This is no longer funny

[shinytoaster]

Russia?

Russia?

Idiot stepbrother to Europe for 800 years...

We should just join the fucking US already. Become the 51st state. Frankly, I'm up for it.

The most insulting thing about Eurovision this decade is, you know, this is my money, my licence fee, my taxes, funding this shit. Pull out, Auntie, and then maybe I'll be able to watch it without any sense of national pride and won't care any more.

Excuse me for being somewhat attached to my country, I understand it's bad form these days..

Bur, srsly. Time to pull the funding, guys.

And without wanting to spoil it for the Whovian flisters, but fucking hell, RTD, with that trailer, what fucking deus ex machina have you brought in this time to bring back the daleks?

I give up on this planet. I think I may actually have to kill myself.

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

First time I watch the Eurovision since, possibly, the second Augustan era. (Had just written about it for an American mag, decided to have a Eurovision drinking party at home. With Haribo gummi bears. Need I say more?) Anyway, the cute Russian wasn't the worst by a long chalk (although OUR singer may have been), and he had pretty hipbones, but WHAT'S WITH ALL THE POLITICAL VOTING ANYWAY? Ukraine voted along the gas pipeline from Baku - every country through which its energy supply ran got hight points. And all the Scandinavians voting for each other? Not enough dead at the end of Hamlet, guys.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Well, that would have been when Alpes Poeninae carried it off with the magnificent disco anthem 'Tu praeclarus est'.*

However things have changed. It's been political since about 1999 and shows no sign of changing. Taking a very cynical pro-western view you would think that the countries that had fought, in some cases, to be free from Soviet oppression, would have a more balanced view. It would seem not.

And I could accept our nul points in May 2003 given we'd just invaded a sovereign nation with no real justification, but if this is punishment, you know, I'm done with it.

I can't explain the political voting, sadly. But I do know that if the BBC, ARD, RTVE and TF1 backed out this contest would be dead as a dodo. Maybe they should.

FWIW Les Fatals Picards should have won it last year for France, in a world with any justice, especially as M. Gaultier designed their costumes. Alas, it was not to be.

* I'd love to see what you wrote for the Americans, btw...

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Les Fatals Picards were all abour irony. Sadly, irony is out, out, OUT at the Euromachin. Boy was our entry this time gawd-awful.

(To be completely honest, the Brit guy was equally awful in a more energetic way. I did like the Azeris. Someone called their number a Good Omens vid, which was not such a bad description.)

The piece: gimme an email address? (And ssshhhh, it only runs next week, with an update on the results.)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I think I may actually have to kill myself.

Easy, tiger; please don't.

My solution would be to invite the associate members of the EBU into the contest. That ought to change the centre of gravity a little.