Getting to know people, ramblings about news

[misscam]

Meme I nicked from vartanluvva:

Get To Know Your F-List Week!
Every day I'll ask two random questions. All you have to do is answer them.

Today's two questions:
1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk?
2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on.

My answers:
1. A Dalek bottle-opener.
2. Totalt antall linjer: 85
Antall linjer ikke levert: 10
Antall linjer del-levert: 1

In the news:

There are no words for this.

For three days and three nights, these African migrants clung desperately to life. Their means of survival is a tuna net, being towed across the Mediterranean by a Maltese tug that refused to take them on board after their frail boat sank. (...) The Maltese captain of the Budafel refused to land the men, he later explained, because he had $1m-worth of tuna in the pen. If he had taken them to Malta, the trip would have taken 12 days, given the tug's slow speed. There, he would have found himself in the middle of a diplomatic wrangle. "I couldn't take the risk of losing this catch," he said.

(You can see the picture here.) So much bloody fail, Europe (and Libya). Yeah, immigration is a serious issue and there's a whole bunch of conflicts going on, but these are human lives. 27 people stuck on a fishing pen for three days, for crying out loud.

The tuna should be donated to smack-deserving-people-with-a-fish foundation, if you ask me. It's severely needed.

Also, WTF is this?

A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.

.. Ow. I mean, a show following organ donation? Could be a very good thing, spreading awareness and all. (If I drop dead in such a way my organs can still be used, I've asked my family to please agree to organ donation.) But the form of that program makes me want to ward myself with crosses and I'm not even religious. Probably shouldn't have watched The Exorcist before going to bed, hmm.

Poland's taking up Jerry Falwell's fine tradition, it seems.

In the fandom:

GLOOM. DOOM. ANGST. WAAAANK.

Did I miss anything?

Comments

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

I hope I'm understanding the meme right...

1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk?: Either my medications, my glow-in-the-dark rat, or the photo of my grandparents, whichever one would actually call "embarrassing."

2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on: http://pics.livejournal.com/pulsarkat/pic/008qf5a7/g550

And as for

"I couldn't take the risk of losing this catch," he said.

"Couldn't" is an interesting choice of wording when money is involved. *fumes*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Tuna matters most in the whole world, don't ya know?

[atraphoenix.livejournal.com]

1. My lucky leprechaun mascot keyring.
2. Muse Requested:
Email Address:
Fandom of Muse:

[cincoflex.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you consider embarrasing--for example, I have this postcard of a moose threesome, sent to me by yours truly that I use as a bookmark. After that, I guess the picture of Willism Petersen, naked would qualify.

last cut and paste was the Addy of someone from my Guestbook, so I won't put it here, but that's what it was.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hah, I'd forgotten I'd sent that. But hey, totally something I would send. Moose OT3 love!

[elen-ancalima.livejournal.com]

1. Well, the most embarrassing thing would have to be the mess ;-)

As for object - probably the glass bottle of Perrier mineral water that I bought years ago and still haven't gotten rid of (it's sell-buy is 2002 *headdesk*)

2. I noticed the two were similar but was a bit dismayed that everyone thought they were absolutely the same theme.

[preachelectric]

1) Um, probably a photo of me and my siblings when we were kids.

2) (I had to read the question a couple of times before I got it.) From a friend's entry: Does anyone know of any awesome Torchwood/PotC crossover fic??? After seeing AWE (loved it!) I decided the world NEEDS Captain Jack Harkness/Captain Jack Sparrow.

I must say, I agree with her wholeheartedly.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

A Dalek bottle opener???? ::envies::

Ok...um...

1. Either the collection of recent BPAL imps or the box of Spiderman bandaids.
2. HYMN TO PROSERPINE (The name of a BPAL perfume based on the poem by Swinburne.)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yes. It says "EX-TERM-INATE" when I use it.

I have to say it was a gift, not something I bought myself :P

[spockette.livejournal.com]

1. Most embarrassing thing on my desk? Erm. Probably my WInnie the Pooh post-it notes. They're ridiculous, and shaming, but insanely cute.
2. And the last thing I copied and pasted was apparently: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xnePK7nUNfg (Because I'm kind of in love with TastiSkank right now, heh. I'm such a Skankwhore.)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I have a tiny Eeyore figurine. Awww.

[mage-of-time.livejournal.com]

*This little toy hearse that my mom bought me.
*http://youtube.com/watch?v=0NzpyJNgQrM

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Where on earth did your mother find a toy hearse? ::envies::

Is it a modern one, or an old-fashioned Victorian one? (Subtext: Where can I get one?)

[sarie-gamgee.livejournal.com]

So much bloody fail, Europe (and Libya).

Spain has finally agreed to take the immigrants. Way too late, but at least ACNUR will be taking care of them (and hopefully they'll be granted asylum).

1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk? either a pikachu-shaped rubber (taken from a kid, who was playing with it in class) or a copy of The Rules of Modern Policing, 1973 edition (a Life on Mars collectible item).

2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on: Veig que les teles i ràdios catalanes continuen dient que va guanyar el PP, però van perdre la majoria absoluta i potser es repetirà el tripartit (PSOE i nacionalistes d'esquerra+-verds). O això espero (no m'ho creuré fins que no passi).

(talk about the regional + local election we had on Sunday, in Catalan)

[sarie-gamgee.livejournal.com]

(ACNUR = UNHCR, by the way)

[dominique012.livejournal.com]

1. My desk is practically empty, but also extremely dusty, which is a little embarrassing.
2. Thank you so much for the lovely text on her birthday. Ah, emails.

Reality TV baffles me, I admit. I'm also signed up for organ donation, but that idea just makes me shudder.

