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I'm shocked that some of you don't like this It is definitely "so bad it's good!" We love it every year, some of the appalling efforts some countries make. I used to try and get a beer from as many countries as I could - but it's very difficult since I moved to Australia! It's also difficult since the finalists are only decided at the last minute. Still - I try my best! It's a great drinking game if you're into that sort of thing. ONE WORD OF WARNING - we don't get to see it until SUNDAY night in Australia. So don't spoil it for me!! Speak in code!! In the UK (and Australia gets Terry Wogan's UK coverage) it's a big laugh. I'm pretty clear (from some of their entries) that Germany and Russia are in on the joke too. But it relies on countries taking it seriously to be funny. All that kitsch! And the voting too - all the underhand and corrupt voting is hysterical. Greece always gives Cyprus 12 points and vice versa. All the Balkans give each other loads of points. Geography is the single biggest factor in the point scoring - Ireland went from being the only non-UK country to sing in English (apart from maybe Malta?) and it used to win all the time. Now that many sing in English (or did last time around), Ireland has been geographically isolated (not enough friends) and it got relegated. Funny, funny stuff. Enjoy

One thought just occurred to me - when you ask that question here a lot of people think 'how long does a Asian rep last versus a Swiss ETA movement' or 'rep versus genuine'. But you might be thinking they're just total crap - to which I would say they're pretty good watches - better than you could get by spending the same money retail. Of course mechanical watches bring more risks than battery powered quartz - but it's part of the 'charm'! There was a poll on the old RWI, where if my memory serves me 25% said they had some sort of problem with their Asian movement in the first three months - but the odds seemed fine. The comment above that it is a 'crap shoot' is quite right, you play the odds to be sure. But then it is possible to swap over the movement in a non-functioning watch. I have an Asian movement in my rep, and it works great (touch wood!) Best of luck

Great pictures - thanks! Love the third one down and the Omegas. Cheers!

PM sent with secret typing proficiency tutorial Or rather, a different link. By the way, for others: you need to "chestnut" both files. Cheers

Still chuckling....

Right, finally got my life in order.... Obviously I have had to work hard to find something that makes me look way more sophisticated and macho than I really am - which it makes it all the more disappointing that the best I could come up with was Morrissey! The main music I listening to at the moment is: 1. NEW ORDER - WAITING FOR THE SIREN'S CALL I just never seem to get bored of this album. 2. MORRISSEY - RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS His latest. The infamous tight [censored] has actually stumped up for a real orchestra with this release. 3. IDLE TALK - "I don't know why" Hahaha...free plug! Still, "she's got that look of love in her eye".... Cheers!

Funny, I read that to mean he hated Sin City! It certainly polarised opinion: Nose bitten off in fight over quality of Sin City

The official (legal) amount of time it takes just to post something within Australia is four working days (as in, it doesn't arrive until the fifth working day)! I have found that timing the incoming post can save time (if you have any control over it), so that the parcel is 'in the air' over a weekend - means you don't lose working days on the ground. I'd be getting itchy feet after 25 days too (in a watched pot never boils kind of a way) - that has been plenty of weekends (!) but some parcels do take ages, more so if they have to be cleared.

Funny, funny, funny stuff! Brings it back - LOL! One of my favourite moments was in the last series with Naveed in the playground: "You dirty bastard!" Me and the missus were saying that for months. At the moment we're amusing ourselves by taking the [censored] out of Balamory (since it's on the DVD player eight million time a day)

Hehehe It's so true!! I am Gay McCornerstone!! I was going to arrange a few album covers and so on. Never came together.

Cough...or at all! But good to have you back behind the wheel again!! Have a great weekend.

I love this from director Ron Howard (just off the press) in response to the critics: "I know I've been commercially successful, but I'm not really a guy looking for safe, middle-of-the-road success." Oh, please. SARCASM ALERT: He's really on the edge of avant guard filmmaking! [censored].

BRILLIANT LINK!! THANK YOU!!

Good work my man, enjoy some newfound driving fun! Nice car?

Apologies - I feel bad because my original post was supposed to come in two parts, but work has been unrelenting since (and it's 12.30am, which is my definition of unrelenting!). My emphasis was supposed to be that I was chuffed to bits with the songs you put up - I love exposing my tastes to new things, and I know it took a long time to post that stuff. So a big thank you Anyway, I took the time to snipe at Phil Collins, but I knew that it's no use me having a go without putting up my own musical tastes!! (Which were the second part) Quid pro quo!! Then you can take aim back Will rectify when I get a mo.... Cheers!

Thank you. Can I nominate this for a nomination for consideration as post of the month?! Really great. Thanks for taking the time. (Seriously) And yes, we all want to see the blooper shots of your thumb....

I was just checking to see if it had been renewed the other week. Well chuffed!! Gutted that I missed the Christmas episode though (didn't know they were going to have one), and they don't sell it on DVD (yet I guess). One phrase that I've adopted is "THAT'S PLENTY"!! I use it all the time now. It's the perfect repost to when you're being bored shiteless!!!

Cheers, I'll ask. I always feel a bit rubbish having to waste their time to ask the price to decide if I'm interested or not, if you know what I mean! But their call. Thanks again

I hear it's not so good BUT (!) I'm interested to see Rosslyn Chapel on the big screen.

Ach, trying my best to get drunk BUT!... Feckin' work keep calling. A jihad on mobile phones and email! [i had to stop typing this because they called again! 11.15pm] Baby crying; got a horrible cold and cough. Missus is [censored] off - I can tell because the dog is cowering under my desk and he only does that when she's [censored] off (he knows her better than me). Other than that.....Tooheys New all the way

Like you weren't pissing yourself laughing every time Rangers got booted out before the group stages @jonthebhoy Love Chewin the Fat and Still Game!!

I have considered that, but it is more than offset by (1) the second incarnation and (2) his chirpy cockney impression in the film Buster

@ryyannon Some very ethereal choices there - or at least the ones that caught my eye. David Sylvain = pure class, but I never thought I'd live to see the day he featured on any kind of list alongside Phil Collins. I'm trying hard to think of something to say about Phil Collins that won't implicate me in his eventual, and inevitable, murder.... Anyway - back to that celestial, dream-like state.....