Gahhh!!! - A Geek's Lament

[yakalskovich]

I see why photobucket.com needs to place advertising on every page when you upload and so forth; they have to get the money back from somewhere for the great service they're providing.

But this is going too far: there's this totally obnoxious rich media ad haunting my bucket where this  badly animated chick that looks like one of those Japanese combine-them-yourself icons lurks for you to touch her with your mouse cursor, to start squawking in the most jarring American accent, "Hi, my name is Tina, and in the next thirty seconds..." yadda yadda yadda.

I long to reply: "Hi, you name is nothing, you stupid cow from Arizona, because you don't bloody exist! Get that into your nonexistent head!"

I am avoiding her like an electric cattle fence, but I don't always succeed.

ETA: ("For the loan of a flagpole and two dozen cups" and all that.) Please be warned that There Be Spoilers for Going Postal  in the comments; they just turned up by themselves.

Comments

[yakalskovich]

Gah!! I can't abide Mary Sues even when they're tame...

I don't even know whether the show was on yet in German TV, I don't have a TV guide any more. TV is crap, and if I want to see a movie, Flak the Metropolitan is sure to have the DVD. I asked him about Kingdom Hospital, but he's a staunch supporter of the Lars von Trier version and thinks that American Remake = Ugh. I hope he remembers that I was interested if he ever comes across it on TV or anything.

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

Me either, and Kingdom Sues are dreadfully untame. Imagine the uberangstiest punkgoth Sue you can, and you'll have imagined one of the less painful Sues.

I hear tell you can download the series online. And I don't know what region you are over there, but the series can be bought on amazon UK, and will be available in the US on the 12th.

[yakalskovich]

UK = Region Code 2, just like I am. And amazon.de normally carries all the DVDs amazon.co.uk does, but at a prohibitive price. I recently bought "Gormenghast" and have hardly recovered from that yet. But for "Kingdom Hospital", I might think about it again. To finally meet the Paul in his canon incarnation.

I think those Sues is something I will give a wide berth, then. I don't put my face into a ceiling fan, either, after all.

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

He's very lovely. And though he is 15, his actor is 22 and therefore pervable.

Also, there's Andrew McCarthy-age.

[yakalskovich]

Unfortunately, I don't know who Andrew McCarthy is, but I can ask IMDB.

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

He's an American movie star from the 80's: one of the brat pack. You may know him from "Mannequin" or "Pretty in Pink".

[yakalskovich]

I have looked him up at IMDB, and I must admit, to my deep shame, that I have never seen one of his movies. Not one.