Posts by Danielle
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Sacha,
I... don't think that's the same story that was in the newspaper. If you look closely. :)
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to recordari,
There’s always chicory.
Which was a pretty common coffee additive in Louisiana, because they were poor. OMG, did we just get political?
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But... I don't get how liking instant coffee would make me understand what it's like to live in poverty...
Perhaps I'm reading it too literally.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Amy Gale,
There’s definitely instant in the supermarket.
Yes. It's just that I never saw anyone use it. At least, not in Louisiana or Texas.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to George Darroch,
I am perhaps the only person on earth who didn't know this, but I recently discovered the (deeply square) sample source for 'Regulate':
Heh.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Sacha,
It's all drip pots, all the time...
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Lucy noticed this too.
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That was highly entertaining.
Well, kinda. It was a bit like watching people on Jersey Shore/Macaroni Rascals choose their clubbing outfits: the WTFness burned my eyes.
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Muse: Linky Love, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Larry Sanders Show
Our complete DVD set of this – I’ve only seen odd episodes previously – just arrived last week. Hooray!
(But also: I don’t get why it’s ‘hypocritical’ for The Office to want to be successful. It’s a TV show. Presumably it wants an audience? And I love Mindy Kaling.)
(ETA: Or do you mean 'themes' of success within the show itself? In which case: of course. American work culture is a whole different, weird-ass beast...)
the gold standard is Freaks and Geeks
I. Am. Obsessed. It’s probably in my top five shows ever. Haverchuck for President, always.
Glee, however, can bite me for being filled with promise and then royally sucking almost *immediately*. The crash and burn was absolutely incredible.
“yank” once got me accused of being racist or demeaning or somesuch, whereas I meant it no differently than “Kiwi”
Interesting. I think of ‘Yank’ a bit like ‘Pom’: not particularly nice. It always calls to mind a lot of ignorant people pontificating meanspiritedly around a BBQ (and then shutting up awkwardly as soon as they work out my background). But that could just be my issues. :)
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Muse: Linky Love, in reply to Islander,
a nation that uses 'Fall' but finds our 'fortnight' risible?
I would be quite keen on seeing any examples you can find of Americans finding 'fortnight' 'risible'. In my experience they either have no idea what the word means or calmly accept it as a dialectical difference. Much like, say, 'autumn' and 'fall'.