TheFlyingGerbil

I guess a lot of us read a word and get used to internally sounding it a certain way before we hear it out loud from someone else. Sometimes the two vary wildly. I guess I'll start with a videogame one: Ad appears on TV. Me: Ooh, an advert for scrim Voice over guy: get excited about sky rim. me: wot?... and a weird one. When I was at school and used the word beta in science lessons I pronounced it correctly as "beater". Then when I started using it in relation beta tests in video games I started reading it as "better". I have to make a conscious effort now to get back to 'beater'. Any examples where you've thought 'thank god I heard that before I said it out loud'? Bonus points if you actually did say it to someone and made a total fool of yourself

I need to stop watching bad movies. Just watched Good Luck Chuck today. The main character's best friend was SO disgusting it kind of made you like the main character a bit less for being friends with him. And what is it with leading ladies in romantic comedies that they are so often complete klutzes. Is it to make them seem more 'girl next door'y? I think it was way too much in this film anyway.

I had a nightmare with this when I bought my surround sound headset as my TV would only pass out a stereo signal from the optical output. I found that to be the case with most TVs when I looked in to it so I have to swap the optical cable around to whichever device I'm using at the time. It means I don't use it as often as I would like as I can't be bothered swapping the cable around all the time.

I recorded Dancer in the Dark last night. I will have to psych myself up to watch it though as it is pretty harrowing. I'd recommend people to watch it: It is hard work but worth it.

Just watched St. Trinians. Jesus, was it bad. Bit surprised at the end when the credits showed paloma faith was the emo girl. I hadn't realised the whole way through.

I guess people see them a bit differently in this country. I can't imagine any straight men with them (except maybe the carpenters, but then no straight people my age would have that).

Doris Day, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Carpenters Christmas albums. I'll be having a gay old time this Christmas.

I watched departures yesterday. It was enjoyable. Funny in bits and emotional in bits. I'd recommend it - it was interesting to see about death in a different culture.

my android phone doesn't have a hardware search button (just home, menu, back) and I don't miss it. there's software search buttons all over the place.

I watched Ruthless People the night before last. I've seen it several times and it is still awesome. I think it's one of my favourite 80s movies and it's _very_ 80s. Bette Midler is brilliant. I'm watching Beaches at the moment and Outrageous Fortune is great as well and I know it's not 80s but Hocus Pocus is super too.

yes, I know that, but I don't want to buy my steak next to a vat of abandoned cow arseholes.

"combi abattoir-wholesale foods place". Jesus. How could anyone pass that by...

I put it in here because I enjoyed it, rather than that it is good. I would suggest it is not going to be most people here's cup of tea. They're a rather strange mix of romantic drama and quite gruesome bits. Imagine A Walk To Remember but you actually see Mandy Moore wasting away... and then getting mauled by a wolf.

Not having much luck with my reading at the moment. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris will not be recommended by me. It's a collection of short stories, but I'm not particularly enjoying the style of it. I'm hoping the non-fiction section at the end of it will live up to the promise.

Your body is ready.

is it from trainspotting or older than that?

I never re-read books as I read so slowly I can't keep up with my backlog, but that is the one book I will definitely come back to.

My favourite book I've read over the last few years is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. It's the story of a man's life from his childhood in Mexico to working for Diego Rivera and Frieda Carlo and Trotsky to the communist trials in the USA. It has a slightly melancholy tone,but it left me a slightly different person after I read it. A brilliant read though not so profound is Carter Beats the Devil. It's about a magician in the 1920s who gets embroiled with the death of the president of the USA. It's got wit, drama and emotion and you will absolutely rip through it. My only word of caution is that the author's seconed book "Sunnyside" isn't half as good.

I've got the books but not read them yet, though I've never known anyone to be disappointed with them. I did just see the trailer in the cinema today and nearly crapped my pants. Pretty intense! Imagine this booming out over the cinema's sound system.

GO TEAM JACOB! I watched Breaking Dawn Part One today. I think I may have started ovulating because I enjoyed it and can't wait a whole year for the next one! Having said that I watched all the first three yesterday so I don't know if that addled my brain.

I feel they would be used in a modern remake of the wizard of oz...

it came out today (18th) in Europe.

ooh. My copy arrived today. Now I just have to forget it's there until 25th December!

I've never understood why there wouldn't be an expansion slot in gadgets. It's what's putting me off buying a WP7 phone at the moment. I can see why apple do it so they can sell their different memory sized models. but in products where there is only one version all you're doing is annoying potential customers. It must be really easy and cheap to shove in a memory slot, and is a real 'quick win'

Yeah, according to Apple's lawyers The App Store is iOS, and iOS only.