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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2021-05-26 07:26 pm

Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 71

I feel like I should say something about the whole Dominic Cummings thing (BBC did live updates here: As it happened: Cummings says PM unfit for job), but somehow this tweet sums things up:



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And a wonderful story via wolfy_writing from... last week I think?

Washington Post: Kindergartners’ questions helped get them off hijacked school bus, driver says: ‘Enough already’

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Daily Dimash 3: The Show Must Go On

At this point (2017) he didn't speak much English at all (afaik he knew how to 'Hello I'm Dimash and 'Good luck'), so he basically had to learn the song phonetically, meaning that is his pronunciation ain't that great. But he has had lessons since and has improved massively.

As far as I am aware Queen is one of his favourite bands, and he can certainly hold his own, singing a Freddie Mercury song.



But the fans (as fans do) then did a Freddie Mercury & Dimash Kudaibergen duet edition:



Which is just a fascinating blend... I wish Dimash would sing more Queen. Oh and I completely forgot to say, but apparently Brian May called Dimash to congratulate him after this performance!

ETA: I also found a reaction! And not just that, but it's this reactor's first experience of Dimash & he's a huge Queen fan:



The technical term for the dazed & stunned look on his face is 'Dimashified'. ;)

ETA2: OK, The Charismatic Voice has a reaction for this, which I had somehow not watched! She goes into all the technicalities. Her notes:

Two of the most technically proficient male singers of all time are Freddie Mercury (lead singer of Queen) and Dimash Kudaibergen. So when Dimash does a cover of a song Queen originally performed... you have to sit-up, and listen well.



Also note how his father is in the audience, so he obviously stayed for at least a week!

And there is some Behind the Scenes stuff where he is given knee pads from his fans, because they worry about him always throwing himself down like he does here. :)



Dimash Masterpost
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[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2021-05-26 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If there's one thing that bus hijacking makes clear is that there is no way bus drivers are paid enough for what they have to put up with every day.
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[personal profile] a_phoenixdragon 2021-05-27 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh God. They tried to get Boris Johnson to make sensible lockdown decisions by doing meetings in which they asked him to pretend he was in the future.

How was this NOT in a Thick of It episode?


You mean...it's not? I could SWEAR ---

*sobs*

*HUGS*
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[personal profile] a_phoenixdragon 2021-06-02 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you can get rid of that pest! We got ours out of office, but he's still on the fringes...and he has infected the party he had inserted himself into. Not that this party had far to go to drop off that cliff...but he definitely helped. Urgh.

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[personal profile] a_phoenixdragon 2021-06-06 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
We get lucky and get to kick out our own Tories every few years...but I have noticed the trend of 'the next opposition guy is WAY worse' and we seem to do ours by huge leaps and bounds. And yes, money (for them) and not us (or just yanked out of us and foisted into their pockets) seems to be the main goal and trend here as well. Meh.
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[personal profile] a_phoenixdragon 2021-06-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Meh...technically, ours still is, too. With McConnell jamming things up as always --- we will try to enjoy Biden, if the Repubs will let us! *Sigh*