Cute Knut the Polar Bear and Doctor Who & CSI Babbling (with spoilers)

[misscam]

The polar bear debate. All this over cute Knut, who proves once again baby animals are deadly with the awww-factor. (This picture always do it to me. AWWW WANT ON ICON. Football and the cute, what's not to love? AWWWW. HEHEHE. Okay, enough.) And if this can be used to raise some awareness on the rather dire straits of polar bears, I say that is a good thing. He's not always going to be little and cute, but polar bears are awesome animals. The world would be poorer without them. Therefore cute is an acceptable weapon for the greater good.

When I see a fic titled Dårlig Ulv, my heart weeps a little. BAD NORWEGIAN. BAD. It's all the show's fault for using it in the first place, of course. Someone probably used Babelfish when putting that in the script. For shame. ("Dårlig ulv" can either read as a wolf that tasted real bad, or a wolf that got sick. Both leave slightly amusing mental images, but not the one "Bad Wolf" is meant to convey, me thinks.)

... And this is still my biggest problem with "Doomsday". There might possibly be something wrong with me.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who fandom gears up for series three that starts in a little over a week. And the BBC website has updated with wallpapers that can be seen as vaguely spoilery. There is snogging! Okay, other sources reveal it's a "genetic transfer", but HOY SNOGGING. This is where I reveal myself as a very bad Doctor/Rose shipper, since I find this stuff rather hot and look forward to it. Also think I like Martha so far. And want snogging icon with "Genetic transfer. With tongues" on. And I am very pleased with self for being excited over Doctor Who again. HOTNESS! ALIENS! FUNNY! TARDIS! MARTHA'S LEATHER JACKET! CPR! SHINY! It might be a very good series indeed.

Fandom reacts some. Fandom reacts some more. A mod returns to react to reactions. Nothing too bad yet, but I think we'll get wank at one point or another. This shocks no one, I'm sure.

That reminds me next week is the CSI episode where Grissom comforts Sara with actual touching. HOY TOUCHING. Given how CSI fandom is CSI fandom, this is bound to cause wank. This shocks no one, I'm sure.

I'll try to keep all updated. And the wankshelter stocked with plenty of alcohol. HOY ALCOHOL.

Anyone wanna predict a Doctor Who or CSI wank? (Not just in vague ways, that's cheating.) If you get one right, I will give you honourary title of Wankic.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

You have to search youtube for Knut vids, the press around here posts daily updates AND HE IS JUST SO CUTE! Recently he learned that sand is BAD when you bite into it. *is dead from squee*

Also, welcome to my world with rubbish Bad Wolf translation. At least 'schlechter Wolf' madkes some weird kind of sense, is the norwegian just rubbish?

Also I was tempted to post the News of Who Spoilers on T&C, but I was too scared of your mod whip the reactions...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The pictures already kill me. The videos will be like exorcism on my ghost. *goes to search* His name is totally adorable on him too.

Eh, depends how you define rubbish. "Dårlig" does mean bad in a way, but you use it to epress something that is poor/bad. As in "a bad/poor grade". "That went badly/poorly". "I'm feeling bad/sick." It doesn't mean the kind of bad that is related to evil or naughty, like in the story of the bad wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. Someone has probably looked in a dictionary, seen "dårlig" can be a word for bad and not realised it doesn't translate to all sorts of bad. Err.

I would have had to whip you then, since Martha - Doctor snogging is definitely off topic for T&C. Though no doubt some reactions would be amusing. Series three stuff in general is OT, minus stuff that might reference Rose or Doctor/Rose, that sort of thing.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. So they made the same mistake as the in the german version, you got a wolf that's a bit rubbish so to speak, too ;)

I am very tempted to link them to my latest journal entry... but I think I won't, the shipwar will come, if we help it along or not.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

You know, if there was just one more "Rubbish wolf" in the series somewhere, I'd start to think it was intentional on the crew's behalf...

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

DO NOT START THAT DISCUSSION AGAIN!

We were debating for pages upon pages on the OG if it was a deliberate mistake, turned out there's a chess move called 'Schlechter Wolf' named after Carl Schlechter, something about 'playing to win' IIRC. All those theories about Parting of the Ways... Boy, were we disappointed when it turned out it was just a translation mistake.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

And here's me, just trying to set up for a "Bad Wolf is Rubbish" gag..

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

The BBC already did that for us

(...) These bombs appear to have been used during raids on London up until early 1942. They rarely exploded - early theories were that they were "a bit rubbish", but a few people wondered if something more clever was going on.

We were headdesking like whoa when that was updated ^^

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, BBC. I smack you with a Norwegian trout.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

There's a chess move called that? *surprised* I know about the chess game between Schlechter and Wolf, but never heard of such a move.