Orange Wednesday
Jun. 7th, 2006 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skylarkingI can't shake this bloody cold. *cough splutter croak*
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X-Men 3 was good fun. Ian McKellen was fabulous as always and the scenes with him and Patrick Stewart were brilliant. And who knew that Kelsey Grammer could kick arse? I am so glad that I stayed until the credit ended to see the little bit afterwards; it was worth sitting in an almost empty cinema feeling like an uber-geek.
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In the ladies toilet in the cinema there was a poster encouraging women to join the Fire Service. It had a picture of a female fire fighter covered in ash with ticky boxes beside her; the ticky boxes for "Good Communicator" and "Uses Initiative" had tickys in them but a third one marked "Likes Action Movies" was blank and underneath it said, "You don't have to be a man to be a fire fighter". And I thought: You don't have to be a man to like action movies! I like action movies!
It just struck me as ironic that an advert that is supposed to be encouraging equality is actually pretty sexist.
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I pulled out the electricity cupboard yesterday – my god there was a lot of shite in there! It was as bad as the Box That Time Forgot from under my bed. Most of the bits and pieces were mementoes from when I was in America and old photographs. What I think I'll do is start a scrap booking project after I've moved. I think scrap booking is pretty trendy at the moment – according to my mum QVC has whole weeks devoted to it :P. I thought it just involved sticking a picture to a piece of paper but obviously I'm missing the point. There are different kinds of scissors and paper and stickers and glitter glue and so forth. It sounds like something I could make a mess with.
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I'm going to see the Da Vinci Code after work. I've heard mixed review for it so I'm not sure what to expect. Ultimately, anything that upsets the right-wing fundamental Christians is all right with me.
Thought of the day
If yesterday, 06.06.06, was the number of the beast does that make today, 07.06.06, the neighbour of the beast??
eta X-Men 3 spoilers in the comments.
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X-Men 3 was good fun. Ian McKellen was fabulous as always and the scenes with him and Patrick Stewart were brilliant. And who knew that Kelsey Grammer could kick arse? I am so glad that I stayed until the credit ended to see the little bit afterwards; it was worth sitting in an almost empty cinema feeling like an uber-geek.
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In the ladies toilet in the cinema there was a poster encouraging women to join the Fire Service. It had a picture of a female fire fighter covered in ash with ticky boxes beside her; the ticky boxes for "Good Communicator" and "Uses Initiative" had tickys in them but a third one marked "Likes Action Movies" was blank and underneath it said, "You don't have to be a man to be a fire fighter". And I thought: You don't have to be a man to like action movies! I like action movies!
It just struck me as ironic that an advert that is supposed to be encouraging equality is actually pretty sexist.
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I pulled out the electricity cupboard yesterday – my god there was a lot of shite in there! It was as bad as the Box That Time Forgot from under my bed. Most of the bits and pieces were mementoes from when I was in America and old photographs. What I think I'll do is start a scrap booking project after I've moved. I think scrap booking is pretty trendy at the moment – according to my mum QVC has whole weeks devoted to it :P. I thought it just involved sticking a picture to a piece of paper but obviously I'm missing the point. There are different kinds of scissors and paper and stickers and glitter glue and so forth. It sounds like something I could make a mess with.
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I'm going to see the Da Vinci Code after work. I've heard mixed review for it so I'm not sure what to expect. Ultimately, anything that upsets the right-wing fundamental Christians is all right with me.
Thought of the day
If yesterday, 06.06.06, was the number of the beast does that make today, 07.06.06, the neighbour of the beast??
eta X-Men 3 spoilers in the comments.
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Date: 2006-06-07 09:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-07 09:48 am (UTC)I was like, "I knew that Patrick Stewart was too cool to die!!"
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Date: 2006-06-07 11:09 am (UTC)I couldn't believe it when they killed him. And it was gross, dude.
Man I loved that film. Was very dissappointed about Rogue though, If they make another one, I want her firmly back at the centre of operations. I figure if Magneto seems to be getting over it, I'd like her to. Sucks for her, but still. It would be neat if it turned out that it triggers the second mutation. And I liked Iceman having his second mutation, it was nicely done.
Yup, geek.
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-07 01:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-07 01:21 pm (UTC)Plus I've explained it to about ten people who DIDN'T stay until after the credits. Foolish foolish people. *huffs*
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Date: 2006-06-07 11:58 am (UTC)*end geekery*
And Moira leant over the bed and went "*le gasp* Charles?" too. XD