Eurovision - not quite karoke, not quite Idol...

Yes, I went to a Eurovision party last weekend, held at a friends pub a little out of Leeds. It was an experience...
Some things about Eurovision:
* I firmly believe it is to remind people who is part of Europe. There were some impressive entries from countries like Herzegovina, which I honestly didnt even know existed before.
* Its not a good sign when the country you drew on your sweepstake entry gets laughed at by others (hey, what is wrong with Albania??)
* Its better when the second one you draw is the favourite(Greece) and you later to go on to win the £24 prize! (muhwahaha)
* Some entries are going to be a bit strange. Like Hungary's entry, which was a cross between Riverdance and Kraftwerk.
* By the end of the night, you're really not going to care who won (well, at least if you were drinking the amount of alcohol I was)
* Dont miss your last train home, its an expensive cab fare from Ilkley to Leeds (ok, not really directly related to Eurovision, but I only discovered this on the Eurovision night)
At least I know who Terry Wogan is now...

Naughty blogger

Ok, ok, I know, its been a little while (ok, a long while) since I posted. Personally I blame this. But anyway, I've just been trudging along working (well, getting to be an expert web-surfer), playing footy (in Brighton no less) and generally getting happily intoxicated.
I was given an interesting little piece about how you can tell if you've been in the UK to long, and was disturbed to find that some of it was true (although most of those who read this blog will have already heard me go on about it). Well, ok, I was actually just told about it and spent some time at work looking for it on the net. Which brings me to a couple of other things. (Since I have a lot of time on my hands at work)
Firstly this blog that I read today that made me feel a lot better about myself (in the sense that I'm not the only person in the world that can be a bit retarded sometimes). Actually it almost made me snort out loud at work, which doesnt do much for the whole professional image i'm sorta going for (although not trying all that hard..).
The other was this piece of rubbish from the Bush government, who seem to be going for that whole, men should be men and women should stay home and pop sprogs christian right thing. You'd think what with the Army having problems with soldiers going AWOL and the dropping recruitment rates in the US, you think they'd be falling over themselves for people (even women) to go shoot the bad guys. What a load of crap.