#jaja ding dong

[lostallcaps-podcast]

Drive Shaft reunion tour when????

[captainmartinisblog]

Elves, Trolls and the Best Laid Plans…..

Friday 14th June 2024 – Akureyri, Iceland.

The last couple of days, they haven’t opened the pool early enough for me to go swimming before breakfast. No reason is given; it’s entirely arbitrary.

So today, I took the law into my own hands, I untied the rope myself and had a lovely swim!

Today, we arrived in Akureyri, the second largest city in Iceland and capital of the Western Fjords, with a population of nearly 25,000. It’s also the second most popular tourist destination in Iceland and we were followed by Costa Favolosa all the way from Seydisfjordur yesterday.

We docked for the first time this trip, which was refreshing, as all that tendering was beginning to get a bit tiresome!

Anyway, Andrew & I had chosen an 8-hour excursion today called the ‘Diamond Circle’.

We’re not fond of all-day tours these days, as they can a bit exhausting, not to say expensive! But having been to Akureyri before, we chose this one in order to visit the Dettifoss Falls – the second largest in Europe – plus, this trip also mentioned Husavik, which as any fan of Eurovision may know, was the setting of the 2014 movie ‘Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga’.

However, the bus had barely left the pier when we were told by the guide that we couldn’t visit Detifoss Falls because the area was closed due to heavy snow falls last week, making the trek to it dangerous. Well that put a dampener on things straightaway!

Our first planned stop was at the Lava Fields of Dimmuborgir, where some of the lava formations reach 65 feet high.

Icelandic myth says that this was formed when some Trolls had a wild party and lost track of the time (trolls clearly didn’t have watches in those days) and when the sun came up, they were turned into rocks. In truth, this area was a vast lake or marsh-land when volcanic lava erupted from fissures and solidified – but the story of the trolls is more fun!

We knew we were expecting lunch later but for some reason, we made another stop at this view-point for a ‘picnic snack’ overlooking MyVatn and what remains of the vast lake mentioned above, now pocked with sulphur springs. It was an impressive view but as to the ‘picnic’, we were all a bit puzzled….

Our excursion was also supposed to visit the ‘Whispering Cliffs’ of Hljodklettar in the Vatnajokull National Park but, guess what, that was closed too! Instead, we were taken on a trek through a forest to a pond popular with breeding ducks (except that there weren’t any ducks either!)

Icelandic Joke – Question: What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? Answer: Stand up! (Icelandic trees don’t grow very high because of the severe climate and lack of daylight 4 months of the year)

The area is known as Myndun Asbyrgis, a horseshoe-shaped canyon with cliffs up to 330 feet. Nick-named ‘Sleipnir’s Footprint’, it is said that it was created when one of the eight hooves of Odin’s horse, Sleipnir, accidentally touched the earth. Yes, well, today’s geologists prefer to believe that it was caused by catastrophic glacial flooding; a bit boring but probably closer to the truth!

Today we were indeed blessed with glorious sunshine all day, temperatures rising to the dizzy heights of 20 degrees – I even took off my woolly!

After a two-course lunch at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere, our next stop was supposed to be in Husavik and Andrew & I were both looking forward to at least finding the ‘JaJa Ding Dong Bar’, named in honour of the 2014 movie set here, ‘Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga’.

But the bus drove straight through the town and our guide never even mentioned the film! All this was, presumably, so that our tour could stop at Godafoss Falls on the way back to the ship.

At around 30-40 ft, these falls are less impressive than Detifoss but it was here that at the time Christianity was being introduced around 1000AD, the local leader figure Porgeir threw his statues of the Norse Gods into the falls – hence the ‘Waterfall of the Gods’. All well and good but we had been here last time and these falls (quite near Akureyri) were on almost every other excursion apart from the one we chose!

