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It's 6.20am. We stayed up in the common room until the BBC coverage finished at 5.50. We are hardcore.
Thank you, America.
PS: CNN called it at 4.am our time.
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[23 Oct 2008|12:07am] |
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FRIENDS ONLY
(well, mostly)
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[19 Sep 2008|11:21am] |
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And he's gone.
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[18 Sep 2008|02:56pm] |
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Laddie's kidneys are failing.
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[28 Jul 2008|10:43pm] |
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EEEE I'M GOING TO FRANCE.
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| Robinson saga, cont. |
[03 Jul 2008|02:12am] |
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YOU LYING FUCKER.
Here's what Iris Robinson really said originally. Does she honestly think our memories are that short? She's forgetting a fundamental part of the Norn Irish mentality. The first link is a transcript (from the wonderful website theyworkforyou.com, which keeps records of shenanigans in UK politics) of what she decided she should have said, and obviously we're all idiots to have "twisted her meaning". Recorded for prosperity behind the cut, in which she rudely interupts a serious discussion on mental health provision for the queer community in an attempt to bolster her primeval ego.
Good for Mr McGimpsey (Health Minister), and I guess Mr Molloy (the Speaker) also for allowing that brilliant little "Nuh uh! -- Uh huh!" exchange to happen. I'd love to go into politics just to be a grown woman and be able to get away with that kind of dialogue with my colleagues. Otherwise, I doubt my approach -- beating everyone over the head with a hardback copy of "Acts of the Apostles" and screeching "Catch yerselves on!!" -- would really be that popular.
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Just watched the latest Who episode "Midnight". It was fucking terrifying. Can we talk about it?
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| Much love to Dolores Kelly, MLA. |
[14 Jun 2008|02:27pm] |
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I have FINISHED my exams!! Now for some news before I go off to squinch my sub fusc into a little ball and eat gratuitous amounts of jelly babies. Drinking shall follow, tonight.
I'm staying in Oxford for another week. Much fun and games to be had.
Anyway, THIS is why I voted SDLP at the last election (my aunt was not amused. She said it's my birthright to support unionism. Fuck her.):
Link to relevant news article.
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SDLP Equality Spokesperson Dolores Kelly has called on Iris Robinson, chair of the Assembly’s Health committee to apologise and withdraw her recent homophobic comments.
She said: “Iris Robinson is just the latest DUP representative to disgrace themselves with a homophobic outburst.
“However, following on from Ian Paisley Junior’s anti-gay rant her comments are even more intolerable as an MP and wife of the current First Minister.
“The Office of the First and Deputy First Minister is the department charged with promoting equality and bringing forward the Single Equality Bill.
“Vulnerable elements of society who are potential victims of discrimination have a right to look to this office for help, and not attack from the wife of the First Minister, who really should know better.
“Iris Robinson should consider the inflammatory and deeply insensitive nature of her comments which clearly calls into question her role as chair of the health committee.
“The next time any of us will wish to hear Mrs Robinson comment on this subject is to issue an apology to the many decent, right-minded people she has offended.”
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First Paisley Jr and then Iris Robinson. I am so fucking SICK of shit like this. It's embarrassing. It's hard enough not think of your country as a little primeval backwater that's just discovered democracy without the people representing you sounding like they've been dropped out of the nineteenth century.
Here's a brilliant take on it from "Folks on the Hill". The whole episode was especially fantastic. Watch and enjoy.
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[11 Jun 2008|10:08pm] |
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Does anyone else, when filling out forms, feel sorely tempted to put "The Hospital" as "Place of Birth"? Just checking.
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| Break from revision hysteria. |
[04 Jun 2008|08:00pm] |
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I've made my French literature choices for finals! I'll be studying the first four next year and the final four in two years, after my year abroad. Going to be up to my eyeballs in summer reading, but no more Romantics! no more Realists! no more FUCKING Proust! (Poor Gide, I had to leave him out in favour of the wimmens, but I can read him at some other point, when I have the time. Like after graduation. For now I'll just rely on remembering La Symphonie Pastorale at A-level)
Eighteenth Century
Montesquieu and Voltaire: Introduction to the Enlightenment
Voltaire: the polemics of Deism and the art of the conte
Twentieth Century
Literature and ‘Commitment’ (i): Sartre
Literature and ‘Commitment’ (ii): Camus
Beauvoir
Women’s Writing
Francophone Literature (i): Caribbean Writing
Francophone Literature (ii): Writing from North Africa
I've also picked my period papers in English: Restoration and the Romantics, so a time span stretching from around 1640 to 183-something. Still deciding on specific authors and topics for that, so would appreciate any advice from those who are older and wiser. I'm thinking Milton, Swift and Aphra Behn for Restoration, but after that I'm not really sure. Then Blake, Keats, Coleridge(?), Sterne, Austen, Wollstonecraft as a tentative line-up for Romantics (I know they're not all Romantics, it's just what the paper's sometimes called and I can't remember its number).
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[25 Apr 2008|10:31am] |
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Wasps are not SUPPOSED to be as long as my thumb.
