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...

[siraj.livejournal.com]

and go figure, PETA wants Knut to be killed. Why? Because "bottle-feeding and snuggling a baby polar bear isn't natural!". Never mind the fact that Knut's mother abandoned him in the wild, and the zoo felt he needed to be cared for, as a result...

[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.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Err, the mother didn't abandon him in the wild. She was a former preforming bear from East Germany, as I understood it. Which means he wasn't going to have a natural life either way.

PETA... I've never worn fur and I feel quite strongly about protecting endangered species and keeping habitats for wildlife, but PETA makes me want to throw whales on them on a regular basis.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Knut is so cute! Honestly, I don't understand these animal rights people sometimes. You'd think one more polar bear in the world would be a good thing, right? Under any circumstances. How they can want to kill something so darn adorable is beyond me!

[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]

These days, we need all the polar bears we can have.

You're not a protest organisation unless you find something to protest about - and get attention for protesting about. This certainly does that.

However, there are legitimate concerns about humans raising baby animals, there is no doubt about that.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

However, there are legitimate concerns about humans raising baby animals, there is no doubt about that.

Oh, most definately! But when the only alternative is letting them die or putting him down...well, it's the best of a bad bunch of options, isn't it?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

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

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

As of this morning, I have predicted wankery of potentially astronomical proportions re. the Doctor/Martha kiss that is in the trailer (to whit...). Can I book my place in the wank shelter in advance? ;P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yes. Sometimes you gotta make do with the best you got. That's what life does all the time, after all.

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

That'll teach me to comment before reading the links. *snerk* Lo, the wankery has already begun. I thought it would. *giggles and reads with GLEE, I tell you, GLEE*

XD

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

I am obviously a very bad Doctor Who fangirl because that trailer made me drool over the hotness of David and Freema very excited about the new series and a new companion and I just kind of giggled at the reactions. And yay cute polar bears.

[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.

[cedara]

First it was 'dancing' as a sex euphemism, now we have 'genetic transfer' - makes you wonder what's next? *naughty grin*

This is so going to be fun! :-D

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

Animal rights activists want to kill a polar bear just because...why exactly? It's not like polar bears are domesticated, and it's not like the zoo had a choice--there was a baby polar bear that they, I suppose, could have just let starve to death. I wonder if the animal rights activists would have been cool with that, considering that's how it would have happened in "nature". "Nature" doesn't have lethal injections for when momma bear decides she doesn't want baby bear.

The article is right about non-domesticated animals--the insanely adorable polar bear will grow up to be as much a polar bear as a zoo environment allows. That's one of the dangers of dog/wolf crosses and in one case I know personally about, a dog/dingo cross. The dog/dingo was adopted from a shelter and was a great member of the family until one of the kids got mauled when they sneaked up on him and his dingo instincts kicked in. Kid got bit in the face, several stitches later, and the dog/dingo was put down. I imagine a fully wild animal wouldn't act much differently. Last I heard, bears don't imprint, so it's not the same danger that the efforts here to raise the extremely endangered California Condors face (all condor chicks are fed with puppets that look like condors so they don't imprint on a person, such things like that).

But then, I suppose a dead bear can get in touch with its inner bear much easier than a live bear that's been handled by humans...

*cough* Excuse the rant...

[non-chieda.livejournal.com]

A challenge, eh?

*two minutes later*


Ta-daaaaaa!
It's not great, but...

[siraj.livejournal.com]

"Err, the mother didn't abandon him in the wild." Then every single news agency reporting it is a collective buch of arses. Which is really no surprise to little disillusioned me.

I'll wear faux fur, at worst. I'm big on satin and velvet with animal prints in paticular, because they feel like it and DAMN it looks pretty. And I'm with you on throwing whales on PETA. Have you heard of a programme called "Penn and Teller's 'Bullshit!'" over here? They did an episode on PETA specifically, and I've it on my hard drive if you're interested on their particular take.

Hmm... come to think of it, how do you say (and for that matter, pronounce) "Fuck you, PETA" in Norwegian?

