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May 12, 2007 3:19 PM

Eurofilter. Next year I think there should be the mega UK Metameetup of all time for Eurovision. You up for it?
posted by essexjan to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:19 PM (25 comments total)

Ha -- great idea. I wonder if we could get it sidebarred here for the whole of the next 12 months.
posted by randomination at 3:23 PM on May 12, 2007

I might be working in Poland next spring, and the first thing I did after seeing Serbia win was check if I needed a visa for a weekend trip to Belgrade!
posted by mdonley at 3:34 PM on May 12, 2007

oh hell yeah.
posted by atrazine at 3:42 PM on May 12, 2007

If I happen to be in the UK then hell yeah.

Dresscode mandatory, though.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:52 PM on May 12, 2007

That would be worth building a summer vacation around! Maybe Meltdown will pick up again next year - if the timing works, *there* would be two events that would make a fantastic vacation.
posted by jasper411 at 3:54 PM on May 12, 2007

As in, to, like, get together and watch it on TV?
posted by chrismear at 3:57 PM on May 12, 2007

Yes, chrismear, a theme party, either at someone's house or, probably better, a pub that's showing it - preferably some sports bar that has 25 plasma screens around the place.
posted by essexjan at 4:03 PM on May 12, 2007

Or in Serbia.

I wonder if we could get it sidebarred here for the whole of the next 12 months.

That Portland meetup will be in the sidebar until 2009.
posted by cillit bang at 4:11 PM on May 12, 2007

Is this something I would need a European to understand?
posted by brownpau at 4:16 PM on May 12, 2007

I'll come, but only if we'll do this.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 4:20 PM on May 12, 2007

Gotcha. Sounds good.
posted by chrismear at 4:33 PM on May 12, 2007

I'll go if you guys all dress up like Lordi.
posted by miss lynnster at 4:33 PM on May 12, 2007

I always dress like Lordi.
posted by essexjan at 4:43 PM on May 12, 2007

And I always dress like Bucks Fizz, but I don't go around making a song and dance about it. Sheesh.
posted by chrismear at 4:54 PM on May 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

We don't plan that far in advance. If I did I would just forget anyway. Still, nearly 300 comments in just a few hours. This hit a vein.
posted by caddis at 6:25 PM on May 12, 2007

And still, no favourites. Strangely appropriate.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:40 PM on May 12, 2007

Count me in, all the way from Belgium.
posted by lodev at 3:08 AM on May 13, 2007

have it somewhere cheaper than the UK and i'll come (if you'll have me, as honorary eurotrash) : >
posted by amberglow at 4:51 AM on May 13, 2007

I'm in. Maybe we could have a "dress as your favourite contestant" theme?
posted by sueinnyc at 7:45 AM on May 13, 2007

(if you'll have me, as honorary eurotrash)

Arise, Sir Amberglow!
posted by dash_slot- at 7:49 AM on May 13, 2007

: >

*blushes, curtseys, adjusts tiara*
posted by amberglow at 7:54 AM on May 13, 2007

I've been to Eurovision parties for the last two years. Last year people had to dress up to represent a country (so Germany was a mullet wig, The Hoff t-shirt with a Scorpions back patch, the UK was a lager lout, etc). This year the theme was "F" (for Finland) so there was a friar, a fish finger, a flight attendant, a flasher and so on.

I am currently nursing something approaching a biblical hangover after not getting back home until about 3am. I have no idea what happened in the actual contest but I do remember eating an awful lot of cheese. Which, thinking about it, is apt.
posted by TheDonF at 7:58 AM on May 13, 2007

Oh wait, I hate fancy dress with a passion. I might have to reconsider this.
posted by chrismear at 10:07 AM on May 13, 2007

I'll be in Spain, but might have to make the trip over for this. I need to hear Wogan's commentary.
posted by slimepuppy at 6:46 AM on May 15, 2007

I did something similar to theDonF in Dublin, but without the cheese. I've had a Eurovision party every year since I was involved in organising the one in Millstreet/Killarney. Behind the scenes is just as crazy as you would expect.
Lets' see how the summer meet up goes in my house and I may even be in the country next year to host it!
posted by Wilder at 7:04 AM on May 16, 2007