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langwidereI don’t want to talk about Christmas right now, because it was a little depressing, and right now I am ENRAGED. WHY AM I ENRAGED, YOU ASK? WELL, THIS IS WHY. I THINK YOU DONE JUST SLAPPED ALL THE CUSSWORDS RIGHT OUT MY MOUTH, THE BBC. SHIT.
Here is a physical representation of my boredom, in HTML code, with musical numbers:
(It doesn't have musical numbers.)
1. We had a Douglas Adams holiday convergence, in my long-neglected kanji cards and as I was fucking downloading a bootlegged version of the Dirk Gently pilot.
2. The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language. I guess. I am heartbroken to see that "bivouacking," "shoon," and "chthonic" were passed over, but it was nice to meet "chatoyant" and "mondegreen."
3. And this is why Sherlock will probably eventually begin to suck. WHAT A MORON.
4. Hey look, a Good Omens fanart that is not noticeably nauseating. Wow.
5. This is maybe the first intelligent-ish article about Julian Assange that I have seen online. It’s from Cracked? I mean: It’s from Cracked!
6. This is why Sarah Palin’s approval rating is down to approximately 3%, even among known imbeciles.
Lastly, many really awesome and apparently insane people visit my website!
In other news! IN OTHER NEWS, Legolas will appear in The Hobbit, which is only right and fitting given that part of the story takes place in Mirkwood, and he is the prince of that country. (Haha, I have been reading Narnia! Can you tell?) I am deeply alarmed by the fact that McKellen hasn’t signed on to be Gandalf again, however, and I will probably stampede later. All by myself. For great justice.
Please, man. Gandalf is the closest a dork will ever get to having a personal relationship with God.
You have to!
Here is a physical representation of my boredom, in HTML code, with musical numbers:
(It doesn't have musical numbers.)
1. We had a Douglas Adams holiday convergence, in my long-neglected kanji cards and as I was fucking downloading a bootlegged version of the Dirk Gently pilot.
2. The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language. I guess. I am heartbroken to see that "bivouacking," "shoon," and "chthonic" were passed over, but it was nice to meet "chatoyant" and "mondegreen."
3. And this is why Sherlock will probably eventually begin to suck. WHAT A MORON.
4. Hey look, a Good Omens fanart that is not noticeably nauseating. Wow.
5. This is maybe the first intelligent-ish article about Julian Assange that I have seen online. It’s from Cracked? I mean: It’s from Cracked!
6. This is why Sarah Palin’s approval rating is down to approximately 3%, even among known imbeciles.
Lastly, many really awesome and apparently insane people visit my website!
In other news! IN OTHER NEWS, Legolas will appear in The Hobbit, which is only right and fitting given that part of the story takes place in Mirkwood, and he is the prince of that country. (Haha, I have been reading Narnia! Can you tell?) I am deeply alarmed by the fact that McKellen hasn’t signed on to be Gandalf again, however, and I will probably stampede later. All by myself. For great justice.
Please, man. Gandalf is the closest a dork will ever get to having a personal relationship with God.
You have to!
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Date: 2010-12-30 05:33 pm (UTC)I have to pay them money to be allowed to watch TV (and not just their channels neither) or the TV police come and arrest me.
And however improbable that sounds it is actually true.
Eastenders is not worth 150 quid a year...
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Date: 2010-12-31 12:48 pm (UTC)I used to read this British guy’s blog a year or two ago, and he had posted this running account of how, when he tried to exempt himself from the fees, the local official in charge of making sure he didn’t have a teevee started harassing him and his wife. "I know you’ve got a television in there!," the man said, apparently, showing up one day at blog-guy’s doorstep. Wow!
If someone tried to tax the teevee in this country, there would be another revolution, and the streets would run red with blood. Not even kidding. (I might get in on it myself.)
Er. Is a quid the same as a pound? Because if it is, that means you’re paying $232.92 a month for the privilege of watching television, and that is insane. Even most fancy, dirty cable packages don’t cost nearly that much! This must be how Teabaggers feel all the time :[
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Date: 2010-12-31 05:54 pm (UTC)Yes, a quid is a pound.
And here is a joke.
There was this bloke and he owed some money to his mate, so the next time his mate come round he took him into the living room and there, on the settee, tucked up in a quilt watching TV, is an octopus. It's fairly obvious that the poor thing isn't well because it keeps coughing and blowing its nose on a hankie.
"There you go," says the bloke. "That's yours."
His mate looks at him in bafflement. "What the f***'s that, then?" he asks and the other bloke replies...
"It's the sick squid I owe you!"
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Date: 2011-01-01 09:51 am (UTC)We won't have a revolution here, every one would just stay in to watch it on TV...
