"What will you tell me next: that I will lose this war???"
Category: Amusements
I read on Boing Boing today that the usual forces of idiocy are forcing these to be taken down from youtube now, so I recommend watching my favorite Downfall parody while it's still available:
Looking both at claims made here, and at the fact that I started wanting to see this movie once I started seeing the parodies, let's marvel at how similar the film industry's idiocy seems to be to the music industry. (i.e. I buy more things because I can download them!! Yes, I grasp that not everyone is like that, but I also doubt that I'm the only one! What do you dinosaurs out in entertainment-land not understand about this?!?!)
In other news, I decided this journal needs a new category, because usually when I post under "Misc," it's a post like this one here, or it has some silly animal in it, or the like. Such posts will henceforth be classified as "amusements." To what extent I'll go back and edit previous posts remains to be seen: for angelsofdisruption.com, I may well do it, but for my LJ mirror I probably won't.
Something random and amusing I saw when I was just out getting groceries:
This family walks by: mom, two little girls, dad.
The girls were intent on following the mom, but the dad wandered off to the side and was like "ooh, Olympic flags, we could get one of these."
To which the mom replied, in the same tone of voice normally directed at small children who are whining "I want ___" while pulling every visible random thing off the shelf: "no, we don't need that, we need meat for dinner."
I just thought it was funny: reminds me of a wedding I went to in which someone made the wisecrack that, thanks to getting married, the woman (formerly a single mom) had acquired an awesome older brother for her little boy.
First, here's a Dilbert that I think is hilarious because it's increasingly true with a lot of people:
And second and more importantly, sometimes I read things on Boing Boing that make me I feel as if they were posted just for me, and here is an absolutely prime example:
... long personal rants must be followed by random kitty cats. And this particular cat is extremely random:
You can first see the kitty's tail at the bottom about 20 seconds in as it wanders into the live broadcast. Things aren't real interesting after the first minute or so, but I think it's cute anyway.