I'm totally spacing on what that might be.
The scene in Long Good Friday where everybody is strung up by their ankles in a meat locker? BtVS does that - I think it's even in the opening credits one season. I can't remember the episode.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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DavidS - Feb 19, 2012 7:17:36 am PST #18267 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Feb 19, 2012 7:23:22 am PST #18268 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Feb 19, 2012 7:29:46 am PST #18269 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
P-C,
I just tweeted that. I saw it on io9.
The youtuber who did that has serious skills - narratively and visually.
DavidS - Feb 19, 2012 8:04:08 am PST #18270 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks, P-Cow!
le nubian - Feb 19, 2012 9:20:52 am PST #18271 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Feb 19, 2012 9:52:54 am PST #18272 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Judi Dench is going blind.
Yeah, my dad suffered macular deterioration before he died. It was very depressing for him, as he was already having trouble getting around walking and he couldn't play golf with his buddies, or watch TV even.
Toddson - Feb 19, 2012 9:55:23 am PST #18273 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My mother's macular degeneration reached the point where she couldn't get her driver's license renewed and has continued to get worse. She can read, a little, with the help of a machine that enlarges everything, but it's a hassle.
Connie Neil - Feb 19, 2012 10:00:25 am PST #18274 of 30000
brillig
God, if you're listening, I'd rather be deaf than blind. If I get a choice. Which I don't. I know which direction my cowardice runs.
JZ - Feb 19, 2012 11:57:25 am PST #18275 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Helen Keller was asked more than once whether she'd rather have her sight or her hearing back, if she were granted a magic wish or a one-sided medical miracle, and she always said she'd rather hear. What little she remembered of sight from her very early childhood was delicious, but what she yearned for more than anything else was music and the voices of the people she loved.
I'd much, much rather keep all my senses, but... yeah. When I try to imagine never seeing Hec's or Matilda's or Emmett's or my parents' faces again it hurts, but it's imagining never hearing their voices again (or never hearing "Feed The Birds" or "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" or "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" or even "My Baby Does The Hanky-Panky" again) that makes me really die inside.
Unlike Xander, I DO NOT like the quiet. Or, I only like the quiet when it's got something to be quiet against.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 19, 2012 12:54:59 pm PST #18276 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
While I wouldn't be lining up for an utter lack of verbal communication, I'm pretty fond of silence in limited doses and could probably deal with it full-time. Blindness, however, would remove the lion's share of what I enjoy about life. I'd rather lose limbs, frankly.