ExpandI wouldn't be surprised if next year the jury voting will be reduced to 33% instead of the current 50-50 split. It's bad for the contest when such a huge televote favorite loses and it's also bad when the jury voting makes the entire voting procedure quite boring.
Especially when the "winner" is 99% legacy winner. This NEVER would have won otherwise.
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ExpandThe ESC is certainly an impressive thing...
Nobody cares for it (well, we're a small minority who do), still ends up watching and gets pissed by the result more or less no matter what.
Nothing spells caring like the Danish jury awarding 8 to Finland, 10 to Norway and 12 to Sweden. 
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So Finland is the real winner.
Loreen can crawl back to her hole and then present the exact same Euphoria song in 2034. Pathetic.
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Israel was painful on the ears.
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Really impressed by Albania. Finland and Austria were nice too.
Loreen was terribly generic and uninspired.
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5.3 earthquake on Krk today. Strongest in over a hundred years, but luckily without wounded or much damage.
Apparently it was also predicted by @heywoodu's Dutch friend. 
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Suffice to say things are running out of hand in China again and the numbers are getting doctored with so far unclear consequences...
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Happy New Year!
And it's one for the books for us here. With this day we both welcome Euro as our new currency and we enter the Schengen zone of free passage. Crazy.
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Merry Christmas folks! 
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ExpandUK Supreme Court blocks the chance of another Scottish Independence referendum (the previous one was before Brexit). Imagine if that happened in China with Tibet. It only shows what double standards are applied all over the world and that democracy is only a word in some cases.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/23/uk/scottish-indepedence-court-ruling-gbr-intl/index.html
Democracy doens't imply holding referendums whenever someone feels like it.
It's not nearly the same situation as Scotland did have their referendum recently, while Tibet never will under the current administration.
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Well I've seen the Oscar-winning original yesterday from 1930. Pretty good and in many ways pre-code.
Will probably see the new one for the weekend...
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ExpandLOL so Russia exploded one important source of money
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Remember that they came close to Kyiv very quickly, however Kyiv has now been, shall we say back at peace, for months now.
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Kyrgyz-Tajik war is over after one afternoon.
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Duty first, family second, horses third.
https://www.eurodressage.com/2022/09/08/queen-elisabeth-ii-dies-aged-96
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Hey, I will be visiting Prague in a month. Should be loads of fun.
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And in Algeria, everyone is using doping to qualify for major events.
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Expand@Vektor Dutch media is saying Orban/one of his ministers fired the head of the Hungarian meteorological service because the stormy and rainy weather they predicted - which led to postponing a firework's show on a national holiday - didn't actually happen
Are they missing something and are there more reasons, or is this really the main thing? That almost sounds too North Korean to be true, but judging by the things you say about Orban, it also wouldn't be surprising
To be fair, it's the meteorologists' job. They can't just shrug their shoulders when they are wrong like you or me.
I mean, it wouldn't have been controversial, let alone news worthy at all if this happened within a private company...
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I have only recently really discovered this song.
For me this was peak Croatian entry at Eurovision.
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Opening ceremony is nearing its climax.
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I was out of loop so didn't catch this song on time. Too bad. I would have loved to have entered it for the Annual this year.
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