I think that the US government could do almost anything — sell the nation’s public parks to Wal-Mart, actually line infirm people up and shoot them rather than offer them affordable health insurance, steal the clothing out of poor people’s closets and give it to rich people, completely deregulate the energy industry so that new coal plants and oil rigs are literally designed to be more damaging to the environment, rescind the First Amendment, etc. — but fuck with the teevee. Some things are sacred!
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Date: 2011-01-01 05:14 pm (UTC)And yes, everyone moans about having to pay it, but at the same time it does give the BBC a certain independence from the pressures put on TV companies by potential advertisers and the need to raise revenue.
And the BBC channels don't have adverts, so on them you get to see a whole film without anything interrupting.
Which can be a nightmare if it's a good film and you need a wee.
The Beeb is a bit like the NHS, it's some kind of holy cow that makes us British. We moan about it but if it changed too much we would moan like hell about that too.
Us British are a funny lot but we aren't half good at moaning quietly to each other about things we are never actually going to do anything about.
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Date: 2011-01-02 03:16 pm (UTC)I think the citizens of the UK will be moaning quietly to each other about the teevee fees when this country is made up of places with names like "Ron Howard Presents: The People’s Republic of Southern California," so if it ain’t broke, etc.
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Date: 2010-12-30 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-31 12:54 pm (UTC)But you would win with the wedgie, of course. (Probably also in a fistfight.)
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Date: 2010-12-31 06:41 pm (UTC)I'm confident I could take him in a fistfight. He would probably say something about how he "abhors violence" because it's "the recourse of the intellectually impoverished" while I was taking out my earrings.
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Date: 2011-01-01 09:53 am (UTC)BAHAHA! What a loser. He didn’t even spell-check his old blog-thing.
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Date: 2010-12-30 10:17 pm (UTC)Please share Dirk Gently thoughts - I've downloaded, but haven't watched.
Omg, Orlando and my lovely, crumpled Martin!? Is this extra Christmas!?
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Date: 2010-12-31 01:06 pm (UTC)HAHAHA. HA. You are actually able to do this, then? Good job! Maybe you can teach a class.
I was so annoyed by the "Sherlock is a man who thinks he’s a god!!" nonsense. Ugh. That means Moffat either fails at basic reading comprehension or he has crawled so far up the ass of his own fanfiction that he can no longer see the light of day. It is precisely this sort of asinine make-believe occupying the heads of producers and writers that leads to terrible teevee. I give you, for example, the current unwatchable jousei-themed mess that is the remains of what once was House. BLARGH NO FAIR.
I've downloaded, but haven't watched.
I haven’t watched it yet, either. I was just so mad that I had to go bittorrent it off TPB instead of downloading it in my iPlayer with a public proxy, like a civilized human being. I mean, what did they think? Did they think we would suddenly find we couldn’t download from their online service and say: Foiled again, the BBC! Good show, old bean. I suppose now I’ll just have to give up the five shows a year I actually fucking watch. No. No, we did not say that. We whipped out Transmission and we downloaded shit oldschool-style.
Is this extra Christmas!?
YES.
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Date: 2011-01-01 11:40 pm (UTC)he has crawled so far up the ass of his own fanfiction that he can no longer see the light of day
Is this an inevitability? It's starting to feel like an inevitability. How else could the House writers possibly have messed up doctors + Sherlock Holmes + Hugh Laurie??? You terrific morons.
Foiled again, the BBC! Good show, old bean.
HA. I can't understand why the powers that be seem so committed to fighting a losing battle wrt the internet. Give up, dudes! This series of tubes belongs to everyone, and if I want to use it to pirate crap TV, then that's exactly what I'm going to do, darn it!
(Happy New Year! ♥)
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Date: 2011-01-02 03:18 pm (UTC)I would even have paid (a reasonable amount) for a subscription, but they forced my hand. Or, actually, my torrent app :]
(YOU TOO! ♥)
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Date: 2011-01-02 04:43 pm (UTC)PBS used to have the three episodes for free streaming on their website through the end of last year. The first episode was pretty entertaining. Think of decent House MD episode and you've got the general atmosphere. The 2nd episode was fairly bad. And I fell asleep during the 3rd, but Moriarty might be slashable with Sherlock, so it has potential. Anyway, PBS? and not BBS America...weird.
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Date: 2011-01-06 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-08 02:14 pm (UTC)I don’t, either. Let’s hope this was just fannation, and it won’t make its way onto the actual show.
I am hoping that the movie will tie in more explicitly with LotR
Me, too! I look at Galadriel with the eyes of a 12-year-old boy, so this is all very exciting for me.
You have some very excellent icons, by the way.
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Date: 2011-01-09 01:53 am (UTC)And yeah, one of my favorite things is linking books up with each other, so I am happy that we may get explicit pre-War of the Ring stuff.