It is said in Iceland that the Elves (or the ‘Hidden People’) often interfere with the lives of humans and that people should be mindful. It’s all twaddle of course, intended to make children behave (and adults for that matter) and follow the rules of the community in what was then a cruel world to survive in. But over 50% of the population still believe in the ‘Hidden People’ (or say they do, jus in case) and maybe, just maybe, the Elves had something to do with the events of today, because I took the rope off the pool to go swimming, instead of ‘obeying the rules’………

[chronomally]

I didn't think anyone saw the Eurovision movie with Will Ferrell but apparently it was a hit with the Australians I'm traveling with

[the-not-so-frenchy-frie]

[dymagamwedd]

NOT THE OFFICIAL RMT POSTING A JAJA DING DONG REFERENCE

[monokerus]

Some things that are mandatory for Eurovision Song Contest nowadays:

The hosts trying to synchronize "good evening Europe" and failing

Someone wanting to hear Jaja Ding Dong

UK or Germany coming in last

Random appearance from Måns

Pagan ritual entry

Sneaking up on Graham Norton during the live show

[music-interpretation-review]

Ooo can I request Jaja Ding Dong from Fire Saga? 🎶🎵

[lululawrence]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE

🥳💕🎁

hehehehe yessssss i love it when these dorks dance so much hehe thank youuuuu!! i love youuuuuu! and i just had to switch playlists, so your song is gonna be the first one from a different one!

i'm gifting everyone who has sent me a lovely birthday ask a random song off of a previous playlist i landed on while scrolling my playlists on spotify as a thank you! hahaha the current playlist is my spring 2021 playlist, and the song that came up for you was:

BAHAHAHAHA okay that song was on there because it was a hellish year and i needed a laugh sometimes... but lemme gift you a song that wasn't just on the playlist as a joke lmaoooo your non-joke song is...

[thecagedbard]

Imagine, if you will...

These two:

Disguised as these two:

singing:

as a cheeky little distraction. How fast would Jaheira try kill them?

[littlebookmermaid]

i'm watching Eurovision song contest- the Fire saga as a way to end this eurovision week 🥳 That sing off between a bunch of eurovision artists is my multiverse of madness

also since we're going to sweden next year and the voice of Sigrit is a swedish singer i will be expecting her to perform and have a dude yell "Play jaja ding dong"

[thequiver]

🎵

[duskodair]

Jaja ding dong, light of my life. love it

[adtothebone]

Today’s tongs don’t tong as long as tongs used to tong, and that’s wrong. The old tongs from Hong Kong were strong — you could tong the “Jaja Ding Dong” song on a gong like King Kong in a thong and sarong all day long and the tongs would still tong.

[maelkevejen]

Vaccum Cleaner

2017 24/04 | Arctic Monkeys - I wanna be yours 24/04 | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation 24/04 | Lauren Aquiliana - Ocean 24/04 | Rae Morris - Grow 04/10 | Rae Morris - Skin 06/01 (2021) | Natasha Beddingfield - Pocketful of sunshine 24/04 | Tim Minchin - Confessions 24/04 | Justin Timberlake - CAN'T STOP THE FEELING 24/04 | Grimes - Raliti 24/04 | Grimes - Flesh without Blood 31/10 (2021) | M83 - Midnight City 24/04 | M83 - Lower your eyelids to die with the sun 24/04 | Biffy Clyro - Many of horror 24/04 | Highasakite - Since last wednesday 24/04 | Seafret - Oceans 24/04 | Justin Timberlake - That girl 24/04 | Biffy Clyro - Re-arrange 24/04 | Highasakite - Golden Ticket 24/04 | Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake - True Colours 24/04 | Anna Kendrick - Get back up again 24/04 | Highasakite - My name is liar 24/04 | Highasakite - I am my own disease 24/04 | Zoey Deschanel - Hello 03/11 | Taylor Swift - Jump then fall 24/04 | Donna Summer - Hot stuff 24/04 | Prince - Raspberry beret 24/04 | Paramore - Hard times 24/04 | Pokémon - Pokémon theme 15/05 | TÅRN - Den som alting drejer om 08/07 | Erasure - Always 27/10 | Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

2018 18/02 | Justin Timberlake - Flannel 25/02 | Nelson Can - Break down your walls 26/08 | Nick Cave & The bad seeds - Into my arms

