I love the world for its inherent humour. So does Alfred, who recently mocked English students failing to understand the words “despotic tyranny” for their history A-level exam. These students have started up a Facebook group ("'Despotic Tyranny' ruined my life") where they whine about this. Of course, Corrupt was there.

Among all the hilarity one could pull out, I like what Kirsty Marion Wallace-Herbert wrote:

Kirsty Marion Wallace-Herbert (Farnborough Sixth Form College) wrote
at 16:52 yesterday
basicallyyyyyyyy anyone with half a brain cell should have known what despotic tyranny meant. the exam was good. go read the dictionary.

Paris Hart (Havering Sixth Form College) wrote
at 17:09 yesterday
you read the dictionary? go get a life :)
i would recommend reading a thesauras though, because we've heard those words a million times.

Kayleigh Smirk (Barton Peveril) wrote
at 03:03
Kirsty, you're the one demonstrating being an immature childish twat by commenting on a page that
A) so many have done before
and
B) joining a group just to bash the people in it
How much of a loser are you? lolz

Wait, so the reply is essentially "WUT, U POINT OUT OUR FAULTZ, ELITIST"? Impressive, even for English students. More from the UK Commentators blog:

...in our wider reading which I assure you myself and other students at my sixth form completed, the focus was not on Hitler as a despot but on how the system of government impacted everyday life and how it operated.

How much imagination does it take to apply your knowledge of "how the system of government impacted everyday life and how it operated" to "Hitler as a despot"? Apparently, too much. No great authors or philosophers from this generation of students, either. Oh well, life goes on, and we all get a laugh from those who haven't figured this out.

A story beautiful enough to cry over for those who are sentimental about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

With alto voices blending in rich harmony, Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad trade verses in Hebrew and Arabic and then end in the refrain, "There must be another way."

Dressed in black, Israel's entry in the annual Eurovision song contest struck a note of peacnik earnestness Tuesday night at the annual American Idol-style pageant that prizes kitschy pop and stage shows heavy with pyrotechnics.

"The most politically correct act of the contest," declared the television host, who announced the Arab-Jewish singing duo had advanced to the final round Saturday night.

What you can't achieve in reality, you can pretend to realize through public appearance. It's like a bad political soap opera accompanied with bad music--the perfect symbol of modern European culture. I can't say I'm impressed. The Georgians, on the other hand, realize it's all farce, so they decided to troll the stage:

In an act of disco defiance, Georgia has chosen a song that mocks Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, as its entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.

We Don’t Wanna Put In includes a play on the leader’s surname in a Seventies-style performance that is unlikely to get Russian organisers of the contest dancing in the aisles. The cheesy disco number, sung in English by Stephane and 3G, has the chorus:

“We don’t wanna put in
The negative move
It’s killin’ the groove.”

It goes on to urge: “You better change your perspective.”

Of course, this did not go down well with the Eurovision judges, who decided to pull the plug on the fun with the following motivation:

The disco-funk song, We Don't Wanna Put In, appears to poke fun at Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

However, it is against the competition's rules to allow political content in entries.

A contest spokesman said: "No lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature shall be permitted."

But a symbolic unity of an Arab and a Jew singing "there must be another way" is of course perfectly alright, since it's line with progressive dogma. Foul Georgians, just out to cause trouble! On the musical side of things, it was surprising to see how traditional many of the songs were, most notably Sweden's pop-opera hit by Malena Ernman and the Scandinavian-styled folk dance beat performed by Alexander Rybak.