Oh yeah, I remember those dark old days. In fact, to this day, I feel the strong urge to put a disclaimer under my fics. Not because, you know, something might happen, but because it still feels like proper conduct or somesuch.

And Eurovision has never seen a glory such as theirs ever since.

OMG, how did I not know Conchita and Dana International sang Waterloo together? Thank you for this.

Ruslana and Verka will never not be my favorite entries to the Eurovision contest. Though, I will give half points to the Vampire lad with the burning Piano/Coffin/Ladder.

What I find interesting is that she never says she loved Weinstein. She never explicitly says that she enjoyed his personality or his presence or whatever. What she says instead is “ I had what I thought was a very happy marriage. I loved my life.” I can easily see this translating as ‘I married the dude for his money…

I think the White House Correspondents Dinner showed us exactly why the reporters don’t ask Trump and his cronies the hard questions. It’s a relationship that’s built on sycophancy and one that is mutually beneficial for both parties.

Our species has 15.000 nuclear bombs as of a year ago, and we are ready to launch thousands of those in a matter of minutes. I don’t think it’ll be a matter of one side yielding very quickly. It’ll be a domino effect.

I’m of the general opinion that this whole celebrity worship culture is completely unhinged and out of proportions. Can we please just go back to the point where musicians and artists are simply considered craftsmen (or women)? Hell, the fact that a lot of run-of-the-mill artists accept commissions online and that…

The problem with us surviving a nuclear war is that we’d no longer have the resources on the planet to make it back to the point where we are now. If we have to rebuild civilization from scratch, we’d need fossil fuels that are no longer there. Hence, we will no longer have the means to go to space, to combat…

Yeah, we got over Germany causing two world wars after we dismantled its military, divided its land and got a shitload of reparations from it. It also helps that Germany has spent quite some time not fucking up since then. So, you know, maybe after 20 years, some globally inspected reformations and a bit groveling,…

hot diggity dang, that’s fucking terrible.

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Oh well, as long as he doesn’t just comes but goes as well.

‘kay, but when’s he going to have that heart attack?

Alright, This got long, but you know, at least it gives the full picture on what it means to be a sex worker in the Netherlands:

Nederlander hier. I agree with you that the individual consensual sex worker is safer here because of the legislation, the taxes and the STI-tests.
Having said that, I’m also wondering if the high numbers in sex trafficking isn’t also a result of our organised crime being particularly focussed on this aspect and the…

It was really cool! I think everyone pretty much loved after they got over the ‘haha, this is a joke, right? Is this a joke? Wait, you’re actually getting married?!’ phase.

lol, my cousin actually did something like that: He threw a barbeque for all his family and friends (not the first time he did so) and it was all a bit like the above, half the crowd in sandals and jeans, and then SUPRISE, here’s a civil servant who’s going to marry him and his girlfriend, and also there’s cake.

Wow, so, anyone remember when there was a European refugee problem and the American Government was all ‘yeah, but that seems like your problem, not ours.’

I mean no disrespect, and I’m incredibly glad to see all of these companies dropping the NRA, but I’m stuck wondering ‘why now?’ What makes this shooting different from the countless others?

I mean, I guess you could pretend that your nation isn’t 99% immigrants, but it’s not like the rest of the world is gonna let you forget it?

So much for #seesomethingsaysomething