I'm glad the popular vote reflected the jury vote as far as the winner was concerned, but there was a massive change in the runners up. Nice speech from the winner about disposable music too.
Graham Norton was pretty good. On BBC Radio 2, Scotland's own version of the much missed TW, Ken Bruce, was quite cutting and dry humoured too. I was returning home from a job and I had him on the car radio. It was probably his commentary that got me interested. That, and the fact that most of the songs weren't totally awful. Amazed that UK came 15th. That song was far, far better than that. Norton said there was no hint of Brexit chat in the run-up, but I bet it had a bearing, even if a small one. Europe is definitely not happy with the UK at present. Understandably so, since half the UK isn't happy with the other half either.
No that's closed now. Place on Trafalgar Street. These ones (except they're £1.50 in the shop) http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/17156912830...71&_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_mwBanner=1 Really odd guy came in whilst I was there and bought a box of something for £25. Asked the shop owner (who's a lovely guy) what it was - basically they are tiny chilli crystals - hottest chilli in the world (Carolina Reaper) is 2.2m on Scoville scale. These crystals were 16 MILLION!! Basically some drug users like to get them as they can cause hallucinations and apparently if you can bear it (you just put a drop of the oil or one of the crystals on your tongue) it's a mighty aphrodisiac.
Just looked at the BAFTA results. The winner of the Must See award was the moment when the snakes chased the baby iguanas in Planet Earth II. That was a scene that would have you climbing over the back of your sofa to get away....thousands of Running Snakes* appearing from nowhere. You couldn't help yourself from yelling, Run, babies, run. *Who even knew there were such things as Running Snakes? Stuff of nightmares. Wasn't up for an award, but if there was an award for amusing Must See....it would be in the programme about our monkey and ape relatives. The scene where capuchin monkeys are climbing a minaret to dive into a pool below for fun. A young monkey climbs to the top for the first time, looks down and changes his mind, so is holding up the queue. He tries to back away....when two little monkey hands appear from off camera and shove him in the back. Not the tidiest belly flop you will ever see....but the little chap made it.
Capuchin monkeys famously carry out an activity that you wouldn't expect of an animal: "A study at Yale–New Haven Hospital trains capuchin monkeys to use silver discs as money in order to study their economic behavior. The discs could be exchanged by the monkeys for various treats. During one chaotic incident, a researcher observed what appeared to be a monkey exchanging a disc for sex. The monkey that was paid for sex immediately traded the silver disc for a grape." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals#Capuchin_monkeys Vin
Well no regrets there. Just a shame he never revealed where the body of one of his victims was buried.
