I Am A Swede

After reading The Politics Thread I just had to listen to this timeless favourite....

It sounds unbelievable that someone would deliberately play bad at a tournament like Wimbledon!

It's more than disgusting. It's frightening. How can you reason with someone who just doesn't care about truth and/or facts? It's virtually impossible.

^^ Wow, that is some serious height difference.....

Sharapova might as well call it quits. She will, in all likelihood, never achieve the same success again that she once did.

This is so ridiculously cheesy, but I still love it....

Sadly I don't think you're alone. It feels like this is the situation all over the world. I hardly watch the news anymore because they're so depressing. I'd rather live in a little bubble now and then just to keep my sanity and retain some hope for the future.....

This is nothing new at Wimbledon, and he knows that.

I'm always thrilled when corrupt regimes try to intervene in elections and fail miserably, like they did in Turkey now. In March, the opposition candidate won the mayoral election in Istanbul, but president Erdogan's party AKP contested the result and a court ordered that the election had to be re-taken. Now the opposition candidate won again, and increased his winning margin from 13,000 votes to 775,000 votes! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48739256 Take that Erdogan!

Author Judith Krantz, author of books like "Scruples", "Princess Daisy" and "Mistral's Daughter", has died aged 91 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-7173043/Steamy-romance-novelist-Judith-Krantz-dies-91.html An author much in the same vein as Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon, the first thing that comes to mind for me is this song by Nana Mouskouri which served as the theme for the mini-series based on "Mistral's Daughter"