I Am A Swede

A film version is coming!

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44822420

Damn!  

Finally! Now if we could only get rid of Nadal too..... 

Some chart history from Sweden. Here are the #1 singles the first week of July 40 years ago (1978), 30 years ago (1988), 20 years ago (1998), 10 years ago (2008) and the current #1

1978:

1988:

1998:

2008:

2018:

I love the old Coronation Street theme too. It has the same wistful, nostalgic qualities as the old Emmerdale Farm theme.  

This is, without a doubt, my all-time favourite, both visually and musically. The nostalgic, longing music and the beautiful English countryside seen through a golden mist..... 

20 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Women’s Round of 16 matches set:

 

Hsieh vs Cibulkova 

Ostapenko vs Sasnovich 

Van Uytvanck vs Kasatkina 

Kerber vs Bencic

 

Pliskova vs Bertens

Goerges vs Vekic

Serena vs Rodina

Giorgi vs Makarova

That's less like a Who's Who and more like a Who's That?  

Giant Trump baby to fly over London during his visit!  

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44732754

Oh, how I wish Hillary would have been president instead of the A**hole otherwise known as Trump.

I realize that she has her faults as well, but compared to T she's practically flawless.

I know I would breathe easier with her in the White House than I do now.....

^^

Please do.  

I know that I complain a lot about the show nowadays, but I do still care about it. It's really the only current tv-show I still follow (In spite of all the Dingles. )

This day (29th of June 2018) is the 40th anniversary of the wedding between Matt and Dolly. To celebrate, here's that wonderful episode, including all the cherished characters from back then with the added bonus of the great Aunt Jessie!  

Emmerdale is awful right now. Absolutely awful!

I can't buy into Laurel and Bob, because I don't believe for a moment that they love each other.

I hate what theyr're doing to Doug and Diane,  just to get Doug and Brenda to hook up!

And don't even get me started on how the writers have thrown subtlety completely out the window and are sweating bullets in their relentless efforts to rehabilitate and redeem Debbie.... 

I don't know if it works on others but all it does for me is making me resent that vicious little cow more than ever. I hate that bitch with the fire of a thousand suns!  

On 2018-06-19 at 3:18 PM, DRW50 said:

@I Am A Swede I can't remember if I mentioned this to you before but there's an Emmerdale group on Facebook that - well it has a lot of the usual generic bitching and wankery of any group, but also has a few old time cast members who comment, and in the last few days has been putting up some '70s behind the scenes photos and publicity photos I'd never seen before.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/410762128980321/

Thanks for the tip. 

But since I'm one of those strange () people who doesn't have a facebook account I can't see much of it.

We're having some political turmoil here as well. We have a general election this year and in several polls the Swedish Democrats, a party with their roots in neo-nazism, has been the second largest party with 20%. It's frightening.

Just recently one of their top representatives, who is also the vice speaker in our parliament, said that the Sami people (our equivalent to the aborigines and native Americans) and the Jews are not Swedish. Statements like this is frighteningly similar to what the nazis said during the 30s. He has tried to back-track, but it clearly shows that despite their efforts to make themselves more mainstream, their true colours are barely hidden beneath the surface.

I can hardly believe this is happening in a supposedly civilised country in 2018. Where the hell is this world heading?!  

16 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I sincerely doubt that the U.S. would be opening and operating child concentration camps had HRC been POTUS.

There's no doubt in my mind that a lot of things would be completely different if HRC had been elected instead of the moron who currently sits in the White House.