Watching the Flood of comments on Facebook

[james_davis_nicoll]

Almost makes me want to watch Eurovision. Almost.

Should the OAS set upsomething similar for North and South America?

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[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I watched it via webcast at the eurovision.tv site. I've been doing that since 2008. This year's transmission was excellent, last year's was appalling.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I was watching it courtesy of YouTube. Turkey is to die for.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

For those with bandwidth, in HD.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"Sing nah nani nani nani naaaah!"

[bibliogrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh man that was AWESOME.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Twitter is good as well. I find 'reelmolesworth' to be especially penetrating.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I'm concerned that such a thing would bring us closer to the world of the movie "The Apple".

Fun facts

[(Anonymous)]

Countries from the North of Africa are also eligible to enter the contest, but as far as I know, only Morocco entered once in 1980. This is the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e26zZSEws

There was a rule, for a time, that all entries must be sung in a language of the entering country (so Switzerland would have four choices), but it was eventually abandoned. It was perhaps felt it was unfair for some of the more obscure European languages. It has certainly made English a much more popular choice.

The good thing in allowing any language is that it allows songs like this, from 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXS1urG__Lc

Céline Dion won in 1988 representing Switzerland, even though she is Canadian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_partez_pas_sans_moi

Everyone who can should definitely watch this marvelous spectacle at least once. Once could be enough :)