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Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Tunguska Blast

by Shawn Lindseth

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. The Tunguska Blast may not have been a big deal had Bruce Willis been alive to save the world from [...]

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Eurovision Brings Back Juries Just To Annoy The Ruskies

by Stuart Heritage

Fact: every conversation about Eurovision in recent years will have included the phrase “Oh, but it’s so political these days” at least 500 times.

That’s because it’s true. The Eurovision Song Contest has got so political these days. The proof? The UK hasn’t won Eurovision for over a decade, regardless of whether we’ve entered a rubbish holiday camp cabaret act or a hamfisted reality TV show runner-up. It’s a flipping disgrace.

But Eurovision won’t be political for much longer, because Eurovision bigwigs are bringing back national juries in a bid to end the tactical voting that’s destroyed the contest’s credibility in recent years. At last! Now when the UK comes last at next year’sEurovision we’ll know for certain that it was because our entry was genuinely awful and not because everyone’s quite scared of Vladimir Putin.

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All Crying, Self-Harming Emo Children To Be Banned In Mother Russia

by Matthew Laidlow

Being a child is really annoying isn’t it? You’re not quite old enough to go out and enter the big wide world.

Instead, mummy still plops you in the shopping trolley at Asda, gives you a bib at feeding time and still tucks you in at night to make sure the monsters don’t attack you.

However, when you reach the age of thirteen/fourteen something magically happens! Young girls and boys develop a mini sense of direction. Granted, they’re only copying what they see on the TV and need their parents to buy all the essential clobber for them, but they are independent, cool and part of a movement. Over the years the most popular fad has been Emo. Dressing in black and looking like a box of pins has exploded in their faces, they’ve worried councillors, coffin-dodgers and corner shop owners. It’s not just the UK that has this problem, it’s Russia too and, in a strange move, the country wants to ban Emo culture.

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Eurovision Betting Odds: Dima Bilan, Russia

by Stuart Heritage

A new week means a new flurry of Eurovision betting odds. And nothing else. It just means the Eurovision thing.

And with Eurovision now less than a fortnight away, it’s time to kick off some official Eurovision festivities, like today’s Serbian Royal Eurovision welcome party held in Belgrade’s White Palace, where one Eurovision contestant will be chosen at random and fed to the dogs as an example of the family’s all-consuming power. Fingers crossed it’s the Estonians.

Here are the Eurovision betting odds for Russia, with help from Paddy Power…

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