I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.

Giles ,'Selfless'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Aug 10, 2008 7:17:14 am PDT #2300 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I didn't watch any of the opening ceremonies because I am a dum-dum who forgot they were on, and because I have a non-Intel-based Mac, NBC doesn't want me to watch their video. WTF, NBC?

Do you trust George W. Bush and Putin to keep it from turning into a Hot War?

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

All I can do is laugh, because if I don't, I'll curl up in the fetal position and never leave the house. He's going to literally* destroy the planet before he leaves office, isn't he?

*(Yes, I mean "literally" in its actual sense, unlike the egregious misuses of it that seem to be increasing in number. How does one MISUSE "literally"? Its meaning is fairly clear, god DAMN. And yet you get sentences like, "My 4-year-old's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's was LITERALLY a massacre." Uh....REALLY? Because you seem fairly calm despite the slaughter of the innocents.)


sumi - Aug 10, 2008 7:18:32 am PDT #2301 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

I know. They should be intimidating.

But why were there bagpipes?

That was just. . .odd.


Sean K - Aug 10, 2008 7:22:59 am PDT #2302 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

But why were there bagpipes?

That was just. . .odd.

The war numbers for bagpipes were like screaming banshees.


Kat - Aug 10, 2008 7:53:25 am PDT #2303 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

sumi, and at the oddest times! Like when athletes from Jordan walk in?


Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2008 7:54:07 am PDT #2304 of 10003
brillig

And not just any bagpipes but Scotland the Brave.


amych - Aug 10, 2008 7:55:57 am PDT #2305 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

And not just any bagpipes but Scotland the Brave.

Yes, that was the weird part for me. I mean, piping of one sort or another has a long tradition when you want something LOUD over a big crowd of people -- but... Scotland!


Jesse - Aug 10, 2008 8:07:24 am PDT #2306 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I did notice that they didn't change the loop of "cultural" music when the Chinese athletes came in -- it wasn't the bagpipes that I heard, but something equally not-Chinese.


sumi - Aug 10, 2008 8:33:13 am PDT #2307 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, random Scotland the Brave!

Perhaps, they should do that randomly throughout the Games.


meara - Aug 10, 2008 9:04:33 am PDT #2308 of 10003

The Wall Arch in Utah's Arches national park has collapsed.

Aww! That's so sad!!

I want to go have a life, but I also want to sit on my couch and watch the Olympics nonstop for the next two weeks. Dilemma!!


Jesse - Aug 10, 2008 9:09:08 am PDT #2309 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hilarious: [link]