From Minearverse...
Simon:
The thought has crossed my mind that foreign broadcasters may cut Dollhouse so they can squeeze in more ads. Bit like what A&E did for MI5 (Spooks), I'm sure BBC America did it for Torchwood as well. But that's fun and games for next year. Right now I'm just enjoying a fandom that's just woken up after a 3 year nap.
Tamara:
And they woke up all feisty, it seems.
Allyson:
Heh. And a whole new fandom will spring forth. Like Firefly fans who didna know Buffy and Angel. And I was like, "Who are you people? Hands off the Whedon, strangers! You're getting your new fan goo on my Tim! Wash your hands! Ew!"
From Movies...
Jilli:
We just got back from Indy. It was fun, even if it did take so much suspension of disbelief in some sections that even *I* felt a strain. But still, it was pretty much what I wanted in an Indiana Jones movie.
Plei:
Jilli, Jilli, Jilli.
You don't SUSPEND your disbelief for it. You leave it in the car, outside the theatre, and if it happens to come looking for you, you pretend you've never met it.
Bitches, Erin stressing about updating her resume.
I was looking at the dates just now, and I thought, damn, when did I get so old?! I had teaching experience in 1994! Geez.
(Must go out and buy vat of Creme de la Mer. CRAP. Cannot afford de la Mer. Must buy vat of Olay. ----- Can't afford that either. Will slather self in Always Save peanut butter, creamy, smoke and attract bees. Damn. Too old to attract bees. Will curl up in dessicated ball of age, clutching sheaves of teaching resume in wrinkly hands.)
Aillean in Boxed Set, on Moonlight.
Oh God, but that plotline totally pays for itself by creating some of the slashiest on-screen slash in recent memory. Some of Angel? Less gay.
Spoiler-font just in case, but it is very general in nature.
from Natter
msbelle
- another hivemind question:
"upskill" real word or really horrible business speak.
amych
- incredibly horrible.
Sophia Brooks
- horrible. Plus it sounds like a combo of "upscale" and "Catskills"
sarameg
- OED claims it, but it is ugly and stupid and smells funny.
Dana
- I vote "ew".
Scrappy
- Horrible, although I kind of like its cousin "upsell," since it is such a pithy way to describe the whole "You want fries with that" thing.
Steph L.
- Dear God! Is it meant to be a noun?
....surely not a verb?
msbelle
- it is used as a verb..."educate and upskill [employees]..."
Ginger
- Perhaps if they upskilled writing, we wouldn't have to face that word.
Sox
- No. Bad. Must be removed. And then I need to wash my eyes.
Steph L.
- Sweet Fancy Moses.
That's such an egregious abuse of the language that I want to check it for bruises.
Dana
- Fake word! Fake word! Burn it!
Allyson
- Can we file upskill in the manure pile with productize?
I'd also like to nominate proactive for tossing in the poo pile. The word, not the product.
In Bitches:
juliana:
My hard drive is named snuffleupagus - I was having a bitch of a time getting it to be recognized.
in Lost:
Ailleann: Wow, I didn't know that seawater dissolves clothing!
shrift:
I don't often smile brightly, so when I do, it tends to make people nervous.
