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Originally Posted by Esty
Insektenvernichtungsmittel - that's 26 letters, actually...
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So that's something like Insect Annihilation Spray? I rather like that.
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Originally Posted by JennyHallu
I was watching the actor interviews in the Phantom of the Opera special edition DVD...and the girl who played Kitty spoke of how difficult her role was, because neither she nor the girl who played Christine could understand eachother's accents. YOU BOTH COME FROM A NATION THE APPROXIMATE SIZE OF...OF...OF...A QUARTER!!
How do the British have such ridiculously segmented dialects of the same language, and yet such a totally cramped sense of distance?
I hereby assign to Morder British people complaining about their cars. I have to drive 800 some miles just to visit my parents, and we don't live all that far apart...
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Heh. My father reckoned he could tell which village in a seven mile radius of his own village that someone came from by the differences in accent. Even in Liverpool there are two distinct accents, so you'd get really mad there! I moved 90 miles from home and was totally dumbfounded to find myself in a city where the men call one another 'love' and sweets are 'spice'.
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Originally Posted by SpM
That's not the half of it. I am a smoker who likes the odd drink, eats the wrong kind of food and enjoys driving. That just about makes me public enemy number one. Luckily, I don't hunt. Otherwise I would have been quietly taken away in the middle of the night by now ...
Surely there are more important things to legislate about? So I assign the misplaced priorities of governments and politicians generally to Mordor.
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I know, sometimes I feel guilty just for existing! I feel like investing in a hair shirt. Just be careful, soon swatting flies or killing the slugs in the garden will be counted as 'hunting' and you'll be fined! Which brings us right back to Insektenvernichtungsmittel.
And I assign to Mordor that flaming shrink wrap packaging that they insist on shrouding CDs and DVDs in these days. Not even my trusty swiss army knife will deal with the stuff. Even worse are those plastic security tags which you have to remove to get to the CD, usually ruining the jewel case in the process. And as for why they always have to obscure half the track listings on the back of the CD with stupid labels, don't even go there.... Long gone are the days of examining record sleeves in the local record shop for hours on end. Just to add insult to injury, then they put copy protection on everything so you can't play it in all your DVD or CD players, despite the fact you've just spent £12 on it!!! Argh! Why can't laws be made about that kind of thing instead?