Comments on: view http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/ UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mike http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/#comment-674 mike Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:00:24 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/wordpress/?p=815#comment-674 You're more than welcome to come and watch it at our place (we have Sky Plus). OK, so we're in Nottingham... details, details! You're more than welcome to come and watch it at our place (we have Sky Plus). OK, so we're in Nottingham… details, details!

]]> By: luca http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/#comment-673 luca Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:08:31 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/wordpress/?p=815#comment-673 I stand corrected. Still, there's the costume and choreography bitching. Unless all contestants are now required to perform motionless, wearing regulation white overalls, so that everyone stands an equal chance. I stand corrected.

Still, there's the costume and choreography bitching.

Unless all contestants are now required to perform motionless, wearing regulation white overalls, so that everyone stands an equal chance.

]]> By: EuroChig http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/#comment-672 EuroChig Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:02:02 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/wordpress/?p=815#comment-672 1) I think I fit all of the criteria above AND I have a birthday in May - the 6th, in fact; the very night that Retro Bar is holding its own final. 2) I won't be there as I'm getting a flight early the next morning....to Istanbul! Apparently, there's some musical event on there... 3) It's nnot the second Saturday that you want to worry about - it's the 3rd - Saturday 15th. 4) I have a Freeview box and BBC3. 5) You can't have it though - I quite like having it. And finally, the really important bit, re your comment above... 6) There IS NO VOTING to see on the Wednesday, in the semi. All 33 countries who are showing it (France, Belarus and Ukraine can't be bothered) will televote and send their results in, in secret, to the EBU. Then, at the end of the show, they'll announce, in no particular order, which 10 countries are through to Saturday. They have to do it like that, or it would be unfair on Sat. (If we knew which country had qualified in 10th place, we probably wouldn't vote for them on Saturday.) They will also show clips of the 14 songs which have ALREADY qualified, without the semi, so that all the songs get some screen time. All the figures for the semi voting will be announced AFTER the Saturday final. So, it'll be good, but the real excitement will be on Saturday night, as usual. Go Belarus! 1) I think I fit all of the criteria above AND I have a birthday in May - the 6th, in fact; the very night that Retro Bar is holding its own final.
2) I won't be there as I'm getting a flight early the next morning….to Istanbul! Apparently, there's some musical event on there…
3) It's nnot the second Saturday that you want to worry about - it's the 3rd - Saturday 15th.
4) I have a Freeview box and BBC3.
5) You can't have it though - I quite like having it.

And finally, the really important bit, re your comment above…

6) There IS NO VOTING to see on the Wednesday, in the semi. All 33 countries who are showing it (France, Belarus and Ukraine can't be bothered) will televote and send their results in, in secret, to the EBU. Then, at the end of the show, they'll announce, in no particular order, which 10 countries are through to Saturday. They have to do it like that, or it would be unfair on Sat. (If we knew which country had qualified in 10th place, we probably wouldn't vote for them on Saturday.) They will also show clips of the 14 songs which have ALREADY qualified, without the semi, so that all the songs get some screen time. All the figures for the semi voting will be announced AFTER the Saturday final.

So, it'll be good, but the real excitement will be on Saturday night, as usual. Go Belarus!

]]> By: luca http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/#comment-671 luca Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:34:29 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/wordpress/?p=815#comment-671 Thanks Guy, but that is not the point. Of course I can ask people to tape it for me, and through my contacts at the BBC I'm sure I could even get hold of a pristine copy of the whole evening on tape. It's the live action I'm going to miss. The scorecards and voting. The tears of joy in the Green Room. And, last but not least, the traditional bitching about the costumes and choreography. Thanks Guy, but that is not the point. Of course I can ask people to tape it for me, and through my contacts at the BBC I'm sure I could even get hold of a pristine copy of the whole evening on tape.

It's the live action I'm going to miss. The scorecards and voting. The tears of joy in the Green Room. And, last but not least, the traditional bitching about the costumes and choreography.

]]> By: ??? http://www.bitful.com/2004/04/16/view/#comment-670 ??? Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/wordpress/?p=815#comment-670 Well you know people who work on BBC3!!! Well you know people who work on BBC3!!!

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