The television - a Samaritan during other tribulations - had been RE-PO-SSESSED.

[reddragdiva]

• In the Good Old Days, we had dangerous toys.

• "Words for Usenet without actually using the fucking word!"

A lovely evening at fluffymark's housewarming, which he has written up here. arkady's pics are here. We got there about nine. redcountess and I drank beer, arkady drank Mark's punch. And we drank damerell's sake. And the fake Bailey's. We played many entertaining party games, assuming it's okay to call Mark a party game. Bus home before midnight.

Today I have a twisted ankle. I have to hop everywhere, going "ow ow ow." This is most comical.

I twisted it getting off the bus at Walthamstow. It were spacktacular. OW FUCK ARGH BASTARD FUCK FUCK FUCK! I proceeded to hobble home using redcountess and arkady as walking sticks. A hundred metres is a long way on one foot.

(This is karma for saying to others "Well, you could hop!" every time they hurt their foot or leg. Bah.)

arkady braved Asda for bandages and rat food. My ankle is now bound and I may or may not be able to hobble to work tomorrow. Watched The Princess Bride on telly this afternoon. Our video tapes 16:9 off the Freeview box! Telly version was cut for time; we must get the DVD.

Answers to the Saturday confessional:

flickgc: Most definitely!

redcountess: I bet you say that to all your husbands.

individuation: Have you gotten the smile off your face yet, or can it wait another week or two?

jezebel_z: Good judgement comes from experience ... experience comes from poor judgement.

unagothae: We shall have to rename Mike's Left Hand.

weds: I believe you!

hellsop: Not a day goes by. Hardly an hour.

redshira: No, but I have your cool new icon to keep me warm!

rbarclay: I am in fact Oscar Wilde.

frou_frou: *wild applause*

_nicolai_: Is that talking about me or you? It's true in both cases, of course.

lnr: Well done, darlings!

ejde: Pics?

arkady: You will do no such thing, young lady!

beckyzoole: DSL means never having to leave the house.

metzkass: Same here :-)

Comments

[wednesday]

we must get the DVD

No. No, you mustn't. Horrible blight on geek society. Makes everyone within twenty miles quote it and feel terribly smug for being SO CLEVER AND OBSCURE. God, I hate that fucking movie. At least Python films have that whole pulpy, engaging feel to them which keeps them from being totally ruined after they've been quoted backwards and forwards at you by drunken university-student tosspots who installed Slackware once.

And we drank damerell's sake.

Oh, good. That's where that went. Less sake in the house is always a good thing. More room for wine.

[reddragdiva]

That it's substantially made up of one-liners doesn't make it not a bad movie.

The worst thing was we realised we'd have to start liking crap or else future children would like crap in rebellion.

[wednesday]

That it's substantially made up of tedious one-liners does, though. And a tedious Billy Crystal. And tedious characterization. And a complete lack of Obey Giant stickers. The need for one-liners can be sated in seven boxes of Buffy.

Future children will like crap anyhow. They'll just like different crap. I recommend feigning an aversion to Tartakovsky/McCracken, Kurosawa and the National Film Board of Canada.

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

That it's substantially made up of tedious one-liners does, though. And a tedious Billy Crystal. And tedious characterization. And a complete lack of Obey Giant stickers. The need for one-liners can be sated in seven boxes of Buffy.

Inconceivable!!

[wednesday]

Inconceivable!!

That word you just used. It made me think of the broadsword in my living room.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

The film is a decent rendition of a bloody marvellous book. I didn't get it at all until I read the original. Now I adore it.

Go read.

[wednesday]

No.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Now there's an good opening move in a debate.

[wednesday]

It's not open for debate. I'm not interested in reading the book, and I haven't been ever since Princess Bride fans have taken to telling me to read the book after finding out that I wished the movie would just go away.

"Hey, I didn't like this, so I'm going to expose myself to more of it!"

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Good and open-minded. Well done.

[reddragdiva]

Did you bother reading the thread before adding?

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Oh, sometimes, when I can be bothered... [Cheerful grin]

[wednesday]

Oh, for crying out loud. Is it not possible that it's okay to not want to experience more of a franchise which annoys me? Should I be going and buying complete sets of everything I didn't care for which has a related novel, manga, anime, film, or television series? I'm hardly advocating bombing Luxembourg; I just don't want to spend my time on something which annoyed me for ten+ years.

Hell, the reason why I saw the movie after several years of quotage was because I wanted to be open-minded about it. I was trying really hard to find it all incredibly charming and engaging and worthwhile and everything that others see in it, and it just wasn't there. It wasn't well-written, it wasn't well-acted, it wasn't well-anything. It was just annoying. I think I have a right to set a limit after that experience, and not to be snarked at by people who are pulling moral superiority.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Of course it is. I was being humorous, actually, but as I said, I didn't get it at all first time myself. I'd seen the movie several times and thought it was shite, but then I read the book and learned that there was more to it.

Now, myself, I'd think that the normal, polite answer to such a light, bantering tone such as mine would be either:

1. "no, don't want to, life's too short, thanks for the recommendation"

or

2. an insincere "yes, ok, maybe i will one day"

But no, you took an abrupt, curt, confrontational attitude, to which I rose as an amusing little exercise in baiting someone. And now you're getting all snarky about it. So, fine, I'll disappear again. No skin off my nose.

But I don't know you from Adam. I have no idea who or what you are and am unlikely to bump into you again. But I have to tell you, you've just made a bloody awful preliminary impression!

Ah well. No biggie. I shall disappear now and not trouble you again.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Hmm.
Is the ankle support in your boots that bad?
Are they New Rocks?

[reddragdiva]

Yeah. Calf-length New Rocks - not very tight around the ankle, however. Weighing five kilos did the opposite of helping.

It would have been much worse with my other New Rocks - ankle boots, so no ankle support whatsoever, and still weighing five kilos. I cringe at the thought.

[pixel-person.livejournal.com]

you lucky you didn't fracture yr shin bone ( can't rember med turm) in those boots, you walk perminatly if that happens.

-e-
xxx

[reddragdiva]

Thank you, that would be the precise thought I was trying not to have ;-)

[pixel-person.livejournal.com]

:-S sorry i always state the ovious

-e-
xxx

[adrasteah.livejournal.com]

Hope your ankle feels better soon.

Let me know if you need to borrow a pair of crutches?

[reddragdiva]

heh! My ankle can almost sorta nearly not quite bear weight. It's definitely less worse than it was. And less swollen. Still hop hop hopping about, though. Our downstairs neighbour is going to despise me.

[fluffymark]

It was delightful to see you too, you tart :)

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

Today I have a twisted ankle. I have to hop everywhere, going "ow ow ow." This is most comical.

Oi! Leave off the comedy injuries! That's my job. ;)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

*trumps*

[reddragdiva]

OK. You win!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I was expecting 'well, you could hop' :)

*joins spellfecker*

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

Bugger...

hoppity fucking hop

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think my foot getting funted might also count as spacktacular, albeit on the part of whichever moron swam into my foot (you'd have thought the idea that people wave their legs around in the water was a familiar one but apparently not). But anyway I probably have some idea of how you feel right now.

oh and

[wednesday]

I twisted it getting off the bus at Walthamstow. It were spacktacular.

So, basically, you're saying that you twisted your ankle while getting off of the short bus?

Re: oh and

[reddragdiva]

The action, not the bus!