The body, though, appears to be extruded from a sheet of plastic in the same way as the chair.

Also, the medieval Icelanders were mostly farmers/fisherfolk who, whilst having generations-long vendettas, didn’t form armies, wage war or even go on cool Viking raids (though the ones who were best in combat sometimes went abroad to work as mercenaries).

The use of hues suggests that Polish is a North Germanic language

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So they’re taking hostages now?

And then there’s Finnish, where (according to Icelandic comedian Arí Eldjárn) “I love you” sounds more like “get me the money or else”

Apparently the worst thing you can call someone in Dutch is “cancer whore”

That sounds Québécois

Wheelie bins are probably made in the same way, only with a differently shaped mould. There are probably other common objects that also belong to this class.

Great to hear. Now let’s hope Poland makes it as well.

The Roman Empire is like the French Resistance: everybody claims to have been in it.

Also, the Germans had form doing that. The whole Holy Roman Empire thing, all the statues of figures in Roman attire in their cities and such. It’s like they had an inferiority complex from their ancestors having been the barbarians harrying the Roman Empire around its fringes rather than the ones with the roads, aqueducts and indoor plumbing.

Slovenia is based.

I was expecting better from Denmark, though.

Are the Haredi the ones who believe that Israel cannot exist before the Messiah comes?

Though ask yourself: can you get a better deal?

Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.

Alternative theory: Austria won it, but the producers rigged it to precipitate a dramatic showdown with a broadly despised antagonist, for the ratings.

Or it was a hacking op by Mossad or one of the numerous private security consultancies run by ex-Mossad personnel.

You can vote 20 times from any one phone number, and they don’t check if two numbers (or 200) are owned by the same person. And SIM cards aren’t that expensive. Goosing a Eurovision contestant’s vote would be relatively cheap and involve no breaking of any actual rules, let alone laws.

Maybe when the European Digital ID scheme comes in, they can use this to restrict votes per person, though this would still leave countries like the UK, Switzerland, Armenia/Georgia/Azerbaijan and Australia open to manipulation, unless they locked down their voting similarly. And you want something like Eurovision to be relatively frictionless, as it’s meant to be a party rather than a serious exercise in democratic governance.

The upmarket ones can advertise having new CRT monitors. By then, surely someone will have started a factory somewhere making them in artisanal quantities for well-heeled retro-gaming enthusiasts.

The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.