Posts by Danielle
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Grey's Anatomy. I'm sure Ms. Pompeo is a very nice woman, but if I have to listen to another of her self-absorbed whines... Wait a mo', I don't!
I think I must be insane for watching Grey's Anatomy (and, moreover, finding it sort of comforting). Every now and then there's a bit of dialogue that makes me smile, but the way in which all of the medical stories are only there to illustrate the dramatic lives of the main characters - it's a bit icky, when you start thinking about it.
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I found it last night on my MySky schedule, too. So yay - it is there, and I can rewatch the season in perfect clarity. The bootleg DVDs I've been watching are of slightly dodgy quality.
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Fiona, you do realise that without you, we TV peeps are hanging around the political threads, forlornly making pop-cultural references which just hang sadly in mid-air? We are bereft. Bereft I say.
Sky 1/The Box showed repeats of season three of The Wire relatively recently. In the middle of the night. In the middle of the week. So... no change there, then.
Garth, I wouldn't watch season four without season three. Season three is, I think, where the show manages to transcend the procedural stuff to the extent that you feel you're watching The Story of a City. (It's not that seasons one and two didn't do that a lot of the time, but season three is... just amazing.)
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12.25am. Way to prioritise one of the best shows ever made, TV2.
I'm currently at episode ten of season four, and my heart is in the process of being broken into tiny little pieces by those four boys.
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If they devoted 2 or 2 years of full time training - 5 or 6 hours a day - they could approach a reasonable copy of the Fred 'N Ginger style. But even if you tried to do that with classical ballet, you would still look really, really bad. It is a discipline that you really have to be reared in from a very early age.
OK, I'll buy that. Partially. Particularly as ballet isn't something I know much about. But remember that all those great Hollywood dancers were trained rigorously in the vaudeville circuit, often from an extremely young age. And Rudolf Nureyev, who was no balletic slouch himself, regarded Astaire as the greatest dancer of the twentieth century.
(Obviously, I have a deep, deep love for Fred. And Gene Kelly, too. Sometimes I can't even believe Gene Kelly is real: he looks so perfect.)
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It's like the difference between classical ballet and Fred 'N Ginger. One requires a lifetime of physical discipline and dedication and the other could be mastered by an amateur, with a few scrapes and bruises, to a reasonably competent facsimile.
Please tell me you didn't just say that any old amateur hoofer can dance like my Fred if they put their minds to it. Because... I really disagree.
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although most of the bits in between were crap, the stage performances were brilliantly produced
Agreed. The set design for some of those performances was just awesome. I was also pretty thrilled by the Arctic Monkeys' incredibly drunk antics at the podium. Instead of doing all that bullshit agent-thanking, one of them just raised a wooden duck aloft and blew a whistle. It made much more sense than a lot of the other acceptance speeches...
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worship the Edmonds Cook Book
Now *that's* a religion I could wholeheartedly support.
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unacceptable conduct such as posting on various forums during the course of their working day
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (See what I did there? Thread convergence!)
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the pope (whichever man happened to be the pope at the time) has only used it twice, once to declare himself infallible,
I didn't know this, and I find it humourous. 'Hi, I'm the Pope and I'm infallible.' Surely that makes everything any Pope said afterwards completely accurate, though? Is he only partially infallible? Or was only that one Pope infallible, and everyone else has no idea?
According to my (admittedly decade-old, so I could be wrong) research, Humanae Vitae was an encyclical, and the 'faithful' are apparently 'bound to assent' to an encyclical and obey its teachings. I mean, I don't think it would have been such a huge deal for Catholics - and it did seem to be, at the time - if they'd all thought it was just a... suggestion.