this week is depressing: running, gym, squash, gym for the first 4 nights
but a lovely weekend planned. so i find the weekend cheerful.

alt: i hate lazy tv. that includes reality tv and desperate remakes of things that should have died years ago. there's so much talent out there, they should be making GOOD new stuff. not read game of thrones yet, am a bit torn. on the one hand, i might be missing out. on the other hand, sci-fi nerds are nerds.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:30, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Mobile technology is the problem.
It ruins plots - makes it virtually impossible to isolate someone, which is one of the singular most useful devices.

Hence the forced isolation of reality TV, or period dramae set before such was available/remakes.

Also, kids/teenagers are a huge market, and won't watch old stuff. Hence remakes.

QV - people are really stupid and get from the media what they deserve.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:35, Reply)

the writers should put all their characters on the appallingly misnamed "everything everywhere" network
believe me, they'd be pretty fucking isolated, even if they lived and worked in zone 1.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:40, Reply)

I made three attempts to read A Game of Thrones.
It is utter fucking bilge.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:41, Reply)

oh good
that makes me feel better about avoiding it so far. i did enjoy the hunger games, but i was on a beach, and let's face it, you enjoy anything on a beach.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:43, Reply)

Honestly it is embarrassingly poor.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:44, Reply)

so why do people like it so much?
is this a case of "people being thick cunts"?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:46, Reply)

Mixture of bandwaggonning and genuine stupidity

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:10, Reply)

I disagree. I was on a beach the other weekend and went into the sea for a swim.
It was so fucking cold that the Colonel made a tactical withdrawal to a muster point somewhere around my liver. I had a mangina for hours. So long, in fact, that I was concerned I'd never see him again. I genuinely thought my only career option would be singing with a feather boa around my neck in a specialist Soho nightclub.

I didn't enjoy that at all.
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:45, Reply)

swimming in the british sea
is not the same as enjoying oneself on a beach with sun, white sand, chilled towels and frosty cocktails on demand... you made a tactical error. the little captain (i think you overpromoted him) should just be grateful that he survived at all.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:48, Reply)

I might demote him to Captain for showing such cowardice in front of a lady.
(I'd demote to Major, but I'm pretty sure that'll give an unfair impression of his abilities).
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:49, Reply)

maybe just leave him as........
....... private(s).

hahahahaha
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:50, Reply)

I don't get it.

( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:55, Reply)

oh christ
right, an unranked army guy is a private.

and privates is slang for your genitals.

and you are talking about your cock.

so.....

does that help?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:56, Reply)

But it's a Colonel.

( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:58, Reply)

yer right

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:00, Reply)

Nonsense, swimming in the seas around this island is great fun.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:50, Reply)

I strongly disagree.
You should see the photos that were taken of me howling in pain and misery.
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:51, Reply)

"Where's Willy?"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:52, Reply)

og was crying with laughter, it was embarrassing.

( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:54, Reply)

+ then we went to the seaside

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:57, Reply)

:(

( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:02, Reply)

The sea temperature should be approaching somewhere near tolerable by now.
By September/October it's lovely.
Earlier in the year you have to limit yourself to full submersion then swim quickly back to shore.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:55, Reply)

They said the water temperature was 18 degrees!
18 degrees fucking Fahrenheit, maybe.
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:56, Reply)

there should be footage of this
i bet you flapped around like a giant pink seagull
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:57, Reply)

I'll send you one of the photos.
She managed to choke back the hilarity long enough to take a couple that weren't blurry from camera shake.
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:59, Reply)

i am standing right by my phone waiting

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:00, Reply)

cockgaz ahoy!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:01, Reply)

+no
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:01, Reply)

fucking hell, he actually did it as well
colonel mustard more like.... dude, what's that yellow stuff???
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:02, Reply)

Necrosis.

( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)

that was one cold ocean

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)

It's all relative innit
When the air is 25°+, 18° is going to feel a bit cold.
If the air was 18° you would probably have felt warmer swimming in the sea.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:59, Reply)

this post looked really lonely by itself

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:26, Reply)

Thanks rach, I appreciate your support.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:26, Reply)

it looks pretty
but i know too many people who got stung by weaverfish in cornwall. i will only be venturing in there in very thick soled jelly shoe - apparently the pain is unbelievable.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:55, Reply)

The sea was gorgeous, so blue and clear. You'd never think it was Britain at all
Until you put a foot in and it froze right off, anyway.
( Kroney, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:06, Reply)

a foot?
that thing was nowhere near 12 inches and you know it...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:14, Reply)

Can I just point out that it's Fantasy nerds
there's a case to be made that this is even more shit than sci fi as it's basically all regurgitated Tolkien, which wasn't that good in the first place.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:46, Reply)

is the difference sci-fi = robots; fantasy = dragons?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 10:47, Reply)

Sci fi = Robot + aliens + spceships + speculation about how all kinds of stuff in the future
Fantasy = endless re writes of Lord of The Rings which are generally worse than the original which was really poor in the first place.

Not saying you have to like sci fi, just that it has more range because it's usually set in the future where as fantasy is basically medieval england with dragons.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)

ah ok
they both sound pretty terrible to me. but what do i know?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:14, Reply)

hey, don't expect you to like either, you're a 'girl' after all
Just saying fantasy is even worse, it's basically for people who want to pretend they are big tough barbarians with swords rather than puny weakling nerds.

no idea why Monty doesn't like it
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:20, Reply)

It's alright for fat girls though, isn't it?
Doesn't 'Fantasy' allow them to truss all the fat up in a corset to make a cleavage?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:21, Reply)

Yes, basically
this and get tons of attention from nerd-men because the ratio is about 10-1
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:23, Reply)

the odds are good but the goods are odd, as one girl put it

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:31, Reply)

sounds about right.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 11:32, Reply)