flopsymopsy 
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I clicked on BBC1 by mistake and got Eurovision! Aaargh! It was Lithuania - before switching over I heard Graham Norton say "you may see her use signing, that's for deaf people who really love Eurovision". Go Graham, go!
Reply #5601. May 14 11, 2:20 PM
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Qmel
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I would have joined earlier...but I had to watch Eurovision voting...live!
Thanks to a great internet connection, and a new computer, I know that Azerbajan has won Eurovision. Ireland(JEDWARD!) finished in 8th place, and UK(BLUE!) finished in 11th.
Reply #5602. May 14 11, 4:57 PM
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flopsymopsy
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You actually watched the voting? :O You realise you were the only person outside Eastern Europe to do that? Well, apart from the people chained to their seats in Dusseldorf.
I bet Eire were pleased not to win - the winner has to host the next Eurovision and they can't afford it. Neither can we, we have an Olympics to pay for.
Reply #5603. May 14 11, 7:15 PM
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Qmel
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Hey...I'm not even in the Eastern Hemisphere...and I still watched the voting...and part of the interval act!
Reply #5604. May 14 11, 7:22 PM
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Qmel
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About the Olympics...hopefully the network that broadcasts the games here in the USA, NBC, can do a better job covering the games than they have in the past. Otherwise, it's watching streaming on the BBC for this American.
Reply #5605. Jun 23 11, 6:39 PM
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flopsymopsy
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I'm going. :D
Reply #5606. Jun 24 11, 5:17 AM
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doublemm
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And more tickets are available now, so get in there quick :)
Reply #5607. Jun 24 11, 5:41 AM
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flopsymopsy
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LOL! I don't want to watch football at the Olympics! Or, come to think of it, ever. ;p
Reply #5608. Jun 24 11, 5:47 AM
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Qmel
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Hey flopsy..hope you have a great ime! They way NBC covers the Olympics, you'll end up on the cutting room flor, beause you aren't an American.
Reply #5609. Jun 24 11, 8:32 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Thanks Mel! We're going to the final of the Women's Hockey (field hockey to you) so I don't think that will be on American television whatever happens, lol.
Reply #5610. Jun 25 11, 4:22 AM
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Qmel
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Field hockey...any gender...NOT on American TV...bummer.
Reply #5611. Jun 30 11, 3:57 PM
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flopsymopsy
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We're thrilled to have got anything at all, there's been such competition for tickets here that more than half the people who applied got nothing. Including me. But I applied in conjunction with a friend - we both applied for athletics and a couple of other things, but I also applied for cycling as I'm interested in that and she applied for hockey which she loves. She got the hockey and neither of us got anything else, lol. Anyway, we shall go early, soak up the atmosphere, and hope it doesn't rain! Rain? In England, mid-August? Whoever heard of such a thing. ;)
Reply #5612. Jun 30 11, 5:47 PM
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Blackdresss
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Okay. So I'm a huge hockey fan. Rabid, almost. I have season tickets and it's time to pay for them for 2012, as insane as that is. But I only know ice hockey, played on ice with sticks and skates and face-offs and wrap-around wristshots from behind the net, and slapshots made from the blue line, and high-sticking and stick-holding and icing and major and minor penalites in an overflowing penalty box, and being sprayed by all that snow, and dodging flying, frozen pucks that come winging like lightening over the top of the glass, and fights breaking out right and left, and freezing to death, even in an indoor arena. I get all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.
What on earth is Women's Field Hockey? And does it involve sticks?
I really do want to know! I'll be watching it if you tell me what it is!
I watch Women's Ice Hockey during the Olympics, and how those girls can see anything through the cages they make them wear over their faces is beyond me.
Reply #5613. Jul 01 11, 8:45 AM
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flopsymopsy
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Hockey started as a game played on grass. Ice hockey came later. However the rest of the world knows, whenever North Americans play a game which is a variant of an original game, they insist on calling their version by the original name and don't acknowledge the original. So you insist on calling "ice hockey" hockey but the rest of the world, male and female, plays the original version, on grass, with a ball, sticks, and a net - and that's what I'm going to see. Don't start me on football! ;p
And you got my sheep joke. You must indeed know about sheep, no townie ever gets that, lol.
Reply #5614. Jul 01 11, 12:07 PM
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scubascott
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Don't worry Rabbit, The Llamas that hang around here are too tough to use for meat!
Reply #5616. Jul 09 11, 9:34 AM
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PDAZ
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I don't know -- Baban seems awfully sweet!
And it's her birthday today :-)
Reply #5617. Jul 09 11, 9:51 AM
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flopsymopsy
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I'm avoiding Canada - in Calgary they gave the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge some ten-gallon hats that were made out of rabbit skin. Eek!
Reply #5618. Jul 09 11, 9:53 AM
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_Morpheus_
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(I don't know -- Baban seems awfully sweet!)
Agreed, PDAZ! I'd wish her happy birthday but I don't want to chance being scolded by a crotchety rabbit that thinks everything of import started in Blighty ;-D
Oh what the heck, it won't be the first time nor the last.
Happy Birthday **t!
Money's tight
Times are hard
Here's you friggin birthday card ;-)
Reply #5619. Jul 09 11, 11:39 AM
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flopsymopsy
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Why are you calling Marchhare a crotchety rabbit?
Reply #5620. Jul 09 11, 12:59 PM
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