1) b) I feel the same way, except I know that the reason is that my apartment is messy enough as it is. But when I get it in order, I'm totally buying some lego and making some plans. I mean, I am an apsiring engineer, dammit! That's a valid excuse to experiment with overly complicated bamboo technology, if anything!
3) Yeah, I mean, why is it that there aren't more black people in movies, unless they're catered to black people? I'm relatively certain black people aren't that much of a minority in numbers.
And well, I actually hate all the "obvious person going to die"-tropes. Lazy writing and cheap shots, the lot of 'em.
5) The list of countries that video won't show for is looooong. Like longcat-long! (For some reason, it includes Germany when the band is German. And Sweden and Finland of course. So I could only show it to my brother by sending the file.) If you're curious it's a HRE/Chibitalia-vid set to a Blind Guardian song. 's quite nice. I actually rewatch it myself some times, simply because I find it enjoyable to look at.
6) True, but I guess it just doesn't sound so archaic in the original Swedish, mostly because of the whole informal "du"-thing. There's plenty of other old timey expressions in it, "vänaste" and so on, but "du" comes in as an almost intimate expression in light of the older text.
7) Maybe. Mostly though, I think I've just gotten to wrapped up in the de/dem-misusage as my own pet peeve. I realise that most people are more used to spoken Swedish, while I as the asocial shut-in geek am more used to the written Swedish, and therefor don't get how you can mistake "de/dem" as alternative spellings for "dom". I just want to shout to all the Swedish internetians: "Write 'dom' instead if that's anyway what you mean! If you're going to use casual Swedish, use it correctly!"
8) Might be true. I've gotten back into swimming, and am making headway on the drabble requests. Might be connected.
1) Oh that's nothing, when I get to the house-owning stage of my life, I'm planning a technical laboratory as my hobby room.
I actually used to live in a house that was formerly owned by a crazy inventor. He'd work down in the basement which you got down to through a hatch in the floor. To ensure his wife wouldn't accidentally step into the hole and hurt herself (if you didn't look at the floor you could easily miss that the hatch is open) he rigged a little stopper that would block the way, which would fall into place when you opened the hatch (magnets were involved). I guess the need for magnets might have to do with absentmindedness, or else he could have just put the stopper in place himself every time. It also worked as a relatively comfortable bench to sit on.
2) Kill Em All is okay. At least then there isn't the false tension that's created. Usually with Tonight Someone Dies, you have some tension in who the victim is going to be, making every character a potential target and the near-death-scenes more efficient. And even with Kill Em All, you don't know what order it's going to happen. But when Mr Hero, Ms Damsel, Pr Nutball and Mr Goner are running about in the haunted house that used to belong to Sir Chainsawgood, before he died in a wood cutting accident, you just know that every time Ms Damsel is about to fall down the balcony, there will be an outstretched hand from Mr Hero, and however obvious it may seem to the audience that Pr Nutball is about to walk into a death trap due to his absentmindedness, he will cry out "Eureka!" and then turn around away from the deathtrap to relate his theory to the others. Meanwhile, Mr Goner is the only genresavvy one of the bunch, deadpan snarks everything in a way that makes him an audience surrogate for everyone tired of the other too dumb to live characters.
And I guess that would be the plot to TV-tropes, The Movie.
7) That's really weird usage drift, because thinking "to fight windmills" would give anyone a connection to Don Quijote, whether they've actually read the book or not. As a kid, my sole knowledge of Don Quijote was that he was delusional enough to believe that the windmills were giants, and then attack them pointlessly. Still not having read the book, I actually don't know what the aftermath of that was. I'm imagining that the ones that were first to the mill were pretty pissed at him. (Don't know how common the expression is elsewhere, but "Först till kvarn får först mala".
3) Yeah, I mean, why is it that there aren't more black people in movies, unless they're catered to black people? I'm relatively certain black people aren't that much of a minority in numbers.
And well, I actually hate all the "obvious person going to die"-tropes. Lazy writing and cheap shots, the lot of 'em.
5) The list of countries that video won't show for is looooong. Like longcat-long! (For some reason, it includes Germany when the band is German. And Sweden and Finland of course. So I could only show it to my brother by sending the file.) If you're curious it's a HRE/Chibitalia-vid set to a Blind Guardian song. 's quite nice. I actually rewatch it myself some times, simply because I find it enjoyable to look at.
6) True, but I guess it just doesn't sound so archaic in the original Swedish, mostly because of the whole informal "du"-thing. There's plenty of other old timey expressions in it, "vänaste" and so on, but "du" comes in as an almost intimate expression in light of the older text.
7) Maybe. Mostly though, I think I've just gotten to wrapped up in the de/dem-misusage as my own pet peeve. I realise that most people are more used to spoken Swedish, while I as the asocial shut-in geek am more used to the written Swedish, and therefor don't get how you can mistake "de/dem" as alternative spellings for "dom". I just want to shout to all the Swedish internetians: "Write 'dom' instead if that's anyway what you mean! If you're going to use casual Swedish, use it correctly!"
8) Might be true. I've gotten back into swimming, and am making headway on the drabble requests. Might be connected.
9) :D
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I actually used to live in a house that was formerly owned by a crazy inventor. He'd work down in the basement which you got down to through a hatch in the floor. To ensure his wife wouldn't accidentally step into the hole and hurt herself (if you didn't look at the floor you could easily miss that the hatch is open) he rigged a little stopper that would block the way, which would fall into place when you opened the hatch (magnets were involved). I guess the need for magnets might have to do with absentmindedness, or else he could have just put the stopper in place himself every time. It also worked as a relatively comfortable bench to sit on.
2) Kill Em All is okay. At least then there isn't the false tension that's created. Usually with Tonight Someone Dies, you have some tension in who the victim is going to be, making every character a potential target and the near-death-scenes more efficient. And even with Kill Em All, you don't know what order it's going to happen. But when Mr Hero, Ms Damsel, Pr Nutball and Mr Goner are running about in the haunted house that used to belong to Sir Chainsawgood, before he died in a wood cutting accident, you just know that every time Ms Damsel is about to fall down the balcony, there will be an outstretched hand from Mr Hero, and however obvious it may seem to the audience that Pr Nutball is about to walk into a death trap due to his absentmindedness, he will cry out "Eureka!" and then turn around away from the deathtrap to relate his theory to the others. Meanwhile, Mr Goner is the only genresavvy one of the bunch, deadpan snarks everything in a way that makes him an audience surrogate for everyone tired of the other too dumb to live characters.
And I guess that would be the plot to TV-tropes, The Movie.
7) That's really weird usage drift, because thinking "to fight windmills" would give anyone a connection to Don Quijote, whether they've actually read the book or not. As a kid, my sole knowledge of Don Quijote was that he was delusional enough to believe that the windmills were giants, and then attack them pointlessly. Still not having read the book, I actually don't know what the aftermath of that was. I'm imagining that the ones that were first to the mill were pretty pissed at him. (Don't know how common the expression is elsewhere, but "Först till kvarn får först mala".
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