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Glee
May 31, 2011 15:28:15 GMT -5
Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 15:28:15 GMT -5
^Exactly!
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 15:23:48 GMT -5
I would actually love to teach (at a sixth form level probably, so 16-18-ish), but I couldn't deal with all the bullshit administration and stuff. My maths tutor last year was re-training as a teacher, but I'm not sure if she's going to do it because she just couldn't hack all the paperwork and basically, interference in the classroom - syllabuses (is that the right plural?) and curricula and teacher targets and student targets and blah blah blah. I would find it really, really hard to play by the rules.
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Glee
May 31, 2011 15:19:36 GMT -5
Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 15:19:36 GMT -5
I watch Glee but I kind of dislike the 'fandom' because I think if everyone were honest, they would admit it's a crap show; there is NO consistency in plot/storyline, or even in the characters themselves; the writers just make whatever they like happen to fit in with the music and that's that. Having said that, it is enjoyable to watch and I love the songs and I like watching it, but I just wish people would see it for what it is, y'know?
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 13:06:35 GMT -5
I didn't like that, no (because I LOVE WES SO MUCH! And I don't think he becomes a bad person - misguided and a bit dense, maybe but not bad) but no, it was mainly that I cannot stand Connor. I hate him so much I can't even explain. He makes watching the series painful. I mean, I watch quite a lot of TV shows that I hate or have characters in that I hate (why? I don't know), but Connor/series three and four take the biscuit. I also hate what they do to Cordelia; they make her super obnoxious, self-righteous, morally-superior... She just really annoyed me, which is a shame because I did really like her. She was sassy and bitchy in the right way and I don't know. I feel like they ruined her character. I also thought the thing with Connor and Cordelia was a) gross and b) stupid and c) WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING? WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? WHY, WHY, WHY? D:
However, I do LOVE the episode where they take out Angel's soul. That is a good one.
Oh and yeah, I shouldn't really have included series two in my post above; it doesn't compare (in 'badness') to series three/four, even though I don't think it's quite as good as one/five.
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 11:15:16 GMT -5
You could try watching Angel again. Although, I only really like series one and five; I kind of really dislike the series in the middle. Two is not so bad, but three and four, just ugh.
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 8:17:27 GMT -5
manoeuvre.
That took eight tries.
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 8:14:08 GMT -5
I love character death. I find it makes things so much more interesting. That's why I didn't mind Tara dying. Or Doyle in Angel (which I pretty much consider a part of the Buffyverse). Buffy's mother and Anya dying were just like icing on the cake then for the whole thing, it brought tears to my eyes I must admit. I will agree, the magic rehab thing was clunkily done, and I would have been fine without it. I HATE that Anya and Doyle die! I mean, it's really sad and is great for the shows, but I HATE it. I loved them both and it frustrates me so much that Anya and Xander had only just got back together (-ish) and then she dies!
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 8:08:50 GMT -5
Whaaaaaaat? I love Lolita -- I find the language excruciatingly beautiful, and the story enthrallingly uncomfortable. I would recommend, though, for anyone who had trouble "getting into" the story or caring a whit about the character of Humbert that they take a gander at the audiobook, read by Jeremy Irons. He does a fantastic job of conveying the novel as a dramatic monologue -- which, ultimately, is what it is -- and evoking each nuance of Humbert's oddity and humanity. So much better than his portrayal of the same role in the 1997 film (which we'll have to blame the screenwriters for). See, this is the thing. Before reading it, I thought that even if I didn't actually like it, that I would be a bit disturbed reading it or made uncomfortable by it. But I wasn't. At all. I just thought it was boring. Yeah, the language was beautiful, I guess, but he just went on and on about boring stuff; the main thing I remember from the book is a description of the road trip and it was just page after page of listing things that they saw. One page would've been fine, but it didn't end. I found it thoroughly underwhelming. I will try Nabokov's other stuff, sometime, though.
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 8:00:50 GMT -5
I've been planning my wedding for as long as I can remember. I know exactly what dress I want, exactly what shoes, I have two options for venue but it will definitely be in my home county, I know the exact date (well, y'know, the date I'm hoping for. Obviously I have no idea if I will actually be in a position to get married then). It won't be a religious ceremony and will almost certainly take place outside (weather-permitting, I guess); I'd like for us to do our own vows. I know the music I'd like to walk down the aisle to, but I'm undecided on first-dance music. Although, I've also thought of eloping to Gretna Green.
My engagement ring I want to be sapphire (possible sapphire and diamond). This is because a) my older sister has 'called' emerald, b) I'm not a big fan of other colours and don't want just white diamond and c) my mum has a sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 16:26:44 GMT -5
Strange, I swear I've heard it countless times on tv and whatnot. and when I read literature by British folks I tend to see "an" before words that start with h. Maybe I'm just a crack baby though, it's entirely possible. In older literature you might well see "an hundred". We used to not pronounce "h" at all, so everything would require "an", but then we started to pronounce the "h" and so now we say "a hundred" (although some still say "an historian" and "an hotel", weirdly). Or at least this is what I've heard. As for seeing it on TV, what have you been watching? I can't think of any time when we would say "an hundred" with the h pronounced like that. It would either be "an 'undred" or "a hundred". Weird!
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 14:45:12 GMT -5
Ahhh, see I love the high school thing, but I also just dislike a lot of what happens in the later series: Buffy being brought out of Heaven, Dawn (I just hate everything about her), Anya and Xander not being together, Buffy and Spike, Tara dying, Warren, Giles not being there, Willow's 'magic rehab', The Initiative and Adam... Damn, why do I even watch this show? But yes! I LOVE Spike. I think he's so great as a character - much more interesting than Angel (even though I prefer Angel).
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 14:39:13 GMT -5
My sister wanted to get a feather... which strikes me now as not being Harry Potter-related but at the time she mentioned it, I'm sure it was. I thought about getting a wand on my index-finger. There's always Fawkes, a Snitch, a quote ("It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live", "all was well" and a couple of others which are quite common), though you might not want something everyone else has. There's a Harry Potter tattoo tumblr around - I think it's "bloodyhellhptattoos".
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 14:36:22 GMT -5
^I don't know what you mean by the British silent H and hundred; we do say 'hundred', not 'undred' (unless you have a particular accent, although there aren't many of those), therefore "a hundred" (or "one hundred" to avoid confusion!).
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 14:33:35 GMT -5
Is there a reason you've left out all punctuation? Because it would really help to have to have it in there, I think (although it could just be me; I'm not exactly e.e. cummings' biggest fan). Also, in Alone, I would definitely avoid using "doth" (and similarly archaic words) unless you are actually writing in early modern English. I just think it sounds really awkward and unnatural because that's not the way anyone would write nowadays, y'know? I don't know why you chose to put that there.
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 14:24:19 GMT -5
Oh noooo. Why did Kripke step down?
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