| Merry Christmas! |
[Dec. 25th, 2009|12:06 pm] |
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Well, I'm off to my sister's. See you guys later. |
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| To Lily |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|09:32 pm] |
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I gots your card! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you. |
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| "No, YOU made me do this, it's YOUR fault." |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|12:05 am] |
I've ranted about this before, but I seem to lack the, uh, eloquence, to really put it into words.
There is one thing that many villains do that annoys me. It's blaming the heroes. Imagine a situation where the villain has taken one of the heroes hostage, and the others come to rescue him/her.
Heroes: You bastard! Let him/her go!
Villain: It's not MY fault! You made me do this! If he/she dies, it'll be aaaaall your fault.
Heroes: You bastard!
I know, I know, the villains don't see themselves as "evil", but still...
Wait, let me change it a bit. I hate the heroes' RESPONSE to it. I have never encountered a hero who could verbally outwit the villain in a case like this.
Wouldn't it be drastically different if the hero replied something like this?
Hero: MY fault? YOU'RE pulling the trigger! Don't blame this on me! And YOU'RE making me stop you, because you want to destroy the world. So this is ALL. YOUR. FAULT.
Granted, I do realize that in a hostage situation, sassing off like that would get the hostage killed, but seeing the heroes reply only with "You bastard!", when the villain is basically saying "Nyah nyah, it's your fault!" makes me disproportionately annoyed.
And this crops up in situations where there AREN'T any hostages to speak of. Like the villain explaining his conquer-the-world scenario, even then the heroes only say "You bastard! You'll never get away with it!".
Did the villain drain all of their brainpower just by being near them? Or are the heroes above mocking the bad guys?
As far as I know, the only hero who could remotely sass back to pompous villains is Spiderman, but even then it's rare.
I really want to see a hero who could utterly destroy a villain's gloating speech with a few choice words of his own. |
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| I can has warm ears? |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|04:20 pm] |
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It is well below freezing point, even during the day. Just now, I went to buy groceries. Going to the supermarket here takes like 3-4 minutes by bike. Barely halfway, my ears started to hurt terribly from the cold. Even more so because I just had a haircut. I'm just not designed for the cold, I like warm (not humid) weather much, much more. I wish I could hibernate through winter...
To see snow is surprisingly nice though. The last few winters had precious little snow, but yesterday it snowed a lot. Maybe it IS going to be a white Christmas, we'll see. |
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| Settings mess? |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|07:38 pm] |
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Did LJ change their "logged in" page? Everything's cropped into the center! |
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| Like a redheaded stepchild... |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
I read an article on the internet that Tesco in England had to take a Christmas card out of their shops because it was deemed offensive.
On the card there's Santa, with a redheaded kid on his lap. The card reads "Santa loves all children, even redheads."
Who the heck approved of such a card?
Also, are redheads THAT discriminated in England, that such cards are considered normal? (A redheaded woman with three equally redheaded kids saw the card and caused a ruckus, that's why the card was taken out.)
In the Netherlands there's far less prejudice, aside from the occasional "lighthouse", which is considered on par with making "dumb blonde" jokes.
On a different note, IT IS FREAKING SNOWING LIKE CRAZY. WTF. |
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| Washing machine, revisited |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|12:53 am] |
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The mechanic guy came today, checked our washing machine by letting it run for a bit (without any wash in it), and declared it not broken! WTF!
He said I put too much detergent in it, that's why there are still so many bubbles left, and that's also the reason why it doesn't tumble dry it completely. (Which to me, is a really lousy reason why the water doesn't drain well...Because of detergent?! HAH!)
And he said that if the washing machine is stuffed to the brim, ofcourse it won't work so well. Hell, even I know that. It wasn't stuffed full.
OK, I put in FAR less detergent, and put only half of the wash in it. IT'S STILL THE SAME.
Having that guy come by cost 20 Euro. And the only thing he did was say "it works". I've been freaking scammed. I'm gonna complain at his store tomorrow. Urgh. |
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