Hysterical. This is Digby on the freaky health care uproar, lining grandma up for the suicide booth etc. (and tangentially Sarah Palin), but what made me laugh is it's also
exactly
what Raq was saying about conversations with Mal a few weeks ago:
It's like listening to Sarah Palin, which I find akin to listening to a pre-verbal toddler just before they get the hang of the real thing. They've got all the expression down, the lilt, the emphasis and the cadence and if you didn't know better you might think they were speaking a foreign tongue. There are even a few phrases and ideas in there that are true enough to have you trying to piece together some logic in it all. There is none, of course --- it's infantile gibberish, but they say it with such confidence that you are almost convinced that they know what they're saying.
Oh. I wasn't thinking of those Travellers--Britain has non-Roma Travellers that aren't new agey at all, they're old. I think of them as primarily Irish, though that's probably narrow on my part.
Yeah, I knew about those, too, but the dreadlocks and tie-dye in the picture, plus the worry about children wanting to become Travellers, had me thinking New Age.
Can someone do me a favor and go comment on something in my LJ--it wasn't sending me notifications, and I want to see if I fixed it.
I've been having problems with notifications, too.
I know diddly about New Age Travellers, Hil, so I can't say. I always assume Irish for the UK.
I've noticed some lag in notifications with LJ, but those are on comments on my comments in other people's journals since I'm not writing much myself these days.
Talk about bad ju-ju. Matthew Gray Gubler tore up his knee and needs multiple surgeries and then Shemar Moore gets hit by a car and breaks his leg. Time to let the women on the show get all the action scenes.
Wha?
Some mojo, huh? MGG was dancing, of all things, on a
(500) Days Of Summer
night out, and Shemar was riding his bicycle. Apparently MGG has one surgery left to go, and can't stand without crutches, but Shemar who broke his leg about a week ago is in a walking cast they're just going to hide. But MGG's injury will have to be written in somehow.
billytea, I've listened to the Australian anthem twice in the last two days. Apparently you're all "young and free."
(Emmett's team is playing in a tournament with a team from Sydney.)
