Them things (fandom, football, life and news)

[misscam]

Things Cam is not allowed to kill people over today:

- Posting about illegal activities in an oh-so-public post. Seriously people, that brain took a lot of evolution to get to its present state, now use it!
- Posting spoilery icons or summeries above LJ-cuts. Hai the world is not the UK/US, kthxbai.
- Bashing. Get thee out of lameville, it sucks there.
- Comments about 'winning', as if we wandered into shipping Olympics and IOC stupidity without me noticing.
- WoW players that can't play their class. If you got to level 70 with it, surely, surely!, you must have managed to pick up a few things of use, surely!
- NSB.
- Weather.
- Mushed ship names. ARGH NO MY EYES.

Things Cam is allowed to yay about, as dignity allows:
- Tromsø! Second in the league! Beating Vålerenga!
- Doctor Who! Back! Unexpected!Rose and mostly!awesome!Donna, with some pants stuff, but overall kinda okay. I liked. I'll like more if fandom behaves and the the series hangs together at the end of it all, I think. We shall see.
- My predicted tax return has come from the Norwegian state, and they are proposing to pay me NOK 13,567 back. (That's over 2000 USD.) Hello happy holidays!

Things Cam noticed on the news:
- Berlusconi boasts his Latin is good enough to have lunch with Julius Caesar. And Julius Caesar boats his pompous!asshat-detection is good enough to let Berlu pick up the tab, yes. (Meanwhile, Italy not doing so grand. Don't think Latin will help much with that.)
- Olympic torch gets extinguished during protests. Bad PR 1, China and the IOC, 0.
- Man charged for assault with hedgehog. Poor hedgehog - and yet, urge to laugh v. v. high.
- Woman sold to slavery sues the nation of Niger. And for the most revolting bit, I give you :Ms Mani was sold into slavery for around $500 when she was 12 years old. She had to carry out domestic and agricultural work but also lived as a sex slave or "Sadaka" to her master who already had four wives and several other "Sadakas". When she was released and decided to marry a man she had freely chosen, her master insisted she was in fact his wife. A court later found her guilty of bigamy and sentenced her to six months imprisonment. WTF RAGE.

Things you'd like to say?

ETA: Father/daughter incest with children in Australia. AUGH HELLFIRE FLASHBACKS.

Comments

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Poor hedgehog - and yet, urge to laugh v. v. high.

It's a novel choice of weapon, I admit...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

He sure must have been out of anything else to use.

[furius.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering how he picked up the hedgehog in the first place...

[ericasj.livejournal.com]

In honor of mushed ship names...CATNIP! GRILLOWS! SANDLE! BRILLOWS! SNICKERS! VARTILLOWS! WEDGES! *pokes* Are you blind yet? lol.

Damn. You're going to be rich for a while. Damn you. And um. Fuck Niger.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

MENTION THOSE AGAIN AND I COME AFTER THE WHOLE FANDOM WITH MY HORNED HELMET.

Well, in Norway, pay and prices are higher than most places, so it's less here than it would be in the US or even in France. But it's still a nice amount, yes.

The amount of RAGE I felt at reading the 'convicted for bigamy' bit was just staggering. WTF, Niger. WTF.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I COME AFTER THE WHOLE FANDOM WITH MY HORNED HELMET.

I would pay to see that.

[norwegianne.livejournal.com]

So far - I'm definitely not getting anything back from Norway - and have to pay 1,200 in Denmark. The joys of tax returns in two countries…

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ouch. At least nowadays, Norway does the tax returns (mostly) for us, it would be evil having to do them twice over.

[norwegianne.livejournal.com]

The fun thing is that the things that have a loophole in one of the two countries… is covered by the tax laws in the other country. The double-taxation deal between the country only works so you won't have to pay the same tax twice. Eg. Some Norwegian municipalities don't have property tax - whereas Denmark has property tax on everything, including properties abroad.