[siraj.livejournal.com]

My icon of cute has just been trumped. Bravo!

[falena]

*falls head-over-heel in love with Knut*

I'm getting quite excited about S3 too. I've been listening again to the DW audiobooks you gave me during my commute to uni. Just to get myself in gear. Mmmm, Tennant (and his lovely accent)is as droolworthy as ever.
Martha does look drop-dead gorgeous promising too but I'm spoiler-free (except for the snog bit, that was quite inescapable, even for clueless!me)so I really have no expectations. But maybe that's a god thing? I was never going to be of the 'pining-for-Rose' lot anyway, I'm fickle that way.

[littlezink.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, and who would be that mysterious misscam who gets sucked into a WoW discussion on the Mod thread? : ) You are so totally addicted....

Completely off-topic, but am I the only person who gets a little creeped out by the opening of the trailer that has the half Doctor/half Martha's face? Don't know why but it skeeves me out (and for the record probably would no matter which companion it was)...

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

I am very, very excited about Season 3. Moreso after viewing the Photo of Gratuitous Snogging (dear lord, look at those hands! *feels faint*).

Freema seems terribly charming and lovely. I like the fact she seems so genuinely excited over being on the show and that goes a long way towards endearing Martha to me, though I've only seen a few seconds of the character in action.

I am bracing myself for much panty-bunching and histrionics in the fandom, however. I think your prediction is correct. A Storm Is Coming.

*grabs a fortifying adult beverage*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Well, how would you have a polar bear in the wild in Germany? We don't even have polar bears in the wild on mainland Norway - just at Svalbard and that's way far north.

I know of Pen and Teller, but don't think I've heard of that particular program. Was it funny?

"Faen ta deg, PETA!"

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It's not terribly wanky yet, though. But I'm sure it can get there with a little sprinkled batshit.

Would you like your usual stool at the Wankshelter?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Bears don't imprint and bears don't do herds. We had a case here in Norway with a chimp who was raised by humans and then wouldn't fit into a chimp group after. He got some bad behavioral problems. But it was eventually solved and he's still at that zoo.

But that's not a concern with polar bears, at least.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Made me excited too. YAY NEWNESS AND HOTNESS!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Cross country skiing?

YES.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

Thank you :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Fickle needn't be bad ;)

I'm mainly spoiler-free as well. Been so busy with everything else I haven't even looked for them. But should hopefully been I'll get pleasantly surprised at stuff.

Knut must have a ready harem by now, heh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I didn't start that! I was merely getting into the community spirit and participating :P

And yes, yes, I am.

And no, no you're not. Ask around the web, you'll see many are.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

There's not enough Gratuitous Snogging around. *nods sagely*

She does, like DT did and probably does still. Her video diary should probably be a hoot. It's just so charming to watch people genuinely enjoy themselves like whoa. Awww.

*offers refill*

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suspect this is merely the warm-up wank. I shall also await the bitching in certain corners comparing Martha to Rose (none too favourably, of course) that will no doubt start up the moment the new series does.

Ooh, yes, please. I shall bring my extra specially comfy cushion too since I reckon I could be on that stool for the long haul. *snigger*

[siraj.livejournal.com]

That's the other thing, they never mentioned that this took place in Germany. The online transcripts noted this, but not the actual broadcasts. Go figure.

It's incredibly funny, because they have a no-nonsense approach to things they have on their shows. They rip some subjects to pieces, like PETA and public safety and say "this is what's wrong with this particular thing"

^_^ Much appreciated... I'll probably be yelling that regarding idiots at work today.

[kerowyn47.livejournal.com]

Speak, and we obey! I give you iconses. I'm sure I've been beaten to the punch on this one, but I couldn't resist once I'd gone through the picture galleries.

[mademoisellenon.livejournal.com]

Season 3 is starting and season 2 is still not available on DVD here. BOOOO!!! Hope BBC America will be showing it.

The polar bear is to die for. Want one!

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

OMG. PETA said that? Sweet jesus. Okay, that's it -- they've exhausted what remained of my patience with them, totally.