My TV briefly decided to just stop working tonight. My first thought was "but...but...but...Buffy! Angel!" (I admit my second thought was "but...but...Big Brother!") Fortunately it seems to have been a temporary ailment.
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Angus G - Jun 24, 2003 7:10:19 am PDT #5272 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Trudy Booth - Jun 24, 2003 7:12:56 am PDT #5273 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The official term for Australians and New Zealanders is actually "Australasians"
What ever happened to "Oceania"? We learned that in fifth grade as the official name for your part of the world.
Emlah - Jun 24, 2003 7:15:01 am PDT #5274 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
Not that you would have missed much on Big Brother Up Late tonight. All sleepy heads.
I was getting really into Big Brother but I think this whole Have and Have-not thing is going to put me off watching. I hate when there's tension over food and priviledges and stuff like that. I want real human drama, not stuff orchestrated by a gimmick.
HA! I just realised how stupid that sounds. The whole show is human behaviour orchestrated by a gimmick.
Angus G - Jun 24, 2003 7:18:11 am PDT #5275 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Yeah, I don't much like the have/have not idea either Emlah, plus evicting Kim and Saxon has just made the house so much less interesting! For God's sake, people, get rid of Vincent and Patrick, they're dead weight! This has been far and away the best BB so far though, so I still have hope. Still loving Chrissie and Reggie and Dan.
(Thrilled to finally have another Aussie BB fan!)
t edit Oh, and Trudy, I've only ever heard Oceania used as a geographical term; nobody says "Oceanians". It's like you have the Pacific Rim but you don't have Pacific Rimmers. (boom-boom!...or, as it were, rim shot)
Trudy Booth - Jun 24, 2003 7:22:19 am PDT #5276 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
There are Europeans, dammit!
Emlah - Jun 24, 2003 7:22:42 am PDT #5277 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
Heh! Every year I try to ignore it, and every year I end up addicted. Chrissie, Reggie and Dan are great value, I hope they're the final three.
I really, really, really want Vincent out of there. He has this... excessive sincerity, or something. He can never just SAY something, it always has to be meaningful or selfless, like he's reading from a script.
Betsy HP - Jun 24, 2003 1:25:28 pm PDT #5278 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
And I'm mightily impressed by how they handle the inevitable confusion about whether they're saying 'sex' or 'six'.
Inexperienced Waitress: "Beer?"
Handsome NZ'er:"Yes, s?x."
IW: "Six or sex?"
HNZ: "Both, thank you, ma'am."
Kassto - Jun 24, 2003 4:31:18 pm PDT #5279 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. It's not that we say ``sux''. It's just that the Aussies say ``seeeeex''.
And it is just so typical of them. Whenever they lose at anything, they go into serious denial, manifested by a) pretending it didn't happen, or b) pretending they're not interested in sport, or c) pretending that the only sport they're interested in is that hideous Aussie Rules (a bizarre hybrid of rugby league and basketball) which no-one else but Victorians play anyway.
Glad the tran-Tasman rivalry amuses you from the Northern Hemisphere. (Tasman, because of the Tasman Sea that separates our countries.) Well, it's not funny to Kiwis -- we're the much smaller and better country. It's like Canada and the USA, I guess. We think they look down on us, but the reality is much worse -- they actually don't think about us at all. Too busy sucking up to the Americans.
(No bitterness here. None at all!)
When Aussies point out how many Kiwis migrate to Australia, we just retort that that has raised the average IQ on both sides of the Tasman.
And just to get slightly On Topic, it shows how Buffy-centric I have become, when a crossword clue ``the corkscrew-horned kudu is a type of what?'' makes me straight-away answer ``Demon!''
Emlah - Jun 24, 2003 10:18:21 pm PDT #5280 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
We think they look down on us, but the reality is much worse -- they actually don't think about us at all.
EXT. OCEANIA - DAY
AUSTRALIA notices NEW ZEALAND getting ready to launch Tom Cruise across the Tasman.
AUSTRALIA
Okay, New Zealand, you wanna point
that somewhere else?
NEW ZEALAND
You better not try and stop me.
AUSTRALIA
No. No stopping. I'm just here for the
view. Hey look, Indonesia.
NEW ZEALAND
Go away.
AUSTRALIA
Never gonna happen.
NEW ZEALAND
You think I won't use this arrogant
movie star?
AUSTRALIA
I don't know, New Zealand, I'm just --
NEW ZEALAND
Stop doing that!
AUSTRALIA
Doing what?
NEW ZEALAND
Stop saying my name like we're friends.
We're not friends. You all think I'm an
idiot. A short idiot.
AUSTRALIA
I don't. I mean, I think Tom Cruise
is a short idiot, but you... I don't
think about you much at all.
Most people here don't. Bugs you,
doesn't it? You've got all this pain,
all these feelings and nobody's
paying attention.
NEW ZEALAND
You think I just want attention?
AUSTRALIA
No, I think you're weilding Tom Cruise
because you want to blend in.
Believe it or not, New Zealand, I
understand. About the pain.
NEW ZEALAND
Oh, right. 'Cause the burden of being
beautiful and lucky, that's a crippler.
AUSTRALIA
I'm sorry, I was wrong. You are an idiot.
My life happens very occasionally to
suck beyond the telling of it. More than
I can stand sometimes. And not just me.
Every single country is ignoring your pain
because they're way too busy with their own.
The beautiful ones, the popular ones, the ones
that pick on you... everyone.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: aiding and abetting smart arses since 1997.
evil jimi - Jun 24, 2003 10:53:37 pm PDT #5281 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
BRAVO BRAVO *wild applause*
truly inspired Emlah