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I love Gene Hunt.

Scary white clown is STILL FUCKING SCARY!

Is Alex an alcoholic? She's been off her face in both episodes so far.

That is all.

ETA: Cut for spoiler )

ETA 2: *sigh* Another mass shooting at a US university? What. The Fuck. World?
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*sigh* So, for years and years and years there has been moaning and whinging that the arts are being neglected in schools and cut from the curriculum and not encouraged etc. The government finally does something right and proposes Culture classes for secondary school pupils. And what do we do? Bitch and whinge and moan that it's stupid and not enough money is being spent on it etc. That article doesn't properly convey the whinging I've just endured on the news. The story started with 'Is High school really the place for High Culture?' (see what they did there? *eyeroll*)

It's a good idea. Even if they're just trying it out for now, with the hope to expand it later, it's a good idea. And all the news does is point out flaws and why its improbable and puts a negative spin on it.

This is the Briish media. Negative. I hate it.
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I have a new computer mouse and its a thing of glory. Wireless and sleek and comfortable and with 'back' and 'forward' buttons so I don't have to bother with all that pesky right-clicking to hit the back button. So anyway, as promised, that meme I need to reciprocate on:

Here's how the interview works:

If you want to be interviewed, this is what you do:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.


Questions will probably be fandom or interests based, as I lack inspiration at the moment to come up with good life or morality based ones.

Annnd the news is telling me that Council Tax is going to be going up by about 4%. Can I hate this government any more, seriously? Its not enough that gas and electricity bills went up by 17% a couple of weeks ago and the economy's going to shit and I HATE THIS DAMN FUCKING GOVERNMENT!!

Sooo want to live abroad. *sigh*
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I've just seen my first Chrimbo advert of the year on TV! Mwhahaha! I can has Christmas noaw?

Wedding gift has been purchased for Ex-Housemate Jen. Practical household stuff as that what was on her wedding list - I'll totally take personal stuff up with me to give her because really, are chopping boards and bathmats really good presents? No. Useful maybe, but not fun. So she'll get the cool stuff when I see her. Plus, its her birthday today! So she deserves wine and chocolates and CD's and stuff.

In more sombre news: wtf is up with Burma? All those monks disappearing actually freaks me out. I guess its a question of how many don't get killed, rather than how many will. Or have already been. And it creeps me out the way the government shut down the internet and were searching people on the street for cameras and recording equipment, so that no one from outside the country could find out what's going on. It's craziness that stuff like that still goes on in the 21st century. I hope something actually gets done this time.

Also, the inquest into Diana's death has started - and apparently, Prince Philip is at the centre of the allegations that the Royal Family had something to do with having Diana and Dodi killed. All I can say to that is, what the flying fuck? OK, he's a racist old fool but seriously, what?

God, I'm bored. Have been reminded that I need to type out a birth plan for the midwives at the hospital. Had totally forgotten about this, blah. Still, will give me something to do.

ETA: *snorfle* Was just at the shop and was confronted with a headline on one of those women's magazines that read, 'I can't stop squirting my lover with cream!' Firstly, why is this worthy of being a headline? Is it really the sort of thing that would induce someone to buy a magazine? And secondly, why is it even a problem? I can't imagine her lover really objects.

Perhaps she's lactose intolerant.

Bzuh?

Sep. 12th, 2007 06:55 pm
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Holy crap. The Iranian president is giving a live interview on British TV right now.

Apparantly, Iran is a great and peaceful nation. And he is grinning and dodging the direct questions being asked about whether Iran plans to 'break the American's teeth.'

America is against the progress of Iran. It wants to do 'many things that it doesn't have the power to do.' And Iran 'knows how to defend itself.'

...and also railing on the journalist that's asking him the questions. He's not wanting to even let the dude ask him questions regarding Iraq.

Man, he certainly knows how to blather. And apparantly Iran and Iraq are 'great friends' and the interview was just finished....with him accusing the journalist of 'wanting to convey sentences, not answer questions.'

Wow. That was bizarre. And I had an open mind on Iran and its intentions up until now, but now I'm a bit more wary. Anyway. He's giving an interview to America tomorrow apparently so hopefully we'll get to see some coverage on that over here.

Odd. Very odd. Is this his idea of a charm offensive? Because he's achieved the opposite.

ETA: Oooh! He's given Channel 4 an interview as well. *watches*

...OK, the start of this is hilarious. Because the correspondent is sitting opposite the President in the gardens of his palace or wherever, and he's introducing the news, then going back to the studio so they can announce the rest of the headlines, then back to Tehran...and now a report on the political situation with Iran at the moment - and the whole time, the President of the country is just sitting there, looking quite bored and pissed off and being made to wait. BWAH!

Cut for length and random musings (I quite like his beard, by the way) )

Well. He's quite blinkered and full of shit. And I still don't know what point he's trying to make with these interviews, apart from seeming to want some kind of worldwide group hug to occur. And not being very convincing about it either.

And in squee-inducing news, Led Zeppelin are reforming! AWESOME! Even if it is only for a one-off concert.
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Advantage of living in an old Victorian house? High ceilings and a huge bay window! Gorgeous things that make a room seem a whole lot bigger, means that the place hardly smells when you sneakily have a fag (not that I do this now I'm up the spout but it was useful before) and lets in heaps of light and is classy etc.

Disadvantage? When there's a huge fuckoff spider up near the coving and it will not come down to a level low enough to be reached so I can stick a glass over it and fling it out of the window. Srsly, I just spent an hour and a half chasing the thing around with a squash racket, a bokken and a pint glass, attempting to catch it so that I wouldn't have to leave it and therefore, wake up with it on my face in the morning or something equally horrid. Not that this has ever happened to me but you never know! Everyone is supposed to swallow about four spiders in their sleep, in their lifetime, and this fucker was huge.

And now I have grossed myself out utterly.

In other news...I have no other news. Oh, except that I cried at the news tonight and that's the first time that's happened in a long time. Last night, an eleven year old boy named Rhys Jones was having a kick around in a pub carpark in Liverpool at about 7:30pm. He was with friends. And then a kid on a bicycle rode past and shot him in the back of the neck. Listening to his parents appeal for help and talk about when they realised he was dead and identifying his body and about all his new school things because he was starting secondary school next week...Lord. Heartbreaking.

Police are looking for a teenager aged between 13-15 in connection with it. Which suggests to me that they already have a pretty good idea who it was. Seriously world. Wtf? Kids shooting kids - what is up with us all? It's depressing.

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