You're dumber than you think I think you are

[alexsarll]

puzzled_anwen is too ill and perfectlyvague too employed to accompany diamond_geyser, drasticsturgeon and myself to see Dame Ian McKellen et al in the Aladdin end-of-run Q&A at the Old Vic, 5pm today. Any takers? It will set you back a mere £2.50.

Suggestion: any person in the Ten Items Or Less queue (or equivalent) at supermarkets should have a finger chopped off for each item over the designated limit. Of course, this leaves a quandary when we come to the human garbage in front of me last night, who had 21. What else shall we chop off him, children?

I have a stack of films which I've taped off the TV and not watched yet; parts of it go back at least five years. This is handy, in that it means there's something to suit most moods, but sometimes my viewing decisions are made for me. The Whole Equation uses Chinatown as one of its principle points of reference, so I thought I had best hurry up and watch it. I'm not generally a fan of that whole Easy Riders, Raging Bulls 'grown up Hollywood' period; specifically, I found Easy Rider to be an overlong, incoherent hippy mess and I only managed 20 minutes of Raging Bull. But Chinatown...well, it's no Matter of Life and Death or Lord of the Rings but otherwise it really is as good as they say. And even when you know what's coming, scenes like the nose, the big reveal and the climax still pack a punch.

Final proof that all babies look the same.

Since 'Islamophobia' currently seems to be the fashionable phrase for valid concerns about pernicious trends and dangerous people, I thought I should add it to my LJ interests.

Sunday, by the way, was the second anniversary of this journal.

Comments

[ksta.livejournal.com]

oh MAN I would love to but can't.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

ditto.

[angelv.livejournal.com]

5pm? Bah.

Happy birthday, our Ba's journal!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is the problem really. Where's all the dole scum when you need 'em?

10 items or less?

[jassyjones.livejournal.com]

i was in such a 10 items or less q just now. the man behind me stank and stood too close and touched my cauliflower BUT he harangued the couple paying at the reg. they had, like, 20 items and he kept up a drunken monotonal barrage of unashamed criticism to the shop at large. 'look at them, they've got far more than 10 things, shouldn't be allowed, just look!..' etc etc haha. they were so embarrased.

Re: 10 items or less?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes but drunk people shouldn't *need* to raise objections! The counter staff should refuse to serve these scum! Next time I'm in Tesco I'm looking for a complaints form (though in the interests of compromise I'll leave off the bit about fingers).

Re: 10 items or less?

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

One of the good things about the surly African ladies who form the majority of staff in my local Tesco is that not only will they refuse to serve someone with more than ten items, but they are very good at being rude to them.

Re: 10 items or less?

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

(even, nay, especially, when there are huge queues and the person is cross as they have just wasted ten minutes in the 10items or less line)

Re: 10 items or less?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Good on them! Why don't they lead training courses for all other Tesco staff, eh?

Re: 10 items or less?

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

...touched my cauliflower

Hur hur

[innerbrat]

Booyah! I'm not dole scum, I'm a fucking student!

What time does it end?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

6PM. Do we have a taker, then?

[innerbrat]

Oh yes you have a taker.

When/where do I meet you?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Old Vic foyer, 4.50PM.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

FEWER, more's the point.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Aye, but that's another fight for another day.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Man! JLA Classified is very, very good and all... but We3 is the best comic ever!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go quite that far. But nearly. It's also at least a year ahead of almost anything else being published at the moment. And terribly, terribly sad.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I've only read the first two issues, but it does seem to be barrelling towards tragedy at a rate of knots. I did shed a tear over 1 beating himself up over killing the humans... "Bad dug. Bad dug." So much pathos!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well issue 3 isn't out yet...but yes. Poor animals! So much more sympathetic than most of the human casualties in comics.

Man sssssssstink

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Though I have no idea why I came across all Middenface McNulty in that last comment. Gud *dog*. Bad *dog*. R U gud?

Re: Man sssssssstink

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, it is Morrison writing them, and he did come up with the most Scottish characters non-2000AD comics have ever seen...

What else shall we chop off him, children?

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

chop off his willie and leave him to die, bleeding in the aisle.*



*This may not be a popular suggestion with the in-store cleaner

Re: What else shall we chop off him, children?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That was the inference I hoped to breed, yes.

'Breed' possibly being a poor word to use in that context.

Re: What else shall we chop off him, children?

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

slightly insensitive, yes.