And even more fun - since I moved to Denmark after 2004, I'm still legally a tax-citizen of Norway for the ten years following that (a law to catch people moving abroad to pay less tax in Norway, now also hitting the students studying abroad).

[siraj.livejournal.com]

... damn, where can I get me some of that tax return? do I have to move there?

(grand total on my end? $563)

And I concur with the WTF RAGE! Where's my sharp pointy objects of death?!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Move and work here :P It's not like they're giving me free money, though - it's part of what I paid them last year. So it's more like they've kept it in a little fund for me, rather than me blowing most of it on books and DVDs.

But any return is better than having to pay them yet more.

For this, we'd need more than sharp point objects - we'd need sharp, pointy objects with velocity.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

sounds like me over here... they pull my taxes out of my paycheck, and every year I get a nice, tidy refund... but US$2,000?! I wish I'd get that kind of cash back...

True.

Well, I do have a calvary saber, and a collection of knives...

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Berlusconi boasts his Latin is good enough to have lunch with Julius Caesar. And Julius Caesar boats his pompous!asshat-detection is good enough to let Berlu pick up the tab, yes.

Didn't a lot of Romans actually speak Greek anyway? Or am I making that up?

And YAY for Unexpected!Rose.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

Nope, you're right, they spoke Greek.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I think they wrote Latin at least, but I am no expert and Berlu is an idiot, so...

Not sure how I feel about it all yet, but that's because I have Worries about the plot. Fingers crossed it's all good :)

[theyellow-daisy.livejournal.com]

Unexpected!Rose could have just about made that episode for me. Donna was fantastic, and I liked her a lot more then I thought I would, but unexpected!Rose FTW!!

And as far as the Olympics go..it's not looking good for them AT ALL! It sucks that there's so much, anger and everything, I LOVE the Olympics :(

[misscam.livejournal.com]

A lot of people were caught by that one, since we were all focusing so much on the episodes we knew she'd be in. Sneaky BBC.

Yeah, I love the sports and it's getting overrun by politics now - and politics is just not pretty at all.

[redpistolet.livejournal.com]

Woo TIL!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You a Tromsø fan??

*hugs team*

[redpistolet.livejournal.com]

Indeed, Though I really need to find team information in English :D
Went to one of their games last August. Which is impressive for an American, I'd say. :)

[mad-troll.livejournal.com]

Berlusconi boasts his Latin is good enough to have lunch with Julius Caesar. And Julius Caesar boats his pompous!asshat-detection is good enough to let Berlu pick up the tab, yes. (Meanwhile, Italy not doing so grand.

From what I remember of Roman History it's more likely that Caesar would use his exploitable!rich-detection to use Berlu's riches to gain power. Then discard Berlu as the used handkerchief he is.

Tax return!Shiiinyyyy..:P
And now you can squander this money on book and DVD's, too.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Anything that would make Berlu poorer I'm in favour of!

Actually, I might squander it on holiday and ice cream instead, seeing as I get it paid out in June. Whee summer.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

Damn Parisians out protesting Londoners for their leg. Our boys are supposed to be the most unruly. I blame the competative spirit of the Olympics.

Dr Who spoilers, I guess

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

Comments about 'winning', as if we wandered into shipping Olympics and IOC stupidity without me noticing.

IAWTC. What people seem to be forgetting?

-If Rose is back, she could get killed off altogether, and then where would they all be with their winning? In some ways, I might have been happier if they had left it as is, because since she's been returned to the show, nothing is going to be left to fandom's interpretation. She can't be with the Doctor forever, and things are going to end badly.

At least before, things ended in a way that was open-ended enough for the fanfic.

My humble two cents, of course. ^^;

[clinicallybored.livejournal.com]

Unexpected!Rose made me a squeal like a very silly squealing thing.

So, President Bush is thinking about boycotting the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. I might be strangely, confusedly and sort of secretly proud of him for doing it, so he probably won't do it all.

The U.S. government is not returning anything to me, certainly not $2000. Well, to be fair, neither is the Norwegian government.