And now it's crawled in behind my photo board and I can't see it. If I lean over to open the window it may well fly up and EAT MY FACE.
I think I'll escape to college.
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| Don't mind us, we're great craic! |
[24 Apr 2008|09:46am] |
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To American posters and those who otherwise know the US pretty well:
If you were to recommend somewhere in America for a young, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Brit visiting for the first time, what would it be? Please note that said Brit, like most of her kind, doesn't do well in hot climates, ruling quite a few southern states out (at least in summer).
(Plans for infestation, as the lovely Tommy Tiernan would put it, pending.)
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| OMG I heart your British accent! |
[01 Apr 2008|08:14am] |
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Ever noticed how when people use the phrase "British accent", they invariably don't mean the enormous spectrum of Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, or even English accents? "British" usually means a posh, RP, stereotypically Oxbridge way of speaking. Anything else is "a regional accent".
I'll write a proper entry in here very soon. I've just been using this place as a verbal punchbag recently, think of this:
Are you coming to bed?
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| In response to Melanie Reid's piece in today's Times. |
[17 Mar 2008|02:17pm] |
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[All I've done is rewrite the first section of Ms Reid's article slightly. Everything else is all hers, snooty, condescending harpy that she is. Pronouns and all.]
"Madeline McCann is the new face of the middle class
Behind the headlines, a hidden world of suffering"
We just don’t get it, do we? We have simply no idea, us douce working classes, what the Madeline McCann story is about. We’ve watched the saga unfold, first with the polite concern we would feel for any missing child, then with mild amazement when she was found alive. We’re delighted there’s been something we can imagine is a fairytale ending, especially so because now we don’t have to feel guilty any more about how little we care.
We don’t understand. At no point have we grasped the horrifying scale of emotional poverty and chaos that Maddy’s story reveals, because we are as removed from that kind of poverty as we are from events in Afghanistan.
For life among the white middle class of London looks like a foreign country. And because we don’t live there, and are never likely to, we have no concept of the reality in which hundreds of thousands of British children, just like Maddy, grow up.
Since 1997 the working classes have heard Gordon Brown chunter on about his goals for ending child socio-economic privilege in Britain, but they have done so with a profound lack of engagement. Socio-economic privilege? In modern Britain? Yeah, yeah, we all know what that’s really about, don’t we? Feckless parents who waste all their money on widescreen TVs and wine and fast cars and foreign holidays and barely have enough left to send their children to the best school money can buy. We know the type. But the truth is, we don’t have a clue what modern social privilege means.
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These children are not like our children. Their parents are not adults we would recognise as adults.
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[20 Feb 2008|03:51am] |
You're 25% Irish
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You're not Irish. Not even a wee bit.
Not even on St. Patrick's Day!
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| Belfast Telegraph letter |
[16 Feb 2008|01:36pm] |
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"In reply to Fr Patrick McCafferty's letter (Write Back, February 11), we have been asking for years for the residents at Drumcree to stay at home and contain themselves to let the faithful walk peacefully down the Queen's highway at Garvaghy Road, not causing a lot of disruption to anyone, just for 10 minutes.
It doesn't happen and causes a lot of problems for a lot of people. Your Pope is not wanted here.
His visit to Northern Ireland would probably result in mayhem and frankly we have had enough. There's plenty of space in the Republic of Ireland and an adequate train and bus service across the border.
E HANNA Holywood
Friday, February 15, 2008"
I can't believe people are STILL spouting that Queen's Highway bullshit. Actually, I'm surprised that anybody is still concerned with the whole Drumcree stalemate in the first place. And that "ten minutes" figure is just ludicrous. It's a long road. It takes ten minutes to drive along it, never mind the doped-up slug's pace the Orangemen walk at (they call it "dignified"). PLUS the insinuation that a figurehead of Catholicism belongs over the border, while "the faithful" are entitled to march through an area where they're just not welcome.
Plus I remember what happens to an area the Orangemen deign to pass through. They leave a delightful trail of litter, cigarette butts, and, if you're lucky, drunken thugs longing to stir up hate crimes and attacks. Funny how we never had our windows broken (no doubt a punishment to my parents for having friends among "the other side", or even the simple offence of having an Irish name) AFTER the marches down our street were rerouted, isn't it?
Bored now.
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I can't believe how much the final copies of EA's poetry book "Your Sugar Sits Untouched" sold for. Apparently they sold for the following (prices in US dollars, noted by Aphrodisiac on the EA forums):
Book I: 435$
Book II: 405$
Book III: 320$
Book IV: 300$
Book V: 510$
Book VI: 310$
Book VII: 405$
Isn't that ridiculous? The cheapest went for $300, around £150. Keep in mind that this is for a slim book of poetry and a CD recording of EA reading said poetry. The original editions of Enchant are selling for unbelievable prices too. Since people are willing to pay that much, I'm tempted to dig out my copies of Enchant and YSSU and sell them off too. The money would be handy. Or I could wait a bit more and continue to watch the prices skyrocket.
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