mipeltaja | (no subject)

This is not happening.

This is NOT happening.

This is not happening.

At this very moment, Finland is in the lead in the votes of Eurovision song contest.
Now, for those of you who have no idea of the significance of this: Finland has never ranked higher than 6th. Someone once said that the day Finland wins that contest, Hell is going to freeze over.

Yeah, someone call the Devil, I think he's in need of a extra blanket or two right about now.

Even if we don't win, we already have way more points than we've ever had before.

I just had to make an entry, because none of us Finns expected anything like this. We expected to do better than usual, sure, but to do this well... really now.

In case anyone is interested, this is the song and the band we sent out there this year.

ETA: OMGWTFBBQ THEY WON! WE WON! FINLAND ACTUALLY WON! THIS CANNOT BE FOR REAL, FINLAND ISN'T SUPPOSED TO WIN THAT CONTEST! UNBELIEVABLE!

*ahem* sorry for the capslock of doom there, but this'll take a few moments to sink in. Someone tell me it didn't really happen. We can't afford to host the contest next year! Ok, we can, but we really can't.

I- I just... I'll go to sleep and see if the world has righted itself by the time I wake up.

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Congratulations! I assume this is a first for Finland? ;)

Yup. It'd gotten to the point where people would promise to do stupid things if Finland won. I've already heard several stories of people who actually did what they said they'd do. My own mother bought a shirt from the band's website to be worn at work (she's a dentist). I was the one who made her make that promise, too.