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[TD1]

Ah, dat ending, though!

All it needed was slightly more booze to make it perfect.

[Darvi]

I've picked up Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney and it's amazing. It has wacky characters, puzzles, courtroom shenanigans, people being incinerated alive and spoony bards. What else could I want?

Also, Inquisitor Barnham is a serious contender for the title of "Most Normal Ace Attorney Prosecutor", which is impressive for a guy who swings around a sword.

[GlyphGryph]

I've just watched the film "The World's End" starring Nick Frost and Simon Peg.

Spoiler: The main villains of the film are brilliant. (click to show/hide)

An haughty alien civilization is trying to take over the Earth to "civilize" it without its inhabitants' consent by using agents of influence spreading their ideas. Those who don't comply with their will are promptly exterminated and replaced with puppets. They are the most American (or should I say, Western) villains I've ever seen since the Visitors from "V". They even use the US State Department rhetoric when arguing with the main characters at the end ("You are going against the entire galactic community! Your planet is a threat to us!", etc.).

The resistance speech is just as and equally American, though!

[GiglameshDespair]

I've just watched the film "The World's End" starring Nick Frost and Simon Peg.

Spoiler: The main villains of the film are brilliant. (click to show/hide)

An haughty alien civilization is trying to take over the Earth to "civilize" it without its inhabitants' consent by using agents of influence spreading their ideas. Those who don't comply with their will are promptly exterminated and replaced with puppets. They are the most American (or should I say, Western) villains I've ever seen since the Visitors from "V". They even use the US State Department rhetoric when arguing with the main characters at the end ("You are going against the entire galactic community! Your planet is a threat to us!", etc.).

The resistance speech is just as and equally American, though!

The resistance speech to me didn't feel like it was American so much as Rebellious Teenager - they just want to be free to have a good time, not anything to do with fundamental liberties of man or anything 'American' in that manner. He never grew up - to him,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the aliens are just equivalents to another set of overbearing parents. Every teenager thinks they know what's best, though they don't. The actiosn of parents can indeed seem unfair and alien. It can go too far - I've seen children with no freedom whatsoever. Have to come back straight after school. Can't have a friend round or go round a friend's house. They aren't allowed to do anything themselves because they might do it wrong. It's just as bad as giving them too much freedom because they grow into drones, can't handle themselves, can't do anything because they never had the chance before.

To be, that feels liek the point of the film - british and specifically english culture is getting more and more stifling. Health and safety has gone far out of control. Everything personal and quirky is being lost - everything is becoming an indistinct, safe soup. Did you know all the pubs show in the film use the exact same props? They did it to show their feelings on all the little village pubs being bought by big chains now.

/rant over

[Graknorke]

Did you know all the pubs show in the film use the exact same props? They did it to show their feelings on all the little village pubs being bought by big chains now.

Pubs? What pubs?
There aren't any because it's by far cheaper to get drunk at home.

[GiglameshDespair]

The point of it didn't used to be 'get hammered', though. Of course, people did, but the whole plan wasn't get knockout drunk so you can't remember the entire night. It was to go down the pub and meet your friend,s have a game of darts over a few beers, when it got late head back to the missus. Maybe it's just rose-tinted glasses, but binging wasn't seen as a shining example of a good night in the same way.

[AlleeCat]

Pubs in my experience are just restaurants with more alcohol. In Seattle, I know of an English pub, an Irish pub, and a Scottish pub. I've been to all three, and I never partook in the alcohol. (Not old enough anyway, although my dad did offer to share once or twice.) although, the English-style one does brew it's own root beer, which is damned delicious.

[Yoink]

Pubs? What pubs?
There aren't any because it's by far cheaper to get drunk at home.

I go to pubs (well, mostly bars), and I live in a city...
I guess a lot of that is because I'll usually be seeing bands as well, but not always. And there are plenty of pubs and bars that do a roaring trade around here without having anything to do with live music.



ANYWAY. MY HAPPY:
The thing which I was dreading having to do today? I remembered that I'd already taken care of it.
And then my shirt bribed me to wear it with $5, which I subsequently used to buy myself breakfast at Subway.

[Kadzar]

Your shirt paid you to wear itself?

[Gunner-Chan]

I actually got bribed by my pants this morning too. Given I forgot I left 3 dollars in them I decided I'd wear them today.

[Knit tie]

I actually got bribed by my pants this morning too. Given I forgot I left 3 dollars in them I decided I'd wear them today.

I never imagined you as someone who wears skirts, I have to say.

[Eric Blank]

I'd be wary of pants that try to win you over with bribes, honestly. Especially if they're the uncomfortable, clingy sort.

[Flying Dice]

I'd be wary of pants that try to win you over with bribes, honestly. Especially if they're the uncomfortable, clingy sort.

The best pants are the ones that just sort of hang around, occasionally brushing up against you as a reminder that they're still there. Especially if they're the reliable sort that you can have hold your keys and wallet without worrying about stuff going missing.

[Yoink]

Your shirt paid you to wear itself?

Yep. No idea how that five dollar note ended up in the pocket, although I'm assuming I was involved somehow.
I actually quite like this shirt, now that I think of it...

[GiglameshDespair]

Are you often paid to be inside things?