Comments on: Sign a petition for a "guilt-free Eurovision" -- keep the pressure up on Azerbaijan http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 20:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: sigdrifa http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434810 sigdrifa Sat, 26 May 2012 20:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434810 I'm not sure that the people who care about this kind of entertainment would actually give a flying F about politics... I’m not sure that the people who care about this kind of entertainment would actually give a flying F about politics…

]]> By: bjacques http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434752 bjacques Sat, 26 May 2012 18:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434752 I signed too. Vote for Jamal Ali and his band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZ4THHceik Oh, wait. He's had to flee the country to avoid being murdered and one of his bandmates was impressed into the army where he'll likely "accidentally" die in a live-fire exercise. I signed too. Vote for Jamal Ali and his band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZ4THHceik

Oh, wait. He’s had to flee the country to avoid being murdered and one of his bandmates was impressed into the army where he’ll likely “accidentally” die in a live-fire exercise.

]]> By: Jasmina Tesanovic http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434599 Jasmina Tesanovic Sat, 26 May 2012 15:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434599 thanks cory, i signed  and spread, it's a shameful business, we serbs have a fair share of denial in that issue thanks cory, i signed  and spread, it’s a shameful business, we serbs have a fair share of denial in that issue

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434483 niktemadur Sat, 26 May 2012 09:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434483 And I've got just the title for it! "Earworm". And I’ve got just the title for it!
“Earworm”.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434426 Antinous / Moderator Sat, 26 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434426 It's basically a contagious curse that Stephen King would use as the basis for one of his novels. It’s basically a contagious curse that Stephen King would use as the basis for one of his novels.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434409 niktemadur Sat, 26 May 2012 06:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434409 Oh, so that's how Eurovision works, the winner gets to host the following year's contest.  I did not know that, my bad. But still, special circumstances, "After careful consideration, Eurovision executives have announced that, due to government policies which they believe do NOT reflect the values we strive for in a European community of nations, Azerbaijan will NOT host this year's contest, and the event will instead be held in the second place country".  Or something along those lines. Oh, so that’s how Eurovision works, the winner gets to host the following year’s contest.  I did not know that, my bad.

But still, special circumstances, “After careful consideration, Eurovision executives have announced that, due to government policies which they believe do NOT reflect the values we strive for in a European community of nations, Azerbaijan will NOT host this year’s contest, and the event will instead be held in the second place country”.  Or something along those lines.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434126 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 25 May 2012 23:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434126 Rumor has it that Spain told their contestant not to win so that they don't have to host it next time. Rumor has it that Spain told their contestant not to win so that they don’t have to host it next time.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1434119 niktemadur Fri, 25 May 2012 23:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1434119 If you want to create a stir in Azerbaijan, yank any and all Eurovision tapings from the country, the kind of bread and circus that, when it goes away, can make a government feel a bit of a squeeze.  So if the Eurovision CEOs (or whatever they are) are tacit accomplices in a dictatorship, any and all boycott letters should be addressed to them. Because as things stand, this petition is toothless, I have no idea what it can accomplish. If you want to create a stir in Azerbaijan, yank any and all Eurovision tapings from the country, the kind of bread and circus that, when it goes away, can make a government feel a bit of a squeeze.  So if the Eurovision CEOs (or whatever they are) are tacit accomplices in a dictatorship, any and all boycott letters should be addressed to them.

Because as things stand, this petition is toothless, I have no idea what it can accomplish.

]]> By: moz moz http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/sign-a-petition-for-a-guilt.html#comment-1433662 moz moz Fri, 25 May 2012 16:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=163023#comment-1433662 If this guy is as bad as you say he is, why would he be intimidated by an internet petition?  If this guy is as bad as you say he is, why would he be intimidated by an internet petition? 

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