The innanity of it all
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To all the Europeans who frequent the board and who occasionally read this blog, I ask for an explanation.
What the bloody hell is all the fuss about Eurovision?
First, there are countries in the contest that are not even part of Europe (Armenia? Azerbaijan? Georgia?). Now, I realize that there are many out there who would consider Europe and Asia as one continent, but even if we accept the fact that the word 'Europe' has a geographical connotation to it, much like the words 'Central America' or 'the Middle East', then even still these countries would not be part of what is called 'Europe'.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, who the )(*^&)(* cares????? Seriously, this is a contest known for is beyond-weird costumes, stupidity, and boring songs which no one would make into international hits. For chrissakes, this damn contest spawned ABBA...need I say more?
There is now a so-called political backlash because Russia won...and it was supposed to have quite a boring song. There are talks of 'Slavic/Balkan collusion' just to make it more interesting. To be perfectly honest, I heard a couple of the songs this year--by accident, as I was watching BBC News--and they couldn't be interesting if the songwriter's life was dependent upon it. Crappy pop (not even good pop!) with clich
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