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Eurovision Song Contest 2013 - Malmö, Sweden

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Soho

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Dennis said:
Greece would go bankrupt trying to host the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Yeah but wouldn't that be awesome in its own right? A good song finally wins, and we bankrupt a country in the process!! It's like a perfect saturday evening :D
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
My early predictions for Top10 based on running order:

1. Denmark
2. Ukraine
3. Norway
4. Azerbaijan
5. Georgia
6. Germany
7. Russia
8. Greece
9. Italy
10. Netherlands

Seems the juries love Italy and the Netherlands. I had Sweden in there originally.
 
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Damon Bennet

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I will probably repost this a couple times today, so many of you can enjoy

The Damon Bennet-Certified Eurovision Drinking-Game is something you need to do:

The rules:

- Meet up with some friends. Everyone will have 4 Countries associated with him.

---> 1 Country that the bookmakers think has a high chance of winning
---> 1 Country you like/think can win
---> 1 Country someone in your eurovision party assigns to you
---> The Country your eurovision party takes place in. If your country does not participate, chose one, which everyone in your party likes.

- For the show casually drink a ton of beer, to survive absurdity of the show

- You are probably already drunk from the high amounts of beer, but: Everytime one of your 3 countries scores 8 Points or higher -> Drink one shot. Make sure to bring enough schnaps!

- When the country you live in (or the one you chose for your party) scores 8 points or higher, EVERYONE will need to drink a shot.

- Once you are drunk enough, it will be even more fun to sing the chorus of the song over and over again, each time one of your countries scores 8 points or more.


There is no winner! Everyone is a winner, because everyone will be incredibly drunk and it will make eurovision a ton more enjoyable.

Warning: Make sure to not touch your phones, the temptation to actually vote a billion times for one of the contestants is incredibly high once drunk.
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
Hmmm should I cash out my betfair stakes early or not. I'd make back an added 25% on my original stakes at the moment.

Depends if I think Finland's odds will shorten...
 
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Ithil

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We have to lose that sax solo!
 
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Jasup

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So last night I was at my organisation's "future planning event". At the end of the night I ended up with 3l box of wine that was left over.

Alcohol is free and in a tacky box. Suitable for this evening.
 
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Rapstah

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Belarus' song, of all entries tonight, has the contest's only South African participant in Willem Botha as a backing vocalist. In his solo pop singer career, he has actually done a cover of Latvia's 2008 entry Wolves of the Sea (by Pirates of the Sea) in Afrikaans. I have on more than one occasion woken people up by playing this song on a very high volume in the room where they're sleeping, so stumbling into this fact was entertaining.

Mostly I wonder how a South African vocalist stumbles into Belarus' dictator-chosen entry. Apparently Eurovision airs on South Africa too, but that's not even that weird because they're in CET time.
 
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Fritz

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Rapstah said:
Belarus' song, of all entries tonight, has the contest's only South African participant in Willem Botha as a backing vocalist. In his solo pop singer career, he has actually done a cover of Latvia's 2008 entry Wolves of the Sea (by Pirates of the Sea) in Afrikaans. I have on more than one occasion woken people up by playing this song on a very high volume in the room where they're sleeping, so stumbling into this fact was entertaining.

Mostly I wonder how a South African vocalist stumbles into Belarus' dictator-chosen entry. Apparently Eurovision airs on South Africa too, but that's not even that weird because they're in CET time.
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So much information. I am trying to keep as dull as possible for this.



Lena is on the warm-up stage in Hamburg. She got pretty hot since Eurovision.
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Wes

venison crêpe
Fritz said:
Where is everybody? Too early?
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Getting all their supplies so they don't have to leave the seat for the next couple of hours obviously!

As we get closer to crunch time I'm starting to think Ukraine might sneak a win but my real money is on Denmark.

Lets just hope we don't have a clear winner after we have counted vortes from 10 countries with 30 more to go.
 
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SquiddyCracker

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Wes said:
Getting all their supplies so they don't have to leave the seat for the next couple of hours obviously!

As we get closer to crunch time I'm starting to think Ukraine might sneak a win but my real money is on Denmark.

Lets just hope we don't have a clear winner after we have counted vortes from 10 countries with 30 more to go.
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Yeah, I want a close race.
 
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Bo-Locks

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Not heard anything in the run up. I'm going in fresh.

I wish Morrissey would make good on his promise about five years ago to do it.
 
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Fritz

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Wes said:
Getting all their supplies so they don't have to leave the seat for the next couple of hours obviously!

As we get closer to crunch time I'm starting to think Ukraine might sneak a win but my real money is on Denmark.

Lets just hope we don't have a clear winner after we have counted vortes from 10 countries with 30 more to go.
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I think I should come forward before the constest starts and say that I don't get why everybody puts Denmark in 1st place. I mean it has a shot but I think there are a couple of similar acts and equally catchy songs.
 
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Milchjon

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Dammit, they really put a priest on the Reeperbahn to tell me something about "12 points for the holy spirit"

Screw you ARD, this is not what I pay for.
 
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Fritz

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^^Seriously "twelve points for the holy spirit" lolol. Leave your thought of the day out of my Eurovision transmission ARD.


Milchjon said:
So I guess I might as well watch.

Way under-boozed, though.
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Me too. I wish we could have an Astra through the computer.
 
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Foshy

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SRF (Swiss TV) making fun of Romania, calling "It's my Life" the absolute worst song of ESC. smh. Like you're allowed to judge.

Gonna watch on RAI (Italian TV) now, even if it's not HD unlike SRF :/ Can't stand the Swiss commentators.
 
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Foshy

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Wait, why is Mengoni representing Italy? He won't stand a chance, song's too boring for ESC.

Max Gazzè with "Sotto Casa" would have been perfect for it.
 
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