Eurovision Rewatch: Kyiv 2005 - 20.00 GMT tonight (28/3)

[lolly]

The venue doesn't look THAT big, does it?

 

[Penelope]

You're my LOVER
UnderCOVER
You're my sacred PASSION
and I have no OTHER

QUEEN!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

It replaced BBC Choice a few years before, didn't it?

That's the one.

 

[Penelope]

Oh god this is one of the ones where the credits cuts it off halfway through isn't it

 

[D5K]

Must be hard reperforming pissed. I can't even type rihgt.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

From his face I'm guessing post.

Maybe he was just naturally LUMPY.

 

[Penelope]

! at the ABORTED ALMOST INSTANTLY lift of HEFTY HELENA

 

[Dark Carnival]

Was Greece the favourite going into this?

 

[Penelope]

Was Greece the favourite going into this?

I think so yes

 

[dmlaw]

Oh god this is one of the ones where the credits cuts it off halfway through isn't it

The show had overrun by 45 minutes. It's a miracle they let her reperform at all.

 

[D5K]

Was Greece the favourite going into this?

Definitely.

 

[D5K]

The show had overrun by 45 minutes. It's a miracle they let her reperform at all.

And yet it's still finishing before half 11. Israel take note.

 

[Penelope]

The show had overrun by 45 minutes. It's a miracle they let her reperform at all.

Where on EARTH did they think they were going to trim so much time?!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

What I do recall was that Helena wasn't even on my radar before she won.

GAY SHAME.

 

[lolly]

The show had overrun by 45 minutes. It's a miracle they let her reperform at all.

Why on earth did they think they could do it 45 minutes quicker?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

And yet it's still finishing before half 11. Israel take note.

How late was Israel?

 

[win_the_game]

I look forward to the day Italy wins again. We'll be lucky to be half way through the songs.

 

[lolly]

BIGGER THAN BIRMINGHAM

 

[D5K]

How late was Israel?

Definitely after midnight. I think the sequence between the final song ending and points starting was about 45 minutes?

 

[lolly]

Definitely after midnight. I think the sequence between the final song ending and points starting was about 45 minutes?

And thanks to the entertainment, it felt like double that.

 

[Madison]

I think this might be the most drunk I've ever been on my own at home before in my sheltered life.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I look forward to the day Italy wins again. We'll be lucky to be half way through the songs.

I'm still pushing for the challenge wank that was 1991. Barely any scoreboard with the presenters talking furiously in Italian about possibly anything.

 

[D5K]

I think this might be the most drunk I've ever been on my own at home before in my sheltered life.

I'm definitely not drunk enough.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I think this might be the most drunk I've ever been on my own at home before in my sheltered life.

Right now?

Christ I normally just come on and type 'anus' when I'm drunk on Moopy.

 

[Madison]

It's so frustrating that Italy 1991 got one of the greatest scoreboard results in the contest history.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I'm pretty drunk

 

[Madison]

(Discounting staggering home drunk after being out of course)

 

[D5K]

I was thinking earlier tonight that as I live on my own it's unlikely I'll get properly drunk at all while all this happens. Yes mildly pissed but you need other people around you to get properly drunk (well, maybe not in Madison's case)

 

[D5K]

I was thinking earlier tonight that as I live on my own it's unlikely I'll get properly drunk at all while all this happens. Yes mildly pissed but you need other people around you to get properly drunk (well, maybe not in Madison's case)

Although Madison may just mean he's had a white wine spritzer which is more than he's done alone before.

 

[dmlaw]

I'm definitely less drunk than when I watched 2009 live at my sister's and we had a 30 minute argument about whether it was 'unethical' for me to vote for the Bosnian song more than once.

 

[Madison]

We're only talking one bottle of red. I'm sober enough to have compiled votes in a spreadsheet.

 

[Suomi]

you need other people around you to get properly drunk)

with all due respect, I could not disagree more

 

[D5K]

with all due respect, I could not disagree more

Feel like I might be testing this tonight

 

[Penelope]

I'm definitely less drunk than when I watched 2009 live at my sister's and we had a 30 minute argument about whether it was 'unethical' for me to vote for the Bosnian song more than once.

 

[Tisch]

Sad I missed this. Was facetiming till 10:30 then I was too tired. Hope Javine wasn't too sad... Next time!

 

[SDF]

When I first heard Javine at our national final I thought we were in with a shot at finishing top 10

But then when you hear Helena...

 

[Lucille]

Thank god hair straighteners DIED.

 

[Lucille]

Wrong thread!