the what have you wasted time on today thread

[Marmalade]

The 2022 Eurovision song External Link/Members Only has everyone on the edge of their seats trying to avoid it. But what are the chances of any totty?

⦿ Ukraine should win anyway even though they have fucking dire song:
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If only they had entered their military song it would have been a deserved win:
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The ⦿Austrian fem, Pia Mia, looks hot though in a dirty sort of way (if you don't mind her nose ring) External Link/Members Only
Closest competition must be ⦿Spain, where it is apparently still acceptable for a woman to feel sexy. Chanel Terrero, External Link/Members Only nice (in a Shakira sort of way)

Also rans
⦿Serbia sounds quite quirky with a song that slags off Meggy Markle (gone viral)
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⦿The Cyprus chick could be voted sexiest if she could be persuaded to wear a see-through top. External Link/Members Only
⦿Albania -- nice thighs once she gets going External Link/Members Only
The Greece girl is attractive in a homely sort of way though her song about dying together will be a bit too cheery for some people. External Link/Members Only Nice for committing suicide?
⦿Croatia nice looker dunno what she'd be like as a shag External Link/Members Only
ditto Czech Repub External Link/Members Only
⦿Denmark, girl band with an awful song  External Link/Members Only
⦿Finland slightly better, weird goth chick-fronted band External Link/Members Only
⦿Malta gold-suited blonde predictably boring External Link/Members Only
⦿San Marino has one for the gayboyAC-DC look External Link/Members Only
⦿Bulgaria -- rock band, music video has a girl stalking herself through the woods 

U.K. seems assured of its treasured place near the bottom of the heap place from a macho looking guy with a girly voice in space and a beard. (Though I expect it would be bottom whatever was sung). External Link/Members Only (External Link/Members Only's also up with the fairies in space in a hopeless entry IMO although they may send a MILF instead External Link/Members Only)


⦿Bosnia and Herzegovina have been ruled out for not paying and ⦿Russia disqualified as no-one likes them at the moment lol.

I think the Austrian girl maybe wins. 

[mr.bluesky]

I can quite categorically say I will not be wasting 3 hours + of my life watching that garbage especially as you know that the UK entry will finish last and looking at the links you posted it doesn't seem as though I'll be missing much. ( although the Cyprus lady does look reasonable)

[Thephoenix]

I used to enjoy it in the 50's/60's/70's before the voting became too political and before it's become so kitsch and part of LGBT culture.

The original concept was good in trying to encourage cooperation between European countries after the war, and originally there were only a handful of countries competing compared to the current 40 or so.

There's no way I could sit through the whole thing, but I still record it and fast forward most of it.
I might watch the first few seconds of a song to see if it's any good, otherwise its x64.
Plus it has to be said there's plenty of gorgeous young women to look at.

Over the years, Ireland have produced some decent songs and won the competition 7 times, and watching some of the acts appearing in recent years, it's hard to imagine the days when the competition was taken more seriously with the likes of Abba, Celine Dion, Julio Inglesias, Enya, Michael Ball, Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton John performing.

[standardpostage]

Watching a film on Netflix that was very, very average.

[radioman33]

Terry Wogan made it interesting with his banter on the voting.

[Colston36]

Every day I waste time reading:

1. UKP repeatedly when once is enough

2. Fetlife when I know there's nothing there for me

3. Local news when I know it's mostly depressing

4. Quora when I know it's full of the views of morons

5. Watching kids on electronic scooters wearing no legally required helmets

6. Watching police cars driving around and wondering why

a) They solve hardly any crimes

b) Why they don't make the kids wear helmets

[Squire Haggard]

Its been an unusually very very wasted day for me today. I'm going out for a walk now. 

[Bikerman]

My  day is wasted when i havent wound up orvupset anyone.....

[Stevelondon]

Went out this morning...spot of business to attend too.
Thought I might just check AW and see if anyone available in the Kingston Area.
Called three numbers....no answer even though green flag.
No return texts from any.
Gave up.


As I seem to find it more and more difficult to arrange anything these days. I've thought about maybe just wanking with different hands. Then maybe the next day a wooly mitten. Moving on to weekends where it may be a latex glove.
Variety an all that. 

[Bertiebeenthere]

My  day is wasted when i havent wound up orvupset anyone.....

You haven't wasted today then

[chrishornx]

My  day is wasted when i havent wound up orvupset anyone.....

  you have very full days

but reading OP's ramblings about the Eurovisions was five minutes of lost time never to be recovered

[Dave33ws6]

Watching a bunch of kids running around a restaurant screaming there heads off and their parents/guardians don't give a toss about it

[Colston36]

Watching a bunch of kids running around a restaurant screaming there heads off and their parents/guardians don't give a toss about it

Strange how attitudes have changed. My mother once slapped me across the face for bad table manners. I survived this now illegal practice.

[Dave33ws6]

Strange how attitudes have changed. My mother once slapped me across the face for bad table manners. I survived this now illegal practice.

It's like it most times I go out. I'll be buying ear plugs at this rate

[Marmalade]

It's like it most times I go out. I'll be buying ear plugs at this rate

Would you say it improved your table manners?

I think the answer is self-explanatory. Young children learn quickly from swift, mild physical punishment delivered by an authority figure. It gives them rules. They know where they stand and that’s something they do actually like. Boys especially.

There used to be a day undoubtedly when punishments were too harsh, mostly by parents who hadn’t a clue or evil establishments like the Magdalene Sisters.

All the best schools had caning as a last resort. It wasn’t done sadistically nor often. Abuses were stamped out in any decent places.

But most decent parents and teachers of reasonable intelligence know when it’s needed: a telling off, a mild slap, or even bending the lad over and firmly slapping his bum. Mine did (teachers and parents). The day physical punishment was banned in schools was the day teachers became afraid of their students.

