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Thanks for pointing that out. And only 3 years ago. How could I have missed that! 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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A highly dangerous virus called "Weekly Overload Recreational Killer" (WORK) is currently going around, indiscriminately attacking CP members worldwide. If you come into contact with the WORK virus, you should go immediately to the nearest "Biological Anxiety Relief" (BAR) center, to take antidotes known as "Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract" (WINE), Radioactive UnWORK Medicine (RUM), "Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter" (BEER) or "Vaccine Official Depression Killing Antigen" (VODKA). Don't wait! Protect yourself! Do it now!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I was fully vaccinated with copious quantities of those (and Work Hating Immunization Serum Keeping Employees Younger) when I was a mere strippling!
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Aaaaaah! Whiskey: The right stuff to pickle any liver and make it last forever! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I had hoped to stumble across a presentation as visually beautiful and sensual as last year's Polish entry [^]; instead, all I saw was:
1. feral amazons dressed-to-kill snarling through Las Vegas scream-a-thons.
2. young-folks from countries where dancing is, evidently, either an unknown art, or a form of martial art involving using spastic movements to dis-orient opponents.
3. the usual bo-toxed talking-head commentators stoned on methamphetamine and/or steroids, engaging in glossolalia with shards of trivia barely able to crawl through.
4. horrible, crude, cgi backdrop animations of machinery a la steam-punk spawning cheap knock-off Geiger style nightmare-techno.
The only enjoyable moment my half-hour meandering about the final produced was when I realized ... afterwards ... I had not seen Ms. EuroVision 2014, Conchita Wurst, simpering through "Droop like a Phoenix."
Yes: why did I bother ? Poland where are you when I need you ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Hey come on Bill! They let Australia into Europe this year!
(I think the organisers were secretly hoping the Ozzies would win, and it would never involve Europe again...)
I can't comment on the performances, as I had prior engagements and couldn't watch it. Cutting my toenails, watching grass grow, paint dry - that sort of thing.
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Come to think of it, thanks, that is interesting that Oz got in.
What next: that nest into which I made a bloody entrance from undifferentiated eternity about 930 moon-cycles ago ... Corporate Occupied Mallburgerland, aka (euphemistically) America ?
... after all, if America is not the troglodytic spawn of Europe and England/Scotland/Ireland ... what is it ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Given the Aussies cultural contributions to the world, it was only a matter of time before they joined such a monumental battle of puerile entertainment, badly performed.
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It looks like this year also poor koalas are dying... 
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it's worth sticking through the show just for those embarrassing conscious hardly-scripted-at-all "chats" they insist on having 
Oh - and the half-time entertainment was full of suspense - would the little drummer boy remember to smile when he looked up - again - into the camera?
Speaking of suspense - we were on the edge of our various seats and laying reasonable odds on the commentator's tits falling out during the scoring.
Still, the most exciting thing in my book was when they meant to cut to the artists green room, and actually cut to a close-up of an audience-member's cleavage.
You could almost hear the director's screams of "Null Point!"
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You knew it was over when the winner was a tranny last year and it just TPTB laughing at us.
Swedon won or so i am told this year, the state that kidnapps your children if you step out of line, not a place i would vist even if I still like Abba
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Dr Gadgit wrote: the state that kidnapps your children if you step out of line
Would you mind substantiating that.
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Google is your freind
The place has a bad name for it and you can even find a documentary on the subject.
Here we have family courts and gag orders used the same way but it's no where near as bad as in Swedon
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The number of children in foster care in Sweden is almost exactly equal as a proportion of population to the number in the USA and is by no means exceptional in Europe. Sweden does have a disproportionately noisy lobby group opposed to state involvement in child care but the cynical view that this is largely because Sweden has one of the most child centred welfare programmes on the planet and parents are really arguing for the right to be nastier and more controlling to their children is not wholly unjustified! Propaganda on its behalf should definitely be taken with large quantities of sodium chloride!
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Don't know and it's hard to know what is propaganda and whats not these days.
"parents are really arguing for the right to be nastier"
I smack my kids with pride when needs be and I don't need the state or anyone else telling me what to do as a parent if thats what you are getting at.
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This was the last good song I heard from that competition:
Euphoria[^]
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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What's the most downloaded project on CodeProject?
Is there any way to find articles with most downloaded code?
modified 23-May-15 21:04pm.
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Why? Win what thing?
It's kind of pointless, really.
One of your articles has just over 1,000 downloads. A quick scan of a few people shows that you're not even close to the top of the list.
What are you gonna do? Download-bot your own code?
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Ooh, can I ? 
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Calm down, calm down.
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Really? I don't see a joke icon or anything that resembles being funny.
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I do not see ANY joke icon on that comic strip. Clearly it is not a joke.
Life is too shor
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