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Post-holiday comedown.

The Guardian one you might have been thinking of, CT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/aug/05/how-to-make-perfect-hamburger (comments thread has useful stuff too)

Just in case any of you need a scorecard for tonight: http://www.lashmana.be/ESC2012Final.pdf

Not even that this year - I'm with a bunch of other trip-to-Azerbaijan-refusers on Lanzarote, getting tanned (well, pink) and necking obscenely cheap spirits for the week. Must catch up with you soon for a pint though. And do get together with the aforementioned reprobates, they're lovely really.

The Water Poet is one of our haunts! Careful you don't bump into Matt or the Fish having a boogie to the Russian grannies.

This is why I loved my time in Serbia, everyone's got a cousin whose postman's step-daughter's neighbour makes burn-your-eyes-off rakija that they sell in old Coke bottles for a quid or two a pop. Lethal.

Romania got through (and is, indeed, all lady). Jedward also made it, with crushing inevitability. Tonight's semi-final is full of tedious Balkan ballads, but I have high hopes for the Dutch woman wearing a thoroughly un-PC American Indian headdress.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ss94OCEFbf This is the sound of a gin-fuelled Eurovision gathering. You're welcome.

I heard "Dr." Paul Jordan was on the broadcast. THAT'S NOT EVEN A THING *fanboystrop*

Farkin' hell. Sorry about that, it really should have been in there. All I can say is that you almost certainly had an awful lot less riding on it than I did.

Well, you knew it was going to happen. The big show's this Saturday night, but if you're bored and/or suicidal, BBC THREE will be showing the semi-finals at 8pm tonight (Tuesday) and Thursday. They're often the best place to see the real Eurotrash before it's heartlessly weeded out by the international voters. Tonight, for example, you will enjoy this: and this: and this: and, erm, this: What's not to like?

Bet that's not all it discovered

"Sugar... alcohol... sugar... alcohol..."

I am not! Although I echo his sentiments.

Decent post and subsequent comments thread on "I Feel Love" at one of my favourite nerdy blogs here: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/06/donna-summer-i-feel-love/?cp=0

Said "enough is enough".

2 feet under.

That's OK, I'll be starting a Eurovision thread next week for the benefit of myself alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_attack (Like I have a clue really, that's just what I'm being told. )

Wave of DDoS attacks on Eurovision fan sites by anti-gay Azerbaijan hackers, apparently. Madness.

Lies, dirty lies...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18077694 Another glorious triumph

Good. I'm a coward and just went for non-qualification.