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Comments 30
I tweeted this link yesterday: http://likethebookshop.tumblr.com/post/28164604850/oh-my-god-i-just-witnessed-the-single-greatest-moment
and it got about 2,000 clicks. Which is high for me, but happens once every couple of months.
And then Graham Linehan retweeted it. And Chris Addison seems to have picked it up from him. Which means that it's had an additional 31,000 clicks in the
last three hours.
I feel all special. Now, I just wish I'd _written_ something that viral.
Lessons learned: use all caps when linking to things. It makes people click them (ok, not really. It works for the various HULK tweeters, but I can't see it working for me.)
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Or done something that someone else tweeted that went viral :) But maybe you get credit for bumping it up a couple of orders of magnitude, even if you were in the middle of the chain :)
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This is more or less a real-life reenactment of that bit from Life, the Universe and Everything, isn't it?"You want to step outside?" he [Arthur] snarled at Thor.
"All right!" bellowed Thor, like an enraged bull (or in fact like an enraged Thunder God, which is a great deal more impressive), and did so.
"Good," said Arthur, "that's got rid of him. Slarty, get us out of here."
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Does claiming to have a secure webstore count as any kind of actual provision of service?
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I wonder if Sony was sued after it leaked loads of passwords and credit card details.
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Given the brutality of the world that Game Of Thrones is set in, and the way women are regarded in that world, it would be bizarre if rape wasn't brought up.
That said if you suddenly inserted a rape into The Hunger Games (a society that is fucked up in many ways, but does seem to have a certain equality for women and absence of rape culture) then it would be gratuitous and jarring.
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I know several friends (who I didn't think to warn because I didn't think they'd ever read it) who freaked the fuck out after reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" - because there is not even a vague clue on the dust jacket that it's going to contain multiple involved realistic rapes.
What disturbs me about Game Of Thrones is that in the book Dannarys first night with Drogo isn't rape - but for some reason HBO made it into a rape scene in the show - making that storyline really problematic, because it becomes a story about her falling in love with her rapist, which is not what happened in the book AT ALL.
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It isn't too difficult to put all the elements of the book onscreen in under 2 hours. possibly three hours if you are setting up the big war a bit more and showing more of the battle than what's described in the book.
Adding a third part just takes the cake. Sure, it'll be visually pleasing, but this really smacks of squeezing every last penny out of the fans rather than giving us a good film.
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*Which is not to say that I won't, I loved the LOTR trilogy films
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