Very much OT but EUROVISION VICTORY!

[LauraPaura]

I'm not sure if most of you even know about this song contest we have here in Europe called the Eurovision (www.eurovision.tv), but anyways.. It's a yearly thing (what do you call something that happens always once a year?? annual?) and in the last 40 (yes fourty!!!) my dear beloved home country Finland has never won. Actually we haven't even got more than 2 points in this contest.
But today or tonight we finally DID IT!!! There's this hidious looking group of men called Lordi (check out www.lordi.org if you dare) that won the damn contest with almost 300 points and aa huge 40 point gap to Russia that was second!
I just had to share this with you guys, I am just so happy about this! Finally we did it

[Lise]

YEA, Finland!

I know about Eurovision only because my sister lived in Israel for 15 years, and it's a big deal there. I heard a funny piece on the radio yesterday about how Eurovision is as big as the World Cup, but has less violence.

Glad to hear that Finland finally got her due. L.

[Popoki_Nui]

Moikka LauraPaura, and congratulations for your first Finnish Eurovision win!! Yes, many of us over here know of the contest; I first learned of it in 1974 when ABBA won. I hope Finland will win another one soon!
Näkemiin,
Sherry.

[margo49]

Oh yeah, Watched the first 25 min of it.
One of the Swiss singers (song#1) was a young woman from the kibbutz ( the one with the long hair) - I was her metapelet in the children's house when she was a baby (well 1/2 till 3 years old). So I toilet-trained her. Which is my personal contribution to Eurovision since I sing very badly.
Israel's song (#3) was nothing much but then we watched a documentary on refusal to do army service - my SO was imprisoned twice for that in the bad old days ...wayyy OT
Well done Finland, I like to see the little countries win things. Coming from one and living in another.
Sibelius will be spinning in his grave

[VenusdeVelo]

Congrats LauraPaura to your home country win!! We live in NL and we were watching it (as silly as the show seems to be at times!) -- we were rooting for FI and Lithuania...(I loved that spoof on "we are the winners"). But I think both countries accomplished more -- they were able to stand apart from some of the sappy pop music and dare to be different, and WIN!

It was really fun to see...

But how about those hosts (Maria and the other guy...), were they awful or what?

[crazycanuck]

Watched a clip on the bbc about the group that won...All i can say is they're not my cup of tea however i'm sure you finns are as proud of them as you are of Esa Tikkanen and the early 80's finns in the NHL....????

Their makeup reminds me a bit of Star trek....

The contest is being shown on SBS tonight...I can't bring myself to watch it...

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[DirtDiva]

If you're getting the BBC version it's worth watching for Terry Wogan's comentary. Didn't see it this year, but he tends to pour scorn upon proceedings and I'd put good money on him having a drink in hand all evening...