Great, now I have no excuse for having watched Big Brother

[alexsarll]

So this whole LJ Paedogeddon business, with loads of fandom communities and the like getting suspended for having illegally wrongcocked interests listed? I'm puzzled. OK, so no concerned citizens objected to my journal having interests such as 'acquiring WMD', 'world domination' and 'international jewel theft' listed - because hey, we know that protecting the dear little children is far more important than enforcing any other silly old laws, right? But this being the case, how come none of this lot seem to have been in trouble?

Will Self on Nick Cave.

My Rubbish Gaydar, season 17 episode 3: I genuinely never suspected David Hyde Pierce aka Niles Crane from Frasier, is gay.

Slightly disappointed by the return of Garth Ennis' too-hot-for-DC superhero satire The Boys. The first six issues were scabrous, but they had real substance to them. The new one, the first from new home Dynamite...it's not very well-produced, it has one really glaring typo, but above all it feels as cheap artistically as physically. It was always puerile in places, but this issue was *just* puerile - rude words for rude words' sake, over and over. It has become like Ennis' lame 'The Pro', a risk this series always ran but previously escaped.

Disappointed also to learn that I'd misheard the lyrics to the Shins' 'Kissing The Lipless'. It's "and secretly I want to bury in the yard the grey remains of a friendship scarred." I'd always taken it to be ""and secretly I want you buried in the yard/the grey remains of a friendship scarred." Much more passionate.

Comments

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about this LJ business as you felt about Iraq: it might be messy, the agenda behind it is shady and the handling as been cack-handed, but if lots and lots of fanfic communities get wiped out in the process, then the world is a better place for it!

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

hahahahahah!

I must say I am slightly confused as to why anyone would have paedophiles on their 'interest' lists but you know...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Maybe some of them have an interests list full of things they like poking with sticks?

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

pokepokepoke

sharpened sticks! I am not at work as my back has gotten worse.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, but what about the genuine paedophiles caught up in the maelstrom? What have they done to deserve being lumped in with Harry Potter slashers?

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Erm, paedophilia?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well yes, obviously we'd rather they didn't do that sort of thing, but it's hardly in the same league!

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Emily. Emily is an excellent excuse for watching Big Brother. I'm thinking of poking her on Facebook when she comes out.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Is she the blonde Tory?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I certainly wouldn't kick her out of bed for voting Cameron.

[guntrip.livejournal.com]

I actually thought the same about that Shins lyric. Disappointing.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Sorry for spreading the sorrow. Still a good song, of course, just...not *as* good.

[kanzakura.livejournal.com]

So this whole LJ Paedogeddon business, with loads of fandom communities and the like getting suspended for having illegally wrongcocked interests listed?

I felt a great disturbance in LJ - as if a million fangirls cried out in terror, and then went back to tapping out stories about Draco Malfoy fisting Professor Snape in the Shrieking Shack.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Of course, over in Japan that sort of thing could actually find professional publication... (http://www.japanator.com/controversial-manga-nymphet-delayed)

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Blimey, there are threads there with 5000 comments.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it even means they take a while to load if you click on the comments page, just like in ye olde days!

Though obviously outside our own little bubble of comparative civiLJisation, many of them are the gibberish shrieks of teen horrors.