Oh boy, this year the UK is—surreally—entering Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer, as their contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@cstross @aadeacon hopefully not, since Lordi turned out to be racists

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@cstross @aadeacon (I was so mad to find this out, they were my favourite act of all time. Hatari have now taken that spot.)

[stumpythemutt@social.linux.pizza]

@cstross The same Sam Battle who now has an old Rolls Royce tank engine and ideas about transplanting it into a Mini!

[floheinstein@chaos.social]

@gsuberland @cstross @aadeacon wait, what? When was that? Missed that completely!

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@FlohEinstein @cstross @aadeacon yeah, the lead singer said some really gross stuff a few years back. I was supremely disappointed.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@cstross wait seriously? He's a amazing we need to support this mission!

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@dubiousblur @cstross what are they disappointed by?

[jaseg@chaos.social]

@gsuberland tbh hatari is an excellent first place to replace them

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jaseg they're great. I had tickets to go see them a while back, but unfortunately the gig got cancelled 'cos of the pandemic.

[slowtiger@berlin.social]

@woe2you @cstross
+1.

[markdennehy@mastodon.ie]

@cstross Pffffffft. "Surreal". Come back to me when you enter a puppet turkey with a Dublin city accent.

https://eurosong-contest.fandom.com/wiki/Dustin_the_Turkey

https://www.eurovision.com/eurovision-song-contest/belgrade-2008/all-participants/dustin-the-turkey/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFz6koIIWE

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@dubiousblur @cstross ah thats fair, yeah I guess that would be the other option. Tho they are still trying to be a celebrity or something so I could see the the opportunity being hard to turn down