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

1. I don't really have a desk. We have a kitchen table and lounge, where we just seem to spread our stuff out on. Most embarrassing thing on the table? Either the huge amount of dirty coffee cups surrounding me after a day off, or the huge amounts of medication I had to take to stop my tooth falling out. That's pretty damn embarrassing.

2. LOL my bank account number. So you probably shouldn't know that...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*bats eyelashes*

Teeth are evil, I have decided.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Heh. Most of us sane organ donors, like yours truly, aren't happy with the show either. It's tacky, to say the least. Then again, the whole issue around donation has turned wanky again. Seriously, a couple of years ago, healthy people were being called egoists by kidney-patients, for not giving up their kidneys to them. Not really making me sympatethic to the cause here.

1. I don't have anything embarassing here. It's the dining-room table. My previous desk had coffee-stains and pictures in pencil on it. And I can't draw.

2. [I gots nothing to be copied and pasted right now. Woe.]

[misscam.livejournal.com]

... Ouch. Seriously, giving up a kidney isn't just a walk in the park. It does mean you're at greater risk. I'd do it for my family in a heartbeat, random strangers would take a lot more thinking.

[longtimegone]

Today's two questions:
1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk?

Hmmmm, probably my Harry Potter coffee cup, complete with ickle stuffed Hedwig.

2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on.

Today's two questions:
1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk?
2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on.

ahahahahaha

[daughter-moon.livejournal.com]

1) A Snape hand puppet
2) Perhaps more than any other theatrical device, music is capable of indicating to an audience a change of tone within the drama. Shakespeare realized this more than any other dramatist of his day. ‘Atmospheric music' is the most subtle of the four categories because it is concerned with such intangibles as mood, tone and emotional feeling, and because it may involve changes from suspicion to trust, from vengeance to forgiveness or from hatred to love. (Grove Music Online)

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

1) Hmmm...not at the desk right now, but it's probably either the secret stash of feminine products or my Genesis cd...you decide. ;-)

2) I haven't yet 'copy-pasted' anything this morning, so I got nothing.

[cedara]

1. What's the most embarassing object you keep on your desk?

A wooden die with two people in obvious sexual positions on each side

2. Paste me the last text you did a copy and paste on.

http://blog.myspace.com/marthajonesuk

[katiegsr.livejournal.com]

1. I dont really have anything embarrassing but I would go with my face cream really.

2. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/katiegsr/artistchoice35.jpg

[psychater.livejournal.com]

1. This heart-shaped frame I got for my birthday. It's the picture inside that's somewhat embarrassing. It's of a hot guy with the top two buttons of shirt open and him using his hand to shield himself from the sun. Yeah. I don't know how my mom hasn't noticed it yet.

2. Te Busque. That song from Nelly Furtado and Juanes.

[specialagentr-c.livejournal.com]

1. Either a bottle of wine thats went toxic and I haven't thrown away yet, or a big hunk of rose quartz thats on the corner of my desk in the hopes of making me smart!

2. Get To Know Your F-List Week!
Every day I'll ask two random questions. All you have to do is answer them!

Day One


lol.

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

1. A photo of my pet guinnea pig, Ruffles. I had to give him away when I moved to Australia. :(

2. The plague used to follow a cycle of washing through Europe about once every generation, wiping out a few thousand each time.

Ah... my history presentation about the Black Death for tomorrow. Fun, no?

The DW fandom is going off its nut. Each time Rose pokes her pretty little head or name into an episode these days, everyone goes crazy. *eye roll*

That Maltese captain fails at life.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Prime wanking season, it seems.

[peace-weasel.livejournal.com]

1. Various scribbles and doodles from when I should have been studying for exams.
2. Erk. I have no text. I just copied and pasted a whole bunches of mp3s.

My two cents:
Homophobic Poland may be, but the producers of Teletubbies are definitely stereotyping Tinkie-Winkie as the typical homosexual. It be not cool. (Don't mind my sentence structure...My brain's fried from exams, and I only just now noticed it's a little off.)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Teletubbies is just crack, it seems to me. Craaaaaack.

[everysecondtues.livejournal.com]

One is a toss up between my doujinshi, the Sakura figurine from Tsubasa Chronicles, or the pile of clean laundry.

Two is actually too long for a comment, but is list of one hundred words a high school graduate is supposed to know according to some book. I'm embarrassed to say that I couldn't remember a couple of the meanings.

[spaced-oddity.livejournal.com]

1) A button of the previous Pope? It's there temporarily, as my brother gave it to me, but ... I can't think of anything else that might be embarrassing. I'm really not embarrassed by the things I keep on my desk.
Oh, there's also an old box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. That might be embarrassing?
2) "Wandering off is not an ideal way to ensure that your existence goes unnoticed."

[antistar-e.livejournal.com]

1) I don't actually have a desk, but the results from my exams are sitting at my spot on the kitchen table, and that's fairly embarrassing.
2) I haven't copy/pasted anything this morning, since checking my flist is the first thing I do after booting up my computer =D

[falena]

So much bloody fail, Europe (and Libya)

Oh, I know. The sad thing is this piece of news caused quite a stir only because the poor sods had to hang to that fishing thing for 3 days. I think that most Italians don't even raise an eyebrow at the 'stranded migrants rescued from death somewhere between Sicily and Lybia' news anymore since shipwrecks (or migrants simply being abandoned at sea) are almost daily occurrences.

Surely we cannot value human lives so little. It makes me so sad.

***

1)I can't think of anything truly embarrassing on my desk. Maybe a print-out of Harry Potter meta counts, though?

2)So much bloody fail, Europe (and Libya)

Heh. Maybe I should have done the pasting first. :D

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Humans are very good at devaluing other humans, sadly. Much with the fail.

...You print out HP meta?