Although physical abuse — or anything even slightly resembling it — has been banned. Mental abuse in terms of religious indoctrination is still commonplace, both in catholic schools (though they get good grades) and Muslim schools (which don’t). Young children are quite capable of inventing their own imaginary friends without adults forcing theirs on them, and most grow out of. But the effects of such mental abuse can persist into adulthood, and often does.

A moral code is urgently needed to nurture children through their formative years. One based on logical parameters — doing good, respecting autonomy (one’s own and that of others), avoiding harm, and a sense of justice for everybody — one that includes a respect for the law but over and above that, becomes the decent backbone of integrity as each individual reaches adulthood.

[Colston36]

Would you say it improved your table manners?

I think the answer is self-explanatory. Young children learn quickly from swift, mild physical punishment delivered by an authority figure. It gives them rules. They know where they stand and that’s something they do actually like. Boys especially.

There used to be a day undoubtedly when punishments were too harsh, mostly by parents who hadn’t a clue or evil establishments like the Magdalene Sisters.

All the best schools had caning as a last resort. It wasn’t done sadistically nor often. Abuses were stamped out in any decent places.

But most decent parents and teachers of reasonable intelligence know when it’s needed: a telling off, a mild slap, or even bending the lad over and firmly slapping his bum. Mine did (teachers and parents). The day physical punishment was banned in schools was the day teachers became afraid of their students.

Although physical abuse — or anything even slightly resembling it — has been banned. Mental abuse in terms of religious indoctrination is still commonplace, both in catholic schools (though they get good grades) and Muslim schools (which don’t). Young children are quite capable of inventing their own imaginary friends without adults forcing theirs on them, and most grow out of. But the effects of such mental abuse can persist into adulthood, and often does.

A moral code is urgently needed to nurture children through their formative years. One based on logical parameters — doing good, respecting autonomy (one’s own and that of others), avoiding harm, and a sense of justice for everybody — one that includes a respect for the law but over and above that, becomes the decent backbone of integrity as each individual reaches adulthood.

If it is me you're asking, yes. She was very particular about such things. This is a good 75 years ago but I still recall there was a correct way to hold and use your fork or even to use your spoon to eat soup versus pudding. There were many things that mattered then - like never saying me and my wife, always the other way round.

Many things have improved in my lifetime (85 years) some but not all for the  better.

Your comments about corporal punishment amused me. I was first subjected to that when 9 years old, at boarding school. At my next school I had the record for canings. Contrary to what is claimed, it didn't give me taste for extreme masochism, though I think I've tried most other esoteric practices.

Nor did I resent my mother's strictness. We were extremely close till the day she died; her last words were with me at her side.

[shed]

Strange how attitudes have changed. My mother once slapped me across the face for bad table manners. I survived this now illegal practice.

Remember it well both at home and school.

[Thephoenix]

Table manners were adhered to strictly as a child, even when rationing and low income often meant simple repetitive
meals.
School dinner ladies were just as strict.
Never mind about heading footballs causing dementia, what about all those slaps on the back of the head?

At home egg and chips  or rabbit pie was  the staple diet, but whatever it was, we were expected to finish the meal and then ask politely if we could please leave the table.

One of my Aunties was particularly strict about that and I remember one occasion when I visited my cousin.
We'd both finished and she was out of earshot, so we waited for quite a while unsure what to do, and with my cousin dying for a wee. Eventually he plucked enough courage to go and find her scrubbing the front step to ask if we could please leave the table.

[willie loman]

Would you say it improved your table manners?

I think the answer is self-explanatory. Young children learn quickly from swift, mild physical punishment delivered by an authority figure. It gives them rules. They know where they stand and that’s something they do actually like. Boys especially.

There used to be a day undoubtedly when punishments were too harsh, mostly by parents who hadn’t a clue or evil establishments like the Magdalene Sisters.

All the best schools had caning as a last resort. It wasn’t done sadistically nor often. Abuses were stamped out in any decent places.

But most decent parents and teachers of reasonable intelligence know when it’s needed: a telling off, a mild slap, or even bending the lad over and firmly slapping his bum. Mine did (teachers and parents). The day physical punishment was banned in schools was the day teachers became afraid of their students.

Although physical abuse — or anything even slightly resembling it — has been banned. Mental abuse in terms of religious indoctrination is still commonplace, both in catholic schools (though they get good grades) and Muslim schools (which don’t). Young children are quite capable of inventing their own imaginary friends without adults forcing theirs on them, and most grow out of. But the effects of such mental abuse can persist into adulthood, and often does.

A moral code is urgently needed to nurture children through their formative years. One based on logical parameters — doing good, respecting autonomy (one’s own and that of others), avoiding harm, and a sense of justice for everybody — one that includes a respect for the law but over and above that, becomes the decent backbone of integrity as each individual reaches adulthood.

what catholic schools get good grades? i think there are 2 private catholic schools in scotland, the others closed as the children never passed any exams, i am 64 beatings were savage in my youth for frivolous offenses from the age of 8, with belt and cane on hands and bare buttocks, and finally the idea that outlawing the belt made teachers frightened of their pupils?  apart from those minor quibbles, i am sure the rest of your post is the result of mature reflection.

[Marmalade]

You forgot the bit where they knocked your brains out Wullie. Out of respect for the elderly I sometimes refrain from answering those posts of yours when my nose detects beautifully composed, undiluted ka-ka.
 

[willie loman]

You forgot the bit where they knocked your brains out Wullie. Out of respect for the elderly I sometimes refrain from answering those posts of yours when my nose detects beautifully composed, undiluted ka-ka.
 

fair enough, my school featured in documentaries and court cases.