I Am A Swede

Yeah, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought stability to Europe! Just a few weeks ago joining NATO was not even discussed here, but after Russia's attack on Ukraine public opinion has turned. And statements like this will only boost the numbers in favour of us joining.

This is so very true! 👏

I'm gonna surprise myself (and probably everyone else as well) by saying something complimentary about a story featuring a Dingle! I think the story about Marlon's stroke is the best thing about Emmerdale right now. It's the kind of human stories I wish they would do more of, instead of the shenanigans and various farfetched criminal stories they usually put so much focus on. And it's part of why I so desperately want them to get rid of the Dingles. They're so unlikeable that doing stories like this with a Dingle more often than not fall completely flat for me because I can't muster any sympathy for any of them.

R.I.P. As the World Turns is one of the few long-running soaps that, to my knowledge, never aired here in Sweden, so I'm not all that familiar with it. But it's always sad when a legend leave us, and from everything I've learned about ATWT and Ms Hays she really lived up to that often over-used label.

Bruce Willis: Razzies cancel 'worst performance' award over health issues

I think this was such a shocking incident that people are having trouble sorting out their feelings about it and what the consequences should be. I don't recall something even remotely like this ever happening before.

Absolutely if. As you say, there have been conflicting reports on that subject. As for the other things you mentioned.... Woody Allen is a tricky one. He's never been, as far as I recall, convicted of anything, has he? One can discuss his relationship with Soon-Yi and how appropriate it is, but questionable behaviour is one thing, and illegal behaviour is another. Mere allegations shouldn't be enough, especially when they're as contested as the allegations towards him are, otherwise we're on a very dangerous path. Harvey Weinstein's behaviour was apparently an open secret in Hollywood and noone did anything about it. But when it came out into the light the Academy did expel him. Too little too late some might say, and that's unquestionably true, but they did react however late. Roman Polanski.... well, there's no excuse for that. You could drag up the old separate the art from the artist, but whichever way you put it the Academy (and most of Hollywood) honoured and rewarded a rapist and a fugitive from the law. I can't and won't ever condone or support that. Adrien Brody..... I can see how that could be seen as a sexual assault (although maybe assault sounds a little too harsh) and I wouldn't have blamed Halle if she had been upset. I would perhaps be willing to view that with a little more lenience though, since winning an Academy Award is undoubtedly a highly emotional moment and sometimes people do things when they're in such an emotional state they would never normally do.

If he was asked to leave and refused then they should have had him removed. It could have caused more mayhem, but letting him stay set a dangerous precedent.

Gee, what a surprise.....