“I’ve got drugs. I can just make them [mimes falling over]. Slip them something in their goblet. Some will get offended by that now, because they’ll call it rape or whatever. But, you know, for me it’s a helping hand.” - Martin Freeman
“Multiculturalism hasn’t and doesn’t help, because rightly or wrongly it polarises people so much. Racism is one thing and I don’t agree with that in any form but noticing that there are differences is normal and fine and to be encouraged.”
“There is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, they’d really notice and might not love it. We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldn’t come. Very simple.”
I think in the video, he's going for that over-the-top-in-regular-voice humor that I've always thought of as quintessentially British, but yeah, it's not that funny, and I think he realizes it's gone too far and he calls himself on it right away
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I stayed up playing a board game with my mom and brother. Oh, the excitement. :p
Thanks for linking that story! Makes it easier to get since we've been getting bad snowstorms and I can't guarantee wanting to go to the library.
I hadn't read a lot of mysteries, but a couple years back I got a ton at a book sale. Some are good. Some are... not.
My biggest problem is that I can NEVER solve the crime. They almost always throw in some random reason why so and so did it... but it was never mentioned before. One I read revealed the criminal and the detective said something about how it was obvious because he (the criminal) suffered from some sort of disease. That was never mentioned in the book before that line.
So, I enjoy the stories, but don't try to figure them out on my own.
Yeah, I don't try to solve them either. I'm generally awful at it, and that's not really the point of reading. All books are mysteries in their way, as you don't know what will happen.
I have a weird relationship with mysteries. I developed a hatred for them as a child due to bloody Encyclopedia Brown. Then in high school my mom got me into Dorothy L. Sayers and after that I started reading Rex Stout and Agatha Christie.
When I try to read modern mysteries I really don't like them. I don't want crime books per se, I don't want police procedurals, I don't want amateur detectives who the author turns into bumbling fools for chapters at a time in order to make the plot work...
I have developed a love for historical mysteries. I love Ellis Peters' Cadfael books and Lindsey Davis' Falco series, but otherwise I stick to the old classic mysteries.
Aww, I loved Encyclopedia Brown. He got my bff into reading too.
I actually used my EB knowledge the other day. Husband looked up from his computer and said "What's a word with three double letters in a row?" and I promptly replied, "Bookkeeper." He was sufficiently impressed. Woot!
I love Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series, but I've said that before.
I just hated that I could never solve a single EB mystery because I felt like that was the point (and I was a competitive and vain child). I would race through the books at the library and then they'd rely on me knowing dogs don't have color vision or something else I felt there was no reason I should know.
Oh, we stayed up watching The African Queen, and then I played Cards Against Humanity online after everyone went to bed.
My brother and his wife and dog are here for an extended visit, which hasn't happened in years, so there's been a lot of visiting and exhaustion. I did get trashed on the 30th and then made the mistake of eating a ton of olives...
I didn't even know you could play it online. I heard that everyone who ordered it for Christmas got a card with their own name on it, which is super sweet.
Since you can print out the basic set for free I did that and played with some family over the holidays (though I inverted the colors on the black cards and just marked the back of each, as I wasn't willing to use that much black ink). I added a bunch of sibling in-jokes, so that was nice.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH80DByclpo
he's also kind of racist:
“Multiculturalism hasn’t and doesn’t help, because rightly or wrongly it polarises people so much. Racism is one thing and I don’t agree with that in any form but noticing that there are differences is normal and fine and to be encouraged.”
“There is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, they’d really notice and might not love it. We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldn’t come. Very simple.”
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Thanks for linking that story! Makes it easier to get since we've been getting bad snowstorms and I can't guarantee wanting to go to the library.
I hadn't read a lot of mysteries, but a couple years back I got a ton at a book sale. Some are good. Some are... not.
My biggest problem is that I can NEVER solve the crime. They almost always throw in some random reason why so and so did it... but it was never mentioned before. One I read revealed the criminal and the detective said something about how it was obvious because he (the criminal) suffered from some sort of disease. That was never mentioned in the book before that line.
So, I enjoy the stories, but don't try to figure them out on my own.
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There's supposed to be a rule of thumb for mystery writers that the reader can figure out whodunnit but I rarely feel like that's true.
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When I try to read modern mysteries I really don't like them. I don't want crime books per se, I don't want police procedurals, I don't want amateur detectives who the author turns into bumbling fools for chapters at a time in order to make the plot work...
I have developed a love for historical mysteries. I love Ellis Peters' Cadfael books and Lindsey Davis' Falco series, but otherwise I stick to the old classic mysteries.
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I actually used my EB knowledge the other day. Husband looked up from his computer and said "What's a word with three double letters in a row?" and I promptly replied, "Bookkeeper." He was sufficiently impressed. Woot!
I love Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series, but I've said that before.
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There were a couple things I've read over the years that are like, "Oh, but this thing" where "this thing" was a myth, and that's frustrating.
I think I solved ONE EB mystery when I was a kid. Best day of my young life. :)
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My brother and his wife and dog are here for an extended visit, which hasn't happened in years, so there's been a lot of visiting and exhaustion. I did get trashed on the 30th and then made the mistake of eating a ton of olives...
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Since you can print out the basic set for free I did that and played with some family over the holidays (though I inverted the colors on the black cards and just marked the back of each, as I wasn't willing to use that much black ink). I added a bunch of sibling in-jokes, so that was nice.
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