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I won’t bother linking to the BBC News reports, as I’m sure everyone knows about the bomb threat that was nullified today.

What really hit me in the pit of the stomach and freaked me out was finding out through listening to the coverage that Blair’s on holiday and John Prescott is effectively running the country.

Now I am scared. And glad I’m on the other side of the world. Also partly because my pounds are worth significantly more than they were a week or so ago.

I just spotted the following on Chris Evans’ blog:

“Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them.”

That would explain why my 45 posts of “**** off you ginger ****” didn’t make it on, then. And why all the other ones are such sycophantic, arselicking *****.

…British. Andy Murray has just reached the Washington final, and according to the article linked is a “Briton”.

So, what headlines shall we see after the final?

“Britain win through in tennis championship”
or
“Young Scot loses in final”

Two “men” jailed for raping children have been recaptured in Usk, Wales, after walking out of an open prison.

Great that they caught the ********. But would someone kindly explain to my what the **** these ***** were doing in an open prison in the first place? Surely they should be in a secure one with daily beatings and sodomy being inflicted such as they deserve?

Sorry, but I have family with kids who live near to Usk.

I was having a discussion over a bowl of noodle soup last night about Lordi and about how they were the best thing ever to happen to the Eurovision song contest. The other person disagreed, but she was wrong.

Anyway, I still hadn’t seen their actual live performance in the final so I did a search on Google video this afternoon and found it. Wow. Now, I’m not a Eurovision fan so I’ve only seen bits and pieces over the years, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen so many people from so many countries enjoying an act as much as Lordi’s set. The clip is from their qualifying performance and not the encore after they’d won. Regardless, there are Finnish flags flying… not surprising. And Greek – they hosted it so fair enough. And Norwegian. And Turkish. Those are the only ones you can make out from the camera angles round the front of the stage.

Lordi made a statement. Simply – Finland Rocks. And this is how well it rocks. By simply putting in a great performance with a superb catchy rock anthem instead of some banal pop effort or a tear-jerking (snore-inducing) ballad, Lordi actually caught the imaginations of the people watching. Hell, they were on their feet. Frankly, if they’d not won after that then there’d have been riots.

Anyway, while searching for the video, I found this one. I was trying to use the funky “post this video on my blog” facility, but it failed with a stupid error and dumped all my text. Technology at its usualest.

Shortly after winning, Finland decided to make headlines again… with the largest karaoke performance of all time. Using Hard Rock Hallelujah, they entered the Guinness Book with an 80,000 strong crowd, blasting the previous record of 50,000.

Seriously – about 3/4 of the way through with 80,000 mad Fins screaming “Hard! Rock! Hallelujah!” the hairs on my neck were all a-tingle.

Enjoy!