Conchita has a killer voice, the song is catchy in a classical Eurovision way, the staging was fabulous (again, in a totally classic Eurovision way - corny and over the top, but somehow still beautiful), and it seems to me that people simply liked the song. Many countries voted for Conchita that weren't in any way…

CONCHITA WON YOU GUYZ!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't believe she didn't get 12 point from Germany - boo hiss, Germany!

I feel even if she doesn't actively show how she feels about him, he will pick up on it nevertheless. And that makes me just so so sad.

The absolute WORST to me is when all women at the table share ONE portion of dessert ("we'll have one chocolate mousse and, um, could you bring twelve spoons for that, because we're SHARING")! Arrrrrrgh. No thanks ladies, I want my own, full-sized portion of delicious dessert, not just that one tiny mouthful.

This person is a troll. Why do people still engage with him/her (bet it's a him)???

It's that weird sweet taste that I find so revolting actually. I love sauerkraut, for instance, but one of my grandmothers used to put grated apple in her version of it, which I really hated eating. To be fair, the Rotkohl we ate came straight from the can, so maybe a home made version is nicer. Still, my inner child…

Ewwwwww, I hate that stuff! We used to have it with our holiday roasts. Terrible, terrible childhood memories of being forced to eat that stuff. It smells foul, and has this nasty, nasty aftertaste that I can still feel on the tip of my tongue even though I haven't eaten this in decades. Never thought anyone…

I thought it was odd to read the kid was still out and about playing at 7:30pm. But then maybe Germans put their toddlers to bed earlier than Americans, I wouldn't know.

He sounds like a predator. I already had to dismiss one of those "but it's SCIENCE to want to bone teenage girls" troll answers from him.

Yes, a movie starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, no less (don't watch it, it is insufferable). I think it flopped though, but from what I understand that has no bearing on what the original author gets paid, right?

Not in most parts of Germany, particularly in the east.

She sold the movie rights to the book, which should really have made her QUITE a bit of money, unless she was very dumb, which I doubt she was.

Holy... I don't even know what swear word to use right now after (of course) googling and then reading the whole quote. What the... I just... Whaaaaaaaaaaat???

Not all of Europe, but at least France, the Netherlands, Germany, and most of Scandinavia really are a lot more relaxed about nudity than people in the States (and, from my experience, in New Zealand) seem to be. The idea that a guy without a shirt is somehow automatically sexualised is bizarre to me, but then I am…

I hope I didn't come across as snarky. I actually agree with what you said about our culture fetishising youth, I just wanted to add to that.

Not all women. Also, not all men.

Urban fantasy is SHOCKING in that regard! My sister is quite a bit into that genre and once in a while recommends a book or a series to me, but usually I just skim read them and get too annoyed because all the "romances" seem deeply dysfunctional and problematic/abusive to me. Last one I gave up on halfway through was…

YES! Oh my God, I'm so glad you are mentioning this series because I know many people celebrate McCaffrey as this amazing feminist writer, and at least her first books in the series are actually pretty sexist and most definitely problematic when it comes to that whole dragon mating sex stuff. I remember feeling so…

It was one of the lizard people, clearly!