Eurovision Song Contest

They were in the semi-finals but didn't get through to the final but they still get to vote.

Am I the only one who can only hear 'Azerbaijan' as said by Eddie Izzard?

ooooohhhh..........déjà vu

Cant say ive ever hear him say it KJX.. I just keep thinking of a pantomime villan....

You'd think Poland could give us more than 4, as we have so many of the Polish in our country

Ok have to admit this is a tad more exciting than it has been in previous years!

Yay to Portugal

Yes, but that's the problem - if they're living over here, they can't vote for us, can they?

Thanks Ireland (but we wanted 12)

I liked the snippet of the iceland song but why oh why did she look like a toilet roll dolly???

she shoulda gone for the kelly clarkson look instead...

I would hazard a guess, that about 8% of the UK's Polish inhabitants live at the bottom of my road. We even have a "Polski Producti" (Polish Supermarket!)

It's a shame they didn't give us more ? I always smile when I meet their gaze.

plus, if i went to live in poland, it wouldn't make me automatically vote for them ?

And I think the other 92% live in the fens! We have an Eastern European SUpermarket, and our Tesco have dedicated a few shelves and a freezer to Polish foods

If West Sussex is anything to go by, we treat them so nicely and there aren't any shops with 'No Polish' signs on the door (I assume they don't mean they have run out of Mr Sheen) in Bognor at all - well, I'd have the UK's entry on speed dial if I was them.

We're going to have to hear the song again, arent we???? arse.

Are polish shops and products such a new thing? we've had a shop called warsaw stores in leeds for as long as i can remember. it used to be where you went for milk on a sunday when the shops used to be shut as the owners were jewish and shut on saturday instead.

and our sainsburys and tescos have a whole aisle of international food

We sure are!!

Yep! We can be smug in coming 5th!!!

Thanks for your hospitality people. night night!

ALW does smug (toad) as a default setting.

All Hail Hypnotoad...........................

Well, I can only speak for the industry I know best, but these statistics are pretty revealing:

Polish films getting a British commercial release 1995 to 2005: none

Polish films getting a British commercial release since 2005: at least ten.

our asda has a whole aisle entitled "foreign foods" which is where they keep pasta and rice

Maybe we should get the Hypnotoad to represent the UK next year.... ?

waaaaaaahhhhhh!!! ?

maybe it's a leeds thing, we've always had a reasonable sized polish population, i went to school with quite a few people from polish backgrounds, albeit second and third generation immigrants

that song was no better second time around ?

Our tesco does 'proper' polish food - I keep wanting to be brave enough to try some of the stranger looking stuff (or at least that stuff that looks really unfamiliar) but keep wussing out!

Same here. I'm from Rotherham so maybe a Yorkshire thing.

So who won then? I watched the songs on TV, then came upstairs for the commentary on hitched!

I didn't vote, but if I had, it would have been for Germany's trousers. They were startling!

(Is it unpatriotic to say I really didn't like our song - just goes to show marketing and pr works!)

I liked azerbaijan and turkey and Sir Webber said he liked them too , i guess i have taste ....:-)

I went to school in Hammersmith, which apparently has traditionally always had a large Polish population.

One of my closest friends is Polish, but she looks down on post-May 2004 immigrants, as they had it easy compared with her epic visa battles.

Hmmmm, the Norwegian song - I think it got worse the more times you heard it. I quite liked it the first time, but every time they played a clip after that, it grated more and more. As Graham Norton says, he does indeed have a face you want to slap ?.

We had a Eurovision party [hic] and I am now knackered/drunk, but just wanted to say that I loved Graham Norton! My favourites were Portugal, Azerbaijan and Finland, all for various reasons, but mainly because they were so catchy/dancy! I dont see the appeal of Norways song at all...it is not bad, but it is just OK.

God, I love the Eurovision song contest!

Moldova were robbed !

Althoug good to see Azerbaijan's entry getting some respect.