The USA's version of Frank Gallagher looks like shit. Not in the way he should either. He just doesn't look like he'd fit the role of chain-smoking, unwashed, doley that he should. Looks more like a hobo with a heart of gold. Which is... wrong.
Ever thought that is what they were going for? America has a real phobia of even slightly unlikable characters and tend to blunt their unlikable aspects whenever they are adapted.
But he's supposed to be generally unlikeable. It makes it a bigger deal when he does something approaching decent.
No no no, haven't you watched House? You have to constantly pepper your unlikable characters with undue justifications.
Or Glee where the show just lacks the self-awareness to even know how terrible of a person their character is (Rachel)
You aren't allowed to have unlikable characters!
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Another weirdness I am on a forum on another site. They posted videos about a game and listed features.
I mentioned a few features and they outright accused me of making things up and spreading rumors and said that I need to link my sources.
I honestly wish I could project a "really?" look over the internet because these "features" were in the linked videos!
House was a good show as long as they kept the plot medically focused.
EDIT: My WTF for the day, the new principal at my school changed the name of home room period to '[name of school mascot]' time. She used to princip at a elementary school, and she hasn't gotten it through her permed head that this is a
HIGH SCHOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
, and the students are better than that. (This is a private school, so most of the student body know how to read/add two numbers together.) In addition, she decreed that home room is strictly for work (most teachers aren't going to enforce this, though) and if a teacher sees that you are not doing work, he/she can give you work.
WTF 2: My Honors Spanish III classmates seem to have had all of their bilinguality pumped through their tildes over the summer. The fun part, though, is that I can verbally berate them in Spanish, which makes them haul out a dictionary to figure out what the bloody hell I just said.
Este es la clase de Espaņol tres, verdad?
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched!
WTF 3: My "Honors" Chemistry class is still covering stuff that I learned when I was eight. The teacher made the entire class cluster around a Bunsen burner to watch sugar burn. I tried sitting at my table and doing my homework, but she still made me come and look. I literally have more advanced chemical equipment around my house. (My dad used to be a chemist, and he has a box of distillers and test tubes and beakers and such in the garage.) The chemistry room does have some cool stuff, but we haven't gotten to use that yet.
On the bright side, lunch is cheaper, and the awesome substitute from last year got a full-time teaching job, and I'm in his class. My school's lunch is kinda expensive, but it is well worth it because they actually have a chef who prepares it. It's still mass-produced, but still better than a normal school lunch.
Random chemistry question which my teacher never got around to answering: if Mars is composed partially of iron oxide, why couldn't we (eventually) stick chunks of Mars into a giant orbital blast furnace? (I mean the issue with the Mars chunks, not the idea of a giant orbital blast furnace)
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