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I need a football icon.
If I'm watching one Champions League game on my tv, and another simultaneously on my computer, do you think that indicates an obsession spiralling out of control? -
Fashion Crimes: Fall 2006
1. Crocs. BLOODY CROCS. EVERYWHERE ( Read more... ) -
feels so heavy
There's been a military coup in Thailand. It might not be the worst thing, because by all accounts that I've seen the Shinawatra government was fairly boiling over with corruption and the last election he called was handled in a rather shady manner. And it seems like everything is pretty calm at the moment. But they haven't had a coup in fifteen ( Read more... ) -
Ouch.
Wow, things just aren't going Owen Hargreaves' way these days, are they? -
GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN
Like the swallows to Capistrano, this is the week that the students flock back to my fair city. Given that there are four universities here, there are several neighbourhoods in which students predominate. My neighbourhood, in which I have lived for over fifteen years now, has always been a family neighbourhood, consisting mainly of detached and ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Day
"He was my very best friend. I miss him so much, if it was electricity it would be nine hundred million volts."
-A boy talking about his friend who was killed in the Beslan school siege, in a documentary that was just on tv -
Hahaha, Uefa hates my guts.
Group A: Barcelona, Chelsea, Werder Bremen, Levski Sofia.
Figures. -
Quote of the Day and Fact of the Day
"What are you, blind?"
-one of a group of guys with seeing eye dogs, laughing with each other
The German for a grill (the bling kind, not the barbeque kind) is "strahlende Gebisse". This translates literally as "shining dentures". -
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I think I need to find a new hair stylist. The girl I go to now is pretty good, but the salon uses Aveda products, which are smelly and give me a splitting headache. I don't get my hair cut very often, so I pretty much forgot about that until I went and got my hair cut today ( Read more... ) -
A Question of Language for Thee
Something I'm thinking about today; how and why did English lose the distinction between the formal and informal second person singular? Because it still exists in every other European language that I know of: tu and vous, du and Sie, tu and Usted, uh, I don't know how to tranliterate Russian properly but it's the same idea there too. So how come ( Read more... )