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The Eurasian cong contest is about right. When's China entering, anyway?

So where were we? The Spanish are telling everyone not to vote for their act (in fact the act is telling everyone not to vote for her) because they can't afford to stage the contest if they win. The Ukranians are having a racism scandal, with far-right groups claiming that the mixed-race representative will ensure everyone thinks Ukraine is a small country in Africa. Don't be silly, far-right groups. I can guarantee you at least 46% of British people alone have zero chance of spelling Ukraine, let alone finding it on a map at all. Iran's clerics have been pissing on at Azerbaijan about Eurovision being Unislamic and inappropriate because of girls going out on stage without their rugs on and people having fun without praying and gender-separation and stuff, like anyone gives a fuck what Iranian clerics think about anything, least of all anyone outside Iran. This total lack of give a fuck on anyone's part resulted in the Iranians getting their beards in twist and pulling their ambassador from Azerbaijan, 'cos that'll show 'em, yeah! Armenia has long pulled out because of security concerns, those concerns being mostly about Azerbaijan declaring all Armenians Azerbajan's number one enemies and thinking that means they're going to get twatted by Azerbaijani goons on arrival. Azerbaijani human rights groups in baku are kicking off as much as they can without getting arrested and tortured and telling all the acts to speak in favour of human rights on the night. Personally I'm hoping for at least one act-wrecking (as in, act-improving) stage invasion. Meanwhile, Sweden's act has incurred the wrath of the authorities by daring to meet with said human rights groups. Naughty Sweden! Oh, and the Russian grannies are probably going to win.

So, all good, clean fun. I can hardly wait for tomorrow night.