I fooled you, I really fooled you!

sheherazadde @ 2008-11-05T06:21:00

2008-11-05T06:24:29Z

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.

RE: the final debate

2008-10-16T02:05:18Z

I'm so glad I'm not Joe The Plumber.

sheherazadde @ 2008-09-19T11:21:00

2008-09-19T10:21:59Z

And he's gone.

sheherazadde @ 2008-09-18T14:56:00

2008-09-18T13:57:35Z

Laddie's kidneys are failing.

sheherazadde @ 2008-07-28T22:43:00

2008-07-28T21:43:50Z

EEEE I'M GOING TO FRANCE.

Robinson saga, cont.

2008-07-03T01:38:55Z

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.

Iris Robinson (DUP): Over the past few weeks, some people have attempted to suggest that I indicated that homosexuality is a mental-health issue, and they have twisted everything that was said on Stephen Nolan’s radio show. I have got broad shoulders, and can take the brickbats that followed from that. However, nothing could be further from the truth. What I did say was that homosexuality —

Some Members: Ask a question.

Iris Robinson (DUP): I am getting to it. Homosexuality, like all sin, is an abomination. That is what I said. My point, however, is that there are some people —

Some Members: Ask a question.

Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin): Will the Member ask the question?

Iris Robinson (DUP): I am getting to the question.

Stephen Farry (Alliance): You are reading a statement.

Iris Robinson (DUP): No, I am not.

Stephen Farry (Alliance): Yes, you are.

Iris Robinson (DUP): Who is the Speaker here?

Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin): Will the Member come to the question?

Iris Robinson (DUP): I certainly will. Does the Minister agree that there are some people who, in their teenage years, are sexually confused, and that they could do with help from practitioners to assist them with talking therapies, to help them to realise exactly what they are — whether they are heterosexual or homosexual?

Michael McGimpsey (UUP): I am not in a position to talk about sexual confusion. What I am in a position to do is to reflect what the American Psychiatric Association concluded. There are cognitive-behaviour therapies available, and one of the thrusts of the Bamford Review concerned the need for provision to deal with depression, panic disorder, social phobia, bulimia, obsessive and compulsive disorders, and so on. That is very much the thrust of the work that my Department is undertaking, and of the budget allocation that I am making for the provision of mental-health services.

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.

sheherazadde @ 2008-06-15T21:03:00

2008-06-15T20:06:28Z

Just watched the latest Who episode "Midnight". It was fucking terrifying. Can we talk about it?

Much love to Dolores Kelly, MLA.

2008-06-14T13:40:22Z

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.

sheherazadde @ 2008-06-11T22:08:00

2008-06-11T21:12:40Z

Does anyone else, when filling out forms, feel sorely tempted to put "The Hospital" as "Place of Birth"? Just checking.

Break from revision hysteria.

2008-06-04T19:12:55Z

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).

sheherazadde @ 2008-04-25T10:31:00

2008-04-25T09:34:13Z

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.

Don't mind us, we're great craic!

2008-04-24T08:54:06Z

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.)

Woman against woman, again.

2008-04-05T22:57:51Z

How dare that bovine bitch Natasha Kaplinsky get pregnant just after getting a new job? Doesn't she know that the nice men at Five own her uterus now?

I'll have to stop reading the Times Online Comment section, or at least cut out everything but Mary Beard's blog. Ditto for the Guardian's Comment Is Free. I'm tired of dredging through layers of venom and ignorance, every day, before I get to anything vaguely interesting.

Doctor Who tonight: WTFF? I've already forgotten what it was about. The Torchwood finale blew it out of the water, easily.

I haven't kept the promise I made last time, but it's been a rough week at home. I'll be glad to get back to Oxford, exams and deadlines and all, to be honest.

OMG I heart your British accent!

2008-04-01T07:21:01Z

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?

In response to Melanie Reid's piece in today's Times.

2008-03-17T14:27:48Z

[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.

[snip]

These children are not like our children. Their parents are not adults we would recognise as adults.

So what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade?

2008-02-27T01:15:11Z

My first earthquake.

I'm so proud.

PS: I'm especially proud that my peers' initial reaction was to check Facebook to ensure it really happened.

Ha.

2008-02-20T03:51:44Z

You're 25% Irish

You're not Irish. Not even a wee bit.

Not even on St. Patrick's Day!

How Irish Are You?

Belfast Telegraph letter

2008-02-16T13:52:24Z

"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.

Mania

2008-02-16T13:14:05Z

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.

Winamp Playlist

2008-02-13T01:21:38Z

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4. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Poor Thing (3:09)
5. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - My Friends (3:48)
6. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Green Finch And Linnet Bird (2:16)
7. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Alms! Alms! (1:16)
8. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Johanna (1:57)
9. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Pirelli's Miracle Elixir (2:00)
10. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - The Contest (3:39)
11. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Wait (2:38)
12. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Ladies In Their Sensitivities (1:23)
13. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Pretty Women (4:27)
14. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Epiphany (3:16)
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16. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Johanna (Reprise) (5:42)
17. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - God, That's Good! (2:46)
18. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - By The Sea (2:19)
19. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Not While I'm Around (4:11)
20. Sweeney Todd Movie Cast - Final Scene (10:21)
21. Imogen Heap - Headlock (3:36)
22. Imogen Heap - Goodnight And Go (3:52)
23. Imogen Heap - Have You Got It In You? (4:11)
24. Imogen Heap - Loose Ends (3:40)
25. Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek (4:28)
26. Imogen Heap - Clear The Area (4:14)
27. Imogen Heap - Daylight Robbery (3:21)
28. Imogen Heap - The Walk (5:14)
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30. Imogen Heap - I Am In Love With You (3:08)
31. Imogen Heap - Closing In (4:48)
32. Imogen Heap - The Moment I Said It (5:56)
33. Emilie Autumn - 4 o'Clock (5:16)
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37. Emilie Autumn - Swallow (Oyster Mix by Punto Omega) (3:38)
38. Emilie Autumn - Organ Grinder (3:20)
39. Emilie Autumn - Excerpts from the upcoming book The asylum (4:00)
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41. Emilie Autumn - Is It My Body? (4:07)
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Will you shaddup and pay the Scotchman?

