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Dr Vee debunks Euroviszh block voting theory

See here for all the evidence.

The big “yeah, but” in my mind, is that surely, objectively, there were other songs worse than ours that fared better in the voting than they deserved to?

I didn’t like this year’s UK entry, from the one time I heard it on the night.  I did like the Scooch song last year (and still had bits of it as my ringtone until relatively recently when replaced by bits of “Dragostea din tea”

Tweets on 2008-05-27

  • Catching up on lolcats #
  • Spreading parts of the tent across chairs in the conservatory, providing essential “camping experience” for the cats. #
  • @markpack you didn’t set fire to the cactus, I trust! #
  • There is definitely a third cat coming into our house – keep hearing flap when I know our two asleep on bed. #
  • Over-indulging in luxuries not readily available when camping: filter coffee, toast, cats, t’internet #
  • Doing my bit for the by-election in Henley by following Lib Dem candidate @stephenkearney on twitter. It’s a hard job, but someone’s gotta #
  • Sending postcrossing.com card id number GB-38000 #

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Tweets on 2008-05-26

  • Getting tweets about rain when it’s still lovely and sunny in Scarborough. #
  • Seriously gorgeous weather in Scarborough, sunlight gleaming off the sea. #
  • I’ve sent you an Orange Photo/Video Message. Go to http://www.orange.co.uk/mms/ Your ID is: pf1c3zhtz Your password is: zo0bo6 valid fo … #
  • @willhowells My friend says it starts getting better at episode 4 #
  • @willhowells we’d been talking about X Files anyway because the the themetune was playing in our caff. #
  • @willhowells with David Duchovny’s then girlfriend? And the vampires? We think that one’s OK. #
  • In the back seat of a pedalo on the boating lake of Peasholme Park #
  • Watching the skies cloud over. Striking camp 18 hours early, before the rain hits. #
  • There. Apart from slightly yellowed grass, no sign we were ever here. #
  • Ah. Erm. Right. Car won’t start. AA en route. Hopefully just the battery. #
  • @dr_nick charging phones and listening to radio #
  • Still waiting for AA to show up. Grrr. #
  • Man here, got car started, telling me not to stall for 11 miles! Leaving soon. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-24

  • Off to investigate what it is outside tent that sounds like a pterodactyl #
  • @willhowells I think @thoroughlygood has already been live-twittering some of the semifinals #
  • @meryl_f not clear what it was – could have been a peacock. #
  • @thoroughlygood have to try leaving copies of Lady Chatterley’s Lover around and see the reaction. #
  • Listening to the adaptation of Dr No – but almost all the pictures in my head are from the film. #
  • @jonxyz lollipop lolly lallies lilies ill … #
  • Nice to see Captain Scarlet singing the Romanian song. #
  • Uk singer seems to have borrowed his costume from Scooch. #
  • Celine Dion walks into a bar and the barman says, “Why the long face?” #
  • My word, Germany have really moved away from last year’s witty wordy song. #
  • Armenia: caligula? #
  • Oh boy, this is quite something from the Bosnians. #
  • “… and now live to witness a homophobic attack from Belgrade city centre” #
  • Hmmm… Liking Israel #
  • Finland bring us Spinal Tap. What is it with the fan special effect? #
  • Do they have more than one stage or do they have to put all that pryotech in place at the start? #
  • Croatia: “nice contest you have here, shame if anything were to happen to it” #
  • Wondering if the shouty guy in the white hat has just wondered out of the street. #
  • Not sure I’d want to be wearing a dress like that round a campfire. #
  • Bit of a wedding theme tonight. #
  • @dr_nick no, we’re in a caravan! #
  • @dr_nick no, Ireland were knocked out in the semi finals. #
  • What is she a student of? Pies? Oh, here comes the fan. #
  • Ooh, pirates. Could have done without this weird bridge. #
  • @willhowells dunno if it’s Chas and Dave or whether this guy thinks he’s the Artful Dodger #
  • Is it Donna from Twin Peaks? #
  • No! No! Bad hunks! Back in your box! I’m about to run out of Twitter messages 😦 #
  • French in English? Again? #
  • You’re letting everyone down. #
  • Konstantsos Pantzis?? #
  • No! Don’t let that bit of her sing! #
  • Robocop? #
  • Is he gonna do the whole song on his knees? #
  • P won’t tell me who he voted for! #
  • So, how many countries, apart from France, will read their results in french? #
  • Just wandered around the site and dozens of caravaners are watching eurovision. #
  • Who was she? #
  • Oh boy, here we go again. #
  • Ooh, Andorra did it in French. #
  • Thank you Ireland for bumping Poland above us. Bah. #
  • Someone take us off the bottom of the table, please! #

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Tweets on 2008-05-23

  • Saying “Hello Wall!” Shirley-Valentine-style to Hadrian’s wall, which we can see from our window. #
  • Hmmm. I am now more bored of romans than I have ever been. #
  • @jonxyz @jamesgraham don’t get me wrong, normally I love Romans, but that museum was dull. #
  • Crawling up Sutton Bank in 1st gear. Apparently 134 HGVs got stuck here last year. #
  • @iaindale how much urban driving do you do? Dogwood.blogspot.com likes his for its fuel efficiency. #
  • My word, this campsite doesn’t have midges or rocks. It’s a whole other world in the Club. #
  • @dr_nick sounds great! But I’m hardly in any position to criticise new parents for any decision they make! #

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Tweets on 2008-05-22

  • Striking camp in Glen Coe and plotting a scenic route for Carlisle via Oban, Perth and the Forth bridge. #
  • Was a very windy night and the breeze is still up now. Woke to deer basking on opposite bank of river. #
  • @dr_nick unsmashed lightbulbs should go to your local tip where they will tell you what to do with them. #
  • @dr_nick or they could just go in your residual waste but they can’t go in glass bank. #
  • Lovely lunch in Ben Lora cafe, but not making much progress. May have to warn tonight’s b’n’b we’ll be late. #
  • Gps #
  • Eschewing the Bridge of Awe. #
  • *Still* north of the Firth of Forth. Will we make our b&b in time? Tune in for the next gripping instalment… #
  • @dr_nick our eccentric route, Oban, Perth, Edinburgh, Carlile – we’ve gone coast to coast twice on A roads! #
  • Limited food options in Northunberland at this time of night, so trying to eat takeaway curry off our laps off a country road. #
  • Failing to get wifi to work – and reminding self 10 internet free days is no real hardship. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-21

  • Watching the tipi being dismantled before we go on a road trip up to Loch Ness. #
  • In Fort Augustus looking at the start of Loch Ness and maybe having a sunny evening drive up to Governess. I mean Inverness. #
  • Just clocked up 500 miles. Trust us to go on driving hol as fuel prices hit record high. #
  • Wee bite to eat in Inverness. Struggling not to put on mock Scottish accent when talking to people. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-20

  • At the Scottish National Trust Glen Coe visitors centre, using my long lens to take photos of tits. #
  • Kicked out of the Glen Coe visitor centre because of a power cut that made all the alarms sound. #
  • P not terribly chuffed with his role in my photo entitled “Old Fart in the Old Fort, Fort William” #

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Tweets on 2008-05-19

  • Becoming an uncle in the night – happy birthday Noah! #
  • Writing a double dactyl visitor book entry before getting back on the road. #
  • Having lunch on the banks of loch Lomand and cooing at photos of my nephew. #
  • @rfenwick last night, overheard organist practicing Stainer’s "I saw the Lord" and now have it on the brain. #
  • Campsite bril – surrounded by mountains, v quiet, idyllic. Kenny’s tipi is brilliant! #

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