4dic4l Mu5lim5 make an 4tt4ck to these contest or harm tourists it will be the "excuse" that 15R43L looking for.
[QUOTE=Kastro;35782337]I don't recommend any Facepuncher to come here(Baku) for this contest. You know there are lots of r4dic4l Mu5lim5 and they just gone crazy after we won ESC 2011. And our own NSM isn't so good at anti-t3rr0r thing, so they are taking some(all security of ESC2012) help from M0554D. And 15R43L just wants a little excuse to start war with 1R4N.
If these r4dic4l Mu5lim5 make an 4tt4ck to these contest or harm tourists it will be the "excuse" that 15R43L looking for.[/QUOTE]
Why are you writing in l33t language
[QUOTE=overpain;35782499]Why are you writing in l33t language[/QUOTE]
im just tring to avoid search engines
[QUOTE=Kastro;35782337]I don't recommend any Facepuncher to come here(Baku) for this contest. You know there are lots of r4dic4l Mu5lim5 and they just gone crazy after we won ESC 2011. And our own NSM isn't so good at anti-t3rr0r thing, so they are taking some(all security of ESC2012) help from M0554D. And 15R43L just wants a little excuse to start war with 1R4N.
If these r4dic4l Mu5lim5 make an 4tt4ck to these contest or harm tourists it will be the "excuse" that 15R43L looking for.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, everyone will just sit by their computers talking shit about the music and getting drunk
[editline]1st May 2012[/editline]
I like Iceland this year
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8RS0eulXDo[/media]
[editline]1st May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=samframpton;35774064]Hey look, it's that music contest that isn't outdated and everyone takes seriously.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgbM8k_wNg[/media]
Russia's entry this year.[/QUOTE]
The shortest lady is 86 and won't be coming to Baku :(
[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;35782665]Don't worry, everyone will just sit by their computers talking shit about the music and getting drunk
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Unless the BBC put something like the foo fighters live on at the same time as ESC again.
Watch the Foo Fighters performing, or a series of bland 90's-esque love songs that sound nearly identical? Hard choice... (If TW had been commentating and been up to his old standard it actually would have been)
And holy shit, Engelbert Humperdinck? I thought we were going back in time sending Blue last year.
God I'm looking forward to this.
This is Eurovision [B]Show[/B] contest. Who ever song will "present" it self the best, will win. Nothing related to music at all.
Yay! I like this.
Listened to all the songs for the first time...Russia needs to win for the sake of happiness.
Lithuania will suck this year. Whole Lithuania liked this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQZ6lns5m8[/media]
And judges are sending this sucker
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdTsZQjN6g0&feature=fvwrel[/media]
Oh well this oughta be fun to watch at least :v:
-france enters with Angunn
Oh well it's not like I'm forced to watch it anyway :v:
[QUOTE=Kastro;35782630]im just tring to avoid search engines[/QUOTE]
You're a weirdo.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;35778633]...but its Finland. Finland=Finnish not Finland=Swedish speaking minority
[editline]30th April 2012[/editline]
Who pissed in your cereal.[/QUOTE]
Uh yeah but
a. Finnish people voted for it to go to the Eurovision
b. Swedish is the official second language of Finland, Finland is bilingual.
I can't wait for the UK to finish at a shit position and then the media'll make a big deal over it etc and so forth, completely ignoring that the reason it exists to get drunk to.
That drinking game looks seriously dangerous.
First semi-final today!
Who do you think will go on to the final?
I hope this year will be better, I thought last year was pretty abismal. But I didn't notice as much political voting in 2011, hopefully it'll be the same this time :)
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