2008-02-07T21:05:55Z

Since arriving in Oxford I've gradually become fiercely defensive and - dare I say "proud"? - of Northern Ireland. I suspect there's a sophisticated psychological explanation for this, but I can't quite figure it out.

So I have an essay to do tonight. I made up the question: the role of literature and storytelling in dystopian novels. There is no literary criticism out there worth speaking of for two of the books I'm looking at - Fahrenheit 451 and Swastika Night - so I have more to do with them since the springboard isn't there. The Atwood and Orwell material I've looked at has been brilliant for this, though. I'm hauling in V for Vendetta, too, just to talk about the song "This Vicious Cabaret".

English Faculty Open Day on Saturday. I signed up to do a mock interview. I'm dead dead dead and everyone I've told thinks I'm mad mad mad, especially since I'm looking forward to it.

Hearing only what you want to hear.

2008-01-23T08:27:54Z

After sounding like an idiot after admitting to a fellow student that I'm studying French without ever having been to France, after reading a poisonous letter yesterday in a right-wing broadsheet from the headmaster of a small English private school who basically said that parents who can't afford £8000 a year for school fees just aren't trying hard enough and don't care enough about their children's education (I'm sure Mum and Dad and Papa would be thrilled to hear that all those years of encouragement and support count for nought), I wound up reading the greatest amount of bullshit on the Emilie Autumn forums.

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Timoh MacDoogle sez:
"Oh god, not another one of these whiny, liberal rants. Our health care system has issues, but to even suggest that the government could, or rather should, work those out is audacious. It is not any individual's responsibility to pay for anyone else's problems. It's this New Deal, everyone's entitled to a handout bullshit that's fucked over America to such an extent already. The government is not here to manage your lives. At least, it shouldn't be...

Beyond that, has anyone really thought about what it would be like to live under a socialized health care system? P. J. O'Rourke put it best, saying, "to grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office". I think that sums it up pretty well.

Anyway, I'm certain that most of you are young, and as such will one day grow up and realize that people need to take responsibility for their own lives. Either that or you'll become a liberal."
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I am taking this far too personally because I'm tired and fucked-off, but off I go anyway:

"I do live under a socialised health care system. Plenty of people on this board do. Why are you assuming that everyone on this board is from the US? Your nasty, patronising tone doesn't help to make your point, you just come off as an utter twat. You're ranting more than anyone else in this thread so far. You also sound like a right-wing stereotype, flinging around "liberal" as if it's a dirty word. I don't dare to imagine your opinion on socialists. If I hadn't met people like you, I'd swear you were a troll.

Yes, I'm young. When I get older I hope I don't lose the human compassion and decency my family taught me. That we all have a duty to help out the vulnerable in our society when they need it. Surely America has this ethic as well, isn't it supposed to be a Christian country?

The British NHS has its problems and I'm not going to pretend it's a perfect system, but at least I know I can get the care I need, when I need it, without having to worry about bills, health insurance and so on. My family never had to choose between getting my dad's medication and my grandad's insulin tablets, or buying food and paying the heating bills. This happened to my maternal grandfather's family before the second world war, before the founding of the NHS in the Forties: his parents had to choose buying antibiotics for their babies over coal to heat the house.

But judging by your attitude in the previous post, that's their own problem! They should have just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. The poor stay poor because they just don't make an effort, right?"

Separated at birth?

2008-01-15T21:44:11Z

I've been saving and printing off random pictures to stick up in my room and my worst suspicions were confirmed.

Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist:

vs...

Geraldine McEwan as Sister Bridget, Mother Superior, in The Magdalene Sisters:

Well?

PS: Margaret Atwood's going on my wall, not the dear Sister Bridget. It's already hard enough to get a decent night's sleep here. I just remembered that smile from somewhere.

I'm really enjoying my time back and will have more time to write at the weekend. I have to get this Baudelaire commentary finished so I can go and hand it in in time to be a medical guinea pig tomorrow morning.

My cousin had a baby today! Little boy, 5 lb something, which is a decent weight considering he's a month early. Lynn and baby are doing well and I'm waiting for Mum to send a picture of the little un.

Orange Order creates superhero

2007-11-24T01:05:08Z

NO CAPES.

This is the single gayest thing I have EVER seen, and I've been to an all-male performance of The Importance of Being Earnest.

PS: New episode of The Folks On The Hill, featuring the Chuckle Brothers, an imminent Bush invasion, rows over who pours the coffee, and the bloody terrifying new arrival of Gordon Brown.

Confusing journalism for the win!

2007-11-19T22:02:00Z

More than sixty Northern Ireland football fans thrown off flight.

Imagine the splat when they hit the ground!