2019 13/03 | Simple Minds - Don't you (forget about me) 01/11 | The Wombats - Turn 12/10 | Søren Huss - Opvasken 22/10 | Biffy Clyro - Adored 22/10 | The Darkness - Heavy metal lover 22/10 | Biffy Clyro - Different kind of love 06/11 | TÅRN - Farver & vanvid 27/11 | R.E.M - Crush with eyeliner

2020 31/01 | Søren Huss - Helt almindeligt liv 31/01 | The Darkness - We are the guitar men 16/02 | The Darkness - Heart explodes 16/02 | The Darkness - I believe in a thing called love 09/03 | Beck - Ramona - Acoustic version 09/03 | Beck - Ramona 22/05 | Taylor Swift - Lover 22/05 | Taylor Swift - Paper rings 16/08 | Biffy Clyro - Space 20/08 | Sort Sol - Holler high 24/09 | Sterling - Elsker/elsker ikke 17/10 | Will Ferrel, My Marianne, Tiësto - Double trouble 21/11 | Tim Minchin - I'll take lonely tonight 31/12 | Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

2021 07/01 | Arianna Grande - pov 01/04 | Will Ferrel, My Marianne - Jaja ding dong 01/04 | Gloria Estefan . Get on your feet 15/10 (2023) | Søren Huss - Undertiden 20/07 | Miguel - Sure thing 30/08 | Biffy Clyro - Black Chandelier 26/09 | The Womnats - If you ever leave, I'm coming with you 31/10 | Nelson Can - I wanna be with you

2022 06/08 | CHVRCHES, Robert Smith - How not to drown 06/08 | CHVRCHES - Clearest blue 21/08 | Tears for Fears, Dave Bascombe - Head over heels 21/08 | Biffy Clyro - Mountains 04/10 | Biffy Clyro - Biblical 21/10 | Daði Freyr - 10 years 08/11 | Benjamin Hav - Spice up your life 18/12 | Sigrid - Don't feel like crying 20/12 | Sigrid - High five

2023 22/01 | Cher - If I could turn back time 04/03 | Beyoncé, Jack White - Don't hurt yourself 04/03 | Paramore - Misguided Ghosts 02/04 | The Darkness - Jussy's girl 02/04 | Paramore - Still into you 12/04 | Taylor Swift - this is me trying 20/04 | Taylor Swift - Daylight 26/09 | Selina Gin - Good cry 01/10 | Mathilda the Musical - Naughty 09/12 | Taylor Swift - Losing me 14/10 | Taylor Swift - New year's day 14/10 | Søren Huss - En smeltet kaktus i en vindueskarm 15/10 | Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift - Renegade 18/04 (2024) | Paramore - Figure 8 16/10 | Sterling - Kortslutninger 18/10 | Shura - What's it gonna be? 28/10 | Taylor Swift - All you had to do was stay (Taylor's version) 02/11 | Taylor Swift - Say don't go (Taylor's version) 06/11 | Broken Twin - Out of air 19/11 | Highasakite - Keep it alive 22/11 | Selina Gin - 'Cause we had it all 01/12 | Taylor Swift - Sweet nothing 09/12 | Bryan Adams - Get off my back

2024 03/01 | Highasakite - Keep that letter safe 04/02 | Highasakite - ok jeg lover 06/02 | Sterling - Det er mit lys 08/03 | Ariana Grande - imperfect for you 09/03 | Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) 23/04 | Taylor Swift - Illicit affairs (live from eras tour) 17/05 | Azumi Inoue - Carrying you 23/05 | Benjamin Hav, Familien - Cannaloni & kød 29/05 | Bo Burnham - Five years 14/06 | Ida Laurberg, Andreas Odbjerg - Jeg ka' rigtig godt li' dig 14/06 | Andreas Odbjerg - i morgen er der også en dag 26/06 | YUNGBLUD - breakdown. 07/07 | Ida Laurberg - Jeg har lavet en liste 20/07 | Tim Minchin - Carry you 20/07 | Tim Minchin - The absence of you 20/07 | Tim Minchin - Airport piano 30/07 | Twenty One Pilots - Tear in my heart 23/08 | Sabrina Carpenter - Juno | The Darkness - The longest kiss | Gorillaz - Melancholy hill

[totaldramafan-lauri]

That "JaJa Ding Dong" moment in 2021 was iconic