[Aptorian]

The great thing about a boring, unintelligible song winning the Eurovision is that, hopefully, this means I won't have to hear it every hour on the radio for the next 3 months.

[Mezla PigDog]

Morgoth, on 14 May 2017 - 11:33 AM, said:

The best song was obviously Moldova

That was my favourite too. Third Eurovision in a row without using alcohol as a crutch to get me through. I fell asleep before the scoring started.

[Puck]

- Coltaine -, on 14 May 2017 - 05:55 AM, said:

Oh, nice to see that I'm not the only one thought it was terrible.
69 percent of all votes from us? Really? WTF.

Yeah, the German announcer guy said as much after all the voting was done. Can't believe it

- Coltaine -, on 14 May 2017 - 05:55 AM, said:

Kruppe of Darujhistan, on 14 May 2017 - 12:14 AM, said:

Puck, on 13 May 2017 - 11:57 PM, said:

What annoys me most (or did, after all, it's all good fun) is how in his thank-you-speech thing he was like 'yeah, this was real music, and everything else was just fireworks'. Well, excuse me, mister, but nobody watches Eurovision for 'real' music.. People watch it for the gay fireworks.

Oooooh, he's an Artiste, eh? What an eggregious butthead!

Bah! "Video not available in my country..."

Okay, I thought this is normally a german problem. Is now the GEMA banning foreign viewers from our videos?

Don't think it's the GEMA. Iirm, Kruppe is in Canadaland (correct me if I'm wrong), and they were not broadcasting Eurovision, so there might be no broadcasting rights for it in Canada at all, and the video I linked was from the official ESC channel.

Morgoth, on 14 May 2017 - 11:33 AM, said:

The best song was obviously Moldova

Epic sax guy got robbed. The real art was in pretending to play the saxophone for three minutes straight.

Also, yeah, they were among my favourites, too. Right behind the break-dancing italian gorilla. Speaking of Italy, I think they're preparing to build a wall around San Marino after last night. Some smartass already managed to change San Marino's national language to Portugese and their national anthem to the winning song on Wikipedia. Ah, the post Eurovision shenanigans...

This post has been edited by Puck: 14 May 2017 - 02:47 PM

[Mentalist]

Got a ton of work for a deadline that's later this week.

Next to no motivation to do it. Can't force myself to write for more than 10 min at a time.

Super-annoying, b/c a voice in the back of my head is screaming at me how important it is to work on this thoroughly. But beyond that, i'm just not feeling up to it.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Puck, on 14 May 2017 - 02:42 PM, said:

Don't think it's the GEMA. Iirm, Kruppe is in Canadaland (correct me if I'm wrong)

You're wrong. I'm just left of New York City.

Puck, on 14 May 2017 - 02:42 PM, said:

Epic sax guy got robbed. The real art was in pretending to play the saxophone for three minutes straight.

lmao!

[Loki]

Asthma attacks suck.

[Aptorian]

But not very hard, because they can't get enough air.

[Loki]

Seduce Goose, on 15 May 2017 - 04:19 PM, said:

But not very hard, because they can't get enough air.

Not true at the beginning. You can breathe in with asthma, you can't breathe out.

[Tiste Simeon]

Ah, America. The country where guns have more rights than people. No doubt this will turn into a mudslinging match and everything except the ridiculously easy access to firearms will be blamed...

[Aptorian]

In fairness, Tiste. If that kid had brought a second gun, he would have been able to protect the kid that got shot by shooting the other kid that picked up the first gun.

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Guns don't kill people. 1st graders do!

[Andorion]

Shouldn't the parent or Guardian who let that kid get a gun be punished? Like negligence or something?

[worry]

You'll be happy to know that only 11 states require safe gun storage, and Louisiana isn't one of them.

A whopping 28 states have laws that may punish parents who have negligently and egregiously allowed their firearms to fall into the hands of young children. Again, Louisiana is not one of them.

http://kff.org/other...en-legislation/

[Loki]

Look, if every kid had a gun then this shit wouldn't happen. That's why people voted for Trump, right? Sure seems to be why everytime an incident like this happens.

'Guns? Bad? No way. The *real* issue is that we don't have enough guns! Yee-haw!'

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Give 'em the electric potty chair.

[Silencer]

You know. Under normal circumstances, it would be terrible to take potshots at this event. I mean, a child just got shot!


But, frankly, this isn't normal circumstances. This is probably only the hundredth time this has happened this year. It's not like the country hasn't had enough exposure to genuinely distressing events to make some sort of change to reduce the chances of it happening. By now it surely must be frequent enough and unaddressed enough that we can have a go at America whenever it happens, right?

BK - what your own reaction, and that of every other sane Louisiana resident, should be, is to get together and petition the state government to enact proper safe gun storage regulations. Make sure it doesn't happen again.

[Silencer]

Briar King, on 16 May 2017 - 05:09 AM, said:

I guess if people want to give it a go who am I to stop them? As you clearly say it's not the 1st and certainly won't be the last kid shot by the time I hit post. I've personally never given a situation like this a go when it happens in any part of the world/US let alone in the very classroom my own 2 kids were taught in but that's just me.

I'm not fighting, I just deleted quite a few sentences in case I came across like I was.

You're more than welcome to fight. Hell, if it was a school that your own kids went to - all the more reason to get pissed! I think you'll find most of the people in this thread who are having a go are doing so because they hate that this has happened - again. And especially as this one is in your home state, surely this is a great motivator for you to get out and try and stop this from happening through proper legislation. So by all means get angry. But this shit keeps happening and I, for one, am really not sure what we're supposed to say when it does anymore - there's a limit to the amount of times we can say "oh, no, that's terrible! I feel so bad for you!" when literally nothing gets done to make it less likely. It's pretty damn easy for that sympathy to slip into "well, we told you so", after unnecessary gun-related death #500 (this year*).
And that's not, by the way, an attack against you, personally. God knows, there is very little political will to change this stuff, and trying to get things moving is not easy. Nor will legislation fix the problem 100%. But it's kind of pointless to act surprised when a country that does nothing to curb it's gun-related death problems, has gun-related deaths.





*pulled out of my ass, btw, I have no idea what the actual number is just that it's likely to be over 150 by now

[Tiste Simeon]

I saw a stat somewhere that said more people in America were killed by toddlers with guns than by terrorists.

So yay, 'Murica and all that kind of thing.

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 16 May 2017 - 09:39 AM

[Morgoth]

More people are killed by cows than by terrorists, so that's hardly surprising.

[Loki]

Isn't it a toddler per week on average shoots someone? Something extremely ridiculous like that anyway.