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In reply to the discussion: Does this include Azerbaijan ? [View all]

Violet_Crumble

(36,159 posts)
8. I forgot they won last year with a really forgettable song...
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:02 AM
Mar 2012

Nothing wrong with watching Eurovision. I used to watch it just to snigger at Terry Wogan taking the piss out of it, but keep getting drawn back to it. Plus it makes for a good drinking game....


Sip for:

Any all-white ensemble (skol for a full white tuxedo)
Glitter or rhinestones
Hair or headgear bigger than the wearer’s face
Face paint
Any song actually sung in the native tongue of its country (France excepted)
Any song you believe to be sung in the native tongue of its country, but that then turns out to be in English
Shirtless beefcake dancers or bikini-clad tottie
Any points actually received by the United Kingdom
Tenuous ring-in competitors from other countries (see: Celine Dion)
Off-key singing
Stage junk: fake instruments, performers who aren’t singing, dancing or playing anything,
Any instrument onstage that nobody in the room can identify.
Any appearance by an accordion.
As a special tribute to 2009’s winner, any gratuitous string accompaniment (the saxophone solo of the new century)


Gulp for:

Costume perversion of national dress
Any performer who arrives on stage through a means other than their own feet (e.g. stilts, motorcycle, lowered from ceiling on glittering camel)
Any outfit so ridiculous that you feel the need to drink to make it go away
Pyrotechnics
Oversized novelty anything
Onstage disaster of any kind
Human pyramid
Any item of clothing ripped off during a performance, accidental or intentional


Skol for:

Gratuitous inclusion of a celebrity (See: Celine Dion)
Wardrobe malfunction
Made-up languages
Yodelling
Veiled references to fascism
France sings in English


If the United Kingdom still has nil points at the end of the show, finish your drink.


http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/28/daily-proposition-the-eurovision-drinking-game/

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Does this include Azerbaijan ? [View all] dipsydoodle Mar 2012 OP
The group covers the "greater middle east" Mosby Mar 2012 #1
No. ellisonz Mar 2012 #2
I see its come to include dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #3
Now you know... ellisonz Mar 2012 #4
I already new dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #6
Depends. Are they in the Eurovision Song Contest or not? Violet_Crumble Mar 2012 #5
They're the hosts this year dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #7
I forgot they won last year with a really forgettable song... Violet_Crumble Mar 2012 #8
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