Getting Griefed

Well, it finally happened. I was in a lounge chatting in Parenthene  when we all got grieved.

These green bullets kept appearing, people got caged, and smoke everywhere. Very annoying. The perpetrator was the avatar shown above seated on the sofa at left. We all filed complaints.

Later I just decided to go to a club instead, and danced for about an hour to 70s disco. The media stream kept on bombing out, so I muted it and played my own choice via winamp.

Food Meme

Infected by cmcmck:

The BBC asked people to vote for the top 50 things everyone should try a bite of in their lifetime.

Bold the ones you've tried
Italicize the ones you want to try
Strike the ones you don't want to try
(comments in brackets)

1. Fresh fish
2. Lobster
3. Steak
4. Thai food
5. Chinese food
6. Ice cream
7. Pizza
8. Crab
9. Curry
10. Prawns
11. Moreton Bay Bugs (they are supposed to be very nice)
12. Clam chowder
13. Barbecues
14. Pancakes
15. Pasta
16. Mussels
17. Cheesecake
18. Lamb
19. Cream tea
20. Alligator (wouldn't mind Croc)
21. Oysters
22. Kangaroo (Emu is better)
23. Chocolate
24. Sandwiches
25. Greek food
26. Burgers
27. Mexican food
28. Squid
29. American diner breakfast
30. Salmon
31. Venison
32. Guinea pig (not after seeing a reality show where an American family was sent to live a poor Peruvian family who washed their hair in urine and ate Guinea Pigs they lived with!)
33. Shark
34. Sushi
35. Paella
36. Barramundi
37. Reindeer
38. Kebab
39. Scallops
40. Australian meat pie (NO NO NO NO NO NO, NEVER AGAIN, ever since I found half a rat in one as a kid)
41. Mango
42. Durian fruit (?? what is it ??)
43. Octopus
44. Ribs
45. Roast beef
46. Tapas
47. Jerk chicken/pork
48. Haggis (no! check out the ingredients!)
49. Caviar
50. Cornish Pasty (yum!)

As you can see, I'm more of an omnivore than anything else.

Which Norse God are you like?

Infected by _blubloo_:

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You scored as Thor Hel 60% Thor 60% Freya 60% Balder 50% Njord 50% Bragi 50% Frigg 50% Odin 50% Skadi 40% Freyr 30% Tyr 30% Heimdall 30% Loki 30% Sif 20%

Final Destination 2 & Outside Dunnies

I decided to watch Final Destination 2 - the sequel to Final Destination which I watched a few days back.

I got as far as the "set-up" for the second death. Not that, mind it, it's a "bad" film. In fact, it's clearly made to be a "B" film and there's nothing wrong with that (I found only one reference in the names in this film - "Mr Corman" - apparently the next sequel has a "Mr Romero"). The scenario is set up in record time (referencing the first film)and then we wait to see how dies and how.

The first death was bad enough (involving a form of eye trauma, something I'm phobic over), however, the set-up involved the next victim being in a dentist's chair looking out a window to a construction site. Last year I had a failed tooth extraction in more or less the same conditions. That was the most painful, frustrating, and frightening thing that'd happened to me in a while!

That being the case, I don't care how the victim dies - the memories surrounding it have to be much more frightening. So I ejected the DVD and might watch it some other time, maybe in company.

Maybe. In company.

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I don't think a film's scared me so quickly since I watched the original Halloween with my mother in the early 80s.

We had a semi-detached toilet.  It was outside and in fact faced the house next door, but that was blocked by a strategically placed hedge that grew to the side of the house. In addition, if you were inside the house after lights out, you had to unlock two locks on the inside door, the latch on the fly-wire door to the patio, and and old fashioned lock on the outside door. There was no light in the toilet, so you had to turn on the light in the "wash house" (a room that once contained a copper to boil clothes, and the shower) which door might be shut as well. Normally, in the middle of the night, we'd wee in a giant Milo tin in the bath room instead (I usually slept like a log)!

Anyway, on this night the film ended after midnight, and dad was away on call work (working as a guard on the Avon yard railway line). Yes, we both knew that it was "only a film", but we still took turns standing guard on the other side of the hedge, while the other went to the toilet. That how scared we were!