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Makes it about the third most modern thing in it. A friend of mine co-wrote the Irish entry but even he'd admit it's deliberately the most generic, tin whistle-playing, Titanic-evoking piece of lowest common denominator balladry. Well, he might not quite put it like that. Anyway, these are my two quiet little tips for tonight, if the people want a bit of guitar with their cheese: Which probably means we'll end up in Tbilisi next year or something.

This didn't make the final.

We'd gathered that, yes.

I bloody love that bitchslap smiley.

Most of the above.

Awesome. http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundia...calendario.html

I miss him talking about himself in third person! Did he ever resurface after the thread about body building? I'm pretty sure he had some sort of breakdown or episode iirc? No, that - of all things! - was the thread that finally broke him. Hey baybeh.

OK, I resisted starting a thread the other night when the first semi-final was on, but if you've nowt better to do tonight, tune into BBC THREE at 8pm and enjoy the sheer pain that is Eurovision before they get rid of the rubbish stuff. We can even vote in it and everything! Saturday night is the real deal. Get the obscure Lithuanian beers in early before there's a run on Wetherspoons.

What tan? I'm torn between "The one we get in Nashville, silly" and "Meee-ow! ". Besides, sunburnt baaldy heeds are all the rage this summer.

Not a summer holiday per se, but we're off to the States late next week (argh!). Four nights in New York then the best part of a week in Nashville for a country music festival. Yee-haw! Will probably do a last-minute break in Lanzarote or similar later in the year to properly top up the tan.

Completely a propos of nothing, but as period pieces go, this is pretty excellent. http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/clips/13478/

Imagine a whole U2 tour being cancelled. Tens of thousands of zombies wandering the streets of every major city looking for something dull to watch.

Would love it in theory as I adore the city and it'd be a hell of a story, but yeah, quotes pls? EDIT: Oh, and they've just appointed Armin Veh anyway.

Congrats

Pedobear

The Olympic and Paralympic mascots. To steal a comment from the Grauniad website: "Is Matt Groening on our Olympics committee? First the 2012 logo looks like Lisa Simpson giving head to Bart, and now we have Kodos & Kang as our mascots?"

Getting DP'ed by Mike Neville and Doug Weatherall? While Bob Johnson waits patiently for his two-minute slot at the end of the half-hour.

Just got a porn spam from Wendy Gibson. Presumably not that one.

Yep, that. Often sell duplicate/unwanted CDs and DVDs on there (and buy them too, though Amazon zShops has usurped eBay somewhat, I'd say).

They should have an "Oceania GP" to go along with the Aussie one.

My £75 on Belgium to beat Slovakia in the first semi of this year's Eurovision looks like free pocket money. What's not to be happy about?

I'd rather a change in the way the world works. Call me an eternal optimist. Forgive me if I don't. There's the tiniest bit of circumstantial evidence.

So there'll be no buyers for the entire Chinese economy as soon as "The West incl. Japan and Anzac" goes tits-up, either directly or indirectly (since China's markets in Africa and beyond wouldn't survive a moment without our involvement). That would be interesting. And I'd wager we'd come out of it better than "they" would, if only we could make the case for accepting 50 years of destitution and rat-eating for a subsequent 500 years of superiority like in the Good Old Days.