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Unsure of what will happen but let's hope Saint Agnes got through ^^

(some of the songs Juranamo posted at the top are also good, just that such a large proportion of my standouts so far are at the other end x)

ladies and gentlemen, an odds list that I'd love to see upside down has landed 😶‍🌫️

Great countdown Paddington, enjoyed reading along and following, a very nostalgic time for me. Though many of these #1s aren't the best, but that seems to be a trend from around this time. 'Someone Like You' is very much not a song for me, I don't quite get the same feelings many do from it, but I can see why someone might and how it became so beloved and it's certainly got a good sense of quality throughout it - much preferred 'Rolling With The Deep', though can definitely understand it topping this list. 'We Found Love' a great runner-up, it's not quite a perfect song for me (actually completely agree with you re: Rihanna rankings, it's a little less essential than her best) but as a dancefloor anthem, it and 'On The Floor' are about the best of what was making it to the top in 2011 and those I'm very happy to see in the top 5. My ranking, I think 'Promises' is the main one I was excited to see at #1, though Nicole close behind and the big cultural moments from this year, We Found Love, On The Floor, What Makes You Beautiful, just beyond that, lemme try to give out of 10 ratings here: (9/10) 1. Promises 2. Don’t Hold Your Breath 3. We Found Love 4. On The Floor (8/10) 5. What’s My Name 6. What Makes You Beautiful 7. Give Me Everything (7/10) 8. Grenade 9. Louder 10. Read All About It 11. Someone Like You 12. Party Rock Anthem 13. Changed The Way You Kissed Me 14. Wherever You Are 15. Cannonball (6/10) 16. Loca People 17. Glad You Came 18. Price Tag 19. No Regrets (5/10) 20. Heart Skips a Beat 21. Stay Awake 22. We R Who We R 23. Swagger Jagger 24. Don’t Go (4/10) 25. When We Collide 26. She Makes Me Wanna (3/10) 27. Dance With Me Tonight 28. All About Tonight (despise both of these tonight songs oops x) 29. The Lazy Song (1/10) 30. Don’t Wanna Go Home 31. Wishing On a Star 'Dirty Talk' and 'Sweat' from the Aussie 2011 #1s would have been much better than half of these! Good list of 2011 faves also, Cheers, Saxobeat, the Claire Maguire songs, very nice picks.

Real interesting how the police narrative has evolved with the public on this case, first no announcement of murder, then it's a murder, then we have the guy, oh but no it's the wrong guy, now it's this other guy who drove from Yorkshire to murder her, only now he's been rearrested instead on commission of terrorism and the investigation has been taken over by the counter terrorism unit, and we'll see what they find out. Natural of course, but certainly an interesting one to follow and it thankfully seems like there's a lot riding on getting a conclusion to this, can't be having political figures murdered like this.

voted, several very interesting songs in semi 1

Saint Agnes - The Father, The Son And The Holy Beast Industrial punk band Saint Agnes caught my attention with their new album Your God-Fearing Days Are About To Begin, after a few listens of that, I decided to send the track that contains the title line, 'The Father, The Son And The Holy Beast', which epic title aside is an excellent punk tune and a very worthy representative of being my 150th entry as I continue from Worldvision in my slightly harder-edged mood.

Motionless In White - Afraid Of The Dark I should get into the habit of including spinoff entries here, because this metalcore banger from veteran band Motionless In White deserves it, having drawn the American straw in the Worldvision contest, I turned to one of America's best alternative scenes and got a nice 16th spinoff place out of it.

8485 - I Feel Fantastic 8485 for BJSC 185, great synth-heavy electronic song, finished in 24th at the end.

miki - ça pik un peu quand même Also known sometimes by its English title 'It stings a little though', 184 we chose to send this French alt-pop tune and got rewarded with a very good 13th place, the second time we got 13th place this year, making our year with 3/4 top 20s as of 184.

must catch up with my thread: The Warning - Kerosene Our entry for BJSC 183, an fiery (as you can see in the video) piece of Mexican rock, got us a great result in 17th.

I know the WC has been expanded, but 2 semis in the 20th century, '66 and '90, and then two semis in what we have done of the 21st, within 8 years of each other, it's an actual incredible improvement. Whether we win or not, we've been legitimately muscling our way into the top-tier teams over the last decade (as opposed to, in the anti-England narratives, a second-tier team that got lucky once) and it's wonderful to see.

Argentina vs England, which hasn't happened for over 20 years, would be a proper fucking showdown of a match if it happens.

What a match. Sad for Norway but as long as Haaland is around they'll be a threat, hope to see them at future tournaments. We're gonna start believing now aren't we (yay)

Fantastic match from both, well done Noskova! Women’s matches that I’ve seen this year have been real good.

What an insane second set, I always dream of seeing these sorts of comebacks, gwon Muchova. That said, either would be a great champion.

Seeing as Burnham has gotten enough nominations to guarantee that he will be PM in 9 days, I figured it was about time to start the Labour government thread that we will use for his tenure atop the Labour Party. (the number is 322 out of 403, so mathematically one short of a guarantee, but with 3 Labour MPs in positions who cannot vote, deputy speaker, PLP chair and party chair, it is guaranteed and would be anyway with these levels of overwhelming support and no other declared candidates) Current first days of Burnham in No. 10 reported as such: The i PaperBurnham to target energy bills, bus fares and student loa...Incoming prime minister is said to be holding consultations to introduce measures to immediately ease the cost of living (full text found in the comments section of this reddit thread) https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1ustuk1/burnham_to_target_energy_bills_bus_fares_and/

True but in practice definitely not as high profile as she once was, I wager most promoted Reform views on those subjects in the last few years have come from another Reform figure.

Bloody hell. You would hope it’s not politically motivated; she was for all intents and purposes retired - maybe still did some media here and there but not a frontline figure for Reform despite being a well known Tory defector

Great start to the top 5, I think 'Don't Hold Your Breath' is a phenomenal pop song that I was well behind at the time as I was very much into the pop sound around then, hit the spot very nicely following up 'Poison'.

Djoko’s fine, a bit predictable him winning but fine for his tennis skill and occasionally funny off the court This Gauff Muchova match turning out quite the nice fight

I don't think I've thought much about Belarusian entries since they left but I think 'Story Of My Life' is my favourite, followed by 'Butterflies', I think they did that folky, somewhat sincere, stuff really well, and many of their other entries were completely forgettable generic attempts at whatever they were trying, with 'Work Your Magic' the exception, except I just don't like how he sings very much so it doesn't land as much as I'd like. 'I Love Belarus' and 'Eyes That Never Lie' are two other moments where they stood out a bit more though in a good way, good top 2!

Nah Argentina were disastrous for most of that, they let in 2 counterattack goals in the second half, one disallowed for a soft VAR foul in the buildup. They switched on sure but they can’t keep doing this and someone will surely find them out soon. Of course the third of their goals had a similar foul in its buildup but nothing happened. So perhaps official bias will keep them through. Can’t tell me Egypt wasn’t robbed here

Utter nonsense end to this match

vargentina can’t get out of this one