Congratulations to Ptichka (it was Ptichka who told me about it and she is full of joy about it, so this thread if for her too :o)) )and her country, Ukraine, for winning the Eurovision song contest, at only their second time of entering it !!!
It was Eurovision ID :o)
They usually do suck, (not my brand of coffee at all !!!) but for Ukraine to win was a huge achievment, the rest must have really been bad ;o)))
I have heard the UK song and that sucked donkey ***** big time !!!
ID you may think whatever you like about Ruslana and her song...but that song consisted of our folk song most of all, of our folk and traditional melodies of our traditional musical instruments...all these melodies and instruments are of centuries of age, and have a long history...I'm not going to insist on my point of view, as I said somewhere here earlier that I respect any point of view...but I think that there should be some portion of respect to the history of the country, to it's culture and traditions:)
TimH it's good day here already :))))
And you guessed it right:) I just don't understand when people from different countries don't have at least some respect to another country...ok ok the story about the dislike between Ukraine and Russia comes from the early history of both countries, and I'm not speaking about countries which are situated next to each other:)
Besides Poland and Ukraine also had a period of the history when there were dislikes and some misunderstanding between each other, but as time passed these 2 countries treat each other very good:)))
It was a great shock to everybody!!! We hoped but never suspected that we could do that!!!:))) And Ruslana felt the same way...but when we all realized that you can't even imagine what a holiday here it was:)))
Its only just gone 12 here dear, I haven't been out of bed very long as I was out late last night, went with some good friends to see "Evanescence" in concert in Birmingham :o)))) In their encore they did their cover of "Zero" (Smashing Pumpkins track) Absolutely BRILLIANT :o)))) My ears are still ringing now :o))
It was an astounding achievement for such a small and young to Provision country, I doubt, if they were Europe, and close enough to be allowed to enter, that Aus` would even get a song in the top 10 :o))
A few years ago a young man and his blond girlfriend went to Aus` house in London for and interview because they wanted to emigrate to Aus`. During the interview the man asked them "Do either of you have a criminal record?"
The blond girl replied
"I didn't know we still needed one !!"